Trapped Chest

Trapped Chest

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Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool
Blast resistance	2.5
Hardness	2.5
Luminant	No
Transparent	Yes
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	Yes

A trapped chest functions as a normal chest for item storage, but it produces redstone power when opened. It can be visually distinguished from normal chests by a red coloration around the latch.

Obtaining

Breaking

Trapped chests can be broken with any tool, but axes are the fastest. Items contained in the chest are dropped when the chest is broken. If one half of a large trapped chest is destroyed, the corresponding items from the destroyed trapped chest are dropped and the remaining trapped chest continues to function as a small trapped chest.

Block	Trapped Chest
Hardness	2.5
Tool
Breaking time
Default	3.75
Wooden	1.9
Stone	0.95
Iron	0.65
Diamond	0.5
Netherite	0.45
Golden	0.35

Natural generation

Trapped chests naturally generate in "fake end portal rooms" in woodland mansions.

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Tripwire Hook + Chest

Usage

Trapped chests can be used as containers and as redstone components.

To place a trapped chest, place the face of a block adjacent to the space the trapped chest should occupy.

Placing two adjacent trapped chests side-by-side typically joins them to create a "large trapped chest" (also known as a "double trapped chest"). To avoid them joining and instead place two single trapped chests side by side, the player may sneak while placing the second trapped chest,‌^{[Java Edition only]} or place the second trapped chest facing a different direction from the first one.‌^{[Bedrock and Java editions only]} Alternately, normal chests do not combine with trapped chests.

Trapped chests can be moved by pistons.‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]} Water and lava flow around without affecting them. Lava can create fire in air blocks next to trapped chests as if they were flammable, but the chests do not burn (and cannot be burned by other methods either).

Trapped chests can also activate buried TNT, destroying themselves, their contents and any mobs or players near them. They need to be opened twice for the TNT to be activated.

Container

File:Opened Trapped Chest.png

The default GUI of a large trapped chest, showing the large trapped chest's contents above the player's own inventory and hotbar.

A single trapped chest has 27 slots of inventory space, and a large trapped chest has 54 slots of inventory space. In a large trapped chest, the top three rows in the interface correspond to the western or northern chest block and the bottom three to the southern or eastern chest block.

To open the trapped chest GUI, use the Use Item control. To move items between the trapped chest inventory and the player inventory or hotbar while the trapped chest GUI is open, drag or shift-click the items. To exit the trapped chest GUI, use the Esc control.

By default, the GUI of a trapped chest is labeled "Chest" and the GUI of a large trapped chest is labeled "Large Chest." A trapped chest's GUI label can be changed by naming the trapped chest in an anvil before placing it, or by using the data command‌^{[Java Edition only]} (for example, to label a trapped chest at (0,64,0) "Loot!", use /data merge block 0 64 0 {CustomName:'"Loot!"'}). If half of a large trapped chest is renamed, that name is used to label the GUI of the entire large trapped chest, but if the named half is destroyed, the other half reverts to the default label. If both halves of a large trapped chest have different names, the GUI label takes the name of the northernmost or westernmost half of the large trapped chest depending on its orientation (the half with the lowest coordinate in the appropriate axis).

A trapped chest can be "locked" by setting the trapped chest's Lock tag. If a trapped chest's Lock tag is not blank, the trapped chest cannot be opened except by players holding an item with the same name as the Lock tag's text. A trapped chest's Lock tag can be set or unset with the data command. For example, to lock a trapped chest at (0,64,0) so that only players holding an item named "Alice's Key" can open the trapped chest, use data merge block 0 64 0 {Lock:"Alice's Key"}.

Redstone component

File:Chest-Comparsion.png

Chests (left) and trapped chests (right) can be placed next to each other. Redstone dust configures itself to point toward trapped chests, but not toward regular chests.

See also: Redstone circuit

Trapped chests can be used to detect when their inventory is accessed by players.

A trapped chest is inactive while not being accessed, but activates when accessed by a player (see above). Accessing either part of a large trapped chest activates both halves of the large trapped chest. Mobs cannot access/activate a trapped chest, and a trapped chest is not activated by items moving into or out of it by droppers or hoppers.

While active, a trapped chest:

• powers any adjacent redstone dust, including beneath the trapped chest, to a power level equal to the number of players accessing the trapped chest (maximum 15)
• powers any adjacent redstone repeaters facing away from the trapped chest to power level 15
• strongly powers any full solid opaque block (stone, dirt, block of gold, etc.) beneath the trapped chest to a power level equal to the number of players accessing the trapped chest (maximum 15)
• activates any adjacent mechanism components, including above or below, such as pistons, redstone lamps, etc. Due to hoppers being locked by redstone activation, hoppers below a trapped chest do not take items from it while it is open.

An active trapped chest does not power any adjacent redstone comparators facing away from it. Redstone comparators can measure the block state of the trapped chest, producing a power level from 0 to 15 proportional to how full the trapped chest is. Anything else powered by an active trapped chest (including a block beneath it) can power redstone comparators normally.

Piglins

Piglins become hostile toward players who open, break or interact with trapped chests.

Fuel

Trapped chests can be used as a fuel in furnaces, smelting 1.5 items per chest.

Note Blocks

Trapped chests can be placed under note blocks to produce "bass" sound.

Christmas chest

As with normal chests, on December 24, 25, and 26, trapped chests and large trapped chests have their textures changed to Christmas chests that look like presents.

• Xmas Chest.png
• Xmas Large Chest.png

Sounds

Generic

Java Edition:

Sound	Subtitle	Source	Description	Namespaced ID	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
File:Wood dig1.oggFile:Wood dig2.oggFile:Wood dig3.oggFile:Wood dig4.ogg	Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.wood.break	subtitles.block.generic.break	1.0	0.8	16
File:Wood hit1.oggFile:Wood hit2.oggFile:Wood hit3.oggFile:Wood hit4.oggFile:Wood hit5.oggFile:Wood hit6.ogg	None	Blocks	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.wood.fall	None	0.5	0.75	16
File:Wood hit1.oggFile:Wood hit2.oggFile:Wood hit3.oggFile:Wood hit4.oggFile:Wood hit5.oggFile:Wood hit6.ogg	Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.wood.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit	0.25	0.5	16
File:Wood dig1.oggFile:Wood dig2.oggFile:Wood dig3.oggFile:Wood dig4.ogg	Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.wood.place	subtitles.block.generic.place	1.0	0.8	16
File:Wood hit1.oggFile:Wood hit2.oggFile:Wood hit3.oggFile:Wood hit4.oggFile:Wood hit5.oggFile:Wood hit6.ogg	Footsteps	Blocks	Walking on the block	block.wood.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps	0.15	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

Sound	Source	Description	Namespaced ID	Volume	Pitch
?	Blocks	Once the block has broken	dig.wood	1.0	0.8
?	Blocks	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.wood	0.4	1.0
?	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	hit.wood	0.23	0.5
?	Blocks	Jumping from the block	jump.wood	0.12	1.0
?	Blocks	Falling on the block without fall damage	land.wood	0.18	1.0
?	Blocks	Walking on the block	step.wood	0.3	1.0
?	Blocks	When the block is placed	use.wood	1.0	0.8

Unique

Java Edition:

Sound	Subtitle	Source	Description	Namespaced ID	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
File:Chest close1.oggFile:Chest close2.oggFile:Chest close3.ogg	Chest closes	?	?	block.chest.close	subtitles.block.chest.close	?	?	16
File:Door close.oggFile:Door open.ogg	Chest locked	?	?	block.chest.locked	subtitles.block.chest.locked	?	?	16
File:Chest open.ogg	Chest opens	?	?	block.chest.open	subtitles.block.chest.open	?	?	16

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Block tags (JE)	Form	Translation key
Trapped Chest	trapped_chest	guarded_by_piglins	Block & Item	block.minecraft.trapped_chest

Name	Namespaced ID
Block entity	trapped_chest

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID	Form	Translation key
Trapped Chest	trapped_chest	146	Block & Item	tile.trapped_chest.name

Name	Savegame ID
Block entity	Chest

Metadata

Main article: Data values

In Bedrock Edition, a trapped chest's block data stores its facing:

Block states

See also: Block states

Chest/BS

Block data

See also: Block entity format

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

Chest/BE

History

Java Edition
1.5		13w01a			30px 32px 32px 32px 32px 32px Added trapped chests.
		13w02a			Trapped chests have been moved from the Redstone section to the Decoration Blocks section in the creative mode inventory.
		13w02b			Trapped chests now strongly power a block beneath them.
1.8.9					32px 32px Trapped chests now look like presents between December 24 and 26 to suit Christmas.
1.9		15w31a			Trapped chests now have their item model rotated, to have the front face in view of the player.
		15w43a			Loot tables have been added; trapped chests now can use loot tables.
		15w49a			Trapped chests have been moved from the Decoration Blocks section to the Redstone section in the creative inventory, like they were in 13w01a.
		16w05a			The crafting recipe for trapped chests is now shapeless. Old recipe
1.11		16w39a			Trapped chests now generate in woodland mansions.
1.13		17w47a			Trapped chests can now be put directly next to their double variant instead of requiring one block between them.
					Crouching while placing a trapped chest now makes it try to connect only to the clicked block.
					Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 146.
					Trapped chests now have the block entity ID trapped_chest.
		17w47b			Trapped chests now have the block entity ID chest again.
		18w10c			Water can now be placed on the same block as trapped chests.
?					Trapped chests now have the block entity ID trapped_chest again.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.13.0		build 1			32px Added trapped chests.
v0.14.0		build 1			32px Trapped chests can now form double trapped chests.
v0.15.0		build 1			Trapped chests can now be moved by pistons.
?					A trapped chest's custom name now appears in the GUI.
Pocket Edition
1.1.0		alpha 1.1.0.0			Trapped chests now naturally generate in woodland mansions.
Bedrock Edition
1.4.0					Water can now be placed on the same block as trapped chests.
Legacy Console Edition
TU19	CU7	1.12	Patch 1	1.0.1	30px 32px Added trapped chests.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					30px 32px Added trapped chests.

Issues

Issues relating to "Trapped Chest" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia

• Trapped chests render as a full block when in the inventory, but not when placed.‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}

References

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