Welcome to the Spawn Shunks episode number 225 recording slightly earlier on Thursday, December 15th, 2022, since we are publishing this over the holiday break on Monday, December 26th, we thought we would step in and record this one a little bit earlier to give our routine a break.

My name is Johnny but the internet knows me as Pixar ifs and joining me as always is a slightly later but perhaps earlier Joel Duggan.

Hi Joel. Hi, I'm going to say warmer to just to rub it in a little bit. No, my boiler. If you want to hear a little bit more in the saga of Pixel of Spoiler, as well as a little bit about travel, our plans for travel, dreams about travel and cycling.

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Speaking of the internet, you've been streaming a bit more from the Citadel this week Joel. What's new?

I have. I've been trying to ramp things up a little bit just because it is the holidays and I know that some people are around and are on vacation.

And I have been really feeling a nice groove on this Citadel and I started working on the adjacent house to the West River build that I've been showing off the last couple of weeks on stream or on the show.

And for me, this was something that came together a lot quicker because of course all of the block palette has been selected.

It's a different scale and it's a different size and different layout, but you know, the bottom is brick, the foundation or basement is cobbled the second or the main floor is mud brick and then you've got to spruce roof with like some different stuff inside of it.

And so it all came together pretty quickly. The one thing I wanted to do was change up the roof. I didn't want to do another gradient roof because one, it's not very big. So you can't do a multiple gradient with like three or four blocks.

And I decided to do all dark oak, but when I added the kitchen area to the other build, I just kind of happened into something that was kind of a cool look, which was to gradually have a peak kind of running up the pitch of the roof, I guess you want to say.

So along the bottom row of will use air quotes shingles that I made with dark oak, I added trap doors and slabs, but as those trap doors and slabs get higher, they get narrower.

So it creates like a sort of like a roundness to to that side. It's the kind of thing that you could achieve at a much larger scale with geometry, but in in this scale, you kind of just have to use like the sub blocks to do it.

And I think quite successful. It helped the roof not be just another dark oak roof, which I have quite a few of in the area. So that's been fun. It was fun to mess around with that. And I've been doing a lot of layering, like taking something like a spruce wood block, which is around the same color as dark oak, but obviously it's a bark block.

And then putting a dark oak sign over top of that. And so it still looks like the same plank texture, but it has a different top and bottom to it.

And it tends to go very well, but then it doesn't look like you've used the exact same block over the entire roof. So that's been fun.

Yeah, having some like layered siding like that always feels like it's, if not missing from Minecraft, then at least something you have to push your creativity a little bit more to simulate.

And yeah, I think that's that's looking good. It's definitely blending in nicely with the area. You've got a lot of the, like you said, the same kind of wood roofs pop up a lot, but you managed to get enough variation in there that they don't feel boring or they don't feel like they were all constructed in exactly the same way by exactly the same architect or they're kind of like prefab IKEA, you know,

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