The Spawn Chunks 388: Cubfan135 – Exploring Minecraft To Its Fullest

Feb 9, 2026 | podcast

Joel, and Jonny welcome Cubfan135 to the podcast to talk about how his Minecraft adventure started, his appreciation for the deeper mechanics of the game, and his hopes for Minecraft’s future. Plus, new baby foxes, and armadillos in the new snapshot, and an email about golden possibilities.

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  • The Citadel | Mushroom Island
    • Finished up the storage wing of the command center.
      • Dyed all visible shulker boxes dark grey to create some contrast, and maintain the sleek, sci-fi aesthetic of the floor.
      • Used crafters for bulk shulker storage. Each crafter can hold nine shuckers, and interacting with them has no sound effect which makes for smooth, silent shulker retrieval.
      • Hid the crafting table, ender chest, anvil, stone cutter, and two extra barrels under quartz stairs controlled by sticky pistons. The stairs hide the utility blocks until they’re needed.
      • Redesigning The Command Center Storage Wing – Part 4 (YouTube.com/JoelDugganVODs)
      • Redesigning The Command Center Storage Wing – Part 5 (YouTube.com/JoelDugganVODs)
    • Started designing level three of the command center wings. Still very much a work in progress.
      • At this point the general idea is to design an observation / command deck.
      • Keeping with the octagonal bulkhead design from level two, but changing up the colours, and layers a bit.
      • Still trying to decide on final block choices for the floors, and ceilings.
      • Also considering the yet to be designed roof, and how to best accommodate both inside, and outside without the roof getting too bulky.
      • Starting Command Level Three (YouTube.com/JoelDugganVODs)
      • Command Center Level Three Design – Part 1 (YouTube.com/JoelDugganVODs)
  • The Minecraft Survival Guide, Season 3
    • Copper Aging Facility
    • The drowned farm still needs to be properly benchmarked, but there is filtered storage in place to help with the calculations.
      • Copper golems are helping sort the unstackable armour pieces. Leather armour is being stored or destroyed, and any metal armour is being smelted into the respective nuggets.

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FROM: BuckeyeMinerBB
SUBJECT: Tools And Armour Forever Young?

I was listening to you talk about the new golden dandelion on Episode 387, and it got me wondering if that mechanic could apply to tools, and armor as well. Perhaps a golden book to reduce the enchantment costs on items that have been repaired multiple times or new items that you want to max out? What do you think? Do you have any other ideas on how to keep your gear forever young?

BuckeyeMinerBB died again from exhaustion thinking about the levels he needed after losing all his gear trying to swim in lava.

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A Minecraft Chat With Cubfan135

Joel, and Jonny chat with Cubfan about overcoming his first impressions of Minecraft, experiencing the growth of the community around the game, and eventually making content about the game, and joining Hermitcraft in 2016. With fifteen-plus years experience in Minecraft, Cub shares some of his favourite aspects about the game, his unique approach to deep diving Minecraft mechanics, where he’d like to see Minecraft go in the future.

  • The List (YouTube.com/Cubfan135)
    • A video series presenting some of Cubfan’s ideas that would be beneficial in Minecraft.
  • Hermitcraft Season 11 (YouTube.com/Cubfan135)
    • Videos from Hermitcraft Season 11 so far.