# Spawn Chunks

## <span style="color: rgb(230, 126, 35);">Spawn Chunks</span>

Against popular belief spawn chunks DO exist on bedrock edition. These chunks around the central world chunk (x 0, z 0) are there mostly for performance reasons. If you have ever went into a portal and came back you will know that the transfer from nether to overworld is much faster than the opposite. This is because of spawn chunks. This can help you load those chunks to the loaded status much quicker than if they were fully unprocessed. These chunks form a rounded 11x11 square of <span style="color: rgb(230, 126, 35);">[unloaded chunks](https://bedrockwiki.com/books/chunks/page/unloaded-chunks)</span> and of course bordering them is a rounded 15x15 square of <span style="color: rgb(230, 126, 35);">[locked chunks](https://bedrockwiki.com/books/chunks/page/locked-chunks)</span>.

[![spawnchunksvisualisation.png](https://bedrockwiki.com/uploads/images/gallery/2025-09/scaled-1680-/spawnchunksvisualisation.png)](https://bedrockwiki.com/uploads/images/gallery/2025-09/spawnchunksvisualisation.png)

<span style="color: rgb(126, 140, 141);">(Visualization by @kiwixite on discord)</span>

<p class="callout info"><span style="color: rgb(126, 140, 141);">These chunks will become unprocessed on server/world shutdown until loaded again. After which they will stay persistent across *that* session.</span></p>