We have about 20 high end players in a game playing with Linked Chests. Search [Maroons] Brave New Oarc Krastorios to see the game and to get a save, it's pretty big. We're using over 15,000 linked chests and likely as many buffered chests.

Some profiling info here:
https://imgur.com/a/nwUVnDN

We're wondering if limiting the number of chests per force would be worth pursuing. Might there be an admin option added that set the minimum allowed count in each type of chest to reduce the frequency of processing ?

This save game would be good for profiling.

I have optimized many aspects related to performance issues, including how to use associative arrays to reduce performance overhead. However, for multiplayer games with multiple teams, there is still an inevitable amount of unnecessary performance overhead, which is unavoidable. The latest version has added a limit on the number of entities, which should alleviate the aforementioned issues to some extent.

Excellent - thank you! We love this mod. I've implemented a distance limit in my mod, which you and I have discussed in another thread. If you hit the HOME key you can see a circle drawn to show the limit which I offer as configurable option for game hosts. In the game mentioned above I set that limit to 9 chunks.