Minecraft is one of the most popular action-adventure survival sandbox games. Even after nearly 14 years since launch, it’s going strong with expansion packs, mods and online communities for players worldwide.
That said, the base game itself is a technological marvel. Rendering an infinite world on anything from a high-end gaming PC to a Raspberry Pi isn’t trivial. This also means that you’ll run into some issues from time to time.
In this article, we’re talking about how to reload chunks in Minecraft to fix buggy landscapes.
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What are Minecraft chunks, and why do you need to reload them?
Chunks form the basis of the Minecraft world. They’re pieces of 16 x 16 blocks horizontally that are 256 blocks deep, making it a rectangle of 65,536 in-game blocks. These ‘chunks’ of in-game blocks are constantly rendered and de-rendered as they enter your field of view to provide good performance while keeping your computer from being overloaded with too much data to load.
Since chunks are constantly rendered and de-rendered by nature, it’s normal to see them failing to load or not loading properly occasionally. The issue has gotten rarer in modern game versions, but it still exists. To fix this botched scenery, the easiest solution is to force the chunks to load or manually reload them yourself.
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Reloading Minecraft chunks
Regardless of your platform, reloading Minecraft chunks is quite a simple process. All you have to do is log out of a server if you’re playing online or save your game and quit it if you’re in single-player mode. After that, loading the same map again will force the chunks to reload.
Alternatively, based on the game version you’re running, there are different ways to reload chunks simultaneously.
Reloading chunks on Minecraft Java Edition
The Java version of Minecraft has a lot of useful shortcuts and keybinds, and the same stands true when reloading chunks. If you notice botched scenery in the game or need to reload chunks to fix a problem, press F3 + A, and all the chunks around you will start reloading.
Remember that the reloading process will take a little time to complete, depending on your PC’s specifications. If you experience issues with the game crashing during reloads, either upgrade the amount of RAM you have or quit the game and relaunch it to reload chunks.
There are other useful commands in the F3 menu that you can use in such scenarios such as:
- S to reload all resources from the web
- T to reload in-game textures
Reloading chunks on Minecraft Bedrock Edition
The Bedrock edition of the game doesn’t have the same configuration options as the Java edition, meaning you don’t get a handy shortcut to reload chunks. This means that to do so, you will have to quit the game and relaunch it, as mentioned above.
