I’ve been having random 3 sec or so pauses. sometimes it will happen shortly after it just happened. I installed Chuck Pregenerator but it made no difference. It’s very annoying.

Which kind of Pause are you talking about, is the entire screen freezing or is the game lagging? If the entire screen freezes for seconds, then you need to lower your graphics settings or at least render distance. Maybe also stay away from Trees, their transparent Leaves love to lag the Game even w…