Tutorials/Units of measure

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


 * 1 stack = 64 Items. This applies to non-stackable and partially-stackable items as well. e.g. 64 water buckets = 1 stack of water buckets, although they do not technically stack.


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


 * 1 full chest = 27 slots or 27 stacks = 1,728 items.
 * 1 inventory = 4/3 or 1.333... full chests = 36 stacks = 2,304 items.
 * 1 full double chest = 2 chests-full = 54 stacks = 3,456 items
 * 1 chunk = ~37.926 chests-full = ~2,427,259 stacks = 65,536 items.


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

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

Hunger
Similarly, the basic unit in hunger is a food point - - displayed as a shank of ham.

A full hunger bar contains 20 food points (shanks).

Distance
The basic measure of distance is a block. One block on minecraft is approximately one meter cubed (13m) 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 = 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