Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-30575462-20161130004558/@comment-27219153-20161203225511

I think the chunks should stay loaded mainly because of practicality. I would guess that building these structures could take a considerable amount of time and I wouldn't want to wait around for it to be built. I would probably end up afking (instead of logging out) which would use more server resources than If the builder was to load chunks and I was to log out. Also, I play a lot of modded minecraft outside of LOTR and I'm used to having chunk loaders and having the ability to have things happen when I'm not there.

As I was writing that last sentence, I thought of another idea. Perhaps you could speed up how fast a structure is built by having multiple builder NPCs. If these NPCs have squadrons (or groups of some kind), each NPC in the same squadron could be assigned to work on the same structure. Two NPCs would be two times faster. Three NPCs would be three times faster, etc.