Minecrafter Creates a Giant Halo ring that actually Freaking Spins
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By Lauren Morton published 4 January 22
It needs a few tweaks to download, but you can download and explore it yourself.
If there's one thing that a world made of cubes isn't supposed to do, it's circle. Yet ambitious Minecraft players are awed by the ability to defy logic to create stunning circular structures. One brave builder went even further and broke every rule to build an elongated ring that rotates. Yes, a complete moving Halo ring, complete with different biomes and beam emitters and an uncracked Pelican. The best part is that you can download the thing and explore it yourself.
The Minecraft YouTuber named Reach claims that his Halo ring was initially inspired by a design shared by a different creator. Although this smaller world of rings is impressive, the comments on the post suggested that it could be even more awesome if it actually worked. Reach was up to the challenge using WorldEdit and Create to design and create rings that actually move.
It was a serious undertaking. To control the movement of the ring He utilized the Clockwork Bearing blocks from the Create mod. It was discovered that the single clockwork bearing located to the ring's edge could not do the job. He explains that the entity created by Minecraft was too big to render the first time he tried to make it move.
So Reach decided to divide it into four parts each with the rotating bearing and an arm. Reach ended with eight bearings that were attached to the sections of the ring to form spokes. He claims that he was afraid it would fail but his determination and desire to make something unique for YouTube and his viewers was enough to see him through. What do you think? Holy crap, it moves!
Planet Minecraft has the project that you can download if wish to experience the beauty of the Ring-world. It requires Minecraft 1.16. Once you are inside, you will manually start the bearings to get them going. But once it's positioned on the ground, it will continue to tick.
It doesn't rotate constantly so you won't be struggling to keep up with a forever moving hamster wheel. The whole ring turns in increments of around 30 seconds. It's a good thing, as I found myself a bit disoriented and motion sick while exploring it in its entirety. It'll take me a bit longer to establish my space legs. Reach was required to lock each block together in order to make the ring spin correctly, so you won’t be able build or mine here. It's a diorama, rather than a playable world however it's still a very cool.
Reach shares more details about his process in the YouTube video below. He explains the difficulties and the design choices he made to give the ring the Halo appearance.
Bless the Minecraft builders. They never stop.
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Lauren started writing for PC Gamer as a freelancer in 2017 while chasing the Dark Souls fashion police and accepted her role as Chief Editor and Associate Editor Minecraft Liker in 2021. Games Her career started in the game development industry. She's still fascinated by the speedrunning and modding scenes. She enjoys long books longer RPGs and multiplayer cryptids, and can't not stop playing co-op crafting games.
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