Welcome to the Spawn Chunks, episode number 350 for Monday, May 19, 2025.

This is a podcast all about Minecraft, and it is available across all of the major podcasting platforms,

as well as video versions on Spotify and on YouTube. If you're enjoying the show,

please consider subscribing wherever you're listening to this. My name is Joel Duggan, and joining

me as always is my friend Johnny, otherwise known as the birthday boy Pixar. Hello, sir.

Hello, I have been the birthday boy. That's a little bit of what we've been talking about in the

render distance, but if you haven't

already supported us on Patreon, you're missing out on some incredible photos of Joel's puppy yoga

experience over the weekend. That alone is worth the price of admission, folks. So I do encourage

you if you're interested in supporting the show to head over to patreon.com slash the spawn chunks.

You get the extended version of the podcast, what we call the render distance, that gets you an extra 15 to sometimes even to patreon.com slash the spawn chunks. You get the extended version of the podcast,

what we call the render distance,

that gets you an extra 15 to sometimes even 30 minutes of podcast every week.

It's usually Joel and I chopping it up about what we've been doing in our lives,

but also a little bit of extended conversation about Minecraft often happens in the post show.

We also have monthly hangouts where our patrons can let us know what they've been up to in Minecraft that month. They share screenshots. We look at trends and builds in the community

and generally have a fantastic time talking more about this game that we all love. And the

quarterly hangouts are going to be coming up as well. We have a quarterly hangout coming up relatively

soon. We still haven't fixed a date for it, but that's where Joel and I go into the behind the scenes, facts and figures of the podcast. That's where we talk about how the sausage

is made. So if you're interested in any of that, and once again, very, very cute puppy pictures,

that's over at patreon.com slash the spawn chunks. So cuteness aside, what have you been doing in

Minecraft this week? I have, as you might expect, been after a

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