Using CHUNKY To Generate Chunks With Distant Horizons

[@DeviousMatter]

KZbin works in mysterious ways and this video is still being recommended like crazy so I'll list a few key things I've learned and questions answered. 1- 2 alternative mods you can use are C2ME. It does the same thing as Chunky but its slightly different in its approach. So if you crash a lot with Chunky you could try that mod or try Noisium which is another Chunk generation improvement mod 2 - Chunky doesn't work on servers currently 3 - World looks the same after rendering | Theres a max distance setting in DH you need to turn up and if that doesn't fix it I'm unaware of a solution other than C2ME 4 - I don't get a progress bar | Depending on how beefy of a PC you use when you render a radius under 1000 the bar will show up for a second and disappear or not appear at all. The only fix I've found is slowly increasing the radius you're trying to render 5 - Chunks disappear when flying away after rendering | This could be an issue with shader compatibility or DH CPU settings not being set high enough. (DH and Chunky are very CPU and RAM intensive)

[@arehzi]

like the honest content and calling out the other guys on not showing how. earned a sub

[@DeviousMatter]

I try to make content that's not clickbait and super over the top for no reason, so I appreciate it!

[@moomya]

My little i3 laptop watching me generate 10,000 chunks with a 5000 render distance:

[@DeviousMatter]

I feel that lol I used to play on a laptop

[@thepongpol3073]

No unnessesary intro Staight to the point Zero technical jargon bs Keep up the good work man!

[@DeviousMatter]

Thanks! I try to avoid all that unnecessary stuff because it tends to drive me away from content, so I can only assume it's the same for others

[@alexcarsten9861]

Chunky can be pretty memory hungry when generating at large radii. Try upping the allocated RAM and monitoring the memory usage when generating. Should help with the crashes

[@DeviousMatter]

Believe it or not I gave it 32GB of ram then tried 16GB but the crashes still occurred. I believe it was simply a limitation of Minecraft or the mod but who knows lol

[@Kaebren]

@@DeviousMatter maybe nosium would help since it changes how chunks load?

[@DeviousMatter]

That would probably help a lot for people who have multiple CPU threads! I wasn't aware this mod existed, but I'll add it to the pinned comment as a suggestion for others

[@jeremiahsoria938]

this is legit the most helpful video ive watched for DH

[@DeviousMatter]

Heck yeah I'm glad to hear it

[@ManicBanana32]

Was looking for hours as I’m in this situation thanks for the help

[@MrCurious410]

Not all hero’s wear capes (thank you man)

[@GamerMike-fj1lg]

you know is a good day when devious uploads

[@DeviousMatter]

At least one good day a week lol hopefully more

[@simonassarskog9600]

DH does in fact not require you to manually visit all the chunks you want to see. I think this is a 'myth' or people comparing it to Nvidium. If you set the chunk distance in DH to, let's say 500, it WILL render those 500 chunks by itself. I think people are simply too impatient, they expect it to happen at the same rate as vanilla Minecraft renders about 16 chunks. If you continously fly around in a new world while waiting for the LoD chunks to finish rendering it'll just take even more time as your computer will have to struggle between rendering the normal chunks near your character and the DH chunks.

[@DeviousMatter]

This is exactly true, and I figured that out when messing with the mod after the video, but nonetheless, it still takes a long time to generate crazy amounts of chunks, which I do think leads to people getting impatient

[@simonassarskog9600]

@@DeviousMatter agreed. Having that said I do think Chunky can be helpful to speed up the process. Or you can go into DH settings, increase the CPU load to a high value and just stand around and wait for a few minutes

[@sirlocke1643]

Damn what timing, I was just starting to screw around with Chunky and Distant Horizons. But reading below, it seems I always have to check out C2ME

[@DeviousMatter]

Chunky definitely works, but the other mod works better for distant Horizons case

[@PiotrBarcz]

C2ME slows down Distant Horizons a little bit but increases vanilla chunk loading.

[@WigWoo1]

For me DH will never load far chunks unless I walk there. Even IF I render with Chunky. I just spent 40 hours having chunky render 100,000 Chunks yet when I fly 3000 blocks in the air I only see the little chunk of land below me. I still have to walk into the chunks Chunky already made in order for them to load in Distant Horizons, so I still have no idea how to make far away chunks load in DH without actually traveling

[@DeviousMatter]

DH has a render distance setting and a setting to enable distant generation, but even when I was messing with it, I noticed sometimes you had to walk to the areas, so it's a little finicky regardless unfortunately from what I've seen

[@streeterdoesit533]

You have to be in single player for distant generation to work, otherwise in multiplayer you can load the chunks and run through them with ease

[@DummyPetals]

how do you get the mod to actually show the chunks? I can't see that load in actively?

[@DeviousMatter]

The chunks should load in around you by default. I don't think there's a setting for that, unfortunately, but I believe it is hard to see them actively load in. You should see the chunks in their LOD form around you, though, if they are loading

[@mongkolchaik5865]

Thank you so much!

[@DeviousMatter]

Of course! Hope it helps you out in one way or another

[@ELTWINKY-_-PR]

Hey, thank you for making this video. It really helped me understand Chunky. But I noticed that after loading 1000 chunks with the commands you showed, the world still looks the same and far away chunks disappear while I fly away from them. Any tips or possible errors I may have made?

[@DeviousMatter]

There is a max render distance setting in DH that is default to 128 and there's another setting called (enable distant generation) I believe that help with that. I don't think I showed that in the video but it's also worth noting that if you have shaders enabled you'll see less then without shaders for a strange reason

[@ELTWINKY-_-PR]

@@DeviousMatter Thank you, I managed to fix the issue but now Chunky is acting up. I cant get it to generate 1000 or more chunks without it stopping from working close to finishing. I think maybe my CPU is not powerful enough to render like that

[@DeviousMatter]

@ELTWINKY-_-PR I have a beefy CPU and even my game would crash or not finish rendering with chunky when set to 1000+. I recommend doing it in increments of 100 but I believe it's a limitation of Minecraft itself at a certain point. You could try installing C2ME on modrinth and DH to see if that does anything better. C2ME is a mod that improves chunk generation but it doesn't load it like Chunky so you'd have to fly around a little bit or sit in place and let DH hopefully render more with the C2ME mod. I believe I got better results with C2ME by just letting DH load while I ran around and played survival

[@ELTWINKY-_-PR]

@@DeviousMatter thank you, might try it later then. 🙏

[@CrisCheese_]

@@DeviousMatter the dh developers said that c2me doesnt really help in fact it slows down chunk generation slightly

[@PiotrBarcz]

Bade idea, this causes big problems with chunk loading, is 3 times slower than just using optimized threading in Distant Horizon's own threading config and makes chunk data fill your hard drive faster than anything. Optimize the threading, use Noisium, use Faster Random, and you'll be good.

[@DeviousMatter]

Yeah, there are better ways that I've explained to others, but I appreciate the heads up nonetheless

[@PiotrBarcz]

@@DeviousMatter Yeah I'm just putting this out there because the Iris discord is still getting clueless people coming in asking why chunky is causing chunk holes. No hard feelings, a volunteer support team member there I've just been trying to reduce the workload for everyone xD Have you tried optimizing the threading by tweaking the runtime percentages?

[@AngelPenguin1]

Couldn't distinguish my gtx 1650 laptop from an oven when trying it myself before 🔥🔥🔥

[@DeviousMatter]

That's the same GPU I had in my first laptop, so I feel that 100%. Also, it's good to see you hanging around, man

[@AngelPenguin1]

@@DeviousMatter i'm still around here, i would've went back to the discord for the community, but i still can't decide how i view you after the stuff that happened. I'm just speaking honestly here, anyway, you have great talent, and if you'd keep up a schedule you'd get popular really fast

[@DeviousMatter]

@AngelPenguin1 I understand that and I appreciate the support nonetheless

[@jaimitorioss7674]

My game was crashing to but I forgot too let mincraft use more ram because at default it’s at 2gb and I was crashing loading 500 but I brought it up to 8gb and I can now load 10,000 but it just takes a long time with no crashing

[@DeviousMatter]

DH is a little weird when it comes to giving it ram because if you give it way too much, it crashes, and if you give it too little, it also crashes. I'm glad you were able to find out a solution that works for you, though! Unfortunately, the loading times seem to be a problem with minecraft itself

[@cryptigo]

Ive always wondered why chunky has shapes for stars lmao

[@DeviousMatter]

Now that you mention it I just looked at their logo and it all makes sense lol

[@anrzej.]

if anyone is wondering why the loading is taking so long i just want to calm you down a little (rtx4080 +r7 7800x3d) for me 2000 radius is taking +/- 20mins

[@anrzej.]

6000 radius is showing to be 3-4 hours bruhhhh

[@Go_Away-e8v]

Hey dude, do you think you can clear up some questions I have? 1. Should Distant Horizon's "Enable Rendering" option be enabled or disabled while chunky does its thing or does it not matter? 2. What does Distant Horizon's own "Enable Distant Rendering" setting have to be set to? Isnt that supposed to do the same thing as chunky? Or am i understanding it wrong.

[@DeviousMatter]

So "Enable Rendering" should be enabled, and Distant Horizons from my understanding loads chunks just like chunky does, but it takes slightly longer because it's loading them at the same rate vanilla minecraft chunks are loaded. Chunky essentially speeds up the process of rendering chunks, but I'd enable Distant Horizons rendering as well because it won't mess with chunky from what I've messed with. Also, to be completely honest with you, Distant Horizons and Chunky aren't entirely clear on "How" they load chunks, so there's a good chance it's just a patience thing regardless of what option you choose. Hopefully, that kinda clears things up and sorry for the chapter book lol

[@Whirzl]

Guys i just got direct horizons to try to update and increase my render but once i got it my render still low do i also need this chunkey mod in the video? I just wana se bigger render so far i can only see like 8 chunks and the rest is fog and my laptop isnt even that bad

[@DeviousMatter]

Supposedly you just need to wait a while for DH to load chunks. Should just be able to load into a world and be afk and when you come back it'll slowly load chunks. Chunky isn't truly needed

[@prinxddd]

hey great video man, mind telling me your pc specs?

[@DeviousMatter]

GPU: 4090 CPU: I9 13000kf (I believe) RAM: 64GB Those are the main things

[@prinxddd]

@ thanks :)

[@kittenasmiau]

question. im on a single player w a chunky mod. so i did everything, but HOW does it work ? did it pre load chunks in the world im in ? or will it do it every time i create a new world. or hwat. i dont get it

[@DeviousMatter]

It pre loads chunks for the world you ran the commands in. Chunky works on the specific world you're in, so if you wanted to load the chunks of another world, you'd have to go into that world and run the commands again. I know there's a website you can upload a world save to, and it'll pre load chunks for you, but I don't know the name on the top of my head

[@kittenasmiau]

@@DeviousMatter thank youuuuuu

[@thangamer5026]

i mean it does have distant generation, but it is very slow, especially if the cpu load is low

[@NicholasPortillo-ow4yl]

Btw a better way of doing it is to have chunky load and then activate DH

[@PandaBearJelly]

I'm not getting the top progress bar, is this something I need to change in setting somehow?

[@DeviousMatter]

Depending on how small of a radius you do, it sometimes doesn't appear. When I was testing it, sometimes it wouldn't appear when you loaded a distance less than 500 - 1000, so I would just recommend checking the reported bugs on either curseforge or modrith. You could also try slowly increasing the distance you're trying to render until it appears. Hopefully, that leads you to a solution!

[@PandaBearJelly]

@@DeviousMatter Appreciate the reply!

[@IsraelAintReal]

how can i have a zoom like you have on fabric?

[@DeviousMatter]

Yeah, I believe the mod I use is called (Zoomify) it's pretty nice

[@IsraelAintReal]

@@DeviousMatter thanks mate, i am also having issues with chunky. I have put the plugin into my mods folder but that didnt seem to work

[@DeviousMatter]

@IsraelAintReal Chunky should just be a mod that you put into the mod folder because, from my understanding, Chunky doesn't work on servers at all at the moment

[@IsraelAintReal]

@@DeviousMatter no my bad i had downlaoded the plugin version

[@thegrand_silvie]

We missed you ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@DeviousMatter]

I missed you all, too, and I'm looking forward to getting back into the swing of things!

[@noem4162]

how do you get it in a survival world?

[@DeviousMatter]

You'll have to enable cheats I'm pretty sure

[@Darkyahweh]

You need to up your distant horizons so it doesnt look like shit at a far

[@DeviousMatter]

I'm pretty sure that was on the highest setting, but I could be wrong

[@nemjef121]

I don't get it. I'ts fully working, but it's taking years and years to do just 1000. I have 32gb ram, 20gb allocated minecraft, rtx 4080 with i9 something expensive. People mention allocating ram to chunky, but I have no clue how. It's a mod, not a luancher and the config is bare. I don't suppose I'm missing something obvious. Also, it is blocks, not chunks. I can see in MCA selector tool that it's loaded the chunks in the a big circle and its only like 140 with 2000 blocksish

[@DeviousMatter]

For any amount of blocks, it really does just seem like a "leave your PC on overnight" kinda deal because I've messed with it again recently, and I couldn't find anything that allowed me to give ram to chunky unfortunately

[@nemjef121]

@@DeviousMatter Honestly, I'm still so glad you said that because I've been searching most of the day for a way to speed it up and now I can finally just walk away from my pc and let it ride in good conscience. Thank you!

[@DeviousMatter]

@nemjef121 no problem I'd just check on it now and then to make sure it didn't crash since it tends to if you use any CPU present higher than balanced

[@anrzej.]

@@nemjef121 i know im late but i have the same problem i also have pretty powerful pc (4080 + 7 7800x3d) and this comment calmed me down

[@Elchameau504]

2000 radius takes 2 hours with my ryzen 7 3700x haha

[@DeviousMatter]

Dang

[@MrCreeperrr]

Takes 4mins with my r5 7600x or smth

[@MrCreeperrr]

Clock speed matters

[@DeviousMatter]

I need to mess with Distant Horizons again because I definitely did something wrong

[@MrCreeperrr]

@@DeviousMatter yes.

[@DeviousMatter]

This is one of the worst ways to generate chunks so I've learned lol

[@vainerowl6185]

whats the better ways

[@DeviousMatter]

There's a mod called C2ME that's apparently better for chunk performance and chunk rendering. I can't post links in comments but it's on modrinth and curseforge I believe

[@itzagonlol]

@@DeviousMatter are u sure mate? Who said that?

[@SVIXIV]

I just did this on my server and none of the chunks are showing as loaded with distant horizons even though it loaded all of the chunks, how do I get them to show up?

[@DeviousMatter]

I'm not sure how to force load chunks on a server, unfortunately. Everything I've done has been for a single player experience

[@isaaclmao2628]

Whats the seed??

[@DeviousMatter]

I deleted the world after that recording session I'm sorry

[@isaaclmao2628]

@@DeviousMatter your good m8

[@RedNomster]

sick thx c:

[@DeviousMatter]

Of course! Hope my rambling helped in some way or another

[@RedNomster]

@@DeviousMatter rambling tangents are a right of passage for any real minecraft channel. 90% of my videos were jumping around talking about some quirk I ran into and 10% was showcase 😂

[@DeviousMatter]

At least I'm not the only one lol

[@Knightfire66]

its not blocks. its chunks maybe. thats why it crashes. 4t is insane

[@DeviousMatter]

That's definitely a possibility since it's called chunky. I didn't think about that

[@Heavy_Lvy]

w man

[@portablelava]

Rather random upload

[@DeviousMatter]

It's to help some people out

[@portablelava]

@@DeviousMatter anyways when skyblock upload???

[@DeviousMatter]

Tuesday at the earliest Friday at the latest

[@portablelava]

@@DeviousMatter hell yeah🦅🦅🦅🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸