The Spawn Chunks 383: Big Build Plans For 2026
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Jonny, and Joel talk about their new year big build plans as well as what they’re hoping to see from Minecraft in 2026, and answer listener email about Bedrock Edition bugs, and ‘home blocks’ for roaming passive mobs.
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Joel
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- The Citadel | Mushroom Island
- Command Center
- Progress on the command center has been going well, but going slowly. It’s a huge build!
- Designing The Inside Of The Command Center – Part 2 (YouTube.com/JoelDugganVODs)
- Designing The Inside Of The Command Center – Part 3 (YouTube.com/JoelDugganVODs)
- Designing The Inside Of The Command Center – Part 4 (YouTube.com/JoelDugganVODs)
- The focus over the holidays was getting the design going on the interior, focusing on the entrances, the main floor design, honey block elevators to the second floor, and lighting all around.
- The honey block elevators are lit from behind.
- Played around with the idea of ‘hologram guard rails’ made of end rods, and light blue, and purple glass panes.
- Refining Honey Block Elevators – Part 1 (YouTube.com/JoelDugganVODs)
- Refining Honey Block Elevators – Part 2 (YouTube.com/JoelDugganVODs)
- Refining Honey Block Elevators – Part 3 (YouTube.com/JoelDugganVODs)
- The center ‘power’ area on the main floor is still a work in progress.
- Also started roughing out the bulkheads on the second floor, which will be inside each of the four main hanger wings.
- At the moment, the only thing functional is a temporary villager breeder set up inside the east hanger wing.
- Finishing And Lighting The Main Floor (YouTube.com/JoelDugganVODs)
- Progress on the command center has been going well, but going slowly. It’s a huge build!
- Command Center
Jonny
- The Minecraft Survival Guide, Season 3
- The beacon mine has continued but it’s time consuming dig, and that means not much progress has been made in other areas.
- Beacon Mining! How was your Christmas? – Minecraft Survival Guide LIVE (Twitch.tv/Pixlriffs)
- Last Choppin’ Tuesday of 2025! – Minecraft Survival Guide LIVE (Twitch.tv/Pixlriffs)
- Happy New Year! Cozy Beacon Mining Stream – Minecraft Survival Guide LIVE (Twitch.tv/Pixlriffs)
- Still have plans to deliberately look for a nautilus or two, and visit a desert to see the parched, and a camel husk.
- The beacon mine has continued but it’s time consuming dig, and that means not much progress has been made in other areas.
- Enshrouded
- Playing Enshrouded over the holidays for a fresh perspective on building games.
- Played both on Twitch with a few friends, and offline, logging twenty to thirty hours in the game.
- Enshrouded has a powerful building system but it takes a lot of work to acquire new building blocks.
- Many of the blocks are either linked to quests to unlock NPCs, or are found in locations with higher-level enemies.
- This really gives perspective on how flat the building progression is in Minecraft. There aren’t very many difficult regions of the world to visit that gate keep only a handful of blocks.
- The most recent build system unlock are a set of tools that allow the player to add overgrowth or decay to structures really adding to the subtlety that’s possible building in Enshrouded.
- Enshrouded with @JoelDuggan – Fresh Start! (Twitch.tv/Pixlriffs)
- Playing Enshrouded over the holidays for a fresh perspective on building games.
Chunk Mail
FROM: Farad
SUBJECT: Farm Animal Home Blocks
Hello!
Near the end of Episode 379 you discussed home blocks for animals like hay bales for horses.
The issue with using certain blocks as home blocks for the farm animals in particular, which might also be used in builds where one might not want a home block to attract animals.
An idea to solve this, and introduce the feature in a non-game altering way could be to use a cauldron as a feed trough. Put seeds in it for chickens, potatoes for pigs, wheat for cows, apples for horses, and so on. Animals nearby get “attached” to the cauldron when they are within a certain radius of it, which could be enlarged by putting more levels of the food. Any cauldron without food placed in it would just be a regular cauldron as we know them today.
Farad was squished too much by a herd of cows after accidentally putting wheat in a cauldron.
FROM: SunnybrookOne
MEMBER: Landscape Artist
SUBJECT: Bedrock Bugs Bite
Hey Jonny, and Joel,
While I started on Minecraft Java Edition, lately I’ve spent more time on Bedrock Edition to play with friends. However, the last few updates to Bedrock introduced some serious FPS issues that caused myself, and other players a lot of grief, which surprised me. I was one of the folks who thought that when Microsoft originally bought Minecraft, and invested so heavily in Bedrock edition, and its monetization via the Minecraft Marketplace, that it meant they’d focus on improving the experience of that version of the game the most moving forward.
Since that doesn’t seem to be the case – or perhaps their idea of “improvements” have been making deals that bring other IPs into the game via paid Add-Ons, like Fortnite – I’ve wondered what this means for the long-term future of Minecraft.
Do you think enough people at Microsoft recognize the value that its players place in maintaining, and improving the game experience? Or is it yet another company that sees their game as one big merchandise advertisement that can be bad, and still do its job?
SunnybrookOne eyes the “Armadillo Plush Slippers” on the official Minecraft Shop with suspicion.
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Big Builds And Big Plans For 2026
Jonny, and Joel talk about their plans in Minecraft for the year ahead, as well as some of the broader stokes on what they would like to see come to Minecraft in 2026.