User blog comment:Mrob27/The moat experiment/@comment-4829477-20120210141606/@comment-4829477-20120214170457

another random thought, maybe in a future update they will have a even quicker way to get rid of large amounts of blocks at once, like the destruction catalyst in a minecraft mod! (i forgot the mod name) That way it would be extremely easy to dig out big pits and traps and such for trapping mobs