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Minecraft: If in reality, you possessed a set of Ender Chests! What would you store in them?

Wo Jiao Minecraft Jun·2/15/2026

I recently saw the official Minecraft Twitter discussing an interesting topic: If you possessed a set of Ender Chests in real life, what would you plan to store inside them? Let's assume this real-world Ender Chest would fully comply with the basic characteristics and rules of Minecraft.

Ender Chest illustration

1. Using Ender Chests to Teleport Items at School

Imagine placing an Ender Chest at school, allowing you to teleport your tablet, phone, snacks, backpack, books, and more. You would never have to worry about a heavy backpack or forgetting your books and homework again. Since the chest is large enough, you could put everything you need inside at once, simply accessing it from both home and school.

The function of an Ender Chest is essentially like a "cloud drive," enabling you to retrieve files across multiple devices and locations.

Ender Chest teleporting items illustration

2. Storing Money in an Ender Chest

If you used a Minecraft Ender Chest to store money, the one and only advantage is that it would never be lost! Because in this world, besides you, no one else could access this Ender Chest.

An interesting thought: if you were a programmer, could you modify the underlying code to randomly or specifically connect your Ender Chest to someone else's, then extract some "ill-gotten gains"?

Ender Chest storing money illustration

3. Smuggling

Buy a large quantity of official Minecraft merchandise abroad, then use an Ender Chest to smoothly have all the items appear in your home. There are two transportation methods:

  • Check your 1m*1m Ender Chest as luggage. No one but you can see what's inside, and the Ender Chest's weight is constant, as the items are merely stored as data.
  • Simply abandon the Ender Chest abroad, since you have a whole set. Losing one Ender Chest doesn't prevent you from retrieving items from the others.

4. Destroying Evidence?

Many people instinctively think an Ender Chest would be a great tool for destroying evidence! Although somewhat sinister, theoretically, this Ender Chest could only be used once. Once the "corpse" is taken out, the truth will inevitably come to light, so how could it not be discovered?

Ender Chest destroying evidence illustration

5. Storing Heirlooms

The most classic feature of the Ender Chest is that while I'm alive, it can be used to teleport items over long distances, and only I can retrieve them. However, once I die, everything inside will permanently disappear! The most interesting part is that even if one day I no longer exist, the chest itself will still remain in this world, serving as proof of my existence, yet no one will ever be able to open it again.

6. Locking Away Secrets

If you have secrets you never want anyone else to know in this lifetime, put them in the chest. No second person in this world will ever know or see them. An Ender Chest is more like a massive tomb, sealing away all your secrets, destined to accompany you until death.

Ender Chest locking away secrets illustration

7. Teleportation Tool

If I had an Ender Chest, I wouldn't use it to store anything. Wouldn't it be great to use it as a teleportation tool? For example, place an Ender Chest at location A, and another at location B. Based on this, could you teleport from location A to location B?

8. Getting Rich

Don't forget, besides you, everyone else can actually use an Ender Chest. That means if 7.5 billion people worldwide open the same Ender Chest, it could create 7.5 billion independent Ender storage spaces. Therefore, each person would have their own independent storage space. So, you could use 64 Ender Chests, scattered around the world, to build a world-class bank! Its security would be unmatched! It would even include a storage + logistics system! From then on, get rich and reach the peak of life!

Ender Chest getting rich illustration

So the question is, if you were fortunate enough to possess a set of Ender Chests from Minecraft, what would you plan to do with them?