Welcome to the Spawn Chunks, episode number 393 for Monday, March 16th, 2026.

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wherever you're listening to this. My name is Johnny, but the internet knows me as Pixariffs,

and joining me, you can't take the sky from him. It's Joel Duggan. Hi, Joel.

If you got that reference, then we are the same. And Johnny and I were talking about the potential

Firefly animated series that's coming back, that the cast was teasing at AwesomeCon over the weekend. That was our pre-show discussion. We were also talking about Resident Alien, which is a show that stars Alan Tuduk, one of the members of the Firefly cast that I have just started watching and enjoying. So if those are the kind of things that you're interested in, those are the kinds of things

that we talk about in the pre-show. That is the render distance. It's the extended version of the podcast. It's available to our patrons, the people that support the podcast over at patreon.com slash the spawn chunks. If you join at any level, you get access to the Discord, you get access to the extended version of the podcast, as well as special hangouts that we do, like coming up on March 28th,

we'll be hanging out with the people in our community and looking and talking about what their building and doing in Minecraft. It's similar to the login that we do every single week. And then later on in May, we'll be doing the quarterly. And that's where Johnny and I talk about the download numbers, the YouTube metrics, things about where the podcast is going, future guests, that kind of stuff. So if that is of interest to you, check out patreon.com slash the spot chunks. As for where this podcast is going, this week we are talking about Tiny Takeover hitting pre-releases, and Minecraft Live, at least March, 26, finally having a date. It is coming up very soon. So

our main discussion this week is also going to focus on our predictions for Minecraft Live, March

26. For now, though, it's time for our quick login. Joel, what's new on the Citadel this week?

So I have been focused on trying to make this level four make sense in the command center

on the mushroom island. I worked out the last bit of the elevator and decided that I am going

to just stack the elevators in the, we'll say the corners of the thing makes a plus sign. So where

the cross happens is where all the elevators are. And so I've got my fourth floor

elevator in and I started finally making a stab at the paneling and some of the line work or

will say shape work on the outside of the command center in that crooks of the cross because I

hadn't really done anything with it.

And it's still a work in progress.

I'm trying to figure out the best way to do it.

But at least I now have kind of like a rough inside and rough outside wall.

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