Locked chest

Locked Chests (also known as Steve Co. Supply Crates) have been added with Minecraft Beta 1.4. They generate naturally on the map. Clicking on the chest will bring you to the screen shown in the gallery. Clicking on "Go to Store" will forward you to the Minecraft Store. The chests emit light at level 15 and are indestructible by hand or with a tool, but can be removed by explosions (which may drop them as an item, allowing them to be picked up). They are an April Fools' Day joke. Notch planned to remove them at midnight, but didn't due to illness.

Trivia

 * Locked chests are a reference to the Mann Co. Supply Crates from Team Fortress 2, where a key must be purchased for $2.49 in the in-game shop called Mann Co. Store in order to open the crate.
 * When you go on the Minecraft store website and click proceed to checkout, a screamer occurs when a dinosaur jumps out of the bottom of the page, making a growling noise and flying off the screen showing that this is indeed an April Fool's Joke.
 * Entering items totalling over 10,000 Dollars into the cart causes a window popup asking if you are prone to seizures. Entering OK makes the screen start flashing. When first released there was no seizure warning label, Notch later implemented it to avoid lawsuits and posts on the forum.
 * This may have been what Notch was talking about in his Twitter post about a "silly secret project".
 * Locked chests can even generate in mid air.
 * It is more cost efficient to buy five Steve co. supply crate keys than it is to buy a five pack.
 * If destroyed by TNT and collected, locked chests can be used as fuel in a Furnace like normal chests. They burn for 15 seconds each.
 * Locked chests can be placed next to each other to form a 2 block long chest like normal chests do. These two chests are still however "locked".
 * To get the flashing colors you must total over $10,000; $10,000 exactly will not work.
 * On April 2nd (the day following April Fools), the store had the addition of a mulicolored banner which read '♥ April Fools! ♥', accompanied by an eight-bit instrumental of Rick Asley's 'Never Gonna Give You Up', Tobias Mollstam stated that this was the "best script he's written to date".
 * Steve is a removed mob/NPC, there was also a Black Steve.
 * To obtain a Locked Chest, get an inventory editor that supports searching for data values, like INVedit. Then, enter 95 in the search box. Drag the item into your inventory, then save. You now have a Locked Chest!

Items "Sold"
Eight "items" are "available": As well as three "Coming Soon" items (Priced at $75, $7, and $1499) and a "Regular Padlock" for $8.
 * Steve Co. Supply Crate Key ($3)
 * Steve Co. Supply Crate Key 5-Pack ($18)
 * Miner's Helmet ($21)
 * Name Change ($99)
 * Creeper Saddle ($42)
 * Secret Griefer Identity ($155)
 * Enlargement Pill ($2)
 * Response From Support ($494)