Welcome to the Sporn Chunks, episode number 379 for Monday, December 8th, 2025.

This is a podcast all about Minecraft available across all major podcast platforms, including a video version that goes out on YouTube and Spotify.

If you're enjoying the show, consider subscribing wherever you're listening to this. My name is Johnny, but the internet knows me as Pixariffs, and joining me from the silver screen, it's Joel Duggan. Hi, Joel. Hello, and this, the big colorful screen at home, too. I've been watching Stranger Things on Netflix. We've been talking about going to the movies, what movies we want to see in the new year, plans for additional theater visits in the new year. I think I might check out Avatar Fire and Ash later on this month. So lots of cool stuff happening in the render distance, which is the extended version of the podcast that our patrons get every single week. If you go to the spawn chunks on Patreon, then you can join, become a member, and get access

to extra recordings, things like the monthly Minecraft hangout, which we had earlier in November,

as well as quarterly hangouts.

And you get to hang out with us live here every week when we record the show on Discord.

And you also will be able to record or at least be around when we record live the bonus episodes that we record over the holidays.

So coming up for the next couple weeks, we sit down and record extra episodes that are pre-recorded for the Mondays that happen over the holidays.

So they're going to be email focused.

So if you've got an email question, it's a great time to write in because coming up the next week or so we're going to be recording those extra episodes and it's always great to have more email in the inbox to sort through.

So check it out the spawn chunks over on Patreon.

Yes, and this week with mounts of mayhem, basically releasing tomorrow, we are going to be reading

the shortest pre-release change log ever in the news.

Trust me, it's worth sticking around for.

But first of all, we're going to do our quick login like we normally do and talk about

what's new in our Minecraft lives.

Joel is going to kick us off this week.

What's new on The Citadel?

So I've been experimenting with different floor blocks and ideas for the base level for the command center

and kind of narrowing it down between things like the tops of blast furnace,

which are kind of dark or the tops of polished andesite.

I'm trying not to break the block palette too much.

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