How much can Minecraft Steve REALLY lift? (and how hard can he punch)

who's ready to hear me say big numbers for 15 minutes

[Schmedley-The-Sign-Nezha]

Hey so I might've said chests have 36 slots when they in fact don''t

The real final numbers when using a proper 27-slot boat chest are:
Steve's Punch = 157, 027, 676, 145, 511, 355, 471, 410 J
Kinetic Boat Bombardment Attack = 51, 910, 014, 517, 880, 141, 180, 858, 438 J

The comparisons are still roughly correct at least

[DaughterOfDrakes]

Now there's the question of, given steve's nuclear-level punches only inflict 1/2 heart of damage, how durable are minecraft mobs?

[Voipy]

so, if cows floating in water means that the water is heavier, does that mean steve, iron golems, every type of fish, guardian and drowned weight AT LEAST 264, 299, 784, 937, 890, 654kg?

[mynamejot]

This is all while entirely sober and sustained only by baked potatoes

[xyvernthederg]

new question: who hits harder, terraria guy or steve? terraria guy with the shadow lance and the inflatable tube with a top to bottom of the world water column can do wacky things

[butternerd-sznw]

Steve is never limited by the weight he can carry, only by physical space(and even so in a questionable way) so all this is a lower bound. But also, steve is pushed upwards by bubble columns

[szpaklabs]

According to my calculations, two "Kinetic boat bombardments" release the amount of energy that is nearly enough to obliterate Pol from Kerbal Space Program.

[PC_YouTube_Channel]

my man's gotta learn about significant figures

but this was a golden youtube homepage pull

[willnicholls]

You forgot to add in the weight of two parrots. C’mon dude

[Ellipsibus-to]

Take Steve's max weight as calculated here, and assuming that he is a 1m radius sphere, we can calculate his gravity from g=GM/R^2. This gives us 85, 759, 844, 571 g, which means that objects should have over 26 billion times the gravitational acceleration towards Steve as the planet he is on. Mobs should fall towards Steve rather than the ground. If only we had a few more ways to multiply this mass, then we could turn steve into a black hole.

[sylvaindhote]

I'll be glad to bring the numbers up at the next family dinner.

[TheRussell]

I agree the ender chest is a pocket dimension, but i do not agree that shulkers are.

The justification for an ender chest being a pocket dimension is that youre effectively accessing a remote storage, where the ender chest itself merely acts as the interface for doing so. It'd be like accessing data stored in the cloud irl.

A shulker, however, is storing all of its items locally within itself, which is why you can only ever access the storage from the one specific shulker you deposited the items into.

A PC analogy would be that the ender chest is cloud storage, a shulker is a local SSD on a pc without internet, and a normal chest is RAM since it clears contents on reset/break.

[theintensecowtrio]

In 1.21 there are also bundles which can fit in shulker boxes, which makes steve's maximum carrying capacity much much heavier.

[Internet-user]

Idk if you would count this because it does require some commands, but if you fill a chest with blue ice you can select block and get the chest with all it's items as an item, you can then put it into another chest and repeat doing that. There is a limit to how many layers you can have, it's called the dept tag limit so it wouldn't be just another way to get infinite weight. I think the limits around 171 times so it can still get pretty heavy

[shapeswitch_mood]

I feel that there is a lot of quantum physics at play, where a block has "potential" weight in some situations, but otherwise does not.

[MszS]

counter argument: Steve moves at exactly the same speed while having an empty inventory, and while carrying the absolutely insane weight, so he is infinitely strong

[reenokopli]

Wouldn't it be better to add another player to the boat for 2 inventories? Should be a little better than a chest I think.

[acat]

Steve: Hey, Alex, can you hand me a couple Plutos?
Alex: Sure! [hands Steve 5 Plutos] What're you gonna do with them?
Steve: Well, I wanted to work out some, and we're low on some resources and space, so why not kill 3 birds with one stone?
Alex: You're gonna punch them?
Steve: Yeah! They're not THAT hard to destroy.
...
This is how I can see a conversation between Steve and Alex going based on this video.

[frqubit]

wait a second, chests add 27 slots not 36 (12:50).

I suppose you can put another player in the boat, but at that point you might as well put a llama with a chest plus a player.

Cool video by the way!

Edit: corrected in comment, very cool

[Decommissioned]

If you enable touch screen mode, you can carry items in the crafting grid and then click off to the side of the screen to close the gui while keeping the items in there while being able to walk around. So you can add 4 more shulkers