I made a Giant Tank in Minecraft

I’m building a giant tank in Minecraft I just thought I’d clarify that before I get put on a government list one of my first projects when I was learning how to make slime block flying machines was a working tank in Minecraft and I just remember it being a really fun project

To work on so I thought I’d come back over five years later and see how much I’ve improved and as you can see I’ve already done a little bit of experimenting and I’ve confirmed that the size of my tank tracks is possible so now I have to just build them this is

Going to be a very long few days you see the thing with Minecraft tank tracks is they’re a little bit of a mathematical mind boggler you see the bottom of the tank truck has to look like it’s on the ground so the bottom of the tank track

Can’t move with the Flying Machine the Flying Machine moves one block at a time and for the tank tracks to look like they’re moving the top of the tank track needs to move forward two blocks when the rest of the flying machine is only moving forward one block so there’s a

Lot of different speeds going on there on top of this I didn’t want too many straight lines and I didn’t want any harsh diagonals I kind of wanted to round things off and that made things excellent eventually more complicated and added so much more complexity but eventually I got the top section done

That was kind of the tricky part and then there was the bits on the sides which just provided such a headache because I didn’t know how many blocks they needed to move did they need to move two blocks or did they need to move just with the flying machine or I mean

What’s going on there finally I I kicked my brain into gear and worked out that it needs to go one block across and one block down and that got it all fixed up and now I have myself a gigantic working tank track which looks absolutely ridiculously cool the last thing I

Wanted to add was a little bit of decoration in the middle which just finishes off the entire thing it makes the whole thing look like an actual build and I’m really really happy with it it is now the next morning and I’ve discovered something while I was looking

For my own tank video to see how I did the top section I saw this ridiculous tank designed by mythical Pingu I mean just look at this thing it’s ridiculous I’m very familiar with pingu’s work in fact he actually designed all of Doc M’s robots for the hermitcraft bot battle so someone say

I’m too familiar with this work but I hadn’t seen this tank before and I just I love the idea of the Quad tracks so I’m going to take big inspiration from that and I’m going to do quad tracks myself this tank is getting twice as big

A few hours of me learning like Matika later this is quite possibly one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen also hilariously while I was in the process of copying this tank track a Wandering villager spawns so now I just have a bunch of them dotted around so now I

Need to start building the body of this thing I mean where do I even begin I’m thinking I do the motor first if I actually get this thing moving then that’s a really good place to start building all of the decoration on top of

It so this line of blocks here if I move this forward that will move the entire first two tracks forward these two are now paired together and I was gonna add something into the system that runs back to this track here but I actually think I could probably pull this track forward

Using the flying machines connected to this trap so there’s like a big chain reaction that travels through the tracks down to the end that seems like a pretty good idea that should work quite nicely so from there all I need to do is create a flying machine that essentially pushes

This all of this extra stuff this is all dealt with this is all done all I’ve got to do is create something that consistently pushes this line of blocks forwards if you ever wonder how I build large slime block fire machines or large machines in general or just large

Projects in general it’s by breaking it up into smaller chunks massive things are just a bunch of smaller things and if you focus on completing the small things that eventually you end up making the massive Thing by accident and it’s funny this circuit right here is probably one of the smallest air hits

I’m going to build today but it’s the most important because this is actually the motor this is the thing that’s pushing the entire system forwards and hopefully I’ve made it slow enough so that it doesn’t just leave half the build behind this Observer here is the activator despite having many backups

I’m nervous all I have to do is place in this button and everything should start moving so you can see our tank tracks are all working and I think this is moving at an okay Pace nothing seems to be breaking this looks ridiculously cool so that was very successful things don’t

Often work first time so I’m very happy about that now I need to build up the body of the tank which I’m still not 100 certain how I’m going to do it’s just going to involve a lot of diagonal lines tanks are very diagonal I think I’m also going to use

Copper as well because copper it’s just the coolest looking block I know tanks don’t normally look like this they kind of look like this and that’s close enough for me now the way that you build up walls and things like that on slime block flying machines is by essentially

Creating tiles so this tile will move forward than this one then this one and if you chain enough of them together and then put blocks on the outside it starts to look like an actual structure oh yeah as you can see I’ve switched over to using slightly weathered copper because

It looks kind of like camouflage and I think that works I’m also adding a few extra tiles down at the bottom just to fill in this air gap here and that is a really solid start for the base of our tank now I have to actually check if it

Moves it didn’t but with some small adjustments to the front section it still doesn’t how am I so incapable of counting right after even more adjustments to the front now at least the system is working but this is disconnected because I forgot to place in an observer in fact I didn’t forget

To place an observers I put them on the wrong side of the Pistons that was such an embarrassing mistake to make I think it would never make a mistake like that but now after many headaches it is actually working and it is actually moving forward very exciting now I just

Have to mirror on the other side look how long my world name is already not only have I added in the other side I’ve also added in this extra front section which I think rounds everything off and just looks great although it kind of looks a bit like a face it kind of

It almost looks like my face in a very weird way I wonder if I can lean into this is there a way that I can lean into it like if I was to go something like this I mean that kind of works I guess I

Just need to fill in the Block in the middle and then maybe switch these over to being black as well that it’s really funny so the bottom is done and now working now I just need to build the top so I need to cover over

All of this stuff and then build up the turret section so I’m building this up in tiles once again and I kind of want to have little peaks of the Redstone underneath I think that looks cool I don’t want this to be a solid area of

Blocks I still want little ideas of the Redstone Contraption underneath and I would say this strikes the right balance we can still see a lot of the circuitry but equally there’s enough covered that you get the idea that this is a solid build I’ve employed the use of another

Technique here this is not using tiles I’m now pushing from the back and that allows me to push regular Pistons forward these aren’t attached to slime blocks or anything like that and that means I can make use of the full push limit of 12 blocks obviously I work my

Way up to the maximum of the 12 block push limit in these tiles as well but they’re considerably smaller because of course it’s three blocks three blocks three blocks and then all of the extras it adds up to 12 very quickly whereas with lines of blocks 12 blocks looks

Like quite a lot I have no clue if that made sense hopefully it did now it’s turret time and I’m not sure how going to do this really not sure how I’m going to do this I’m almost tempted to build something that kind of Loops back and

Then pushes it from behind a little bit like what we’ve got going on here now that I’m playing with it I think I’m not going to do that instead I’m going to try my best to keep pulling it in this direction I think I think this could

Work I don’t know you can tell when I’m confused because I’ll just repeat the same word twice every single time I say it but bafflingly this does actually seem to be working so in theory now I should just be able to extend this backwards and we’ll have ourselves a

Wall of a tank I placed that slime block in completely the wrong location I have to really be careful because if I hit one of these observers it could cause a horrible Chain Reaction anyway now I’m back to just tile placing for the time being which has led to a very cool

Looking structure but it did look a little bit flat so I think I’m going to add some extra details along the side here I can already tell this is going to look totally pants so instead I think I’m going to just add a stripe in the color or multiple stripes in the color

That looks a million times better this is starting to look super menacing now especially now that there’s a second side it is a tiny bit thin I’ve think I made it probably about two blocks too skinny but I’ve knocked a few blocks off the top and I think that’s really helped

So now we build the cannon which is a little bit of a weird one I’ve started placing in some blocks here just to work things out and I think this will work I’m trying my best to make it as solid as possible but when you’re pushing from

The back you have to have air gaps because obviously those Pistons need to go to that space so that they can push forward the reason I generally prefer pulling parts of redstone contraptions is they can all stick together like this it’s all tight and compact whereas with

Pushing that isn’t possible but I think I’ve hit it pretty well in this so I’m going to build up a few more modules and then I’m going to look into the possibility of adding a weapon onto the front of this thing I haven’t entirely worked out what sort of weapon I want to

Put on the front of it whether it’s going to be something like a missile or it’s going to be some kind of TNT cannon and my heart is telling me miss out this is going to be something that gets fired out of the cannon so it will be a flying

Machine that travels faster than the tank and then when it hits something it will explode massively the only tricky factor is how do I make it so that it doesn’t fly without me telling it to fly I I don’t know how do I make a flying machine inside of a flying machine that

Doesn’t fly until I activate something on the original flowing machine I don’t know okay I think I’ve had an idea and that is to have a flying machine that is split in half like this that gets pushed along and then when I activate something it will push the two

Pieces in line with one another so it actually becomes a flying machine and can fly off that makes sense to me this Observer here should be the one that activates it there are so many ways this could potentially break it is ridiculous and it has already broken and now it’s

Broken again and finally now that I’ve got to pushing the machine it broke itself anyway but with this Innovation here I think fingers crossed it should work because the Observer will be pushed in front of the Flying Machine and then fire and then the Flying Machine moves

On top of it so it shouldn’t push itself upwards as it’s trying to move forwards I finally have some confidence in this part of the mechanism oh my goodness yes it is working everything is being pushed forward and then if I activate this I just forgot how flying machines work but thankfully

Despite being embarrassing that was very easy to fix and now everything is fully functional I know this sounds silly but I’m so excited to activate this thing that my voice is like stuck in the back of my throat I don’t know how to describe it I almost need to feel like I

Need to do some voice exercises I’m just gonna stop having around and I’m gonna activate this thing and watch it travel across the landscape this is by far by far the coolest flying machine if you could even call it that that I’ve ever created I mean look at all the Deep there’s all

The the tracks the tracks making their way around we’ve got the giant body this is the first time that I’ve actually tried making like a solid looking flying machine and then of course we’ve got the missile out front I’ve got my target set up so let’s see let’s see if we can

Absolutely nail this thing so it’s moving forwards but then all I have to do is activate this Observer right here and that will fire our missile which travels off there’s nothing cooler than watching a flying machine leave another flying machine none of these things are particularly fast our tank is

Very slow but all tanks are slow uh our missiles it’s as fast as we can go in Minecraft but that doesn’t mean it’s quick but there we go it’s hit it’s hit the target it looks like we’ve got ignition I’d say that’s pretty that’s pretty an odd tank is gonna

Skip forwards I’m so happy I’m so happy that this is built I’m so happy it’s working I’ve smelled so long filming this thing so I hope you enjoyed and I’ll catch you in the next video see ya oh yeah by the way the mustache is still here