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The Spawn Chunks - A Minecraft Podcast
by Joel Duggan & Pixlriffs
The Spawn Chunks is a podcast all about Minecraft. We dig into Minecraft related news, and development snapshots, explore game content, listen to the Minecraft community, and craft our personal thoughts, and experiences about the game we love. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
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The Spawn Chunks 423: Frostbitten By Ice Caves
Jonny, and Joel run down their experience with ice caves, icicles, and the frostbite in the latest Minecraft snapshot for the winter drop, and hammer out their final thoughts on Minecraft Dungeons II. Show notes for The Spawn Chunks are here: https://tinyurl.com/spawnchunkspost423 Join The Spawn...
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The Spawn Chunks 422: Minecraft Dungeons II Launch Week
Joel, and Jonny breakdown their hands on gameplay experience chasing down the Illager High Council in Minecraft Dungeons II. Plus, the ice caves, and related features are in the new Minecraft snapshot. Show notes for The Spawn Chunks are here: https://tinyurl.com/spawnchunkspost422 Join The Spawn...
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The Spawn Chunks 421: Minecraft Live Recap September 2026
Jonny, and Joel break down all the news coming out of Minecraft Live over the weekend with an in depth discussion about the new ice caves, and the new Sift dimension coming in 2027. Show notes for The Spawn Chunks are here: https://tinyurl.com/spawnchunks421post Join The Spawn Chunks Discord...
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The Spawn Chunks 420: Exploring The Wilderness
Joel, and Jonny share features, and first impressions of Minecraft 26.3 Wilderness Bound, then answer listener email about grabbing, sorting, storing, and renewing new blocks. Show notes for The Spawn Chunks are here: https://tinyurl.com/spawnchunks420post Join The Spawn Chunks Discord community!...
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The Spawn Chunks 419: Into The Wilds
Jonny, and Joel break down their plans for the pending release of Minecraft 26.3 Wilderness Bound, coming September 15! Plus, listener email about tethering in game pets. Show notes for The Spawn Chunks are here: https://tinyurl.com/spawnchunks419post Join The Spawn Chunks Discord community!...
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The Spawn Chunks 418: Wilderness Bound
Joel and Jonny run through the latest bug fixes in the latest snapshot pre-releases for Minecraft 26.3 – now named Wilderness Bound – and discuss what armour attributes might look like in vanilla Minecraft. Show notes for The Spawn Chunks are here:...
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The Spawn Chunks 417: From Concept To Concrete
Jonny, and Joel cover the latest bug fixes in Minecraft 26.3 Snapshot 10, discuss new gameplay footage for Minecraft Dungeons II coming out of GamesCom, and break down how they approach translating concept art into Minecraft builds. Show notes for The Spawn Chunks are here:...
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The Spawn Chunks 416: Sifting Through Ideas
Joel, and Jonny review changes to Minecraft Realms, break down the new gameplay trailer for Minecraft Dungeons II, and discuss The Twisted Warden, redstone golems and more from listener email. Show notes for The Spawn Chunks are here:...
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The Spawn Chunks 415: Fixed Bugs And Debugs
Jonny, and Joel review a host of tweaks and bug fixes in the latest Minecraft snapshot, and answer email about crystals, and lighting that expands into a broader heads up display conversation. Show notes for The Spawn Chunks are here:...
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The Spawn Chunks 414: A Step In A Colourful Direction
Joel, and Jonny explore new maps, and discuss the addition of concrete stairs and slabs to the already packed new Minecraft drop. Plus, sci-fi themes, and improve sketch comedy on a special extended episode as The Spawn Chunks turns 8!! To celebrate 8 years, the full Render Distance episode –...
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The Spawn Chunks 413: Farewell To The End Rings
Jonny, and Joel relay changes under the hood in the latest Minecraft snapshot, discuss dimensional potential in Minecraft Dungeons II, and stretch their minds on the reach of math in Minecraft, and The End. Show notes for The Spawn Chunks are here:...
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The Spawn Chunks 412: Tools Outside Of The Box
Joel, and Jonny review tweaks, and bug fixes in the latest Java Edition snapshot, answer listener email about biomes, and share top of mind player tools they feel could be beneficial in Minecraft. Show notes for The Spawn Chunks are here:...
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The Spawn Chunks 411: Straw Slabs And Sulfur Stories
Jonny, and Joel talk technical changes in the latest Minecraft 26.3 snapshot, then answer listener email about slabs of hay, villager copper, the smell of blazes, and stories behind their servers. Show notes for The Spawn Chunks are here:...
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The Spawn Chunks 410: A Cushy Chat With fWhip
Joel, and Jonny welcome fWhip back to the podcast to talk about the latest developments in Minecraft. The conversation covers making sulfur work in your builds, niche uses for sulfur cubes, mobile biome envy, imaginative uses for the new cushion, and why Hardcore players should keep access to…
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The Spawn Chunks 409: Pull Up A Cushion
Jonny, and Joel grab a soft place to sit, rest their heads, and fluff around in the latest snapshots for Minecraft 26.3 – introducing the straw bed, and cushions! Plus, listener email weighing in on a savannah mob a lot farther off the ground. Show notes for The Spawn Chunks are here:...
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The Spawn Chunks 408: Dappled Forest First Look
Joel, and Jonny dive into the Dappled Forest in the latest Minecraft snapshot, chat villager capes, and wandering trades in listener email, and share their first impressions of poplar wood. Show notes for The Spawn Chunks are here:...
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The Spawn Chunks 407: Chaos Cubed Release
Jonny, and Joel review the details of the Chaos Cubed drop, discuss a colourful email about villager trading in Minecraft, and give their first impressions of sulfur caves, new blocks, and how sulfur cubes will be adding chaos into their worlds. Show notes for The Spawn Chunks are here:...
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The Spawn Chunks 406: Deep In The Woods
Joel, and Jonny round up the final tweaks to Chaos Cubed before it hits the Minecraft launcher tomorrow, then dive into listener email to discuss new wood type chest wishes, the potential wisdom of owls, and the want to pick up the dappled forest, and take it with you. Show notes for The Spawn...
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The Spawn Chunks 405: Bouncing Towards Chaos Cubed
Jonny, and Joel cover small adjustments to Minecraft Chaos Cubed ahead of the drop next week, talk about the Minecraft Dungeons II trailer, and speculate on how new Chaos Cubed features will be worked into their current projects. Show notes for The Spawn Chunks are here:...
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The Spawn Chunks 404: Minecraft Live Recap May 2026
Joel, and Jonny review the news coming out of the Minecraft Live presentation at TwitchCon Rotterdam including the Chaos Cubed release, Minecraft Dungeons II, the Minecraft movie sequel, and the dappled forest, and other new game features coming this fall. Show notes for The Spawn Chunks are…
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The Spawn Chunks 403: Bugless Features
Jonny, and Joel explore exposed surface sulfur caves, and the return of OpenGL default graphics, answer listener email about redstone mobs, and discuss how some bugs in Minecraft actually end up as features. Show notes for The Spawn Chunks are here:...
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The Spawn Chunks 402: We’re All Friends Here
Joel, and Jonny talk about the new Minecraft friends feature, and peer-to-peer gameplay coming to Java Edition, then answer listener email about aiming geysers, rock elementals, and greedy goblins. Show notes for The Spawn Chunks are here:...
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The Spawn Chunks 401: Positive Sandbox Role Models
Jonny, and Joel explore the new sulfur cafe generation in Snapshot 6 for the next Minecraft drop, answer listener email about shoulder mounted mobs, then discuss what sandbox games do right, and how Minecraft could take inspiration. Save 20% off your first month when you use the code "400" and...
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The Spawn Chunks 400: An Explosive Episode 400
Joel, and Jonny celebrate Episode 400 with primed sulfur cubes, potent sulfur powered geysers, and an explosive chunkmail inbox of community email in this extra large slice of The Spawn Chunks. Preshow: As part of the Episode 400 celebration we're releasing the full Render Distance audio for...
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The Spawn Chunks 399: Here Lizard Lizard Lizard
Jonny, and Joel talk tiny changes to sulfur caves, and sulfur cubes, answer listener email about sandstorms, and End drops, and get down on their bellies to look at the idea of adding reptiles to Minecraft. Show notes for The Spawn Chunks are here:...
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The Spawn Chunks 398: Sulfur Spikes And Saw Blades
Joel, and Jonny sift through the changes to sulfur, and cinnabar in the latest Choas Cubed snapshot, then answer listener email about woodcutter villager trades, opal blocks, and the long term health of Minecraft. Show notes for The Spawn Chunks are here:...
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The Spawn Chunks 397: Sulfur Cube Springs Into Action
Jonny, and Joel cover the first Java Edition snapshots for Minecraft Chaos Cubed, answer listener email about mini games, and kick around lots of potential ideas for the sulfur cube. Show notes for The Spawn Chunks are here:...
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The Spawn Chunks 396: Chaos Squared
Joel, and Jonny share their first impressions on the Chaos Cubed drop after some first hand experience in the latest Bedrock Edition Preview. Plus dishing the dirt on the April Fools Java Edition snapshot, and golden dandelions. Show notes for The Spawn Chunks are here:...
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The Spawn Chunks 395: Cutting Edge Colour Palette
Jonny, and Joel review the details of Minecraft 26.1, the Tiny Takeover drop, then answer listener email about Minecraft butterflies, SUVs (Sniffer Utility Vehicles), and how to bolster the Minecraft block colour palette. Show notes for The Spawn Chunks are here:...
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The Spawn Chunks 394: Minecraft Live March 2026 Recap
Joel, and Jonny recap all of the news coming out of the first Minecraft Live of the year, from real world Minecraft experiences, to the new sulfur caves, new mobs, new blocks, and a sequel to Minecraft Dungeons! Show notes for The Spawn Chunks are here:...
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The Spawn Chunks 393: Dreaming of Minecraft's Future
Jonny, and Joel discuss more tiny tweaks to Tiny Takeover, a community idea for top level librarian trades, and try to dream up some predictions for what new features might be announced at the first Minecraft Live of 2026. Show notes for The Spawn Chunks are here:...
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The Spawn Chunks 392: Winging It
Joel, and Jonny share some tiny tweaks to the Tiny Takeover Minecraft drop, speculate on dates for the next Minecraft Live, and flap their brains around adding more wings to Minecraft. Show notes for The Spawn Chunks are here: https://thespawnchunks.com/2026/03/09/the-spawn-chunks-392-winging-it/...
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The Spawn Chunks 391: What Bugs You About Minecraft?
Jonny, and Joel discuss some minor changes in the latest Minecraft snapshot, speculate on the next Minecraft Live date, and discuss Minecraft bugs… The creepy crawly kind. Show notes for The Spawn Chunks are here:...
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The Spawn Chunks 390: Depth In Forgotten Features
Joel, and Jonny cover the final gameplay features of the next Minecraft drop – Spoiler, it’s baby mobs – then answer email about mob variants, golden dandelions, and “forgotten” Minecraft features. Show notes for The Spawn Chunks are here:...
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The Spawn Chunks 389: Baby Bobble Heads
Jonny, and Joel bounce around their thoughts on the new baby hostile mobs in Minecraft, then answer listener email about copper golem smarts, ice crystal caves, and enchanted echo shards in the February Chunk Mail Dispenser. Show notes for The Spawn Chunks are here:...
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The Spawn Chunks 388: Cubfan135 - Exploring Minecraft To Its Fullest
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. Show...
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The Spawn Chunks 387: Stay Young And Vibrant
Jonny, and Joel discuss the magical effect that the new golden dandelion will have on baby animals in Minecraft, then answer listener email about both experience in Vibrant Visuals on Bedrock Edition, and cautious anticipation of the feature on Java Edition. Show notes for The Spawn Chunks are...
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The Spawn Chunks 386: A Recipe For Happiness
Joel, and Jonny saddle up for more baby mob changes in the latest Minecraft snapshot, and discuss spears vs. tridents, rope ladders, and crafting happiness all in email from listeners. Show notes for The Spawn Chunks are here:...
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The Spawn Chunks 385: What Can Minecraft Learn From Hytale?
Jonny, and Joel cover a small technical snapshot for Minecraft 26.1, answer listener email about anvils, and explore Hytale – a new voxel, survival RPG – and discuss what lessons Minecraft, and Hytale can learn from one another. Show notes for The Spawn Chunks are here:...
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The Spawn Chunks 384: Popcorn Chicken
Joel, and Jonny share their first impressions of the new baby animals in the second snapshot for Minecraft 26.1, then answer listener email about keeping youthful appearances, and the potential dangers of pint sized pea shooters. Show notes for The Spawn Chunks are here:...
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The Spawn Chunks 383: Big Build Plans For 2026
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. Show notes for The Spawn Chunks are here:...
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The Spawn Chunks 382: Salty About Copper Aging
Joel, and Jonny peel back the wrapping paper on the first snapshot of 2026, and discuss emails from our listeners about looting copper golems, subtitle accessibility, and deep dungeon upgrades in another Holiday Chunkmail Dispenser. Show notes for The Spawn Chunks are here:...
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The Spawn Chunks 381: Better Faster Stronger
Jonny, and Joel update their copper aging, and command center progress then answer listener emails about echo gear, mining villagers, and Minecraft transmogrified transportation in the Holiday Chunkmail Dispenser. Show notes for The Spawn Chunks are here:...
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The Spawn Chunks 380: Stick’em With The Pointy End
Joel, and Jonny recap the details of the nautilus, parched, spear, and more in the now released Mounts Of Mayhem drop, then answer listener email about trapping sound, tapping into maps, and comparing Minecraft to other open world games that have more narrative structure. Show notes for The Spawn...
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The Spawn Chunks 379: What’s In A Number?
Jonny, and Joel run down the pre-release, and release candidate details for the imminent drop of Mounts Of Mayhem, answer listener email about camel husks, and nautilus, then discuss the pros, and cons of potential pet roaming in Minecraft. Show notes for The Spawn Chunks are here:...
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The Spawn Chunks 378: Our Minecraft Christmas List
Joel, and Jonny chat about the confirmed drop date for Mounts Of Mayhem, answer listener email about fluffy furniture, and list the things they’d like to see in Minecraft if Mojang came down the chimney. Show notes for The Spawn Chunks are here:...
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The Spawn Chunks 377: Nautilus And Novelty
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. Show notes for The Spawn Chunks are here:...
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The Spawn Chunks 376: Ride Or Die
Joel, and Jonny discuss technical tweaks to the feature complete, upcoming Mounts Of Mayhem drop, then answer listener email about Minecraft vanilla vibes, texture parity, and nitwit parties. Show notes for The Spawn Chunks are here:...
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The Spawn Chunks 375: Coral Creatures and Final Features
Jonny, and Joel recap the final features swimming into the Mounts Of Mayhem snapshots, and hear from listeners about enchanting improvements, and the future of modding post Minecraft code deobfuscation. Show notes for The Spawn Chunks are here:...
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The Spawn Chunks 374: More Mounts More Mayhem
Joel, and Jonny share their initial thoughts on the new parched, and camel husk mobs coming to Minecraft, and answer listener email about happy ghast mobility, and beacon viability. Show notes for The Spawn Chunks are here:...
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The Spawn Chunks is a podcast all about Minecraft. We dig into Minecraft related news, and development snapshots, explore game content, listen to the Minecraft community, and craft our personal thoughts, and experiences about the game we love.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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