Minecraft wiki entry for Chunk, associated text: For example, in a multiplayer server with a configured view-distance of 5 chunks, an area of 11×11 chunks centered around the player has a load type of entity ticking (level 31), while the immediately enclosing chunks. The strip of chunks at the outer edge of a 13×13 perimeter surrounding the player have ticking (level 32), and the next enclosing chunks (15×15 perimeter) are border chunks (level 33).