The Spawn Chunks 374: More Mounts More Mayhem

Nov 3, 2025 | podcast

Joel, and Jonny share their initial thoughts on the new parched, and camel husk mobs coming to Minecraft, and answer listener email about happy ghast mobility, and beacon viability.

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  • The Minecraft Survival Guide, Season 3
    • David is now officially under construction!
      • So far the capture circuits for five of eight rows of the first layer have been assembled, which sounds like a lot but there are still plenty of steps:
        • Four shovels for each dropper which will be used to count the copper aging.
          • With 18 droppers per row, that’s 576 shovels for the whole module.
        • The flying machine that feeds the copper blocks into each row needs to be constructed.
        • Redstone lines that signal the flying machine to return.
        • Redstone mechanisms for general loading, and unloading, and timers.
        • And likely more!

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FROM: The N00K1E
MEMBER: Landscape Artist
SUBJECT: I Have A Ghast Idea

Hi Jonny, and Joel, 

Regarding wanting a way to speed up the ghast… 

What if you get a flute, added to a special slot next to your armor, and equipment. This flute could be bound to a hotkey, which then signals the ghast different things! Like speeding up or maybe commanding the ghast to shoot a wind burst. It also should have a cooldown like a carrot on a stick. The interaction would feel natural, and sound is used in the real world to communicate with trained animals. Both wind burst and flute are very air themed.

What are your thoughts?

Love the podcast!! 

Colorful greetings, 

The N00K1E ran out of breath, and thus lost the ghast race.

FROM: Lizasaurus13
SUBJECT: Updated Beacons

Hello Pix, and Joel-

During a recent fWhip stream, there was a long discussion on overhauling beacons. This could potentially tie in the beacon base material (emerald, diamond, netherite) to different powers, such as only getting haste 1 in lower level beacons, or being able to instamine deepslate with a fully netherite beacon. (That one was fWhip’s thought). 

Do you think a beacon overhaul could come in the future?

Lizasaurous13 finally decided deepslate wasn’t a pain to mine thanks to her new netherite beacon.

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More Mounts, More Mayhem?

Joel, and Jonny share their first impressions of the skeleton variants, the parched, and the new undead desert mount, the camel husk, siting some potential practical uses, Minecraft game features the new mobs communicate to players, as well as ways the new desert mobs could be made more appealing.