Minecraft Ferris Wheel Ideas: 3 Builds with Blueprints

3 Minecraft ferris wheel builds to copy

Easy

Little Carnival Wheel

17 × 12 blocks, 22 tall · 531 blocks

wish for a small white ferris wheel with six colourful gondolas on a wooden frame

A neat white wheel with red spokes, a gold hub and six bright gondolas, held up by a wooden A-frame. It is small enough to finish in one afternoon. Put it on a lawn or beside a pond.

Materials list

Grass Block	204
White Concrete	138
Red Concrete	38
Oak Log	38
Gold Block	32
Iron Bars	24
Oak Planks	13
Blue Concrete	8
Orange Concrete	8
Yellow Concrete	8
Lime Concrete	8
Purple Concrete	8

Plus 2 more kinds of block in small amounts (see the blueprint).

Layer-by-layer blueprint

Layer 1

Seen from above. The front of the build is at the bottom. Faint squares show the layer below. Thick lines every 5 blocks help you count.

Medium

Golden Fair Wheel

27 × 12 blocks, 30 tall · 918 blocks

wish for a tall golden ferris wheel with white spokes and eight colourful gondolas

A tall golden wheel with eight white spokes, a red hub and eight coloured gondolas, standing on big wooden A-frames with lanterns at the feet. It is easy to spot from far away. Build it on a lawn at the edge of a fairground.

Materials list

Grass Block	324
Gold Block	226
White Concrete	156
Oak Log	59
Red Concrete	40
Iron Bars	32
Oak Planks	21
Yellow Concrete	8
Cyan Concrete	8
Pink Concrete	8
Blue Concrete	8
Lime Concrete	8

Plus 4 more kinds of block in small amounts (see the blueprint).

Layer-by-layer blueprint

Layer 1

Seen from above. The front of the build is at the bottom. Faint squares show the layer below. Thick lines every 5 blocks help you count.

Epic

Grand Park Wheel

45 × 34 blocks, 47 tall · 6,507 blocks

wish for a giant ferris wheel in a fairground with sixteen gondolas, an entrance arch and a station

A giant double-rimmed wheel with a gold outer ring, an inner ring, sixteen gondolas and rows of glowing lights. Around it you get a station, a ticket booth, a pink entrance arch, flower beds, trees and flags. It is a big project, so build it with friends.

Materials list

Grass Block	1,530
White Concrete	1,061
Stone Bricks	795
Oak Leaves	492
Dark Oak Log	473
Light Blue Concrete	408
Polished Andesite	342
Yellow Concrete	245
Red Concrete	222
Blue Concrete	212
Lime Concrete	100
Pink Concrete	96

Plus 14 more kinds of block in small amounts (see the blueprint).

Layer-by-layer blueprint

Layer 1

Seen from above. The front of the build is at the bottom. Faint squares show the layer below. Thick lines every 5 blocks help you count.

Tips for building your own

Draw the circle on paper first

Sketch the wheel on graph paper, one square per block. Count the blocks along each quarter of the circle and repeat them. A radius of 7 to 10 blocks gives a round wheel without too much work.

Build the wheel flat in the air plane you want

A ferris wheel stands up, so it is built in a vertical plane, not on the ground. Place the hub first, then count out from it. Use scaffolding blocks like dirt and remove them when you finish.

Keep the rim two blocks thick

A rim that is one block wide breaks into little diagonal pieces. Making it two blocks thick keeps every block touching the next, so the circle looks solid and clean.

Use bright colours for the gondolas

White for the rim and frame, and a rainbow of concrete for the gondolas. Hang each one straight down from the rim, not tilted. Glass in the middle makes them look like cabins.

Make a strong A-frame base

Two thick legs that slope from the hub to the ground hold the wheel up and look right. Dark oak is good because it contrasts with a white wheel.

Light it up for night and mobs

Place sea lanterns around the rim and a glowstone at the hub. The wheel looks amazing after dark, and bright lights around the base keep monsters from spawning on your plaza.

Questions

How do you build a ferris wheel in Minecraft?

Place a hub block, then build a circle of blocks around it in a vertical plane. Add spokes from the hub to the rim, hang coloured gondolas from the rim, and finish with two legs to the ground. The builds above show three sizes you can copy.

How do you make a working ferris wheel in Minecraft?

In plain Minecraft a wheel that really turns needs redstone and piston tricks, or a mod or command blocks. The wheels on this page are display builds that look like the real thing but do not spin.

How big should a Minecraft ferris wheel be?

A radius of 7 blocks makes a small wheel about 15 blocks tall. A radius of 10 makes a medium wheel, and a radius of 19 makes a giant one nearly 40 blocks tall. Bigger wheels look better but take much more time.

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