Chest

Chests are placeable blocks that were introduced in Indev 0.31. They have three texture faces - one on the top and bottom, one on the front, and one on the other remaining sides. A single chest can store up to 27 stacks of Items or Blocks. When two chest blocks are placed next to each other, they form a large chest and storage capacity is doubled to 54. Internally a large chest's top three rows of slots correspond to the right chest block while the bottom 3 rows of slots correspond to the left chest block. Any blocks other than glass, leaves (on fancy graphics), single steps (and presumably other non-solid blocks) placed on top of a chest prevents it from opening.

If a chest containing items is destroyed, its contents will also be dropped. Destroying one half of a large chest reverts the other half to a regular chest and only drops the contents of the destroyed half. In Alpha multiplayer, items dropped from a destroyed chest block might not be able to be picked up.

Chests can be found naturally in Dungeons. However, these chests are guarded by a Mob Spawner. On rare occasion, additional chests can be found hidden behind the walls and floors of the dungeon. Items found inside the additional chests are similar to dungeon chests.

As of Seecret Friday Update 7, a chest can be combined with a Minecart to make a Storage Minecart.

Crafting
A chest is crafted from eight wooden planks, as shown below:

Glitches


It is possible to attach torches above and to all sides of a chest, by attempting to place them on a piece of glass above or under the chest. Since torches cannot be attached to glass, it gets moved to the nearest available block, onto the chest. The glass can be removed after the process.



Previously, if a chest is placed next to a large chest it will attempt to "connect" with the large one, changing its texture to that of half a large chest. However, this is purely visual; they will still act like two separate chests. Additionally, if one attempted to open a chest connected on all four sides, the game freezes and the client crashes.

As of Beta 1.1_02, this is still possible; however, chests cannot be placed horizontally adjacent to a large chest unless placed in the location of any fluid, including flowing fluids. They can still be placed above or below it, and this still prevents the bottom one from opening. Unlike the previous patched glitch, if one attempts to open a chest connected on all four sides the game will not freeze nor the client crash, but instead display a graphically glitched, fully functional chest screen.

Chests usually require a space of air above it to be used. You can put glass above it and it will open still. This is very useful for low rooms that are one space high or for chests in walls. A chest will also still open if cake is placed on top of it.

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