Tutorials/Hiding chests

You don't want your stuff to be taken on a PvP server, otherwise you will never see your stuff again. Ender chests are good, but sometimes you have more stuff than the ender chest can fit, especially in servers where the ender chest space is made smaller. This page features ways that you can hide your most prized possessions.

For Non-Advanced Players
If you don't have much, are a new player, or are just lazy, this section is for you.

Chest under chest
This is a simple way to hide your stuff. All you have to do is dig a place on the ground, and place a chest there. Then, on top of that, add another chest, which you will put only junk. When another player enters your house, they will see the top chest full of junk, and not see the chest under that (where you hide your stuff!).

Door hideout
In the corner of your house, add a door. Be sure the handle faces AWAY from the corner, so when you open the door, the side where the door opens to is blocked. On that side, add your secret chest! You may want to make the doorway look like a furnace room, so when the other players raid your house, they open the door only to see only a furnace room. On the other side of the door however, the chest is blocked from view!

Door hideout v2
Some people might know about the door hideout trick and close the door. BOOM, Loot! Just to make sure they don't find it that way, place your chest in the ground and put a wall for the door to block. Now, when they shut the door, they see a plain wall. If you still aren't feeling safe, place it a block under with dirt on top.

Double-bluff
A trapped chest could easily be a decoy, hooked up to TNT or some other kind of deadly trap. If this tactic is common knowledge on your server, placing your valuables in a trapped chest might be enough to dissuade potential thieves. The good part of this double-bluff is that it is relatively cheap and can be combined with any other hiding method. The bad part is that it relies on the thief noticing that the chest is trapped before they try opening it.

Minecart Corner
Again in the corner, this is a great way to hide your stuff. Just right behind the corner on the other side, dig one block down, and add a chest minecart. From the corner, you can click on the minecart chest to open it. Be sure people don't see the chest from the outside!

Under Dirt
Perhaps the simplest way to hide a chest. Put a large chest under two grass blocks. Make sure that it's in a spot that noone would want to mine in, like next to a lava lake or under a creeper's crater. If the server has a plugin, set a home there; otherwise, put something there to help you remember where it is.

Under the Rug
Basically "Under Dirt", but instead with carpet.

For Pros
The section for advanced treasure-buriers.

This section includes redstone builds, so if you are good at redstone, this is definitely for you.

First of all, you might want to consider trying out the minecart trick. It is simple to build and very well hidden. In fact, other can't see it if you cover it up!

Dungeon Protection
Find a dungeon and hide it (Tutorials/Secret door). Attach a redstone lamp to the monster spawner and set up the redstone so that the lamp is on when the door is closed and off when the door is open. This ensures that no mob noises can be heard while a thief is searching, and that they will guard if he/she finds the dungeon. Hide important items in here, and they will be safe.

Shell Game
Build a room or a house full of trapped chests, all hooked up to deadly traps. You could then memorize the location of the "real" chest, which contains all your goodies and won't brutally murder you -- or you could do like a real shell game, make all of the choices the "wrong" one, and hide your valuables somewhere else entirely. Make sure to surround the chests with wooden pressure plates, so nobody thinks they'll get away with just breaking the chests instead of opening them.