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Ender Chest Guide

27 slots that follow you everywhere.

An ender chest surrounded by an eye of ender, obsidian, a shulker box and a diamond pickaxe on obsidian
Quick answer
  • Craft an Ender chest from 8 obsidian and 1 eye of ender.
  • Every ender chest opens the same 27 slots, just for you.
  • Breaking one without Silk Touch drops 8 obsidian, but your items stay safe.

Ender chests are personal storage that you can reach from anywhere. Put one at base and carry one with you.

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Crafting

Put an Eye of ender in the middle of a crafting table and surround it with 8 obsidian.

How it works

  • Your items are tied to you, not the chest.
  • Open any ender chest, anywhere, and you see the same 27 slots.
  • Other players see their own items in the same chest.
  • Your items survive if the chest is broken or blown up.
Shulkers insidePut Shulker box items in your ender chest and you can carry up to 27 shulker boxes of stuff wherever you go.

Picking it up

You need a pickaxe with Silk Touch to get the ender chest back. Otherwise you only get 8 obsidian.

PiglinsOpening an ender chest near piglins makes them angry, just like a normal chest.

Cheat sheet

  • 8 obsidian + 1 eye of ender
  • 27 slots shared by every ender chest
  • Silk Touch to move one
  • Store shulker boxes inside

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