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Time
| Time in Minecraft | Time in Real life |
|---|---|
| 1 minute | ≈0.8 seconds |
| 1 hour | 50 seconds |
| 1 day | 20 minutes |
| 1 week | ≈2.3 hours |
| 1 lunar cycle | ≈2.7 hours |
| 1 month | ≈10 hours |
| 1 year | ≈5 days |
| 1 decade | ≈7.1 weeks |
| 1 century | ≈1.37 years |
| 1 millennium | ≈13.7 years |
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 chestsful = 54 stacks = 3,456 items
- 1 chunk = ~37.926 chestsful = 1024 stacks = 65,536 items
- 1 stack of chests = 64 chestsful = 1,728 stacks = 110,592 items
- 1 chest squared = 1 chestful of chests = 1,728 chestsful = 46,656 stacks = 2,985,984 items
- 1 chunk of chests = 65,536 chestsful = 4,194,304 stacks = 113,246,208 items
- 1 world = ~14.9542 chests to the fifth = ~25,840.8933 chests to the fourth = ~44,653,063.5574 chests cubed = 2,034,505,208.33… chunks of chests = ~77,160,493,827,1605 chests squared = 3,515,625,000,000 chunks = 133,333,333,333,333.33… chestsful = 3,600,000,000,000,000 stacks = 230,400,000,000,000,000 items
- 1 world of chests = 230,400,000,000,000,000 chestsful = 6,220,800,000,000,000,000 stacks = 398,131,200,000,000,000,000 items
- Note: 1 chunk is a 16×16×256 piece of a Minecraft map.
Health
The basic measure of health is one hit point (1
). One heart (2
) is also commonly used when talking about health.
| Damage/entity | HP |
|---|---|
| Chicken | 4 |
| Item | 5 |
| Instant Damage | 6 |
| Diamond sword | 7 |
| 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 |
| /kill command | 3.4028234663852886E38 |
Hunger
Similarly, the basic unit in hunger is a food point -
- displayed as a chicken drumstick.
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) contains 20 food points (sticks).
Distance
The basic measure of distance is a block. One block in Minecraft is one meter cubed (1 m3) in real life.
So, knowing that one block is one meter cubed, we can assume that:
Metric units
| 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 liters |
| 1 voxel | = 244 cm3 |
| 1 voxel | = 244 milliliters |
Imperial/U.S customary units
| 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 | |
| 1 voxel | = 0.064 US fluid gallons |
| = 0.256 quarts | |
| = 1.024 cups |