Chest block in Minecraft

What it does

A chest only opens if the block above it lets it: a full solid block on top keeps the lid shut, and so does a Cat sitting on it. Slabs, stairs, glass and other transparent blocks are fine, which is why storage walls often have slabs between rows. Breaking a chest drops its contents along with the chest, so empty it first in a busy area.

Chests connect to the rest of the game. A Hopper can fill or empty one automatically, a Redstone Comparator reads how full it is, and a Trapped Chest gives a redstone signal when opened. A chest also goes into hoppers, a Minecart with Chest, chest boats and the Copper Chest used by the copper golem, and a chest you rename on an anvil keeps its name when placed.

Structures all over the world hide loot chests, from dungeons and shipwrecks to bastions and end cities. A chest can also burn in a furnace as fuel, like any wooden block.