Chest

Chest

Type	Tile Entity
Requirements	None
Physics	No
Transparency	Yes
Luminance	No
Blast resistance	12.5
Hardness	2.5
Tool
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Flammable	No, but catches fire from lava
First appearances	See History
Drops	Chest (1) plus contents
Block entity id	chest
Data value	dec: 54 hex: 36 bin: 110110
Name	chest

This article is about the basic wooden chest. For the redstone component, see Trapped Chest. For the obsidian chest, see Ender 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.

Obtaining

Chests can be obtained by crafting, or by breaking previously-placed chests, generated chests, or minecarts with chests.

Breaking

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

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

If the chest contains items, the items will also be dropped when it is broken. If one half of a large chest is destroyed, the corresponding items from the destroyed chest will be dropped and the remaining chest will continue to function as a small chest.

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Any Wood Planks

Natural generation

See also: Chest loot

Chests are naturally generated in dungeons, strongholds, jungle temples, desert temples, nether fortresses, villages, end cities, end ships, igloos and woodland mansions. They will also generate in shipwrecks, underwater ruins and buried treasures^{[upcoming 1.13]}. Minecarts with chests, which when broken will drop a chest, a minecart, and any contents of the chest, are naturally generated in abandoned mineshafts.

In Java Edition, the loot for these chests (or for the bonus chest, see below) is fully determined by the seed, while in the legacy console and Bedrock editions, the loot is determined randomly and independent of the seed.

Bonus chest

Example of loot in a bonus chest

The bonus chest acts as a starter kit. It generates once in the player's spawn area, only in newly created worlds in which the bonus chest option was enabled. It is filled with basic items that may help the player survive early on, getting them started gathering resources, and making the objective of building a shelter a lot easier.

Up to four torches will generate around the chest in adjacent horizontal and vertical squares.

It is enabled by setting the "Bonus Chest" option to "ON" in the "More World Options..."^{[Java Edition only]} or "Game Settings"^{[Bedrock Edition only]} part of the "Create New World" screen. The bonus chest cannot be enabled in hardcore mode or on servers.

Each bonus chest contains items drawn from 4 pools, with the following distribution:

	Stack Size				Weight				# Items	Chance	# Chests
	1×	1×	3×	4×	1×	1×	3×	4×
Apple	—	—	1–2	—	—	—	5⁄11	—	2.045	83.8%	1.2
Wooden Axe	1	—	—	—	3⁄4	—	—	—	0.750	75.0%	1.3
Wooden Pickaxe	—	1	—	—	—	3⁄4	—	—	0.750	75.0%	1.3
Oak Planks	—	—	—	1–12	—	—	—	10⁄40	6.500	68.4%	1.5
Stick	—	—	—	1–12	—	—	—	10⁄40	6.500	68.4%	1.5
Acacia or Dark Oak Wood	—	—	—	1–3	—	—	—	10⁄40	2.000	68.4%	1.5
Oak, Spruce, Birch or Jungle Wood	—	—	—	1–3	—	—	—	10⁄40	2.000	68.4%	1.5
Bread	—	—	1–2	—	—	—	3⁄11	—	1.227	61.5%	1.6
Raw Salmon	—	—	1–2	—	—	—	3⁄11	—	1.227	61.5%	1.6
Stone Axe	1	—	—	—	1⁄4	—	—	—	0.250	25.0%	4.0
Stone Pickaxe	—	1	—	—	—	1⁄4	—	—	0.250	25.0%	4.0

In 1.13^[upcoming] each bonus chest contains items drawn from 4 pools, with the following distribution:

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

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

	# Items	Chance	# Chests
Oak Planks	6.500	100.0%	1.0
Stick	6.500	100.0%	1.0
Apple	1.500	100.0%	1.0
Bread	1.500	100.0%	1.0
Brown Mushroom	1.500	100.0%	1.0
Raw Salmon	1.500	100.0%	1.0
Wooden Axe	0.750	75.0%	1.3
Wooden Pickaxe	0.750	75.0%	1.3
Acacia Log	1.000	50.0%	2.0
Dark Oak Log	1.000	50.0%	2.0
Cactus	0.750	50.0%	2.0
Carrot	0.750	50.0%	2.0
Cocoa Beans	0.750	50.0%	2.0
Potato	0.750	50.0%	2.0
Beetroot Seeds	0.500	33.3%	3.0
Melon Seeds	0.500	33.3%	3.0
Pumpkin Seeds	0.500	33.3%	3.0
Birch Log	0.500	25.0%	4.0
Jungle Log	0.500	25.0%	4.0
Oak Log	0.500	25.0%	4.0
Spruce Log	0.500	25.0%	4.0
Stone Axe	0.250	25.0%	4.0
Stone Pickaxe	0.250	25.0%	4.0
Acacia Sapling	0.667	16.7%	6.0
Birch Sapling	0.667	16.7%	6.0
Dark Oak Sapling	0.667	16.7%	6.0
Jungle Sapling	0.667	16.7%	6.0
Oak Sapling	0.667	16.7%	6.0
Spruce Sapling	0.667	16.7%	6.0

The bonus chest in the legacy Console Edition will contain similar items to Bedrock Edition.^{[more information needed]}

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 will typically join to create a "large chest" (also known as a "double chest"). To avoid the chests joining and instead place two single chests side-by-side, the player may sneak while placing the second chest,^{[Java Edition only] [upcoming 1.13]} or place the second chest facing a different direction from the first chest.^{[Bedrock and Java editions only][upcoming 1.13]} Alternately, trapped chests do not combine with normal chests. A chest cannot be placed in a way that causes a large chest to be next to another chest horizontally (for example, placing a chest next to a large chest and placing a chest in between two chests),^{[Java and Legacy Console editions only][until 1.13]} but chests can be placed above or below a large chest.

Chests can be moved by pistons,^{[Bedrock Edition only]} and water and lava will flow around chests without affecting them. Lava can create fire in air blocks next to chests as if the chests were flammable, but the chests will not burn up (and can't be burned by other methods either).

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 54. In the Java Edition and Console Edition interfaces, the top three rows for a large chest correspond to the western or northern half and the bottom three 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.

To open the chest GUI, use the Use Item control. 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 will move all items of the type clicked on in or out of the chest, to the extent that space is available for them.^{[Java and Legacy Console editions only]} To exit the chest GUI, use the Esc control.

A chest will not open if there is an opaque block above it. In Bedrock Edition, every entity (including the player, but excluding dropped items) will stop the chest from opening, while in other versions only ocelots will prevent chests from opening. Since chests are transparent, they can be stacked on top of one another while still allowing the lower chest to open.

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 blockdata command (for example, to label a chest at (0,64,0) "Loot!", use blockdata 0 64 0 {CustomName:Loot!}). If only half of a large chest is renamed, that name will be used to label the GUI of the entire large chest, but if the named half is destroyed the other half will revert to the default label. If both halves of a large chest have different names, the GUI will be labeled with the name of the northernmost or westernmost half.

In Java Edition, a chest can be "locked" by setting its Lock tag using the /blockdata command. If a chest's Lock tag is not blank, the chest cannot be opened except by players 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 only players holding an item named "Player's Key" can open the chest, use /blockdata 0 64 0 {Lock:"Player's Key"}.

The capacity of a chest varies over a wide range, depending on its size, whether the items it contains are stackable, and whether Shulker Boxes are used. The minimum capacity is obtained when storing only non-stackable items; the maximum when storing items that stack to 64. Filled Shulker Boxes are non-stackable, but each can hold 27 stacks of up to 64 items, 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 a donkey, mule, or llama.

A chest attached to a donkey or mule has only 15 slots. A chest attached to a llama has from 3 to 15 slots depending upon its "Strength" (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.

Fuel

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

Christmas chest

On December 24-26, chests, large chests and trapped chests have their textures changed to "Christmas chests" which look like wrapped Christmas presents.^{[Java Edition only]} Since the game uses the date shown on the computer, players can have access to the Christmas chest textures by changing the date and time on their computers.

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Data values

Every chest has an ID name of chest and is further defined by its block data and block entity. A chest also has a block state which is expected to replace the functionality of block data in 1.13.^[upcoming]

Block data

See also: Data values

A chest's block data stores its facing:

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 entity

See also: Block entity format

A chest has a block entity associated with it that holds additional data about the block. The block's block entity ID is chest.

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

Block state

See also: Block states

Name	Value	Description
facing	north south east west	The direction the chest's latch is on. Opposite from the direction the player faces when placing a chest.

Achievements

Main article: Achievements

Icon	Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Availability				Xbox points earned	Trophy type (PS)
				Xbox	PS	Bedrock	Nintendo
	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.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Wii U, Switch	20G	Bronze
	Freight Station	Use a hopper to move an item from a chest minecart to a chest.		No	No	Yes	New 3DS	15G	—
	Smelt Everything!	Connect three chests to a single furnace using three hoppers.		No	No	Yes	New 3DS	15G	—
	Mine!	Open every chest in a Battle mini game arena in one round.		Yes	Yes	No	Wii U, Switch	20G	Bronze

History

Indev
0.31			0.31 (January 24, 2010)		Added chests.
					Chests were considered a solid block.
					The front of the chest (with the latch) faced away from any adjacent solid blocks, or would face west if placed independent of other blocks.
					If a chest was placed next to a large chest it would attempt to "connect" with the large one, changing its texture to that of half a large chest. However, this is purely visual; they would still act like two separate chests. Additionally, if one attempted to open a chest connected on all four sides, the game froze and the client crashed.
			0.31 (January 29, 2010)		Chests can now be crafted.
Alpha
v1.0.14					Chests are now used to craft minecarts with chests.
Beta
1.1_02					Partially fixed the chest placement. 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 would no longer freeze, but instead display 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			?		Added an opening/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 off terrain.png and for the locked chest texture.
					Chests are now tile entities, which means they no longer showed the block breaking animation and are also slightly smaller than they were before.
					Chests now change the direction they face based on the viewpoint of the player.
					Chests can be found in abandoned mineshafts and strongholds.
Sound Update					Chest opening and closing sounds changed.
Official release
1.0.0			Beta 1.9 Prerelease		Removed the opening and closing sound effects of the chest (it used the same sounds as the door).
1.1			?		Chests can be found in NPC villages.
1.2.4					Cats will try to sit on chests, making them unopenable.
1.3.1			12w16a		The 'bonus chest' option was added to the Options menu.
			12w21a		Chest particles are no longer based off terrain.png and for the locked chest texture.
					Chests can be found in desert temples.
			12w22a		Chests can be found in jungle temples.
1.4.4			1.4.4-pre		Chests have a smaller hitbox.
1.4.6			12w50a		Added alternate chest textures into the game files. They were for a future "Christmas chest" easter egg.
			12w50b		Fixed server/client desync of chests.
1.5			13w01a		Chests can 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 locked chest. They can only be opened if 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.
					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 are added; chests can now use loot tables.
					All chests generated with the world now make use of loot tables.
			15w44a		Bonus chest loot changed.
					Raw salmon is now possible to find.
					Average supply of sticks and planks are nearly doubled.
					Average supply of logs are decreased, and that of stone tools are nearly halved.
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.
Upcoming Java Edition
1.13			17w47a		Chests and trapped chests can be put directly next to their double variants instead of requiring one block between them.
					Single chests and trapped chests may be placed next to other single chests by crouching while placing the chest.
			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 be found in shipwrecks.
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.4.0					Added chests, but only single chests.
0.7.3					Added large chests. Added animation and sound. Chests in this version can also be placed adjacent to large chests or other chests facing in a different direction
0.8.0					Changed the texture to look more like PC.
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 will 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.
					Chest 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 naturally generate in jungle temples.
0.16.0			build 1		Custom name no longer appears in GUI.
0.16.2					A chest containing farming loot can naturally generate in large houses in villages.
Pocket Edition
1.0			alpha 0.17.0.1		Chests now can generate in end cities and igloos.
1.1			alpha 1.1.0.0		Chests now generate in woodland mansions.
					Chests are now used to craft shulker boxes.
Bedrock Edition
1.2			beta 1.2.0.2		Added the Bonus Chest option which can be toggled in World Options.
1.4			beta 1.2.14.2		Chests can now naturally generate in shipwrecks and underwater ruins.
					Chests also generate as buried treasure structures.
Legacy Console Edition
TU1	CU1	1.0	Patch 1		Added chests.
TU5					Improved chest model with a 3D lock, and added opening and closing animation.
TU12					Cats will try to sit on chests, making them unopenable.
TU14		1.04			The 'bonus chest' option was added to the Options menu.
					Chest particles are no longer based off terrain.png and for the locked chest texture.
					Chests can be found in desert temples.
					Chests can be found in jungle temples.

Issues

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

Trivia

• Chests render as a full block when in the inventory, but not when placed.^{[Bedrock Edition only]}

Gallery

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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.

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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 in Pocket edition 0.7.3 and later, unlike the Legacy Console and Java Editions^{[until 1.13]}.

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  Custom chest name obtained by using Anvil naming or commands.

See also

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

References

Blocks

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