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#1 Nov 15, 2015 YourNameGamingHD
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The Minecraft Block Length Explained! Ok, So say you ever wondered about the length of a single minecraft block And could Never figure out how long or big the length or size of a Minecraft block is. Well today you find out! It Took me awhile to figure out but... The length of a single minecraft block Is Equal To = one square meter Which Is Equal To About 3FT , There You go Folks. If you think im wrong , Let me know if you think about 3 weeks of studying isn't good enough Clearing Up the World Size Math. The world is 30 million blocks across. A block is one square meter. 30,000,000 meters is 30,000 km. 30,000*30,000 is 900,000,000, so the Minecraft world is nine hundred million square kilometers. The earth has a surface area of about 510 million square kilometers. It IS larger than the earth, people! (However, since it’s only 128 blocks deep at the moment, it’s still significantly smaller in volume) Last edited by YourNameGamingHD: Nov 15, 2015 Rollback Post to Revision RollBack
#2 Nov 15, 2015 Baryonic_Lord
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I believe the Minecraft world's surface area is somewhere around Neptune's, but I may be wrong.
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#4 Nov 15, 2015 IndiePhunq
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Yeah, I knew because Notch said that in the first Minecraft video he made.
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#5 Nov 15, 2015 Hexalobular
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Quote from webrosc»
the minecraft world 60 000 000 across plus a chunk you can't walk on, 30 000 000 from the centre in the 4 cardinal directions

Also this math has been done a million and one times, a quick search would show this, and also the wiki explains world sizes

http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/The_Overworld#Map_limitation

The Wiki is inaccurate, the world is 60 000 000 blocks across in total, the striped border is at 29 999 984 and you can walk on the chunk outside that though you have to teleport to get there. You can't place or break blocks outside the border and the very last block seems to be inaccessable. Rollback Post to Revision RollBack
Just testing.
#7 Nov 15, 2015 Hexalobular
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Quote from webrosc» its still alot more accurate than the maths i was correcting
True, I didn't read the OP properly so I missed the it had 30 000 000 as the entire width rather than half the width. Rollback Post to Revision RollBack
Just testing.
#9 Nov 16, 2015 Melbertron1
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Well saying that the whole of one minecraft world is roughly the size of neptune (not to scale) and only 127 blocks deep with each block being 1 meter on each side, that means that it is 127 metres deep, and how neptune is 2.941 billion miles squared, or 4733080704 kilometres squared, or 4,733,080,704,000 metres squared, so 4,733,080,704,000/127 metres means that a minecraft world has 37,268,352,000 meters with a depth of 127 meters, meaning it is an absolutely humongous rectangular prism.
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#10 Nov 16, 2015 BlazinSayain
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You can make a scale model of earth on a Minecraft world 7000 times and still have space left.
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#11 Nov 17, 2015 BigAlanM
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I'm pretty sure that for quite some time Minecraft worlds, on PCs at least, are 256 meters (blocks) deep. From y=0 to y=255.

Also the possible surface area of a Minecraft world is 3600 million square kilometers and the surface of the Earth is 510.1 million square kilometers.

3600 divided by 510.1 equals 7.057.

A Minecraft world is over 7 times larger than the surface of the Earth (oceans included).
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#12 Nov 17, 2015 Hexalobular
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Quote from Melbertron1»
Well saying that the whole of one minecraft world is roughly the size of neptune (not to scale) and only 127 blocks deep with each block being 1 meter on each side, that means that it is 127 metres deep, and how neptune is 2.941 billion miles squared, or 4733080704 kilometres squared, or 4,733,080,704,000 metres squared, so 4,733,080,704,000/127 metres means that a minecraft world has 37,268,352,000 meters with a depth of 127 meters, meaning it is an absolutely humongous rectangular prism.

I think you're confusing Neptunes surface area with its distance from the sun or something. Neptunes area is 7,618,272,763 km² Minecrafts area is 3,600,000,000 km² Rollback Post to Revision RollBack
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