Hi all! Today, I will be calculating how much weight Minecraft Steve can carry. Yes, I was supposed to be doing my media arts assessment, but instead, I did this.
Now, to truly find this out, we’re going to start start off with shulker boxes. A shulker box has 27 slots, and each slot can hold 64 items. So, 64 x 27 = 1,728. Each one can carry 1,728 items.
Let’s use the heaviest item: blue ice. Blue ice can be crafted from 9 packed ice, which is crafted from 9 regular ice. So, you need 81 regular ice to make 1 blue ice. To find out how much regular ice we can put in one shulker box, we need to do this: (27 x 64) x 81 = 140,288. That’s 140,288 regular ice in one shulker box.
Now, let’s multiply that by 37 (including the off-hand slot in the player’s inventory): 37 x 140,288 = 5,193,856.
So now, let’s take this to the extreme. A water bucket can hold 4 trillion pounds if you build a water pyramid from bedrock to build limit. So let’s do the math: 4 trillion x 140,288 = 561.152 trillion pounds or 254.513 trillion kg.
Now, let’s talk about the armor. We’re going to take gold armor into account. It takes 24 ingots for one set of gold armor, plus 4 for each trim. The average gold ingot weighs about 12.4 kg (27.4 lb). So, 28 gold ingots weigh 28 x 12.4 = 347.2 kg (765 pounds).
Finally, we add this to our previous total: 254.513 trillion kg + 347.2 kg = 254,513,000,000,347.2 kg (560,974,826,927,136.64 pounds).
Edit: to put this weight into perspective it is about 42,450 times the weight of the great pyramid of Giza or the weight of 42.42 trillion elephants
And that is how much Steve can hold! If you have seen any mistakes in my math or if I didn’t include everything, please flex your PhDs down in the comments.
Is blue ice really the heaviest item?
By my math it seems to be but you are welcome to prove me wrong
Comparing to real values of Gold (The heaviest item before) is 19,300 kg per cubic meter and ice is 990 kg. Since blue Ice has 81 times the density of ice its: 9 * 9 * 990 kg = 80,190 kg
So yeah it seems that blue ice massively out weights everything! (In game
What about netherite blocks (made from netherite ingots, made from gold and ancient debris)
I don’t think we can objectively say how heavy those are, since ancient debris isn’t an actual thing that exists
Even if it weighs nothing one ingot has 4 gold ingots inside. So one block of netherite is equal to 4 blocks of gold
Even if it weighs nothing a netherite block weighs as much as four gold blocks
Gold has a density of 19.32g/cm³
19.32 g * 100³ * 4 times as much gold as in gold blocks = 77 280 000 g = 77 280 kg
Same for netherite armour: it’s at least four times as heavy as gold armour
Interesting Idea: Since Netherite isn’t real we can only calculate how heavy it has to be to be the heaviest.
One netherite Ingot is atleast 4 times that of a gold ingot. 1 Gold block is 19 300 kg. If we divide this with 9 we get how much a singular Gold ingot in minecraft weights. 1 9300 kg / 9 = 2 144.44 kg If we now calculate the weight of the gold part in the ancient debris: 2 144.4kg49 = 77 199 kg
Under the assumption that crafting is strictly additive is ancient debris, at minimum, heavier then blue ice which was 919 kg * 9 * 9 = 74 439 kg
Nice catch!
That is the only reason I didn’t include netherite in the calculation because it’s not real
Why is this nsfw?
My b
All Minecraft items and blocks are less dense than water because they float. (This includes a bucket of water.)
Something being bouyant doesn’t necessarily mean it’s lighter
That’s why I didn’t say lighter. I said less dense.
Something floating doesn’t mean it’s more or less dense than water. You can make a metal boat float but that same metal as a cube would sink.
A metal boat filled with air is less dense than water, my dude.
That’s not density, that’s just the shape of the material. 100kg of metal in the shape of a boat or a cube is still 100kg, it doesn’t make it lighter. The buoyancy of something does not mean it’s more or less dense than something else.
https://www.jdpower.com/boats/shopping-guides/how-do-boats-float
Think about a bottle, a cup, or a bowl (or any other similar dish). If you fill up your sink and place an empty container on the surface, it will float. However, as you add water to it, the heavier the object becomes, creating more displacement. Ultimately, there will be too much weight in the cup, and it will sink below the surface. That’s because the air is less dense than water, and it balances out the average density. The same applies to boats.
That’s the “average density” of the metal boat + air not of the boat itself, a material has a fixed density at fixed temperature and pressure.
For example at 20°C:Gold has a density of 19.3 g/cm3
If she weighs the same as a duck… She’s made of wood… And therefore…
A WITCH
I forgot about the off hand guys it has been fixed