The Spawn Chunks 359: A Barrel of Copper Thoughts

Jul 21, 2025 | podcast

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Jonny, and Joel cover a Minecraft graphic hotfix, answer listener email about the utility of copper tools, golem garbage chutes, and player reach, then share tips for building your first Minecraft kingdom.

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Joel

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  • The Citadel | Westhill
    • Storage Logistics
      • Taking some time leading up to wrapping up the Westhill build to move some of the bulk storage around, and clear the staging area out of the Westhill Keep basement. It will eventually become a honey mead distillery.
    • West Banks Of The Spruce River
      • Slowly poking away at the west banks of the Spruce River that forms the western border of the Westhill Valley.
      • Trying not to go overboard, and just smoothing out really rough parts, and hitting most of the banks with two-tall grass, and ferns.
      • Closer to the water, the foliage is dotted with more custom patches of  mangrove leaves, sugar cane, dirt texutre, and the new bushes.

Jonny

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  • The Minecraft Survival Guide, Season 3
    • A little light terraforming around the Windy City project to help with the expanding scale of the project.
    • The next steps will be to block in buildings, and get a sense of infrastructure.
    • Windy City Reset (Twitch.tv/Pixlriffs)
  • Minecraft Misadventures
    • After 1216 attempts, the Skeleton Wolf mount is home!
    • Everyone else on the server has been building cool stuff, including the admins new dungeon, the “Infernal Descent” giving server members a repayable adventure going up against wither skeletons, blazes, and an end boss fight.
    • Choppin’ Tuesday: Back In The Crypt (Twitch.tv/Pixlriffs)

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FROM: DrPapaya
SUBJECT: Copper Golems And Junk

Hi!

In the current Minecraft Bedrock Beta, copper golems will hold onto items that they cannot sort, and be stuck in a loop. Instead, I believe copper golems should drop items that they cannot sort into barrels. This would give the player a way to manually sort items which the copper golems can not find a place for.

This could be faked by having an empty chest with a hopper below that the copper golem always checked last, but I believe implementing this feature as a built-in capability would be a significant improvement.

DrPapaya was spun to death by a copper golem head.

FROM: BarnabyGaming
SUBJECT: Copper Pickaxe Usability

Hey Jonny, and Joel,

I love the idea of copper tools, but I have a few practical issues with the new copper pickaxe.

The pickaxe progression chain of Minecraft is already complete at this point in time, without copper. I don’t see myself making a copper pickaxe in a new survival world as its advantages over stone are not enough to cover for the extra inventory space it takes.

What additional use could you see for the copper pickaxe? Would you use it for anything?

BarnabyGaming was slain by a zombie while sorting his many pickaxes.

FROM: EclipseRM
SUBJECT: Reach Enchantment

Hi Pix, and Joel, 

On Episode 358 you posed various ways the crab claw could be used to increase block reach, but what if there was a chest plate specific Reach enchantment, like Swift Sneak for leggings, that increases your block reach. Alternatively it could be a tool enchantment to increase the reach of a specific tool.

EclipseRM failed his bucket clutch even with increased reach.

FROM: SpideySteve
SUBJECT: Where To Start Megabuilds?

Dear Jonny, and Joel,

I have been a Spawn Chunks lister for about two years, and love the show. I have a question for Joel specifically.

How do you start a massive project like The Citadel? I recently joined my friends long term world, and I am planning to start a medieval kingdom, but where do I start? What biome do I use?

Thanks!

SpideySteve fell off the dirt outline of his mansion. Surviving on half a heart… And then a creeper…

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