I've spent a lot of time on this channel talking
about platinum coins. I've talked about their luck potential, how
much they're worth both in game and in real life, and how hard they hit as well. All of this depends on how much the coin weighs,
and for all these calculations, I've always assumed that the platinum coin is essentially
a solid disk of pure platinum. This makes sense because it's a platinum coin,
and commodity currency tends to be made of some amount of pure, precious commodity material. But, of course, there's a bit more to this
than that. Just like in real life, Terrarian coins are
subdividable into smaller quantities in order to make it easy to buy small items. In Terraria, coins are subdivided by the 100s,
all the way down to copper - where 1,000,000 copper coins equals 1 platinum coin. But, unlike real life, where these subdivisions
exist in the form of completely different tradable coins, Terraria's subcoins exist
in a more literal sense. One platinum coin isn't just equal to 100
gold in Terraria, one platinum coin IS 100 gold in Terraria. The Terrarian has the ability to transmute
1 platinum to 100 gold, and vice versa, all the way down the chain. No "breaking" a bill here - just simple compression
and transmutation. This does pose an interesting question. While we've went over how ludicrous a platinum
platinum coin already is - using pixel measurements to prove how it weighs in excess of 1,000
kg and is worth some $30,000,000 - it'd be nothing compared to a million-copper-coin
platinum coin. So... how much would a platinum coin made
of 1,000,000 copper coins... actually weigh... and how much would it be worth? Well, to find that, we need the weight of
those million copper coins, and to find that, we need their size, or volume. Basically, it's pixel measurements, and I've
done these a lot before, so let's blitz through it. In short, the face area of the coin is 24
square pixels like this, and the depth of the coin is 2 pixels at the top and 4 pixels
elsewhere. That gives us a volume of 88 cubic pixels
per coin. Each pixel is one eighth of a block, or 3
inches, meaning each cubic pixel is (3 inches)^3 or 27 cubic inches. This means our 88 cubic pixels becomes 2,376
cubic inches or 38,935 cubic centimeters - enough to form a cube a third of a meter on each
side. Yes, that seems quite big for a coin, but
have you seen the coins in Terraria? They're monstrous in size. Anyway, what we care about is what we get
by multiplying this by a million. Our 2,376 cubic inches per coin becomes 2.376
billion cubic inches, or in metric, 38.94 billion cubic centimeters - which is the final
volume of all 1 million of our copper coins. Now that we know the volume of copper contained
within 1 million copper coins or 1 platinum coin, we can figure out the weight or mass
via copper's density. Pure copper weighs around nine times as much
as water, at around 8.96g/cm^3. Doing simple math means a million copper coins
would weigh roughly 348.9 billion grams, or 348.9 million kilograms - and thus, a single
platinum coin would have to weigh this much as well. That's right - if a million copper coins were
to really exist within a platinum coin, the platinum coin would have to weigh just under
350 million kilograms. This would easily be the heaviest item in
Terraria, and if this is true, holding 9,999 platinum coins in all 55 coinable slots of
the Terrarian inventory would equate to the Terrarian holding 192 trillion kilograms of
pretransmute copper. Yeah. At 350 million kilograms per coin, this coin
would be borderline immovable in the real world. The heaviest and meanest container ships in
the world would struggle to carry just one, and the longest and bulkiest locomotives would
struggle to even make it move. Meanwhile, at nearly 200 trillion kilograms,
the Terrarian himself would be weighing more on the planetary or global scale than anything
else, and him falling to the ground would release the potential energy of several nuclear
bombs at a minimum. At $8.21 per kilogram, this much copper would
also be worth around $2.87 billion if you're curious - two orders of magnitude higher than
a pure platinum platinum coin would be worth. Hello! If you enjoyed my content, please consider
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