MinecartPermanence

Minecart Permanence - A plugin to keep the chunks minecarts are in always loaded. Version: 1.1

I built this plugin for a sever I'm in where we're building a very extensive railway system. Since we want it autonomous, and sections of tracks are frequently kilometers long, minecarts would unload when they get too far from a player and the trains would just stop. While this kind of displayed a quantum mechanics idea, it was really obnoxious for us. This plugin fixes that.

While there are other plugins that do this same thing, they're few and far between from what I saw, and many provide a lot more features. We wanted to keep the server mostly vanilla, which is why the only thing this plugin fixes is Minecarts.

Features: This plugin simply keeps track of any vehicle move event and chunk unload event. If a vehicle moves and its a minecart, it forces chunks around the minecart to load. If it's a chunk unload event and there is a minecart in a nearby chunk, it'll prevent that chunk from unloading.

[Edit: ah, this format is all new to me. For ease of use and not having eventually pointless comments, please PM me with how to make this not a terrible format for BukkitDev]