>>94979444Guess when the game came out, Anon? 15 years ago, when most sandbox games were either completely creative, and not a survival experience, or are not even close to the same genre, like tycoon game. Minecraft is literally Genre-defining. Also, the 64 stack has become iconic to Minecraft, and the inventory size came from when before the hopper, name tag, and 1/3-1/2 of the items that exist now.
That number is inflated due to color blocks, but still. It's probably hardcoded into Java and especially pocket edition/Bedrock edition.