The Spawn Chunks 181: The Deep Dark With A SlicedLime

• Joel
  • All of Fabric 5
    • Working on upgrading the haphazard look of the complex by building a new front entrance walkway with modded texture blocks.
    • All of Fabric – Day 11 (Twitch.tv/joelduggan)
  • The Citadel
    • Minecraft auditing. Spent two streams doing landscaping, river cleanup and planning out rough foundations for the southern approach to Westhill.
    • The Citadel – South River Landscaping – Part 1 (Twitch.tv/joelduggan)
    • The Citadel – South River Landscaping – Part 2 (Twitch.tv/joelduggan)

• Jonny
  • The Minecraft Survival Guide, Season 2
    • Moved into a dripstone cave with the aim of slowly turning it into a fantasy-heavy mining project.
    • Highlights include converting one of the large pillars of dripstone blocks into a cauldron lava farm and building a geode around the nether portal.
  • Deep Dark Experimental Snapshot
    • Jumped into the experimental deep dark snapshot live on stream.

• SlicedLime
  • Legacy SMP
    • A pez dispenser for villager trades is taking place on the Legacy server.
    • The idea is to be able to quickly trade for materials you want lots of and have the villagers be automatically moved to where they can restock their trades.
  • Heartless Challenge
    • Keeping up on the Heartless challenge, an even more challenging version of Half-Hearted Hardcore where you die instantly if you take any damage whatsoever.
    • Tried to explore the Nether, attacked a fortress, managed to survive only to die to a skeleton dropping in from above.
  • @SlicedLime (Twitter)
  • @SlicedLime (Twitch)
  • @SlicedLime (YouTube)

• Minecraft: Java Edition 1.18.2 Snapshot 22W07A (Minecraft.net)

• Minecraft: Java Edition 1.18.2 Pre-release 1 (Minecraft.net)

• A Very Scary Snapshot (Minecraft.net)
  • Minecraft: Java Edition 1.19 Deep Dark Experimental Snapshot 1 (File Download – Minecraft.net)

SlicedLime talks about their history as a game developer, working at Mojang, as a content creator, and the sometimes struggle to find that work, life, Minecraft balance. Is there such a thing as too much Minecraft? The discussion is packed with even more Minercraft with Jonny, Joel and SlicedLime all discussing their first impression of The Deep Dark, The Warden, and the potential this new player experience has for the future of Minecraft.

Additional emails and questions for SlicedLime.

FROM: NoEmptyString
DISCORD MEMBER: Landscape Artist
SUBJECT: How Successful Was The Split?

Hello Joel, Jonny, SlicedLime,

I would like to ask SlicedLime to describe what a Mojang Tech Lead for the Java game does. As a person working in software development myself, I have some rough idea, but others might not. Plus, these job titles mean something a little bit different from company to company. What are your most common tasks, and responsibilities? What kind of decisions are you making and do you still code at work, or is it mostly meetings and paperwork for you?

Thank you so much!

NonEmptyString crashed the game, because the string contained invalid characters.

FROM: Cosmic
DISCORD MEMBER: Landscape Artist
SUBJECT: Key Technical Challenges

Hello Joel, Jonny, SlicedLime,

What were a few key technical challenges with The Caves & Cliffs Update, Part 2 in terms of the changes to terrain? How did the team deal with these?

Did the (experimental) snapshot process help in gathering meaningful feedback from the community with regards to bugs and issues the team needed to look at? I feel like we saw a lot of community interaction from the devs as 1.18 was being developed. Was this useful to help shape the update? Will this be something that will continue in updates in the future?

Lastly, just a massive thank you to SlicedLime, all the devs and everyone who works on Minecraft. It’s amazing how a sandbox game in a blocky world can bring people and communities – Like this one! – together in the way it does!