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Progress report on the Argonath. Construction speeds ahead at full pace. Statue 1 is complete and statue 2 is 80% complete. Extended the river area by 5 squares to facilitate more epic looking statues. Unsure if going to proceed with creating a river as working with water tiles is notoriously difficult and slow. I will add the immense waterfall for sure though and perhaps a small lake. If I am feeling crazy and decide to create the great river it will facilitate turning the peninsula into an island, and then completely blocking off the other water route around the area. The task is immense and I don't think a single person can get it done in any reasonable time.

Discovery of immense natural cavern. Well over 100 torches down multiple paths and no end in sight. Possible it goes under the adminium layer, but more careful exploration required to deduce this.

...:shifty: whoops, guess I missed that one.

I am curious about these projects that everybody is undertaking. I think I'll come and take a look. If "jakjakatak" logs in, please be so kind as to not kick him.

I am disappointed I am not on the list. This is an insult to the thieves guild. Prepare for combat! (And your stuff being stolen.)

Lava doesn't set trees on fire anymore, when my lavafall existes it surrounded several trees which did not catch on fire. However, whomever owns the floating island thingy does have a lighter. >.> And it was Hiomaste that stole all of the Talos stuff.

My name is the same as mine here.
lol missed the 9th page oops

My name in game is Barteh.

Just bought it today. Name is Nappa990.

Floating island thingy? New Avalon?


So you stole my stuff from there? Revenge shall be sweet.
I had lighter stored there, which was made during Temple Wars to tag people trying to steal WoB totem.

Please be so kind as to post your name instead of just stealing things

Why are there two blocks of TNT floating in the sky at Torhemn, near the spawn point, surrounded by a few blocks of glass? :whistling:

Could a math wiz tell me how much stone I need to make a 64 tall by 127 base wide pyramid?

You would just continue to subtract 1 from each of those numbers until it is impossible to continue. Then add all of the final numbers together. I am not a math wiz so there there may be a better way to do it, or a calculator function. Warning doing it this way is tedious.

My pyramid is three dimensional you know, not 2D

I'd hazard a guess at around 350,000 (using [127*127*64]/3).

(1x1+3x3+5x5+7x7+...+125x125+127x127)

The series may satisfy a specific function, but if there is one then I don't know it. And I ain't opening up Matlab for this.

-_-

That's why I said this is slow and tedious. Your adding up the parts one 2 dimensional level at a time. I guess I didn't make that clear enough. So for example. Also spotted a problem with my idea I was only thinking of the perimeter of the object. Not making it out of solid cubes.
Base level is 64 x 127 = 8127 Cubes
Next Level 63 x 126 = 7938 Cubes
Next Level 62 x 125 = 7750 Cubes
ect.

So when you finally get to the end you can add all of the levels to get a final cube total.

That's no right either since that a 64 times 127 area is rectangular while the bottom area should be127 times 127 since that's square. The top is at level 64.

See my post above...

349504 stones is what I ended up with. Assuming each level is a square with side length starting at 127 and decreasing by 2 with each level you go up. That's assuming the pyramid has to be solid. It'll be a lot less if you just go hollow obviously.

depends on if the pyramid is hollow or not.

If it is hollow, start at the base which would be 127*4 and then subtract one for each layer 126*4, 125*4 etc.

If it is to be solid then you're going to have to do a little more math.

For the base layer it would be 127*4*1, '1' being the first layer. Then you follow the first equation but add each layer. Layer two would be 126*4*2 as it is 2 blocks high. The third layer would be 125*4*3. You're are going to need a LOT of blocks.

To find out how many, if it is solid you use the equation:

http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/55041.html

uhm, I am no math wizard either, but wouldn't you need to remove two blocks each level? If I understood the original question correct the first layer would be 127x127 blocks. Then if one would remove 1 block from each side you would get 126x126 blocks. If I would place 126x126 blocks on 127x127blocks in minecraft it wouldn't become a pyramid as one cannot put 1 block in the middle of 4 blocks.

Im lost

Actually it would be 127*127 on the base level, then 125*125, then 123*123, then 121*121 and so on since he has to remove one piece from every side and there are 4 sides.

I'm definitely no math wiz but it seems relatively easy to figure out the exact number of cubes he would need.

If the pyramid is hollow he just has to create the perimeter. So if he starts out with a 127*127 base he'd need 4*127 = 508 cubes, then 4*125 = 500 cubes for the next level and so on.

Actually, no. A 3x3 "hollow square" only needs 8 cubes. 4x4 needs 12, 5x5 needs 16, etc., so you need 4n-4 cubes for an n-sided hollow square.

[edit] Or at least, that's what it seems like...

Yeah, that'd be right. Each corner would count as part of two sides, so a hollow square of side 127 would need 126 * 4 blocks.