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
 * Minimum health = 1/2 heart
 * Dead = 0 hearts

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