Welcome to the spawn chunks, episode number 120 for Monday, December 21st.

My name is Joel Duggan and joining me as always is Tinsil Rifts. Hello,

hello sir. Hello, yes, feeling especially Tinsley this close to Christmas. And if you are interested in what

we're getting up to this close to Christmas or how difficult it is to get Christmas presents, you can listen to the render distance, the extended version of the podcast.

As always, that's available from Patreon.com slash the Spawn Chunks.

And we should note that this episode is being

pre-recorded as will the next episode one two one is also going to be

pre-recorded before our usual Christmas break so we can keep the content coming for you guys and we don't expect a great deal of breaking news from the Minecraft team over the holidays so don't come down too hard on us if we ended up missing something having Having said that, there was a snapshot today and we are going to be covering it.

We're recording this on Wednesday, December 16th, and there was a snapshot, but we have spent precisely 45 minutes in that snapshot before we decided to sit down and record a show.

So we might have missed a couple of things here and there but we'll try and cover it as

comprehensively as we usually do, which is to say with just a lot of you know

extra discussion and extrapolation from there but first of all in the two days since we last spoke

Joel what have you been up to in Minecraft this week?

Well I ended up with a short midweek stream I don't always have time to do those but I jumped on

last night and I had sort of blocked out where I wanted a bridge to go over one of the rivers that crosses through the medieval town that I've been working on and this is one of many bridges that they're going to be in the town and it connects one side of the

town to the other so it's going to be kind of like a heavy influence in terms of like where I

envisioned the foot traffic is going to go where the wider streets are going to be that kind of thing and I didn't finish it it just kind of got a good solid start

But I've got a I'll have a link here for our live chat and I'm trying to be as simple as I can with some of these designs because I mean I have to design a whole town.

My server mates seem to be pretty busy with their own projects so this is kind of like on me to design this town and so I don't want to bite off more than I can chew. Like I don't want to start getting into like crazy textures on everything. So I'm approaching it as like as simple as I, like I'm texturing in layers.

I did have some fun with the new way that walls connect is the first time I had a chance to play with this in the build.

And giving some very subtle depth changes to the top of the towers on the bridge and so far so good

like I'm quite happy with it it's gonna it's gonna be a lot of fun to complete I think and

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