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.
Contents
Time[edit]
To convert time in Minecraft to time in real life, simply divide by 72, and vice versa.
Minecraft Time | Real Time | Ticks |
---|---|---|
3.6 seconds | = 0.05 seconds | = 1 |
1 minute | ≈ 0.83 seconds | ≈ 17 |
1.2 minutes | = 1 second | = 20 |
1 hour | = 50 seconds | = 1,000 |
1.2 hours | = 1 minute | = 1,200 |
1 day | = 20 minutes | = 24,000 |
3 days | = 1 hour | = 72,000 |
1 week | ≈ 2.33 hours | = 168,000 |
1 lunar cycle (8 days) | ≈ 2.67 hours | = 192,000 |
1 month (30 days) | = 10 hours | = 720,000 |
72 days | = 1 day | = 1,728,000 |
1 year (365 days) | ≈ 5.07 days | = 8,760,000 |
504 days (1.38 years) | = 1 week | = 12,096,000 |
2160 days (5.92 years) | = 1 month | = 51,840,000 |
1 decade | ≈ 50.69 days ≈ 7.22 weeks | = 87,600,000 |
72 years (26280 days) | = 1 year | = 630,720,000 |
1 century | ≈ 1.39 years | = 876,000,000 |
Amount of items[edit]
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. Note that some items like banners, signs, eggs, enderpearls, etc. only stack to 16. So if someone says they have a stack of eggs, they have 16. For unstackable items, a stack is just 1. So saying things like "a stack of pickaxes" to mean "64 pickaxes" is best avoided. Simply say "64 pickaxes".
- 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 = 37 stacks = 2,368 items, when the offhand is included.
- 1 full double chest = 2 chestfuls = 54 stacks = 3,456 items.
- Note: the phrase "double chest" is often shortened to "dub"; e.g. "a dub of cobblestone", meaning 54 stacks.
- 1 chestful of shulker boxes = 27 chestfuls = 729 stacks = 46,656 items.
- 1 double-chestful of shulker boxes = 54 chestfuls = 1458 stacks = 93,312 items.
Health[edit]
The basic measure of health is one health point (1). One heart (2
) is also commonly used when talking about health.
Damage/entity | HP |
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Chicken | 4![]() ![]() |
Item | 5![]() ![]() ![]() |
Instant Damage | 6![]() ![]() ![]() |
Diamond Sword | 7![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Netherite Sword | 8![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Cow | 10![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Player | 20![]() |
Enderman | 40![]() |
TNT | 65![]() |
Iron Golem | 100![]() |
Ender Dragon | 200![]() |
Wither | 300![]() ![]() |
Player with maximum Health Boost and maximum Absorption | 2068![]() |
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Hunger[edit]
Similarly, the basic unit in hunger is a food point—1 ()—displayed as a chicken drumstick.
A full hunger bar (20 ( × 10)) 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.
Speed[edit]
Distance[edit]
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:
Metric units[edit]
Length | Blocks | Pixels |
---|---|---|
1 kilometer | 1000 blocks | 16000 pixels |
1 hectometer | 100 blocks | 1600 pixels |
1 decameter | 10 blocks | 160 pixels |
1 meter | 1 block | 16 pixels |
1 decimeter | 0.1 blocks | 1.6 pixels |
1 centimeter | 0.01 blocks | 0.16 pixels |
1 millimeter | 0.001 blocks | 0.016 pixels |
6.25 cm | 0.0625 blocks | 1 pixel |
62.5 cm | 0.625 blocks | 10 pixels |
6.25 m | 6.25 blocks | 100 pixels |
Blocks | Volume |
---|---|
1 block | 1 m3 |
1 block | 1000 litres |
Imperial/U.S customary units[edit]
Length | Blocks |
---|---|
1 mile | 1,609.344 blocks |
1 yard | 0.9144 blocks |
1 foot | 0.3048 blocks |
1 inch | 0.0254 blocks |
Blocks | Length |
---|---|
1 block | 0.000621371192 miles |
1.0936133 yards | |
3.2808399 feet | |
39.3700787 inches |
Blocks | Length (approx.) |
---|---|
1 block | ≈ 1⁄1,760 miles |
≈ 1 yard | |
≈ 3 feet | |
≈ 36 inches | |
1 pixel | 1⁄28,160 miles |
0.2 feet | |
2.46 inches |
Blocks | Volume |
---|---|
1 block | ≈ 264 US fluid gallons |
≈ 227 US dry gallons | |
≈ 219 Imperial Gallons |