Welcome to the Sporn Chunks, episode number 357 for Monday, July 7th, 2025.

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My name is Johnny, but the internet knows me as Pixariffs, and joining me, fresh from the outside world, is Joel Duggan. Hi, Joel.

Hello, I have touched grass and sand, as a matter of fact, and the ocean. It was very cold.

I went to the beach on Saturday, and it was a fun summer day, fun summer trip. There was

strawberries, there was beer, there was all kinds of fun things.

Johnny has also been prepping for a tabletop adventure that's coming up later on tonight. And those

are the kind of things that we talk about in the render distance, which is the extended

version of the program. You can get that by going to patreon.com slash the spawn chunks and sponsoring

the podcast. It is, I think, one of the first times we recorded in July, if not the first, because last time it was the 30th, I want to say. So thank you to all of our patrons for supporting us for yet another month. We really, really appreciate it. And you don't get just the render distance. There's also things like the monthly Minecraft hangout that's coming up on the last Saturday of July, as well as the quarterly hangouts where once a quarter, Johnny and I sit down and talk about how the podcast is

doing, talk about download numbers, YouTube views, that kind of thing. So if under the hood

behind the scenes is your cup of tea, then check out the render distance at patreon.com slash

the spawn chunks. And coming up on this episode of the podcast, we've got, of course, the copper gollum and all of the copper things that are coming to the game, including email specifically about that. So our whole show is going to center around the copper golem coming to Minecraft.

It's a show tailor made for me. As a former copper king and still, I think spiritually very much a copper king, So excited to get into today's discussion. And a lot of

that is what I've been doing in Minecraft this week. I hopped on to Bedrock Edition just to take a

look at that on stream later. So excited to bring that to the discussion a little bit later on.

What's new in your Minecraft life, Joel? So I have been hard at work in West Hill. We are

getting much, much closer to finishing things,

actually. And I'll have a bunch of screenshots to share here with our live audience in the Discord.

And I have finished the North Road, completely done. That involved transitioning the stone brick road

into a dirt road as it kind of goes by the farms it becomes less refined and I had to redo that kind of transition I had roughed it out briefly but it involved a lot more

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