The Spawn Chunks 373: No Such Thing As A Free Lunge

Oct 27, 2025 | podcast

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Jonny, and Joel talk about the new way to lunge, how player controlled sounds can influence gameplay, and debate magic vs. physics as the Minecraft enchantment systems continues to grow.

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Joel

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  • The Citadel | Mushroom Island
    • Amethyst Geode Farm
    • Surface Prep & Build Planning
      • Cutting down mushrooms on a mushroom island is more time consuming than you think!
      • Started playing around with colours, and shapes, and light blocks to see what kind of materials appeal in order to plan what resource farms are needed.
      • Planning out the multiple dye farms, and how to produce the dyes in ways that are automatic, and renewable.
      • Other quick farms include sugar cane for paper for rockets, and a small, simple villager carrot farm for golden carrots.
        • Gold is still being farmed (for now) at the server zombified Piglin donut farm in The Nether.

Jonny

YouTube | Twitch | Bluesky | Hermitcraft Recap

  • The Minecraft Survival Guide, Season 3
    • The copper aging facility dig is now at Y-zero.
      • A quarter of the copper aging machine build will be constructed before continuing on with the dig.
      • Deepslate in the other segments will be mined using alternate methods since traditional mining two layers of the 110 x 110 block area took three hours!
        • Alternate methods will likely be moss-mining, over TNT given the mess, and expense of using TNT in an enclosed space.
          • TNT duping has also not been introduced on The Survival Guide.
      • Decor for the copper aging facility is still uncertain.
        • Ideally a slab floor which will prevent slimes from spawning in spaces where the mechanisms of the facility allow enough space for them.

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FROM: MintRefresh
SUBJECT: Sound Design In Builds

Hey Joel and Pix,

I am a Minecraft pack creator. I just finished listening to Episode 371, where Joel mentioned enjoying the break sound for shroomlights, and that he wanted to be able to control it. Implementing sound design is a really neat way to elevate builds, especially given the current buildstone movement in the community, although there are currently limited options.

In my own Mini Blocks data pack, I gave every mini block its own sound when placed on top of a note block, like mob heads do, so that they can be used for adding sounds with redstone like the clanging from a mini anvil or spooky sounds from a mini creaking heart. 

What opportunities for creating, and controlling sounds would you like to see in Minecraft? Where do you foresee utilizing them in your own builds?

Thanks! I love listening to the show every week!

MintRefresh had been pranked so many times by the fuse sound from a mini TNT block that he missed the sound of actual TNT about to blow him up.

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Skewering The System

Lunge now runs on hunger, or more accurately, lunge now applies various levels of exhaustion resulting in player hunger. Does that feel right? Could the same approach apply to other game mechanics? If so, does that still feel like enchanting? Are some enchantments actually more like physical attributes, or player skills? Jonny leads a discussion on the changes to the spear in the latest snapshot, and expands that to question magic vs. physics in Minecraft tools, weapons, and enchantments.