Welcome to the Spon Chunks, episode number 366, recorded Monday, September 8th, 2025.

This is a podcast all about Minecraft, and you can find it on all of your favorite

podcasting platforms, including video versions on YouTube and Spotify. If you're enjoying the show,

please consider subscribing wherever you're listening to this. My name is Joel Duggan, and my puzzled friend with me today is Johnny, also known as PixelRiffs on the internet. Hello. Hello, yes, I have been puzzling my way through various jigsaws, and Joel has been puzzling his way through the Soundwave, Transformers' Lego set. If you're interested in hearing more about that,

you can check out the render distance. That's the extended version of the podcast that goes out

to Patrians who support us at patreon.com slash the spawn chunks. We now upload the full video version

of the render distance to Patreon as well, so you're getting some extra added value, and we're

finding a bunch of ways to augment and upgrade our Patreon stuff, especially as a thank you to everybody who is able to support us with our recent seven-year milestone for the podcast. So look out for those annual memberships are now live. We also have our monthly hangouts where people can come and share what they've been up to in Minecraft

that month and we'll have a quarterly hangout coming up at some stage where we go into all

of the behind-the-scenes stuff about the podcast. So all that and more is at patreon.com

slash the spawn chunks for you if you want to sign up and support us. This week, as the copper

age draws ever closer, we're going to be discussing the latest snapshots.

We have listener email about the Minecraft experience, a real-life Minecraft thing that you can go

and do with the kids. And also we're going to chat about moving on from big projects, as Joel

has recently done from West Hill.

Before we get into all of that, a big shout out to several of the patrons that have moved on to the annual subscriptions.

I think there was at least six, maybe even as close to a dozen people that decided to say, hey, you know what?

I really like the spawn chunks. I'm going to subscribe for a whole year. And so thank you very much.

It's a really cool boost of confidence and I think speaks to the community around this show and we both really,

really appreciate it. And Johnny, what have you been up to in Minecraft this week?

Well, this week I haven't had as much time to play Minecraft as I normally would. I've been

streaming it mostly because we've got family visiting. And so I have done the inevitable with

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