Chests are Minecraft blocks that are used to store objects found in the game.
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Method 1 of 6: Creating a Single Chest
A single chest can hold up to 27 stacks of objects or blocks. This chest can hold up to 1,728 blocks.
Step 1. Get eight wooden planks
Step 2. Place the boards in the crafting table
Use the chest recipe to assemble the chest: Arrange the boards in each slot other than the center.
Step 3. Place the chest
Always place a chest with free space on it. Otherwise, the chest cannot be opened!
Note that there are some blocks that keep the chest unlockable if placed on top of it. These blocks include: water, lava, leaves, cactus, glass, snow, stairs, farmland, cakes, beds, fences, other chests, torches, rails, signs, and other translucent blocks
Method 2 of 6: Making a Big Chest
A large chest has 54 storage slots. This chest opens as a single chest and has six rows of slots and can hold up to 3,456 blocks.
Step 1. Make a chest like for the single chest above
You cannot assemble a large chest.
Step 2. Place two chest blocks close to each other
You now have a large chest.
Note that large chests cannot be made right next to each other
Method 3 of 6: Creating Trapped Chests
These chests are very similar to normal chests but have differences. These chests release Redstone when open, and can be placed next to normal chests.
Step 1. Get an ordinary single chest
Step 2. Make a tripwire hook
This hook is made by placing 1 board on a stick, on top of an iron bar.
Step 3. Combine hooks and chests in the crafting table
This is a formless recipe.
Note that you can place two trapped chests next to each other to make a large chest
Method 4 of 6: Understanding the Orientation of the Crate
Step 1. Note that the chest is designed with a compass orientation that affects the placement of objects
- The top three rows correspond to the west or north crate blocks.
- The bottom three rows correspond to the south or east crate blocks.
- In large chests, objects are arranged in a south or east side, depending on the orientation of the chest.
Method 5 of 6: Using New Chests
For first time use, this is what you have to do:
Step 1. Right-click the chest
The chest will open.
Step 2. Move the object to the chest
Shift click the object. The object will go into the available slot.
Step 3. Remove the object from the chest
Just like the previous step, shift click on an object in a chest to remove it from the chest.
- Left clicking will collect all the objects into the slot. Left click again to place the object.
- Right-clicking will take up half of the objects in the slot.
- Right-clicking will place an object.
Step 4. To close the chest, just press the inventory key or the ESC key
Method 6 of 6: Finding Chests
Step 1. Find objects to retrieve from the natural chest
The best places to look for them are in dungeons (although there are escorts), NPC villages, abandoned mineshafts, temples and forts in forests and deserts.
Tips
- If a chest is destroyed, its contents will scatter. You have to secure it and place it in a new chest. Note that if only half of the chest is destroyed, the items stored in the destroyed section will scatter, but the remaining portion of the chest will still function as a small chest and store the objects in it. Again, you have to secure the objects.
- Chests will look like gifts on December 24 and 25.
- The chest will face your character when placed.
