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I have looked through many questions and have not found this, i would like to have it so the redstone activates once the player goes in a certain area, this is almost done but for some reason it is measuring the radius in chunks, not blocks, any advice?
I have tried everything, please help.
As @09stephenb stated correctly, on Single Player Minecraft, only chunks in render distance are updated. This begs the question: what is the render distance for Single Player? You can adjust it in the Options > Video Options page, at the Render Distance option.
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The higher the number of chunks, the farther you can see. Hence, more blocks are rendered, which might lower the game's performance. For the picture's example of 12 chunks (which is the default), you can see blocks in a 192 block radius (give or take).
Note however that chunks are 16 blocks wide, 16 blocks long, and 256 blocks deep. If you are mining very far below your farm, it will continue to be calculated. What matters most is horizontal distance.
When using coordinates, you need to specify a radius so that it knows how far to search from that specific point. Try changing your command to:
/testfor @a[x=-611,y=80,z=714,r=1]
You can also compact it down into:
/testfor @a[-611,80,714,1]
I believe that the reason is that without a radius the selector makes no sense, so it is simply ignored and tests for @a.
Best Answer
The
mafterr=2is unnecessary and does not search for that number of chunks (thanks @Skylinerw). By adding it, the command block ignores the radius parameters and instead searches the entire world for the player. In order to search in a radius of 2 blocks, remove them.Your command should look like
testfor @p[x=437,y=72,z=2363,r=2].