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.