The New and Improved Orbital Strike Cannon

[@GigaCraft-420]

"I am become Death, the destroyer of blocks" - Cubicheimer

[@bable6314]

J Robert Blockenminer

[@teak7902]

J Cubic Blockenheimer would do

[@AxisGMD2010]

Nah Robert blockenhimer is better than

[@lalityt07]

LMAO gyus ☠️💀☠️😂😂😂😅😂😅😅😅😂😂😂

[@SirNobleIZH]

Cubenheimer

[@tomcattermole1844]

We get closer and closer to a nuclear treaty in Minecraft every day

[@iamarizonaball2642]

1967 outer space treaty when?

[@livedandletdie]

We don't need a Nuclear Treaty in Minecraft, what we need is the misuse of payloads on noobs. What we'd call professional griefing. That's a nice base you got there little timmy.

[@Boiled_Pizza]

​@@livedandletdieBLYATTTTT

[@Aegis4521]

@@livedandletdieyou just described a nuclear treaty

[@ryanmaguire7731]

And I am a good reason to point at

[@Pockeywn]

this man is literally oppenheimer in minecraft. and he keeps coming back with more

[@TpoJioJio47]

he has lots of spare time while graduating university... i was a little busy while graduating university.

[@swordsmancs]

I wouldn’t say he’s Oppenheimer He’d have to regret it first

[@couththememer]

"Can you hear the music, Robert?"

[@oratios21]

@@couththememer "Can you hear the music cubic? can you hear the tnt fizzing??"

[@masterboa6321]

oppenmeiner

[@magmafang]

Mojang: We removed fireflies because they are apparently poisonous to frogs in real life, and since Minecraft has always been a faithful adaptation of the real world and its laws, we don’t want to promote death of innocent lives, and thus made this decision. Meanwhile, the redstone engineering community:

[@pugz3230]

humans are incredibly destructive to everything in real life! we must remove players!

[@cloudtaker633]

“We have bombs”

[@Granimal8]

@@cloudtaker633you have bombs, I have precision laser guided nukes

[@johndo3031]

*invisible anti personnel claymore that shoots arrows 4x the speed of sound*

[@brickstick2452]

We should appreciate the fact that Mojang removed fireflies. Who knows how many frogs would have been poisoned! Good thing we all know now that we can feed frogs a heathy and balanced diet of slime and magma! Why.

[@joshuasmyth3115]

Imagine being in a silly Minecraft war, but one dude has somehow developed a superweapon designed to eradicate targets with pinpoint accuracy

[@Kaiyats]

😂

[@FKAFO]

Im building secretly in my smp

[@AntonG.Guitar8]

THATS LITERALLY WHAT I FOUND THIS CANNON FOR LOL

[@shaferbro]

This is unreal. Never thought id see the day where tnt cannons share more similarities to an icbm than to an actual cannon. Making a whole guidance computer to launch tnt is unreal and I applaud your efforts!

[@mechanicer3105]

😂😂😂

[@wuziproductions4900]

I remember when it was just obsidian water and a flint and steal

[@JorgetePanete]

I'd*

[@Username_broken]

​@@JorgetePanete he said that just without the '

[@chxmaera]

​@Sealanimations69 i made a cannon with double 4x12 dispenser walls that repeats 7 times, 336 blocks of tnt, one shot. Cubicmetre is still the king of cannons though

[@KiwiRedstone]

Everyone is talking about the cannon, but seriously no one wants to congratulate him for graduating? You really deserve it, and I gotta say that your videos are always inspiring to me before I entered the university until now as a second year Computer Engineering student. They improve my critical thinking skill a lot. Thanks for your hard work through the past years!

[@PotatoCraft_TMC]

Irl is overrated. We’re here for minecraft

[@rsssfgr1374]

we are here to watch minecraft dude

[@KiwiRedstone]

@@PotatoCraft_TMC Don't worry, I barely touch any grass too. Minecraft is always in a higher priority, lmao

[@lillii9119]

I don't care about your grades, if you can come up with this machine you're hired for any job

[@naotomuramasa178]

​@@PotatoCraft_TMC What's irl? It's a new game?

[@imowoke5138]

Considering there's currently a war going on rn in my mc server this will pretty much end the war instantly, the best part ngl tho is that it's hard to find due to the range, and even if you find it you need the excel spreadsheet to work it meaning that at worst enemies can only destroy it, not use it against you

[@grimmsoul3096]

or your base is behind it, meaning even if they wanted to they could not use it against you

[@kyleclarke4845]

​@@grimmsoul3096there will be a way to check the items don't target a set specific area (where your own base is) so even if people know where to find the spreadsheet they can't target your base unless they understand the system enough to disable that feature

[@DukasFiguliras]

That's what the americans thought against japan too

[@fondbeebboop9705]

If you build this please record it

[@Sh1verX]

How can i get the spreadsheet?

[@loganwilliams4958]

For anyone trying to paste the schematic into their world. The Minecraft safety feature at the middle of the machine (the redstone line with several mine carts and gold pressure plates) gets stuck without updating. You need to remove and place the comparators at the corner of that line for the machine to work.

[@cubicmetre]

This is because tile ticks scheduled by the pressure plate are required to make it check for the entities presence every 10 ticks. If the plate is simply pressed then pasted in from a schematic it does not include the scheduled tile tick.

[@SunMoon..]

​@@cubicmetreHey Cubicmetre, Quick question: What versions of Minecraft does the cannon work on? I don't want to build it just for it to not function. I would appreciate if you put it in the description too for other people to see, thanks!

[@Zomplexx]

@@SunMoon.. I know for shure it works in 1.20+ but i think 1.19+ schould work too

[@statstratco]

it does@@Zomplexx

[@ender9252]

Are you talking about the comparators at the bottom right of the machine? the ones connected to the minecart track through the piston slimeblock circut?

[@TheNN]

Y'know if there were to be a 5.0 version I'd love to see how it could handle deep underground targets or something like attacking the side of a mountain.

[@drdragdx]

You can customize the tnt pattern and cubic already showed a bunker buster pattern in another video. So underground targets arent really a problem

[@vikovitch]

attacking the side of a mountain? man, just erase the mountain!

[@norton_antivirus]

multiple stab charges in one location?

[@space_bird3676]

At this point it's basically a war crime machine.

[@mmmmmmmmicrowave]

bro this is a glorified megaton bomb without the green poisonings no warcrime. just a true destroyer of worlds moment

[@zorphorias1523]

Dude precision strike destroys military targets within the village, then while they're defenseless proceeds to blow up the whole thing just to prove he can. Absolute dick move

[@BottomlessCoffee.]

It's not a warcrime the first time.

[@FringeWizard2]

It is only a warcrime if you lose.

[@marion_soda777]

His le bombs le killed people

[@arftrooper2057]

Congrats on graduating! I’m in my third year of mechanical engineering and I couldn't imagine also working on youtube and also majoring in physics. That’s absolutely insane! Congratulations.

[@cloroxbleach7554]

Sup fellow ME. If it's ok to ask, how did you do in Thermodynamics?

[@arftrooper2057]

​@@cloroxbleach7554 That'll be next year for me, my schedule is a bit wonky. had a uh... lovely time in statics recently though. Especially since my professor was trying her best to flush students out early on :) I love this degree!

[@DrBluefox]

@@cloroxbleach7554 bro thermo was absolute hell. -fellow second year ME student

[@TheWonkster]

​@@cloroxbleach7554 I don't think I've met anyone who did anything approaching well in Thermo who didn't devote their lives to it

[@rolad8697]

Hello! I know this comment is a bit late but I just had a really cool idea. Using this system, but instead of firing tnt, it would fire a chest minecart. If it could survive the explosion, it could be used to instantly transport large amounts of resources to a specific spot without the need to constantly go back and forth, utilizing shulker loaders then then get filled into the minecart!

[@luchoo2112]

You're like the optimistic pro-nuclear.

[@the_nerd_showtv5562]

I'm also late, but I think that would need a lot of rework just for the hitboxes

[@lunag.1521]

mass drivers lmao

[@stephenrichter8940]

Or an anvil for one guy in particular

[@juergenkern6763]

There is a concept called orion drive that proposed using nukes to propell a spaceship

[@gastonvalla7015]

Mechanical Engineer AND physicist??!! Damn man that's awesome congratulations! I hope I get to that point in the next 4 years but only with informatic engineering 😅. I found your channel some days ago but I admire you and the way these proyects are working and growing because of you. Thank you so much for the content and motivation

[@SPY-ce8qf]

Double majoring mech. Eng. and physics!? You are amazing! I’m in my first year of engineering and some of my classes have like half the people fail by the end of the term. Uploading these videos as well. It’s inspiring resilience, I hope to have even a little bit of the drive you have.

[@fletchermed]

As an orbital strike cannon I can confirm that this video does indeed have at least one orbital strike cannon

[@mad_goddess2830]

Perfect, that’s exactly what I came for

[@filipemartinho1753]

Golly gee, well, I sure hope so

[@KCM25NJL]

Now I'm just waiting on someone to build a redstone computer that becomes self-aware, builds a bunch of orbital nuke cannons and takes out all life on a server...... and when it starts to lose the war, it auto loads a back up (Goes back in time)..... and first tries to take out the person who was pivotal in the fight back.

[@grimmsoul3096]

at that point you need a AI controlling a redstone computer

[@clennius]

skynet in minecraft, add baritone to players and you have your terminators

[@THKlasen]

Anyone getting MC:SM PAMA vibes? No? Just me?

[@josephguimard548]

bro wants to make skynet in minecraft

[@notme8232]

@@clennius Imagine a redstone computer capable of writing its own Baritone bots, dear God.

[@akumabito2008]

Now that's just nuts. All that's needed now is a command center that can control multiple silos simultaneously.... By the way, is there a way to fire the nukes from under water? Nobody ever explores massive oceans, so it's a pretty safe space to hide a laumcher.

[@grimmsoul3096]

the current design is rather unsafe underwater, due to all the circuits getting taken off by the water, you would have to change the design a bit, so there are walls surrounding the point where the nuke leaves the silo to the powdered snow, granted its not a big change, but its still a change

[@zakytherandomguy6469]

Epik SLBM

[@Protter32]

Just build it over water if no one explores oceans

[@akumabito2008]

@@Protter32 but then you don't get any secret lair vibes.

[@cyfralcoot65]

You can build it under a small island

[@No.Good.Nickname]

First of all: cool that you have graduated, congrats. Second: I would really like to see the carnage of multiple factions on a PvP Server with Raids that all had multiple of these ICBM-like contraptions and what base designs the players would come up with to ether withstand such a blast or whatever.

[@Moisterdunn]

Do not let 2b2t players see this

[@gryxz]

TOO LATE

[@elguevara-o5h]

Too late indeed :)

[@dangductran2926]

bold of you to think that you can build this in 2b2t without it being destroyed half a days later. they have hacks that can easily locate the cannon, and if they cannot use it they just blow it up

[@elguevara-o5h]

@@dangductran2926 if you actually play the server you’d know that fit greatly exaggerates for content purposes. All bases I’ve been to lasted months to years. Lmk if you wanna build this together in game it would be fun

[@Moutchitos]

Saw it

[@NickAndriadze]

This is an absolutely fascinating piece of Redstone engineering that keeps getting better and better the more you add upon it! The original nuke launcher OSC already blew me away (no pun intended), but I didn't even know you could add so much more to it, such as scheduling multiple consecutive launches and all! I also absolutely adore how much like an actual nuke/ICBM launch sequence this feels like. A completely concealed, underground bunker contraption that slowly prepares a payload, sets certain specific velocity for it to be milimetre-precise and as accurate as such a weapon requires to be, then taking it up into the stratosphere and *launching that bad boy away to obliterate any target and send it flying sky high!* Also congratulations for graduating, you have a lot of potential as an _actual_ engineer.

[@JustaBrokenKid]

Some suggestions: 1. More settings. Cannon 2.0 could allow very intricate designs to be made, such as the mushroom cloud nuke, or the penetrator nuke, which is very practical for striking underground bases. This version does not seem to have the customization capabilities that the other cannons do. Maybe design a mod that replaces the command center in the nether with a more customizable one. 2. Sending arrows/potions. Sure blowing things up is fun, but fully destroying someones base is generally against gentleman's rules on servers. HOWEVER, killing a person is an unavoidable aspect of the game. Maybe we could design some mods for the cannon that allow potions or arrows to be sent. (I know potions are a technical nightmare, since they generally break when hitting a block, but I'm thinking an implementation similar to an enderpearl stasis chamber) 3. Sending inventory entities. By making the cannon be able to send an entity such as a chest minecart, we can send items to anyone within the cannon's area of effect anything we want. setting up a chunk ban for a friend has instantly become 100 times easier. Maybe your friend died 2000 blocks away but u have their items. Now you can send them instantly, without having to fly back or wait for the friend to walk to you. 4. Key code/Auto destruct. The way I see it, if I'm going to build a $40 billion dollar machine (wether in real life or in a game) I want only me and my allies to access it. This can be done with a keycar/ autodestruct. First I could break a piece of glass in order to self destruct the cannon manually. Also, I would have a keycard which would be inputted in the first chest minecart in order for it to launch. Now an enemy could just find the sorting hopper and copy whatever is in there, so I'm thinking we surround the sorting hopper in a semi-stable observer loop that any change to will activate. (what I mean by this is find a way to make an observer redstone clock, without having it create an infinite loop, then, have observers inside the loop that will detect if the loop ever goes off and will destroy the cannon.) 5. Update the cannon to work on newer versions. Many servers and players are starting to switch over to newer versions as their mods are being updated. Also, newer versions add calibrated skulk sensors, which have interesting mechanics which I think can be implemented in the cannon. P.S. Congrats on you degree!

[@cruze_the]

Arrow carpet mode to instakill anyone in a radius

[@Sesquipedalian3]

(3.): amazon when I order same-day delivery at 11:59 PM

[@MorganSaph]

Responding to 3 and 5. 2000 blocks isn't that far. it's only about 10 mins walking. Why build a doomsday device to act as a mailman only 2000 blocks away? And the cannon does work on newer versions. Cubic would mention it otherwise. It just doesn't work on Bedrock (bedrock redstone in general doesn't work) or paper servers (cause it changes a lot of ways redstone works).

[@speedystrider9401]

​@@MorganSaph You could create a system that fires "mail" payloads containing resources/messages to allies across the server. The usual methods of item transportation would have to connect both bases together with some sort of long item line, which would both be easy to sabotage and would make the source and target clear. For the oribital mail cannon, the source of the package would be completely anonymous and it would also be impossible for enemies to sabotage/intercept packages, which would be great for large faction servers. On top of that, you wouldn't have to build an item line for each base. Other than that, it would probably be more pratical to just walk there and back to deliver items but it's still a funny overkill idea, lol.

[@CMDKeenCZ]

They mentioned in a previous video why arrows, potions, ender pearls and other such payloads don't work - they are entities and try to load chunks they pass through, so firing one instantly through hundreds of chunks and forcing them to load all the same time can crash the game (or the server you play on). And if you just want to kill Minecraft itself, there's easier ways to do it :p

[@TheBearestBearBearBear]

Australian technology really fascinates me

[@Be.quentin]

Imagine connecting two binary randomizers to the x and y variables and a daylight sensor connected to the trigger... Every time the sun rises, a random location in your server gets absolutely nuked ☠️

[@Chase92488]

it could be even the whole server, since there isnt a limit to tnt duping or orange from what i can tell

[@samuelmelton8353]

The threat to life this poses is utterly disgusting. I hope Minecraft can do more to prevent the proliferation of such weapons.

[@mmorais13]

Congrats on graduating! And btw what an awesome cannon, it keeps getting better every time. This guy is pushing the boundries of what redstone can do every day. I love your videos, keep with the good work!

[@4CVIT]

You're creations get better and better every time, genuinely so impressive cubic 👏

[@bable6314]

Your*

[@CantyMC]

dang, super impressive video. It's crazy what you can do on the technical side of minecraft

[@Filip6754]

'Let's load up a cluster of nukes' is a sentence I'd never expect to be uttered by a player in vanilla Minecraft..

[@mycroft3322]

I would love to see Doc use this on Hermitcraft

[@rafael_lana]

I'm absolutely sure he will on s10 😂 started today

[@Sebastian-Maeda]

this feels so much like a modded tnt video but actually real, you're so talented congrats! Also congrats on ya degree ya genius!

[@Sivves]

everyone in a server is going to be building one of these to keep the peace

[@cyberkraken1606]

Nah, just a race to be the first to build it and charge it, then you take down everyone else's and you've got the only one so you have tnt supremacy

[@Alsry1]

Mutually assured destruction

[@oliveoilgaming69]

cold war moment

[@KAKAROT12374]

The "Gadget" ​@@Alsry1

[@alextilson9741]

I've said this as a sub-comment already, and I'm not sure what your life plans are now, but do a PhD! You'd fit right in. Your research, exploration, understanding of complex phenomena, problem solving, and communication skills all will translate extremely well - I honestly thought you were doing one already from the way you talk.

[@jumpingspider7105]

Hypothetically, if you could figure out a way to make this thing iterate through multiple adjacent coordinates in a grid pattern with stab charges it could be used to automate perimeter construction.

[@radiantdiamond3701]

There is a perimeter building machine on his channel already that uses a similar "tnt-teleporting" technique

[@General-i4r]

Congratulations on your graduation! The cannon is also extremely powerful. But I do have some suggestions for some improvements if you make an Orbital Strike Cannon 5.0, some being for a more powerful and economic cannon and also some for more peaceful use of the cannon. Suggestions- - Omnidirectional Capabilities: It's probably safe to say everyone hates having to build multiple cannons or go to the world border to have truly infinite range on the entire world. It would be very nice to have a cannon that can shoot 360 degrees. - Underwater launched capabilities: The cannon is quite hidden already, but all it takes is someone to notice some very odd geometry on the land where the cannon is to realize that there is a doomsday weapon below them. Having the cannon underwater in the middle of a giant ocean will conceal it the most. - Deep bunker buster option The current bunker buster is quite nice and all, but it can only really reach the more less deep bunkers. There a lot of bunkers at extremely deep levels. It would be very convenient to have a separate payload type that reachs all the way to bedrock. - Water/Lava bypass Anyone can just place water and lava to make the effects of the cannon completely useless. The infinitybore can already warp right past these sort of obstacles. It would probably be possible to do the same for a Orbital Cannon. - Supply delivery Setting aside blowing up all your friends, it would be very helpful for your allies to receive supplies even if they were extremely far away. Although this would be very difficult to do since the cart might just be destroyed so I don't really expect this coming anytime soon. Please add this to the Cannon if you make a 5.0. Also congratulations on your graduation again!

[@cubicmetre]

A lot of these features don't synergise well with limitations in redstone, like placing the cannon underwater. The cannon is doomed either way if somebody simply wanders into render distance while its firing, otherwise if it is not firing the trapdoor will conceal it quite well in most terrain. Placing the cannon underwater would be extremely difficult as water would flow into the trapdoor when it opens and potentially break the redstone which is not ideal. Bypassing water, lava or any blast proof block is simply not possible. The infinibore is a purpose built machine which tunnels sideways from a fixed location and doesn't work if the target area is loaded. The orbital strike cannon strikes from the top down and works whether the target is loaded or not making it a much more versatile weapon. Omnidirectionality is difficult to implement but with enough work should be possible. Supply delivery is actually a promising attribute, as you could make a remote storage and have it dispatch items wirelessly anywhere you need them in a pinch. But this wouldn't be achieve using minecarts and TnT acceleration. For this you would use boats and entity collisions or potentially wind charges.

[@oskarhalvin7390]

imagine if you had a tnt pattern to precisely delete a chunk. it would be so cool but probably impossible, but I like to be proved wrong.

[@techwizsmith7963]

Just due to how the explosions works in their blast radius, it won't be perfect. Give or take a block though? Doable

[@fracazer]

Incredible video. Always hyped to see the Orbital Striker Cannon improving. This is just incredible. Also congrat for graduating : )

[@BlightCosmos]

I'm actually so excited to see your Orbital Strike Cannon in sipover's civ

[@zacharyhisaoka9194]

congrats! On both your cannon and graduation! You are an great inspiration to me.

[@Lexiont]

Congrats on graduating! Your content has so much quality on it! You're amazing!

[@gojojodragon]

Another excellent machine from a wonderful machinator, congratulations on graduating!

[@samuelsalita1660]

As someone who is in college for aerospace engineering, I commend your successful education in this rigorous field! Cool bomb though, may need to build it on a server im on.

[@imaboisir7227]

How is aerospace for you? I'm going into it next year

[@samuelsalita1660]

@@imaboisir7227 not so bad, sitting at a 3.6 gpa on 4.0 scale

[@imaboisir7227]

@@samuelsalita1660 nice

[@baconxd4642]

helldivers orbital strike cannon in minecraft is insane like this cannon will most likely give you dominance over others unless they find it and destroy it. :edit: also congrats on graduating!!

[@k2s955]

First video of yours I have watched and I'm super excited for what's next and congrats on accomplishments give yourself some love for all you have done ❤

[@biscuitboy4782]

Great design man that’s awesome! Just letting you know that in excel you can add a dropdown menu option for that first cell to make selecting the cannon mode easier

[@tayty1238]

I think it’s criminal to not have a Oppenheimer reference

[@Chase92488]

is this whole video not an oppenheimer reference

[@General-i4r]

I recently built the cannon in my Minecraft Multiplayer Server. But the cannon won't fire. I made sure all the schematics were built correctly. The chunk alignment was perfect, so was sub-chunk. The chunkloading was also working. But when I came back to check with tick frozen, the flying machine was not going up. So when I unfroze, naturally, all the TNT exploded. Anyone know how to fix this? Server Details - Server Provider: Aternos Software: Fabric Version: 1.21 Mods: - Fabric API - Simple Voice Chat - Sound Physics remastered - Litematica Server Paster - WorldEdit - Lithium - Servercore - Ferritecore - Noisium - Skin Restorer

[@TaylorWorld]

I am not an expert on this but it might be that it is an Aternos server back in 2018-2019. I use to use Aternos and omg it was so laggy. Based on my experience back then I wouldn't trust an Aternos server with the cannon.

[@fracazer]

Now I really wonder the possibility to send an entity with a similar cannon at any coordinates. Could either be sending a lama with a chest to send stuff anywhere or sending some monsters (Or an alternative chunk ban which is far more dangerous, tho I'm not even sure if chunk banning even work in version after 1.17)

[@Aurea_Astrae]

In JKM's video about making a perimeter on world's border, he used a similar cannon using entity collisions in lazy chuncks to launch a pig to the nether "world border". You should check it out

[@fracazer]

@@Aurea_Astrae huh, very interesting. Ty for the information, I'll check that out

[@xtremedeathgaming]

I think there's a machine called the '360 pig cannon'

[@grimmsoul3096]

that would likely kill the mob

[@lillii9119]

@@grimmsoul3096 Well with a potion of the turtle master you can tank up to 80% of the damage, this + maximum blast protection perhaps could let you survive

[@AyuKasioy_]

This is beyond genius. I cant believe that someone could push the game's creativity to this extent. Congrats on graduating bro

[@Ufa-fz9dt]

Congrats on graduating! I'm on the same path myself. On another note, I'm just waiting for someone to come up with a canon that can automatically create perimeters anywhere from just one spot

[@some_random_toaster]

"Geneva convention?" "More like "geneva suggestion"!"

[@XDHwilks]

This is amazing!! I want to build it in our survival server, unfortunately it runs on paper though. Do you know what causes paper to patch it? We've managed to get TNT duping and bedrock breaking unpatched, so I would hope it is possible to also get this to work on paper by tweaking a couple things maybe? Not sure.

[@notyou1855]

I swear in a year this man will be working at nasa making cannons to kill aliens

[@jamesscalzo3033]

Loved the video @cubicmetre! Can't wait for the next video man! Saw this come up on my feed and after having seen your Artillery Build, I knew I just had to see it! Imagine using this in Servers and Launching a Tactical Nuke in Minecraft! This might be even more Devastating if you had Fleshcrafter's Lucky TNT Mod installed. On that note, the 5× TNT and the TNT Fireworks TNT Blocks would be Plenty as the 5× TNT is 5 Times Powerful than the Vanilla TNT Blocks while the TNT Fireworks TNT Blocks literally make it rain TNT Blocks. There's Plenty of other blocks in the Mod that'll be interesting to see being used with this Orbital Strike Cannon. Belated Congratulations on Graduating University man!

[@touchofmalice2617]

Congrats on graduating!! The cannon is insane I could only wish to be able to build that sort of thing

[@Admirell_]

14:29 That poor sheep is an astronaut XD

[@danielrhouck]

These are all interesting improvements, but the “multiple strikes” one is what interests me. Could you use that feature to turn this into a remote perimeter digger?

[@drdragdx]

He already made an infinite quarry, but I think thats not what you mean. If you change the explosion pattern a bit, you can actually use this exact design for perimeters, the only problem is that you cant make the explosions too big without crashing the game and due to the cannon‘s long charging time, it would probably take days of constant fireing to clear out a whole perimeter.

[@darlandimm1464]

​@@drdragdxI don't know about minecraft redstoning that much but isn't it possible to use redstone clocks to create a delay between multiple launchers, cannons (whatever) to avoid the game being overloaded with explosions?

[@drdragdx]

@@darlandimm1464 You forget that the cannons have an average loading time of 20minutes, meaning if you want to shoot a cannon at least once every minute (which is still slower than fast quarrys) you‘d need to build 20 orbital strike cannons. Most servers already lag to 1 fps with only 1 cannon, having 20 of them loaded at the same time would be like 1M tnt which would definitely crash any server in existence.

[@drdragdx]

I forgot to mention that actually fireing the cannon does create the most lag, however even having a cannon loaded with tnt creates massive lag

[@Ajgruber14]

@cubicmetre Do you think that the orbital strike design may eventually become the most popular method for creating perimeters? This machine seems so much more efficient than typical tnt sweepers!

[@MacStringer]

A great question.. it all depends on the time between strikes

[@Theinatoriinator]

He has already created that, it is called the infinibore and he has some videos of it on his channel. It uses similar tech but can make insanely (like insanely huge) huge perimeters in a matter of hours.

[@defloirgreene5428]

*Meanwhile on bedrock you can just reduce your sim distance*

[@SuperLlama88888]

Great job on the cannon and your degree!

[@Xaytan]

Ya know, I almost always play on modded servers. I imagine one of these is way, way simpler to build with access to things like Computercraft. I know, I know. It's cheating compared to this majestic beast of a redstone machine. Could even just program in the ballistic calculations and use a remote to call in orbital bombardments from anywhere using targeting coordinates... Absolutely incredible work you've done here. Inspiring.

[@cd-player]

Is it possible to use a players flame arrow, tnt and an armor stand to auto locate the player not requiring any inputs? Using the game mechanic where tnt lit by the players flame arrow explodes things in the opposite direction of the player who shot the arrow? Doing it twice in different locations to get the both the direction and distance?

[@hawyee3130]

I had the same thought and maybe I did something wrong but it didn’t work in 1.20.4 :( that being said I’m working on a different type of player finder! Will lyk if I ever finish

[@cd-player]

Thanks :)

[@maplebacon2724]

iirc, there was another TNT cannon using arrows to direct the payload, but there was an inherent degree of imprecision to the arrows themselves; unfortunately, I don't think the cannon would have the same pinpoint precision if it did use arrows. I'd also be concerned whether armor stands or arrows would load the chunk, causing the cannon to self-destruct.

[@pedrokotii2417]

@@maplebacon2724 AFAIK, trying to automate the direction with arrows would be at odds with the current delivery system. I do not think armor stands or arrows can load chunks though, so that's safe.

[@temmieio3731]

i think rays works made a machine on this

[@Baldeur]

How far does the operational radius go in vanilla before the game crashes or is inoperable? I recall some problems with trying to strike targets too far away, at which point the cannon would take too much time to load and/or crash the game. p.s.: Congrats for graduating!

[@oblivion_2852]

I feel like this would be equivalent to the pig cannon. Adding velocity doesn't add entities it just changes the velocity of the payload. Payload size would definitely affect lag though

[@Chase92488]

worth noting that for your average minecraft server, launching a few of these anywhere would lag it to death anyways

[@Penguin_Spy]

i love the improvements to the cannon, and congrats on the degree! however, the new version is quite large and complex, and also still uses tons of stained glass & concrete in the schematic. I really liked how you used stone bricks & otherwise only the necessary blocks in your latest version of the Infinibore, and i'd love to see the same treatment for the orbital strike cannon :) also, the multiple different types of payloads, and the piston door on the top of the cannon are cool, but if i were to build this in survival i'd be fine with less fancy features if it meant it was easier/cheaper to build, so some mention of what parts aren't 100% necessary would be helpful; i.e. i don't think the piston door & the blinky light ring are absolutely critical to the functioning of the device, just a hole in the ground & a solid redstone lamp could work.

[@cubicmetre]

Honestly I'm not sure if it would be ethical to make the design more survival friendly. Consider this the cost for toying with the fires of Prometheus.

[@Penguin_Spy]

@@cubicmetre that is an entirely fair point, and after thinking about it for a bit longer, i absolutely agree with you. the Infinibore has utility even in a peaceful SMP, whereas this cannon has no place in such a society. the design complexity is really the only barrier protecting the general population, so keeping it high makes sense for the design.

[@darkanayer5867]

​@@cubicmetretbh, if this gets popular enough, someone will play with the fires anyway and improve into your design for survival friendliness. Might as well do it yourself

[@Chase92488]

@@darkanayer5867 mate it reached 2b2t 3 months ago, no shot someone hasnt done this

[@TwinShards]

Congrats for graduating!!! I though i was good with cannon but this show me you are that 0.1% graph op tier while i stand in the 75% average XD

[@Fernandino-y8l]

How you were able to design such a thing is beyond me. I am not at all surprised after you said what you were graduating with. congratulations.

[@quantuminfinity4260]

We have gone from a TNT cannon you have to build to fire a single piece of TNT a few chunks, to precision chunk removal and nuclear annihilation from anywhere in the world!

[@ezioloiotine7227]

Congrats for your degre!! I graduated yesterday in mechanical engineering, so I'm twice impressed you graduated in phisics too. I've got a problem with the cannon though. Everything seems working, until it doesnt. When the loading ends, i /tick freeze, and I can see the TNT is holding inside the powder snow, when i /tick step i can see it moving slighty in direction of the target because it still appears nearby. Then nothing happens. The target won't blow up and if i /tick step again the TNT disappear

[@cubicmetre]

Are you still in spectator? When you tick freeze chunk loading tickets can expire and unload the chunks without you realizing. You need to make sure you keep the payload loaded with your player when tick freezing.

[@Theinatoriinator]

@@cubicmetre What degree specifically do you have? Masters in mechanical and bachelor in physics or something like that? Also if you are fine saying it online, what collage did you go to?

[@ezioloiotine7227]

I never went into spec mode because I was always in creative. I don't want to disturb you in these busy days tough, I will just be looking at your videos of the cannon to feel the power and the coolness of yours creation.

[@ezioloiotine7227]

Last update, it seems my cannon can only shoot in the positive x and z direction. So if the origin is 4000 - 4000, it can only shoot in coordinates for

[@sir_henri112]

@@ezioloiotine7227 I have the same problem. I tested the cannon in version 1.20.1, which version are you playing in?

[@joshuaprice1]

Could you have a feature where you can automatically program where the cannon is and have a map wall that can be used to track players. To kill a player, click a map and that entire chunk will be instantly nuked

[@okamiexe1501]

Sounds complicated, but doable I guess. I'm a novice at Redstone (my expertise is in Create) but I guess you could start with observers observing the maps in item frames and as you remove the map, it will run an algorithm to automatically input the proper parameters in the chest cart and fire when ready. It would have to be small maps, and you would need to find the chunks, load them on the map, find the map coordinates, record them for the machine to read, then put up the wall to fire, but at that point, why even use the map wall to do anything other than seeing player heads, and inputting the coordinates yourself?

[@Kaiyats]

It’s a bit much to nuke a whole map chunk for one player and sounds like there will be a lot of collateral damage

[@ddamien26]

Mine doesn't work. When I Paste The Litematica OSC 4.3 onto my world with The Nether One. It doesn't work. I even Turn Off The Shutdown & Reset The Settings. I even have activated Chunk Loader & Autofire. Even did The Calculations where should The Nether one Be. And when I do everything and Fire The Weapon in Nether. It sends The Minecart There, but nothing Activates. The Minecart even comes back, but nothing is going off. No TNT or Pistons or any of that. When I tried it on his World, it Worked Perfectly! IDK where is The Problem. Please Help!

[@YourNumberOneRated1997Salesman]

Thanks for giving me ideas to start a minecraft war : ]

[@ПропкпПрошш]

Теперь Заквиель снова будет строить новую пушку😂

[@DrPeeper]

Yeah

[@CarbonIsUnavailable]

Who else came from Wemmbu?

[@z-3speedcubing596]

Me rn

[@Dragonballuca]

Messa

[@bob-r9u8h]

me

[@CheeseballTheClown]

Me

[@rojobojo9highlights362]

Me

[@PoeticDeath-iy4lz]

This is terrifying. Can't wait to build it. Congrats on the graduation!!

[@kevinsloane5105]

Now I am become creeper, the destroyer of blocks

[@chilldogs1881]

Congrats for graduating mate ALSO HOLY HELL THIS IS ALL I HAVE EVER WANTED

[@not_mrfrost]

Wow, fantastic video! It's honestly so cool that you can build something like this in minecraft! And what is even more impressive is that you did all of this while studying at university! I can barelly get thorugh calculus, while you do such masterpieces 😅. Congrats on the graduation! I hope that I'll also graduate some day... you know, maybe in 2 and a half years lol

[@kaihughes]

i know nothing about redstone but would it be possible to add a wireless receiver at the cannon that is connected to different potential targets and you could select and launch the cannon from a wireless transmitter anywhere in the world? this would be convenient because then you don’t need to travel to the cannon except to program new targets and you could select a target and launch from your base closer to spawn

[@flarephenix894]

Congrats with the graduation!!! Also the cannon is crazy cool!!

[@CRAZYME01]

If everyone in the world gets reincarnated into a parallel Minecraft world this guy will be the scariest bastard out there. Like imagine you won't even know what you died to😂

[@user-rh8uo7si4z]

Congrats on becoming a Mechanical Engineer! Still have two years personally till graduation, but its possible through your example!

[@traveseros90]

I just can't believe how well made this is, ur amazing man

[@DavyYork]

I've never studied physics or mechanics, I don't know anything about those, I know barely a thing about redstone but this.. this makes me want to try it

[@Cupsigaming]

This may be the first time I ever saw your channel but congratulations on graduating.

[@gabemorse8848]

Idk what’s happening but I know it’s impressive as hell. Also, congrats on graduating!

[@allthespam3213]

i think this is the best redstone contraption i have ever seen

[@agamemnon7518]

Nice job with that mech e degree, it really puts ya through the wringer

[@BladeSmith1928]

Congrats on the engineering degree! I'll have an associates in Mechatronics in May... God willing :D Really... maintaining an upload of videos and attending uni is.... beyond challenging. Keep on keepin on Cubic!

[@ryosukereaper]

Congrats on graduating! Def deserve, this vid was fire

[@harryhsieh3800]

Imagine. This being in a MC world war time storyline. And this guy training the crew for this new hell of weapon

[@mc_mc_music]

Wow, mechanical engineer and physicist?! Man, you've really outdone yourself this time. I hope your career in those fields goes very well for you!

[@leonardoalvarez7504]

Hey broo! Congratulations on graduating!!🎉🎉 I knew you were smart as f bc of your videos, but engineering and physics? Thats on a whole other level. I wish you the very best on your career! And try not to stop posting content!🎉❤

[@p3rd1x]

I've been playing around with the use case of launching mobs with this system. Almost nothing can survive the TNT, though if it could the mechanics are the same as firing an anvil. However, I did find if you filter wither skeletons by those that can pick up armor and give them netherite with Protection 4 on all pieces and Blast Prot on 1 piece, giving a maximum of 80% blast reduction and another like ~50% total damage reduction, and they are given potion of turtle master 2 for the resistance to further reduce damage another 80% which based on how its calculated takes damage taken down to less than 2% damage. Since the maximum damage TNT centered explosions can impart to an entity is 57, this reduction is viable, though in practice I found the damage seems to repeat and kill through resistance. There's a workaround though with Lingering potions of instant damage which heal with skeletons, having these popped through the explosion I've managed to get them to survive some big charges. Haven't gotten through aiming the mobs yet though, the netherite and blast protection modify the velocity values imparted on the entity. Also most of them die on the landing, even with feather falling 4 only a small number made it in my test, so I'm thinking slow falling may be necessary which will also effect the velocity on the Y axis. The entity cramming limit can be avoided using a water column to maneuver them into a scaffolding block so they count as climbing, so hundreds can be packed into a single block. At detonation they are sent flying faster then the entity cramming damage can effect them but there seems to be some scatter that magnifies, there's some timing element with that I can't seem to sort out. Also obviously in a survival world launching hundreds of wither skeletons is bottlenecked by the lack of netherite to equip to them. I thought maybe diamond would work to be more available but the armor doesn't survive the blast and the mob dies instantly. Anyway, absolutely love your work, you're making incredible strides in Minecraft technology, your designs are genius. Figured I'd comment and let you know about my little experiments. Don't know if I'll have the technical knowledge to get it all the way to a functioning variant but the potential of being able to fire an army into an area is really cool modification of your design so I'm playing around with the basic mechanics of it.

[@cosmogauner4900]

what mc version do you need to run this?

[@JuliusDofarios]

Minecraft Cold War. This is oddly entertaining, and very well explained!

[@pictobloxer5412]

An ingenious way to demonstrate technological shock and awe. Congrats on ur degree also!!!

[@bobert3417]

Congratulations and amazing build!

[@ThomasStephenForster]

The amount of engineering skills required to do this is staggering. Lockheed Martin needs to hire this man.

[@tvgaming7846]

We've come a long way from simple obsidian cannons... Now we can rain doomsday on any target we desire, anywhere in the world.

[@joymanohar960]

Congratulations on graduating!!!!

[@OpDwagon]

holy shit, congrats on graduating!

[@ILikeAxolotls-m8b]

yoooo ty for showin the design