The Great Minecraft Titan Project (NOW UNDER GRUNDZ'S COMMAND)

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**4oursword**

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**GangstaMuffin24**

I'd be interested in joining this project. What do you need from the community?

**Absolutionis**

I can help with the weaponry. My citadel nearby has two sets of twin-linked functioning cannons (one of them is aimed at your titan) and I have a fully-automatic snowball launcher mostly set up in the Nether.

Plus, I have a Skeleton-Grinder set up decently close to the surface right between our places. I've been AFKing there for hours.

If you give me dimensions, I can get a several drafts of weaponry built up in Minecraft's Creative Mode. Not sure what class of Titan you're going for, but if it's a Reaver, it should be rather intuitive. An arrow barrage can be the top-mounted Apocalypse Missile Launcher. An arrow-going-through-fire automatic gun could be a Titan Melta Cannon. A TNT-launcher could be a hard-to-reload Volcano Cannon or Quake Cannon (a bit out of fluff, but meh).

**Coolyo294**

I could help build the main body of the Titan, but not the weapons.

**Anvildude**

Could you make a TNT launcher that launches forward? Use Obsidian for the barrel, and a retractable piston igniter for the 'shell'? (so it's reusable, that is).

**Absolutionis**

When you light TNT, it stops being a "block" and becomes an entity, thus it falls. If a TNT entity is inside water, it does not cause structural damage to blocks but the explosion can still cause damage to mobs, players, etc and will propel other entities (such as other lit TNT).

Long story short, if TNT explodes in water, it still acts normally without causing any damage to blocks.

**Anvildude**

Well, yeah. I know how a 'normal' TNT Cannon works. I was just wondering if you could make one that's more of a barrel instead of the trench that most are. Also, if you used Obsidian instead of the usual cobble-water thing, could you have a more compact design?

**purplefood**

If you had a piston design for loading it...
What's the range on redstone torches for setting off tnt?
If it's adjacent only then it might work...
Though you would have to load a baffle to keep the mechanism from being fried...

**Anvildude**

Unfortunate that you can't piston Redstone.

And I think that you can't trigger TNT through blocks either?

**4oursword**

It's great to have so much support already. The first thing we need to do is excavate an ampitheatre for the titan to stand in, as it would be too short if built on Y=65.
As for a location, in between my house and Absolutionis' citadel is a large field where the prototype was built. That would be where I would start, but I am open to suggestions. Your names will be added to the first post so I know who I have working on it.

As for weapons, I was thinking an arrow gatling gun on one arm, tnt cannon on the other, snowball gatling gun on the torso, and a couple of arrow barrage weapons on the shoulders.

And as far as the titan's class is concerned, I reckon a Mars Pattern Imperator is the way to go.

**purplefood**

Anvildude wrote:Unfortunate that you can't piston Redstone.

And I think that you can't trigger TNT through blocks either?

Not talking about pistoning redstone...
If we can get theright mechnism set up we can move the tnt to the torch instead.

**Grundz**

if you put a repeater facing a block, you can transfer power through that block to the other side, this is the basis of the mega cobbler, so it can detect when the lava and water create a cobble block.

so it may be possible to use this to light an enclosed block of TNT, I haven't tried it.

**SagesStone**

It should be possible the TNT being pushed to the power then transferring it through it to the others to be fired with a delay.

**4oursword**

Should it be cobble, smoothstone or another material?

**RaptorsTalon**

I would love to get involved with this!
I might not be able to be on much, but I am willing to help.
Can I please have the fourth Moderati position?

EDIT: Where is it being built?

**GangstaMuffin24**

4oursword wrote:Should it be cobble, smoothstone or another material?

That's a good question. I feel that making it all of one material would be somewhat of an eyesore.

**SagesStone**

Smoothstone for skeleton, coloured wool for armour.

**GangstaMuffin24**

That sounds pretty reasonable to me.

Any chance we have a fluff picture we're going off of?

**4oursword**

And I'm not sure about having wool armour, but if we do, what colour?
Raptors- Welcome, Moderati. It's being built near to my lair, next to absolutionis's citadel.
-379, 65, -550 is in the flats where it should be.

**SagesStone**

Why not red like that one in the picture? Other than that it'd be pretty limited in appearance without the wool. I guess could be obby.

**GangstaMuffin24**

We could also use netherack if you want the red look, but I feel that wool would look better.

I'm not opposed to making it out of obsidian though....

**RaptorsTalon**

n0t_u wrote:Why not red like that one in the picture? Other than that it'd be pretty limited in appearance without the wool. I guess could be obby.

Obbie could look really good, as well as being resiliant to creeper blasts.
Every titan leigon has its own paint scheme (I think) so ours could be Purple/Black.

**4oursword**

Wool is fine. Black would be cool, so we could use obby, there is a nearby ravine with both lava and water if it is a help.
Other than that, a dark green would be a good fit.

**SagesStone**

Maybe yellow/orange and black for Dakka with the grey as the smoothstone.

**4oursword**

Obby is too tempting to ignore, but dakka-themed is cool too.
Time now for a name?
Gladius Dakka?

**RaptorsTalon**

Just remembered, Dark copied my lab to the new world. That has an obsidian generator in it.

It turns redstone into obbie.

Not sure where it is now though.

**4oursword**

You could ask him then, if not, we can build one. I have a stack or two.

**SagesStone**

Still needs to be mined though so it's only somewhat faster than grabbing lava, dumping it in a trench then throwing water on it.

**purplefood**

We only need obbie to insulate the blast of the tnt...
We can make the whole shebang out of obbie though...

**SagesStone**

I do not envy whoever mines that obby.