Long history of TNT compression

This is a story about how me, eta and methodzz managed to build some of the most advanced TNT compactors over the course of the pearl cannon research.
World download:
www.dropbox.com/s/j1v7nm4tcp9...
Channels
Methodzz: / @methodzzs
Eta740: / eta7400
Carpet mod:
github.com/gnembon/carpetmod1...

[@Alabar3000]

"This thing could crash your server" "Lets activate it and see what happens" XD

[@flailios]

I have a moral objection to using dispensed TNT. If I had a server, it would be "dupe only". 😎

[@Xcom6000]

Smart man

[@rohiem7554]

@@Xcom6000 tnt SPAWNing

[@adamrezabek9469]

@@rohiem7554 tnt generator

[@dontletmememandie6506]

Everything MUST be renewable if it is a redstone contraption. Totally agree

[@adamrezabek9469]

@@dontletmememandie6506 wAnDeRiNg TraDEr

[@benhughes4493]

If I could casually play 2b2t I would build one of these compressors far away and watch spawn get completely ahnialated.

[@benhughes4493]

@@retrodev2417 This was 4 months ago dude... 😳😳😳 bruh...

[@corte_s]

@@benhughes4493 necroposting

[@PanNic97]

So many smart designs finally shown :)

[@BisUmTo]

True! I love this story, and I hope that Mojang doesn't fix TNT duping.

[@emiliathorsen9759]

@@BisUmTo these are fixed... Sic craft is on 1.12

[@adamrezabek9469]

@@emiliathorsen9759 or are they?

[@Nooticus]

Serious props to you for making such a lengthy and in depth video about the development of this concept! I believe there should be more comprehensive videos like this explaining the development process!

[@corte_s]

^

[@multiDomains]

You must place the detector rail(1.12)/coral fan(1.13+) in front of all the TNT in the “TNT just update each other” designs. The far block updates first, so if the detector rail/coral fan are the closest, the TNT would have been already pushed before the detector rail/coral fan gets pushed.

[@Eta7400]

Btw if you think there's some loose commands running, just enable commandBlockOutput gamerule, combine that with /unload for loaded chunks and track down potential command blocks.

[@Xcom6000]

True. Could update to latest and use chunk debug as well.

[@Earthcomputer]

Chunk debug ftw!

[@randomsnow6510]

@@Xcom6000 why don't you use water to push TNT?

[@Xcom6000]

@@randomsnow6510 Its generally way to slow to kompress using water. Way to slow for the 4 sec tnt fuse timer.

[@randomsnow6510]

@@Xcom6000 thx just wandering because that's what airship pirates used for their cannons.

[@Redz]

Oh my, another great full length XCOM video goodness I'll have to watch

[@TimmyBlumberg]

Can you please just make more videos like this where you show a concept from infancy to it’s ultimate form? This is the shit I love.

[@BisUmTo]

With the RedCraft Server I'm trying to figurate a way to make a small 11 duping array in 1.13.2, but we found only a 10 one, for this reason the best compacter we reached is 60+60 . If you have an idea how to make a bigger one, tell us, please.

[@Xcom6000]

13 plus makes me so sad :(

[@Eta7400]

If you include locational designs, then 11 tnt per row should definitely be possible. For non-locational, I can think of 1 theoretical design (just untested idea) that's absolutely not worth it. 10 tnt would be the realistic best for 1.13+

[@user-yb5cn3np5q]

Hmm, the idea of having primed tnt in unloaded chunk makes me want to try it. The tnt duper can be way smaller this way. Not to say that it's possible to redirect a pearl several times in the row in this way and make a teleportation network.

[@benhughes4493]

I like it, But, It is also risky to have around careless people Who may come in contact with the chunk. I know your comment was a year ago by the way.

[@TFirsty]

This is amazing

[@MMXWW]

This is akshully a pretty good video :)

[@zachreid8680]

Ok, 2 questions: First: What mods/plug-ins/addons did you use to see where exactly the TNT explodes and then disabling the damage it would do? Second: Do you know if they work with TNT minecarts? I am currently testing and building TNT Minecart cannons (despite how random their power is) and I would like to know exactly where the minecarts explode, as my 2 designs have the minecarts moving to maximize their power. Knowing where the carts explode would really help as then constructing the barrel/fine tuning alignments and finding out the best design will go much more swimmingly.

[@Xcom6000]

Carpet, but currently it doesn't log minecarts. Just regular tnt.

[@zachreid8680]

@@Xcom6000 Darn. Well, thanks anyways!

[@user-mz7cn9hq8v]

Watched it all on one breath in

[@soopyc]

Woah

[@thisflyingpotato4227]

Finally some explanation of this "tnt railgun" you guys made, world download make the wait worth it, thanks ! Edit : Watched through the end, mind blown as usual but, you mentionned a way to prime the tnt in a LPC so they don't tick, and I don't get it. If it's a LPC you could in theory build a really small setup far away by having only one module that "build-up" the charge then turn the chunk into an EPC with the time between activation of the module and loading the chunk to get the EPC determining the "blast power" of the canon, saving a lot of building effort, then why using the big setup ? All this building to save few seconds ? I must be wrong somewhere, and I would love some more in depth explanation of the "duping in LPC" method (For people who might have trouble downloading : if the download don't start, just change the "dl=0" to "dl=1" at the end of the url then press enter)

[@Eta7400]

Too much lag from loading the chunk with tons of tnt entity iirc

[@Xcom6000]

There are way to many risks associated with lazy TNT setups. Main one is the charge up time that takes ages. I'll try do the End cannon asap and show it. The idea of it is simplistic and useful. But on a server where players can activate the wrong chunk the wrong moment can be a major catastrophe. What I didn't show is the cascade reactions when the cannon blows up. It really tares itself apart and in some instances can fling TNT 100s even 1000s of blocks away to blow up random structures nearby.

[@haph2087]

@@Xcom6000 You could build a giant wall 15 chunks around the duper maybe? And a small obsidian box around the duper, with a 3x3 hole for the TNT to go out of, in case it blows up?

[@user-yb5cn3np5q]

@@Xcom6000 There are ways to counter this. It's possible to have a regular setup that teleports to a rarely used location with lazy chunks inside.

[@thisflyingpotato4227]

​ Eta740 Better spread the lag than getting lag spikes, make sense now, thanks ! ​ Xcom6000 I don't worry that much of other player loading the chunk since I was planning to get it on a freshly created single player world, I still don't get how tnt get their acceleration to get to the explosion spot (choosing wich ones are exploding to accelerate and wich ones are moved by the explosions) but I should figure it out once I get into it after this week-end, if not, the End cannon video you plan will definitly help me a lot, thank you and take your time for it. I feel honored to have both of you awnsering to this comment, you guys (along with the scicraft members) were the spark that light up my passion for technical playing, keep up with the great work, keep up with inspiring and mind blowing stuff, please get us a mass bedrock breaker for above 1.12.2 and god bless you !

[@dudestop1198]

TNT MINECARTS

[@anonymgamer3416]

Hey, what mod/plugin tells you the exact coordinates of the exploded tnt and the other stuff that gave you the information about the piston? :)

[@anonymgamer3416]

Oh sry I was too hasty. Is there something similar to carpet for older Minecraft versions and also as plugin for servers?

[@hobrin4242]

@@anonymgamer3416 carpet is mainly servers

[@RedCMD]

Your not using me texture pack? :( Hello allo

[@Xcom6000]

send

[@RedCMD]

@@Xcom6000 www.planetminecraft.com/texture_pack/official-datawave-pack-works-with-any-resolution/ If you dont like any part of it, simply unzip and delete some of the .json files

[@grayScaLe918]

i want to make a giant tnt compactor, somewhat similar to the one at the end of the video, for no reason in particular, but i cant find a tutorial on how to make any sort of compactor, does anyone know if there is a video out there somewhere which explains how these things work/how to make one

[@benhughes4493]

Expirement.

[@chezloc]

Gpw already did. There is soooo powerful dupers now. Search "gpw tnt dupers" and xcom made even bigger ones than gpw

[@chezloc]

I forgot that xcom did a vid on 420 ftl what uses the gpw dupers and void cannon uses the bigger dupers by Xcom.

[@lertun3285]

Hello, tell me where to download the plugin to show the location of the explosion tnt?

[@Xcom6000]

Added the carpet mod in the description. Gnembon have a installation video if your unsure how to use it.

[@lertun3285]

@@Xcom6000 Thanks for help!

[@christiaanhoogstraten1157]

What exactly are the pros and cons of a pearl cannon in comparison with a ender pearl chamber. Both get you from a to b. One advantage of the cannon I think is that it is better suited for multiplayer. Are their any other advantages or disadvantages?

[@PanNic97]

Pearls get deleted when you leave the server, imagine you are 8000 blocks in the nether away from spawn (for example mesa quarry on scicraft) and your client disconnects. The stasis chamber in spawn will loose the pearl and you sit there with only your elytra to fly that distance...stasis chambers sound super smart in theory (they were the reason i started developing enderperlcannon tech myself) but are just not reliable enough to be worth it.

[@pdbsstudios7137]

Definitely you are the "i-need-to-poo" kind of genius

[@TiO2_]

wat

[@slonkazoid]

Now do halibut cannon

[@cJuan618]

Xcom estas bien. Nesesita s aiuda.

[@eswee6780]

have watched 11 mins, but why exactly will this world be deleted?

[@PanNic97]

We have an unexplainable issue with connecting to this world, the server doesnt react the first time you connect and it gets annoying to not have a quick creative acess from time to time.

[@eswee6780]

@@PanNic97 is it to the world or to the server? If it is to the world then I might have a solution: there is a mod (I don't remember what it is called but if you want me to look it up for you then I will do so) that downloads all the chuncks you load, client side only. if you use that then it might work again

[@PanNic97]

@@eswee6780 we dont delete the world, just make a new one on the side, its the world thats the problem, we have 5 other testing/auxiliary/snapshot servers running on the same machine :) The mod is the worlddownload mod, im pretty sure someone fucked up a command or so and now that crashes the server everytime someone logs in as the first person (if someone is on there already its no problem)

[@eswee6780]

@@PanNic97 okay, thanks for responding! Wish you guys luck with building cool contraptions!

[@yj9-yukonjonno212]

@@PanNic97 Not an ideal solution but would having a Carpet summoned player sitting on the server help? That way it's never empty

[@wtechboy18]

so sad this doesn't work in 1.15 :/ I'm over here trying to figure out how to make a TNT compressor and now you need *dead coral fans* of all things.

[@JoeMama-hj1zk]

Search up eta70 tnt duper’s. One of the videos he makes contains a coral fan included 10 tnt duper like the ones xcomm showed in the 66 duper and it works in 1.15 and any version beyond 1.15 that is currently released

[@Player-fe9zi]

hello guys :)

[@p5kplamps591]

5:50 23:36

[@Watsu_]

Go buy new mouse