The Spawn Chunks 377: Nautilus And Novelty

Nov 24, 2025 | podcast

Jonny, and Joel ponder the release date for Mounts Of Mayhem now in pre-release, answer listener email about concrete crafting ideas for furniture, and share their nautical plans for the next Minecraft drop.

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FROM: Scooter_92
SUBJECT: A Simple Solution For Chairs

Hi Pix, and Joel!

I was just listening to Episode 376, and your discussion about the lack of chairs, and other furniture options in vanilla Minecraft. I had an idea for how chairs could be implemented while still allowing for player creativity in furniture design. 

What if Mojang added stools to Minecraft? These could be one block sized seats for players, and would allow the functionality of sitting down, but the model would be simple, and small enough that we could still “build a chair” by adding the usual signs, trapdoors, shelves, etc. to customize the look. This could help get around the awkwardness of positioning a minecart as a “seat”, and building around that. 

Curious to hear your thoughts! Thanks again for such a great podcast!

Scooter_92 was killed by back pain because he was older than 30, and couldn’t find anywhere comfy to sit down.

FROM: Alreve
MEMBER: Community Miner
SUBJECT: Concrete Former

Greetings Jonny, and Joel, 

Building off of the discussion on Episode 376 about block variants, as someone who loves to build with color it is disappointing to me that more of the neutral tones have gotten stairs, and slabs while concrete has yet to get them. Since I work in construction, I find it strange that with a material you can make almost anything out of, it’s restricted to be a block in Minecraft.

It would make sense to just add concrete to the stone cutter, but what if we could get a concrete former? I thought that it could be set up like a furnace, but instead of loading buckets of lava for fuel, the player would load buckets of water for consumption. It could have a setting to set stairs, slabs, or just blocks, and an input for the concrete powder. I think it would be more fun than mining towers of concrete powder in water. Likewise for terracotta perhaps a kiln for clay balls for terracotta variants? What do you think?

Alreve died of frustration trying to make an aesthetic rainbow house.

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With Mounts Of Mayhem now in the pre-release cycle – and a release date likely sooner than later – Jonny, and Joel discuss potential plans for the spear, the nautilus, and the other new mobs, and mounts coming soon to Minecraft.