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Is a round Minecraft world possible?

Name: Is a round Minecraft world possible?
Description: Jeija demonstrates a modified Minetest game with a spherical planet, using a grid transform to make a voxel world round. It includes the orbit math and download links for the spheretest build.

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2 HN users recommended this demo in 2 different months between 2016 and 2025.

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Pointed to in Minetest and spherical-voxel-world threads as a striking example of what the open-source engine can do.

Jeija demonstrates a modified Minetest game with a spherical planet, using a grid transform to make a voxel world round. It includes the orbit math and download links for the spheretest build.

Pull quote: “A minetest developer just recently published a sphere-shaped planet version of minetest” (HN, 2016)

Also tagged: spherical voxel worlds, minetest, minecraft, spherical planet, voxel engine, modding

What Hacker News said

4 labeled comments from the HN archive; up to 20 are kept per video, favoring different commenters. Each one links back to the original thread.

Recommends dcposch October 2016 under Minetest – A free, open-source voxel game engine and game

Spherical world built in Minetest

Man, just a few days ago I was bummed that the top comment on most HN stories is critical or dismissive, and now I'm part of the problem. -- People have made some VERY COOL stuff using MineTest. Check out spheretest: [this video]

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Recommends gatane September 2025 under Making Minecraft Spherical

Attempt at a spherical voxel world in Minetest

This reminded me of another attempt, but in Minetest: - [this video] This person has another, more technical video where they talk about the math behind it btw

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Citations, criticism and jokes

Cites it TamHagmas October 2016 under Minetest – A free, open-source voxel game engine and game

Sphere-shaped planet version of Minetest

A minetest developer just recently published a sphere-shaped planet version of minetest: [link] [this video] [link] That's just the thing I love about these smaller voxel games - they may not have a huge userbase, but there is innovation happening.

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Cites it huachimingo February 2021 under Show HN: Real-time multiplayer games with cubes. Early feedback on dev docs?

Mod faking spherical planets using a torus

Minetest had a mod to fake spherical planets using a torus. Main video: [this video] More in depth: [link] The main problem with minetest it is that it seems not complete/done on the art assets and main game, and the devs always say that is intentionally not a Minecraft clone yet people come searching one on the subgames.

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