Welcome to the Sporn Chunks, episode number 389 for Monday, February 16th, 2026.

This is a podcast all about Minecraft, available across all major podcasts, platforms,

including a video version 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, as always, is a marvelous Joel Duggan. Hi, Joel. Hello, and if shows are something you're into, movies specifically, then you should listen to the render distance. That is the extended version of the podcast, and Johnny and I just spent a few minutes talking about Predator Badlands, which I watched over the weekend, as well as Buster Keaton's Sherlock Jr.

Set to REM, which is an interesting cinematic experience that Johnny took in over the weekend.

So that kind of stuff is what you get in the render distance.

It varies from movies to more Minecraft to just stuff that we're interested in. You can go to patreon.com slash the spawn shunks to support the show. And then you get access to the extended version of the podcast. You get access to the monthly hangouts and the quarterly hangouts. The monthlies are usually at the end of the month on the Saturday, last Saturday of the month. So that should be the 28th this month in February if you want to partake in that.

Once again, it's patreon.com slash the spot chunks.

And this week, after another snapshot, turning baby zombies into bobbleheads, we're going to open up the chunk mail inbox.

And a chunk mail dispenser episode is what we call it.

It's something that our patrons

unlocked a while ago by having some extra support for the show. We like to give a bit of a

community focus every month. So we're going to be chatting on what's on the mind of our community

of listeners after we do our quick log in. What have you been doing in Minecraft this week,

my friend? This week I have been continuing to work on the beacon mine.

The beacon mine is continuing a pace, and I'm now using the drowned farm to repair my tools.

So I am gathering copper in the background as I dig out the area for this copper aging machine.

And so far I haven't been AFK at this farm, mostly because I'm

concerned about thorns damage, even though I'm hitting an armor stand over and over again

to affect the ground inside the farm with that sweep attack that swords have. Not even using

sweeping edge because you're trying to hit the drown as many times as possible to give them

as much chance as possible to generate reinforcements.

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