Barrel

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A barrel is a solid block used to store items. Unlike a chest, it cannot connect to other barrels. It also serves as a fisherman's job site block.

Barrels can be mined with or without any tool, but axes are the quickest.

Empty barrels can generate naturally in fisher cottages in villages. Up to 3 barrels can generate in a village fisher cottage.

In trial chambers, barrels containing loot can be found in the corridors, while empty barrels generate beneath hoppers at chamber entrances.

Barrels containing loot can be found in abandoned camps.​^{[upcoming: Third Drop 2026]}

{ "item": "Barrel", "stacksize": "1–3", "chance": 0.2418426461183103, "structure": "Village", "container": "Fisherman's chest" }

Barrels can be moved by pistons.‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]} Water and lava flow around barrels without affecting them. Lava can create fire in air blocks next to barrels as if the barrel was flammable, but the barrel does not actually catch fire and can't burn away.

Barrels have a container inventory with 27 slots, which is the same as a single chest. Unlike chests, the action of opening a barrel is never prevented. They can be filled by droppers and both filled and emptied by hoppers. When broken, barrels drop the contents of the container and the barrel item itself.

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

By default, the interface of a barrel is labeled "Barrel". A barrel's GUI label can be changed by naming the barrel in an anvil before placing it or by using the /data command‌^{[Java Edition only]} (for example, to label a barrel at (0,64,0) as "Bonus Barrel!", use /data merge block 0 64 0 {CustomName:'"Bonus Barrel!"'}).

In Java Edition, a barrel can be "locked" by setting its lock tag using the /data command. If a barrel's lock tag is not blank, the barrel cannot be opened unless the player is holding an item that matches the item predicate in the lock tag. For example, to lock a barrel at (0,64,0) so that the barrel cannot be opened unless the player is holding an item named "Barrel Key", use /data merge block 0 64 0 {lock:{components:{"custom_name":"Barrel Key"}}}.

If a barrel has not been claimed by a villager, any nearby unemployed villager has a chance to change their profession to fisherman and claim the barrel as their job site block.

Barrels can be used as a fuel in furnaces, smelting 1.5 items per block.

Piglins become hostile toward players who open or break barrels.

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

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Block entity format.

• 👁 A close up of barrels.
  
  A close up of barrels.
• 👁 An unused texture of a barrel of fish, found in a Bedrock Edition resource pack template.
  
  An unused texture of a barrel of fish, found in a Bedrock Edition resource pack template.
• 👁 How a barrel would look if the unused texture was on its top.
  
  How a barrel would look if the unused texture was on its top.
• 👁 Prototype of a barrel menu in Ore UI.
  
  Prototype of a barrel menu in Ore UI.

Issues relating to "Barrel" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

• In the 2022's April Fool's update, a barrel can be thrown onto a player and make them appear as if they were "wearing" or "hiding" under the block.

Java Edition

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  South
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Bedrock Edition

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  Up
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  South
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  East

Java Edition

• 👁 Up
  
  Up
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  Down
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  South
• 👁 West
  
  West
• 👁 North
  
  North
• 👁 East
  
  East

Bedrock Edition

• 👁 Up
  
  Up
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  Down
• 👁 South
  
  South
• 👁 West
  
  West
• 👁 North
  
  North
• 👁 East
  
  East

• 👁 First image of barrels in a savanna village.
  
  First image of barrels in a savanna village.
• 👁 Barrels placed next to each other facing opposite directions.
  
  Barrels placed next to each other facing opposite directions.
• 👁 A blast furnace, smoker, and a barrel.
  
  A blast furnace, smoker, and a barrel.
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• 👁 A stack of barrels.
  
  A stack of barrels.
• 👁 A bonus barrel, which randomly generates throughout the world in the April Fool's update 2019.
  
  A bonus barrel, which randomly generates throughout the world in the April Fool's update 2019.
• 👁 Player's vision while hiding inside a barrel in the April Fool's update 2022.
  
  Player's vision while hiding inside a barrel in the April Fool's update 2022.
• 👁 Barrels as they appear in Minecraft Dungeons, even including a fish barrel.
  
  Barrels as they appear in Minecraft Dungeons, even including a fish barrel.
• 👁 A barrel as it appeared on the 2022 Mob Vote Event.
  
  A barrel as it appeared on the 2022 Mob Vote Event.
• 👁 A barrel as it appeared in the MCC x Minecraft 15th Anniversary Party.
  
  A barrel as it appeared in the MCC x Minecraft 15th Anniversary Party.
• 👁 Cubeez of a barrel.
  
  Cubeez of a barrel.
• 👁 Barrels as they appear in A Minecraft Movie.
  
  Barrels as they appear in A Minecraft Movie.

• "Block of the Week: Barrel" by Duncan Geere – Minecraft.net, December 23, 2021.