Chest

"It's a trunk for my junk."

- Willow A Chest is a storage structure. It requires 3 Boards to build and a Science Machine to prototype. It has 9 storage slots. Items can be stored in a Chest by dragging them onto it or by opening the Chest to place them in specific slots. Chests help keep items better organized than by dropping them on the ground. Animals also cannot eat food kept in Chests except for Splumonkeys, who can knock items out of them.

Backpacks, Piggybacks, and Krampus Sacks cannot be stored in Chests, even if the containers are empty.

In both Sandbox Mode and Adventure Mode, Chests are occasionally found pre-built in the world. These are natural Set Pieces and they may contain traps set by Maxwell, causing various effects such as:
 * Spontaneous combustion (character and surrounding objects burst into flames)
 * Summer or Winter suddenly occur.
 * All food in the player's inventory immediately spoil

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In Reign of Giants, during Summer chests can spontaneously combust. A smoking effect will appear in which time the player must either extinguish the smouldering with Ice, an Ice Staff or with their hands. Using your hands causes damage. If this is not done in time the object will combust and burn.

Trivia

 * In the old research system, the research cost of a chest was 100.