Chest

Chest

Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool
Blast resistance	2.5
Hardness	2.5
Luminant	No
Transparent	Partially
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	Yes

This article is about the basic wooden chest. For the redstone component, see Trapped Chest. For the obsidian chest, see Ender Chest. For the structure that contains a single chest, see Buried treasure. For the April Fools' joke, see Locked chest.

	“	Today a chest or two is probably one of the first things you build in a new Minecraft world, and any house worth living in has a dedicated storage area that's organised carefully in a system that only its creator fully understands.	„
		— Duncan Geere

A chest is a block that stores items and other blocks.

Obtaining

Natural generation

See also: Chest loot

Chests are naturally generated in dungeons, strongholds, jungle temples, desert temples, nether fortresses, villages, end cities, igloos, woodland mansions, shipwrecks, ocean ruins, buried treasure spaces, pillager outposts, bastion remnant‌^{[upcoming: JE 1.16 & BE 1.16.0]} and ruined portal‌^{[upcoming: JE 1.16 & BE 1.16.0]}

A minecart with chest, when broken, drops a chest, a minecart, and any contents of the chest. They generate naturally in mineshafts.

In Java Edition, the loot for these chests (or for the bonus chest, see below) is fully determined by the seed. In Bedrock Edition, the loot is determined randomly by the seed, but the slots may be rearranged; for example, a chest at a given location for a given seed could have a single string, a stack of 3 string, and a single bread, but these slots' locations in the chest change if one generates the world multiple times.

Breaking

A chest can be broken using anything, but an axe is the fastest.

Block	Chest
Hardness	2.5
Tool
Breaking time
Default	3.75
Wooden	1.9
Stone	0.95
Iron	0.65
Diamond	0.5
Netherite	0.45
Golden	0.35

Block loot

Chests will always drop themselves when mined. If the chest contains items, the items are also be dropped when the chest is broken. If one half of a large chest is destroyed, the corresponding items from the destroyed chest are dropped and the remaining half continues to function as a small chest.

Namespaced ID	Source	Drops
		Default
blocks/chest	Chest	1 (100%)

Entity loot

Breaking a minecart with chest will drop both the chest and the minecart.

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Any Planks

Bonus chest

Bonus Chest545Inventory

Example of loot in a bonus chest.

The bonus chest is a chest with items that act as a starter kit. If the "Bonus Chest" option is set to "ON" in the "More World Options..." in Java Edition or "Game Settings" in Bedrock Edition part of the "Create New World" screen, a single bonus chest is generated in the world. It appears somewhere near the player's initial spawn point, with up to four torches generated around it on adjacent blocks.

The Bonus Chest option is not available in hardcore mode or on servers, thus making the bonus chest unavailable as well.

The bonus chest generates with a semi-random collection of basic items that can help the player survive early on, getting them started at gathering resources and making the objective of building an initial shelter easier.

In Java Edition each bonus chest contains items drawn from 4 pools, with the following distribution:

Item	Stack Size				Weight				Chance	Avg. per chest	Avg. # chests to search
	1×	1×	3×	4×	1×	1×	3×	4×
Apple	—	—	1–2	—	—	—	5⁄11	—	83.8%	2.045	1.2
Wooden Axe	1	—	—	—	3⁄4	—	—	—	75.0%	0.750	1.3
Wooden Pickaxe	—	1	—	—	—	3⁄4	—	—	75.0%	0.750	1.3
Oak Planks	—	—	—	1–12	—	—	—	10⁄38	70.5%	6.842	1.4
Stick	—	—	—	1–12	—	—	—	10⁄38	70.5%	6.842	1.4
Bread	—	—	1–2	—	—	—	3⁄11	—	61.5%	1.227	1.6
Raw Salmon	—	—	1–2	—	—	—	3⁄11	—	61.5%	1.227	1.6
Acacia Log	—	—	—	1–3	—	—	—	3⁄38	28.0%	0.632	3.6
Birch Log	—	—	—	1–3	—	—	—	3⁄38	28.0%	0.632	3.6
Dark Oak Log	—	—	—	1–3	—	—	—	3⁄38	28.0%	0.632	3.6
Jungle Log	—	—	—	1–3	—	—	—	3⁄38	28.0%	0.632	3.6
Oak Log	—	—	—	1–3	—	—	—	3⁄38	28.0%	0.632	3.6
Spruce Log	—	—	—	1–3	—	—	—	3⁄38	28.0%	0.632	3.6
Stone Axe	1	—	—	—	1⁄4	—	—	—	25.0%	0.250	4.0
Stone Pickaxe	—	1	—	—	—	1⁄4	—	—	25.0%	0.250	4.0

In Bedrock Edition each bonus chest contains items drawn from 14 pools, with the following distribution:

Item	Chance	Avg. per chest	Avg. # chests to search
Oak Planks	100.0%	6.500	1.0
Stick	100.0%	6.500	1.0
Apple	100.0%	1.500	1.0
Bread	100.0%	1.500	1.0
Brown Mushroom	100.0%	1.500	1.0
Raw Salmon	100.0%	1.500	1.0
Wooden Axe	75.0%	0.750	1.3
Wooden Pickaxe	75.0%	0.750	1.3
Cactus	60.0%	0.900	1.7
Acacia Log	50.0%	1.000	2.0
Dark Oak Log	50.0%	1.000	2.0
Carrot	50.0%	0.750	2.0
Potato	50.0%	0.750	2.0
Cocoa Beans	40.0%	0.600	2.5
Beetroot Seeds	33.3%	0.500	3.0
Melon Seeds	33.3%	0.500	3.0
Pumpkin Seeds	33.3%	0.500	3.0
Jungle Sapling	28.6%	1.143	3.5
Birch Log	25.0%	0.500	4.0
Jungle Log	25.0%	0.500	4.0
Oak Log	25.0%	0.500	4.0
Spruce Log	25.0%	0.500	4.0
Stone Axe	25.0%	0.250	4.0
Stone Pickaxe	25.0%	0.250	4.0
Acacia Sapling	14.3%	0.571	7.0
Birch Sapling	14.3%	0.571	7.0
Dark Oak Sapling	14.3%	0.571	7.0
Oak Sapling	14.3%	0.571	7.0
Spruce Sapling	14.3%	0.571	7.0

The bonus chest does not disable achievements and leaderboard updates.

Usage

Chests can be used as containers and as crafting ingredients.

To place a chest, use the Place Block control on the face of a block adjacent to the space the chest should occupy.

A chest placed adjacent to another chest joins to create a large chest (also known as a double chest). A player can prevent this, and place two small chests side by side, by sneaking while placing the second chest, or placing the second chest facing a different direction from the first chest.‌^{[Bedrock and Java editions only]} Alternately, trapped chests do not combine with normal chests.

Chests can be moved by pistons,‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]} and water and lava flows around chests without affecting them. Lava can create fire in air blocks next to chests as if the chests were flammable, but the chests do not actually catch fire (and can't be burned whatsoever).

Container

The default GUI of a large chest, showing the large chest's contents above the player's own inventory and hotbar.

A small chest has 27 slots of inventory space, and a large chest has twice that amount, at 54 slots. In the Java Edition interface, the top three rows for a large chest correspond to the western or northern half and the bottom three correspond to the southern or eastern half. In Bedrock Edition, the top three rows correspond to whichever half was placed first and the bottom three to the other half.

Chests open when used. To move items between the chest inventory and the player inventory or hotbar while the chest GUI is open, drag or shift-click the items. Holding ⇧ Shift and double-clicking while holding an item moves all items of the type clicked on in or out of the chest, to the extent that space is available for them.‌^{[Java Edition only]} To exit the chest GUI, use the Esc control.

A chest cannot be opened if there is an opaque block above it (in Bedrock Edition, bottom-half slabs prevent chests from being opened). Solid faces do not prevent chests from opening, so the lid of the chest can phase through blocks such as bottom-half slabs, bottom half stairs, and transparent full cubes such as glass and ice. Ocelots and cats sitting on chests prevent them from opening. Because chests themselves are functionally transparent, two chests can be stacked on top of one another while still allowing the lower chest to be opened. Players can open chests when players are being hurt (effect of instant damage, poison, wither, fatal poison or on fire) or hurt by anyone (players, zombies, skeletons, etc.).

By default, the GUI of a chest is labeled "Chest" and the GUI of a large chest is labeled "Large Chest". A chest's GUI label can be changed by naming the chest in an anvil before placing it, or by using the /data command‌^{[Java Edition only]} (for example, to label a chest at (0,64,0) as "Bonus Chest!", use /data merge block 0 64 0 {CustomName:'"Bonus Chest!"'}). If half of a large chest is renamed, that name is used to label the GUI of the entire large chest, but if the named half is destroyed the other half reverts to the default label. If both halves of a large chest have different names, the GUI uses the name of the northernmost or westernmost half.

In Java Edition, a chest can be "locked" by setting its Lock tag using the /data command. If a chest's Lock tag is not blank, the chest cannot be opened unless the player is holding an item with the same name as the Lock tag's text. For example, to lock a chest at (0,64,0) so that the chest cannot be opened unless the player is holding an item named "Chest Key", use /data merge block 0 64 0 {Lock:"Chest Key"}.

The capacity of a chest varies greatly, depending on its size, whether the items inside it are stackable, and whether Shulker Boxes are used. The minimum capacity is obtained when storing only non-stackable items while the maximum capacity can be achieved when storing items that stack to 64. Filled Shulker Boxes are non-stackable, but each can hold 27 stacks of up to 64 items (excluding other Shulker Boxes), so filling a chest with them increases the maximum by a factor of 27.

Chest Size	Slots	Maximum Number of Items
		Without Shulker Boxes	With Shulker Boxes
Small	27	1,728	46,656
Large	54	3,456	93,312

Donkey, mule, or llama pack

A chest can be added to a donkey, a mule, or a llama by pressing use on the respective animal.

A chest attached to a donkey or mule has only 15 slots. A chest attached to a llama has anywhere from 3 to 15 slots depending upon its "Strength" value (see Llama § Data values). The chest cannot be removed except by killing the carrier. The chest can be opened by holding sneak and pressing use, or by riding the carrier and pressing inventory.

If shulker boxes are again used, each donkey, mule or strength value 5 llamas with a chest attached to it can carry up to 405 stacks of items (up to 25920 items), and with strength value 5 llamas, each caravan of 10 llamas with inventories full of shulker boxes can carry up to 4050 stacks of items (up to 259200 items).

Piglins

‌In Java Edition 1.16 and Bedrock Edition 1.16.0‌^[upcoming], piglins will become hostile towards players who open or mine chests.

Fuel

Chests can be used as a fuel in furnaces, smelting 1.5 items per chest.

Christmas chest

On December 23–26, chests, large chests, and their trapped chest counterparts have their textures changed to "Christmas chests" that look like wrapped Christmas presents. Since the game uses the date shown on the computer, players can access the Christmas chest textures at any time by changing the date and time on their computers to 23-26 of December.

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Sounds

Java Edition:

Sound	Subtitle	Source	Description	Namespaced ID	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Block broken	Blocks	Breaking the block	block.wood.break	subtitles.block.generic.break	1.0	0.8	16
	None	Blocks	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.wood.fall	None	0.5	0.75	16
	Block breaking	Blocks	Mining the block	block.wood.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit	0.25	0.5	16
	Block placed	Blocks	Placing the block	block.wood.place	subtitles.block.generic.place	1.0	0.8	16
	Footsteps	Blocks	Walking on the block	block.wood.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps	0.15	1.0	16
	Chest closes	?	?	block.chest.close	subtitles.block.chest.close	?	?	16
	Chest locked	?	?	block.chest.locked	subtitles.block.chest.locked	?	?	16
	Chest opens	?	?	block.chest.open	subtitles.block.chest.open	?	?	16

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Translation key
Chest	chest	block.minecraft.chest

Name	Namespaced ID
Block entity	chest

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID	Translation key
Chest	chest	54	tile.chest.name

Name	Savegame ID
Block entity	Chest

Block data

See also: Data values

In Bedrock Edition, chests use the following data values:

Bits	Values
0x1 0x2 0x4	A three-bit field storing a value from 2 to 5: 2: Chest facing north 3: Chest facing south 4: Chest facing west 5: Chest facing east Invalid values default to 2.
0x8	Unused.

Block states

See also: Block states

Java Edition:

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
facing	north	east north south west	The direction the chest's latch is on. Opposite from the direction the player faces when placing a chest.
type	single	left right single	The direction the chest has a connection with.
waterlogged	false	false true	Whether or not there's water in the same place as this chest.

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
facing_direction	2	0 1 2 3 4 5	The direction the chest's latch is on. Opposite from the direction the player faces when placing a chest.

Block entity

See also: Block entity format

A chest has a block entity associated with it that holds additional data about the block.

• Block entity data
  • Tags common to all block entities see Template:Nbt inherit/blockentity/template
  •  CustomName: Optional. The name of this container in JSON text component, which appears in its GUI where the default name ordinarily appears.
  •  Lock: Optional. When not blank, prevents the container from being opened unless the opener is holding an item whose name matches this string.
  •  Items: List of items in the container.
    • : An item, including the slot tag. Chest slots are numbered 0-26, 0 starts in the top left corner.
      • Tags common to all items see Template:Nbt inherit/item/template
  •  LootTable: Optional. Loot table to be used to fill the chest when it is next opened, or the items are otherwise interacted with.
  •  LootTableSeed: Optional. Seed for generating the loot table. 0 or omitted use a random seed.

Achievements

Main article: Achievement

Icon	Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
	Chestful of Cobblestone	Mine 1,728 Cobblestone and place it in a chest.	A player must mine 1,728 cobblestone and place 1,728 cobblestone, or 27 stacks, in a chest. The cobblestone placed in the chest does not have to be the same cobblestone that was mined.	20G	Bronze
	Freight Station	Use a Hopper to move an item from a Chest Minecart to a Chest.	—	15G	Bronze
	Smelt Everything!	Connect 3 Chests to a single Furnace using 3 Hoppers.	—	15G	Bronze

Advancements

Main article: Advancement

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Namespaced ID
	War Pigs ‌[upcoming: JE 1.16]	Loot a chest in a Bastion Remnant	Those Were the Days	Open a chest in a bastion remnant.	nether/loot_bastion

History

Java Edition Indev
0.31		January 24, 2010			Added chests.
					Chests are considered a solid block.
					The front of the chest (with the latch) faces away from any adjacent solid blocks, or faces west if placed independent of other blocks.
					If a chest is placed next to a large chest, it attempts to "connect" with the large one, changing its texture to that of half a large chest. However, this is purely visual; they still act like two separate chests. Additionally, if the player attempts to open a chest connected on all four sides, the game freezes and the client crashes.
		January 30, 2010			Chests can now be crafted.
Java Edition Alpha
v1.0.14					Chests are now used to craft minecarts with chests.
Java Edition Beta
1.1_02					The chest's placement has been partially fixed. It is still possible to create triple chests, if the chest was not placed horizontally adjacent to a large chest or if placed in the location of a fluid.
					The game no longer freezes, but instead displays a graphically glitched, fully functional chest screen.
1.5					Chests can no longer be placed to create a triple chest; however, any chest previously created in this way still functions in that manner.
1.8		Pre-release			Added an opening and closing animation with a new chest model.
					The chest's texture is no longer in the terrain.png file. Instead, it is in the folder "item" under "chest.png" and "chestlarge.png", with the former being a chest on its own and the latter being the large chest. However, prior to 12w21a, the chest particles were still based on terrain.png and for the locked chest texture.
					Chests are now tile entities, which means they no longer show the block breaking animation and are also now slightly smaller than they were before.
					Chests now change the direction they face based on the viewpoint of the player.
					Chests can now be found in abandoned mineshafts and strongholds.
Sound Update					The chest's opening and closing sounds have been changed.
Java Edition
1.0.0		Beta 1.9 Prerelease			The opening and closing sound effects of the chest have been removed (it used the same sounds as the door).
1.1		12w01a			Chests can now be found in NPC villages.
1.2.4		release			Cats now try to sit on chests, making them unopenable.
1.3.1		12w16a			The 'bonus chest' option has now added to the Options menu.
		12w21a			Chest particles are no longer based on terrain.png and for the locked chest texture.
					Chests can now be found in desert temples.
		12w22a			Chests can now be found in jungle temples.
1.4.4		pre			Chests now have a smaller hitbox.
1.4.6		12w50a			Added alternate chest textures into the game files. They are for a future "Christmas chest" easter egg.
		12w50b			The server/client desync of chests has been fixed.
1.5		13w01a			Chests can now be used to craft a hopper and a trapped chest.
					Chests can now be used in conjunction with hoppers.
		13w02a			Chests no longer generate naturally in mineshafts.
1.6.1		13w18a			Chests are now found in nether fortresses.
		13w19a			Chests can now be put on donkeys and mules.
1.8		14w02a			Chests can now have a NBT tag added enabling a locked chest. They can be opened only if the player is holding the item the chest is set for.
		14w29a			Chests now display the cracking animation.
1.9		15w31a			Chests now naturally generate in end cities.
					Chests now have their item model rotated, to have the front face in view of the player.
		15w43a			A chest now generates within igloo basements.
					Loot tables have been added; chests can now use loot tables.
					All chests generated with the world now make use of loot tables.
					The chests opening and closing sounds has been changed.
		15w44a			Bonus chest loot has been changed.
					Raw salmon is now possible to find in bonus chests.
					The average supply of sticks and planks have been nearly doubled in bonus chests.
					The average supply of logs have been decreased, and that of stone tools have been nearly halved in bonus chests.
1.9.1		pre1			A hopper can now push into and pull items from a blocked chest.
1.11		16w39a			Chests now generate in woodland mansions.
					Chests are now used to craft shulker boxes.
1.13		17w47a			Chests and trapped chests can now be put directly next to their double variants, instead of requiring one block between them.
					Crouching while placing the chest now makes it try to connect to the clicked block.
					Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 54.
		18w09a			Chests now generate in underwater ruins.
		18w10a			Chests now generate as buried treasure structures.
		18w10c			Water can now be placed on the same block as chests.
		18w11a			Chests can now be found in shipwrecks.
1.15		19w39a			The chest texture layout has been changed. The layout has been changed from to .
		?			Before this point, chests with one half blockstate would be completely invisible, whereas the other half displayed the whole chest. From this point on, each blockstate correctly displays the associated half, although still only one displays an opening/closing animation.
Upcoming Java Edition
1.16		20w07a			Added piglins, which turn hostile to players opening chests.
		20w15a			Chests placed in a dispenser can now be put on tamed llamas, donkeys and mules.
		20w16a			Chests now generate as part of bastion remnants and ruined portals.
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.4.0					Added chests, but only single chests.
0.7.3					The texture of chests has been changed.
					Added large chests.
					Added an animation and sound for chests.
					Chests can now be placed adjacent to large chests or other chests facing in a different direction.
0.8.0		?			The textures of chests have been changed to look more like Java and Console editions. The texture of chests is no longer in the terrain-atlas.tga file.
0.9.0		build 1			Chests now naturally generate in abandoned mineshafts, villages, strongholds and dungeons.
					Added smooth lighting to chests.
0.10.0		build 1			Chests now have a selection overlay.
0.12.1		build 1			Cats now try to sit on chests, making them unopenable.
					Chests now naturally generate in nether fortresses.
0.13.0		build 1			Chests are now used to craft trapped chests.
					Chests now naturally generate in desert temples.
0.14.0		build 1			Chests are now used to craft hoppers and minecarts with chests.
0.15.0		build 1			Chests can now be put on donkeys and mules.
					Pistons and sticky pistons can now move chests.
					Chests now naturally generate in jungle temples.
0.16.0		build 1			Custom names in chests no longer appear in GUI.
0.16.2					A chest containing farming loot can now naturally generate in large houses in villages.
Pocket Edition
1.0.0		alpha 0.17.0.1			Chests can now generate in end cities and igloos.
1.1.0		alpha 1.1.0.0			Chests now generate in woodland mansions.
					Chests are now used to craft shulker boxes.
Bedrock Edition
1.2.0		beta 1.2.0.2			Added the Bonus Chest option, which can be toggled in World Options.
1.4.0		beta 1.2.14.2			Chests can now naturally generate in shipwrecks.
					Chests now generate as buried treasure structures.
		beta 1.2.20.1			Chests now naturally generate in underwater ruins.
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			Chests are now found in pillager outposts.
Upcoming Bedrock Edition
1.16.0		beta 1.16.0.51			Added piglins, which turn hostile to players opening chests.
		beta 1.16.0.57			Chests now generate as part of bastion remnants and ruined portals.
Legacy Console Edition
TU1	CU1	1.0	Patch 1		Added chests.
TU5					The chest model has been with a 3D lock, along with opening and closing animations.
TU12					Cats now try to sit on chests, making them unopenable.
TU14		1.04			The 'bonus chest' option has been added to the Options menu.
					Chest particles are no longer based on terrain.png and for the locked chest texture.
					Chests can now be found in desert temples.
					Chests can now be found in jungle temples.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					Added chests.

Issues

Issues relating to "Chest" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia

• Chests render as a full block when in the inventory, but not when placed.‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}
• Aside from air, bedrock, and obsidian,‌^{[upcoming: JE 1.16]} chests are the only block in Minecraft that can generate in the Overworld, the Nether, and the End.

Gallery

Texture layout up to 1.14

Texture layout from 1.15

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  First picture released of the new chest animation, also displaying the ability to have chests facing directions other than west.

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  A screenshot of a chest opening and closing.

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  The chests in the Pocket Edition before 0.7.3, it is slightly smaller than chests in older versions of Java Edition.

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  Chests can be placed adjacent to one another.

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  Custom chest name obtained by using anvil naming or commands.

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  An in-game screenshot of chests during Christmas time.

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  A chest in early Pocket Edition.

See also

• Locked chest (an April Fools' joke that is no longer in the game)

References

Blocks

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