How to Make a Chest in Minecraft

Use this simple recipe to make a Chest in Minecraft. You can see the exact ingredients, recipe layout, and workstation below.

Chest recipe

Follow the recipe below. The pattern must use the correct slots when the recipe is shaped.

Place 8 matching wood planks in a Crafting Table to make 1 Chest.

The 3 × 3 pattern needs the 3 × 3 grid of a crafting table. Ingredients must stay in the shown positions, and most patterns can also be mirrored.
Each craft uses 8 ingredient items and produces 1 Chest. A full stack of 64 takes 64 crafts and 512 ingredient items in total.

Output: 1 Chest

A chest stores 27 stacks of items. Place two side by side to make a double chest with 54 slots.

This page shows the vanilla recipe for Chest. It includes the exact ingredients, recipe layout, required workstation, and amount produced.

The data comes from Minecraft Java 26.3. Recipes can change in later game versions, so check the version you play before crafting.