Trapped Chest

A trapped chest is a variant of the chest that functions similarly, but has a red-tinted latch (with the default resource pack), and produces redstone power while it is open.

Like normal chests, two trapped chests can combine into a large trapped chest.

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^[A]
Default	3.75
Wooden	1.9
Stone	0.95
Iron	0.65
Diamond	0.5
Netherite	0.45
Golden	0.35

↑ Times are for unenchanted tools as wielded by players with no status effects, measured in seconds. For more information, see Breaking § Speed.

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. 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[]

Large Chest GUI — The GUI of a large trapped chest.

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[]

Chest-Comparsion — 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.

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 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.

Sounds[]

Generic[]

Java Edition:

Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	`block.wood.break`	`subtitles.block.generic.break`	1.0	0.8	16
Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	`block.wood.place`	`subtitles.block.generic.place`	1.0	0.8	16
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
None^{[sound 1]}	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	`block.wood.fall`	None^{[sound 1]}	0.5	0.75	16
Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	`block.wood.step`	`subtitles.block.generic.footsteps`	0.15	1.0	16

↑ ^a ^b MC-177082

Bedrock Edition:

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

Unique[]

Java Edition:

Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
Chest closes	Blocks	When a trapped chest closes	`block.chest.close`	`subtitles.block.chest.close`	0.5	0.9-1.0	16
Chest opens	Blocks	When a trapped chest opens	`block.chest.open`	`subtitles.block.chest.open`	0.5	0.9-1.0	16
Chest locked^{[sound 1]}	Blocks	When a player attempts to open a trapped chest locked using the Lock tag	`block.chest.locked`^{[sound 1]}	`subtitles.block.chest.locked`^{[sound 1]}	1.0	1.0	16

↑ ^a ^b ^c MC-98316 — Wrong subtitles caused by missing distinction

Bedrock Edition:

Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Blocks	When a chest closes	`random.chestclosed`	0.5	0.9-1.0
	Blocks	When a chest opens	`random.chestopen`	0.5	0.9-1.0

Data values[]

ID[]

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Block tags	Translation key
Trapped Chest	`trapped_chest`	Block & Item	`guarded_by_piglins`	`block.minecraft.trapped_chest`

Name	Identifier
Block entity	`trapped_chest`

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID^{[i 1]}	Translation key
Trapped Chest	`trapped_chest`	`146`	Block & Giveable Item^{[i 2]}	Identical^{[i 3]}	`tile.trapped_chest.name`

↑ ID of block's direct item form, which is used in savegame files and addons.
↑ Available with /give command.
↑ The block's direct item form has the same id as the block.

Name	Savegame ID
Block entity	`Chest`

Block states[]

Java Edition:

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
facing	`north`	`east` `north` `south` `west`	The direction the chest's latch is on. The opposite from the direction the player faces when placing a chest.
type	`single`	`left` `right` `single`	The direction the chest has a connection with.
waterlogged	`false`	`false` `true`	Whether or not there's water in the same place as this chest.

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Metadata Bits	Default value	Allowed values	Values for Metadata Bits	Description
facing_direction (Hidden‌^{[upcoming: BE 1.20.40]})	`0x1` `0x2` `0x4`	`2`	`2` `3` `4` `5`	`2` `3` `4` `5`	The direction the chest's latch is on. 2: Chest facing north 3: Chest facing south 4: Chest facing west 5: Chest facing east
facing_direction (Hidden‌^{[upcoming: BE 1.20.40]})	`0x1` `0x2` `0x4`	`2`	`0` `1`	`0` `1`	Unused
minecraft:cardinal_direction‌^{[upcoming: BE 1.20.40]}	Not Supported	`north`	`east` `north` `south` `west`	`Unsupported`	The direction the chest's latch is on. The opposite from the direction the player faces when placing a chest.

Block data[]

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

Java Edition:

Block entity data
- Tags common to all block entities
- CustomName: Optional. The name of this container in JSON text component, which appears in its GUI where the default name ordinarily appears.
- Items: List of items in this container.
  - : An item, including the slot tag. Chest slots are numbered 0-26, 0 starts in the top left corner.
    - Tags common to all items
- Lock: Optional. When not blank, prevents the container from being opened unless the opener is holding an item whose name matches this string.
- LootTable: Optional. Loot table to be used to fill the chest when it is next opened, or the items are otherwise interacted with.^{[note 1]}
- LootTableSeed: Optional. Seed for generating the loot table. 0 or omitted use a random seed.^{[note 1]}
- gold: Exists only in the april fools snapshot 23w13a_or_b. Optional. When set to anything but 0, turns the chest into a golden chest.