Andy's Ticking Area Rune

Andy's Ticking Area Rune

A configurable ticking area and chunk loader addon for Minecraft Bedrock

Andy's Ticking Area Rune is a survival-friendly Minecraft Bedrock addon that keeps a configurable, chunk-aligned area active when players travel elsewhere. Craft the rune, place it near redstone or automation that must remain loaded, choose a radius from 2 to 6 chunks, and optionally display a purple block grid over the exact chunks Bedrock confirms are ticking. It works without commands, cheats, or experimental toggles.

Why This Addon Is Useful

Minecraft normally unloads distant chunks when no player is nearby. Redstone, item transportation, processing systems, and many automated builds inside those chunks can stop until a player returns.

Andy's Ticking Area Rune gives builders a visible, configurable way to keep important areas active. Instead of entering commands or guessing at chunk borders, place one block, open its settings, and select the footprint your build needs. The optional purple grid aligns with Minecraft's real 16×16 chunk coordinates and marks every block inside the confirmed ticking area.

It is especially useful for:

• Redstone clocks and long-running contraptions
• Item sorters and transportation systems
• Automated processing and storage builds
• Farms whose mechanics work inside ticking chunks
• Remote bases and infrastructure
• Multiplayer worlds, servers, and Realms
• Technical builders who need to see exact block and chunk boundaries

Features

• Craftable Andy's Ticking Area Rune block
• Configurable 2–6 chunk radius
• Exact 5×5 through 13×13 chunk footprints
• Uses Minecraft's game-defined chunk positions, regardless of where the rune is placed within its center chunk
• Optional purple grid covering every block in the active area
• Brighter lines marking 16×16 chunk boundaries
• Grid shown only while Bedrock confirms the complete area is loaded and ticking
• Active status and confirmed chunk count in the settings screen
• Persistent settings and automatic ticking-area restoration after reopening the world
• Breaking the rune removes its managed ticking area
• No commands required
• No cheats required
• No experimental toggles required
• Standard and Vibrant Visuals-compatible rendering
• Minecraft Bedrock 26.30 support

Installation Guide

1. Download the .mcaddon file from the official CurseForge project page.
2. Open the downloaded file with Minecraft Bedrock.
3. Wait for Minecraft to confirm that both included packs imported successfully.
4. Create a world or edit the world where you want to use the addon.
5. Open Behavior Packs → My Packs.
6. Activate Andy's Ticking Area Rune.
7. Confirm that the linked Andy's Ticking Area Rune Resource Pack is also active.
8. Enter the world and obtain an Amethyst Shard to unlock the crafting recipe.

Minecraft Bedrock 26.30 or newer is required. Cheats and experiments are not required.

For a Realm or server, activate the addon on the world before uploading or launching it. Minecraft can deliver the official, unmodified world packs to players who join.

When updating, import the newer .mcaddon, confirm that version 1.0.10 or newer is active, and completely leave and reopen the world. If Minecraft reports a duplicate pack, remove obsolete copies under Settings → Storage, restart Minecraft, and import the current release again.

Crafting Recipe

Craft one Andy's Ticking Area Rune at a crafting table:

Obsidian	Redstone	Obsidian
Redstone	Amethyst Shard	Redstone
Obsidian	Redstone	Obsidian

Required Materials

Material	Amount
Obsidian	4
Redstone	4
Amethyst Shard	1

The recipe unlocks after obtaining an Amethyst Shard.

User Guide

1. Craft Andy's Ticking Area Rune.
2. Place it near the center of the build you want to keep ticking.
3. Interact with the rune to open Authoritative Ticking Area Settings.
4. Choose whether the rune is enabled, select its radius, and decide whether to show the purple block grid.
5. Press Apply Settings.
6. Read the confirmation message or reopen the panel to verify the active status and engine-confirmed chunk count.
7. Break the rune when the ticking area is no longer needed.

A newly placed rune defaults to Enabled, a 2-chunk radius, and a hidden grid. The rune's location determines its center chunk, but the active area always aligns to Minecraft's actual chunk grid; it is not centered on the exact block where the rune happens to be placed.

Settings Guide

Enabled

Creates or removes this rune's managed ticking area.

• On: The addon requests the selected chunk footprint and verifies that Bedrock created and fully loaded it.
• Off: The ticking area and its purple grid are removed, while the saved radius and grid preference remain available for the next activation.

If Minecraft cannot provide the requested ticking-area capacity, the rune disables itself instead of displaying an area that is not actually ticking.

Radius in Chunks

Controls how many chunks the area extends from the rune's center chunk in every horizontal direction.

Radius Setting	Actual Footprint	Total Ticking Chunks
2 chunks	5 × 5 chunks	25
3 chunks	7 × 7 chunks	49
4 chunks	9 × 9 chunks	81
5 chunks	11 × 11 chunks	121
6 chunks	13 × 13 chunks	169

The radius is not the total width. A radius of 2 means two chunks in every direction around the center chunk, producing a 5×5 area.

Use the smallest radius that fully covers the build. Larger areas and multiple active runes keep more chunks processing and can increase world or server workload.

Show Purple Block Grid

Controls the optional visual overlay.

• On: Displays a purple line around every block in each confirmed ticking chunk. Brighter lines identify chunk boundaries.
• Off: Hides the visual overlay without disabling the ticking area.

The grid is generated one real chunk at a time from the exact bounding box reported by Minecraft. It appears only when the selected area, confirmed chunk count, and fully loaded state all agree. The grid therefore represents this addon's active ticking chunks—not an estimate centered on the rune block.

Apply Settings

Saves all three settings to the rune and immediately creates, updates, or removes its managed ticking area. A confirmation message reports the number of engine-confirmed chunks and whether the grid is visible.

Status Information

Opening the rune's settings displays:

• Rune block coordinates
• Requested footprint dimensions
• Requested total chunk count
• ACTIVE with the engine-confirmed ticking chunk count
• NOT ACTIVE when no matching managed area is confirmed
• DISABLED when the Enabled setting is off

Important Minecraft Limitations

A ticking area keeps its chunks loaded and processing, but it does not create a fake player. Mechanics that require a nearby player, player-specific spawning rules, random ticks, or other player-presence checks remain governed by Minecraft.

The addon also cannot keep a single-player world, Realm, or server running after that world or server has been closed. It keeps selected chunks active while the world itself is running.

Test each intended farm or contraption before relying on it unattended, because different Minecraft mechanics have different activation requirements.

Performance Guidance

Ticking chunks use processing time even when players are elsewhere. For the best experience:

• Choose the smallest radius that covers the complete build.
• Disable or break runes that are no longer needed.
• Avoid overlapping large ticking areas unless the overlap is necessary.
• Add runes gradually on multiplayer worlds and monitor server performance.
• Remember that a radius of 6 keeps 169 chunks active for a single rune.

Compatibility

• Minecraft Bedrock 26.30 or newer
• Single-player worlds
• Multiplayer worlds
• Realms and Bedrock servers that support world behavior and resource packs
• Standard graphics and Vibrant Visuals
• No required dependencies
• No cheats required
• No experimental toggles required

Both included packs must remain active. If the rune appears without its texture or the purple grid is invisible, confirm that the Resource Pack is enabled and placed above conflicting packs.

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Content Creator Usage Rights

Content creators may use an official, unmodified release of Andy's Ticking Area Rune in their Minecraft worlds, multiplayer worlds, Realms, servers, videos, livestreams, screenshots, tutorials, reviews, showcases, articles, guides, social posts, and other original gameplay content, including monetized content.

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You may not redistribute, reupload, rehost, mirror, resell, sublicense, bundle, repackage, modify and publish, translate, adapt, decompile, disassemble, reverse engineer, extract, or reuse the addon, its source code, documentation, branding, textures, models, or artwork. You may not create derivative works or incorporate any portion into another addon, pack, application, website, download, or project without prior written permission from the copyright holder.

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