Welp since 1.17 the render distance is.. pretty bad. It's what 7-8 Chunks?
It would be nice if it was increased to 12. Or if it really does cause lag, increase it for people with Tier 1 - Gold and up like other servers do.
It doesn't give any gameplay advantages and it just means you can actually take a screenshot of your town, because atm it's impossible to far enough away from something to take a proper screenshot without it unloading :/
I’ll see what I can do about this. We may be able to increase our no-tick view distance - meaning that you’ll be able to see further, but there won’t be ticks occurring in the chunks. It’ll essentially be frozen.