How to make sphere in minecraft

How to build a hollow sphere in Minecraft

Plotz voxel sphere generator
for Minecraft

I wrote Plotz online voxel sphere generator to help people build hollow spheres made out of blocks in Minecraft. Using Plotz you can select the size of the sphere you want to build and see it on screen. You can then print out a schematic or use Plotz’s on-screen step facility to see how the sphere is built layer by layer.

Start by visiting Plotz and follow the ‘Take me to Plotz’ link. Initially Plotz shows a 32 block high sphere. I’d recommend starting this size or smaller. This size took me a day to make (In Real Life) although I did mine all the materials myself. Use the arrows either side of the size to step up or down 1 block in size or type in a new size between 1 and 64 and hit enter to change it. Be patient if your machine is slow while Plotz generates and renders the sphere. Once you’re happy with the size of sphere you want to build you can either print out a schematic OR work on screen.

If printing, hit the print button. Plotz will preview the schematic on screen. The various print options are well explained and mostly relate to saving paper. The ghost layer is by far the most useful option and is turned on as default. This makes sure you can see how each layer is positioned relative to the layer below. Adjust your options if required and then click Print. Choose your printer, set and printer specific options, start printing and make a coffee.

You might also consider printing to a file such as a PDF file. I’ve heard CUTE PDF is good for this but haven’t used it myself. Printing to a file will allow you to bring the schematic up on-screen. This is especially useful if you have multiple monitors.

If you don’t have a printer, don’t despair. I actually found working on screen and stepping through the layers of my sphere very easy. Start by entering 1 in ‘show up to layer’. Now use the arrow buttons either side of that value to step through the layers. The gold highlight clearly shows the current layer. Switch between Plotz and Minecraft while building using your OS hotkeys (alt+tab for windows).

6 layers in with
dirt ‘joining’ blocks front left

48 block high voxel sphere
half way done

Close to finished and
in the clouds

Make sure there is enough room to build your sphere. I put down dirt ‘posts’ to mark out the width and height where I wanted to build. This way I made sure I wasn’t going to end up having to dig out any mountains or cliffs that might be in the way. Also, remember that from ground level to the top of the sky is 64 blocks. Don’t leave yourself short of space to finish your sphere.

Starting from the ground up is a no-brainer choice. Where there are no overlapping blocks between one layer and another, just use dirt blocks as ‘joiners’ and remove them later. I also used dirt with ladders for scaffolding as well as ladders. Always enter (and exit) from the top in case there are any creepers about and light up the inside with torches to stop skeletons and zombies spawning inside at night.

When building a layer I found it easiest to remember the stepping around the edge of 1/8th of the circle as a series of numbers in my head. Even when I built a 48 size sphere I never had to remember more then 4 or 5 numbers. Build each eigth towards another to make quarters. When they meet at the correct place you can be confident there’s no mistakes. Before you know it, that layer is finished and you’re on to the next.

I hope you find Plotz useful and please leave feedback here on my blog with any comments you have!

Dirt and ladders
scaffolding

Even at a distance a
48 high sphere is huge

The finished sphere with
fancy end caps

Modern house made using
Plotz as a guide

How to Make Circles and Spheres in Minecraft

The popular sandbox game Minecraft is famous for its pixelated blocky world. The game revolves around using squares and cubes to build your world, so suggesting to make circles and spheres in Minecraft sounds almost impossible. However, with a large community, there are always players trying to find workarounds to such interesting but mountainous tasks. Thanks to these players, we have some reliable ways to create almost perfect circles and spheres in Minecraft. With that said, let us teach you how to make a circle and sphere in Minecraft.

Make a Circle and Sphere in Minecraft: A Step-by-Step Guide (2021)

You can use some construction techniques to make circular structures with ease on both Minecraft Java and Bedrock editions. There are even some interesting Minecraft mods to help you out with this task. And if nothing works out, players have devised a few tricks that can even help you build a perfect circle in the game. Let’s go over each of these methods in this guide.

How to Make a Circle in Minecraft [Manual Method]

For our first technique, we will create a circular shape on the ground. At a close distance, it will not appear like a perfect circle. However, the shape keeps smoothing itself as you increase its size and your distance from it. The principle at work here is simple. Enough smaller-sized square blocks, arranged in a round format, will appear like a circle from a distance. Here’s how this method works:

Plan and Size of Circle Construction

The plan with basic circles in Minecraft is to create four longer horizontal lines of blocks. Then, you connect them diagonally with the same number of blocks on each angled side. You can start by creating small circles that are 8 x 8 blocks in size and increase the size until you are satisfied with your creation. Do keep in mind that the higher the number of blocks used, the more realistic the circle’s shape will be from a distance. But with an additional number of blocks, the structure will keep getting more complex.

For comparison, we have an 8 x 8 block circle in Minecraft that requires 24 blocks with only 4 blocks in diagonals. Meanwhile, the adjacent 18 x 18 block circle uses a total of 52 blocks. The four main sides of any circle larger than the 18 x 18 figure will continue to be 5 blocks long. Meanwhile, the number of blocks used in the diagonals will keep changing. Here’s a standard pattern of diagonal blocks you can follow:

Steps to Make a 18 x 18 Circle in Minecraft

If the explanation sounded a little confusing and left you scratching your head, let’s learn how to make a circle in-game. But do make sure that you either enter Minecraft in Creative game mode or at least have 52 blocks that we need to make our 18 x 18 circle.

1. To begin, start by creating two parallel lines with a distance of 18 blocks between them. The parallel lines should be 5 blocks long. The easiest way to do that is to create a long straight line of 18 blocks. Then, create parallel lines on either side of that 18-block line (shown below). You can break the long line of 18 blocks later as it serves no function in the finished circle.

2. Now, make a horizontal line on either edge of both the original lines created in the step above. This horizontal line should only be 2 blocks long. Our aim with each new line is to make a diagonal while moving closer to the original parallel lines. Then, on the edge of the newly created horizontal lines, make an identical horizontal line of 2 blocks. Your structure should look like this after the first two steps:

3. While expanding the circle, make one vertical 2 block line from the edge of the last horizontal line. Once you have created that, make another identical vertical 2 block line. The structure should feel like an incomplete pixelated circle from the top.

4. Finally, what’s left for us to do is to complete the circle construction in Minecraft. To do that, you need to create a 5 blocks line on the outer edges of both incomplete sides. Remember not to fill the space between the existing blocks. Instead, the 5-block lines should touch the vertical lines at their edges. The final figure should look something like the screenshot attached below. The final 5-block parallel lines will also have a distance of 18 blocks between them.

That is how you can make a circle in Minecraft. You just need to keep the basic plan in your head. Start by creating two parallel lines, then keep joining them with similar diagonal sides. You can create a circle in multiple formats, depending on the number of blocks you use. So, feel free to experiment in your Minecraft world.

How to Make a Sphere in Minecraft [Manual Method]

Once you get comfortable with creating diagonals, a circle is relatively easy to make. As for making a sphere in Minecraft, things can get a little tricky. But if you follow these steps carefully, you can start by making a 13 x 13 sphere in no time.

1. Start by placing a single block in the air, at least 10 blocks above the surface. You can do so by building up to it from the surface and then breaking the rest of the supporting blocks. Then, place 5 blocks on each of the six sides of the cube block. It will look something like the screenshot below. You can use any type of block to build this structure.

2. Now, once the base is ready, we need to start building the sphere from the outside. At the end of each of the newly created block lines, create a 3 x 3 square using 9 blocks. The structure should look like the screenshot below once you finish.

3. Now, you need to build a circular shape along the edges on the inner side of the squares. The easiest way to build it is from the inside. Make 5 block long straight lines located 1 block towards the inner side of our structure. They should also have a gap of 1 block from the central block. Then, on the outer side of the 5-block lines, place 3 blocks next to the middle 3 blocks. If the description feels too complex to follow, try following replicating the structure in the screenshot below.

4. Once you finish the mini circle on one of the outer edges, you need to repeat the process on all the 9 x 9 squares we built in Step #2. The final structure will look almost like a complete sphere.

5. Now, we need to connect the rest of the structure while moving inwards. There can be multiple ways to do it, with the simplest being creating a wall in the space. But what we recommend doing is creating stair-shaped gap-filling structures at the top and bottom areas. These are made with 5 blocks in the back row and 3 blocks in the front row. It will look something like this.

6. Finally, you need to fill the remaining gaps inwards. It’s best done from outside the structure. Go near a gap, look towards the inner blocks on either side and start placing blocks adjacent to them. In the middle layers, it will take you 2 blocks only, but as you do towards the bottom and top, you need to use 3/4 blocks as when required. Our only aim is to fill the gaps in the same fashion on all sides.

7. If you are using random blocks throughout the process, an additional step will be required to create uniformity. You can replace blocks to make the structure out of the same type of block for a better circular aesthetic. But that’s purely optional.

This method can be replicated with a higher number of blocks to create larger spheres in your Minecraft world. We suggest you try it out in creative game mode first before recreating spheres in Minecraft survival mode. But if the steps above seem complex, there are some simple workarounds to creating circles and spheres in Minecraft that require little to no effort.

How to Make a Circle and Sphere using Minecraft Mods

Now, it’s time to install Forge in Minecraft because we will use mods to easily make circles and spheres. Minecraft mods can help you create circular structures in-game. We are avoiding mods that make blocks circular to keep our structures useful in vanilla Minecraft. So, the most useful mod for creating circular structures is the Minecraft WorldEdit map editor. It’s exclusive to the Java Edition like most mods, so the Bedrock players can’t use this powerful tool.

1. To get started, first download the WorldEdit mode from Forge (Free). Visit this link and click the “Download” button on the right side of the page. Additionally, you can check the files section to find a mod compatible with your game version.

2. Once the download finishes, you will have a .jar file. If your browser warns you about the file download, make sure to mark it as safe. As Forge is a reliable website used by a majority of the Minecraft community, you don’t have to worry about the security warning. Click on the “Keep“ button to save the file.

If you are unable to locate it, paste this address – %appdata%\.minecraft\mods in your Explorer address bar. You can also open a Run window using the Windows keyboard shortcut (Win + R) and paste this address to access the folder location.

Now that you have the WorldEdit mod installed, you need to figure out how to make spheres and circles in Minecraft using this mod. If the mod doesn’t work for any reason, you can easily fix it by updating the game or downloading a compatible version of the mod.

How to Make a Sphere in Minecraft using WorldEdit Commands

For those unaware, WorldEdit works with in-game commands that we can type in the chatbox. One of the best features of this mod is that you can create a sphere out of any block in-game. So, load up your Minecraft world, and let’s see how it works.

1. Once your world loads up, you need to go to an empty place if you are in creative mode. Then, you can choose to go at a certain height as well. Once you are in a large open space, it’s time to put the mod to use and create a sphere.

2. Press the “/” or “t” button on your keyboard to open up the chat option. In the chat textbox, type the command in the following format: //sphere block_name number_of_blocks and press Enter.

4. Finally, what’s left to do is putting your creativity to use to make spheres with the most unexpected blocks in Minecraft. While typing the command, the game will suggest a few blocks you can use to make spheres. Feel free to choose any of those blocks and make some unique spheres, like the ones shown below:

Bonus: How to Make a Perfect Circle in Minecraft

We have explained the manual and command-based methods to make a circle and sphere in Minecraft in the sections above. So now, let’s talk about how to make a perfectly smooth and round circle in Minecraft. Yeah, it seems impossible with the cube-based game mechanics, but players have found a reliable way to make it even in vanilla Minecraft. There are several cool Minecraft mods you can use to achieve a feat like this, but this YouTuber found a way to do it in vanilla Minecraft.

This trick functions using Command Blocks that are in-game programming blocks. These can be used to not only spawn entities and blocks but also to make them do particular actions. The Youtuber uses 6 command blocks to spawn invisible armor stands alongside falling sand blocks. These blocks have zero gravity, so they aren’t interactable like regular blocks.

You can not interact with the circle in any way, but it still is a great visual aesthetic in the game. And thanks to the combination of in-game commands and visual glitches, you get a perfect-looking circle in Minecraft. For new players, the tutorial will be a fail-and-try method, but once you get a hold of it, it works like a charm. If you feel stuck at any moment, you can reach out to us in the comments section. Our team has tested this method on Minecraft Java version 1.17.1, and it works without any trouble.

Make Circles and Spheres in Minecraft with Ease

Whether it was for function reasons or aesthetics, you now know how to make circles and spheres in Minecraft. If you choose to use the command block or mods as your solution, don’t forget to install Optifine in Minecraft. It helps improve in-game performance and graphics quality. Some players can even find circular structures pre-built in a few Minecraft modpacks. But creating one on your own is truly fun and challenging. If you are still confused about what to use these circles or spheres for, longtime players on Minecraft Discord servers can help you out. Now, go ahead and start making circles and spheres, and don’t forget to share them with your friends.

How to Make a Sphere in Minecraft

This is a tutorial on how to make a sphere in Minecraft using nothing but Microsoft Paint ( and of course Minecraft ). This tutorial will work for spheres of any size, and although its not perfectly accurate, no-one will be able to tell. Make a near perfect sphere in a few simple steps. Note: Spheres of an even diameter would be done slightly differently in the first two steps.

Step 1

You should already know where the center of your sphere is going to be and how big you want it to be. If not, why? Place a block where the center of your sphere is going to be. On each side of the center place a line of blocks until the shape you made is the same size as the sphere you want. The length of the line you made should be the same on each side.

Step 2

Open Microsoft Paint. Select the Oval located in the Shapes section and change the size of the brush to the smallest setting possible. Draw a circle with the same size as the sphere you want to make. If you have to, and I suggest you do, zoom in as much as possible to draw and see the details of the circle you’ve drawn. Because of the inaccuracy of Paint, the circle would not be the same on all sides, so only use the bottom-right hand corner when building in-game.

Step 3

Using the lines built in Step 1, between every axis and its neighbors, build the bottom-right hand corner of the circle made in Step 2. In the end there should be a circle lain on the x, y, and z axes.

Step 4

On every axis coming from the center there should be a cross coming from every block on that axis ( imagine that the block between the circles and axes are filled in ). Chose one of those axes. Go to the cross coming out from the outermost block on the axis and measure the size of it. Go into Paint and create another circle of the same size. Using the bottom-right hand corner of that circle, build a circle around the block that the cross of centered on. The circle should be the same size as the cross, if not, the size of the circle you made is off. Go to the cross at the end of every axis and make the same circle around it.

Step 5

This Step is very similar to Step 4. Start at the end of each axis, excluding the block you just built a circle around, and move inwards toward the center. Measure the size of the cross that would be made from that block and the circles made around it. Go into Paint and draw a circle of the same size. Build that circle centered around the cross you got the size from using only the bottom-right corner of the circle in Paint. Build that same circle around every cross that has the same size of that circle ( there should be one on every axis ). Repeat moving block-to-block towards the center. Stop when the circles start to intersect, you should not build a circle if it is going to intersect a circle from another axis, unless it’s the same size.

Step 6

You should have eight holes, one at every corner of the sphere. Every block that the hole takes up should not be adjacent to any blocks that already exists. Diagonal to every existing block ( not including the ones made in this step ). ( The black wool are the blocks that would have been places in this step ).

Now you have a near-perfect sphere that you can show off to all your easily impressed buddies and to use in all of your sphere needing projects. Now you don’t have to go through the hassle of opening MCEdit or any other external program ( other than Microsoft Paint ) or download any mods whenever you need a sphere in one of your projects. If your sphere is over 50 blocks wide, then this tutorial might have been a waste of time and MCEdit might have been better.

How to Make Circles and Spheres in Minecraft

«> Circles and Spheres in Minecraft

When building your world, sometimes you run into the struggle that Minecraft is a pixelated game. There is no way of having a true curve in Minecraft, but there are ways to create circles.

Contents

Required items to Make a Circle or Sphere

— Any block that you choose

How to Make a Circle in Minecraft

In a Nutshell:

To make circles in Minecraft, draw a large “+” sign, then extend the 4 corners to form edges. The edges will be joined together in an irregular fashion, such that it is neither completely diagonal nor completely square to mimic the curved edge of a circle. After the outline, simply fill the shape with the block you wish. As for the sphere, you will have to build several circles atop each other, starting and ending with smaller ones, which gradually enlarge towards the center.

Step-by-Step Guide(with Pictures):

Here is the step-by-step pictorial guide you need to follow to Make Circles and Spheres in Minecraft :

Making a circle in Minecraft sounds difficult, but with this simple chart, it becomes very easy.

This chart explains how circles are made in a pixelated world. The numbers above each circle describe its circumference. For instance, if you want to build a circle that is 17 blocks wide, it will be 17 blocks from one way to the other. We are going to be using the 17 blocks wide circle for this example.

Step 1) The first thing you want to do is to place down 17 blocks. Count these blocks out and place another block perpendicular on both sides of the middle block (in this case it will be on the 9th block).

Step 2) After you do this, you want to go 7 blocks out on each side.

Step 3) Now you want to start at each tip. Each tip will act as the center of the edge of the circle. Each outermost edge of the circle needs to be 5 blocks long.

Step 4) Now that you have done this, you want to finish the outline of the circle. To do this, you are going to want to build out each corner with two blocks facing the same way the original edge is facing.

Step 5) After you complete these, you want to add the corners of the circle. To do this, do a miniature “L” with three blocks to fill in the gap in the outline that you just constructed.

Step 6) Now you have completed the outline of the circle. Now you can do whatever you want with your circle. You can either break the middle blocks and keep the circle hollow or you can fill it in and make it into a platform to stand on.

How to make a Sphere in Minecraft

Making a sphere in Minecraft is just as easy as making a circle, except for the fact that it is three-dimensional instead of two-dimensional. Here is the chart that we are going to follow.

This chart looks difficult to follow but it is actually pretty straightforward. The first thing you want to do is to make a column that is 16 blocks tall. This is because the sphere is going to take up 16 blocks of space on all sides.

Step 1) Now that you have created your 16 blocks tall column, start with the top left of the diagram. The first part of the diagram states that levels 1 and 16 are the same and are a 7 block wide sphere.

Step 2) Now that you have created your two 7 blocks wide circles on the top and bottom of your column, all you need to do is work your way in. The second part is to do levels 2 and 15. Levels 2 and 15 are 11 blocks wide.

Step 3) Keep working your way down. Levels 3 and 14 are 13 blocks wide. Levels 4 and 13 are 15 blocks wide. Levels 5 and 12 are 17 blocks wide, and so on. As you can see, each new set of levels is just a sphere that is 2 blocks wider than the last. Continue this pattern until you meet in the middle. This should make your sphere.

How to build a sphere in Minecraft

Hey guys, instead of doing my usual command block tutorial, I decided to change things up and make a building tutorial. I have heard far to many times people say «There’s no such thing as spheres in Minecraft» meanwhile I’m building them myself. So, I decided to teach you guys how to build spheres yourself.

To start off, you will need to know how to build a circle, since the entire build relies on your ability to built a perfect (or as close as possible to perfect) circle. If you aren’t confident in building circles, or just want to be sure, click on the tab below.

Before you start, you need to understand that anything you do on one eighth of the outside of the circle must be repeated on every other eighth of it. Now, carry on as you were.

Start off by building 4 beams going in opposite directions, making sure that each side is the same length. In the example below, I build each of mine 8 blocks away from the center.
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Next, you will need to do some math. Get the length of blocks it is from the center to the end of one of the beams (not including the center) and divide it by pi (π). If you get a decimal, round it to the nearest whole number. In my example, I did: 8 / π, which equals 2.55 and is rounded up to 3. This is the distance that will be added onto each side at the end of each beam. If you don’t understand what I mean, here’s a photo of my example:
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Then, just slowly decrease the amount of blocks as you go down, adding onto each side of each quarter as you go, until each end meets. There are three ways ends of a circle will meet:
-The 2×2 L shape
-2 blocks diagonal to each other
-A singe block
If you go away, you should be able to tell instantly whether or not your circle is too octagonal or too square, or if it’s perfect, since our eyes do a great job at telling those small differences. If it doesn’t feel right, just try again. To help you judge, the number calculated with pi before should be the distance between the end of the flat surface and the point where the two ends meet. It’s a bit hard to explain so here’s a photo. Here’s a photo of my finished circle:
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Once you are confident enough with your circle building skills, feel free to move on to the spheres.

To build a sphere, you first need to understand how spheres work. If you cut a sphere at any given point and angle, both pieces of the cut would have a circle on the cut face, meaning that any straight line drawn on the sphere would wrap around and form a perfect circle. This is why being able to build a basic circle is really important for building a perfect sphere, and is also why being able to build perfect spheres can really help with building circles at complex angles that do not follow any of the axis planes in the game, since giving a perfect cut through the sphere at any angle will leave a circle on its face.

Now that you understand how spheres work, its time to build one. To start building the sphere, you will need to build 6 beams going in opposite directions starting from the same point and all being the same length. Going on from my example in the quick circle building tutorial, my example below is also 8 blocks from the center. Click here to view my example. Now, using four of these 6 beams, build a circle. Here’s an example of what I mean. Once you are happy with your circle, rebuild it twice, creating a circle on the x, y and z axis’. Click here to see my example. Now that you have your scaffolding done, we need to build the actual sphere. On a flat surface of one of the circles, build a smaller circle with the same diameter as that surface facing away from the center of the circle, like this. When you are happy with this circle repeat it on each flat surface of the scaffolding. It should look like this before you fill in each circle, and like this after you fill in each circle. Now that you have done the first layer, move on to the next. If you did the first lot of circles correctly, the next layer should go out the exact same amount of blocks on each side of each circle. If not. well. sucks to be you (although i did the exact same thing. starting over may suck, but that’s okay). If so, then we will build another circle, this one going around the first layer but one block behind. It should look like this, being its own circle just behind another one. You see why it’s essential to be able to build a circle now? When you are happy with your circle, repeat it on each side, making it look a bit like my example. If your circle has reached this point and still has a lot of gaps (like mine), just repeat the process of going a block backward until the circles begin to overlap, sorta like this example. This just means you are nearly finished. The process is exactly the same at this point, with the only difference being that most of the blocks in each circle would have already been built. You know you have built a perfect sphere when the calculations for the last few circles match up perfectly with what’s already been built. Eventually, you will reach a point where you only need to build 8 more blocks. Treasure up these last moments as the sphere goes from being an overly complicated fete of mathematics in a child’s game to a perfect sphere.

But if you enjoyed this tutorial, please check out some of my other ones where I’m in my comfort zone, command blocks. If you want more building basics tutorials, please say so in the comments, I like feedback. But for now, I’ll see y’all later.