A Better way to build Circles in Minecraft 

Literally came up with the same idea a few years ago, I do find formating it like in this case 15 radius as "7 3 2 (1)4" way more convenient, as for example when building large circles some patterns emerge, that you can easily include here. Like in the case of 38r, it would be "13 4 (3)2 (2 1)2 2 (1)5"

ive been memorizing it this way for years now and its great to hear i wasnt alone in this kind of technique, never really heard it used anywhere else. i have a bad habit of not setting a center spot unless im trying to plan something out in advance, but still a really cool trick either way edit, i mostly do it for pixel art, but it carries over just the same because of a grid of squares

I have been doing this for years, way better than just referencing a picture and now i can make circles of any size

This is basically the method I use, except I haven't thought to put the numbers in a chat message -- I normally just keep the reference open on another monitor, count it up once, then work from memory.

I’ve been doing something very similar in my head for years, and it makes it really easy to memorise lots of the circles I build most often. It’s awesome to see the system be formalised like this!

I've never really been able to put into an equation -or even words for that matter- this very method i've been using for building circles without EVER needing to reference anything outside of minecraft. Thank you because i can now link my friends this video when they are wondering how im bulding circles without mods or references.

Surprised to find such an underrated content creator. Been binging some of your videos and they're all very understandable and quite useful (if not at least for the knowledge), which is sometimes hard to get with the topics you do. Great work!

I just really couldn't get over the fisheye effect lmao. Great vid, gave me dizziness but still 9/10

I figured something like this was possible but never felt the need to figure it out, thanks for doing it for me and for publishing it for everyone else to use. Generic build guides like this are very welcome and should honestly be made more.

Absolutely stellar video, I could tell that it was one of if not the first video you have made like this but it was REALLY good so if you just keep on going with good videos like this, you'll certainly be on to a winner 🙌 (and thank you for the great tip ;D)

Thank you this was very helpful, you’re awesome!

I've always just estimated the numbers for each section so I'm glad other people do it similarly because it's definitely a time saver.

Very useful tip. I did the same thing when building the Imango's gold+xp farm

the base is stunning!

So simple, and yet no one's thought of it before (well, practically no one). Thanks!

I play on console bedrock. You have no idea how much you just helped my builds. I was this day old when I learned a great way to make circles in Minecraft 😁

I developed a similar method of formatting circles a few months back when I was playing Rimworld! Crazy how our brains all converged on this convienient idea

Wonderful technique! I just know this video is gonna blow up

Thank you, building circles was really hard for me, but this helps a lot

I never seem to make the same size circle twice, so i keep a little sheet of numbers in this exact style for easy reference. This is so useful and I’m happy I’m not the only one who measures them like this

you're my favorite minecraft content creator, i've been following since you made that first flying machine that tracks how long you went

i believe having problems with these things is commonly known as a skill issue. jokes aside thats a pretty great way to do it in vanilla

Instructions unclear: I squished an iron block into a sphere

ive built a lot of circular gold farms and this is exactly how i do it

Huh, I thought i was the only one who did this. I normally just recite the values out loud to myself for mnemonic memory as I build away. For large circles there gets to be quite a few values, but the difficulty is about as much as briefly memorizing a phone number.

Hi there. It's a nice coincidence that I was building my own circle in minecraft when your video popped up. I also made my own code (which is slightly different from yours) but is based on the same concept that minecraft's square grid has 4-way symmetry and allows you to repeat half a quadrant of a circle 8 times. Here's my results: 1 - 75 - 8 - 39 - 8 - 30 - 8 (center - sina - sina wall - rose - wall rose - maria - wall maria) OD = 337 sina (d=153): 8, 7, 4, 3x3, 2x6, (1, 2)x2, 1x14 wall sina (d=167): 9, 6, 5, 3x4, 2x5, (1, 2)x2, [1, 1, 2], 1x12 rose (d=247): 11, 8, 5x2, 4, 3x4, [2, 2, 3], (2x3, 1)x2, [2, 1, 2, 1, 1], [2, 1x3, 2], 1x13 wall rose (d=261): 11, 8, 6, 5, 3, 4, 3x3, [2, 3], 2x7, [1, 2, 2], (1, 2)x2, 1x2, [2, 1x3, 2], 1x13 maria (d=323): 12, 9, 7, 5, 4x3, 3x4, [2, 3, 2, 2, 3], [2x3, 1, 2x3], [1, 2, 2], (1, 2)x2, (1, 1, 2)x2, 1x5, 2, 1x11 wall maria (d=337): 12, 10, 6x2, 4x3, 3x5, [2, 3], 2x9, [1, 2, 2], (1, 2)x3, [1, 1, 2], [1x3, 2], [1x5, 2], 1x9 The square brackets [ ] are not necessary but I added them for ease of reading. And also yes I'm building attack on titan in minecraft lolol

I have been doing this method since like 2015, I notate it like 15,73211 though (its by quadrant except the largest side, because it just works for me). For large circles it usually looks more like "26,113321211", if it "shares" a 1 with the other quadrant of the circle I put it in parenthesis. I have not had to make a circle large enough the second-largest number is double digits so it hasn't been confusing for me yet but I could see it just having spaces or another character put in to solve ambiguity for others like "26,11 3 3 2 1 2 1 1", but since I know what it means I don't need to add the spaces.

Brilliant! ty

Works great until you have a 125 block radius circle lol

tnhx man it really helps

Good tip!

you are a LEGEND!

very useful thanks

Life changing. I WILL be using this trick later.

Great way to do it. I used to have a sheet with the number codes for curves; It's useful for roman style coliseums ! (with piston powered floodable floor) =D

Your video content is really good! Just one critique: I found the FOV pretty off-putting though, the fast camera movements were leaving me feeling a little nauseated.

I love it

This is very similar to how I've been doing this for a long time, though I normally can just hold those numbers in my head. Just yesterday I built a circular slime farm, and it was radius of 13, and the ring is (from the end of the spar) is 3,3,2 with 3 diagonal. I sometimes do the whole width on the ends if it's a smaller circle, but doing it this way is easier when building floating structures since you build one direction at a time And the weird corner I call a 2,2 pickaxe, because that's the shape it reminds me of

my man just invented counting on his fingers

with the7312 circle you showed I'd recommend looking at a slightly off circle 732[2] it'll be slightly bulged on the diagonals but you'll hardly notice it and it looks way better then the "true" circle

nice! i did it before, but for some reason never considered a possibility to save the numbers in chat - i wrote it down on a paper :D really useful video. thank you!

Commenting for the algorithm because i consider this video useful and idk what else to say

I thought doing it this way was common sense, I'd just count the blocks in each line and put them down. For smaller circles I could just memorize the pattern quickly and do the entire thing only looking at the guide once

Thank you!!

This guy knows how to build a circle in minecraft

Nice video

i usually free style my circles lol, all the tinkering is figuring out a radius/diameter, and from there its just a quarter but a quarter is also symmetric like in your example it goes 7 3 2 [4] but the [4] is part of both halves of a quarter. so as long as u can make a smooth eighth of a circle u should be able to make a complete circle freestyle

"I'm a huge fan of circles" **proceeds to play a game where there are not any circles at all**

I am building a massive oval and this is really helpful

this is what ive been doing for years exept i use a notebook i will go to that exact website you linked in the description, generate a circle i need, and write out half the length of the longest bar in my notebook(i write down the left column, when i get to the bottom i leave some space then write another column), then the length of every bar in a quarter until i get to the middle with a bunch of ones were i generally write something like 1,6 (if there is 6 one block sections) and i find that a million times easier than switching back and using a visual image

Nice. Interesting to see someone else discover the same method independently..

Thank you so much

Built an earth dome last week,thankfully I had this idea immidiately instead of having to suffer.

Cool vid

This is how I've done it intuitively my entire life lmao

This seems to be a cool idea indeed, can't eait to use it on my 2km wide circle build, maybe using slightly different notation but yeah

I was actually doing the same strategy, except that I put these numbers in my head. I never thought on writing them somewhere XD

For a long time ive been using an app on my phone called Minecraft circles. You put ij either the radius or diameter yoi want and it generates the pattern for you so you can see all this info by looking at the pattern. Super useful.

i use the same way too! i didn't come up with it on my own though, i used it because i like building spheres and the sphere website i use notates the circles in this way

Before I used to memorize it as something like "1 9, 1 3, 2 2s, 3 1s" Now though, I just use a mod that creates overlays of primitive shapes

this is so smart!!! love the application of linear algebraic concepts to simplify this annoyance

Damn, I just do it in my head.

"I'm a huge fan of circles" *video pause and the buffer wheel is displayed for 2 seconds* Me "mmmmmm..... idk...."

When I build circles I just- go out the radius from the center and fuckin' wing it from there. I've gotten pretty good at it.

it's the same way i do it except i memorize the numbers instead of typing them in chat

I made a starwars ship while making a circle in skyblock then I ranged quitted thanks dude this helped a lot (7 32 [4])

I used to do a very similar thing on PS3 edition, but instead of chat I'd just remember everything.

And you do it exactly how I do it. Yay I'm not crazy.

Good info, would suggest moving the mouse-view a bit less while talking though.

that's literally what I always do

Huh, I actually stumbled apon this same solution in my own. I was building a castle when I got annoyed with cross-referencing

That's how I've been doing it as well.

If you’re in creative mode and you want to build a huge circle. You can rotate an armor stand with command blocks and have it fill blocks relative to where it’s looking.

an way to solve the single 1 block between the 2s and 3s is just shift the shape. make the 1 into a 2, then the next 2 will become a 1. it sometimes works

hey i understand if it will take awhile to make the video but i really need help im build a circle around the ocean monument and its 2x2 middle kinda throws this whole thing off think you can help

I've been doing this for 12 years just usually making a mental note instead of a chat message.

I understand that you are using Complementary reimagined here, but the shiny textures on those blocks look so cool. Are you using the autogenerated normals from the shaders or are you using a resource pack, like pbr something?

I would say the '1,2,1,2' angle can work, but not with smaller cercles. The angel can also cause issues if the shape above and below it are angled from it. (Eg. Ship hulls) ship hulls are a pain.

great video! thanks so much! also what shader do you use, cause it looks awesome, and I would love to try it out

Now I need to do a circle with a radius of 50 blocks (I'm building the USS Enterprise)

so what if i want a bigger circle tho how would i multiply these numbers to keep it a circle cause i tried doubling it and it comes out to even numbers and triple is odd numbers but just doesn’t really make a circle lol 🤷‍♀️

I might be odd but I don't subdivide into quarters but into 8ths instead, essentially using this same method though... but for me it'd be r15, 3*, 3, 2, 1, 1 *I do 3 instead of 7 because I have the middle block of the 7 placed from the r15 and I need to go 3 more to the side.

I do it a similar way, except I generally don't need the radius and I treat the diagonals the same as the rest. so for your example I'd use 7 3 2 1 1

The way I personally do circles is choose size of the longest row(3/4/5) and continuously reduce them by 1, so a circle with a base of 3 would go 3 2 1 2 3 and then repeat, which gives a near perfect shape, something like this: o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o oo oo ooo Doesn't look very pretty here but try it out for yourself.

Honestly how i did it after building the 1st quadrant and just try to memorize it after i build it from the website, but skipping the website to build and just writing down quickly the #s is genius...

Ok this works but how do I make them bigger I’ve tried doubling it but it doesn’t look good

all of the sudden everyone in the comments watching a how to make better circles video just knows how to make circles for years Lol thank you i wanna make a dope top piece that’ll have a ice highway to a place where i found 3 spawners within like 20 blocks of each other

whenever I'm building circles I just freestyle them until they look good, but doesnt work good on bigger ones. I also dont build circles or anything at all in mc, mostly pvping or speedrunning rn

great vid, I noticed some cool things your shaders were doing, which shaders are you using?f

What shader is that

Hey do you have a discord server yet I love your videos

Ive built 1000+ radius circles with calculators like donatstudios, I can confirm that I made a text file with just the numbers in it to use back then instead of looking at the actual image.

wow

I think Euclidean geometry also works. For a, say, radius 7 circle, place a block for every block with distances from the center x and y such that 42 < x^2 + y^2 < 56. This method is based on the distance formula for a Cartesian plane, and Minecraft operates on one.

Wtf If I had known this earlier, I would have saved at least 12 hours in my Minecraft career

I thought this was the standard way of drawing circles, I can imagine how hard it is to actually copy the generated circle on the site. But I feel like most people know how memory works, it's easier to remember a sequence than 5 separate numbers. I usually just do it for an eighth of the circle, since you can copy that part 7 times over (4 times in reverse), only issue being that sometimes there's no block on the actual corner, so 1 more thing to take account of. Looking at other commenters, it ain't that deep

so how can I make a sphere or a dome for my underwater base?

i do the same thing!!

even if you don't use minihud or litmatica for some reason i don't really see the issue with just watching the circle on both screens at once. so i dont really see the point.

i used a similar method building stuff, but didnt write anything down lmao