The Spawn Chunks 358: Creatures With Features

Jul 14, 2025 | podcast

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Joel, and Jonny discuss the potential for other mobs from previous mob votes to be added to Minecraft, and answer listener email about copper golem, and future chest functionality.

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Joel

Twitch | YouTubeVODs | The Citadel Cafe | Twitter | JoelDuggan.com

  • The Citadel | Westhill
    • Finished up the bee farm, which is the last farm to be built in the Westhill Valley.
      • Added a mix of bee hives, and flower beds, with lots of details like coral, pink petals, and wildflowers.
      • Tried to use moss, green concrete powder, and azalea saplings to make the grass between hives look like it was trampled down.
      • Added some extra bits like oak pressure plates, ladders, spruce buttons, stripped oak bases, and oak trap doors to some of the hives to reduce the repetition of having so many in one space.
      • Bee Farm – Part 3 (YouTube.com/JoelDugganVODs)
      • Bee Farm – Part 4 (YouTube.com/JoelDugganVODs)
      • Bee Farm – Part 5 (YouTube.com/JoelDugganVODs)
      • Bee Farm – Part 6 (YouTube.com/JoelDugganVODs)
    • Working on finishing up the texture of the farm road that runs behind the bee farm, and pumpkin farm.

Jonny

YouTube | Twitch | Bluesky | Hermitcraft Recap

  • The Minecraft Survival Guide, Season 3
    • Finished the Ghast Gharages! (Give or take a detail pass.)
    • Really enjoying having happy ghasts around for exterior details on taller buildings. Especially for overhanging sections of a build, there’s really nothing better.
      • Usually building while still seated on top of the happy ghast, unless there’s a situation where pressing shift is needed to place a block against another one.
    • Working On The Garages (Twitch.tv/Pixlriffs)
    • Happily Ghasting (Twitch.tv/Pixlriffs)
  • Minecraft Misadventures

Minecraft News

  • In the Minecraft: Java Edition 1.21.7 release article, (Minecraft.net) Mojang mentioned that they would “be back with the next (Java) snapshot in a few weeks.”
    • It’s only been just two weeks from the release of 1.21.7. A new Java Edition snapshot could potentially be coming next week, or the week after.

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FROM: WildWestDan
MEMBER: Landscape Artist
SUBJECT: Chest Filters

Long time Patron, first time caller. Thanks for everything you do! 

I love the new copper golems, and I can’t wait to see them come to Java! 

The biggest issue I see is a chest filling up, and the copper golem not having anywhere to put more stuff. But adding a hopper under a chest, and keeping “filtered” items in it involves making a similar redstone circuit as what you would need for a regular item filter anyway. And if that’s the case, then it’s for someone already familiar with redstone who could just use hoppers, and filters.

I would love to see some kind of “filter” option added to chests natively. Like, adding a button to the recipe for the chest, that would allow you to add items to a new chest UI that are allowed in that chest without needing redstone to lock the hoppers below it. It’s not 100% intuitive for new users, but potentially easier than redstone item filters.

WildWestDan was stuffed into an unfiltered chest by a copper golem…

FROM: Lizasaurus13
SUBJECT: Additional Mob Vote Mobs

Hello Pix, and Joel,

With the addition of the copper golem, albeit changed from the original design for the mob vote, do you think Mojang might consider adding in other past mob vote contestants? Looking back at all of the contestants – The glare, crab, penguin, rascal, etc. – which would be the one you would want added next?

Lizasaurous13 didn’t die mining because she had some angry lettuce (a Glare) reminding her to place torches.

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Creatures With Features

inspired by the email from Lizasaurus13, Joel, and Jonny take a look at how the runners-up from past Minecraft Live mob votes could fit into modern day Minecraft.