Tutorials/Units of measure

Amount of items

 * ONE Block or ONE Item is the most basic measure.


 * ONE stack = 64 Items EXCEPT FOR:
 * Snowballs and Eggs: ONE stack is 16 snowballs/eggs
 * Non-stackable items cannot be measured in stacks
 * ONE chest = 27 stacks = 54 half-stacks = 1728 items EXCEPT FOR:
 * Snowballs and Eggs: ONE chest is 432 snowballs/eggs or 27 stacks
 * One chest of non-stackable items is 27 items.
 * ONE double chest = TWO chests = 54 stacks = 108 half-stacks = 3456 items, EXCEPT FOR:
 * Snowballs and Eggs: ONE stack is 864 snowballs/eggs or 54 stacks
 * One chest of non-stackable items is 54 items

Health
The basic measure of health is one heart.


 * Full health = 10 hearts
 * 1st Hunger Pains = 9 1/2 hearts
 * Half Full health = 5 hearts
 * Minimum health = 1/2 heart
 * Dead = 0 hearts

Distance
The basic measure of distance is a block. One block on minecraft is  approximately one meter cubed in real life.

So, knowing that one block is one meter cubed, we can assume that:
 * 1 kilometer = 1000 minecraft blocks
 * 0.001 kilometers = 1 minecraft block
 * 1 mile = 1609.344 minecraft blocks (rounded equals about 1609 blocks)
 * 0.00062 miles = 1 minecraft block
 * 1 yard = 0.91439 minecraft blocks
 * 1.09361 yards = 1 minecraft block
 * 1 meter (as we already know) = 1 minecraft block
 * 1 foot = 0.30480 minecraft blocks
 * 3.28083 feet (rounded equals about 3.3 feet) = 1 minecraft block
 * 1 inch = 0.02540 minecraft blocks
 * 39.37007 inches (rounded equals about 39.4 inches) = 1 minecraft block
 * 1 decimeter = 0.1 minecraft blocks
 * 10 decimeters = 1 minecraft block
 * 1 centimeter = 0.01 minecraft blocks
 * 100 centimeters = 1 minecraft block