Welcome to the Spawn Chunks, episode number 403 for Monday, May 25th, 26.

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This week we're going to be talking about Snapshot 8 for 26.2 Chaos Cubed and in related,

a discussion of when bugs become features. You've got all that more to look forward to. But for now,

let's do our quick log in and talk about what's new in our Minecraft lives. So Joel, how is the command center looking these days? I am back outside and I have never slept so much in Minecraft in my life. Inside, I got it to the point where it was pretty well lit. And so I could just work through the night and not have to worry about it. To the point where I was dying to phantoms when I went on stream break because I went outside for a nice view and then die because I hadn't slept in like six or eight or 12 of Minecraft days. So now because it gets dark with shaders outside and there are no lights outside the command center. So it's just dark. So I have to

sleep quite a bit. But I've been working on the outside panels, things that I wanted to update a while

ago. I finally decided to lean into the verticality of the midsections as well as the windows. I want

to try to preserve the windows as best I can. And I also am taking

some inspiration from the exposed backside of the elevators. So I've lit all the honey block

elevators inside with ochre frog lights. And because they've not been covered up yet on the outside,

you can see them as they go up the buildings. They don't look great. They don't look intentional, but it's a cool look at nighttime, especially

when you've got this glowing part that kind of comes out of the ground going up to the command

center. So I decided to add some animated lights going up. So they are copper bulbs, because I like

them a lot better than Redstone Lambs. And they are copper bulbs because I like them a lot better than Redstone lamps. And they are

powered by a combination of note blocks and observers going up a tower. And then there's a small clock,

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