I last played Minecraft when Yogscast was still the thing, can you actually survive a point blank Creeper explosion like what Steve did in chapter 1? He died in one hit here, which aligns more with my expectations.
Steve is ripped as fuck because he can carry a full inventory of gold blocks. a gold block is a 1mx1mx1m cube of solid gold. That weighs approximately 1 fuckload. And he can carry several hundred of them at once.