Welcome to the Spawn Shunks, episode number 331 for Monday, January 6th, 2025.

Better make sure I got that right. This is a podcast all about Minecraft, available across all major podcast platforms, including YouTube, and if you're enjoying the show, please consider subscribing wherever you're listening to this. My name is Johnny, but the internet knows me as pixel riffs.

And joining me, as always, is the New Year's Joel Duggan. Hi, Joel.

I have not got the year wrong yet, knock on wood. Even the muscle memory in my hands,

as I've been typing in the last couple of days, has managed to hit it right. So we'll see.

We do need to update the templates for our show notes. So I put that on my to-do list as soon as

you mentioned it because sooner or later, one of us will just read and mention the wrong year for

sure. And speaking of the new year, what Johnny and I have been doing over the holidays,

celebrating the new year, celebrating Christmas. If you been doing over the holidays, celebrating the new year,

celebrating Christmas. If you'd like to hear a little bit more about that, maybe some of the

gift exchanges in the food, oh, the food, that we experienced over the holidays, then you should

check out the render distance. It is the extended version of the program. It's available on

patreon.com slash the spawn chunks to anybody that supports the podcast, you get an extra 15 to 30 minutes of

content every single week, along with other bonus content like the monthly hangouts that

happen at the end of the month usually. So you've got one coming up in January. And we also have the

quarterly hangouts. That's where we go over the data, the numbers, the figures, the downloads for

the podcast. And that's probably coming up in early February to give a cast a chance for the numbers to accumulate for the final episodes of 2024, because not only

is this going to be a quarterly summary, but we're going to look at the year as a whole,

2024 on the sponge chunks and the things that we've done and what we're looking forward to do.

So if that's something that is of interest to you, then check out patreon.com slash the sponge chunks. And speaking of Patreon, there are

some changes coming. We mentioned this on the show a couple times at the end of the year. We've,

of course, been talking with our patrons about it for the last few months. And that process has started.

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