Minecrafts Inter-Continental Ballistic Anvil Cannon

Previously I introduced the Smart Artillery which combined cheap and simply redstone components with advanced theory and fire control to make a cannon that is simple to build and easy to aim. In this video we expand on the cannon design, producing a new propulsion method that works with Anvils to deliver strikes on positions at incredible ranges. We also get to look at a new TnT cannon which uses devastating cluster charges to obliterate positions.
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[@darxit]

cubic i’m starting to worry that you are slowly making a full scale army

[@justsomeguy5628]

As you should be

[@eywanazerty]

Here we have a new ballistic ingenir

[@Dragon_Chicken]

Next thing you know he will make a video called "How I made A Nuke IRL!!!"

[@joaopedrosambatti2474]

he is Saxton Hale after all

[@Splarkszter]

Teach him KSP1

[@sirog7116]

Seems like the perfect weapon for doc or other members of Hermitcraft rn.

[@Yorick257]

That's the plan?

[@stylishlyheartless979]

I was about to say the same thing

[@trongatnguyen8995]

he did talk about the tech archive working on it, maybe?

[@spectre4974]

i was gonna comment this lol

[@dark-5825]

Grian would have a blast with this

[@sarchlalaith8836]

Combine this with your rail gun The idea of amiable instant mining is simply brilliant

[@oskarhalvin7390]

Same idea

[@tecno_andre2752]

same idea

[@pew6534]

Already exists, not at the same amount of coverage though

[@sarchlalaith8836]

@@pew6534 where

[@pew6534]

@@sarchlalaith8836 sadly there's no good videos on it since the community behind it is kinda underground & gatekeepy, [will insert more if tine]

[@housebuildy5708]

Cannon Idea: I would love to see a cannon that can quickly send a bunch of; sand, concrete powder, or gravel to a location ... while this may not do any damage, the point of it is to annoy another player by constantly adding these blocks on their structure from far away

[@oliverdouglas9912]

Can you use a tnt minecart to get around the fuse time limitations of regular tnt

[@jonathanvanderhorst8788]

@@oliverdouglas9912 Tnt minecsrt's blow up when there is an explosion, they are not shot away unfortunately.

[@nanopi]

This could work even if the chunks are claimed

[@-sturmfalke-]

Imagine a vanilla schematicannon like in the create mod, just with redstone! edit: here's a random showcase so you know what I mean. kzbin.info/www/bejne/eWXFgZyFhriboLc

[@NathanHaaren]

many of the sand/gravel will just pop off because of landing in the same spot at the same time, so its probably better to fire them individually

[@skyjacker1249]

would love to see aa full on war between these redstone engineer servers shit would go so hard

[@xbruhmoment9484]

Sipover got that content for u man

[@plopper9683]

There is basically a whole gamemode like that called WarGears. You can look it up but its mostly in german.

[@ATOM-vv3xu]

@@plopper9683 we also accept English ppl. and the plug-ins got translated recently so this should be no problem

[@theexam7394]

​@@plopper9683 German engineering at it again...

[@Xonovelixi]

It would probably be significantly more complicated, but I think it would be interesting to have a cannon that fires both tnt and an anvil really high and then the tnt shoots the anvil straight down towards the target With the amount of configurability it would have it would not only deal more damage but would have less blind spots, such as shooting over a target and then blasting the anvil back around to get people hiding behind a wall with a roof

[@smoothdog8861]

This is essentially the mechanism behind airburst ammunition. Fascinating to see Minecraft players and modern militaries arrive at similar conclusions.

[@awrsish]

@@smoothdog8861 i know this is fucking hilarious minecraft bunker buster

[@thespacedingoking]

@@smoothdog8861 wait actual? lmao

[@cod6guy12]

people built cannons that did that with regular tnt on factions servers to top-down raid peoples bases, many years ago

[@paulkanja]

@@cod6guy12 and people on war gear server have perfected air strikes to the point where you can have multiple stages that adjust the tnt midair and have boring machines that straight up dig holes into stuff from the top

[@Rubricube]

love it! I would also like to see a version that can shoot tnt really high, then have a tnt above it fire a payload streight down onto the target

[@fitocheeto4196]

That is indeed an interesting idea

[@seswaroto]

Maybe this wouldn't be fully aimable, but if one staggered the payload detonation by a few tenths of a second, you could theoretically shoot tnt in a spiral pattern, or around an obstacle.

[@Rayvenns]

Didnt sipovers apocalypse video showcase this

[@Rubricube]

@@Rayvenns yes

[@thomasmueller618]

anvils might work better. like, if you could tnt an anvil straight down that would probably make it deal more damage, maybe even have more accuracy.

[@sir.spliffalot_mobile4968]

reminds me of the tnt cannons i used to try and build back in the day, they were called "stichkanone", which is means smth along the lines of thrust cannon. there were a few youtuber who built them in like 2014, idk if they stopped or not but back then they had somewhere around 20 to 50 tnt as propellant and 20 to 40 as projectiles, the projectiles were triggered at a very specific timing and spacing, so that the cannon's projectiles would cause a 60 block deep hole at a target that was like 150 blocks away from the cannon. some even got actually crazy and had half of the load arrive at the back wall of the hole and then one side exloded first making another hole orthongonal to the first. those cannons only worked on servers tho, i guess the server side client was just more consistent

[@SteveIsHavingMC]

hes made a vid about that already

[@ATOM-vv3xu]

those cannons have gone rly far, cannons nowadays shoot either 8 or around 56 or 80 blocks (from the side) deep using around 6/20/30 projectiles and they also work on clients

[@ATOM-vv3xu]

@@SteveIsHavingMC he rly just scratched the surface

[@flyingsquirrle3693]

Absolutely keep makeing cannon type videos. No one else talks about how to actually make cool cannons like this.

[@ATOM-vv3xu]

Haylim and the Factions ppl talk about that, also if you are german, there are a whole lot more infos available for you

[@flyingsquirrle3693]

@ATOM 2000 no, i am a dumb usa citizen. Lol, so there are a few but they are rare and hard to find. Thanks for the tips ill look for em

[@sirpretzel822]

Launch 2 Tnt's with the same time and with the same trajectory but vertically offset from each other by a few blocks. Offset the fuses so that the higher one will detonate first and launch the lower one strait downwards. Now you can spike Tnt downwards on to your enemies like a Volleyball of death. Bonus points if you can also spike an anvil.

[@cubicmetre]

The cluster cannon already does this to some extent, the heart of a tnt explosion occurs slightly above the feet of the TnT meaning TnT in the same position will propel each other downwards. The problem is that you need an insane amount of TnT to do a proper spike cannon because you need the TnT to all detonate in the same tick, the first TnT will propel the second TnT downwards which then propels the third TnT upwards and what you get is an effect where the TnT will oscillate back and forth and effectively go nowhere.

[@ATOM-vv3xu]

@@cubicmetre no, you don't, if you propell the projectiles and the what we call step-propellants or just steps at a slightly different angle (so that they are approx. one block away from the projectiles, if you have slow speed and multiple steps or as close as possible, if you have high speed or just one Propellant) and maybe also a different pressure, you can achieve that without using many tnt when tnt travels at 1 block/s 2 steps are enough to give it perfect high speed (more than 1bps) downwards motion and more equals more in this case, modern WarGear technology achieves efficiencies around 3/4 bps downwards motion per step when shooting with multiple steps at low initial speed

[@HaxTheCharizard]

Someone needs to let the Hermitcraft crew know of this video! They have an anvil war going on currently

[@octopusoup]

I've always been interested in the potential of anvils as a weapon. Other than for funny traps the damage function with anvils isn't utilized much. Seeing someone actually use it in artillery is something I've always wanted to see but never found anything that was particularly convincing until now. Big thanks for making this video. If you wanted to hit the blindspots on the anvil cannon would you need to make multiple other cannons at different positions to cover for those locations?

[@paulkanja]

I actually think two cannons close together could potentially cover most blind spots withing a given range

[@AnInnocuousBlueCube]

Vanilla Minecraft: This little guy is called a Sniffer! Technical Minecraft: We're another step closer to our period-accurate World War One SMP server!

[@lukemeyer7398]

Did you do this for Doc? This seems exeptionally useful for him.

[@ItsaJuraff]

Come for the carnage, stay for the matlab plots. Great work on this cannon!

[@acompletelyawesomenameyay2587]

Id like to see you combine this with the "tnt railgun using quantum mechanics" and enderman arrow warp tech and see if you could use it to make an ender pearl cannon that could tp a player anywhere in the world, even inside a building

[@Shmoen]

Hey Cubic, can you make a cannon that launches a second cannon? I'm imagining two separately timed shots being sent together so that the one to explode first redirects the second shot around a corner. Now THAT would be super cool.

[@paulkanja]

a two stage cannon is feasible but has short range cause tnt fuse time is short

[@asdfasdf-dd9lk]

the buildability wouldn't be the issue there so much i think; moreso actually the possible phase space of resultant secondary trajectories would be tiny. To put it in plain english: the resolution of where you can plop TNT is greater than 1 block. This means that you'd have this resolution to work with when choosing the two trajectories to fire another TNT in a direction. That's an issue because these target points aren't evenly distributed either, which makes it even trickier. I'd think it's probably doable though, it just wont end up working great

[@vbgvbg1133]

already exists

[@ATOM-vv3xu]

@@asdfasdf-dd9lk nah, there is no problem, it's rly just a basic technology for cannon makers, you should give it a try, you'll probably have it figured out till the end of the day

[@pedrokotii2417]

Honestly, it's quite ingenious. One thing is bugging me however - is there any way to automate the tnt population process? Without vision mods, it's difficult to observe the results at longer ranges, so the more visually pleasing version would contain the cannon, feeding lines, storage cubes for tnt and sand (with 2x3 1-select piston wall to pull and drop sand from tnt load, sand acting as filler block) and "redstone wifi", accepting binary encoded firing instructions from a different area. I do not know if it's even possible - it should be, but I was never that good at making compact designs and the parts of the proposed design nearest to the firing mechanism itself would need to be compact indeed, but it would be really cool if the cannon could behave like ICBM launch site rather than an "ordinary" haubitzen. It would also incorporate several of your previous videos in a neat whole, so there's that :p

[@GabrielGerson]

"hey guys welcome to my letsplay! today we are creating a inter-continental ballistic anvil cannon!"

[@TammonOG]

I know it's possible with arrows but is it possible to launch an anvil through blocks without destroying them by giving them a high velocity?

[@ovencake523]

if you're talking about docs cannon on hermitcraft, that's done with shooting the arrows at endermen, but I don't think endermen are immune to anvils like they are with arrows

[@cubicmetre]

Entities can in fact phase through blocks however for this to happen the entity needs to have enough speed to traverse an entire unloaded region in a single tick, because while the entity is being processed it checks for collisions however if the entity flies through unloaded chunks it cannot see the blocks in those chunks, but if the entity stops within the unloaded region it will also not be processed and will get stuck.

[@Defl8tedGosius]

@@cubicmetre so like with some type of chunk skipping machine (i think its been made before) you could hit someone with an anvil throught walls xd?

[@TammonOG]

@@ovencake523 ya I'm aware how docs is done, just wondered since arrows and falling anvils are different classes of entities if it still be possible

[@TammonOG]

@@cubicmetre ok so you're saying there's a chance

[@sworking101]

I'd love to see a version where you can control the trajectory of the payload with high precision l'action airborne tnt launched by the canon itself to accelerate and/or go around obstacle. I would love to see a redstone computer doing the calculation of the first canon even if slow.

[@fitocheeto4196]

This is probably my all time favorite thing in Minecraft! Great job on the designs and may the algorithm bless this video

[@ongenix227]

The villagers stand no chance.

[@NatoBoram]

A high-precision arrow launcher could be interesting

[@bottomtext593]

Intercontinental Ballistic Anvil Cannon. IBAC Has a nice ring to it.

[@benztheprotogen3502]

This is crazy, the combination of the mathematical knowledge and in-depth technical knowledge and computing knowledge required for this is quite rare to find, plus the effort put in too.

[@joda7697]

This is going to bring so much chaos to Hermitcraft and i'm here for it.

[@cainy]

Love it. Try making an extreme penetrating cannon design which goes through multiple layers of walls before the main payload detonates

[@ATOM-vv3xu]

why have a main payload? tnt damage does not stack, so this would be a waste of tnt, except if part of the main payload is zsed to propell other tnt maybe

[@trooper420wSw]

The anvil knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't, by subtracting where it is, from where it isn't, or where it isn't, from where it is, whichever is greater, it obtains a difference, or deviation.

[@hannes2927]

amazing, i can already see you building more and more advanced weaponry

[@williamthompson4568]

crazy to think how this slowly turned into a nearly infinite range instant nuke cannon.

[@HomieSeal]

This is truly an ICBAC moment

[@bigkawk]

now make it into a flying machine :) bonus points for making it be able to burrow through mountains

[@LuckySlevin7]

I love these, hope I see some people using them on SMPs and crediting you of course

[@grezamisoit]

With such precision, you could be able to do missile guidance. By launching multiple TNT wih different time activation and with precise trajectory, you could be able to bypass some obstacles by changing the trajectory of the main TNT in the air, through the explosion of the "guide" tnts. Excellent video, thank you!

[@ATOM-vv3xu]

already exists and is rly easy to do, try it yourself

[@kyleyoung2464]

"You think im evil, well just wait, till you meet my... ...variants"

[@AJ-Palermo]

I really hope Grian, Scar, Tango, and Docm77 see this! They're in anvil wars on Hermitcraft

[@somyso3634]

I almost never do this, but I subscribed right after seeing the TITLE. Before even watching the video yet. This is awesome

[@TheDarkLadyOfTheNight]

This is so cool! I'd definitely love to see more

[@andre7188]

This is so cool! I would love to see more!

[@Zuchii]

Next video title : Minecrafts Inter-Continental Ballistic Cow Cannon

[@PCgameandgamer]

This is insane, you're an absolute genius

[@CORSOBLOX]

these cannons are fantastic, well done

[@beefox__]

i'd love to see a cluster anvil cannon, less accurate but i believe you could store a tower of anvils into a bubble column, and then fire that?

[@cubicmetre]

It would be possible to stack the anvils together and fire them all at once, however the problem is that you would need to give each anvil a slightly different alignment to make them spread out as they fly, because the cannon currently is too precise meaning the anvils would all just land on the same position. For the TnT cluster cannon this was fairly easy because I could use the random momentum of the TnT to make them scatter at the point of impact. Anvils don't get random momentum they are always aligned when they start falling.

[@nikkiofthevalley]

@@cubicmetre You could possibly use water and randomly firing dispensers to change the direction the anvils move, aligning them randomly by pushing them with water.

[@ATOM-vv3xu]

@@nikkiofthevalley nah, it's easier to just put them into precise spots

[@DarkChaosMC]

This is the content quality that I stand by, upload schedules are for the weak, uploading when you have a video done is for Ws

[@packediceisthebestminecraf9007]

Maybe you could also fire a second stage of propellant TNT from a separate cannon to make a tnt go down before exploding, like how wargears do it? That would probably also be very useful to get TNT over fortifications.

[@tobyrightenger9748]

I love how I can hear him click his mouse and hit his F5 key ❤

[@mrmaxmondays]

I saw a comment about the hermits loving this-I think certain members are actually having an anvil war, they need to see this

[@iPlayGamesX]

Cubic ngl, you should really take a look at communities that specialize in precise canon tech. It would be great ^^

[@ATOM-vv3xu]

no chance, after his first vid the wargear scene and faction ppl launched like 100 comments recommending this to him, but he seems so only be interested in his tnt-archive-friends

[@brownwarrior007]

You might be able to avoid fuse timer problems if you use a tnt minecart, this would have the bonus of exploding on impact, more arc options, as well as stacking minecarts to deal more damage. You might also somehow be able to use the property of minecarts where they propel each other when stacked to 3 or more. I don't know the exact mechanics of tnt minecarts so none of this might be possible (i.e. something like the carts will explode as soon as the propellant tnt explodes)

[@brownwarrior007]

Also would be cool if you could find a way of synchronization between cannons to, for example, blow up midair to propel the other cannon's payload. Firing these things would be an art

[@ATOM-vv3xu]

tnt minecarts don't like to be used in cannons, but you can use them in missles

[@lancetheking7524]

I've always imagined a weapon like this but never had the smarts for it... Thank you for this creation

[@thevoicej2511]

If you want to try something stupid complicated and potentially impossible you could make a smart artillery that redirects mid air by firing two TNT, one with a shorter fuse which explodes first and allows you to navigate around corners alternatively you could add a more spread out bombing area to the cluster cannon.

[@ATOM-vv3xu]

possible and easy, try it yourself, you'll be surprised to see yourself building what you deemed impossible after maybe less than a day of experimentation, it's rly rewarding to achieve this, I'd absolutely recommend

[@shreyjain3197]

cant wait for docm to use this

[@sageofnothing2061]

Bruh I am literally learning matlab rn. I was so surprised to see it!

[@noobfrombrazil814]

I think cubic is preparing himself for a war

[@LordOmnipraetor]

Grian and Doc are breathing heavily now XD

[@impulsesim]

guys wake up cubic metre posted

[@pokestav9300]

Awesome video and cannon 😄

[@IanMott]

your insane...cool work

[@shadowgames50]

Docm77: finally a worthy opponent

[@NovemberOrWhatever]

This is awesome, please continue to develop weapons. NOTE: The NTBT does not apply to Minecraft, at least as far as I'm aware.

[@oblivion_2852]

Love how much better the second tnt cannon design is. But to prove your first video in that it's not just about the canon design. It's about the methodology.

[@Junparidize]

Now to make a mob launcher!

[@XQZFirefly]

very impressive. subbed.

[@del7o]

this is pretty awesome, you should keep playing with it a bit more

[@tyler.r]

Etho is going to love this!

[@SirLaurenceNZ_2]

I'm looking forward to a smart high velocity arrow cannon using TNT minecarts myself 😄 Have made some tiny multiple thousand block range arrow cannons with them (I think it requires chunk loading at those ranges though sadly). I also never really messed with aiming stuff on those, but I imagine you could make something incredible with that!

[@SirLaurenceNZ_2]

Another thought as well, a smart pearl cannon would be incredible 🤯

[@Mushroom38294]

THE CLUSTER CANNON THIS IS WHAT I WANTED IN THE LAST VIDEO LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOO

[@8miceinabox]

I better see this in Docm77's next video

[@Ulariumus]

very nice, my favorite australian redstone engineer!

[@phillipfelmy3131]

A idea I had is to do it with arrows, but time it so that the arrows despawn right before landing just for show

[@cubicmetre]

Arrows don't despawn while they are moving, so could theoretically get infinite range with an arrow

[@immabird7861]

This is insane.

[@geoffdavids7647]

Amazing stuff! Next iteration has to be a full auto version :D

[@ATOM-vv3xu]

full auto tnt cannons are boring, look at the factions servers and see, that full auto cannons (if don't put under the right constraints) encourage shooting with low tnt efficiency

[@michaelr20010713]

You got that Saxton Hale look complete with Australia shaped chest hair

[@Stagnated541]

I love this series!

[@omen4s976]

I got an idea where a bunch of tnt and anvils would be shot in one blob and the result would be bunch of anvils and tnt raining down from the sky.

[@claytonlunak7465]

more canon desings please that was so cool I love that

[@simianmetal3978]

Does advanced mathematics, programming, and other black magic to make a cannon…still makes it out of cobblestone. Awesome vid btw!!

[@cubicmetre]

I could make the cannon out of netherite, but then I feel as though it wouldn't be very "cheap" and simple

[@fluxs8949]

Docm would be pleased to have this

[@ineedmoreboulets1]

Bro is more advanced than most militaries 🤣

[@muneeb-khan]

You could make a really fun game of Minecraft battleships with that anvil cannon, I think.

[@amthystxx]

oh god, this looks so innocent. can't wait to build it on the smp i play on.

[@clex2349]

You should create a cannon that is less precise but uses quick and efficient interface to be able to roughly aim and fire rounds often.

[@cubicmetre]

Honestly, this is the most quick and most efficient interface you are going to get with Minecrafts current constraints in redstone whilst still having the ability to aim.

[@ATOM-vv3xu]

@@cubicmetre nah, depending on the purpose of your cannons it might be enough to click 2 note blocks to aim or in a worse-case scenario go through 2-3 lecterns with 15 modes each (when the target uses endstone you get 144^2*however deep you want to go blocks of coverage max.) and for more you could also encode where you want to hit binary/with hex (lecterns again), which would be faster again and is still very intuitive (so that you don't need to rely on software what makes you shoot faster again) also when shooting, most consecutive shots land near each other, so it's not like you have to scroll through 15 books each time or completely reclick all your noteblocks, most of the time you only need to scroll one down or click one noteblock (so around 0.5 secs)

[@azupaje330]

this is nuts

[@RedBrumbler]

docm77 is taking notes for sure

[@jmnero4447]

I'm sure docm77 will love this contraption with the anvil wars going on. 🤣

[@kyleyoung2464]

I have an idea, can you make an arrow launcher? Would not be to different from the cluster cannon. Maybe one that can one shot people?

[@glitchreloaded1284]

Mr. Metre has made it before

[@kyleyoung2464]

@@glitchreloaded1284 an over sized one you cant aim, with this tech it could actually be good.

[@jansoltan9519]

It already exists. Its's called a "bow"

[@kyleyoung2464]

@@jansoltan9519 bows have bad range and are boring.

[@jeremiahclasen5742]

This would make a pretty fun minigame with all these cannons

[@edogthebigdog]

I just love how calmly he talks while building weapons of mass destruction.

[@davecommander3958]

Welp you definitely earned my sub

[@enderstorm2460]

if you offset the payloads’ timer and position slightly, you could use a second midair explosion within the payload to launch a portion of it even farther

[@enderstorm2460]

this could also be used for shooting around obsidian walls, or hitting multiple locations with a single shot, like a bullet that ricochets.

[@ATOM-vv3xu]

you won't get farther with that (while using the same amount of tnt) but you can change direction in mid-air, this is a cool cannon to try yourself and rly rewarding if you manage to pull it of, I'd recommend building one like that

[@tomozbot]

I’ve been waiting for this video…

[@oammaslastnamethei3063]

cubic: creates a tnt shotgun that can penetrate even the thickest walls. my 2 block thick waterlogged stair wall: allow my to introduce myself

[@ATOM-vv3xu]

wither skull cannon: I got this 😎

[@pallavparmar9818]

Grian is going to love this thing

[@dallasjthompson]

DocM is gonna be very very happy with the Anvil Cannon

[@theroofinginspector8345]

The anvil knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where it is (whichever is greater), it obtains a difference, or deviation. The guidance subsystem uses deviations to generate corrective commands to drive the anvil from a position where it is to a position where it isn't, and arriving at a position where it wasn't, it now is. Consequently, the position where it is, is now the position that it wasn't, and it follows that the position that it was, is now the position that it isn't. In the event that the position that it is in is not the position that it wasn't, the system has acquired a variation, the variation being the difference between where the anvil is, and where it wasn't. If variation is considered to be a significant factor, it too may be corrected by the GEA. However, the anvil must also know where it was. The anvil guidance computer scenario works as follows. Because a variation has modified some of the information the anvil has obtained, it is not sure just where it is. However, it is sure where it isn't, within reason, and it knows where it was. It now subtracts where it should be from where it wasn't, or vice-versa, and by differentiating this from the algebraic sum of where it shouldn't be, and where it was, it is able to obtain the deviation and its variation, which is called error.

[@kaiirossbaird7623]

Docm is drooling rn

[@21506ash]

i am intrigued

[@1224chrisng]

You've been Etho'd!

[@fallen4eyes235]

Finally! A method to deliver hilarious death anywhere with the push of a button!!