The Weird History of Minecraft Triple Chests

Creating a double chest in Minecraft is no big deal. But what about a triple chest? Turns out that at one point, they could actually be created and used in survival Minecraft! Today, I'm going to explore the history of Minecraft Triple Chests.
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[@Zorty420]

There's three different calculations we need to make, in order to get a good approximation of the total probability of such an event accuring, these are: 1.) The probability of a dungeon and a mineshaft chest spawning in the same chunk 2.) The probability of a dungeon containing a double chest 3.) The probability of the mineshaft chest to be right next to the dungeon double chest (y-Level needs to match as well) Some of these are practically impossible to calculate, since Minecraft generates dungeons/mineshafts, as well as chests within dungeons in a very unpredictable way. That's why I had to do some sampling on chunkbase to obtain some good estimations. After doing sampling of around 14'592 chunks, I counted 234 dungeons, as well as 108 mineshaft chests. This means that dungeons have a 1.6% chance of generating in each chunk and mineshaft chests have a probability of around 0.74% of doing so. Combining these, we get the probability of around 0.012% (or 1 in 8425) of a dungeon and a mineshaft chest spawning in the same chunk. Dungeons spawn in different sizes with different amount of chests inside them (0-2). All dungeon sizes (5x5, 5x7, 7x7) are equally likely, but the average amount of chests within a dungeon can't be calculated that easily. After manually checking around 50 dungeons myself, I concluded that about half of all dungeons contain two chests within them. Note that for a chest to generate within a dungeon, it needs to be placed next to exactly one solid block (disregarding the mob spawner). This means that double chests can only spawn vertically to the wall, or along the wall if there is an opening right where the chest is. There are around 2*((n-2)+(m-2))-1 ways for a double chest to be generated vertical to the wall, for every nxm sized dungeon. Considering a dungeon has 2 openings on average, this gives around 3 more possible arrangements for double chests to spawn. (Normally you get more openings the bigger the room is). For each nxm sized dungeon, there exist around 2*((n-2)+(m-2))-1 ways for the first chest to be placed. The amount of different possibilities for the second to be placed is highly dependent on the placement of the first chest and the openings, so we can only make assumptions, that there is about 10 ways for 5x5, 13 for 5x7 and 16 for 7x7. (You can draw the possible placements on paper regarding different opening positions and this is the approximation i came up with.) Using these numbers we get the following probabilities of a double chest generating: - 5x5: (2*(3+3)-1+3)/((2*(3+3)-1)*10) = 14/110 = 0.127 = around 1 in 8. - 5x7: (2*(3+5)-1+3)/((2*(3+5)-1)*13)= 18/195 = 0.092 = around 1 in 11. - 7x7: (2*(5+5)-1+3)/(2*(5+5)-1)*16) = 22/304 = 0.076 = around 1 in 14. Since all of these dungeon sizes are equally likely, we get a total probability of 0.097 for double chest accuring in a double chest room or a probability of 0.047 (about 1 in 21) of a double chest accuring in any dungeon. We now already have all calculations needed to calculate the probability of a dungeon double chest and a mineshaft chest being in the same chunk. Now we just need to account for the placement of these chests with respect to each other. For this I assumed that dungeons/mineshafts would generate around Y=10-60, therefore there are exactly 50*16^2 = 12'800 possible blocks where the chests could spawn at. The dungeon chest has exactly 6 adjacent blocks, so the probability of the mineshaft chest being one of those 6 is about 6/12'800, or 1 in 2133. Combining all the different probabilities we calculated, we obtain a pretty good estimate of around 1/8425 * 1/21 * 1/2133 = 1/369'396'908 for a natural triple chest accuring in every chunk. This means that there is approximatly one triple chest in every 300'000x300'000 block area, or about 40'000 naturally generated triple chests in each minecraft world. (Note that I used rounded fractions so it would be easier to read) EDIT: At first this seemed much too common to be true, since 40'000 such triple chests within every minecraft world seems like a lot to barely happen. But this might not seem that weird considering that you'll need to check 5-6 million dungeons on average, before finding one with a triple chest. It's not actually that surprising that there has only been one natural triple chest found on 2b2t so far.

[@danail.]

can you do my math homework tho

[@andreasl3974]

Can you do the math for natural quadriple chests? 10th like tho. Also 2nd reply to this comment.

[@pacifist1354]

@@danail. beep boop schibbly doop i am here to stabilize your loop edit: thanks for the 100 likes, really appreciated since i put so much effort in this comment

[@potatoman3507]

well i dont have the braincells to read this do i?

[@raquexx]

legend

[@SalC1]

Update: Before I pin a comment with the probability of a triple chest spawning, you MUST get your work checked by others replying to your comment. I just want to make sure I pin something that's accurate.

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[@TheEpicMMX]

Why are people copying me

[@TheEpicMMX]

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[@TheCoolNintendoGuy8593]

Lol

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[@nicholasessary7987]

Lol

[@OfficialMaxBox]

It's just nuts that there are still things to learn about this game and its history.

[@Duck-Poacher]

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[@nekuroverse]

I agree

[@Claramoo]

Max bot more like Fax bot

[@djscottdog1]

Most of it is completely boring shite that some youtuber made a video about cos they are out of ideas

[@justatravelerpassingthroug9674]

Yeah

[@graf]

I remember seeing a triple chest for the first time on some hey0mod Towny server around the Beta days, some guys used the chest block as their land claim border and it was basically a whole line of them. Thanks for the nostalgia trip, Sal.

[@modedyt]

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[@stasi0238]

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[@Rudy137]

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[@ahoy1014]

The change in how Chests were rendered actually provided an interesting application to lining up invalid chests, as with the proper placement only the first two blocks would be rendered, allowing you to create entire walls of invisible, tangible blocks. Before Barriers, this was one way of preventing players from going places they weren't meant to in custom maps.

[@aadarshroy3216]

so, upon updating those maps there would be chests everywhere?

[@superJK92]

@@aadarshroy3216 yes

[@Pizaru81039]

@@superJK92 lol

[@evervirescent]

some maps used to have backwards ladders

[@bestbedwarplayer]

Imagine the lag if you got all the regular chests to render...

[@TechXTech91]

Back when I used to play 4b4t, we figured out that during heavy lag, you could make invisible chests that even chest esp couldn't pick up, but if you knew where to click, you could open the chest. I still have a few on that server somewhere

[@FishTheShooter]

Some super secret / rare items gotta be in someone’s on there for sure.

[@TechXTech91]

@@FishTheShooter been playing that server since day 1. There's nothing special in those chests lol

[@MrCaptainTea]

​@@TechXTech91 the ones you know about. I bet you haven't found mine 😅

[@TechXTech91]

@@MrCaptainTea nah i barely play any more. the servers had its map reset like 4 times. its barely worth it

[@Bedwar]

I remember using world edit back in the day to make invisible blocks for custom maps or plot servers before barrier blocks were a thing, cool history behind the vanilla side of things though!

[@randomkid8999]

i remember using vines and ladders on xbox 360

[@pustota7254]

Your comment got liked 69 times.

[@Bedwar]

@@pustota7254 thank you for notifying me of such an amazing milestone

[@open191]

The chance of a dungeon spawning with a double chest is 0.2% on its own. Adding the probability of a minechaft of spawning in it and the chest in the exact place for a triple chest to spawn, its about 0.00007% chance of a dungeon spawning with a doublechest

[@ceqell]

thanks

[@AxxLAfriku]

I have fewer than 1 friend in the World. That's right. Everybody disses me for making bad videos. I think they are perfect though. Who is right? My dissers or me? Which side are you on, dear rid

[@BlackRockInc]

How exactly did you get those numbers?

[@SuchDarkness]

@@BlackRockInc MATH

[@apjustpro2671]

Why isnt this ping

[@Weisz]

Super interesting video, i love seeing the old busted minecraft game mechanics hahaha

[@daandanx]

Who doesn't, they're always a pleasure

[@via4377]

Hi

[@BEGAECATS]

I'm late Cuz Bots Came in :(

[@sokiimoisanegg9520]

yeah haha

[@42Tacos]

I love it when you find KZbinrs who cover a completely different topic in the comments of a creator you enjoy

[@1ProtonProductions1]

This phenomenon was always in the back of my mind throughout my years playing minecraft but I've never ever seen it covered with such nuance and precision.

[@Xeebakou]

I remember seeing a tutorial on how to create a triple chest with commands, it was really cool to mess around with. I hope Mojang adds a storage unit with more slots like that

[@urbainleverrier1]

With the shulkers existing I don't think they'll ever make bigger chests than double chests :{

[@NICK....]

What I find even more interesting is that the glitched chest worked, maybe in some long forgotten time chests were meant to be infinitely expandable

[@TheBogdichHD]

I dont think so It can be explained by the fact that when you break chest in double chest, other chest is still here and has items(sorry for my english)

[@NICK....]

@@TheBogdichHD Yes, each chest has it's own inventory and there's a system that stitches them together if they're in a valid, or "valid", configuration. I'm saying that this system might work this way because it was meant to be procedural

[@khiemgom]

@@NICK.... Noone get more work when create 2 systems for normal chest and double chest, Mojang just avoid more work

[@NICK....]

@@khiemgom I don't want to be rude but I have no idea of what you just said

[@khiemgom]

@@NICK.... its like: hey u want to make a small paper word and then scale it to a large paper work? And Mojang is well lets build a machine to build that paper work in any size

[@ponteirodorato]

Yesterday I was playing older versions with my friends, I totally got confused when I tried to place double chests next to each other and nothing happened

[@Xnoob545]

I spent a long time playing on 1.12.2 when i had a crappy laptop so i definitely knew the fact that 1.12 and 1.13 chests are different

[@minecrash101]

@@shanie2062 wtf

[@Rafelandroid2]

yeah. i remember trying to do that in older versions wayy back in 2013. i was confused like hell

[@OldDanTucker]

@@shanie2062 take notes ladies and gentleman, as this is whats wrong with society.

[@batorerdyniev9805]

You were playing a version before 17w47a.

[@kryall7637]

i remember many years ago i came across ~2 dungeons that had spawned on top of one another, the chests of which had somehow glitched together to form a triple chest; its gui was like that of a normal double chest, but the actual slots were larger in number and were disjointed from the slots in the graphic. it was ages ago, probably around 1.4-7, and i never got the seed, which sucks.

[@justanotheryoutubechannel]

This reminds me of something I read about with pocket edition apparently in super early versions (before iOS or common android versions were released) you couldn’t create double chests like normal, however you could create VERTICAL double chests, which was super weird and caused a lot of glitches with the graphics. It was a bug, and was fixed after a few versions.

[@xdiax]

What version was that?

[@ConnorPugs]

Sal, great video again. I know this is kinda generic but your videos are always super interesting and I really appreciate the lengths you go to get and organize all the information and technical details. You’re a beauty.

[@-JackFrost-]

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[@BEGAECATS]

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[@Jmcgee1125]

5:43 you say this, but they patched item shadowing (a very, very awesome and super useful update suppression trick) in the snapshot immediately following its public reveal. Mojang left triple chests because it couldn't be abused, not because they have better things to do.

[@prumchhangsreng979]

Mojang patch countless thing that couldn't be abuse. So ur point arent that correct

[@mikoajkoek3145]

Well, item shadowing also allowed for item duping so it's sorta understandable why it was patched

[@djk6297]

i once came upon a double dungeon with a triple chest, and my was the GUI messed up for it, and this was back in update 1.8-1.10, i have to say. It's cool what world generation can do, even with dungeons. I once used the world customization settings to create a world loaded with dungeons, where there were dungeon complexes, and there were a few triple chests to go along with them.

[@TheGuyWhoIsSitting]

The old beta chest sounds take me back. It’s too bad some of the oldest sounds have been lost.

[@AWalYT]

Had a lot of fun making these with WorldEdit back in the beta days, though I do remember some combinations were broken, which was unfortunate. Also I though I recognized that Radiarc track when it played...because reasons...

[@rebane2001]

I love Radiarc

[@mosshivenetwork117]

World Edit must've been awesome to have back then. I remember one time I cried because I didn't have it.

[@Monody512]

I remember once back in beta I used WorldEdit to make a menger sponge of chests. It crashed your client if you right-clicked on it. XD

[@itsintheworksdotdotdot]

Even though this is not 2b2t content, this is still a great video!

[@caps_lock]

nahh not "even though", all of salc1's videos are treats

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[@Lunabyes]

@@caps_lock amen, brother!

[@WinterGamesYT]

Yeah I think he's becoming an antvenom copy

[@Jay2480]

I mean 2b did get a mention-

[@esiedler1]

The quintuple chest broke my brain

[@theshadowroy2905]

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[@purrplaysLE]

@@theshadowroy2905 You should've said "Hello stolen account"

[@mizoreixd]

@@purrplaysLE nah this kind of accounts aren't stolen, they just bought bots

[@thickskinman]

Stolen account

[@PLAYER42_ready]

He shoulda made a hexiple chest

[@tux1468]

This reminds me, I should really get going on that "Every Minecraft Version Technical Wiki". Imagine what crazy things have been lurking in old versions without anyone knowing!

[@mosshivenetwork117]

Wha? Is that wiki an actual thing?

[@tux1468]

@@mosshivenetwork117 Not yet, but I do really wanna make it.

[@accruenewblue]

the discontinued features wiki?

[@mosshivenetwork117]

@@tux1468 Are you able to make a website? How hard is it?

[@tux1468]

@@accruenewblue The Minecraft technical wiki, describing the ins and outs of every feature of every Minecraft version, intentional or not.

[@daandanx]

All i could think about during the whole video... What would happen if you were to open one of the side chests if the middle chest had items in it

[@random832]

In the actual code, whenever you open a chest it checks all four positions surrounding the block you clicked on for chests and adds them all to the gui, so you'd only get the side chest + the middle chest, unless the side chest had *another* chest next to it.

[@dsihacker01]

I remember making these to store all the stuff I got from my nether reactor

[@JustJamesNotJerry]

Always nice to see people who played the old days of MCPE.

[@turnipaitor]

Lmao he lied lol he didn’t show pe footage lol

[@JustJamesNotJerry]

I remember there was a bug in a version of MCPE if you placed a chest next to a double chest but I don’t remember what it was exactly that it did.

[@ashtonhoward5582]

Man, nether reactors feel like a fever dream when I think back to that time. I was so confused at that time when the portal didn't work. I kinda wanna know how nether reactors came to be.

[@dsihacker01]

@@ashtonhoward5582 they came to be due to memory limitations on older phones. It would be too stressful for phones of the time to generate a nether. Thats also why worlds were super small with edges.

[@scottholmes8961]

I like that you use Guild Wars 2 music in your videos. It makes me feel at home since Minecraft and Guild Wars 2 are two of my favorite games.

[@BoredByItself]

That opening and closing sounds for the chest sounded really cool, is that one of the old sounds that they changed

[@AZALEA_HG]

I remember actually doing this in my base like a billion years ago. Memories

[@SweetEiche]

triple chests are iconic, i remember messing around with them way back in ye olden days when i first got minecraft haha. keep it up sal! ♥

[@rickymcmuffin6485]

I didn't even know you could put chests next to each other now. I've just kept putting them separate

[@MightyElemental]

I am loving the nostalgia. Those textures and sound effects being back memories.

[@thecrowcook]

Hey sal, years ago probably around 2010-2011, I once saw a floor on a smp seever that was made of entirely single chests, I could never figure out how this was done. Was this some sort of glitch or was it a server admin having fun?

[@user-jm6gi5eg5m]

Wasn’t he using a combination with trapped and normal chests ?

[@Overqualification]

Trapped and normal chests.

[@snowrose124]

it can't be trapped and normal chests, since i'm 100% sure trapped chests didn't come until 1.5, which was a long way from 2010-2011 i think the texture of the chests was tripping you up and it was actually a floor mostly of quintuple chests. it would be easy to just //wand the floor as an admin...

[@AndrewTheRadarMan]

Probably world edit. A user could select two points on a map then set it to any block, including chests.

[@__prometheus__]

@@Overqualification trapped chests weren’t added until 1.5

[@Ixarus6713]

I remember hearing about this when I was like 10 and trying to replicate it. Obviously without the glitch it didn't work but I'd love to see a mod that adds in infinite chest sizes!

[@charlacplaza2754]

so, i believe its around a 1 in 600 chance for a dungeon to spawn with a double chest, since both chest have to spawn adjacent to each other, obviously. its not too rare that a dungeon spawns in a mineshaft but for a chest to generate. a mineshaft can generate up to 80 blocks from its centre, but most don't. this means that, on average, there are about 256000 places a chest could spawn. so id calculate that a the chance of a triple chest spawning would be around 1 in 153600000. im not a professional but i think ive done my math at least somewhat correctly.

[@viverliefajardo9647]

my answer is 1/6,144,000,000 in 99.9969420% wrong but idc urs is the better answer

[@Boofsure]

I have never heard someone say “chest” so many times and it actually makes sense

[@ship0197]

woah there were tripple chests? i never heard of this even now

[@DazoDer]

As a minecraft veteran who just recently started to play again, your videos give me such nostalgia

[@UKYTPMV]

i remember making tripple chests before beta 1.8.3 in water but never knew the reason why it worked! amazing video :)

[@jek__]

This channel is pure nostalgia lol, but with extra sprinkles on top! You didn't mention at the start that chests used to not be able to be placed next to each other if they were already 2 long, that seems pretty important and something newer players might not know. You do mention it later, but i wonder if that might be confusing for someone who doesnt know Pretty sure here were other ways, I dont remember them, but I've definitely created many triple chests and I didn't know about the water bug, nor did i know you could keep going. I think there was a way to just break them in a certain order and keep placing them, but it only worked in a line not in a cluster like the quintuple chest. Or maybe I'm just remembering using worldedit, but I dont think so I just found a double dungeon a few days ago in 1.19 where the spawners were on the exact same layer and about 5 blocks away from each other where the chests actually connected in the center, presumably one from one spawner and the other from the other Aww im sad its gone. I guess it would be pretty hard to leave in with the way chests work now

[@bedlessmom6846]

only OG's remember triple chest in DANTDM's modded minecraft series

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[@LexusGT40]

Holy cr*p i wanna see

[@NormalPing]

I REMEMBER

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[@BEGAECATS]

Salc1 has also a second account named.. We're no strangers to love You know the rules and so do I A full commitment's what I'm thinking of You wouldn't get this from any other guy I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling Gotta make you understand Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you We've known each other for so long Your heart's been aching, but You're too shy to say it Inside, we both know what's been going on We know the game and we're gonna play it And if you ask me how I'm feeling Don't tell me you're too blind to see Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you (Ooh, give you up) (Ooh, give you up) Never gonna give, never gonna give (Give you up) Never gonna give, never gonna give (Give you up) We've known each other for so long Your heart's been aching, but You're too shy to say it Inside, we both know what's been going on We know the game and we're gonna play it I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling Gotta make you understand Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you Salc2

[@ryanle1293]

I remember in a technic Modpack my friends made, we were using the portal gun mod to transport chests, we were just shooting them through the portal and having another guy catch them, and apparently the chests combined in a way that permanently destroyed the server and the world, it was crazy

[@dragonfan36]

Back in the alpha days a buddy corrupted the map by world editing in torches 😂

[@Peppabot]

Dude I used to create triple chests regularly back in the day lol. This also reminded me of the Mine cart propulsion system we had to use before we had power rails. Good memories

[@WakeUpUniverse66]

*Drink everytime hes says "Chest"*

[@DavidRockin1]

Back when I used to run several servers (1.0 to ~1.5), dicking around I discovered using WorldEdit and setting large areas to chests would break the game and be completely invisible. I used this for some cool builds and neat stuff at my spawn, like floating water/lava statues, long before barriers existed.

[@nothingiseverperfect]

Idk what it is, but Sal, your videos are so freaking cozy, and your don’t style that you use is so like retro star wars AHH IDK HOW TO EXPLAIN I ENJOY UR VIDEOS!!

[@cheesygonecrazy5639]

short, sweet and to the point while being entertaining! Great vid

[@Flop_Studios]

I remember seeing the invisible triple chest sometime on KZbin long ago. Still one of my favorite Java glitches!

[@D44RK_Iced_Yogs]

Bro I remember tryna do shiz like this back in the day! Totally forgot about this and now I got so many memories coming back!!!

[@johnmicheal5925]

Nostalgia!

[@Hero-jl5di]

Nice vid dude, this is my first video I saw from you and I had to subscribe

[@Frif]

great video! I love forgetting stuff like this and re-learning about it

[@Frieza_Fanboy]

Your videos always makes our day better! 💗

[@Onezy23]

Next video : double ender chest

[@gamingmadster]

I actually had something similar happen during a game of Skywars on Minecraft Bedrock. It looked like a double chest and single chest. It was a triple chest, but the chest gui wasn't as glitchy as what happened in java as you showcase here.

[@NEX_mechz]

bruh this vid so much nostalgic with versions and the music omg sooo good work buddy keep it up:) i love ur content never give up >:( be brave bro i love you

[@itsintheworksdotdotdot]

I love this type of content!

[@VY_Canis_Majoris]

I swear I've seen someone actually make a triple chest in the same way as the dungeon/mineshaft thing without finding one naturally generating. Some old video on YT.

[@TheZebinatorofficial]

Yeah my memory is really faded but like 8 years ago I think there was some bug where if you placed two single chests with an empty space between you could place a chest in the middle and force a triple chest

[@VY_Canis_Majoris]

@@TheZebinatorofficial I remember the video also taking place in like a storage room, with other chests, and the room had an overall orangish feel. I also want to say it was multiplayer but I'm really not sure.

[@pacifist1354]

@@VY_Canis_Majoris I remember something very similar to what you said, I remember the video being called something like "MineCraft Triple Chests", I don't really know but I'm like 99% sure the C was capitalized in MineCraft

[@pacifist1354]

@@VY_Canis_Majoris It probably is something really simple but washed away by other videos

[@VY_Canis_Majoris]

@@pacifist1354 Don't remember the title so you could be right

[@Request_2_PANic]

Seeing this now, it would be interesting to have a storage block, like chests and barrels, where having more than two put together is intentional in any directly connected form, even if it doesn't have a UI to show its contents. As an example, having a line of them connected together with items collected and put inside by hoppers from the side and they're immediately sorted from below it as soon as they enter, similar to how chest boats can be used to sort multiple items in parallel with their larger hitbox when placed in a minecart.

[@sagacious03]

Neat analysis video! Thanks for uploading!

[@user-ck7yp1ry4g]

I remember I was messing around with structure blocks in bedrock 1.14.~ and accidentally created a triple chest (in a line) when trying to move something. I broke it without thinking, without even trying to open the middle. I no longer have access to minecraft on any device, but someone needs to check this out. There were a bunch of double chests on a storage thing on an automatic farm for a skyblock map I was planning to make... I always use structure blocks to move, copy+paste, delete large areas (since there is a block limit on how bug of an area can be set to air, but a structure block area can be worldheight x 64 x 64. What I usually do is grab a 64x64x~100 block section from above land generation, then paste over the land, the copy that entire worldheight x 64 x 64 section. Also because structure blocks give a preview, where command blocks do not), etc. Anyway I was moving one of them and rotating 180, but I didn't delete the one that was there because I already had the window open and everything, and I could just break the other blocks, or position an air16 structure I had saved. I pasted it and broke the structure block, but when I looked up, there was TWO DOUBLE CHESTS, WITH THE ENDS OF TWO CHESTS IN ONE BLOCK, WITH THE 3D MODELS Z FIGHTING. A triple chest. I wasn't able to recreate it, though I'm not sure I completely understood what I did until like a few days later. I had pasted a double chest overlapping one side of another double chest. It was also on a tablet, so maybe low processing power had something to do with it? I wish I had Minecraft now so I could try to do it again, but I do not have a mobile device, and the internet is slow and hard to download the 400+ MB of Minecraft Java. Someone try this? Idk. Email [e-mail]

[@itsintheworksdotdotdot]

Thanks for the history!

[@ViIvaNunner]

i remember doing the triple chest glitch a few times way back in the day. kinda miss it, and i never even thought to do 4 or 5 chests

[@tipsy634]

i like that the gui is so buggy and yet it still has a utility. i wouldnt recommend using chests in this way but it's a funny thing to do

[@Faulheit]

it'd be really cool if there was a mod that could emulate these kinda quicks of old mc in the newer version

[@OhLiv]

0:29 *LOOKS MORE OF A QUAD CHEST THAN A TRIPLE CHEST*

[@TinyDeskEngineer]

I remember making these multiple times. Although I'm not too confident in those memories since they involve the extra chest being invisible.

[@blackout4328]

I love Minecraft history videos, they make me feel old but informed

[@lordcole5138]

Oh I remember this glitch, it was a weird glitch but neat. Edit: I played a modded server (in 1.12.0) and apparently there were triple chests so I don’t know if it was a mod or a glitch I seen them in.

[@zalianth15]

I remember back in 1.12, though I havem't tested it recently, you could easily get a triple chest by simply using /setblock. My younger self thought that was amazing, especially since the GUI glitched out.

[@PLAYER42_ready]

Great vid, my brain hurts now, thanks! Can’t wait to see more of this stuff

[@Itsbully06]

very interesting, I would love it if they added this idea also that one song is very nostalgic

[@Historian_kid]

you could also make triple chest with chunk dupe i tried it on a 2b2t alternative 0b0t which has a modded version of chunk dupe so i tried using chunk dupe to make triple chest and it was possible, because of one thing 1. chunk dupe restore everything back when the chunk file size is overloaded 2. you place 2 chest at the chunk border 1 chest on chunk dupe side one more on outside 3. then you chunk dupe it then when you are about to make the triple chest you will have to break the chest inside the chunk dupe chunk and add a chest on the outside border of the chunks of the duping area then unload the chunk and it will create a triple chest all in survival also it worked with other items it can be used to make a half portal that can explain how triple chest and cursed portal be form in some places on 2b2t

[@allenamenbesetzt]

If my math is correct, the possibility of a triple chest spawning right underneath spawn is about 420 Dreams.

[@pout6038]

Once on legacy console, you could make one by leaving and rejoining a world with a bonus chest enabled after destroying the bonus chest, as the bonus chest would respawn every time you did it, so you just reload the world until it spawned the bonus chest between 2 other chests

[@azertyetbenito7662]

Instantly recognized the divinity original sin music. Very good choice !

[@jakubm5385]

I remember playing On my old server with a Lucky Block plugin and one of the Lucky blocks had a chance to spawn like 100 chest in one place. It was weird for me that the chest actually worked. I was also suprised that some chest are invisible and this video explained it to me cuz we were playing On 1.12. So not a new glitch for me but it is nice knowing that they can spawn normally and that they could be created on a really old version of the game.

[@sodiboo]

Any multi-block structure breaks the rules of voxel worlds and causes issues in any game including minecraft. Saplings and pistons let you break indestructible blocks, tallgrass and flower variations create floating blocks that should fall, extensible chests will break the limit on their size, doors are kinda wonky, especially with lag, and the list goes on and on and on. Honestly, triple chests are like the least broken multi-block structure. And the result is almost exactly what you'd expect from placing 3 chests next to each other

[@igameidoresearchtoo6511]

All of them are patched since 1.13 or later...

[@Kitulous]

exactly. and only the middle chest is glitched because it probably looks for adjacent chest blocks upon opening. so it starts with 3 rows of items, then it loops through 4 cardinal directions and tries to find the adjacent chest. if it finds one, it adds 3 more rows of items in gui and doesn't break out of the loop. then it continues the loop and finds more chests, which would be impossible pre 1.13. and in 1.13 they just somehow rewrote the mechanism

[@sodiboo]

@@igameidoresearchtoo6511 with patches yes, these issues can mostly be fixed, it's still ultimately caused by the block being stored in 2 locations that have to be kept in sync, and afaik the bedrock breaking with pistons method is *not* patched still...

[@derpydj12]

I remember I use to do this all the time in Legacy/PS4 Edition. It was a method of pistons and pressure plates. It was incredibly glitchy and turned the third one invisible

[@GORILLABOYY]

Damn this brings back some nostalgia, I remember seeing these and the bugged 9 rows on servers and not thinking anything of it cause I was such a noob ;.) good old days

[@coreynj]

What happens if you open the side chests after storing something in the center chest? Are only some of the items stored inside the connected chest? Does it automatically delete the extra items? Or does the connecting chest act as a completely separate UI that you can store an entire double chest worth of items in a single chest separate from the other chests?

[@ashtonhoward5582]

The side chests only show and allow access to a double chest worth without affecting any other items.

[@Fishdevil]

I was going crazy when he never showed the other side of the chest. I'm curious how the items arrange in the normal UI in comparison to the middle

[@apollo4950]

It doesn’t function, but you can visually make a triple chest in modern versions of Minecraft with the debug stick.

[@vistaman1]

true, also you can make an invisible chest

[@billybobjoephilcorncobtiptopge]

@@vistaman1 budget barrier

[@Kevroa1]

I knew about the triple chests in the beta because someone showed me how to make them on the server I was on... but I never knew you could add more to the sides to expand it further. Cool

[@Radiarc_]

Can't believe I didn't see this! Thank you so much for using one of my songs! I've been watching you here and there for a little bit, so this was quite unexpected. Best of luck to ya!

[@lucasthech]

when commands were added you could make triple chests with /setblock, I remember placing them all over my creative worlds

[@IdRatherNotHaveAHandleThankYou]

Great video! Question: does the C1 in SalC1 mean anything?

[@SuchDarkness]

you can ask on his discord server: discord.gg/SZZ7Z9Sw

[@ynntari2775]

I love these videos from this channel

[@MOOBBreezy]

lol, I'm glad I'm old enough to experience doing the triple chest. Crazy to know it was so long ago, I swear it was a think back in 2015 maybe, and being able to put 3 chests next to each other maybe 2018? Time flys by fast

[@kinak]

2:51 you don't necessarily need external programs, I remember having fun with this just with a good old /setblock command (I don't remember the version but it was later than 1.8)

[@boiplayazph820]

For Random Placement of chest's,Block count of the dungeon and Mine shaft,chest probable placement count and seed number The first guy is right it's 0.2%(For Double chests) but it gets lower as that the more probabilities it keeps adding it high's up but thats gonna need a month of calculating by hand and memory idk how bots or automatic solving works but for probabilities that governs a chance in Minecraft it's like finding a different kind of water in a water filled plannet

[@SJrad]

back when you could customize the world within minecraft, i had set dungeon spawn rate really high and ended up with some triple chests from 3 chests spawning from 2 dungeons right next to each other

[@youreyesarebleeding1368]

I miss some of old minecraft's oddities I remember as a kid, i downloaded WorldEdit + Singleplayer Commands + TooManyItems, and I would just spend hours in singleplayer messing around building stuff with worldedit, breaking the game, and doing things you normally weren't able to do. I think minecraft's old system of having every item in the game also be an inventory item (spawners, for example, would be 52:XX where XX is a number corresponding to a mob) was a better system. One time, i used worldedit to place 3 chests next to eachother, and that's how i discovered triple chests. I pushed it to the limit by then trying to put thousands of chests next to each other, and you can probably guess what happened when i tried to open it - my game crashed.

[@diana-zb5pb]

what is in between the two trees at 0:46???

[@enchantedplays139]

the exact probability of 4:10 is 1 in 7.5 trillion thank me later math: ((1*7.5 trillion) * 0) + 7.5 trillion = 1/7.5 trillion ratio B)

[@arvojustice]

Nope

[@jojough8283]

I remember back in 1.8.9 I was messing with commands, and I actually made a triple chest by using /setblock. It was really strange, but I never thought about trying to make it any larger. This is actually really cool.

[@BinglesP]

I love that triple chests look like little hearts

[@piky635]

so the math is: chance of a double chest spawning is somewhere between 1/25 and 1/49 (depending on the size of the dungoeon) thats easy but here comes the fishy part: there is no guarantee that a chest can even generate in a Mineshaft but on average there are about 4-5 chests per mineshaft for an average size lets say mineshaft complex have on average 5 wings with each having 270blocks of space, since chest spawn on either side we need to cut out the middle row so 270 - 270/3 equals 180 the chance of a chest spawning in particular block is 1/180 chance of mineshaft spawning in a particular chunk is 1/250 and dungeon is 1/1024 thus the chance of spawning mineshaft inside the same chunk as dungeon is about 0,0004% (lets not calculate the chance of spawning inside the chunk but not going through it) with adding all up the chance of it happening are above 1 in 1 152 000 000 to 1 in 22 579 200 000 or 0,000000086 % to 0,000000044 % (since there is no way im calculating or counting how likely are mineshafts to go through the right spot) that explains why it only happened once, not counting two dungeons next to each with a triple chest because they are more common and chest has way less blocks to spawn on as seen on kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z4LWXnyJptCDg6c dont know how @Riddle got 0.00007 % but hes wrong btw probability of winning a jackpot lottery is (49!/(49-6)!)which is “only” 1 in 13 983 816 or 0.0000000715 %

[@piky635]

damn i wish i hadnt spent a 50 minutes on this

[@piky635]

I think i havent done The full math because a chance of actually finding it is so low and the mineshaft position relative to the dungeon will drastically lower the chance and also i didnt even count that The mineshaft and dungeon need to be in The exact Y level , will continue tomorrow but i might be wrong tho

[@Bloohblah]

@@piky635 cool

[@Adrian-lf9ip]

To ten polski komentarz którego szukałeś

[@mooncatcher_]

I actually found one naturaly spawned in a dungeon back in 2015. Thank you, now, after all these years I can feel special for a moment

[@DarkNexarius]

Actually with mods that allow you to pick up and place tile entities I once made 5er chest. It was weird the inventory was 5 times the size (if you clicked on the chest in the middle) and the block texture dissappeared for all but 1 chest (collision remained tough). (It was after they added the chest open animation)

[@leM0NprIM3]

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