Welcome to The Spawn Chunks, episode number 141 for Monday, May 17th, 2021.

My name is Johnny, but the internet knows me as the birthday boy, and joining me, as always,

is my good friend, Joel Duggan. Hi, Joel.

Happy birthday, sir.

Thank you, and yes, happy birthday to Minecraft, as we will get into in the news a little

bit later. If you are interested in hearing what I did for my birthday, which was, I mean,

today, but we celebrated it on stream a couple of days ago with a food stream, my first

ever food stream, we talked all about that in the render distance, which is an extended

version of the podcast that you can get. If you're a patron of the show, visit patreon.com,

slash at The Spawn Chunks to find out how you can support the show and get in on all of

the extra recorded action.

So what have you been up to in Minecraft over the last week?

The last week has been fairly quiet for me on the YouTube front because I am working

really hard behind the scenes on the museum because of the inevitability of the next update.

And I've noticed a few other creators basically kind of putting their 116 series on hold or,

you know, wrapping up what they're doing in 116 in preparation for the updates. So I feel

like the writings on the wall and I need to really get moving on some of this. So I've

paused work on the exhibits themselves, and I'm now decorating the main entrance and

corridors for episode 360 of the survival guide, which was going to be this 360 degree tour.

I figured I may as well make it look a bit more presentable if I'm going to do a tour

video at all. So I'm kind of working on some of that stuff. But aside from that, I still

need to kind of figure out the outer boundaries of this and where I'm going to put a few other

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