If you built the machine at building limit, being sniped is highly unlikely but if you fall, it's certain death.

I think, assuming nobody else is near you, when you leave, the machine along with your chunk is unloaded from memory so when you join back the machine is in the exact place it would have been when you left.

Correct me if I am wrong on that...

@_Confederacy_ If you built the machine at building limit, being sniped is highly unlikely but if you fall, it's certain death.

I think, assuming nobody else is near you, when you leave, the machine along with your chunk is unloaded from memory so when you join back the machine is in the exact place it would have been when you left.

Correct me if I am wrong on that...

Well you could just wear an elytra and glide towards a nearby island. But if you're no where near an island and if you built the machine at building limit like you said, jumping off with an elytra from that height would surely let you reach far away islands so I think you'd be safe for the most part, unless the lag is terrible and you happen to fall out and your elytra won't activate xD (Happens to me a lot)