Tutorials/Units of measure

This tutorial is designed to compare units of measurement in Minecraft to real life units and to compare different units used in Minecraft.

Time
To convert time in Minecraft to time in real life, simply divide by 72, and vice versa.

Amount of items
1 item is the most basic measurement in quantity.


 * 1 block = 9 items. Used for resources that can be crafted into storage blocks and back (most kinds of processed minerals, slimeballs, bone meal, melon slices, wheat, dried kelp)
 * 1 stack = 64 items = 7 blocks, 1 item. This applies to non-stackable and partially-stackable items as well. e.g. 64 water buckets = 1 stack of water buckets, even though water buckets do not actually stack in-game.


 * One stack of a fully-stackable material (e.g. stone, diamond) will fully occupy one slot in one's inventory.


 * 1 full hopper = 5 stacks = 320 items.
 * 1 stack of blocks = 9 stacks = 576 items when completely uncrafted.
 * 1 full dispenser or dropper = 9 stacks = 576 items.
 * Mining capacity of an unenchanted diamond pickaxe = 24 stacks 25 items = 1561 items.
 * 1 full chest = 27 slots or 27 stacks = 1,728 items.
 * Mining capacity of an unenchanted netherite pickaxe = 31 stacks 47 items = 2031 items
 * 1 inventory = $4/3$ or 1. 3 full chests = 36 stacks = 2,304 items.
 * 1 full double chest = 2 chestfuls = 54 stacks = 3,456 items.
 * 1 chestful of shulker boxes = 27 chestfuls = 729 stacks = 46,656 items.
 * 1 chunk = 37 chests and 25 stacks = 1024 stacks = 65,536 items.
 * 1 stack of chests = 64 chestfuls = 1,728 stacks = 110,592 items.
 * 1 chest squared = 1 chestful of chests = 1,728 chestfuls = 46,656 stacks = 2,985,984 items.
 * 1 chunk of chests = 65,536 chestfuls = 4,194,304 stacks = 113,246,208 items.
 * 1 chest cubed = 1 chestful of chestfuls of chests = 1,728 chestfuls of chests = 46,656 chestfuls = 80,621,568 stacks = 5,159,780,352 items.
 * 1 world = ~59.81688255 chests5 = ~103,363.57304950 chests4 = ~178,612,254.22953818 chests3 = 8,138,020,833. 3 chunks of chests = 308,641,975,308. 641975308 chests2 = 14,062,500,000,000 chunks = 533,333,333,333,333$1/3$ chestfuls = 14,400,000,000,000,000 stacks = 921,600,000,000,000,000 items.
 * More conveniently: 59 chests5, 22s3 chests4, 15s30 chests3, 6s12 chests2, 17s21 chests and 9 stacks 0 items.


 * 1 world of chests = 921,600,000,000,000,000 chestsful = 24,883,200,000,000,000,000 stacks = 1,592,524,800,000,000,000,000 items.

Note: 1 chunk is a 16×16×256 piece of a Minecraft map.

Health
The basic measure of health is one health point. One heart is also commonly used when talking about health.

Hunger
Similarly, the basic unit in hunger is a food point&mdash;&mdash;displayed as a chicken drumstick.

A full hunger bar contains 20 food points.

Additionally there are another 20 saturation points, which are invisible but are used when performing actions before hunger, so the maximum value is 40.

Distance
Minecraft's worlds are a voxel grid where each block represents a voxel which is one meter cubed (1 m3) in real life.

Knowing that one block is one meter cubed, we can derive that:

Imperial/U.S customary units
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