Are Iron Farms always active no matter the location

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    I want to build a Iron farm in my server


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    Iron Farm is built in the Overworld for reference but the Iron golems are killed in the Nether.


    In the Iron Farm video the zombies are named tagged. Someone told me that chunks with name tagged entities are always loaded in no matter where you are in the overworld since according to their logic, the game need to store that there is an entity there and it can’t despawn since it has a name tag.


    I did some researching about this theory but I couldn’t find any supporting evidence.


    However, I know that making a Iron Farm at World Spawn will always be active no matter where you are in the overworld since world spawn chunks are always loaded in.


    So do Iron Farms active no matter where you are?

    It will be active if you stay near the Iron golem farm, just like other mob farms. Otherwise, there will be high chances that your farm will not work.

    But anyway, nowadays players don't use the nether, just put the lava and some fence gates (open) and you're set

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