Singleplayer commands mod rules.
I used the wand to see the distribution of the blocks. I then did a metric forgetton of maths to find out just how much it costs, and typed it up in a word processor.
1 Block: 1 Cubic meter
1 meter = 3.3 ft
1 m³ = 35.3 ft³
1 m³ = 1,000,000 cm³
1 kg = 1,000 g
1 kg = 2.20462 lb
1 carat = 0.2 grams
1 g = 5 carats
Gold is 14,000 lbs per cubic Foot
494,200 lbs per m³
224,166 kg per m³
Gold costs $16,310.37 per pound
1 block of gold would cost $8,060,584,854
The average Minecraft dude is a severely crippled multi-billionaire.
One carat diamond weight equals .20 grams
the average carat of diamond costs around 2,500$.
Diamond's density is 3.5 grams per cm³
3,500 kg per m³
3,500 kg = 17,500,000 ct
1 block of diamond costs $43,750,000,000
Hopefully the Minecraft dude can walk off this whole "crushed spine" until he can buy those thousands of Ferraris when he surfaces.
1 carat of Lapis Lazuli costs 1$
Specific gravity is 2.8 (2.8 times denser than water)
Water is 1,000 kg/m3 , so Lapis is 2,800 kg/m3
1 block of Lapis costs 14,000,000
My castle contains:
5445 Diamond Blocks
13011 Gold Blocks
494 Lapis Lazuli blocks
Time to crunch some numbers...
Diamond cost: 238,218,750,000,000 (oh lordie)
Gold Cost: 104,876,269,535,394 (oh lawdie)
Lapis Cost: 6,916,000,000 (quite affordable!)
Total Cost: $686,203,871,070,788
that's six-hundred eighty six trillion, two-hundred three billion, eight hundred seventy one million, seventy thousand, and seven-hundred eighty-eight dollars. How does that compare to the U.S's amount of money?
The U.S has $829 billion in circulation. The castle costs 828 times that.
The entire world has around $8.3 trillion. The Castle would need around 82 worlds to fund it's construction. That's a lot of Ferarris.
If you can point out errors in computation, that'd be great. Math was never my strong point, and I probably forgeted up somewhere.
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