The Vault

Everything, counted

Nobody knows whose chest is whose — the protection plugin's database is gone — but every chest is still where it was left, and every item in it can be counted. So here is the server's entire inventory: 132,089 containers holding 25,047,018 items of 778 kinds, from the four-and-a-half million cobblestone nobody could throw away to the eighty-two Nether stars somebody did.

A double chest is counted once. The two worlds that carried over from 2013 to 2015 (the lobby and somewhereelse) are counted in their final state only. The chatvival and fertalized worlds in the 2013 backup are left out entirely: they were ChatCraft, the private 2011–12 predecessor, not TWiTcraft. Creative worlds and admin kit dispensers are included and do inflate a few numbers — the PvP arena's dispensers hold a thousand diamond swords at a time.

What the server was made of

4,675,556 cobblestone is 1,353 full double chests of it — or a solid cube 167 blocks on a side.

The treasury

Counting blocks as nine, the October 2013 survival map held 48,012 diamonds in chests, plus 4,855 in players' pockets and 7,476 in ender chests — about 60,343 diamonds in existence, or 20.2 per player file. The 2015 map, a year old when it stopped, held 16,656 in chests, 291 carried and 3,230 in ender chests. Across every archived world there are 82 Nether stars, 92 beacons and 13,552 enchanted books sitting in storage.

’13 = the October 2013 survival map, ’15 = the January 2015 one. “Chests” columns count only the survival map, its Nether and End (and in 2015 the resource world). “Carried” is what players had in their inventories when they last logged out; ender-chest contents were extracted from the same player files. Blocks are counted as blocks, not multiplied out.

The richest chests

A diamond counts 1, a diamond block 9, an emerald ½, an enchanted book 3, a Nether star 30, a beacon 40; iron and gold count a little. Ownership is read off the signs nearby (“thejoker344's stuff”, “Property of emerysteele mining co.”) and, failing that, the nearest bed — a guess with the evidence shown, not a record.

The great storage rooms

Still cooking

31 furnaces still had fuel burning or an item part-way smelted at the moment of the last save, and 210 brewing stands held finished potions nobody collected. The 34,155 enchanted items sitting in chests were mostly enchanted books (13,348), bows (8,819), diamond swords (2,854), diamond pickaxes (1,737), golden helmets (504). Only 7 containers were ever given a name.

Furnaces caught mid-smelt

Named containers

Named items left in chests

World by world

How this was made

Every tile entity of type Chest, Trap (the 1.7 name for a dispenser), Hopper, Dropper, Furnace and Cauldron (brewing stand), plus every chest and hopper minecart, was read out of the region files of every archived world with the items it held. Item ids were translated with the 1.7.10 table used for What They Carried. Adjacent chests at the same height are merged into one double chest. Stack counts are taken as stored, which is why a few creative-mode dispensers report stacks of 127. Ownership is not stored anywhere in a chest. Every sign in every world was read out of the same region files (about 70,000 of them, far more than the earlier partial pass), and a chest or storage room is labelled with the player name that appears on signs within twenty blocks — possessives (“X's stuff”), owner phrasings (“property of”, “claimed by”, “X Warehouse”) count for more than a bare mention, and names that are also ordinary English words only count in those contexts. Where no sign names anyone, the nearest bed on the map's homes layer is used instead. Both are guesses; the evidence is printed so you can judge.