Welcome to the Spawn Chunks. This is episode number 380 recorded on Monday, December 15th, 2025.

This is a podcast all about Minecraft. It's available on all of your favorite podcasting platforms.

And there's a video version on YouTube and on Spotify. My name is Joel Duggan, and joining

me as always is my friend Johnny, but you may know him better as pixel riffs in space.

I am currently in my studio space, at least, and I've been visiting space a little bit more

frequently. In the round of distance, we've been talking about beloved sci-fi properties and a few other films that I've been checking out recently that are slightly off the beaten path, at least as far as my movie watching goes. You can hear more about us and the stuff that we get up to on the weekends and stuff that we like to talk about media-wise in the render distance. That's the extended version of the podcast, which our patrons get access to.

Head over to patreon.com slash the spawn chunks if you're interested in helping to support the show

and getting some extra content every single week. We also have monthly and quarterly hangouts

that you can listen into, where you can share what you've been up to in Minecraft over the last

month and also here's some behind the scenes facts and figures about the show.

Our next monthly hangout is going to be at the end of January. Normally we do them on the last

Saturday of each month but obviously with December being the holiday month we're probably going to

skip that and pick up in January and do a big two-month bumper edition of the monthly hangout

so people can let us know what they've been up to over the holidays. next quarterly hangout is also scheduled for some time in february so patrons can look

forward to all of that if you sign up over at patreon.com slash the spawn chunks coming up this week on

the show mounts of mayhem is out and we dip into the mailbag for two big emails on some cool topics as well as a main

discussion also from our inbox yes a lot of email coming in this end of the year and we do like

to take a community focus as we move into the holidays so we've got a couple of email episodes coming

up especially since joel and i are recording a couple of episodes ahead of time but in the meantime

we are still working on our Minecraft world so why don don't you kick us off, Joel? What's new

from The Citadel? Because this is such a large project, I am just continuing on with the

mirroring of the various wings of the command center on the mushroom island. So I've established

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