Welcome to the Spawn Chunks. This is episode number 386, recorded on Monday, January 26, 2026. My name is

Joel Duggan, and joining me, as always, is my friend Johnny on this podcast that is all about

Minecraft. You can get it on all of your favorite

podcasting networks, including video versions on Spotify and on YouTube. Good morning, sir.

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Coming up this week on the show, we have listener email covering all kinds of different things,

as well as a new snapshot about baby horses and other mounts in Minecraft.

Yes. Before we get into all of the horseplay, though, let's check in with what we've been doing

in our Minecraft lives. And it's over to you Joel

what's new on the citadel so I did a little bit more digging on the citadel and focusing on the

chamber that uh houses the power core for the um the command center on on the mushroom island and then I spent the rest of the week working on the

doors and those doors are on the second floor for the large like structural wings that I've got

going on and I've made some changes. One of the nice things about

having a symmetrical build that's got four different symmetrical wings on it is that I can iterate

a couple of different times and decide what I like. And so when building these facades, not

knowing what was going to be behind them, I thought, hey, I'm just going to build a temporary door.

I was going to put a big wall there and make it look like a big blast door that's come down. And then redesign the door a couple of times. So I did that, kind of chose the one that I liked. I think we're going to go with the one that has the observers in it and that I've got some redstone behind them. So the lights actually blink. So it looks like there's like an active mechanism keeping the doors shut.

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