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

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**Corpsesarefun**

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

**4oursword**

Clearing the area has begun! (woop woop)

**haloreach4ever**

I will watch with intreats, please post screenshots.

**4oursword**

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

**GangstaMuffin24**

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.

**4oursword**

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!

**4oursword**

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.

**Anvildude**

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.

**4oursword**

-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.

**KingCracker**

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!

**SagesStone**

Join us KC.

One of us.

**Soladrin**

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

**purplefood**

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

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

**Soladrin**

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

**4oursword**

This was land clearance a while back.

Here is the supply shed.

More to follow soon.

**Soladrin**

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

**4oursword**

Agreed!

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

**Corpsesarefun**

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

**SagesStone**

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

**Corpsesarefun**

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

**KingCracker**

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

**Anvildude**

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.

**4oursword**

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?

**Corpsesarefun**

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.

**RaptorsTalon**

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

**Corpsesarefun**

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.

**Anvildude**

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.

**Corpsesarefun**

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

**RaptorsTalon**

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.

**Corpsesarefun**

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).