There are good reasons to know what chunk a Minecraft player finds themselves in. Currently only Java Edition has this feature, adding to the list of unique features that set Java apart from ...

A chunk is a unit area of the vast Minecraft map. As players know, the map of the game is nearly endless - players can keep walking and the world will keep loading.

To this end, Mojang Studios has released Minecraft: Java Edition 1.18.1 Release Candidate 2 to test a fix for world chunks occasionally not loading.