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Dome · 321

Minecraft Gradient Generator

Blocks to gather
Total blocks
321
Stacks
5 × 64 + 1
Layers
8
  • Red Concrete40
  • Polished Cinnabar40
  • Orange Terracotta48
  • Chiseled Red Sandstone44
  • Pumpkin40
  • Orange Concrete Powder40
  • Honeycomb Block48
  • Yellow Concrete21
Blocks to use · 308
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How to Make a Block Gradient in Minecraft

This Minecraft gradient generator fades a dome, tower or wall from one block to another. Pick the two blocks, and get the blocks in between, matched from the 308 building blocks of Java Edition 26.2, plus a layer-by-layer list to build it.

Red Concrete → Yellow Concrete, 15-wide dome

  1. Pick the bottom and top block

    Type a block name in each box, or click the square beside it to pick any colour. No idea yet? Start from a preset.

  2. Set the fade steps

    Anything from 3 to 16 blocks. More steps give a smoother fade and mean gathering more kinds of block.

  3. Choose the shape and size

    A dome 5 to 64 wide, a round tower up to 64 across, or a wall up to 128 long, both up to 64 high. The preview redraws every layer.

  4. Copy the list and build up

    Copy build list gives one line per layer with its block and count, base first. Place layer 1, then work up.

Try the fade in your world before a big build: daylight, torchlight and the height of each band all change how smooth it reads, and a busy texture next to flat concrete can look like a jump even when the colours are close.

Domes, Round Towers and Walls

All three shapes run the gradient from the base up; what changes is how many blocks each layer takes. The layer counts come from the same code as the dome generator and the circle generator, so a dome 15 wide here takes 321 blocks there too.

Dome

15 wide · 8 layers · 321 blocks (5 × 64 + 1)

Layers shrink toward the cap, so the base block covers the most ground and the top block the least.

Round tower

9 × 12 · 12 layers · 384 blocks (6 × 64)

Every layer is the same ring, so each block in the fade gets an equal share of the height.

Wall

16 × 8 · 8 layers · 128 blocks (2 × 64)

Each layer is one row as long as the wall, the quickest way to try a fade before a bigger build.

How the Blocks Are Picked

Each step gets the block whose average colour sits closest to the ideal one. The generator draws a straight line between your two colours in OkLab, a colour space built so equal steps look equally far apart, cuts it into even steps, and matches each step. A block you choose as an end stays that exact block.

OkLab matters most for brightness. Halfway from White Concrete to Black Concrete it lands on #62666a, while plain RGB lands on the lighter #6c7073, so an RGB fade bunches its dark steps at the end.

The colours are averaged from each block's texture for Java Edition 26.2 by the open-source Nucleation project by Schem-at (MIT licence); only the colour values and names are used, no game textures. Slabs, stairs, glass, creative-only blocks and look-alikes are left out: 308 building blocks are used, plus 18 ores and 37 functional blocks you can switch on.

Ideal colour Block it matched
  1. Red Concrete
  2. Polished Cinnabar
  3. Orange Terracotta
  4. Chiseled Red Sandstone
  5. Pumpkin
  6. Orange Concrete Powder
  7. Honeycomb Block
  8. Yellow Concrete
Red Concrete to Yellow Concrete, 8 steps

Gradient Ideas by Colour

Six ready gradients, one per colour, each drawn on a 15-wide dome. Open one and the Minecraft gradient generator above loads the same blocks, ready to resize, reshape or swap an end.

White to black gradient

White Concrete → Diorite → Light Gray Wool → Cracked Stone Bricks → Gray Glazed Terracotta → Gray Concrete → Blackstone → Black Concrete

Pink gradient

Magenta Concrete → Magenta Wool → Magenta Concrete Powder → Purpur Pillar → Pink Concrete Powder → Diorite → Polished Diorite → White Concrete

Red gradient

Black Concrete → Cracked Nether Bricks → Chiseled Nether Bricks → Crimson Hyphae → Netherrack → Red Concrete

Blue gradient

Blue Concrete → Blue Concrete Powder → Light Blue Terracotta → Light Blue Concrete → Light Blue Glazed Terracotta → Clay → Diorite → White Concrete

Purple gradient

Purple Concrete → Purple Concrete Powder → Block of Amethyst → Purpur Block → Clay → Diorite → White Concrete

Green gradient

Black Concrete → Sculk → Dried Kelp Block → Green Terracotta → Green Concrete → Green Wool → Melon → Lime Concrete

The Sift in Today's Blocks

The Sift, the first new dimension since the End, comes to Minecraft Java and Bedrock in 2027. Its blocks have not been named yet, so the Sift presets above start from colours sampled from the vanilla Sift shown at Minecraft LIVE, 26 September 2026: coral ground and grass, a teal sky, grey rock, and the new blub. These are the building blocks closest to each one today.

Part of the Sift Colour Closest blocks
Sky #64d3c6 Block of Diamond, Sea Lantern
Coral ground #f17885 Pink Wool, Stripped Cherry Log
Grass, light #eb818e Pink Wool, Stripped Cherry Log
Grass, deep #ea6d78 Pink Concrete, Stripped Cherry Log
Rock, lit face #85bbb9 Light Gray Glazed Terracotta, Sea Lantern
Rock, shadow #464e53 Cobbled Deepslate, Gray Concrete Powder
Blub (new mob) #5181ac Light Blue Concrete, Cyan Wool

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you make a block gradient in Minecraft?

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Pick a bottom block and a top block, then fill the space between them with blocks whose colours step evenly from one to the other. This Minecraft gradient generator does the matching: from Red Concrete to Yellow Concrete in 8 steps it gives Red Concrete, Polished Cinnabar, Orange Terracotta, Chiseled Red Sandstone, Pumpkin, Orange Concrete Powder, Honeycomb Block, Yellow Concrete.

Which blocks does the gradient generator use?

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By default the 308 whole, opaque building blocks of Java Edition 26.2. Ores (18) and functional blocks such as furnaces, TNT and lamps (37) can be switched on. Slabs, stairs, glass and other partial or see-through blocks are left out, since a gradient reads best in solid blocks.

How many blocks does a gradient dome need?

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A hollow dome 15 blocks wide has 8 layers and takes 321 blocks in total. Pick Dome above the preview, set the diameter, and the build list splits that total by layer and by block, with the gradient running from the base ring to the cap.

Is there a Sift block palette?

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Not an official one yet: the Sift comes to Minecraft Java and Bedrock in 2027 and its blocks have not been named. The Sift presets here use colours sampled from the Sift shown at Minecraft LIVE, 26 September 2026, matched to blocks you can place today.

Where do the block colours come from?

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Each block's colour is the average of its texture, from the open Nucleation project by Schem-at (MIT licence), computed for Java Edition 26.2. The site uses only these colour values and block names; no game textures are shown.

Can I make a glass gradient?

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Not with this generator. It matches solid blocks only: stained glass takes on the colour of whatever sits behind it, so its average colour does not tell you how it will look in a build.

Is this for gradient text or names?

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No. This tool fades blocks for builds. Coloured chat text and gradient names use hex colour codes, which a text gradient generator writes out for you.

Does it work with WorldEdit or Axiom?

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There is no schematic export yet. Copy build list gives the block and count for every layer, base first, which you can place by hand or fill one layer at a time with your own WorldEdit or Axiom selection.

Does it work for Bedrock Edition?

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Yes for almost every block, since Java and Bedrock share block colours and names. A handful of blocks are named slightly differently on Bedrock, and the newest Java blocks can reach Bedrock in a later update.

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