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Roughly how many blocks exist in a single full Minecraft world?

1.4 quintillion
blocks
1,400,000,000,000,000,000 exactly, give or take
One Minecraft world contains an estimated 1.4 quintillion blocks — the map alone is about seven times the surface area of Earth, giving every person alive around 175 million blocks to mine.SOURCEDerived from Mojang's world-border and build-height specifications
Scale check: 1.4 quintillion is roughly seconds in 32 billion years — older than the universe.
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