THE VIDEO SHELF · spherical voxel worlds
Is a round Minecraft world possible?
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.
Why HN readers recommended it
Pointed to in Minetest and spherical-voxel-world threads as a striking example of what the open-source engine can do.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Jeija
- Topic
- spherical voxel worlds
- Format
- demo
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2016–2025
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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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: [VIDEO]
dcposch on Hacker News · 2016-10
In Minetest – A free, open-source voxel game engine and gameThis reminded me of another attempt, but in Minetest: - [VIDEO] This person has another, more technical video where they talk about the math behind it btw
gatane on Hacker News · 2025-09
In Making Minecraft Spherical
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