The Spawn Chunks 137: The Caves And Cliffs Split

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FROM: Temo
SUBJECT: Dripstone Bricks And Storage Solutions

Hi Johnny and Joel,

Like everyone, I’m extremely excited for Caves and Cliffs, and I have a couple of hopes for the update and was wondering what you think of them.

As someone who lives in the UK, I’ve seen a lot of castles and used to drive past one everyday on my way to work, but I’ve always been put off building castles in minecraft because the stone colours in minecraft have never been right to me. Most castles I’ve seen in the UK  are built from sandstone or limestone. Sandstone in Minecraft is far too bright and the stone bricks are… Just grey.

I think dripstone has a creamy/ brown colour and texture that’s much more realistic and I would love to see a brick variant so I can finally build the castle of my dreams.

Also, I had an idea for a storage solution! Just like we’ve gotten new smelting and crafting blocks for specific uses, why not more storage blocks!

I was thinking we could have storage blocks with more slots but limited to only hold certain items. Or, new storage blocks that can hold everything, but double stack sizes on certain items, even current items that are non-stackable.

As an example, barrels could be used for water related items, trap chests for redstone and minecart chests for ores and stones.

More storage blocks would also be great for decorating. Imagine a treasure chest that can only be found in generated structures and crates for storing food and even a weapon stand to go next to your armour stand.

Thanks to both of you for such an amazing podcast. 

I have to go now and do my daily chest-monster clear out.

Temo

FROM: Charles R.
SUBJECT: Automation In The Caves & Cliffs Update

Hi Johnny and Joel,

I was listening to  your conversation about iron farms in Episode 136. I am a very technical player, (I’m currently building the same pumpkin and melon farm as the one on Scicraft in my singleplayer world.) During snapshot 21W14A, I started up a new hardcore world. It only lasted a few days, but as I started to look for iron, I found that my old method of finding iron did not work very well as iron generates different in 1.17 compared to 1.16. Feeling frustrated, I went back to the surface and in about 20 minutes, I had an iron farm up and running that produced 150 iron per hour.

Do you think that more veteran players will look to automation instead of mining due to the strategy changes.

Keep on automating,

Charles

The Caves & Cliffs Update Split