Tutorials/Units of measure

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 chestfuls = 54 stacks = 3,456 items.
• 1 chunk = ~37.926 chestfuls = 1024 stacks = 65,536 items.
• 1 stack of chests = 64 chestfuls = 1,728 stacks = 110,592 items.
• 1 chest squared = 1 chestful of chests = 1,728 chestfuls = 46,656 stacks = 2,985,984 items.
• 1 chunk of chests = 65,536 chestsful = 4,194,304 stacks = 113,246,208 items.
• 1 chest cubed = 1 chestful of chestfuls of chests = 1,728 chestfuls of chests = 46,656 chestfuls = 80,621,568 stacks = 5,159,780,352 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

Main article: 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 ( × 20)
TNT	65 ( × 32.5) max
Iron golem	100 ( × 50)
Ender Dragon	200 ( × 100)
Wither	300 ( × 150)
Player with maximum Health Boost and maximum Absorption	2068 ( × 1034)
/kill command	3.4028234663852886E38 ( × 1.7014117331926E+38)

Hunger

Main article: Hunger

Similarly, the basic unit in hunger is a food point - - displayed as a chicken drumstick.

A full hunger bar () 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