Pre-generate your World with Chunky

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Pre-generate your World with Chunky

In this guide, we will show you how to use Chunky to pre-generate chunks for any world in Minecraft, which can help reduce lag, thus making gameplay smoother. This is extra helpful for servers with multiple people playing and exploring simultaneously. Here's a step-by-step guide on how to do it with Chunky's help.

Chunky is server-side software that's available for Bukkit based servers (such as Paper/Spigot) and modded (Forge/Fabric) servers. We will cover both ways of obtaining the software.

Install Chunky

Install Plugin Version

Login to the panel. See Access the Panel for instructions.
Click on your server, then navigate to the 1 Plugins tab.
2 Click on the search bar, type chunky, and press ENTER.
Find Chunky in the search result,and click the 3 Install button.

The plugin installer will ask you what version of Chunky you wish to install. Use the latest unless you require a specific version.

You can verify the plugin has been installed by checking the plugins folder.

Install Mod Version

Download Chunky from here.
Make sure to select the correct Game version and Platform (modding API).

Once you have downloaded the file, upload it to your server's mods folder.

Files can be uploaded via the panel file manager, or via SFTP. See SFTP Transfer for instructions.

Start the Server

Click the Start button.
During server startup, check for mentions of Chunky in the console output to confirm it has been successfully installed.

Use Chunky

Typing a radius above 10,000 will likely cause the command to run for over 20 hours. Loading a radius of 1000-5000 is recommended at a time. The radius given is the amount of chunks loaded in each direction.

Choose your world, and type chunky world world_name. Replace world_name with any of the below examples.

world: The overworld
world_nether: The nether
world_the_end: The end

Finally, set the radius of chunks you want pre-generated by executing the following command.

chunky radius 1000

To start or stop chunk generation, use any of the following commands.

chunky start
chunky pause

The console output can be quite spammy, so you can use chunky quiet 300 to make it only print its progress every 5 minutes.
Generating chunks can take a lot of time, so be patient.
Your console will output updates on the percentage of chunk loading done.
When it reaches 100%, you are ready to play!

If you require further assistance, you can open a support ticket here.

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Pre-generate your World with Chunky
Install Chunky
Install Plugin Version
Install Mod Version
Start the Server
Use Chunky