Welcome to the Spontzalks, episode number 404 recorded on Monday, June 1st,

2026. This is a podcast all about Minecraft. You can find it on your favorite podcasting app

with video versions available on Spotify and on YouTube. My name is Joel Duggan, and joining me,

as always, is my friend

Johnny from a galaxy far, far away. So far, he hasn't actually seen it yet. No, it's true. I have not

seen The Mandalorian and Grogoo, but Joel has. So if you want a spoiler-free, listen in to

Joel's thoughts, you can get that on the extended version of the podcast that we put out for our patrons.

We call it the render distance and it's available if you head over to patreon.com slash the spawn

chunks and sign up to support the show. Our patrons get a little bit of bonus pre and post show

every week along with stuff like Minecraft hangouts that we have every month where our patrons

can let us know what they've been up to in Minecraft this month. We also have quarterly hangouts every now and again where we go into the behind the scenes of how the podcast gets made. But outside of that, it's just a fun community to hang out in and a fun place to be. We have a lively discord. If all that sounds good to you, head over to patreon.com slash the spawn chunks. Coming up this week on the show, boy, do we have some news for you.

Minecraft Live had a bonus show at TwitchCon this weekend. They had lots to announce. We'll

unpack the latest Chaos Cube news as well as Minecraft Dungeons 2, the sequel to a Minecraft

movie, and then dedicate the main discussion to discussing the announcements for the third drop of 2026.

Yes, but before that, of course, we're going to chat about what's new in our Minecraft lives.

I actually covered the live stream.

I covered Minecraft Live over on Twitch on my channel, since Joel was unfortunately unable to attend this time around.

And we weren't necessarily certain what they were going to bring to the table as far as Minecraft news went, but fortunately, it was worth covering. So if you missed that, there's a short edit on my main YouTube channel, YouTube.com slash pixel rifts. I did put a longer edit elsewhere on the Sporn Shunks YouTube channel. So if you're listening to the podcast on a podcatcher, might want to check that out on YouTube. There's a bit more discussion in there with the chat. And then the full stream is also on my Vod's channel at Pixel Vods. So with that happening, I didn't really have as much time to stream Minecraft this time around. And I've been working on a couple of videos behind the scenes. But for now, all I have done is continue work on my copper aging facility. We're

currently on module three. I've made all of the capture circuits and stuff for that. So really now I'm

just down to repeating the process over and over again, wiring everything up, checking everything,

making sure I filled all of the droppers with wooden shovels and that kind of thing. So now it's down to a fine art. It's down to a formula. I'm getting through this pretty quickly. So I can do a module of this probably in about two streams. And the space was really the main thing to clear out. But now I'm done with that. It's full steam ahead. Redstone every time. I had a very similar week, as a matter of fact. I had other things happening

outside of Minecraft, so I only had two streams. I was able to work on the side panels, though,

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