The Spawn Chunks 213: Developing A Legend

The Spawn Chunks 213: Developing A Legend

Jonny, and Joel discuss some of the communication, and management of expectations from Mojang Studios looking ahead to Minecraft Live, then take a peek behind the scenes at some of the whimsical development of Minecraft Legends.

The Spawn Chunks 212: A Cloudy Conundrum

The Spawn Chunks 212: A Cloudy Conundrum

Joel, and Jonny take a look at Minecraft weather, hopes for a bright, diverse future, and where it comes up a bit soggy. Plus, listener email about archeology interactions, and player observed topography.

The Spawn Chunks 211: Re-Crafting Archaeology With ArchaeoPlays

The Spawn Chunks 211: Re-Crafting Archaeology With ArchaeoPlays

Jonny, and Joel are joined by Dr. Heather Christie for an in depth discussion about what it’s like to see Minecraft through the eyes of an archeologist, and how a potential archaeology mechanic in Minecraft could change, and challenge, how players think about, and interact with the world.

The Spawn Chunks 210: Bopping To The Ballot Box

The Spawn Chunks 210: Bopping To The Ballot Box

Joel, and Jonny discuss long roads, and implied history in Minecraft builds, the Minecraft Live 2022 teaser trailer, and answer listener email on potential rope mechanics, and rare blocks.

The Spawn Chunks 209: Mobs Don’t Grow On Trees

The Spawn Chunks 209: Mobs Don’t Grow On Trees

Jonny, and Joel share a listener idea about colourful tree generation in Minecraft, discuss the time trap of working new blocks into older builds, and speculate on player voting possibilities for Minecraft Live, slated for October.

The Spawn Chunks 207: Do Mods Get Under Your Skin?

The Spawn Chunks 207: Do Mods Get Under Your Skin?

Jonny, and Joel share their latest big projects in Minecraft, answer listener email about end-game diamonds, discuss the laundry lists of mods vanilla players use, and the importance of your Minecraft skin.

The Spawn Chunks 206: All Aboard The Email Minecart

The Spawn Chunks 206: All Aboard The Email Minecart

Joel, and Jonny discuss a web of ideas, and questions from the Chunk Mail inbox, ranging from pounding sand, and spooky tree stumps, to how to keep a potential Minecraft rail update on track.

The Spawn Chunks 204: Riding The Detail Train

The Spawn Chunks 204: Riding The Detail Train

Joel, and Jonny cover the full release of Minecraft 1.19.1, allay duplication, and the player reporting tool, then get derailed down the rabbit hole of adding details to Minecraft builds from a listener email about model trains.

The Spawn Chunks 203: The Craft of Preservation

The Spawn Chunks 203: The Craft of Preservation

Jonny, and Joel touch on final tweaks to the Minecraft player reporting tool, throw sculk ideas at a wall of different blocks to see what sticks, and discuss the different ways that players preserve their worlds, and what that might mean down the road.

The Spawn Chunks 202: Sharing And Shenanigans

The Spawn Chunks 202: Sharing And Shenanigans

Joel, and Jonny run down the latest bug fixes, and Bedrock feature parity in Minecraft 1.19.1, answer listener email about copper, and overabundant gameplay systems, then discuss the community, comradery, and friendly block banter on multiplayer servers.

The Spawn Chunks 201: Punching Chunks With James_LRR

The Spawn Chunks 201: Punching Chunks With James_LRR

Jonny, and Joel welcome James_LRR (James Turner) to the podcast to discuss the ups, and downs of mining through Minecraft – surface to bedrock – one chunk at a time. There are rules, logistics, and bragging rights to consider!

The Spawn Chunks 200: Chat Reports And Classic Hamburgers

The Spawn Chunks 200: Chat Reports And Classic Hamburgers

Joel, and Jonny keep everyone up to speed on the latest changes to the Minecraft Player Reporting Tool, and celebrate 200 episodes with a fully loaded show of listener email, along with pre and post show hamburger banter.

The Spawn Chunks 199: Your World Is A Story

The Spawn Chunks 199: Your World Is A Story

Jonny, and Joel discuss the changes, and moderation tools coming in Minecraft 1.19.1, take a look at their hot bar habits, and flip the the pages of history, lore, and purpose behind building in Minecraft.

The Spawn Chunks 198: The Mud Brick Blues

The Spawn Chunks 198: The Mud Brick Blues

Joel, and Jonny dance with the allays and the rest of the tweaks coming to The Wild Update post launch, then get into the nitty gritty of mud bricks, rejuvenated game features, and renewable sand in the June Chunk Mail Dispenser.

The Spawn Chunks 197: Legends Of The Wild Update

The Spawn Chunks 197: Legends Of The Wild Update

Jonny, and Joel share their first impressions of mangrove swamps, and The Deep Dark in Minecraft 1.19, The Wild Update, and Mojang announces a new strategy game, Minecraft Legends.

The Spawn Chunks 196: Before Things Get Wild

The Spawn Chunks 196: Before Things Get Wild

Joel, and Jonny run through the last tweaks to The Wild Update, answer emails about ore veins and inventory pain, and share their preparations, and plans in anticipation of The Deep Dark, The Warden, and mangrove swamps.

The Spawn Chunks 195: The Point Of Parity With Prowl8413

The Spawn Chunks 195: The Point Of Parity With Prowl8413

The floor is lava! But that’s OK, because we have… striders? Joel and Jonny talk about the new Minecraft mob and related news in the latest snapshot, along with Minecraft Dungeons beta play footage and answering listener email on build scale. Twitter |...

The Spawn Chunks 194: Caves & Cliffs Part II In Review

The Spawn Chunks 194: Caves & Cliffs Part II In Review

Joel and Jonny take a look at the first #Minecraft Pre-release for The Wild Update, get their wires crossed answering email, and take a look back at all The Caves & Cliffs Update Part II has brought players, and share their own gameplay experiences in the update.

The Spawn Chunks 193: Not Wild Enough?

The Spawn Chunks 193: Not Wild Enough?

Jonny and Joel discuss the Minecraft community reactions to Mojang clarifying what will, and will not be included in The Wild Update, then dive into the May Chunkmail Dispenser to answer email about sapling blocks, echo shields, and ancient instruction manuals.

The Spawn Chunks 192: The Mega-Base Meta

The Spawn Chunks 192: The Mega-Base Meta

Joel and Jonny follow the allay and the warden through their latest adjustments in the new Java Edition snapshot, take another look at Caves & Cliffs resource availability, and discuss the ups and downs of truly huge builds in Minecraft.

The Spawn Chunks 191: Quick And Easy Or Hard And Fun

The Spawn Chunks 191: Quick And Easy Or Hard And Fun

Jonny and Joel discuss changes to The Warden in the latest #Minecraft snapshot, bounce around community ideas about the echo shard, and discuss how high efficiency farms can benefit from a longer, more creative road.

The Spawn Chunks 190: The Lore Of The Mixtape

The Spawn Chunks 190: The Lore Of The Mixtape

Jonny and Joel record the week’s Minecraft news from Java, and Bedrock Editions, talk new music from Lena Raine coming to the game, and wonder if there is a secret track connecting music discs.