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

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).

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

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).

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.

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?

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...

Unfortunate that you can't piston Redstone.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Should it be cobble, smoothstone or another material?

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?

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.

Smoothstone for skeleton, coloured wool for armour.

That sounds pretty reasonable to me.

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

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.

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.

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....

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

I do not envy whoever mines that obby.

We will have to set up a mine somewhere just for this project, so we can bring up enough material to build it.


Also, enchantments should help. If I remember correctly, their is one which speeds up mining times.



EDIT: Just got the lab co-ords from dark:
x: -2062
z: 1537

He said it is in the lower left of the map, just incase the co-ords are wrong. (From what I know of how the co-ords work, I think they are correct for lower left)

There is and it is funny to get the lvl 3-4 version of it on a gold shovel.

Aim at ground, it explodes and dirt everywhere.

That's true, isn't it. We could also simply use mold and pour methods as well, so as not to burn through your time and diamond.


I say whatever else, the leg armour and toes should be obby, if only for the Creeper-proofing.

I'll help with the amphitheatre if you need.

So how big are we shooting for?
1:1 scale, 55 blocks tall?
2:1 scale, 110 blocks?
Or even 3:1, at a total of 165 blocks tall?

Also, I have a portal set up in the nether near to arcadia portal, it's a hell of a trek to get through it but it serves it's purpose.

Well, it can't be more than 2:1 Scale, as we have only a 128 box between bedrock and skylimit.
I think 2:1 is sensible.

Is it 128? Why did I think it was 200...
Anyhoo, 2:1 it be then.
How large is it's foot going to be then?

Well from bedrock (if you somehow found some flat bedrock) to the skybox is 128 so a 1:3 scale is litterally impossible

1:2 would mean mining out huge pits just to fit it.

1:1 would look crap.

Yeah, 2:1 and will be housed within an ampitheatre which will stretch right down to bedrock.

This is going to be more work than the manor.....



But it will be great once it is finished.

How long did the manor take?

4oursword wrote: How long did the manor take?

It isn't finished, but I think it has been going about 3/4 months now.

Closer to five months now actually...

Wow... how many people worked on it?

It was fun to blow up on creative though.

I mined the clay, cleared half the land, built the outer and inner walls as well as half the roof.

The rest of the roof and land clearence was dread and avatar

Wow... that makes my plans seem harder. Nonetheless, we shall press onwards! You in when your computer's fixed, corpses?

someone needs to start filling chests with gunpowder

I have about 3 double chests in sand i could donate to the cause, pending I dont need them to blow a hole in the earth for the palace of terra (I could relocate this project to near the titan if there's a ton of room)

I can provide a ton (literally, a ton) of gold to the cause as well however it makes gakky tools =/

Just mining the area will take over a week, you will need more space than goodas hall and at equal depth...

Grundz save your gold for enchanting, it's the most enchantable material by far.

I have a 20X20X100 tall gold farm, I'll be fine dude

Zombie pigmen?

yes

I was getting sand earlier, is there a mob grinder anymore? That would help.

I think one was copied, I'm not sure...

So once we get there, we just start digging?

Exactly. At first concentrate on just clearing the topsoil. TNT is unpredictable on dirt, but clears a nice 3x3x3 area of solid stone (and that is by far the most efficient way to use it- not in big blocks).

Once you get the topsoil, start going down in the center area to the depth you want, then go up from there in a staircase- best bet is to first dig a shaft of the rough size the Titan will need to stand on, then stairway out all four ways from that.

After that, it's just a matter of clearing the remaining filler. I suggest the quarry method, whereby you dig 1 wide trenches in a grid all across the area you need to clear- down to the proper depth all the way- then take out the 'columns' that are left one at a time.

corpsesarefun wrote:I think one was copied, I'm not sure...

There are three that I know of. SS' exp farm (cave spiders), Abso's skelle farm and Grundz' ZPM farm (which I don't know where it is. ).

There used to be one in the newbie area, did that make it over?

4oursword wrote:There used to be one in the newbie area, did that make it over?

Minetruck's large cobble box grinder wasn't coppied over.

sad face

Grundz wrote:I have a 20X20X100 tall gold farm, I'll be fine dude

Is this public?

If so, where is it, I would appreciate the gold.

I also have to wonder if you can 'reverse' healing potions with Fermented Spider Eye to make damage health potions.

No, you can just make damage health potion the normal way though...

Clearing the area has begun! (woop woop)

I will watch with intreats, please post screenshots.

Just ragequit after a legion of fall and mob-related deaths... I think that I probably used every death message the game has...

I'd love to lend more assistance to the project, but school has decided to throw everything it's got at me.

I should be free by Wednesday. Until then feel free to take any tools (with the exception of diamond stuff) and stone blocks you need from my place near the 0,0 portal.

I'm the same, Gangsta, mock exams all this and next week


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New temporary objective:
Build a mob grinder!
We'll never dig out the whole field, so let's get some gunpowder!

I've begun work on the grinder.


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Next time anyone comes on, can we please try and enclose the chests. My stupid idea for putting them where they are failed.

Okay, where's this project? This is why we need a proper Address system. Or at least have everyone memorize important coordinates, or sticky the Map in a first post.

-379, 65, -550 is around that area. It's near to Absolutionis's Citadel, and the portal to get there is near to the arcadia portal.
Anyone with experience, please take a look at the grinder I built on the hill, it doesn't seem to work too well.

Please tell me you lot are going to be taking pictures during this project! I dont play Minecraft but its a cool game and I love looking at crazy projects people do in it! PICTURES PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Join us KC.

One of us.

This thread is making me think of trying minecraft... damn you!

Soladrin wrote:This thread is making me think of trying minecraft... damn you!

If you want to join make an account and get whitelisted...

Ok, so I'm home, what do I need to do now?

This was land clearance a while back.



Here is the supply shed.

More to follow soon.

Once I get whitelisted, I'd like to help out in anyway possible too. Best way to learn the game is by doing with experienced folk I reckon

Agreed!


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Topsoil all cleared, mostly due to the heroic efforts of Anvildude.

It's going to need to be a lot bigger hole than that guys

I figured it'd at least be the size of the manor, or maybe half of it.

A 100*100 hole down to around y=8 would probably work, even then the titan would reach the skybox.

Naw, wont be joining on this old PC (I just found out its 10! 10!!!!!! holy gak!!) But tax season for us usually pays in mid/late February, and Im buying a new computer then. So maybe around late winter/early spring Ill pop up and stick an Ork glyph on the ass of your titan

This hole is only the primary. Once we reach bottom here, then we start tunnelling up and out- that way we know the base is the proppa size. This is an amphitheatre, after all, right?

Might need some help, eventually, with someone who can make circles.

Indeed it is. I just marked out an area which seemed reasonably large, but having seen the manor, I'm not sure how big it needs to be. How big is a titan's foot?

Very.

A hemispherical hole of radius 80 will be big enough and should give you a flat circle of radius 16...

Nope that isn't big enough...

This is impossible guys, sorry but it's literally impossible to make a hemispherical hole large enough without completely destroying an area at least three times the size of goodas hall.

TNT? That would make it faster to dig the hole.

Lets do the maths.

Sea level is y=63 and if you dig down to y=8 you should get a nice flat plane on the bottom with no protruding pieces of bedrock, that's a Δy value of 55 to be dug out.

The skybox is at y=128 so from y=8 to y=128 gives a total titan heigh of 120, using this guide we can assume the build is either a warlord or a reaver. If it is a warlord then 1 inch=5 blocks and if we use a reaver then 1inch=7.5 blocks.

Looking at the diagram you can see that from foot to foot the reaver is just over half as wide as he is tall whereas the warlord is just under, from this I'll average the two and just say they tend to be half as wide and thus with a height of 120 blocks we need a base at least 60 wide. For the sake of aesthetics I'll add ten blocks either side of that for a circle of radius 40.

If you want a partial hemisphere that spans from y=128 to y=8 with a flat base of radius 40 the total radius of that sphere must be 41.

So (4/3)π(41^3) gives the total sphere before you time it by 55/128 to give the ratio we need... and bamn that's 124130 cubic blocks that need removing, the optimal use of tnt removes 27 blocks so that's 4598 blocks of tnt or 72 stacks.

So to conclude, it is more practical than my initial observations suggested but still pretty infeasible to even dig that hole let alone build the titan.

Quick question. Have you seen the Mesa? That's what you can do with a single person (plus a little help) with stone tools. If we had three or four diggers, even without iron tools, we could get the entire thing in a very reasonable amount of time.

No I haven't, what is it's volume?

Do we have a grinder? For creepers.

If we do, someone can stand there, afk, with an empty inventory to gather gunpowder while a couple of others dug up a desert.

That way, we get our tnt over time, and can begin to dig the hole. While this is being done, other people can be gathering materials for the titan itself.

That amount of tnt would require 10 inventories full of gunpowder and 8 inventories full of sand and is assuming that it is used in the most effective way (placed one at a time fully surrounded by blocks then detonated one at a time).

Alternatively it would use 940 stone picks (44 stacks of cobble, 3.7 stacks of logs).

Sod the maths!
If you think about something too much you kill it forever!
Rather than a hemispherical ampitheatre, I propose we use a cuboid on with stairs at one side only, preferably facing the Titan's head.
Quicker and easier by far.

A cuboid of what dimensions? 120*80*80?

Mesa is roughly a 60x60x4 room completely hollowed out (aside from the columns around the edge) with a diamond (diagonal to the room, but square. The corners of the pit are in the center of the walls) pit in the center going down with a slope of -1.

That's still about a tenth of the hemisphere needed for this.

as it stands, 125X128x24. The 24 is going to be expanded heavily within a few days.

H*W*D?

Either way that's 375000...

X, then Y, then Z.

I don't care anyway. This project is intended to bring the Dakkadakka Minecraft community together and make people cooperate towards a common goal, not to build a perfect replica. So if you're going to keep being unsupportive, you can stay out of this thread.

No need to be rude, I'm simply pointing out that at the current scale this is impractical.

Sorry, Corpse. Just been a long day

corpsesarefun wrote:No need to be rude, I'm simply pointing out that at the current scale this is impractical.

Impractical, possibly.
Impossible, definitly not.

What you have just said was the same sort of thing I though when you first told me about the manor. But that has worked.
This may take a while, possibly more than a year even, but I am confident that we can do it. Minecraft is a sandbox building game, planning and executing massive projects is what makes it so fun/addictive.

Hear Hear!!

Build big, or go home.

There's another server I used to frequent. It was supposedly SMP, but creepers were nerfed, everyone had protections on everything (you couldn't even open doors without the proper permission) and nobody would help with anybody else's projects. Oh sure, they'd stop and watch, or maybe donate some materials, but when I try to build a railway system for rapid transit from one town to the next (each about 2000 blocks apart, and the Nether wasn't being used for that stuff) for the newbs, everyone was just like, "Phh. Why should we bother? They can just donate and get Warp commands like everyone else!"

On Dakka, I start the Mesa and ask for help, and get people that do indeed help me. Heck, even the Mod-Above-All helped me out in the start, escorting me to the initial location of the Mesa.

The Manor is absolutely massive, and the Nether Railway system is absolutely brilliant. Why not have a huge Titan to compliment it? Dakka the place up a little. I may copy Abso with some gun turrets on top of the Mesa's eventual towers, even.


And here's an idea. Only have the front area carved out- but instead of a big amphitheatre for people to gawk at the titan, make it like a work bay. The wall will be right behind it, with struts and walkways for 'maintenance', and in front will be a big ramp, as though it'll just walk out of it's hole when needed. That will be a lot less excavation, on the whole.

That's actually what I thought was happening with it rather than just a big hole with a titan thrown in.

It sort of is, but it's such a good idea that it'll happen anyway

Anvildude wrote:Build big, or go home


And here's an idea. Only have the front area carved out- but instead of a big amphitheatre for people to gawk at the titan, make it like a work bay. The wall will be right behind it, with struts and walkways for 'maintenance', and in front will be a big ramp, as though it'll just walk out of it's hole when needed. That will be a lot less excavation, on the whole.

I agree with both of these points.
We should do it.

I agree, but I'm not entirely sure how it'll look. Anyone care to knock up a sketch or such like?

4oursword wrote:I agree, but I'm not entirely sure how it'll look. Anyone care to knock up a sketch or such like?

If someone has the time, how about making it in creative mode?

That would be greatly appreciated.

I've decided to help out with this project. Where is the dig site?

-379, 65, -550
is near to the field which is being excavated specifically.

I am really annoyed with this titan now. I fell to my death, collected my stuff, fell to my death again, then the server restarted and I lost all of my stuff, so I went back to my old cabin to get all of my iron, and then fell to my death again.

Speaking of which, has anyone got some spare iron?

Hold shift so as not to fall to your death? Lag can cancel it sometimes but should be set most of the time.

I have spare iron, but pretty much all I'm after these days is gold and glowstone.

Trust me, if you mine, you'll find tons of iron. I know that I lost about a stack due to either a server crash, or not coming back on when my own minecraft crashed (due to me just being frustrated). But I'm already back up to about half a stack.

One thing about strip-mining, quarrying or excavating, is that you get a ridiculous amount of iron.

I may come along and help, although I hardly play minecraft anymore. I do come onto the server now and then.

Well, all the help we can get is most welcome.

I'll add you to the front page, what rank would you like?

The Titanpit has probably killed more people than the creepers have so far...

About 30 of those deaths are me.
My aim is to bind my soul to the pit, that I might possess the titan when it is completed and rampage around the server. All that death will saturate it, and I will become a part of Minecraft once and for all!

You'll never stop me!

Oh i don't know...
You'd be surprised at how many people not only stock TnT but are also surprisingly handy with it...
That would stop any MC Ghosts...

small suggestion: until the pit is complete what ive allways done is made an overhead gantry that drops water near the edges, so if you fall you can make it to a water column to break your fall.

Good idea Grundz: I'd suggest that you take care of it, but... what with you being miles away...
That said, I did make it to yours for a visit very briefly, perhaps you could return the favour?

As for you, Purplefood... Obsidian Plating ftw!

Ever wondered where Herobrine kept coming from? That's someone who, like me, was bound to their game eternally from their deaths.

PM me coordinates of the project and i'll see what i can do this week, I did manage to clear a 900X900 X1-6 area for my temple of terra so far last week.

It's not an open pit, just so you know.

It's my patent-pending Cross and Column method, using crisscrossing trenches that go to the desired depth, creating a grid of 3x3 columns that are perfect for either one-man, minimal movement digging, or optimum TNT usage.

Has there been an established "class" or chassis of the titan yet?
A giant Warhound looks dynamically different than an Emperor.

I have several silly designs of weaponry, but then the Titan got a super-sized upgrade.
I'll provide the materials for the weapons myself; I have a decent store of redstone and such.

Either way, I'll head over to the quarry often when I need more cobble and coal which will be often.

Well, let's think about what weaponry could be created without mods.

Dispensers allow for rapid and barrage-style turrets, loaded with either Arrows, Snowballs, Eggs or Throw Potions (which can be Poison, of either long duration or high strength, Weakness, or Slow). Then you have TNT Cannon, of various descriptions- from near vertical launchers to near horizontal.

We could have captive Snow Golems as Machine Spirit turrets, and piston-powered Lava chutes.

Based on the size comparison at http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_e9CoJULTOIo/TLp1_KCWr1I/AAAAAAAADas/yjWwTfvDmoE/s400/Emperor+Titan+001.jpg

A warhound would be easiest, but waaaaay small. I think an Emperor class is doable. And if anyone can get a hold of a 3d model of it, we can run it through binvox and viewvox to draw up exact plans for it.

Aside from simple size, there are drastic stylistic differences between the two.

The Emperor has cylinders for feet and large upper cathedrals that have to be accomodated for. The Warlord is basically the same style as an Emperor but smaller.

The Warhound and even a Reaver have no upper castle.

The Warhound has a "chicken leg" design where it's standing on its toes and the ball of the foot.

Princeps 4oursword needs to suggest which STC to use.

The Emperor's feet also open up as they're basically fortresses on their own.

Well once you decide. I'll see if I can find a 3d model if you'd like, unless you guys are already using it.

I believe we said Mars-Pattern Imperator, I put an image a few pages back.

For weapons, I believe that one TNT cannon on one arm, an arrow gatling gun on the other, an airburst arrow launcher (see
) on the carapace and a couple of snowball and arrow guns there too.

I don't like the idea of lava chutes though. You my be able to convince me otherwise.

Airburst might be annoying, but we could use dispensers to fire the arrows at the TNT before setting it off.

Snowmen would be too far off to do anything but stand about unless they were put in the ankles and feet. Lava chute maybe as a defense against creepers and such if they swarm at the feet. If anything these weapons are likely going to be for show and not how effective they are.

n0t_u wrote:Airburst might be annoying, but we could use dispensers to fire the arrows at the TNT before setting it off.

I could do this by using a glass clock, basically pistons will move a ring of blocks around, each pulse moves the clock, at a certain point a solid block gets moved where power can go through it and fires the cannon.


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So this "plan"for mining the area seems to have no basis in reality
the whole area is a maze of pits and random blocks because any underground cave creates inpassable pits and islands of blocks you can't reach
nothing is cordined off, and at varying heights, if the whole grid was leveled one block at a time it would have worked great, but with some areas down to bedrock and some still at ground level there's millions of random deathpits.

i'm working on mining, but this is needlessly complicated

You're right, I'll be more organised next time...

It makes sense. Granted, the sheer number of caves (and people just mining around willy nilly) has made it a little less perfect than it could be, but the system works.

Trenches are cut first. Then all you have are 3x3 columns. Those can easily be mined by a single person without needing to run around everywhere, or you can use TNT in the center to blast away. It's not layer by layer, but rather column by column. None of the columns are isolated, all can be reached through short jumps, and I'm doing my best to make certain none of the floaters stay around.

Anvildude wrote:
Trenches are cut first

I understand the logic, but you can't quanitify like 90% of the digging in 4 words
what should happen is that you map out all the trenches, 1 block deep, and then everyone digs them evenly with a centeral point to climb down with a side tunnel and ladder or something. as people join up, they run around and cut the whole area down 1 block at a time, it seems like people just picked what spot they wanted and started digging pretty randomly.
this way you dont have half the area cut down 20 blocks, some of it randomly intersecting cut down all the way to bedrock, floating blocks all over the place, ect.

To be honest, the deep digging is mostly me. The original concept was Anvildude's but as often I've been the only digger, I begun to adapt his system.

And I did start it out with even trenches, but had to adapt as everyone (with their diamond picks, so going too fast for me to really stop) started digging trenches one by one.

I'm working on fixing them all down, though.

I started as well, basically just picking a high spot, and mining the entire area down 1 brick at a time, as it slowly lined up with other areas, i started mining those down as well so the area slowly expanded until I logged off

supply area is pretty much done, i'm going to make some beds for upstairs for everyone and it should be good to go

So you guys want a deep pit for the titan to stand in that goes all the way to bedrock, but have figured what the titan will look like? you could try building a scale model or have a reference picture in this post to get an idea of what it will look like.

Hey, I'm just here to dig the pit. I'll leave all the design work up to you'ze.

But yeah, might want to think about that.

I think we'll worry about that when the pit is cleared. I'm going to Germany soon, so this'll be my last post.

Bye!

I can't wait to see this.

Back from Germany!

Sorry I wasn't able to work on the pit. I've been having virus troubles.

That sucks, it all fixed now?

Pretty much. Need to reinstall Minecraft, of course. Luckily, I managed to backup all my save files.

Well, that's something.

Ive been working.

the worksite needs beds, and for the final shape to be finalized and gridded out, it is kind of ameoba like and has dirt over the top of much of it.

ive been working on the right hand side of the pit after finishing the previous grids all the way to the bottom.

Very nice. I think first off, we need to figure out which direction it will face. Should it be pointed at Absolutionits's citadel?

Due to it's footprint being a square and it having two feet, the logical solution would be to have it face the desert near to the pit because of the pit's shape.

No update pictures?! Cmon guys, for a project like this, you need to devote your LIVES to it!!!!

Do you really want a picture of what is essentially a large hole?

It's a rather impressive large hole, though.

We really need to build a safe route down. I fell and then died about 15 times trying to get my stuff back, I never managed to find it though.

There is a water column on the far side, and a second near the supply house, that can be used for descent and ascent.

@Anvildude: Well said. Pics incoming!

How are we mining the towers that are left?

Picks or TNT?

If you want to donate TNT, or gunpowder, feel free, but picks are all we have right now.

Anvildude wrote:It's a rather impressive large hole, though.

I agree, that is one impressively large hole

Thanks for humoring me

If this is going to be full-sized, I can run the interior designs. If not I can support exterior efforts. Is this going to be in a pit that resembles a titan-construction center? If so I can build surrounding machinery and assembly lines... .... ....Zombie-Servitors.......hmmmm

We're actually going for twice actual size, to get some detail.
If you'd like to aid with the insides, feel free, but the hole is my current concern.

I like the idea of a manufactorium being near it with an assembly line creating "ammunition" and parts for it. Could use the elevator I posted a while back in the main thread to make the conveyor belt pushing it along with pistons along the way shaping it. Perhaps even a few so the conveyor belts could carry the stuff in stages and look more like it is building.

The resources required though...

Can pistons pull spawners?

Apparently they can or could, information I'm looking at is from April but I have a dungeon nearby I can test it out on as I kind of want to move it anyway.

They could also work the same way as with the dragon egg and make it drop, but then you'd just get pigs. Either way I'll test it out now and get a first hand definitive answer.

Edit: they do nothing to the spawner like obby.

Silk touch picks can pick up spawners.

Aw, that sucks.
Are you sure, corpse? I thought they had that removed.

I also thought that only existed in the pre-releases. To ze google.

Ah, I haven't tested it since pre-release so that may have changed then...

Yeh it's gone unfortunately...

Now back to figuring out how to get some of the new records...

K the same as the others, but only want mellohi and ward.

Such a shame-there's a zombie spawner near me we could use as servitors.

Check furnaces for supplies needed to take out 1 tower of cobble!

This should help.

http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2009/03/showcase-40k-scale-warlord-titan.html
http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Titan
http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Warlord_Battle_Titan#.Tva7Pnroax4

Thank you.

Digging would help more.

Help me dig.


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I have had an epiphany for the floor of the pit- crafting tables. It looks quite ad-mechy.
We would have to use something else for the titan's footprint, though- it's hard to build on crafting tables.

That's Brilliant!

Other options would be pistons with the piston side up, or furnaces (use up some of that Cobble)- though Furnaces could be nice for some rows on the walls around it.

To build that way, you mostly just need to put the stuff 'attached' to it down before the item itself.

Furnace walls and Crafting Table floors, awesome.
How are we going to get in and out of the 60-metre deep hole?

And thanks to those who came up with the tower furnace idea.

Gigantic ramp. Ladders. Goeffrie's Holes, catwalks, etc.

I think I have a spare stack or so of gunpowder I can donate to this. Not much but should help a little.

That would be amazingly kind. I'm very sick of falling down that hole while trying to dig it out.

I would love to join you all! I'm rather good at fortification building and building LARGE buildings.

I could build a Manufactorm for the Titan itself considering the Imperium does not tend to leave such things laying in the open.

From what I understand, the titan is supposed to be attacking the citidal.

Then I could help work on the citadel, or build some supporting tanks and fortifications. I really want to help out

Nope, the citadel belongs to absolutionis and the titan faces away from it. You are most welcome to join in, but THE HOLE MUST BE CLEARED!

How do I join in with the server and all?

There is a thread in the main thread list at the top of the Video Games page titled: "Dakka Minecraft Server" by: legoburner


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4oursword wrote:Furnace walls and Crafting Table floors, awesome.
How are we going to get in and out of the 60-metre deep hole?

And thanks to those who came up with the tower furnace idea.

No problem 4oursword, it's orcs18 here and since I can't get on the server as much as I would like to, I figured this is the least I could do

Since when was it attacking the citadel? I always thought the Citadel was just there. Though the thing is, why not make that entire area a Manufactorum area?

one question. i got whitelisted for the dakka server so i could help with this project so er... whats the ip?

prototype_X wrote:one question. i got whitelisted for the dakka server so i could help with this project so er... whats the ip?

web2.dakkadakka.com

That should work.

cant resolve hostname?

prototype_X wrote:cant resolve hostname?

178.63.68.200

thank you

Welcome in!

I couldn't get whitelisted for the server.

Apparently, I'm to new to dakka .

There's issues with folks signing up to Dakka just for the Minecraft server- just stick around a while longer, make some posts- show everyone that you're at least interested in the Wargaming hobby, and not just for the server, and you'll get whitelisted soon.

alex are you the one with the huge church near the titan site?

It belongs to Absolutionis.

Anyone got any tnt? Orcs18, me, and many others (including Darkinnit) have been digging for ages...

I will deliver your explosive supplies shortly now that I have a safe nether tunnel


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TNT delivered to gravel chest on 2nd floor of supply shack

Thank you.

The TNT is most helpful so far.

Anvildude wrote:There's issues with folks signing up to Dakka just for the Minecraft server- just stick around a while longer, make some posts- show everyone that you're at least interested in the Wargaming hobby, and not just for the server, and you'll get whitelisted soon.

I am to Dakka because I am starting an IG army, with it's own fluff, and I wanted to join the Wargaming community, I just found about the server while browsing the Video Game forums when the Fluff and General forums were going pretty slow.

We believe you, just give it a week of consistent posts.

Big thanks to MetalMessiah/Grundz for supplying us with TNT.
The hole is... well, slightly bigger.
Here's a flying squid.

One of the more fun ways to see if there's lag.

Hell yeah. Shortly before, I watched a boat fly through someone's house.

I'm currently trying to access mushroom islands, which explains my lack of work on The Hole.

4oursword wrote:I'm currently trying to access mushroom islands, which explains my lack of work on The Hole.

There's a nether portal leading to a mushroom island. It's kind of a long walk.

If you want me too I can supply you guys with some diamond and all of my cobblestone hell I have 10 chests full of it soon.

Well, welcome in Asherian! I really should update the front page to show who's helping out...


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biccat wrote:

4oursword wrote:I'm currently trying to access mushroom islands, which explains my lack of work on The Hole.

There's a nether portal leading to a mushroom island. It's kind of a long walk.

I'm also building a land bridge to convey delicious mycelium to mainland Dakka.

Hey i would love to help. just need the co ords. also i lost all my stuff in sky slasher's cave :( so i would need to borrow stuf to use unless i find mine.

X= -379, Z= -550
Should be around there somewhere.

is there a calculator that can help me locate a large ocean sort of like the mushroom one?

I want to build a farm of proportions that defy logic, but having mobs spawn outside the farm isn't acceptable

//edit found one, under construction at approx 5657 / -5532

I've returned to digging! It'll take a while, but real progress is being made on the hole.

Me and Diamond man did some serious Explosive TNT excavating in the Titan hole and found 8 DIAMOND!

HUZZAH!

Dammit, you found more diamond than I ever have!

Grrr... Well done though.

Actually, I'm going to rescind my congratulations... You completely ruined the pit and Frostoman's hedge.

And hell, you probably destroyed some of the diamond through your reckless use of tnt.


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Lookoing at the titan area, man, you guys who blew it up SUCK. If I were project manager I'd ban you from working on the project from this point on...

Don't be too hard on the fellas, they were trying to help.

Anyways, we need to finalize the style/color of the titan, it may be premature, but it is so we can be gettign the materials while the clean-up is in progress.

My ounce or two,
DK

And this is why you need to be careful with TNT. And why I developed the Column excavation method.

There will be no ban for those two. I will be careful about letting them near explosives again, though.

Right, Colour? I was thinking either red (for mars) grey and orange (for dakka) or Black ('cos it's cool)

Mind if I join?

I am a fairly experienced MC'er and I will be glad if I can contribute anything.

Vendetta 476 wrote:Mind if I join?

I am a fairly experienced MC'er and I will be glad if I can contribute anything.

See the sticky at the top of the video games forum...

Soooo, did the TNT mishap push back progress?

Yes, but not by much. The floor (y=5, top bedrock level) is finished back up for example.

I'm just waiting until I can get on the whitelist so I can join.

Err.. Guys, what are the co-ords for the pit?

Go to Absolutionist's Portal through the Nether (It's near the Spawn and 0,0 portals), go up and out of his (or her, can never tell online) Citadel, and cross the bridge. It's in the big field on the short side of the citadel, near the ocean.

There's also a forest between the two now rather than a huge empty field like it was.

Yeah I saw, thanks to Melissia for guiding me.


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So... Whats next?

Currently I'm neatening the edges, then we'll get started on it's feet.

How can we stop slimes spawning?

Not sure they just need the room to spawn. Also creeper kind of got me (it blew up missed me entirely) on the way out of the grinder. The only damage was to that elevator thing. I picked up what I could and put it into a chest there. The grinder itself is fine as it jumped off of the top of the entrance and followed me for a bit.

No problem, I'll tell frostoman as the Elevator was his gig.

Hurray time for feet yes?!

The side of the pit furthest from the forest needs a bit of work, but if you want to lay out the footprint, feel free.

YOU ME AND YOUR FRIENDS WARHAMMER ADVENTURE MAP. Pm me if you are interested... your titan can be in it

CrazedVaultBoy wrote:YOU ME AND YOUR FRIENDS WARHAMMER ADVENTURE MAP. Pm me if you are interested... your titan can be in it

What?

Coolyo294 wrote:

CrazedVaultBoy wrote:YOU ME AND YOUR FRIENDS WARHAMMER ADVENTURE MAP. Pm me if you are interested... your titan can be in it

What?

Yeah, I was kinda WTF'ing at this at well.

I think he wants to copy it for a Adventure Map he's making.

yeh we can all make it maybe? you guys help me build it and what not. i.e we make the hive cities and stuff, the sweres starships. WTV is needed... i was tired and didnt make it clear sorry

Hell yea! Im in!

So how is the project going?

Anyone interested in a minecraft map? cmon? pm me or quote me if you are!!!!! ill give you the details if your truly interested

Im interested

So anyways......hows the titan coming along!?

Still only finishing the pit :(

If darkinit can return the TNT that got stole from me I have 10 blocks of it and enough gunpoweder to make 5 more. I could use it to help with the pit.

We've got the pit cleared. Now we're just finishing the walls up, so it looks nice. I still think there should be either a giant ramp, or a huge elevator-style platform next to it.

And we need to determine what the titan will actually look like- I'd suggest using dirt to 'sketch' the shape and size of it before doing anything else.

Anvildude wrote:And we need to determine what the titan will actually look like- I'd suggest using dirt to 'sketch' the shape and size of it before doing anything else.

Agreed, once we have the shape done, we can work on the accutal materials we need for the proper, finished version.


I assume we are going for a detailed interior as well? At least for the command area.

For command, yes. I think we're going to have a whole Loading/Maintenance rig set up around it, so a catwalk to the cockpit area would be fine.

As far as that walkway to the cockpit goes, it'd be quite a climb- the head will likely be at Y=100

How much obsidian will be needed?

I think we have enough, I got 50 blocks from grundz

50 blocks, or 50 stacks? Because we'll probably be using Obby for a lot on it. But again, use Wool and Dirt to build the basic titan first, before replacing it with the proper materials.

only 50 blocks

Anvildude wrote:50 blocks, or 50 stacks? Because we'll probably be using Obby for a lot on it. But again, use Wool and Dirt to build the basic titan first, before replacing it with the proper materials.

I thought of doing this with my big projects too, its too much of a pain in the ass, you are better off doing it properly once than improperly once and many of those materials will fall and not be recovered as you break and replace them.

I have almost a double chest of enderman balls for you guys too once the build starts, they DRAMATICALLY decrease the time it takes to build.

Just realised that the pit isn't fully widened.
/rage

I WANT IN... please?

adrenaguy wrote:I WANT IN... please?

You'll need to ask in the sticky thread (At the top of the Video Game section) but you haven't been on the forum long enough...

I feel sullied and repressed.
That's not true, that outcome is entirely fair...

adrenaguy wrote:I feel sullied and repressed.
That's not true, that outcome is entirely fair...

It's to stop griefy flamey people who break our precious pixelated world... also to stop dragons but that's an entirely different reason...

I assume it's a matter of opinion when I can come on, rather than a specific minimum of something I need to reach... Is that a fair guess?

adrenaguy wrote:I assume it's a matter of opinion when I can come on, rather than a specific minimum of something I need to reach... Is that a fair guess?

Give it a month or so...
Ask Darkinnit, he's the Wizard not me... i'm a rabbit.

Cool, thanks. For now I'll mess with skyblock n_n

You're welcome...
Welcome to Dakka by the way...

Should've probably looked for a "say hello" thread, rather than jump right in.
But I -really- like minecraft...
Hi, thanks for the welcome :3

adrenaguy wrote:Should've probably looked for a "say hello" thread, rather than jump right in.
But I -really- like minecraft...
Hi, thanks for the welcome :3

There's an intro section near the top of the forum list...

Awesome, thanks :3

purplefood wrote:

adrenaguy wrote:I assume it's a matter of opinion when I can come on, rather than a specific minimum of something I need to reach... Is that a fair guess?

Give it a month or so...
Ask Darkinnit, he's the Wizard not me... i'm a rabbit.

You are a wizard! Grand Cone Rabbit doesn't have the same ring to it...

4oursword wrote:

purplefood wrote:

adrenaguy wrote:I assume it's a matter of opinion when I can come on, rather than a specific minimum of something I need to reach... Is that a fair guess?

Give it a month or so...
Ask Darkinnit, he's the Wizard not me... i'm a rabbit.

You are a wizard! Grand Cone Rabbit doesn't have the same ring to it...

Yeah but of Azeroth which doesn't exist...
It's all waffle for my CV really...

4oursword,
I'm terribly sorry but while looking at the signs on my shack I was attacked by a creeper. I repaired the wall but I can't remember what the signs said. I left replacement signs attached to the wall with an apology on them.

No biggie. The signs were useless really.

Pics guys?

I'm afraid, gents, that due to the new update, the pit is rendered utterly unnecessary. I have begun to cover it over.

Scout for a new location if you like.

may i please join?

You need to ask in the stickied thread at the top of the forum.

Wait, an update ruined progress?! How did this happen? What did they DO!?!?!?!?!?!?!? Ive been following this thread for too long now!

The world hight is going to be doubled, with no forseeable effect on what's already in the world.

Don't cover it over yet, wait for the update to be certain.

n0t_u wrote:Don't cover it over yet, wait for the update to be certain.

Agreed. This is only a snapshot, it isn't certain that it will make it in.

I've already started, I'm afraid... More than half done.

Well I guess you could always blow it back open if it doesn't.

I see how you guys work;

"HOW DO WE FIX THIS?"
"BLOW IT UP!"

It's not always explosions, but when it's an option it's nice, quick and fun.

Who said I was complaining 0_o

Who said I thought you were.

...
Touché.

I want to help.. i made a titan head the other night.. but cbf for other things.

Gentlemen, I am ressurecting this thread
as those of you that have visited his awe-inspiring feet have seen, the project is underway at a new location

I need YOUR help, and it isnt even donations or supplies this time.

The way this titan is being constructed is first in creative mode using the full suite of mcedit and various other editors, then using that framework to build layered plans via minecraftstructureplanner.

The current status of the planning project is here:

As you can see, from the waist up, it is still in progress but the frame is there.

Anyone that wants to contribute, now is your chance.
I'm going to open this up for a few weeks, this is how this will work.

1. you PM me and let me know you want to do this, include your email address and when you want your 2-3 days, and what you are planning on doing.
2. I will email you a section of the titan, in creative mode
3. you add on whatever you want, insides to the legs, a command deck in the head, external "zazz" whatever.
4. after your 2-3 days are up, you email me back the world with some notes as to the changes you've made, I'll check it out, and then it goes to the next person on the list.

Afterwards I will combine the world(s) and resume construction of the titan.

There are no rules to this, besides:
1. don't make your world any bigger, i only have so much room to work with here kids
2. don't use diamond blocks or anything else nutso hard to find, try and stay with wool, stone, brick, ect.
3. you don't need to be a champion builder here, if you look at his pelvis area you'll see 2 wool bars that go to a "rim" underneath his waist area, thats some good detail and didn't take a world of time to do,

I'd actually be interested in helping out with that. It's right arm looks like something I could sink my teeth into, or even just the basic torso of it.

Am I to assume that it's Ultramarines coloring?

Yeah anvil you are supposed to PM me

Goldarn it Grundz :( I want back into the server, I'll edit the title of the first post for you. I'm out of reach of MC at present, my computer's dead\ :(

Well when its back in action let me know you can go over what I have

thighs about 75% done and first blocks of the body layed!

checking mcedit, so far
11000 blue
2600 light grey
2600 white
6000 stone

have been layed down O_o

That's a lot of materials...