Chest

For the Event chests containing skins, see Treasury.

Chest
"A sturdy container."
Crafting
Recipe	×3
Tab
Tier
Properties
Tool Required
Perk
Can hold up to 9 items
Code
"treasurechest"

“It is my tickle trunk!”

–Wilson

“It's a trunk for my junk.”

–Willow

“I put stuff here!”

–Wolfgang

“For which to contain my lucre.”

–Wendy

“EXTERNAL STORAGE UNIT”

–WX-78

“A storage chest.”

–Wickerbottom

“Wood is so handy! Look at all the things you can make!”

–Woodie

“A place where to store loot.”

–Maxwell

“Has a lock, but it does not require a key. Curious.”

–Wagstaff

“A place tö störe my helm and spear while I rest.”

–Wigfrid

“We could keep our toys in it!”

–Webber

“Treasure!”

–Walani

“Treasure!”

–Warly

“Aye, th' meaning o' life inna box.”

–Woodlegs

“A BOX FOR'TH WILBA THINGS”

–Wilba

“Stuff!”

–Wormwood

“More pockets!”

–Wheeler

“Handmade, so you know it's not up to snuff.”

–Winona

“A storage place for bits and bobs.”

–Wortox

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. Also, Krampus is able to break Chests in order to steal the items inside.

Backpacks, Piggybacks, and Krampus Sacks cannot be stored in Chests, even if the containers are empty. Although they can be used as an alternative storage space if for some reason the player is unable to craft a Chest.

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 occurs.
• All food in the player's inventory immediately Spoil.

Reign of Giants

In Reign of Giants, during Summer, Chests, as with many structures, can spontaneously combust. A smoking effect will appear, in which time the player must either extinguish the smouldering. Using one's hands causes damage. If this is not done in time, the object will combust and burn. The alternative way to solve this is by using a Scaled Chest.

As with the Backpacks, an Insulated Pack cannot be placed in a Chest.

Trivia

• In the old research system, the research cost of a Chest was 100 research points.

Bugs

• If a Chest is burned, the option to open it may appear, and if the player tries to open it the game will crash.

Gallery

An open Chest.

"Store" appears when a storable item is dragged over a Chest.

A Set Piece trap with a Chest that, when opened, has a chance to cause Winter to immediately arrive.

A Set Piece with a Chest that has a chance to catch fire when opened.

A burnt Chest from the Reign of Giants DLC.

• DS
• RoG
• SW
• Ham
• DST