Joel, and Jonny talk about the new Minecraft friends feature, and peer-to-peer gameplay coming to Java Edition, then answer listener email about aiming geysers, rock elementals, and greedy goblins.

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FROM: Akiriui
SUBJECT: Elemental Sand

Hello Jonny and Joel,

I was recently listening to Episode 399 and had an idea for renewable sand. Given that we somewhat recently had the breeze added which is a wind/air variant of the blaze it is not unreasonable that an earthen variant could also be added. This mob could be called the “boulder” and spawn from a monster spawner as the other variants do. The Boulder could fire Earth Charges (or some other dirt/sand based charge) at the player. It could also drop a blaze/breeze rod equivalent which could be broken down into those earth charges. Then these earth charges could be crafted into renewable sand.

Akiriui was bombarded off a butte by a boulder.

Note: Ceci M. wrote in about sand as well.

“There are people in the world working on recycling glass back into sand. They take glass bottles, and crush them into small shards, place the shards into sandbags, and put them into the ocean. Over a couple of years, the shards get worn down into sand again.

So if it was possible to acquire glass shards when we break glass blocks, then we could maybe repurpose the shards into sand.”

• How Sand Made From Crushed Glass Rebuilds Louisiana’s Shrinking Coastline

FROM: WavyBasil
SUBJECT: Multi-Directional Geysers

Hello Jonny, and Joel!

I was listening to the last episode and something about the new snapshot intrigued me, namely the geysers, something that I thought would be cool was if you could turn the geyser in a different direction based on what side the magma block is facing on the potent sulfur.

It would be interesting to hear your thoughts! 

WavyBasil was propelled into a mountain by a geyser.

FROM: CoolKids
SUBJECT: Goblins

Hello Jonny, and Joel,

I love listening to the show. I think Mojang should add goblins. I think they would be like piglins, neutral mobs, and could barter. They could even bring back the rascal for this!

Would love to hear what you think! 

Player CoolKids got lost in a cave looking for a goblin which didn’t exist.

FROM: Hannah
SUBJECT: Favourite Animals (Ep. 400 email)

Hey Jonny, and Joel! 

What are your favourite animals, and would you add them to Minecraft if you had the chance? If so, would they be functional? 

Many thanks! 

Hannah

FROM: Kija
MEMBER: Landscape Artist
SUBJECT: Rethinking A Feature (Ep. 400 email.)

Howdy Pix, and Joel! 

What’s an update or feature in Minecraft on which your opinion has changed since its release, and you’ve since had a chance to play around with it more? 

Kija was cornered by about a million mobs after having way too much fun activating all of the trial spawners at the same time.