How do you get Chest in Minecraft?

Chest is crafted from Planks at a Crafting Table, in a single step. It also comes from natural world generation, not just the recipe above.

How many Chest can you stack?

64 Chest fills a slot, and that slot costs 512 Planks, which is 64 crafts at the crafting table. A double chest of Chest comes to 3,456, spread over 54 slots.

What is Chest used for?

Chest is a crafting ingredient, and it goes into Chest Minecart, Hopper, and Minecart with Chest.

Can Chest be used as fuel?

Chest in the bottom slot gives you 15 seconds of heat, which is 1.5 items apiece. Set against its recipe, Chest carries the heat that Planks would have given.

How long does Chest take to break?

2.5 hardness is one number on Chest, and 2.5 blast resistance is the other number on it. With both figures at 2.5, Chest is not something you rely on for protection. Any axe will do on Chest, from wood upward. Java 26.2 records Chest with the numbers above, and it keeps them here.

Utility BlocksCraftable

Chest

A storage block that holds up to 27 stacks of items. Two chests placed side by side combine into a large chest with 54 slots.

Stack Size

Durability

N/A

Chest at a glance

Utility Blocks holds Chest: a block out of crafting and natural world generation. Carrying Chest is cheap: 64 to a slot, 576 across the hotbar, 1728 in a chest. As fuel Chest is worth 1.5 smelts, so a stack of 64 smelts 96 items.

Chest is also a hub ingredient, feeding 3 different recipes in this catalogue, so a stock in a chest unlocks that many crafts at once. The game rates Chest at 2.5 hardness. Any axe will do on Chest, from wood upward. There is no second figure for Chest; explosions meet 2.5 too. It sits between Cherry Sapling and Chiseled Stone Bricks in Utility Blocks, number 80 of 340 there.

Crafting recipe

Crafting
Chest
Recipe data from Astroworld Crafting, where Chest has the grid for Chest

Used to craft

Follow Chest forward and you land on 3 recipes: 2 in Transportation, the rest spread over 1 other categories, Chest Minecart through Minecart with Chest. The links below go straight to the recipes that take Chest.

How to obtain

Crafting
Natural generation

Fuel value

Chest burns for 15 seconds (300 ticks), which is 1.5 items per Chest

Notes

A solid opaque block directly above a chest prevents it from opening. Generates filled with loot throughout the world.

Frequently asked questions about Chest

How do you get Chest in Minecraft?
Chest is crafted from Planks at a Crafting Table, in a single step. It also comes from natural world generation, not just the recipe above.
How many Chest can you stack?
64 Chest fills a slot, and that slot costs 512 Planks, which is 64 crafts at the crafting table. A double chest of Chest comes to 3,456, spread over 54 slots.
What is Chest used for?
Chest is a crafting ingredient, and it goes into Chest Minecart, Hopper, and Minecart with Chest.
Can Chest be used as fuel?
Chest in the bottom slot gives you 15 seconds of heat, which is 1.5 items apiece. Set against its recipe, Chest carries the heat that Planks would have given.
How long does Chest take to break?
2.5 hardness is one number on Chest, and 2.5 blast resistance is the other number on it. With both figures at 2.5, Chest is not something you rely on for protection. Any axe will do on Chest, from wood upward. Java 26.2 records Chest with the numbers above, and it keeps them here.

Building with it

Eight planks make a chest, twenty-seven slots, and two placed side by side become a double chest with fifty-four. A chest will not open with a solid block or an opaque block directly above it, which is the detail that catches out every storage room built into a wall.

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