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I want to increase the draw distance in Minecraft beyond 15 chunks. A wiki page lists 15 as the max, but I'm wondering whether this has changed and is now possible?
All the solutions I find are obsolete or don't really work.
I want to be able to see far away the horizon and make the world look much more alive!
Another way you can edit your render distance without tampering with class files yourself is to download a mod that does it for you. This mod has a 2x render distance and a 1.5x render distance version. Additionally, it offers the Better Cloud Mod.
Here is an image the author of the mod posted while using his mod:
Dropped items will last for 5 minutes while their chunk is loaded, and then will disappear. While the chunks are unloaded, they will stay idle and the disappear counter won't run.
When playing Minecraft, your world is loaded in chunks - 16x16x128 areas. The nearest 81 chunks are loaded while walking around the world (a 9x9 chunk grid with your chunk in the center). This means that about 80 blocks around you are loaded at all time (give or take a few depending on where in the chunk you currently are). When you are within 80 blocks of an item, it changes from its idle to its active state.
Best Answer
It's possible with Spigot!
First, turns out the doc is deprecated, some people had arguments on this old post and it seems like an update at some point permitted up to 32 chunks.
One caveat is that if you are using gameserver.com, they are limiting the view distance to 15 chunks in the config file, which is why it wasn't working in the first place as it was being overridden. I found a glitch however and if you set the draw distance to 0 in gameserver's config file then set it to 32 in spigot.yml, it will work!