The Spawn Chunks 405: Bouncing Towards Chaos Cubed

[upbeat music] Welcome to The Spawn Chunks, episode number 405 for Monday, June 8th, 2026.

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My name is Johnny, but the internet knows me as Pixlriffs, and joining me, as always, is a solar-powered Joel Duggan.

Hi, Joel.

I am indeed solar powered.

It's, uh, starting to get nice here in Nova Scotia, and I've been outside a lot more.

But on Friday, I was inside, and I was playing Solarpunk and Shanty Town, two games available right now on Steam.

Both of them are building related, and as Solarpunk suggests, has some solar power enabled as well.

I had a really good time with that, and that's what we were talking about on the Render Distance.

And that is the extended version of the podcast that you get every single week if you're a patron at patreon.com/thespawnchunks.

You support the show, and you get a little bit of bonus material every single week.

We do a pre-show and a post-show, and once a month, we hang out with our patrons and talk about what they've been doing in Minecraft.

It's called the, uh, Minecraft Hangout, and it's very similar to the login that Johnny and I do every week, but it's with our community over on Discord.

And so once again, you can get access to that at The Spawn Chunks on Patreon.

Coming up after the login, we're gonna be rounding up the latest pre-releases for Chaos Cubed, the next drop for vanilla Minecraft, and the trailer for Minecraft Dungeons 2.

Before, the main discussion is gonna be dedicated to how Chaos Cubed is going to make an impact on our own worlds when it releases next week.

But first, of course, we've got to talk about what's new in our Minecraft lives.