How Much is a Minecraft World Worth?

2.5 billion dollars that’s how much money microsoft spent buying minecraft from mojang and the craziest part that sum is less than half of the amount of money solely obtained from selling minecraft accounts if each account is 27 and over 200 million copies of minecraft have been sold that means that from accounts alone

Mojang have made around 5.4 billion dollars worth of revenue but even that number pales in comparison to the worth of a minecraft world or does it how much is a minecraft world actually worth if you consider all of its resources and its location in space as a habitable planet

How much is each minecraft world really worth also if you enjoy this video then please do consider subscribing a lot personally you guys watching aren’t and it helps out a ton and i really do appreciate it so thank you and i hope you enjoy there are a couple of ways to go about

Answering this question the first is the most obvious to total up every naturally generating resource and just put a price on that this really convenient graph and table in the minecraft wiki show the distribution of blocks in the overworld compared to their altitude as well as the relative amounts per world for example

In every minecraft world they’re around 9.7 billion blocks of air which makes sense since that’ll be around 63 percent of the entire world so all we have to do to find the price of a minecraft world is the total of every natural resource and multiply it by its respective real world price

This would seem very daunting at first just because there are so many blocks but it doesn’t have to be because of fees law you may notice that that law has a very similar name to the channel you’re watching right now and you’d be right to think so because it’s named after me

The law simply states that when you have an expression with many different terms and you want to find the sum at a very large number of set terms if you have a few terms that grow so immensely faster than everything else you can write off the smaller ones as

Irrelevant and only focus on the bigger ones for example let’s say want to find out the number of living things on earth sure there are a lot of horses even more cats and even more humans but there are just so many more bacteria than anything else

Every other animal will only be a tiny tiny proportion of the total when compared to the immense number of bacteria pretty much negligible in our context while there are tons of other naturally generating blocks like fences and stairs there are just so many more diamonds than anything else and the price of diamonds

Is so much higher all of the other smaller prices become obsolete and we only have to focus on the valuables now that we have that in place let’s actually calculate it out for diamonds doing some googling and we can find the mass of a cubic meter of diamonds is 3514 kilograms

Each diamond is one-ninth of a cubic meter since nine of them make a block and the block is a cubic meter so each diamond weighs in at a hefty 390.4 repeating kilograms or 390 000 444.4 repeating grams the price of a diamond per carat is anywhere from 2500 to 18

Thousand dollars so let’s go with the lower estimate to be safe a gram is five carat so the price of a diamond per gram is twelve thousand five hundred dollars multiplying that by three hundred ninety thousand four hundred forty four grams per minecraft diamond and we gathered a singular minecraft diamond

Is worth four billion eight hundred eighty million five hundred fifty five thousand five hundred and fifty five us dollars that means that with all of his net worth elon musk the richest person in the world could only afford to buy 35 minecraft diamonds and there are 715 000 per minecraft world

So when the dust settles in diamonds alone the minecraft world is worth more than 3.5 quadrillion us dollars that is more than 37 times the gdp of the entire world in 2020 and this is just the lower estimate We can carry out the same mathematics for all the valuables in minecraft to find their price using cobalt as an equivalent for redstone and then multiplying those numbers by the amounts that generate per minecraft world and once you do all that you are met with these results a minecraft world has 2.7 million

Dollars worth of iron 340 million dollars worth of coal 1.3 trillion dollars worth of redstone 26 trillion dollars worth of emeralds 42 trillion dollars worth of lapis and 250 trillion dollars worth of gold and together a minecraft world has 3.82 quadrillion us dollars worth of valuables but what’s most

Interesting and what you might have noticed is that 91.6 of that is just diamonds a perfect example of fees law in action nothing else can compare to the tremendous amount and value of diamonds so a good estimate would have been just diamonds on their own even blocks like diorite grani and

Andesite which spawn so often come in at a couple billion dollars each which don’t get me wrong is a lot of money but nothing compared to diamonds so while in theory we could look at everything in minecraft from the worth of every stronghold to every stone block

It would all mean nothing in the face of diamonds so is the minecraft world worth 3.82 quadrillion us dollars no because we’ve only been considering the worth in terms of resources but there’s something even more important than all of that habitability we can live on the

Minecraft world that must be worth a lot and it is greg laughlin an astrophysicist in the university of california santa cruz devised a formula to calculate the value in us dollars of any exoplanet we discover and we can apply this very complicated looking formula to the minecraft world but there is one problem

To use this formula we have to find the mass of both the minecraft world and the minecraft sun the age of the minecraft sun the temperature of the minecraft world and the apparent magnitude or brightness from earth of the minecraft sun it sounds very fun doesn’t it the temperature is surprisingly the easiest

Bit know it or not biomes have their own temperature that dictate what biomes they spawn next to and if it will snow or rain in them using the weight of each biome and the temperatures listed in the minecraft wiki we get an average temperature of 0.568 0.568

What sadly there are no actual units the temperature which is a bit of a problem however going off the fact that needs to be less than 0.15 minecraft degrees for snow to spawn and in real life it has to be less than zero degrees celsius for snow to quote

Spawn and there needs to be two minecraft degrees for water to evaporate in the nether and the evaporation point of water in real life is 100 degrees celsius we can get a formula for converting minecraft temperature to celsius so from this point onwards i hereby dub the minecraft temperature unit

As a degree fees you’re welcome which one fee is 45.94 degrees celsius so after all of that the average temperature of a minecraft world is 0.568 fees or 22.595 degrees celsius and for my americans 72.67 degrees fahrenheit that’s a pretty warm temperature and almost the exact average temperature of madagascar

And holy the nether is 100 degrees celsius or 212 degrees fahrenheit that is hot very very hot props to stiffer in during that kind of heat hey guys editing wifey’s here past wifey’s was an actual idiot yeah i know big shocker and he calculated average temperature instead of what you actually need to

Find effective temperature so yeah apparently two very different things luckily it actually doesn’t make that much of a difference when you plug it into the formula because of how it’s weighted but if you are following along for whatever reason do keep that in mind it doesn’t make that big of a difference

I got lucky this time okay enjoy the video now that we have the temperature though it all gets harder from here we have to figure out the age of the minecraft sun yeah that sounds ridiculous since both the earth and the sun generate at the

Same time learn in a world we can assume that they have the same age and all we have to do to find the age of the sun is to find the age of the minecraft earth which is definitely easier said than done there are a couple of ways to do this

And they all give pretty good results the first is to look at the terrain if you haven’t noticed minecraft has these weird random patches of stone and dirt and diorite and andesite that seem to peek through the surface every once in a while these are actually intentional and are called basins

They are based on the real-life phenomena of geological shields geological shields in real life are large exposed areas of crystalline igneous and metamorphic rock which they anywhere from 570 million to 3.5 billion years old so we can consider that as one of the possible ages of the minecraft world

And by association the minecraft sun another way that we date planets is by using the craters on their surfaces since the rate of asteroids making impact has been about consistent for the last couple billion years we can use it to date our minecraft earth you may have also noticed these weird

And random perfect and near perfect circles generating every now and then around the world these are craters of meteors that have struck the minecraft earth in the 8200 by 8200 area we can locate two craters in a random new world and assuming the rate of distribution is equal around the entire minecraft world

We can guess there are around 107 million craters in a single world using some very scuffed estimation of asteroid size based on impact crater as well as this chart outlining the ratio of meteor mass to rate of impact on earth we can conclude that due to the number

Of craters the minecraft world is just about 10 billion years old which is very very old but on the same scale as our previous estimate so now the final metric we need is that minecraft earth’s mass and the minecraft’s sun’s mass yes there is visual apparent

Magnitude but to find that out i need the flux den yeah i’m not doing that i’ll just use the earth suns the minecraft earth’s mass is way easier to find out this is a math warning if you don’t like math or get bored by math and skip the time on screen we’re gonna

Be doing a lot of math to find out this mass with math okay enjoy we can use the equation for gravity or f equals g m1 m2 over r squared where f is the force of gravity g is the universal gravitational constant m1 and m2 are the masses of the two objects and

R is the distance between them squared in this case the radius of the minecraft earth using the gravitational constant of 27 meters per second squared that arrived in this video mapping the minecraft square earth onto a sphere to find the radius and doing some quick substitution you can calculate the mass of the

Minecraft earth is a whopping 1.16 times 10 to the 26th kilograms or around 19 times the mass of our earth now for the sun’s mass if we look at it from earth the minecraft sun appears to be around 9 degrees wide that is the degree you have to turn your head

To get from cursor edge to edge of the sun is around 9 degrees because angular size relationship with distance is linear and assuming that the minecraft sun is as far away from the earth as ours is which is a big assumption we can use this formula to find the diameter of the

Minecraft sun in all of its glory this turns out to be just around 14.7 million miles or around 17 times that of the actual sun so after using that measurement to find the volume of the minecraft sun or 1.66 sextillion cubic miles and assuming it has the same density as

Our sun we get a final mass of the minecraft sun 2.337 times 10 to the 33 kilograms or around 1175 times the mass of the real sun finally we have everything we need to calculate the value of the minecraft world plugging it all into our formula we get this

The minecraft earth is valued at 0.00 zero zero zero zero four eight dollars or one two thousandth of a cent that is worthless the culprit for this insanely low number is the mass of the minecraft earth all of the figures are relatively consistent with what they would be for the real earth itself

The only one that sticks out is their ratio of masses this formula devalues planets that have a mass far larger or smaller than that of our earth and sadly the minecraft earth is one of those planets that is very different but whether you want to value the earth at 3.82

Quadrillion dollars or one two thousandth of a cent something you can’t measure is the emotional and therapeutic value of a world priceless memories friendships and entertainment were forged on these worlds and really the most valuable thing in all of a minecraft world is you the player worth more than every diamond in

Every single world combined so thank you thank you for watching i really value you making it to the end please do consider subscribing if you did enjoy and learn something and as always peace out have a good one i’ll see you next time you