Considering mod to help finding Strongholds

[dakamojo]

I'm considering making a machine that slowly scans for a stronghold.  I am thinking that the machine will be powered by eyes of ender.  It would replace the act of throwing the eye of ender.  Sit the machine down in your base and feed it and slowly it scans chunks to fid the stronghold.

 

My question is how should it actually find the stronghold?  I scanned the World code but I don't see anything that tells me where the stronghold is.  Would I need to load each chunk and scan block by block to find end portal blocks?  Any recommendations?

[GiantNuker]

Or /locate