Welcome to the Spawn Chunks, episode number 384, recorded on Monday, January 12th,

2026. This is a podcast all about Minecraft, and it is available on all of your favorite

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My name is Joel Duggan, and joining me, as always, is a clean, allergy-free and

DMing pixel risks.

Look for Dungeons and Dragons with some Minecrafters that you might know coming soon.

Yes. Yeah, we are going to be kicking off a Dungeons and Dragons with some Minecrafters that you might know coming soon. Yes, yeah, we are going to be kicking off a Dungeons and Dragons adventure with the folks from gigs at some point later in January.

So stay tuned for that. More information about that has been broadly circulated, but I talk about it a little bit more in the render distance this week.

That's the extended version of our podcast. The render distance is the longer the longer version of The Sporn Shunks that you can get if you support the show on Patreon. Become a patron at patreon.com slash the Sporn Shunks and you'll get access to an extended chat. This week, Joel and I've been talking about all kinds of stuff from dining with family to my upcoming D&D adventures. You also get access to monthly and quarterly hangouts. Monthly, we talk to our patrons about what they've been up to in Minecraft over the

last 28 days or so, and quarterly we go into the behind the scenes facts and figures of the podcast,

talk about download numbers, YouTube metrics, and all of that fun behind the scenes stuff. So if

you're interested in any of that, once again, patreon.com slash the spawn chunks. Coming up this week on the show, Minecraft mobs have gotten a whole lot cuter in the new snapshot in 2026. So we'll be looking at that. That's actually going to be our main discussion later on in the show as well as email on the topic. People were on top of it this week. So we've got lots to talk about when it comes to baby animals. Yes. Yeah, there's plenty of people interested in what Mojang has coming up next, including ourselves. But I'm also interested in what you've been up to on The Citadel this week, Joel. I feel like I've been stuck in the same room for about a week. Oh, tell me about it.

Tell me about it.

It's turned out okay.

So I was working on just the start of the second floor last week.

And I decided to bite the bullet and make it a villager trading hall because the decision

to use quartz in a lot of the inside of the command center,

for those of you that know how big it is, was a good decision question mark.

So I need a lot of quartz.

And so I took the villager breeder that I had made and took six toolsmiths and six masons

and now have a dozen villagers in a small trading hall that I can go up

one side and down the other and use iron to get emeralds and then use emeralds to get quartz

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