Player's position listener

[ColdFox]

I'm doing a block that is supposed to track the player's position. I'm using randomDisplayTick(...) but I noticed that soon as I am far away from the block it stops tracking. I think that there must a better solution instead randomDisplayTick but I don't know what. Can anybody help me here? 

[Wouto1997]

There's probably a better function for it I'm pretty sure about that, but I think the reason that it stops outputting the locations, is probably because of the chunk unloading limit.

[Mazetar]

I'm doing a block that is supposed to track the player's position. I'm using randomDisplayTick(...) but I noticed that soon as I am far away from the block it stops tracking. I think that there must a better solution instead randomDisplayTick but I don't know what. Can anybody help me here? 

 

I would assume that the block get's unloaded since the player is far away and the whole chunk get's unloaded?

[ColdFox]

I'm doing a block that is supposed to track the player's position. I'm using randomDisplayTick(...) but I noticed that soon as I am far away from the block it stops tracking. I think that there must a better solution instead randomDisplayTick but I don't know what. Can anybody help me here? 

 

I would assume that the block get's unloaded since the player is far away and the whole chunk get's unloaded?

 

The chunk doesn't unload, because I only get like 30 or 40 blocks away from the block. But it may unload if I go farther, that way what can I do?

[ColdFox]

Note that randomDisplayTick is a Client-side only function. If you use it for anything that modifies the world (e.g. spawning entities, setting blocks) it will not work.

It is intended for stuff like torches spawning their particles. So it makes sense that it stops getting called when you go away, since the particles wouldn't be visible anyways.

Depending on what you want to do, you probably want a TileEntity.

 

That did the trick