Ender Chest

Ender Chest

Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool
Blast resistance	600
Hardness	22.5
Luminant	Yes (7)
Transparent	Yes
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No

Ender chests are a type of chest that can store items, and whose contents can be accessed from anywhere in the world.

Obtaining

Breaking

Ender chests require a pickaxe to be mined. Otherwise, they drop nothing. Unless the pickaxe is enchanted with Silk Touch, the ender chest drops 8 obsidian. Any pickaxe allows the ender chest to drop either itself or 8 obsidian, despite obsidian itself only being obtainable with a diamond or netherite pickaxe.

Block	Ender Chest
Hardness	22.5
Tool
Breaking time
Default	112.5
Wooden	16.9
Stone	8.45
Iron	5.65
Diamond	4.25
Netherite	3.75
Golden	2.85

Natural generation

An ender chest naturally generates alongside a chest in certain end city treasure rooms.

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Obsidian + Eye of Ender

Usage

Ender chests can be opened by pressing the use control. If a solid block is placed above an ender chest, it cannot open.

Ender chests can be used like normal chests, except all ender chests in the world are interconnected, including in different dimensions. The ender chest's inventory is also separate for each player; consequently, items stored in an ender chest cannot be seen or taken by other players. Also, items stored inside of an ender chest can be retained even if the player dies.

Another fact is that ender chest cannot be equipped to entities such as mules or donkeys, because these entities only support common chests.

Ender chests contain 27 slots for storage and can be placed next to other ender chests without joining; they cannot be combined into double chests.

Ender chests do not interact with hoppers, droppers, or comparators.

Despite being comprised largely of obsidian, they are not immune to destruction by the ender dragon, which Mojang has confirmed to be intentional.

It is possible to greatly increase the space of an ender chest by pairing it with shulker boxes (i.e. filling the shulker boxes with desired items, then placing them inside the ender chest).

The chest can also be used almost as a Shulker Box, being able to mine it (with the correct tools), place it in the player's inventory, then place and open the chest of which will contain your items.

Light source

Ender chests emit a light level of 7.

Note Blocks

Ender chests can be placed under note blocks to produce "bass drum" sounds.

Piglins

Piglins become hostile toward players who open or mine an ender chest.

Piston interactivity

Ender chests cannot be pushed by pistons. They also cannot be pushed nor pulled by sticky pistons.

Sounds

Java Edition:

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

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Block tags (JE)	Translation key
Ender Chest	ender_chest	guarded_by_piglins	block.minecraft.ender_chest

Name	Namespaced ID
Block entity	ender_chest

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID	Translation key
Ender Chest	ender_chest	130	tile.enderChest.name

Name	Savegame ID
Block entity	EnderChest

Metadata

See also: Data values

In Bedrock Edition, ender 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 ender chest's latch is on. Opposite from the direction the player faces when placing an ender chest.
waterlogged	false	false true	Whether or not there's water in the same place as this ender 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 data

See also: Block entity format

An ender 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

Inventory

The contents of an ender chest are not stored in the block but in the player-nbt under the tag "EnderItems".

/data get entity @p EnderItems[<slot>]

History

Java Edition
1.3.1		12w21a			Added ender chests.
					Ender chests currently share the same inventory for all players on a server. Jeb stated that this would be changed to a separate inventory for every player in snapshot 12w24a.
					Ender chests are based on a suggestion thread on Reddit. This idea was previously made into a mod by Ecu and ChickenBones.
					In response to some users' feelings on the functionality of ender chests, Jeb plans to test a feature he has yet to specify in relation to them.
		12w24a			Ender chests now work per-player in multiplayer (holds an inventory per player instead of shared across the world).
					Ender chests now drop 8 obsidian when destroyed, except when mined with a pickaxe enchanted with Silk Touch.
1.8		14w29a			Ender chests now show the cracking animation.
1.9		15w31a			Ender chests now naturally generate in end cities.
					The item model of ender chests has been rotated, to have the front face in view of the player.
1.10		pre2			Ender chests now have unique sound effects.
1.11		16w32a			The tile entity ID has been changed from EnderChest to ender_chest.
1.13		17w47a			Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 130.
		17w50a			Ender chests now look like presents between December 24 and 26 to suit Christmas.
		18w10d			Water can now be placed on the same block as an ender chest.
1.14		18w43a			The texture of ender chests has been changed.
Pocket Edition
1.0.0		alpha 0.17.0.1			Added ender chests.
Bedrock Edition
1.2.13		beta 1.2.13.5			Ender chests now have unique sound effects.
1.4.0		beta 1.2.20.1			Water can now be placed on the same block as an ender chest.
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			The texture of ender chests has been changed.
Legacy Console Edition
TU14	CU1	1.04	Patch 1		Added ender chests.
PlayStation 4 Edition
1.90					The texture of ender chests has been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
1.7.10					Added ender chests.

Issues

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

Trivia

• An ender chest's particles exist only in the 1 block radius around the chest, so if the chest is placed next to a wall its particles are not seen on the other side.
• Unlike chests, changes to an ender chest's name are not reflected in its inventory GUI.
• Unlike chests, when broken, it does not drop the items inside it, due to the fact that the items aren't only in that chest.
• If all ender chests are broken, the items inside are inaccessible until a new ender chest is placed.
• Ender chests render as a full block when in the inventory, but not when held or placed.‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}
• Ender chests cannot be locked by NBT tags.

Gallery

• 

  An ender chest in the Nether.

• 

  Light from an ender chest.

• 

  The original suggestion for the ender chest.

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  An open ender chest.

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  An ender chest and regular chest in the End City.

References

Blocks

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