Welcome to the Sporn Shunks, episode number 359 for Monday, July 21st, 2025. This is a podcast all about

Minecraft, and it's available across all major podcast platforms, including a video version on YouTube

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wherever you're listening to this. My name is Johnny, but the internet knows me as Pixariffs,

and joining me, as always, is a transformed Joel Duggan. Hi, Joel.

I am similar but different to what I was last week, because I've been playing with a Lego

transformer that you might be able to see behind me on the desk. And that is something that we were talking about in the render distance, along with Stillfleet, a sci-fi tabletop game, and Star Trek Strange New Worlds, which I've been watching. So if you want to dive into more of that, more sci-fi talk, then you can check out the render distance. It's the extended version of the program. It's available to our patrons at patreon.com slash the spawn chunks. Folks that support the show, get an extra 15 to 20 minutes or more of content every single week, as well as extra hangouts like the one coming up this Saturday, July 26th. That's going to be our Minecraft hangout for July. That's where Johnny and I hang out with our patrons and talk about what they've been doing in Minecraft. And it's going to be really interesting because now that we've had the Happy Gas round for a while, we're starting to see some builds in our your base channel in the Discord that are utilizing the Happy Gast and all of its features. We also have quarterly hangouts. That's where we talk about the facts and figures, the downloads, how the show is doing. There is one of those coming up in August. So if you're a patron, you'll have access to that as well, as well as our live Discord. So once again, that's patreon.com slash the spawn chunks. Coming up on this show, we're going to be talking about the copper gollum. We're going to be talking about a reach enchantment, as well as some

questions and tips and tricks about building a giant kingdom, all in listener email, which is going to

dominate this episode. Well, speaking of that giant kingdom, let us know what's been happening on

the Citadel. What's new in West Hill? I have been on a single track the last week, and that is

working on the west banks of the Spruce River.

It is repetitive.

It is a little frustrating at times, as people might notice in my latest vaude.

And it just has to get done.

Like it's one of those things where like, not everything that you do and these giant projects is super pleasant and it's effective I'm happy

with the result I think that's the tradeoff is that it looks good but it's also a pain in the

butt because it's a large area the the spruce river winds down the western banks of the

west hill valley it creates a nice border it creates a nice edge of the West Hill Valley. It creates a nice border.

It creates a nice edge of the build.

But right now, it's all landscaped version 1.15.

So the hills are chunky.

There's lots of dirt.

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