Ender Chest

"Obsidian chest" redirects here. For the obsidian chest in Minecraft Dungeons, see MCD:Chest § Diamond chest.

Ender Chest

Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool
Blast resistance	600
Hardness	22.5
Luminous	Yes (7)
Transparent	Yes
Waterloggable	Yes
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No
Map color	11 STONE
Note block instrument	Bass Drum

An ender chest is a type of chest whose contents are exclusive to each player, and they can be placed and accessed from anywhere in any dimension.

Obtaining

Breaking

The suitable tool to break an ender chest is a pickaxe.

Block	Ender Chest
Hardness	22.5
Tool
Breaking time (sec)[A]
Default	133.8 (JE) 33.75 (BE)
Wooden	116.9 (JE) 16.9 (BE)
Stone	18.45 (JE) 8.45 (BE)
Copper	16.8 (JE) 6.75 (BE)
Iron	15.65 (JE) 5.65 (BE)
Diamond	14.25 (JE) 4.25 (BE)
Netherite	13.75 (JE) 3.75 (BE)
Golden	12.85 (JE) 2.85 (BE)
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

Ender chest drops 8 obsidian blocks when it's destroyed using a tool without Silk Touch.
Ender chest drops itself when it's destroyed using a tool with Silk Touch.

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Obsidian + Eye of Ender

Natural generation

Ender chests naturally generate alongside a chest in certain End city treasure rooms.

Usage

Ender chests can be opened by pressing the use control. Like a normal chest, if a solid block is placed above an ender chest, it cannot be opened.

Ender chests can be used like normal chests, except all ender chests in the world are interconnected, including in different dimensions. The ender chest's inventory is also separate for each player; consequently, items stored in an ender chest cannot be seen or taken by other players. Items stored inside of an ender chest remain even if the player dies. If an ender chest is destroyed, the items inside it are not dropped and can be retrieved again by accessing or placing another ender chest. Because of this player-specific property, ender chests are useful on multiplayer servers to secure valuable items.

Donkeys, mules, and llamas cannot be equipped with ender chests, as they support only normal chests.

Ender chests contain 27 slots for storage and can be placed next to other ender chests without joining; they cannot be combined into double chests. It is possible to greatly increase the space of an ender chest by pairing it with shulker boxes (i.e. filling the shulker boxes with desired items, then placing them inside the ender chest). Placing 27 shulker boxes in the ender chest increases the storage space to 729 slots.

Ender chests do not interact with hoppers, droppers, or comparators.

Despite being made of obsidian, an ender chest is not immune to destruction by the ender dragon.^[1]

Light source

Ender chests emit a light level of 7.

Piglins

Piglins become hostile toward Survival, Hardcore, or Adventure mode players that they can see opening or breaking ender chests.^[2]

Piston interactivity

Ender chest cannot be pushed by pistons, and cannot be pulled by sticky pistons.

Sounds

Generic

Java Edition:

stone sound type
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.stone.break	subtitles.block.generic.break​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block placed​[until: JE 26.4]	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.stone.place	subtitles.block.generic.place​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.stone.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.stone.fall	subtitles.block.generic.fall​	0.5	0.75	16
	​Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	block.stone.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.15	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

normal sound type
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch
	​Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	dig.stone	subtitles.block.generic.break​	1.0	0.8–1.0
	​Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	place.stone	subtitles.block.generic.place​	1.0	0.8–1.0
	​Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	hit.stone	subtitles.block.generic.hit​	0.27 [sound 1]	0.5
	​Footsteps	Players	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.stone	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.4	1.0
	​Footsteps	Players	Walking on the block	step.stone	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.3	1.0
	​Footsteps	Blocks	Jumping from the block	jump.stone	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.12	1.0
	​Footsteps	Blocks	Falling on the block without fall damage	land.stone	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.22	1.0

Unique

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition:

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Block tags	Translation key
Ender Chest	ender_chest	Block & Item	guarded_by_piglins	block.minecraft.ender_chest

Name	Identifier
Block entity	ender_chest

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID[i 1]	Block tags	Translation key
Ender Chest	ender_chest	130	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3]	minecraft:is_pickaxe_item_destructible	tile.ender_chest.name

Name	Savegame ID
Block entity	EnderChest

Block states

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Block data

An ender chest has a block entity associated with it that holds additional data about the block.

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Block entity format.

Inventory

The contents of an ender chest are not stored in the block, but in the player-NBT under the tag EnderItems‌^{[Java Edition only]}/EnderChestInventory‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}. Thus ender chests can be viewed as "portals" to a player's 27 additional slots of secure and exclusive inventory, which are not lost on death.

Videos

History

Java Edition

Java Edition
1.3.1			12w21a				Added ender chests.
							Ender chests currently share the same inventory for all players on a server. Jeb stated that this would be changed to a separate inventory for every player in snapshot 12w24a.[3]
							Ender chests are based on a suggestion thread on Reddit.[4][5] This idea was previously made into a mod by Ecu and ChickenBones.[6]
							In response to some users' feelings on the functionality of ender chests, Jeb plans to test a feature he has yet to specify in relation to them.[7]
			12w24a				Ender chests now work per-player in multiplayer (holds an inventory per player instead of shared across the world).
							Ender chests now drop 8 obsidian when destroyed, except when mined with a pickaxe enchanted with Silk Touch.
1.8			14w29a				Ender chests now show the cracking animation.
1.9			15w31a				Ender chests now naturally generate in End cities.
							The item model of ender chests has been rotated, to have the front face in view of the player.
1.10			pre2				Ender chests now have unique sound effects.
1.13			17w50a				Ender chests now look like presents between December 24th and 26th to suit Christmas.
			18w10d				Water can now be placed on the same block as an ender chest.
1.14			18w43a				The texture of ender chests has been changed.
1.15			19w39a				The ender chest texture layout has been changed.
1.18.2			22w03a				Ender chests no longer look like presents between December 24th and 26th.
1.21.4			24w44a				Now drops obsidian with the incorrect tool.

Bedrock Edition

Pocket Edition
1.0.0			alpha 0.17.0.1				Added ender chests.
							Item form appears as a full block.
Bedrock Edition
1.2.13			beta 1.2.13.5				Ender chests now have unique sound effects.
1.4.0			beta 1.2.20.1				Water can now be placed on the same block as an ender chest.
1.10.0			beta 1.10.0.3				The texture of ender chests has been changed.
1.21.50			Preview 1.21.50.24				Ender chests are mined faster when using an improper tool.

Legacy Console Edition

Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU14	CU1	1.04	1.00	1.00	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added ender chests.
TU32	CU20	1.23	1.23	1.23	Patch 3		Ender chests now show the cracking animation.
TU46	CU36	1.38	1.38	1.38	Patch 15		Ender chests now naturally generate in End cities.
							Ender chests now have unique sound effects.
TU63	CU53	1.67	1.67	1.67	Patch 32	1.0.13	Ender chests can no longer be opened when an entity is standing on top of it.
			1.90				The texture of ender chests has been changed.

New Nintendo 3DS Edition

New Nintendo 3DS Edition
1.7.10							Added ender chests.

• 
  The original suggestion for the ender chest.

Data history

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition

Issues

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

Trivia

• Because an ender chest's particles exist only in a 1 block radius around the chest, the particles from a chest placed next to a wall are not seen on the other side.
• Unlike chests, changes to an ender chest's name are not reflected in its inventory GUI.^[8]
• Ender chests that have their name changed will lose the name when mined with a Silk Touch enchanted pickaxe.
• Ender chests render as a full block when in the inventory, but not when held or placed.‌^{[Bedrock Edition only][9]}
• Ender chests cannot be locked by NBT tags.
• The texture of ender chests does not change during Christmas in contrast to trapped chests and normal chests.‌^{[Java Edition only]}
• Mining an ender chest with a wooden pickaxe takes the longest time in the game (16.9 seconds) to mine a block with the correct tool, without the effect of Mining Fatigue and other mining speed reduction events.
• In Java Edition, an ender chest produces obsidian particles when breaking and walking or falling on it, while in Bedrock Edition, an ender chest produces particles of the block itself.^[10]

Gallery

Screenshots

• 
  An ender chest in the Nether
• 
  Light from an ender chest
• 
  An open ender chest
• 
  An ender chest and regular chest in an End city
• 
  An ender chest as it appears in the Timeless Trails DLC

In other media

• 
  Artwork of an ender chest
• 
  An ender chest as depicted on Minecoin gift cards
• 
  An ender chest as seen in A Minecraft Movie

References

External links

• "Block of the Month: Ender Chest" by Duncan Geere – Minecraft.net, June 5, 2025.