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Chests are Minecraft blocks that allow your character to store items gathered throughout the game.
Steps
A single chest can store up to 27 stacks of items or blocks. It can hold up to 1728 blocks.
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Get eight wooden planks. -
Place the planks in the crafting table. Use the chest recipe to craft the chest: Arrange the planks in every slot, apart from the middle one.Advertisement -
Place the chest. Always place a chest with free space above it. Otherwise, you won't be able to open it!- Note that there are a few blocks that won't stop the chest from being opened if they're placed on top of it. These include: water, lava, leaves, cactus, glass, snow, stairs, farmland, cake, beds, fence, another chest, a torch, rails, signs, and a few more (translucent blocks).
- As of Minecraft 1.13, you can place more than two chests next to each other.
A large chest will have 54 storage slots. It opens as a single chest, with six rows of slots and can hold up to 3,456 blocks.
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Make the chest as for the single chest above. You can't craft a large chest. -
Place two chest blocks adjacent to each other. You now have a large chest.- You must place both chests from the same direction for them to connect into a large chest.
- If you hold shift while placing the chest, it won't connect and make a large chest.
This is much like a normal chest, with a few differences. for one, it releases redstone when open. .
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Obtain a single normal chest. -
Make a tripwire hook. These are made by, in a crafting table, putting 1 plank on top of a stick, on top of an iron ingot. -
Combine the hook and the chest in the crafting table. This is a shapeless recipe.- Note that you can put two trapped chests next to each other, to make a large chest.
For the first time of use, here is what to do:
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Right click on the chest. It will open. -
Transfer items into the chest. Shift click on the item. The item will go into a slot that's available for it. -
Transfer items out of the chest. As with the previous step, shift click on the item in the chest and it will come out of the chest.- Left clicking will help you to collect all of the items in the slot. Left click again to place items.
- Right clicking will let you take just half of the items in a slot.
- Right click to place a single item.
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Close the chest. This can be done by simply pressing the inventory button or the ESC button.
Community Q&A
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QuestionCan a chest be relocated?Community AnswerYou can break a chest and move it, but all of the items inside the chest will fall out onto the ground.
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QuestionCan I make a chest made of iron?Community AnswerYou can't in vanilla, but if you install a mod that involves iron chests, you can.
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QuestionWhen I try to put a chest on a donkey or a mule, it will no longer work. What could be wrong?Community AnswerYou need to sit on the donkey and press "e" and then it will open up the donkey's inventory and its chest.
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Tips
- Chests will face your character when they're placed.Thanks
- Chests will change to look like presents on December 24th and 25th.Thanks
- Double chests cannot be placed right next to each other.Thanks
Warnings
- Updates to the game may change some of the content. In which case, feel free to edit to bring this up-to-date again.Thanks
About This Article
To make a chest in Minecraft, gather 8 wooden planks and place them in the crafting table with one in every slot except for the middle one. On the right side of the screen, a chest will appear in box. Next, place the chest in an area with nothing above it for easy access. To create more storage, craft another chest and place it beside the first chest. This will make a chest with 54 storage spaces to hold more items. If you want to learn how to put items in and take items out of your chest, keep reading the article!
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