Chest

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A chest is a block used to store items.

A large chest is the combination of two adjacent chests, and can store twice as many items.

A chest can be broken using anything, but an axe is the fastest. Chests always drop themselves when mined. If the chest contains items, the items are also dropped when the chest is broken. If one half of a large chest is destroyed, the corresponding items from the destroyed chest (in Java Edition, the top three rows for the left-hand chest or the bottom three for the chest on the right; in Bedrock Edition, the top three for whichever half was placed first or the bottom three for whichever half was placed last) are dropped and the remaining half continues to function as a small chest.

In Java Edition, a chest produces oak plank particles when breaking, walking or falling on this block;^[1] in Bedrock Edition, a chest produces particles of the block itself.

Chests generate naturally in all three dimensions. They can generate in monster rooms, strongholds, villages, jungle pyramids, desert pyramids, nether fortresses, end cities, igloo basements, woodland mansions, shipwrecks, ocean ruins, buried treasure, pillager outposts, bastion remnants, ruined portals, ancient cities, trial chambers and abandoned camps.​^{[upcoming: Third Drop 2026]}

Large chests can occasionally generate in monster rooms by one single chest generating next to the other. They can also generate in certain types of bastion remnants.

The bonus chest is a chest that appears near the player's spawn if the "Bonus chest" option is toggled on the world creation screen. It generates with a semi-random collection of basic items to help the player survive early on and gather necessary resources, including wood, tools, blocks, and food.

Chests can be used as containers and are an ingredient in some crafting recipes.

A chest placed adjacent to another chest joins to create a large chest. A player can prevent this, and place two small chests side by side, by sneaking while placing the second chest in Java Edition, pushing a chest into place with a piston in Bedrock Edition, or placing the second chest facing a different direction from the first chest. Alternatively, trapped chests do not combine with normal chests.

In Bedrock Edition, chests can be moved by pistons. Water and lava 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 do not actually catch fire and cannot be burned.

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 left half of the chest when facing it, and the bottom three rows correspond to the right 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. In Java Edition, holding 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. To exit the chest GUI, use the control.

A chest cannot be opened if there is a conductive block above it. Solid faces do not prevent chests from opening, so the lid of the chest can phase through blocks such as bottom-half slabs,‌^{[Java Edition only]} stairs, and non-conductive full cubes such as glass and ice. In Bedrock Edition, bottom slabs prevent chests from being opened. Cats sitting on chests prevent them from opening. Because chests themselves are non-conductive, two chests can be stacked on top of one another while still allowing the lower chest to be opened. Players can open chests when they are being hurt (effect of Instant Damage, Poison, Wither, on fire, damaged by other players or mobs, 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, in Java Edition, by using the /data command (for example, to label a chest at (0,64,0) as "Bonus Chest!", use /data modify block 0 64 0 CustomName set value "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 [NBT Compound / JSON Object] lock tag using the /data command. If a chest's [NBT Compound / JSON Object] lock tag is not blank, the chest cannot be opened unless the player is holding an item that matches the item predicate in the lock tag. 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 modify block 0 64 0 lock set value {components:{"minecraft:custom_name":"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 not 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.

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

Copper golems can sort items into chests. If a copper golem is holding an item, it visits the nearest chest within 32 blocks horizontally and 8 blocks vertically to try to place the item in. It takes 3 seconds to stop at each chest it visits.

A copper golem places the item it is holding either if the chest is empty, or if the chest contains the same type of item. In Java Edition, a copper golem cannot distinguish between different potion contents or suspicious stew types, but it can in Bedrock Edition. In both editions, a copper golem ignores durability, enchantments, shulker box contents, custom names, or any other data.

If it cannot place the item in, the copper golem moves on to the nearest chest it hasn't visited. The copper golem can remember up to 10 chests it has visited. If it has already visited 10 chests and still cannot place the item, it wanders around for 7 seconds, forgets which chests it has visited, and continues searching for a chest to place the item in.

If the chest a copper golem is walking towards can no longer be opened (e.g. a chest has a cat sitting on it) or is destroyed, the copper golem marks the position as visited and move on. This occupies one of their 10-chest memory.

Copper golems do not simultaneously open a chest that another non-player entity is already interacting with.

Piglins become hostile toward players who open or mine chests.

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

From December 24 to 26, chests, large chests, their trapped chest counterparts, and copper chests have their textures changed to "Christmas chests", which look like wrapped Christmas presents. Since the game uses the date stored on the player's computer, players can apply the Christmas chest textures at any time by changing the date on their computer to December 24, 25, or 26.

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

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See Bedrock Edition level format/Block entity format.

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For a more in-depth breakdown of changes to textures and models, including a set of renders for each state combination, see /Asset history

• 👁 First picture released of the new chest animation, also displaying the ability to have chests facing directions other than west.
  
  First picture released of the new chest animation, also displaying the ability to have chests facing directions other than west.
• 👁 Torches could previously be placed on chests.
  
  Torches could previously be placed on chests.
• 👁 A chest in early Pocket Edition.
  
  A chest in early Pocket Edition.
• 👁 A chest being broken.
  
  A chest being broken.
• 👁 Multiple chests placed next to each other.
  
  Multiple chests placed next to each other.
• 👁 Chests placed adjacent to one another in Pocket Edition.
  
  Chests placed adjacent to one another in Pocket Edition.

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

• The chest recipe is not unlocked by any specific item, but rather, having enough slots in the inventory occupied by any item.
• In Pocket Edition, a player who leaves the game while standing on a chest rejoins the game with legs inside the chest.
• If the tick speed is set to "freeze" through /tick, the chest does not show opening or closing animations but it still makes sounds.
• In Java Edition, when in Creative mode, if pick block + ctrl is used on a naturally generated loot chest (or by modifying the data of a normal chest using /data), instead of displaying the first few items inside like a shulker box, it will just display "???????" due to the loot not being generated yet. Placing the chest and opening it will result in a different loot table every time. The same thing also happens with barrels and shulker boxes.
• The number of items a single chest can hold without using shulker boxes, 64 * 27 = 1728, actually has a name: a "great gross", or cubic dozen.
• With shulker boxes with blocks inside chests, these chests would be so dense in real life they (and the things in them) would turn into other elements and/or explode because of nuclear fusion.

• 👁 A screenshot of a chest opening and closing.
  
  A screenshot of a chest opening and closing.
• 👁 Custom chest name obtained by using anvil naming or commands.
  
  Custom chest name obtained by using anvil naming or commands.
• 👁 An in-game screenshot of chests during Christmas time.
  
  An in-game screenshot of chests during Christmas time.
• 👁 Large chest placed in a player´s base.
  
  Large chest placed in a player´s base.

• 👁 Steve opening Christmas chests under a spruce (Minecraft.net).
  
  Steve opening Christmas chests under a spruce (Minecraft.net).
• 👁 Ari opening a chest in the Bundles of Bravery trailer.
  
  Ari opening a chest in the Bundles of Bravery trailer.
• 👁 Ari opening a large chest in the Scary Furniture Add-On.
  
  Ari opening a large chest in the Scary Furniture Add-On.

• 👁 Ari hiding behind a chest in the Trails & Tales Update trailer.
  
  Ari hiding behind a chest in the Trails & Tales Update trailer.
• 👁 A chest as it appears on Minecoin gift cards,
  
  A chest as it appears on Minecoin gift cards,
• 👁 Pixel artwork of a chest in between iron armor on an armor stand and a decorated pot.
  
  Pixel artwork of a chest in between iron armor on an armor stand and a decorated pot.
• 👁 A diamond sword in a chest.
  
  A diamond sword in a chest.
• 👁 Alex retrieving the sword from the chest.
  
  Alex retrieving the sword from the chest.
• 👁 Pixel art of Alex and several allays with Christmas chests.
  
  Pixel art of Alex and several allays with Christmas chests.
• 👁 A ginormous chest as it appears in The Traveling Trader.
  
  A ginormous chest as it appears in The Traveling Trader.
• 👁 A chest as it appears in the Timeless Trails DLC.
  
  A chest as it appears in the Timeless Trails DLC.
• 👁 A chest as it appears in Deep Dive!
  
  A chest as it appears in Deep Dive!
• 👁 Officially licensed recreation of a chest, by Paladone.
  
  Officially licensed recreation of a chest, by Paladone.
• 👁 Chest figure of Flippin' Figs
  
  Chest figure of Flippin' Figs
• 👁 The chest as it appears on a shirt.
  
  The chest as it appears on a shirt.
• 👁 A chest as it appears in Minecraft: Story Mode.
  
  A chest as it appears in Minecraft: Story Mode.
• 👁 A chest as it appears in A Minecraft Movie.
  
  A chest as it appears in A Minecraft Movie.
• 👁 A chest full of Minecraft plushies and a playstation.
  
  A chest full of Minecraft plushies and a playstation.
• 👁 A supply chest as it appears in Minecraft Dungeons.
  
  A supply chest as it appears in Minecraft Dungeons.

• Trapped chest, a variant of the chest that interacts with redstone
• Copper chest, a variant of the chest that interacts with copper golems
• Locked chest, a joke block from an April Fools' Day joke

• "Block of the Week: Chest" by Duncan Geere – Minecraft.net, July 28, 2017.