Is it possible this could finally be the mod that will cache multiplayer chunks for later rendering?

[Shako-Ram]

I coincidentally found this mod (it looks insanely awesome btw) from searching around for a mod that could cache chunks from a multiplayer server and reuse them later to simulate rendering farther distances than the server will actually send to the client. Of course the drawback is that the farther chunks will be out-of-date until the player is close enough that the server will send a new version of the chunk, but hey, isn't that basically what LOD is about?
I found a thread from years ago where the creator of the World Downloader mod talked about experimenting with this, but it seems to have never went anywhere. I've found several other threads where people seemed interested in the idea and thought it to be possible, but again, it just never went anywhere.
But this mod seems like a new opportunity to introduce a feature like this. Multiplayer rendering by default is pretty awful, as when you load into the world or teleport you can barely see anything if the server's render distance is set low. Getting a nice scenic view on multiplayer requires first going through a large area of land to load the chunks, and next time you load into the world, it's gone again. It would be perfect for this mod to be able to cache chunks from multiplayer so the kinds of amazing view distances that LOD allows can be brought to multiplayer, not just relegated to singleplayer.
Perhaps for the sake of performance, storage space, and server admin approval, it could only save blocks that are adjacent to a light level above 0, thereby culling most of the unexplored underground without compromising built structures and such?
I understand this may be very low priority or not in the picture for now, but I think Minecraft has needed this for a long time and this mod looks like the perfect opportunity to implement it.

[DaMatrix]

duplicate of #78