Welcome to the Spond Shunks. This is episode number 378, recorded Monday, December 1st, 2025.

This is a podcast all about Minecraft, and it's available on all of your favorite podcasting

platforms, including a video version that goes out on YouTube and on Spotify. If you are enjoying the show, please consider subscribing wherever you're listening. My name is Joel Duggan, and joining me, as always is my friend Johnny, but you may know him better as pixel riffs on the internet. Hello, sir. Hello, yes. We've been chatting up already in the render distance, where Joel has been talking about some new hardware additions he's making to his PC setup.

I've been diving back into Enshrouded, and we've both been lamenting how big file sizes are and how tiny our hard drives are in comparison. So if you want a bit more tech chat up front and

a little bit of insight into what we've been doing lately, then you can get the render end

distance, the extended version of the

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that. You get access to patron events and our Discord. Events include the monthly Minecraft

hangouts that we have basically every month, although our last one of the year just happened

this past weekend. So that

should be showing up in Patreon RSS feeds now. We usually take a break towards the end of

December for the holidays, and so we're going to come back with a mammoth patron hangout in

January that's going to cover two months of patron activity. So hopefully everyone has a lot

of time to play Minecraft over the holidays. In the meantime, if you feel like giving yourself the gift of a Patreon subscription to The Sporn Shunks, once again, that's patreon.com slash the spawn chunks.

Coming up this week on the show, Minecraft has announced the release date for mounts of mayhem, and there is another pre-release for that update that we get to talk about

in the news. So to kick things off, what have you been up to in the survival guide this week?

This week has been a very technical one. So as promised, having gotten onto the nether roof,

I decided to follow up with a video about breaking bedrock, since a lot of people will want

a passage up to and from the nether roof

without having to worry about going to the overworld switching portals and going back.

And so I've been exploring new ways of breaking bedrock blocks, or destroying bedrock blocks more accurately,

because breaking always sort of implies you can pick them up afterwards, which of course you can't with bedrock. So somebody

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