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How to Craft Ender Chest in Minecraft

Stand at a Crafting Table with 8 Obsidian and 1 Eye of Ender and you can make an Ender Chest. The top row is three Obsidian, the middle row two Obsidian down either side and an Eye of Ender in the middle column, and the bottom row three Obsidian. Expect 1 Ender Chest from every craft.

Ender Chest Item ID and Give Command

The item ID for Ender Chest is minecraft:ender_chest. In commands the namespace may be left off, so ender_chest works too. Checked against Minecraft Java 26.2.

Give yourself one
/give @p ender_chest
Give a full stack of 64
/give @p ender_chest 64
Give it to a named player
/give Steve ender_chest 1

Cheats have to be on for Ender Chest to appear this way, and the same command works on Bedrock Edition, where the name is written the same.

Overview

An Ender Chest provides personal storage shared across all Ender Chests. Each player has their own 27-slot inventory. Ender Chest uses a shaped recipe: the ingredients only work in the pattern shown.

Minecraft has used the name Ender Chest since 1.3.1, the oldest release whose language file lists it.

The materials come together from a few sources: you will be working with obsidian (mine obsidian) and eye of ender (craft from ender pearl and blaze powder).

Counting The Stack

Feed 8 obsidian a craft, so 64 covers 8 of them: 8 ender chests. The recipe wants 8 eye of enders beside it. Craft 8 empties the box exactly.

Materials Needed

ItemAmountWhere to Find
Obsidian8xMine obsidian
Eye of EnderEye of EnderEye of Ender1xCraft from ender pearl and blaze powder

Gather 8x Obsidian (mine obsidian) and Eye of Ender (craft from ender pearl and blaze powder), then take the lot to a Crafting Table.

The Full Chain

Blaze Powder, then Eye of Ender, then the Ender Chest. All in: 8 Obsidian, 1 Ender Pearl and 1 Blaze Rod.

  1. 1
    Blaze RodBlaze RodBlaze PowderBlaze Powder2Blaze Powder
  2. 2
    Ender PearlEnder PearlBlaze PowderBlaze PowderEye of EnderEye of EnderEye of Ender
  3. 3
    Ender ChestEnder ChestEnder Chestthis page

Gather this first

8ObsidianEnder PearlEnder PearlEnder PearlBlaze RodBlaze RodBlaze Rod

Step-by-Step Instructions

  1. 1

    8x Obsidian

  2. 2

    Eye of EnderEye of EnderEye of Ender

  3. 3

    Ender Chest

Minecraft crafting recipe for Ender Chest: 8 x Obsidian, 1 x Eye of Ender in a crafting table, making 1 Ender Chest.

Tips & Notes

  • Shopping list: 8x Obsidian and 1x Eye of Ender. Plan the Obsidian first: mine obsidian.

Uses for Ender Chest

  • Personal storage accessible from any Ender Chest
  • 27 slots shared across all dimensions

View detailed item stats, durability and properties for Ender Chest on the Astroworld Items Database.

Frequently Asked Questions

What do I need to craft an Ender Chest in Minecraft?
an Ender Chest asks for 8 Obsidian and 1 Eye of Ender, and the work happens at a Crafting Table. Lay them out exactly as the grid above shows, and one craft produces one Ender Chest.
What do you need to make an Ender Chest from scratch?
From raw materials only, an Ender Chest comes down to 8 Obsidian, 1 Ender Pearl and 1 Blaze Rod. The rest you make yourself, and it takes 3 crafts to get there.
Can you craft an Ender Chest without a crafting table?
You need a table for an Ender Chest. It is laid out as eight Obsidian and a single Eye of Ender in the centre cell, and that takes 3 rows, more than the 2x2 grid in your inventory can hold.
Where do you find the materials for an Ender Chest?
Here is where each part of an Ender Chest comes from. Obsidian: mine obsidian. Eye of Ender: craft from ender pearl and blaze powder.
What should I craft first for an Ender Chest?
For an Ender Chest, start with Blaze Powder: 1 Blaze Rod gives you 2 Blaze Powder. After that the order is Eye of Ender, and then the Ender Chest itself.
How many Ender Chests do you get from one craft?
The Ender Chest recipe makes one Ender Chest per craft.
What is the item ID for Ender Chest in Minecraft?
In Java 26.2 the Ender Chest goes by minecraft:ender_chest; ender_chest without the namespace does the same job in a command.
What is the give command for Ender Chest?
Use /give @p ender_chest to put an Ender Chest in your own inventory, or /give @p ender_chest 64 for a full stack of 64. Cheats have to be on.
Is the Ender Chest recipe the same in Java and Bedrock Edition?
It is the same recipe on both: 8 Obsidian and 1 Eye of Ender at a Crafting Table gives you an Ender Chest, in the layout shown above, one at a time.
How many crafting steps does an Ender Chest take?
An Ender Chest takes 3 crafts once you count the parts: Blaze Powder and Eye of Ender, and then the Ender Chest. The chain section above walks through them in order.
What version of Minecraft added the Ender Chest?
As far back as the language files go, the ender chest appears under this name in Minecraft 1.3.1 and not before. The recipe file cannot narrow that down, because recipes only became separate files in 1.12. The Ender Chest recipe above matches the current release.

Sources

Grid, ingredients and yield
8 Obsidian and 1 Eye of Ender in, 1 Ender Chest out, Crafting Table. Java 26.2, .
That Bedrock agrees
Bedrock 1.26.40.05, same 2 ingredients.
How far back it goes
Java 1.3.1 is the earliest release that calls it this. From all 163 released Java clients, rd-132211 to 26.2.
Stack size
The Astroworld Items Database, built from the same jar.
The recipe book unlock
What unlocks it in the recipe book. Java 26.2.
The stack sum
Counted, not played: 1 Ender Chest per craft against the stack size.

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