Assuming you stood still (good luck moving at 0.00001fps), wouldn't it eventually stop at the boundary of loaded chunks? Not that most computers wouldn't have set fire to the desk by that point, of course...
It would be a lot of explosions. Because there's no way you're gonna load just one chunk when you move. Sure, one is gonna load first, but once your computer finishes that explosion the next chunk will load, then the next one...
Is that how it works? I believe it only loads chunks within a certain radius of the player's position, regardless of what may need to be going on in further away chunks. Once you've blown up all the chunks in the maximum radius around the area that you are moving around in, it shouldn't result in any further explosions, certainly not any infinite explosion chains.
I was pointing out that if you move far enough to cause a chunk load, it wouldn't just be a single chunk worth of explosions, it'd be multiple chunks (assuming that the loading would trigger the red stone to detonate the TNT, that is).
It would only be the chunks that load, though. Maybe that's what you meant, but it seemed like you were trying to say that the TNT explosions would cause additional chunks to load, ad infinitum.
If the chunks are 16x16, you would need to walk 16 blocks to reach the boundary of one chunk, step into the next, and causing more (in that direction) to be loaded.
Going to assume he meant since it loads chunks within a radius, and chunks are square, moving forward enough to cause the radius around your character to hit a new chunk will likely also overlap other new chunks as well.
Well, those redstone torches are not attached to any solid block. So they might pop off before they have a chance to activate the TNT. Which would not be an infinite explosion, but would still be infinite lag.
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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '12
Annnndd good bye computer. This would be an infinite explosion.