It made me wonder why i didn't make the last one in 2018, wkwkwk.

Clicked for the nostalgia, stayed to see what were the latest TNT cannon technology, was very mindblown by the fact you can move those TNT minecarts

I feel like this video accurately represents the evolution of weapons through time; Cannon, bullet, nuke.

2012: Grenade Launcher 2022: Ballistic Missile

Man, flashbacks to that map where people had 2 ships and would have a naval battle shooting at eachother with tnt cannons, and that other one where theyd each have a platform and would launch some of the first tnt/piston missiles at eachother.

This looks like a history lesson. We come from big enough and manually loading cannons to compact semi-automatic artillery and from artillery to uncontrollable but very powerful missiles/rockets.

I think that’s the closest we have gotten to a non-modded nuclear missile, that was freaking awesome

the fact that u can't even see the TNT (ignoring the glitch) on the missile flying machine is what makes it deadlier. people will see it coming but they won't know what will hit them till it explodes. genius

2012: we manually place tnt and it only shoots one tnt at a time! NICE! 2022: massive landmine nuke, GO

We have gone from cannons to ICBMs. How do we progress from here

Damn I used to do these old tnt guns back in 2014 I remember how excited we were to be able to shoot TNT, but now these funny weapons transformed into massive destruction tools... so cool ! 😄

There are way cooler cannons too... everything from simple scatter cannons that blow up everything in front of it to huge, complex precision machines that can shoot 20 chunks, fire a sand stack to the height limit while breaking dozens of slabs underneath it, and nuke an entire wall even covered with water. There were even cannons that could bore a tunnel that was hundreds of blocks long instantly. Factions was fun, to say the least. And to be completely honest the ingenuity people used in what was supposed to be a simple block game is actually terrifying. TL;DR this was just the tip of the TNT cannon iceberg and the people who developed those other insane cannons should work at NASA

Great video! Who remembers making their first TNT cannon?

I personally would say that that is a piece of art and should be framed and looked upon in years time as a piece of history

2012: Old timey muzzle loading cannon, slow to load, slow to fire, not very accurate 2016: A modern more compact and efficient design with a higher degree of accuracy 2022: A fucking thermobaric missile

there were more devastating cannons around 2016 though, maybe even earlier, I remember one that shot like a machinegun, like a contraption that vomits tnt, that was very cool

You’re an OG if you know that was in the red stone book Mojang realeased

I recall years ago having "missile wars" as a pre-made map that a lot of KZfaqrs tried out. The concept of a missile in Minecraft redstone is hardly novel but the use of observer blocks has made them a lot easier to implement.

What’s cool is that it’s also possible to counter this missile with a curtain of exploding tnt launched by a cannon to explode it from a safe distance. Although it’s a lot more costly than the missile because it requires a lot of cannons to guarantee a hit. Edit: I wanted to add that a tnt countermeasure is, like, the least optimal way of countering it, but I’m willing to bet my left nut that it’s the coolest way.

I was a cannoner for my factions in the 1.6-1.9 era, and we had tech you wouldn't believe. Yeah slime blocks and observers changed the game, but nothing will ever replace the raw power, beauty, and complexity of even a 100 stacking .4s auto nuke. You build one of those, or better yet a 255 nuke auto, at 30 chunks out from a 300 wall sky base and set it up, and then just let it rip. Whoever you were raiding would have like 10 minutes to notice the attack, get members online, gear up, and either counter cannon or cregg your cannon in a direct attack before it broke through the walls. And then on top of that if the raid wasn't going well, you would self destruct your cannon so rival alliances of faction couldn't steal your cannon tech designs, like anti cobweb when that came out, reverse nuke, left/right shooters, or midair stackers. So much nostalgia. Hate that EULA shut down all the good factions servers, and I never even paid for stuff I just loved playing it even against players who paid ridiculous amounts of money for kits and spawners. Bet I could still make a 100 stack auto pseudo-nuke if I tried.

If Megamanny created this video, the music for the video would be: 2012: Sweden by C418 2016: Monkeys spinning monkeys by Kevin Macleod 2022: *dream speedrunning music*

Literally the video after this one: "Introducing the Orbital Strike TnT Cannon."

Imagine you’re just some Vindicator who’s returning back to your beautiful Woodland Mansion home after a beautiful raid, and you found a gigantic hole on the side of your mansion.

Can’t believe I’ve been playing with TNT weapons for 10 years now. Look at how far we’ve come!

Damn, this evolution of weapons in Minecraft is really cool. When i'm building a fortress on servers, I still, after all this years think:"Okay, I'm sure this 3 blocks thick walls should survive 1 tnt cannon shot" - even when this FREAKING NUCLEAR PISTON WARHEAD, THAT WITH 1 SHOT COULD DESTROY HALF OF THE FORTRESS already kinda popular. Damn, my "war-strategy" is kinda old.

2012: obsidian cannon 2022: tactical nuke

I remember loving the T.N.T Minecarts cause they're much much powerful than T.N.T blocks.. the higher the altitude you drop them from, stronger the explosion become

From cannons to missiles, just like irl

It's nice and incredible to see the evolution of tnt weapons in minecraft just like in history!

2012: napoleonic canon 2016: field artillery 2022: nuke

And the latest one is the orbital strike canon by cubicmetre, capable of hitting any coordinate in a world with a blast from build height to bedrock. I recommend checking it out on his channel.

You should see the kinds of tnt cannons made on servers like Minecraft Airship Pirates. On those servers people have figured out how to build variable arc tnt cannons that fit into a 7x7x5 cube that fires 32 tnt (the maximum allowed under server rules) 400 blocks and with some very fancy methods of maximising damage

who remembers those insanely huge tnt cannons using sand in factions

They went from manual loading and shooting to semi automatic to nuclear warhead

I remember my first tnt trap in 2013, digging underground into my friend house, put a lot of tnt, put some basic redstone stuff to make a path and destroying all his house

the oldschool cannon damn. Nostalgia

Back in Beta I had this massive TNT cannon I called the Macross Cannon that could launch 3 blocks of TNT over 500 blocks away with block on block accuracy. Also had a pirate ship with compact TNT cannons. One thing few remember is that water used to push lit TNT and compress it into a single block size, so it would all detonate at once with massive potential. So by dumping more and more lit TNT into a single trough, you could get insane ranges. Modern TNT cannons, where the TNT is not compressed by water, are not nearly as powerful.

Seeing those old tnt cannons gives me a nostalgia trip

And now, in 2024, there is the Orbital Strike TNT Cannon by cubicmetre... fascinating.

1 classic tnt cannon 2 haven’t seen that one before but similar 3 A F**KING NUCLEAR BOMB

Bruuuuuh, I remember making those old fashioned tnt cannons back in the day in my friends faction server! It was the only way that two factions could really fight one another, as base protections prevented traditional raiding.

2022 reminds me of when Space Engineers was still early access and weapons hadn't been invented yet, so people built their own torpedoes with custom-shaped warheads to deal varying damage to enemy ships, but only _after_ accelerating toward them and releasing the payload. With how far Space Engineers has come, I wonder what it would be like to recreate them with modern technology 🤔 More to the point, why am I asking this under a Minecraft video?

I was half expecting the newer ones to be less practical, but this is actually quite astonishing. It's like real weapon research & development, from the first gunpowder cannons to modern artillery, really amazing.

With some physics mods, you can launch TNT minecarts from rails on ballistic trajectories. There is no upper limit on velocity. Yes, my friends and I built railguns to shell each other with from thousands of blocks away.

Now: orbital strike cannon

So nostalgic, when me and the boys would play Minecraft on a PS3 and do this together. We found villages to just terrorize.

From cannons to artillery to guided missiles. Just like real life the weapons in Minecraft have advanced over time.

"War has changed..." - Solid Snake

I still like seeing creative ways people launch the tnt

Needs updating with cubicmeter's orbital strike tnt cannon now 👀

God I remember devving cannons in the great board wars for /k/. While the designs I had were actually very, very useful and could launch tnt at a range of hundreds of blocks away and were small enough to hide anywhere, they couldn't be used because the management were utterly fucking terrible and /k/ was wiped out by /ck/ of all fucking things. Ended up defecting being the only person that survived that encounter. I dunno what it was about the cooking anons, but they could fucking fight.

They all do still have uses and shine the best in certain ways. You could set up the first cannon in a nice position to shoot over a wall or at a tower where a player may be inside of. Much easier to set up and practical. Second you could "snipe" players or builds and certain fortifications, time it with some buddies and you could raid someone who's probably protected by walls with arrows. Takes a while to set up but worth it for the aim. Second is basically a bunker destroyer, where the enemy is dealing with it, you could set up another at a different area or use it as a distraction. Which it's pretty much ideal for a distraction

Great examples, it brings back the memories. Keep it up c:

If redstoners invested more into weapons we'd have even more destructive ones to choose from. At least we have compooter.

"I have become death, the destroyer of worlds."

Therapist: "Minecraft explosive engineer don't exist" Minecraft explosive engineer:

Am I the only one whose brain can't keep up with these inventions?

Alexa Real, you are forbidden to die >:3

Let's pay honorable mention to contraption that can strike anywhere with tens of tnt and one block precision to create massive vertical holes

And now we have tnt cannons that can send a tnt projectile anywhere in the world in a single game tick. Add that projectile digging a hole until bedrock and you can see how between 2022 and 2023 the progress has been huge.

FIRST AND I LOVE YOUR VIDS KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK

We can all agree that Alexa Real videos are never disappointing

Btw, I don't know if anybody made that gun, but still, I know the canon design with allows you to fire tnt with practically any speed, and any direction

this is the best history video to learn how your ancestors greifed homes 2012: the classic manually loading TNT cannon very inefficient since it took so long to reload and even longer to make 2016:automatically loading TNT gun this gun was only inefficient in the amount of obsidian and TNT you needed 2022: TNT unguided missile as we all know this missile it is still inefficient because slime is hard to get let alone honey and nobody has tnt minecarts but still this one was better than its predecessors because its capability to cause mass destruction rather than a little at a time

Mission complete: Succesfully has gave me full nostalgia

2012: *muskets in Minecraft* 2022: *How to break Geneva Convention in Minecraft*

2012: manual artillery 2022: N2 landmine tEkNoLoGy

Oh yeah and can we just appreciate all the hard work he does for us to just watch it

Dude, Alexa's content is always fresh as hell. I never feel like his stuff his getting repetitive. 😀👍

Yeah, we just need that because that one is very popular. And also the weaponize TNT is now increasing in development. TNT cannon -> TNT canon with increased distance -> Missile TNT

I remember playing the Project Ares Minecraft server all the time and building so many of those first obsidian cannons, whether it was any good didn’t really matter with how cool it was to make these artillery railgun sort of contraptions

TNT minigun : suck my 2014, BROOOU!!

From an explosive catapult, to a cannon and to a missile.

OMG, the TNT weapon from 2012 is so nostalgic, I'm going back to my chilhood lol.

The only one I think is familiar is the first tnt cannon you showed me. But I also blew myself up in 2013, which counts as a canon. A creative person canon.

2023 saw people making smart weapons that can instantly nuke whole areas anywhere in the world

Minecraft's military technology went from Thirty Years War to Napoleonic Wars to Cold War in the span of only 10 years

2023: cubicmetre's hyperbore

I remember making the 2012 design on pocket edition before redstone was added so I'd have to manually light each TNT

cubic meter's orbital strike cannon is a step up from this.

and then there is cubicmeter with orbital strike cannon nukes......

Now: Remote tnt strike on any position base on lazy chunk loading to tp tnt instantly.

2024: Orbital Cannon

2012: _"Warning! You are in range of enemy artillery!"_ Present-day: _"STRATEGIC LAUNCH DETECTED!"_

That 2022 one was really popular in 2001 NYC too 😅

This man found a rare as hell woodland mansion just to blow a huge hole in it

I still remember Mumbo Jumbo making a Nuke in vanilla Minecraft; that thing *OBLITERATED* that fortified water-loo.

2012: haha, cannon go boom 2022: ENEMY CRUISE MISSILE IMBOUND

Bro the nostalgia is on another level in this. I remember I used to make those 2012 tnt cannons all the time

Fun fact: The reason tnt minecarts seem so much more powerful is because they perfectly stack by default just by placing more down on a single rail. Normal TNT when ignited is smaller than a single block so just using a lot of dispensers will leave slightly offset tnt. This however can be corrected by pushing the tnt into a single spot after igniting it which can be done with water and pistons (it needs to be corrected on both the X and Y axis or else it remains off by a few pixels). This can be seen often in stab cannons in wargears and it is used in Cubicmetre's Orbital strike cannon.

Here in 2023 we've found out how to create orbital strikes

We’ve easily had flying tnt rockets for at least 5 years. I can remember watching videos about them in highschool

i like how hes using the old textures for 2012

Watching the 2012 tnt cannon was a BLAST to the past. I fondly remember making that and failing LMAO.

And now we got tnt railguns and intercontinental cannons

Feels like I gotta mention Mumbo Jumbo's missiles, and his tnt sniper cannon. We've come really far since the early days.

The invention of tnt minecart traps has been one of my favorite additions to Minecraft

We don't use gun now, we use missiles

2023: Orbital cannon (there's one designed by by cubicmetre)

Nah those tnt B-52s are what people use now