Felling a Titan

I have yet to fell a Titan Willow, but one looming over my Shadowheart was about to become the test subject.  Sunlight was my main ally in taming the spawners below, so this giant was about to be shrunk.  No small task.

 

The first step was just getting to the top.  This is one ladder you definitely don't want to fall off of.

 

 Goooooing Up!

Big. Green. Leafy.  Not much to recommend the place, actually.

I poke a few leaves and the game starts to get choppy.  The reason is soon apparent - not enough logs supporting all those leaves.  I chill out on my precarious catwalk while the willow defoliates.

I'm left with a bounty of saplings...

And something more akin to a popsicle stick than a tree.

The rest was not very interesting, so I'll spare you the 101 images of chopping wood.  Suffice to say that many minecraft days were spent reducing this enormous tree down to platform level.  In the end though, there was no more avoiding the spawners.  A germ of an idea had been growing in the back of my mind - four spawners would make a very respectable mob farm, if only I could come up with a design that would funnel them down into a trap....