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[Tentacudar]

I know someone figured out how tall the player is, and I myself knew it at one time, but now I can't recall what it was, and can't find it on the forums anymore. But along with the player height, I would also like to know the dimensions of each body part, (i.e. The legs, the arms, the torso, and the head) because some day I plan on making a minecraft-guy suit for like Halloween or something, and knowing the real-life scale would be incredibly helpful. So provide any info. you can!

[acrichardson_1]

One block is 1 meter, so I think the human character is somewhere around 1.7 meters tall. I'm sure someone else can give you an exact answer.

[Rox]

Notch claimed, in an extremely early video, that the player height was 1.7 meters. I don't see why that would've changed. However, to me that looks like the camera height. The actual model looks extremely close to 2 meters. Just put a couple of blocks up and switch into... ah heck, I'll do it for you, hold on...


There. Exactly two meters from head to toe. Which I think looks ridiculous and Notch should scale it down... From that, you should very easily be able to deduce what the individual body parts are like. Even if there ARE models out there that could tell you the exact measurements in hard numbers... come on, they're blocks. It's not that hard to eyeball it.

[edit] Heck, you could use the papercraft dimensions as a scale model and just size that up![/edit]

[Sealystar]

Your legs are 3/4 meters long, as are your arms and your body's height. Your head is half a meter. You are not an accurately proportioned human, but you are realistically tall for a modern human.

EDIT: Your torso is half a meter wide. Your shoulders at furthest point are a meter apart. Your legs are a quarter of a meter wide each. YOU ARE FAT IN MINECRAFT.

[Tentacudar]

Wow! Thanks a bunch Sealystar, as well as Rox and Acrichardson_1, thats all the info I need : D

[matthew102000]

no, im fairly certain he claimed that your EYES were at 1.7m

[Saiko]

matthew102000 said:

no, im fairly certain he claimed that your EYES were at 1.7m

Edit: Oops no, I was thinking wrong. This leaves our forehead to the tip of our head to measure up to around 12 inches or 1 foot, lol.
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[BlueToast]

So the player eyes are at 1.7m, and the height is really 2m...? I am confused.

The wiki has no information whatsoever about player dimensions; it does say that blocks are 1m^3.



And is the world height from 0-127 or 1-128?

[BlueToast]

I just did some measurements. I made a tower of blocks to reach the maximum height, and have the following theories: 1.7m (according to Notch) to 1.8m-1.9m (my personal rough estimate based on screenshots I provided) is the player height; the FPS camera is positioned at 1.62000000476837m



The blocks are from 0-128 (0 being the void/unbuildable/nothing, 1 being the first buildable layer, 128 being the highest buildable layer, and 129 of course being unbuildable).

So when you stand on top of a block and want to figure out what block-coordinate that block is filling, take the Y-coordinate minus 1.62000000476837.