Question Iron farm in a loaded chunk won't spawn any golem unless players are near

[phantomyy]

Exactly as the title says, I've got an iron farm in a loaded chunk (the chunk is loaded with an enderpearl and I've made sure that redstone and command blocks work in that chunk even if no players are near) but no iron golem spawn unless players are near. Switching to spigot made the farm work (but breaks some other farms, so I'd prefer to keep on using paper)

paper version: 1.21.4 (190)

 

[electronicboy]

would generally need to see a spark report to see your config, primary suspicion would be the config options for toying with how often certain things can tick, and entity activation ranges