I‘m sure you‘ve seen one of those videos before where people power scale Steve by calculating how much he can carry. They fill their inventories with Shulker Boxes full of Netherite Blocks or Water Buckets. Some people calculate he can lift planets, while others calculate he can carry an inconceivable amount of universes. But they were all WRONG. Because the heaviest block in all of Minecraft… is Dirt. Hear me out for a second: On a block of dirt, you are capable of planting crops, like carrots or potatoes. In real life (yes, we‘re taking comparisons from real life, because the power scalers do the same to calculate the weight of gold and netherite), plants grow by sucking nutrients off of the ground they are planted in. Nutrients are made of atoms, and atoms have weight. Thus, Nutrients have weight. Once all of the nutrients are sucked out of the ground, that piece of land can no longer grow crops. So when dirt runs out of nutrients, it becomes lighter. That is not the case in Minecraft though: In Minecraft, you can plant crops on a block of dirt as many times as you please, there is nothing in the games code preventing you from it. And because crops can be planted on dirt an infinite amount of times, that would mean that the dirt in Minecraft has an infinite supply of nutrients, which also means it has infinite atoms and thus… infinite weight.
So to clear the controversy once and for all: Steve cannot be power scaled. He IS the power scale.
by EpicBoiNitro69
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okey, you have a point
the humble water bucker
no its your mom
Dirt is a black hole confirmed
I am stunned.
Is this what people call a dirty joke?
Um… I’ll just stick to blocks of gold
Mud Block is Dirt + Water so it’s not
Wind charges should have infinite mass because they can propel steve into the air the same distance no matter how much weight he carries including the wind charges themselves
Nah nutrients in Minecraft just flow _through_ dirt really well. Say for the sake of analogy that nutrients were light… Earth dirt is a rechargeable phosphorescent, but Minecraft dirt is fibre optic cable.
Like… I could correct… like… CO2 is a joke to you?
But… Dirt????
My dude…
Wait there is no “heaviest block” as they are mostly all the same size
That’s why its the best building material
Most of a plant’s mass comes from the air.
More specifically the carbon in the CO2
This isn’t totally true though, for example, in real life, using proper crop rotation techniques, you can pretty much also farm it forever as long as the conditions like water access, and sunlight access remain the same. Its not as if a farmer uses a field for a year, then never comes back to that land again, in some cases a farmer may let a field rest, but will always come back to it later. This would just be infinity x 3/4ths or however long you kept it bare vs how much it is planted. Anything minus infinity is still kind of infinity. Plenty of crops are actually known to put nutrients back into the soil too.
Earth-meat
Tldr?
What if it has just never happened before, I have no clue how long it takes in real life to deplete nutrients from an area of dirt but lets say at maximum 50 years and thats with using it as often as they can, I doubt anyone has spent that much time just farming in minecraft
The dirt is collecting nutrients from the never evaporating water source nearby.
Dirt as a block has zero weight because it doesn’t fall. Dirt as an item has different physics to block-form, and weighs the same as the player (or any other item or mob) because of weighted pressure plates. Dirt in your inventory presumably has different physics yet again, anyway.
Ok here’s a larger question now that i think about it. Mud must be heavier than dirt since you add water to it to make mud, you can then dry mud using dripstone to remove the water to make clay. Clay is supposedly more rich in nutrients than regular soil implying that it would have more mass than the soil you start out with. You can then turn the clay to moss by bonemealing it next to moss, adding moss to it, then glow a 2×2 spruce tree on it to make podzol, then till it into farmland and then to dirt again.
Would this dirt now have more mass or less than what you started with?
Furthermore, Moss would actually be the heaviest or at least the densest block in this process since it’s the only block that causes a sulfur cube to sink when you add it to one. This also means dirt is less dense than water so