Minecraft
How to Craft a Chest in Minecraft
To craft a chest in Minecraft you need eight wooden planks. On the Crafting Table, fill the 3×3 grid and leave the middle square empty. Below are the items, the recipe, and where each plank comes from.
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Chest| Item | Qty | Where to get it |
|---|---|---|
| Wooden Planks |
8 | Punch or axe a log, then convert the log to planks in the 2×2 inventory grid. Oak, birch, spruce and the rest all count. This ingredient is crafted too — station below. |
Chest specs
- Difficulty
- Early game
- Where it lives
- Crafted on a Crafting Table. Villages also spawn them as furniture.
- Where to get it
- Craft on a Crafting Table. Place two chests side by side to make a large chest.
- Item ID
-
minecraft:chest - Numerical ID
-
54 - Stackable
- Yes
- Max stack
- 64
- Renewable
- Yes
- Hardness
- 2.5
- Blast resistance
- 2.5
- Material
- Wood
- Diggable
- Yes
- Give command
-
/give @p minecraft:chest 1 - Used to craft
- Hopper, Shulker Box, Loom
| Item | Time to break |
|---|---|
| Golden Axe | 0.31s |
| Netherite Axe | 0.42s |
| Diamond Axe | 0.47s |
| Iron Axe | 0.63s |
| Stone Axe | 0.94s |
| Wooden Axe | 1.88s |
| Hand | 3.75s |
Ingredient specs
Wooden Planks
Early game- Where to get it
- Punch or axe a log, then convert the log to planks in the 2×2 inventory grid. Oak, birch, spruce and the rest all count.
- Where it lives
- Overworld trees. Any wood biome.
- Item ID
minecraft:oak_planks- Legacy item ID
minecraft:planks- Numerical ID
5- Stackable
- Yes
- Max stack
- 64
- Renewable
- Yes
- Hardness
- 2
- Blast resistance
- 2
- Material
- Wood
- Diggable
- Yes
Oak Log
Early game- Where to get it
- Punch or axe an oak tree. Any overworld log type also converts to its matching planks.
- Where it lives
- Oak trees in forests, plains, and villages in the Overworld.
- Item ID
minecraft:oak_log- Legacy item ID
minecraft:log- Numerical ID
17- Stackable
- Yes
- Max stack
- 64
- Renewable
- Yes
- Hardness
- 2
- Blast resistance
- 2
- Material
- Wood
- Diggable
- Yes
How to craft these materials
Wooden Planks
Oak LogWooden Planks ×4Shapeless: the slots can sit anywhere on the grid.
Planks and the table
You are going to use eight Wooden Planks — any overworld wood is fine. Break a log, open the inventory, and drop the log in the 2×2 grid: one log becomes four planks, so two logs already make a chest. The Crafting Table comes first: four planks in those same four inventory slots, place it on the ground, and open it. That is the 3×3 grid.
How to assemble it
On the table, fill the top row, the bottom row, and both sides of the middle row. Leave the center empty. The chest shows up on the right; drag it into your inventory and place it on the ground.
Large chest
Want more space? Craft a second chest the same way and put it against the first, on the same floor. They become one chest with 54 slots.