A Better way to build Circles in Minecraft

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[@erichmaler6829]

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"

[@squibble111]

Thats actually really similar to a strategy I used for a much more repetitive project I worked on. I constructed a massive structure with a lot of straight lines, and used setups like x(y) to indicate repetitiveness (which is much more prevalent in straight lines than circles.)

[@TwentySeventhLetter]

Yeah I would even keep it consistent and more easily readable by putting the multiplier in the parentheses, so you don't accidentally think you should build 1 four-length portion

[@arkanon8661]

that is called run-length encoding

[@DemonHQ]

Ty this will make my base so much better

[@milksalmon]

@@squibble111 It's such a simple formula to follow. Thank you so much squibble

[@martan2159]

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

[@Naretek]

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!

[@Cosmiichu]

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

[@dary3]

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!

[@k98killer]

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.

[@victormillen8393]

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

[@jon_luna8316]

it’s fov 💀

[@gamezboi_]

@@jon_luna8316 does bro play with their fov at fucking 15 or something

[@FlyingNoodle554]

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)

[@squibble111]

Appreciate the support!

[@TheRealYeller]

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.

[@htasul]

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.

[@JackC.Johnson]

every video you produce is a must-see, keep them coming!

[@Nae_Ayy]

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

[@hkayakh]

Instructions unclear: I squished an iron block into a sphere

[@EndMaster0]

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

[@Hazy_Heart]

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.

[@alexander_228]

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

[@borntodostuf]

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.

[@petersmythe6462]

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

[@CrysiCrysis]

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

[@lewismassie]

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

[@StarlightLexie]

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

[@squibble111]

Thanks! I appreciate you sticking around for so long (even when the videos back then werent the best...)

[@jamietimon9899]

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.

[@squibble111]

I'll consider moving my camera less quickly, thats actually a good point. FOV's staying though, I feel claustrophobic when I play without it unfortunately.

[@Erfedwe]

@@squibble111 as mentioned on another video, some viewers do get vertigo or motion sick from the ultra wide FOV. I get that it causes you discomfort to play on standard FOV, but the goal of your video should be to make it as accessible to as many viewers as possible. For that reason, standard FOV should be the norm, and shaders should be off. This is why most of the big Minecraft YT's use those settings.

[@furryfan1416]

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

[@borb5353]

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

[@fallenkingdom-zd8xh]

Using this to build a Eucharistic monstrance! Thank you for the help!

[@ant5389]

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

[@_wetmath_]

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

[@squibble111]

That's really interesting, and it's fun to see how many people individually develop strategies. Good luck on the project!

[@Gazuretine]

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

[@russ838]

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

[@squibble111]

How does the floor flooding work in the middle work? Do you zerotick upwards waterlogged slabs or something?

[@russ838]

@@squibble111 Comment disappeared for some reason. So there are water source blocks all the way around the perimeter which are obscured by the entire floor being raised up by the pistons. The switch is flipped and the entire thing floods when the floor lowers, thanks to the 1-deep water mechanics turning the whole thing into a giant infinite water source.

[@lordfeish1927]

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

[@MAD-SKILLZ]

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.

[@Langhammer4]

the base is stunning!

[@Zebrahpandacow]

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 😁

[@alexlik4197]

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

[@SuperLlama88888]

Good tip!

[@mozzapple]

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

[@apple-de8tx]

This guy knows how to build a circle in minecraft

[@patbrown5180]

Works great until you have a 125 block radius circle lol

[@Cxntrxl]

my man just invented counting on his fingers

[@zedantXiang]

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

[@BazilBuildBases]

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!

[@isobarkley]

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

[@StockaOfficial]

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

[@TrigamDev]

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

[@HameleoshaDeHoga]

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

[@miguelvelez6471]

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

[@aeonhelendale8777]

This made it more complicated. AND gave me roomspin lol

[@ItsMeKriqu]

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

[@Wallee580]

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

[@tw0jaye]

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

[@mehulpandya4761]

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.

[@Ian-qh7le]

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.

[@finsflexin]

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.

[@deadlypandaghost]

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

[@marcusstacofsky8236]

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

[@smartsmartie7142]

I am building a massive oval and this is really helpful

[@N6_mity]

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

[@catsdontboot8735]

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

[@epicdud5905]

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

[@Mr_robobotplays]

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

[@samexahr3326]

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.

[@thevalarauka101]

that's literally what I always do

[@ichtozavuzovsky8370]

Damn, I just do it in my head.

[@guilhermerafaelzimermann4196]

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

[@1nstantis642]

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.

[@kuboskube]

Life changing. I WILL be using this trick later.

[@KingJellyfishII]

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

[@Yasser-444]

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

[@icu9313]

I love it

[@Roescoe]

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

[@supergamehunter0539]

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.

[@squibble111]

That's interesting. I always wondered if it was possible to create nice looking circles without any computers.

[@doublespoonco]

I wonder what shape it is exactly?

[@KoruGo]

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

[@SilentPepperoni]

you are a LEGEND!

[@chumambiko4026]

Having to use a Cartesian plain using the X and Y coordinates to this has been torture hopefully this'll help

[@natheniel]

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

[@liammurray9274]

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.

[@vibez2336]

very useful thanks

[@pgo3925]

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

[@BananaShenanigans]

Nice video

[@EvanG529]

Not a criticism, but I thought this video was gonna be some major breakthrough, but it ended up just being something I already came up with myself. I usually remember the lengths from longest side to longest side, such as "52125".

[@squibble111]

Thats okay, a lot of people have their own similar methods, but I'm also seeing a lot of people who didn't know this as well. I guess its sort of a mixed bag.

[@Mattigan]

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...

[@Granaidh]

Brilliant! ty

[@mcpaintball]

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

[@vStewT]

Thank you so much

[@Admiral_Kay_Markus]

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

[@Yurrr69]

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

[@emmadoesartonline]

Thank you!!

[@narwhal16384]

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

[@aBAY-c2c]

This is just a handy tip to help not have to switch in and out fo game? And not a way to calculate an equation right?

[@elEd0]

I thought everybody did this. Looking at an image and then the game back and forth seems like a bad idea. I usually repeat the numbers in my head while building the circle and end up doing a little "song" that i can remember easily

[@0dark0_]

tnhx man it really helps

[@D_Quinn]

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.

[@ToriKo_]

Cool vid

[@Jimmyzation]

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?

[@squibble111]

It all should just be part of the shaders.

[@Pajon03]

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

[@neekk040]

oof had to click away because the distortingly high fov

[@Azariven]

wow

[@asdanjer]

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.

[@wesplybon9510]

Yea, I discovered long time ago, that you only need the measurements for about 1/8 of a circle in order to make the whole thing. My notation wasn't as good or clear as yours. Kudos!

[@wedd44]

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

[@squibble111]

Shader: Complimentary Reimagined Texture Pack: some vanilla tweaks things

[@wedd44]

@@squibble111 thank you so much!