Welcome to the Spanchonks, episode number 56 for Monday, September 9th, 2019.

My name is Joel Duggan and joining me as always is my friend Johnny,

but you may know him better as Pixel Riffs of the Bedrock Edition, question mark?

Oh, question mark. Yeah, no, I'm back in Java edition now for my sins yes I did

spend a week in bedrock and we can talk a little bit more about that as we do our

quick log in here because I have opinions Joel but you don't say but perhaps not the opinions you might think I had an

interesting time in Bedrock Edition let's let's roll into that a little bit later

first of all how about you fill us in and what you've been doing in Minecraft this week?

So I, as we mentioned a little bit in the pre-show, which if you're a patron, you can go listen

to the render distance and hear me talk about Hurricane Dorian as well as the

Chronicle World of Warcraft book that I read in the dark by candlelight actually it was actually

quite quite fitting

atmospheric yeah yeah so that's available to our patron members, but for my

Twitch viewers I was streaming, I did two streams last week. I fit in a weekday

stream, which bewildered everybody, and then I was cut off halfway through my weekend stream when I lost

power during the hurricane.

But I was working once again on the Fortress Farm and things are really starting to come together

now because I have, as I mentioned last week, I have the redstone for the collection system and I have the design for the

Shelkerbox loaders all picked out and so on stream what I was doing I was building the Shelkerbox loaders

I was trying to plan out what I was going to do I started to remove the sand that I dropped down into the lava to block everything off and started to put in the glass so we now have like you know flowing lava walls and so there's a lot of the the look of the farm is really starting to come together.

I'm itching to unveil the top of it. I want to put a glass box around the top so that when you approach it you can actually see the farm as opposed to this ugly protective

Netherrack box that I have currently. So it was cool because it gave me a lot of chances to talk to the chat room because you're just removing sand and placing glass and just kind of like doing a lot of not mundane but like fairly straightforward tasks in the in the world. But as I was going over some of the

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