Welcome to the Spanchunks episode number 122 for Monday January 4th,

2021. My name is Joel Duggan and joining me as always is Johnny, aka

Pixel Riffs. Hello sir. Hello, have you got used to writing 2021 on anything yet? I have been so confused as usually happens. I think the first three months of 2021 I will be writing 2020 and

While I'm sure we're all obviously keen to see the last year gone.

We also had a great end to it and we want to thank everybody who bore with us through the last

couple of pre-recorded episodes of the year and if you want to hear more about what we did over the

holiday break you can listen to the render distance the extended version of the

podcast which you can get at patreon.com slash the spawn chunks and listen in

so we're back we're back for a new year and I think a lot of today's show is going to be

concerned with what we have planned for the year ahead. But in the meantime, Joel, what have you been up to in

Minecraft?

I put in a solid chunk of work, and I mean quote unquote air quote, quote unquote,

work on the still unnamed medieval town in the civil medieval realm over the holidays all on stream

really enjoyable like it I've just been locked into this town have not left

unless I had to go repair tools or do anything and I've just

been having a really good time with it and being able to do it all on stream I streamed an awful lot

over the holidays in a way that I wish I could sustain but I can't.

So there's a number of things that are that are it as a result things went very quickly

right so that's that's good and I'm went very

accomplished. It's starting to feel like a town. Like you're starting to feel like a town, like you're starting to feel like, oh, when I enter in through the front gate,

I feel enclosed. I feel like there's a middle at an end and there's stuff going on.

And I've been kind of doing houses, buildings, they've been nonspecific, I've not like made of fishing hut, you know, like I've kind of just put buildings where I think I need a shape. I'll worry about their purpose later. I'm thinking of putting like little item frames with items to indicate

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