Trapped Chest

A trapped chest is a variant of the chest that functions similarly, but has a red-tinted latch, and produces redstone power while open.

Trapped Chest

Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool
Blast resistance	2.5
Hardness	2.5
Luminous	No
Transparent	Yes
Waterloggable	Yes
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	Yes
Map color (Java)	13 WOOD

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Like normal chests, two trapped chests can merge into a large trapped chest if placed next to each other.

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 (sec)
Default	3.75
Wooden	1.9
Stone	0.95
Iron	0.65
Diamond	0.5
Netherite	0.45
Golden	0.35
Options
Efficiency	000
Haste	001 1JEBE

Legend

• incorrect tool, drops nothing
• correct tool, drops nothing or something other than the block itself
• correct tool, drops the block itself
• italicized can be instant mined

Natural generation

Trapped chests naturally generate in "fake end portal rooms" in woodland mansions. They always contain two ender pearls and activate the two nearby TNT blocks when opened.

Crafting

Ingredients	[hide]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 ,or place the second trapped chest facing a different direction from the first one. Alternately, normal chests do not combine with trapped chests.

Trapped chests can be moved by pistons.‌ 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

The GUI of a trapped chest.

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 (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

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 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. This makes normal and trapped chests impossible to identify unless the player places redstone dust or a regular chest (in certain ways) next to the trapped chest.

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Sounds

Generic

Java Edition:

[hide] v t e wood sound type
Sound	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
	​Something falls on a block	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.wood.fall	subtitles.block.generic.fall​	0.5	0.75	16
	​Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	block.wood.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.15	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

[hide] v t e wood sound type
Sound	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
	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

Unique

Java Edition

[hide]Sounds
Sound	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	Blocks	When a player attempts to open a trapped chest locked using the [String] Lock tag	block.chest.locked​​	subtitles.block.chest.locked​​​	1.0	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

[hide]Sounds
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	[hide]Translation key
Trapped Chest	trapped_chest	Block & Item	guarded_by_piglins	block.minecraft.trapped_chest

Name	[hide]Identifier
Block entity	trapped_chest

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID	[hide]Translation key
Trapped Chest	trapped_chest	146	Block & Giveable Item	Identical	tile.trapped_chest.name

Name	[hide]Savegame ID
Block entity	Chest

Block states

Java Edition:

Name	Default value	Allowed values	[hide]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	[hide]Description
minecraft:cardinal_direction	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:

• [NBT Compound / JSON Object] Block entity data
  • Tags common to all block entities see Template:Nbt inherit/blockentity/template[show]
  • Tags common to all objects that can be renamed see Template:Nbt inherit/nameable/template[show]
  • [NBT List / JSON Array] Items: List of items in this container.
    • [NBT Compound / JSON Object]: An item, including the slot tag. Chest slots are numbered 0-26, 0 starts in the top left corner.
      • Tags common to all items see Template:Nbt inherit/item/template[show]
  • Tags common to all containers that can be locked see Template:Nbt inherit/lockable/template[show]
  • Tags common to all objects that use loot tables to produce items see Template:Nbt inherit/lootable/template[show]
  • [Byte] 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.

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Block entity format.

History

[hide]Java Edition
1.5			13w01a				Added trapped chests.
			13w02a				Trapped chests have been moved from the Redstone section to the Decoration Blocks section in the Creative inventory.
			13w02b				Trapped chests now strongly power a block beneath them.
1.8			14w29a				Trapped chests now show the cracking animation.
1.8.9							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. [show]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 large 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.
			18w10c				Water can now be placed on the same block as trapped chests.
1.15			19w39a				The trapped chest texture layout has been changed.
[hide]Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.13.0			build 1				Added trapped chests.
v0.14.0			build 1				Trapped chests can now form large trapped chests.
v0.15.0			build 1				Trapped chests can now be moved by pistons.
[hide]Pocket Edition
1.1.0			alpha 1.1.0.0				Trapped chests now naturally generate in woodland mansions.
[hide]Bedrock Edition
1.4.0							Water can now be placed on the same block as trapped chests.
[hide]Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU19	CU7	1.12	1.12	1.12	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added trapped chests.
TU32	CU20	1.23	1.23	1.23	Patch 3		Trapped chests now display a cracking animation.
TU54	CU44	1.52	1.52	1.52	Patch 24	1.0.4	Trapped chests now generate in woodland mansions.
TU62	CU52	1.66	1.66	1.66	Patch 31	1.0.12	Pistons can now move small trapped chests but only if the new position would have been valid for players to place a new chest. This limitation can however be bypassed by moving the chests simultaniously.
TU63	CU53	1.67	1.67	1.67	Patch 32	1.0.13	Trapped chests can no longer be opened when an entity is standing on top of it.
[hide]New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added trapped chests.

Data history

[hide]Java Edition
1.13			17w47a				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.
?							Trapped chests now have the block entity ID trapped_chest again.
[hide]Bedrock Edition
1.20.40			Preview 1.20.40.20				Trapped chests now use the minecraft:cardinal_direction block state instead of facing_direction.

Issues

Issues relating to "Trapped Chest" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Trivia

• Trapped chests render as a full block when in the inventory, but not when placed.‌