How to protect your chests.

[ZupZup]

Hello. Welcome to my guide to

How to protect your chests.

In most SMP servers, a lot of people will steal your things if they can, there are many different ways to protect your chests, today I'm going to show you mine that I use on most of my chests.


Say this is your awesome house in the middle of nowhere, if someone stumbles across it and looks in this obvious chest, they can take all your stuff easily bad idea, don't leave your valuables in obvious show.

You want something like this, something not too valuable, but something so they'll hopefully take it and go away.

You'll want to hide your real chest underneath/to the side or somewhere close by so you can access it but they (hopefully) won't find it unless they tear your whole floor apart.

How to protect your secret chest.

Dig a small hole out for the redstone wiring.

You'll want to place a redstone torch on the side of the block behind your chest wired up to an inverter, then that inverter can lead to your trap, whatever it is, in the picture I used TNT but you can use lava traps, dispensers, basically anything that can be activated by redstone, they you can just seal it all up.



Tell me your feedback on this tutorial, tell me if it was understandable and if there's anything you don't understand, feel free to PM me or post a comment.
I might make more tutorials like this in the future if I get good enough feedback.

[Cell]

Don't use Tnt unless you want it all gone. But other than that, good guide. You should probably put in there to cover it in smooth stone for those using an x-ray texture pack.

[The Black Sun]

Don't use Tnt unless you want it all gone. But other than that, good guide. You should probably put in there to cover it in smooth stone for those using an x-ray texture pack.

Cover it in iron ore or tunnel into a coal deposit, even X-ray mods show ores but most xrayers are not about to go out of the way to mine some coal or iron.

Or instead of building traps and hiding stuff you can go get a "VIP plot" in any town, then just place a dirt block on top. Since you are the only one able to build or destroy on that plot you are the only person who can access the chest. Why bother actually playing the game when you can just cheat? This is why I hate towny.

[ZupZup]

Don't use Tnt unless you want it all gone. But other than that, good guide. You should probably put in there to cover it in smooth stone for those using an x-ray texture pack.

Cover it in iron ore or tunnel into a coal deposit, even X-ray mods show ores but most xrayers are not about to go out of the way to mine some coal or iron.

That's a good idea.

Or instead of building traps and hiding stuff you can go get a "VIP plot" in any town, then just place a dirt block on top. Since you are the only one able to build or destroy on that plot you are the only person who can access the chest. Why bother actually playing the game when you can just cheat? This is why I hate towny.

Agreed. Towny sucks, it's a good mod but it makes a lot of unfair things.

[yottabyte]

Great guide! A suggestion, instead of using TNT you can make a gravity trap underneath the chest:

[doggypwn]

Yotta's been watching kiershar * doggypwn moos happily while watching monsters fall out of a giant trap in the sky

[Cell]

Or instead of building traps and hiding stuff you can go get a "VIP plot" in any town, then just place a dirt block on top. Since you are the only one able to build or destroy on that plot you are the only person who can access the chest. Why bother actually playing the game when you can just cheat? This is why I hate towny.

Troll

[The Light Bringer]

Generally people like Black sun know these things.
I know other clever ways that anyone with decent amounts of materials can hide their chests with. I'm not publicizing it, but to put it bluntly, It's actually more of a mind game for those who try to raid a chest.
Sometimes, a feint won't be enough.