Joel

• The Citadel
  • No new Minecraft content this week since Minecraft 1.21.5, “Spring To Life” is just around the corner.
    • Plans to use the new foliage features around Westhill, and the banks of the Spruce River.
  • Creative gameplay this week has been focused on Satisfactory, which is helping brew some ideas for future Minecraft builds with a sci-fi twist.
    • Stripping The Steel Factory Down To The Nuts (And Bolts) | Satisfactory (YouTube.com/@JoelDugganVODs)
    • BringingMore Transformer Shapes Into The Steel Factory | Satisfactory (YouTube.com/@JoelDugganVODs)

Jonny

• The Minecraft Survival Guide, Season 3
  • Took a short break from The Survival Guide until the new Spring To Life game drop as dry grass, and firefly bushes will work very well in the current wheat field landscaping project.
    • Choppin’ Tuesday: Bingo Time! – Fetchr For 1.21.4 (Twitch.tv/Pixlriffs)
• Minecraft Misadventures
  • The new content creator RPG-feeling server Minecraft Misadventures launched over the weekend!
  • Land in the central world must be claimed using coins before being modified.
    • Coins are acquired through dungeons, created by the server members.
    • When one of the members completes a build, it’s submitted to the admin team who can spawn in NPC quest-givers, shops, or warp a member to a dungeon instance.
  • Resources are gathered, and mined in a separate resource world which resets every day.
  • So far, plans include some floating architecture with a lot of red sandstone, copper, and moss.
    • Building material in the series will focus on harder to get blocks, and textures normally a bit out of reasonable reach in regular vanilla play, like on The Survival Guide.

Joel, and Jonny recap, and share their thoughts on all of the news, and information shared during the most recent Minecraft Live presentation, as well as The Deep Dig Aftershow with some of the Mojang developers.

• Spring To Life
• • Minecraft 1.21.5 has a name – Spring To Life – and a release date, March 25, 2025.
• Vibrant Visuals
  • Vibrant Visuals are new lighting, and atmospheric effects built into Minecraft.
  • Coming first to Bedrock Edition first, and then to Java Edition.
• A Minecraft Movie
  • Emma Myers presented an exclusive clip of the main characters in A Minecraft Movie visiting a Minecraft village for the first time.
• Happy Ghasts
  • New happy ghasts are coming to Minecraft later this year.
  • They start off as a ‘dried ghast’ block in the Nether.
  • Players use water to rehydrate the dried ghast into a ghastling.
  • With the help of snowballs, the ghastling grows up into a happy ghast
  • Happy ghasts are a rideable, floating mob with a craftable harness.
• The Deep Dig
  • The Deep Dig aftershow showcased on of the challenges in the upcoming A Minecraft Movie Live Event for Bedrock Edition, as well as game features coming in Spring To Life, and the happy ghast, coming later this year.