so a Diamond armor Worth more than Notch wight in gold?

[maxsi]

so a diamond armor is rely a rely good armor?

[jecowa]

It's actually an enjoyable video after you get past the two minute intro. Skip to 2:10 in the video to watch the real content. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KuH0-99 ... age#t=131s

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They assume each pixel in the texture of steve's armor 3-model is equivalent to a 1/16 meter cubed diamond. Using the density of the diamond, they calculate that full set of diamond armor weighs well over 500 kg (1000 lbs). Even though cloudy, opaque diamonds the worst kind, so his suite would only be worth 4.2 billion dollars. However since the diamonds are blue diamonds, that makes them worth about 20 times as much. So Steve is walking around in an 88 billion dollar suite. Diamonds would actually make a poor armor material be cause they can be split easily from certain angles.

Another way to count the cost of Steve's armor is by counting how many diamonds it takes to craft the armor. Helmet is 5, breastplate is 8, leggings are 7, and boots are 4, which makes a total of 24 diamonds to craft a set. Since it takes 9 diamonds to make a cubic meter (Diamond storage Block), 24 diamonds would be 2.67 meters cubed. That much diamond, according to their research, would weigh over 9000 kg (20,000 lbs). This is 17.78 times more diamonds than the dude in the video calculated. That would bring the total cost of crafting Steve's armor to 1.6 trillion dollars.

[emptychild]

The other day just for fun I calculated out how much the enchanted golden apple (the one that uses gold blocks) would cost. It was in roughly the same neighborhood. 9 cubic meters of gold is more than enough to retire on.

[Thalarctia]

With the sad part of course being that noone in the world would ever give calculations like these a single thought if Notch had called the material "Mithril", "Adamantium" or "Difficult-to-obtainium" like most other fantasy games with resource gathering. I just don't see it being worth the time to do stuff like this, as it's really just dependant on what the first word that came to Notch's mind was, when he was coding the sneaky little things.

[Foxy Boxes]

With the sad part of course being that noone in the world would ever give calculations like these a single thought if Notch had called the material "Mithril", "Adamantium" or "Difficult-to-obtainium" like most other fantasy games with resource gathering.

Probably because we don't have a real world market for said other resources, unfortunately :P

[FlowerChild]

With the sad part of course being that noone in the world would ever give calculations like these a single thought if Notch had called the material "Mithril", "Adamantium" or "Difficult-to-obtainium" like most other fantasy games with resource gathering. I just don't see it being worth the time to do stuff like this, as it's really just dependant on what the first word that came to Notch's mind was, when he was coding the sneaky little things.

Enter "Soulforged Steel" :)

[PatriotBob]

Enter "Soulforged Steel" :)

What is the going market value of an extracted, damned soul these days?

[jorgebonafe]

What is the going market value of an extracted, damned soul these days?

Not nearly as expensive as you would think...

[Detritus]

What is the going market value of an extracted, damned soul these days?

Not nearly as expensive as you would think...

Depends on the Calibur :P

[FlowerChild]

I think I was offered three of those in a bar last week for the price of a drink.

[Foxy Boxes]

Now then, we all know a drinks only worth two souls.

[FlowerChild]

Now then, we all know a drinks only worth two souls.

Sorry, it was a drink each. Didn't mean to devalue the soul market like that.

[Zhil]

Sorry, it was a drink each. Didn't mean to devalue the soul market like that.

Did you draft contracts in blood or am going too old-school with it?

Actually, I knew a girl that would've liked that. Kept biting my lip. Very annoying.

[The Phoenixian]

Sorry, it was a drink each. Didn't mean to devalue the soul market like that.

Eh, it wouldn't be much more in the scheme of things: It used to be you had to pony up someone's deepest desires for each purchase.

Souls really are a buyers' market these days.

[Rianaru]

Sorry, it was a drink each. Didn't mean to devalue the soul market like that.

Eh, it wouldn't be much more in the scheme of things: It used to be you had to pony up someone's deepest desires for each purchase.

Souls really are a buyers' market these days.

All you have to do is be a college administrator, and then discounts on souls forever, especially the ripe, young ones.

[dawnraider]

Sorry, it was a drink each. Didn't mean to devalue the soul market like that.

Eh, it wouldn't be much more in the scheme of things: It used to be you had to pony up someone's deepest desires for each purchase.

Souls really are a buyers' market these days.

All you have to do is be a college administrator, and then discounts on souls forever, especially the ripe, young ones.

Man, discounts on ones that powerful? Damn, they have it good. High quality souls like that are hard to come by.