I Made the BEST Command Circle Sphere in Vanilla Minecraft!

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The Challenge Begins

So there’s this trend going around where people are literally making circles and spheres in Minecraft. Now that doesn’t sound real, and let’s just say that I accidentally made probably the best circle in Minecraft that’s ever been seen on YouTube. Today I pushed my limits to make the best circle possible, and I regret nothing. I’ve honestly never made one of these before, but I’ve seen heaps of people on YouTube give it a go, and I figured it was time to try it for myself.

Setting Up the Commands

Obviously in Minecraft, the closest you can get to a sphere just doesn’t naturally work. You can try using falling sand and attempt to trap blocks, but it still doesn’t quite do the trick. I’m pretty bad at making circles, so this was already concerning me from the start. To get things rolling, I made a command that would spawn blocks wherever I looked. Basically, the command made sure that armor stands would be summoned seven blocks away from wherever I was looking.

When I stepped on the pressure plate to test it, it was actually working really well. You could already see some sort of circle forming, with a center point and everything evenly spread out. I then thought it would be even cooler if the blocks could float in the air, so I added a no-gravity NBT tag to the setup. And wow, it stayed seven blocks away the whole time, making it look like a smooth circle that curved beautifully as I moved. That was already pretty exciting to see!

Refining the Technique

After a bit of experimenting with glowstone blocks, things started working really, really well. I have to say, I think glowstone was a great block choice for this video because the pattern kind of makes it look like everything is working together perfectly. Apart from a few glitchy moments here and there, it made a really nice smooth shape. The computer hadn’t crashed yet at this point, so I took that as a good sign to keep pushing forward.

I then made a command that would teleport a random entity I had named “one,” using an anvil and a name tag. I tried it with a pig first, which was honestly kind of funny to watch since the pig had absolutely no idea what it was doing. But an armor stand turned out to be a much better option. I made the armor stands invisible using an invisible tag and also gave each armor stand a glowstone item. When I turned everything on, a ring of blocks actually appeared and it looked incredibly cool.

Getting the Shape Right

This is basically what most people had achieved when making these circles, and I have to agree it does look quite impressive at this stage. The circle wasn’t perfectly round just yet as it thinned out in certain spots and got thicker around the corners, but I was confident we could work on fixing that. After a few headbutts and some trial and error with different values, I finally got something that at least resembled what I was going for. It reminded me of an ice cream cone shape at one point, but eventually it started looking like a proper half circle, which I honestly couldn’t believe was happening inside Minecraft.

Going Bigger

It was at this point that I thought maybe it was possible to make an even better circle. You’ve probably seen a lot of people making these kinds of builds, but I decided to go one step further and literally double the size, double the entities, and just double everything. With a value of 0.05, the result was looking way better than before. The frames were dropping quite a bit and my computer was definitely suffering, but the shape was looking really nice. There was a slightly rough edge to it, but a quick adjustment with a command block sorted that out beautifully.

Building the Full Sphere

To make a full sphere, I needed two halves of the circle working together at the same time. I set everything up in a flat world first just to make sure it all worked properly with less stuff to render, which helped keep the frame rate in a much healthier place. I copied all the command blocks and adjusted them so that two sides of the circle would run simultaneously, just at slightly different times. I used the same names and the same setup for both, with one handling the downward spiral and the other handling the upward part.

Once the first half was done spiraling into place, I spawned in the second entity and watched as it began creating the other side of the circle going upwards. We may have actually done it. After everything was in position, I placed a block to trigger the final command, which made everything look at me and round out the shape completely. And then, on the count of three, it all came together. We actually made a full circle sphere in Vanilla Minecraft, and I genuinely could not believe it.

The Final Result

The frames were dropping significantly by the end, and looking at the sphere from the inside was enough to bring everything to a crawl, but it was absolutely worth it. It would be really cool if glowstone actually glowed visibly at night time because the whole thing would look absolutely stunning in the dark. This video took me so long to make and I don’t think I’ve ever worked on something this involved before, but I am so glad I pushed through and got it done.

I’m going to be doing a full step-by-step in-depth tutorial in a future video where I explain all of the command blocks behind this build. It’s actually a lot simpler than it looks, and even though it took me hours to figure out the commands initially, once everything clicked it really was quite straightforward. Thank you so much for reading, and if you enjoyed the video don’t forget to leave a like and subscribe. I can’t wait to see you in the next one!