Chunk Loading

[stepsword]

The inevitable help topic after my other thread - when I want to request tickets, if I'm requesting player tickets do I have to request them at world load? Or can I request tickets when I need them? If I request a ticket for the same player more than once will I start approaching some limit? Should I store the ticket forever once I've received it for a player?

 

This link's advice seems to be to do it when the world loads, but that was for non-player tickets.

 A quick search of

ForgeChunkManager.requestPlayerTicket

shows some people requesting tickets in "onBlockPlacedBy" - is it ok to do that?

 

Edit: Just found out you can "release tickets" back to the system - if I like request a ticket, hold it for a few seconds while I use it and then release it is that fine/encouraged?

 

Edit: Also, this loading call back is a bit confusing - setForcedChunkLoadingCallback says it's "the code to call back when chunks are loaded", but the descriptions of the LoadingCallback say its "when tickets are loaded". Which is it? Do I use these as both ticket loaded callbacks AND forced chunk callbacks?

Edited September 12, 2019 by stepsword