The Spawn Chunks 318: Over The Pale Garden Wall
Joel, and Jonny share their first, hands on feedback on the Pale Garden, The Creaking, pale oak wood, and pale moss accessible as Experimental Features in the latest Minecraft snapshot. Plus, creative listener feedback!
The Spawn Chunks 317: Minecraft Live 2024 Recap
Jonny, and Joel discuss the new features coming to Minecraft announced at Minecraft LIVE 2024 over the weekend. Will the Pale Garden live up to its name in future snapshots? Will The Creaking take root in the community? Plus, a behind the scenes look on the set of A Minecraft Movie!
The Spawn Chunks 316: Bundling Up For Minecraft Live
Joel, and Jonny explore the colourful new snapshot with dyeable bundles, answer listener email about legacy Minecraft features vs. moving the game forward, and look ahead to the new format, and potential announcements coming at Minecraft Live!
The Spawn Chunks 315: Minecraft’s New Dev Cycle
Jonny, and Joel take a brief look at the latest Minecraft snapshot, discuss the new development cycle announced by Mojang, and answer listener email on bundle mechanics, redstone aesthetics, and how to make the leap from Bedrock Edition, to Java Minecraft.
The Spawn Chunks 314: A Minecraft Movie Trailer Podcast
Joel, and Jonny share their thoughts on the teaser trailer for A Minecraft Movie, and talk about player expectations, the best kinds of stories for Minecraft, and a few new updates coming to the game.
The Spawn Chunks 313: Keeping Tabs On Inventory
Jonny, and Joel cover the new changes made to bundles in the latest Minecraft snapshot, tackle a related listener email about bundles, player storage, and the UI, then discuss how to move an established Minecraft world to the next stage of inspiration.
The Spawn Chunks 312: The Core Of Better Bundles
Joel, and Jonny cover the adjustments made to Experimental Features based on community feedback in this week’s Minecraft snapshot, as well as answer listener email about the heavy core, crafting, swinging signs, and spreadable leaves.
The Spawn Chunks 311: A Bundle Of Changes
Jonny, and Joel immerse themselves in the first new snapshot for Minecraft 1.21 Tricky Trials where Mojang is experimenting with changes to minecarts, redstone, and bundles. A listener has a smashing idea for the mace, and both Jonny, and Joel have big projects on the go.
The Spawn Chunks 310: Mindful Minecraft Modding
Joel, and Jonny cover the hotfix to Minecraft 1.21 issued by Mojang this past week, and look ahead to potential changes to minecarts hinted at by and old bug changing status in the bug tracker. Plus, listener email on soulless sand, and how Joel, and Jonny approach modded Minecraft.
The Spawn Chunks 309: Battling Block Availability
Jonny, and Joel chime in on the way Minecraft sounds are made, and some changes coming to Trial Chamber chests, then discuss block availability, and renewable resources in Minecraft based on listener email about harvesting wood, and collecting sand.
The Spawn Chunks 308: Crafting The Uncraftable
Jonny, and Joel relay the latest Beats, feats, and updates in Minecraft this week, discuss how data packs could become more commonplace, and how the crafter could influence future crafting recipes in Minecraft.
The Spawn Chunks 307: Tadpole Milk And The Trial Chamber Of Time
Joel welcomes Tadpole Milk back to the podcast to chat about his first experience in a Trial Chamber, the finer grains of a renewable sand idea, and how we think about the slow, steady march of time in long term Minecraft worlds.
The Spawn Chunks 306: The Content Crafter Trials With impulseSV
Joel welcomes impulseSV back to the podcast to chat about content creation, Hermitcraft projects, and a deeper look at the crafter, and what it means for redstone builds in Minecraft 1.21.
The Spawn Chunks 305: Tricky Block Palettes With fWhip
Joel welcomes fWhip back to the podcast to chat about massive projects in Hardcore Minecraft, how to make calcite renewable, and the excitement of expanding your block palette in Tricky Trials.
The Spawn Chunks 304: Bundling Up New Features
Joel, and Jonny are happy to see Mojang announce that bundles are finally coming to Minecraft, plus listener emails on Joel’s crystal ball, updating legacy structures, and why content creators tend to play on Java Edition.
The Spawn Chunks 303: Being Resourceful In Tricky Trials
Jonny, and Joel dive deeper into the new Trial Chambers, exploring their usefulness beyond a combat experience. Builders take note! Plus, listener email about enchanting gold armour, and changing gear on the fly.
The Spawn Chunks 302: Tricky Trial & Error
Joel, and Jonny cover the launch, and early reception of Minecraft Tricky Trials focusing on the two features rising to the top of the conversation, Trial Chambers, and the crafter. Plus, listener feedback, and first impressions of the new update.
The Spawn Chunks 301: Trails & Tales Retrospective
Jonny, and Joel cover the last few changes to Tricky Trials before the release on June 13th, answer listener email about speedy swimming, and fancy flying, then take a look back at Trails & Tales, and the Minecraft update’s stand out features.
The Spawn Chunks 300: Episode 300 Q&A
Joel, and Jonny celebrate 300 episodes of The Spawn Chunks with an extended, all listener email Q&A – but first – Tricky Trials has a release date, ender pearls now portal, and Minecraft is coming to Netflix.
The Spawn Chunks 299: Does AI Dream Of Minecraft Sheep
Jonny, and Joel cover the push back to normal with pistons, changes to how entities interact with Nether portals, the possibilities of AI in Minecraft, and expanding horizons on player deaths.
The Spawn Chunks 298: Pushback On Pistons
Joel, and Jonny celebrate 15 years of Minecraft talking changes to witch drops, and piston sounds in the latest snapshot, then answer listener email about cold crops, music on repeat, and the elements of inventory sorting.
The Spawn Chunks 297: What’s In A Name?
Jonny, and Joel take a look at the squishy changes to the mace in the latest Minecraft: Java Edition snapshot, then answer listener email about creepy Nether portals, and naming things in your Minecraft world.
The Spawn Chunks 296: Painting Possibilities
Joel, and Jonny share the latest Minecraft snapshot changes as the Tricky Trials update adds new music, new paintings, and a host of other important technical updates, and bug fixes.
The Spawn Chunks 295: Tricky Trials Track List
Jonny, and Joel cover the drop of Minecraft: Java Edition 1.20.5 Armored Paws, the tricky name reveal of the next major update, and the release of twelve new Minecraft music tracks composed by Aaron Cherof, Kumi Tanioka, and Lena Raine.