The Spawn Chunks 393: Dreaming of Minecraft’s Future
Jonny, and Joel discuss more tiny tweaks to Tiny Takeover, a community idea for top level librarian trades, and try to dream up some predictions for what new features might be announced at the first Minecraft Live of 2026.
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Joel
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- The Citadel | Mushroom Island
- Finally started to brainstorm some design framing for the inside corners of the command center.
- Nothing finished just yet. Mostly just thinking about how the contours of the base will connect vertically, and how to enclose and/or highlight the honey block elevators.
- Level 4 Layout – Part 3
- Worked on two iterations of the huge, main bulkheads that are meant to look like they supports Level 4.
- Finding that function over fashion is winning out.
- Level 4 Bulkhead Design – Part 1
- Level 4 Bulkhead Design – Part 2
- Finally started to brainstorm some design framing for the inside corners of the command center.
Jonny
- The Minecraft Survival Guide, Season 3
- Very little new to share this week in Minecraft.
- Finished moss mining section four of the beacon mine. Now moving on to the final area to dig out.
- Choppin’ Tuesday: Mossin’ Around – Minecraft Survival Guide LIVE!
- Beacon Mine Phase 4 Complete? – Minecraft Survival Guide LIVE!
- The week ahead is also going to be a little disrupted with family, and travel over the weekend.
- The return of GIGGS D&D will be on Thursday, March 19th.
- GIGGS Dungeons & Dragons – Session 2 “Nightmares In Nailbrook”
- GIGGS D&D Campaign Prep! – Session 3
- Very little new to share this week in Minecraft.
Minecraft News
- Minecraft: Java Edition 26.1 Pre-release 1 (Minecraft.net)
- Minecraft: Java Edition 26.1 Pre-release 2 (Minecraft.net)
- Minecraft Live Official Trailer – March 2026 (YouTube.com/@Minecraft)
- Minecraft Live (Minecraft.net)
Chunk Mail
FROM: Banchor
MEMBER: Community Miner
SUBJECT: Librarians And The Case Of The Lost Name Tags
Hey Jonny, and Joel,
During Episode 392, the topic of the removed name tag trade, and what to replace it with came up, and it occurred to me that maybe there could be some synergy with the Villager Trade Rebalance experiments from (Can you believe it?) nearly three years ago.
Whilst the proposed changes at that time were contentious, what if Mojang were to take a leaf out of that book, (Proof-reading Banchor here – pun not intended!) and substitute the Master tier name tag trade with a guaranteed book trade from a select pool of highly desired books?
The “guaranteed” book could still be Villager biome dependant, ie. Swamp Villager for Mending, Desert for Efficiency; but the earlier tier book trades would continue to be random as they currently are. This way, you still have more or less the same chance to get Mending, et al. from any villager, but if you want to put in the exploration effort to avoid the Lectern grind, you can have more control.
Maybe Efficiency III, and Sharpness III would need to be increased to IV (or V?) on the guaranteed trade as well, so that these don’t require multiple upgrades to hit the max level.
Thanks for the great podcast as always!
Banchor, being an Aussie, got attacked by a magpie whilst reading about the Emu War of 1932.
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Daring To Dream
Looking ahead to the first Minecraft Live of 2026 coming up on March 21st, Jonny, and Joel lay out some ideas on what they think may be announced, what they hope will be announced, and some bigger, “pie in the sky” dreams about Minecraft’s future.
