How to Make a Chest in Minecraft

Co-authored by Zac Churchill

Chests are Minecraft blocks that allow your character to store items gathered throughout the game.

Part 1

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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.
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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.

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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.

Part 2

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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.
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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.

Part 3

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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.
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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.
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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.

Part 4

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Note that chests are designed with compass orientation that affects placement of items.
- The top three rows in the chest correspond to the western or northern chest block.
- The bottom three rows correspond to the southern or eastern chest block.
- In the large chest, you'll find the items organized into the southern or eastern side, which will depend on the orientation of the chest.

Part 5

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For the first time of use, here is what to do:

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Right click on the chest. It will open.
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Transfer items into the chest. Shift click on the item. The item will go into a slot that's available for it.
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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.

Part 6

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Look for goodies to grab from naturally occurring chests. NPC villages are a great place to look. You can also check in abandoned mineshafts, jungle and desert temples and strongholds.

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