Minecraft Java Edition – How Many Items Can a Player Carry at Most?

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I would like to know, how many items can fit into the player's inventory in Minecraft. There is a new item, called Shulker Box, which can carry items.

How much items can the Shulker Box carry and how many can I carry at most?

Best Answer

Your inventory has 4 rows of 9 slots each. That is 36 slots, plus one for the right hand, 37 slots. Each one can carry a single (non-stackeble) Shulker Box with up to 3 × 9 slots for items. So one Shulker box can carry up to 3 × 9 × 64 = 1728 items. And if you have 37 Shulker Boxes in your inventory, you get 37 × 1728 = 63936 items. Plus, 4 items armor and 37 shulker boxes, so 63973 items.

In case you count the contents of an Ender Chest a part of your inventory, you get an extra 26 slots plus 27 Shulker Boxes, that is 44955 + 63940 = 108895 items total.

In case you you're willing to count the Ender Chest and carrying iron/gold blocks to craft nuggets (1 block = 81 nuggets), the grand total is 1701 slots * 64 blocks * 81 = 8817984 items, plus the 67 storage items and armour = 8818051 items total! (5104 chests)

One can carry up to 8818051 items at once1


1: With commands or other non-vanilla additions, Shulker Boxes can be stacked to 64 - that makes a grand total of 1701 * 64 * 64 * 81 + 4032 boxes + 4 armor = 564355012 items (326594 chests)