The Spawn Chunks 202: Sharing And Shenanigans
Joel, and Jonny run down the latest bug fixes, and Bedrock feature parity in Minecraft 1.19.1, answer listener email about copper, and overabundant gameplay systems, then discuss the community, comradery, and friendly block banter on multiplayer servers.
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Joel
- The Citadel
- Finished up the challenging yellow terracotta tower build from last week with some barrels, ladders, and other wood supports to make the tower feel secured to the base structure.
- The Citadel – The Yellow Tower – Part 2 (Twitch.tv/joelduggan)
- Worked on a sturdy, and spacious, stone tower house. A key build along the main rode in Westhill, complete with walled garden.
- The Citadel – Stone Tower House – Part 1 (Twitch.tv/joelduggan)
- The Citadel – Stone Tower House – Part 2 (Twitch.tv/joelduggan)
- Finished up the challenging yellow terracotta tower build from last week with some barrels, ladders, and other wood supports to make the tower feel secured to the base structure.
Jonny
- Empires, Season 2
- Spent all week gathering materials for, and building, “The Greatbridge”, a 400-block long bridge acrosss a massive lake near the Empires SMP spawn area.
- There are twelve supporting pillars, one for each of the twelve empires on the server, who have been encouraged to “claim” a pillar and decorate it somehow.
- It will hopefully be one of the keystones of a road network spanning the server, as it makes sense for everyone to be connected in the Overworld.
- Spent all week gathering materials for, and building, “The Greatbridge”, a 400-block long bridge acrosss a massive lake near the Empires SMP spawn area.
Minecraft News
- Minecraft Java Edition 1.19.1 Pre-release 5 (Minecraft.net)
- 1.19.10 Update Out On Bedrock Edition (Minecraft.net)
- Minecraft Legends: Creating A New Game (YouTube.com/Minecraft)
- “Jens, Magnus, Kevin, and Nathan join Rees, Peter and Lee from Blackbird Interactive to talk about how and why we’re making a Minecraft Strategy game, in the first instalment of our Minecraft Legends Dev Diaries. Find out what makes Minecraft Legends different and what the story is about (and whether it’s even true).”
Chunk Mail
FROM: Toast’N’Blocks
SUBJECT: New Copper Uses
Hey Jonny and Joel,
I was just thinking about how Jonny said it was sad copper didn’t have many other uses other than building, and a spyglass (and a lightning rod, if you remember it exists). Well, in ancient times, copper was used to build things like lamps and bells. It might be nice to have an alternate lantern that uses copper to craft instead of iron. A copper lantern would also go better in places with a lot of brown. Bells are a pain to make in Minecraft. If you want a lot of bells, you either ransack all the villages for thousands of blocks, or make and emerald farm and mass trade them. I think bells should have a crafting recipe, but not one you can overutilize to farm bells. I’d love to hear your thoughts!
Toast’N’Blocks died from the constant ringing of bells
FROM: Big Hippopotamus
SUBJECT: Comfort vs. Challenge
Dear Joel and Pix,
First off, I’d like to thank you for a great podcast. It’s always great for me to listen to your takes on all things Minecraft.
I have a world where I set up villagers early on, and since then I have the best gear possible, and practically any resource I want at my fingertips. This made me think about how some things in Minecraft are very simple to set up and yet are, in my opinion, extremely overpowered (Villagers, raid farms, iron farms etc.) My question for you guys is, how to navigate the fact that we need resources, but building an overpowered farm makes that resource overabundant, and building a less effective farm can many times take the same effort as the op farm.
Thanks again for a great show!
Big Hippo’s PC crashed because his farms lagged out his game.
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