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

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**4oursword**

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.

**Corpsesarefun**

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

**Anvildude**

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.

**Corpsesarefun**

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

**4oursword**

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

**Corpsesarefun**

H*W*D?

Either way that's 375000...

**4oursword**

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.

**Corpsesarefun**

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

**4oursword**

Sorry, Corpse. Just been a long day

**RaptorsTalon**

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.

**4oursword**

Hear Hear!!

**Anvildude**

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.

**SagesStone**

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

**4oursword**

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

**RaptorsTalon**

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.

**4oursword**

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

**RaptorsTalon**

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?

**4oursword**

That would be greatly appreciated.

**TrollPie**

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

**4oursword**

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

**TrollPie**

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?

**SagesStone**

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.

**Anvildude**

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.

**johnscott10**

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

**4oursword**

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

**4oursword**

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

**purplefood**

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

**4oursword**

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!

**purplefood**

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...

**Grundz**

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.