Time
| Time in Minecraft | Time in Real life |
|---|---|
| 1 minute | โ0.8 seconds of gameplay. |
| 1 hour | 50 seconds of gameplay. |
| 1 day | 20 minutes of gameplay |
| 1 week | โ2.3 hours of gameplay. |
| 1 month | โ10 hours of gameplay. |
| 1 year | โ5 days of gameplay. |
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 1
. One heart 2
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.
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) contains 20 food points (shanks).
Distance
The basic measure of distance is a block. One block on minecraft is approximately one meter cubed (1m3) 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