This article is about the April Fools' joke. For the NBT tag to lock chests, see Chunk format § Block entity format

This article documents an April Fools' joke. They were removed from the game entirely in 13w41a

Locked chest Renewable No Stackable Yes (64), when its item form existed Tool None Blast resistance 0 Hardness 0 Luminant Yes (15) Transparent No Flammable No Catches fire from lava Yes

The locked chest was an April Fools block.

Obtaining [ edit ]

Breaking [ edit ]

Natural generation [ edit ]

Every chunk generated between April 1 and April 5, 2011, had a small chance of having a locked chest in it.[1]

When introduced, this block was indestructible except for explosions, allowing it to drop.

Usage [ edit ]

Message displayed upon attempting to open the chest. (Сlick to show animation)

Clicking use button on the chest would bring up a screen, and clicking on the "Go to Store" button would forward the player to the "Minecraft Store". It linked to https://minecraft.net/store/loot.jsp, but now the original page was removed, it now leads to the store to buy Minecraft. An archived version of this page can be found here. Various items were "sold" in the Minecraft Store (see below). Clicking on the proceed to checkout button triggered a screamer in which a Velociraptor from the movie Jurassic Park growled loudly and flew across the screen.

Entering items totaling over $10,000 into the cart caused a window pop-up asking if you are prone to seizures. Entering OK made the screen start flashing. When first released, there was no seizure warning label; Notch later implemented it to avoid lawsuits and posts on the forum.

On April 2 (the day following April Fools), the store had the addition of a multicolored banner which read "♥ April Fools'! ♥",[2] accompanied by a MIDI instrumental of Rick Astley's 'Never Gonna Give You Up'. Tobias Möllstam stated that this was "the best script he's written to date."[3]

The store page also used the font tf2build.ttf from Team Fortress 2 which is downloadable from here.

Items "sold" [ edit ]

The "Minecraft Store"

Twelve "items" were "available":

Steve Co. supply crate key ($3)

Steve Co. supply crate key 5-pack ($18)

Miner's helmet ($21)

Name change ($99)

Creeper saddle ($42)

Secret griefer identity ($155)

Enlargement pill ($2)

Response from support ($494)

Three "coming soon" items (priced at $75, $7, and $1499)

Regular padlock ($8) Used the same image as the "coming soon" items.



Fuel [ edit ]

Locked chests could be used as fuel, lasting 15 seconds (or 1.5 items).

Data values [ edit ]

ID [ edit ]

Name Namespaced ID Numeric ID Translation key Locked Chest chest_locked_aprilfools_super_old_legacy_we_should_not_even_have_this 95 tile.lockedChest.name

History [ edit ]

Issues [ edit ]

Locked chests are a removed block and as such issues relating to them cannot be fixed.

Trivia [ edit ]

Locked chests are a reference to the Mann Co. Supply Crates [4] from Team Fortress 2, where a key must be purchased for $2.49 in the in-game shop called Mann Co. Store in order to open the crate. [5]

from Team Fortress 2, where a key must be purchased for $2.49 in the in-game shop called in order to open the crate. This may have been what Notch was talking about in his Twitter post about a "silly secret project". [6]

Locked chests could generate in mid air or in the tops of trees.

Locked chests could be placed next to each other to form a 2 block long chest like normal chests do. These two chests are still however "locked".

The server console outputted "added a chest!!" each time a chest was generated.

The 5-key pack is actually $3 more than 5 single keys.

The archived page is available in reduced functionality here.

Locked chests made lava particles when broken.

The locked chest's ID was named minecraft:chest_locked_aprilfools_super_old_legacy_we_should_not_even_have_this , and it is the longest named ID in Minecraft history.

, and it is the longest named ID in Minecraft history. When locked chests were removed, their numeric block ID (95) was re-used by stained glass, which meant that a world with a locked chest in would have it converted to white stained glass upon opening in the newer version.

Bedrock and Legacy Console editions, and the Minecraft website each have their own "Minecraft Store". However, they are actual in-game stores used to get downloadable content, purchase Java Edition as well as Minecraft merchandise, and are completely unrelated to the April Fools' joke.

website each have their own "Minecraft Store". However, they are actual in-game stores used to get downloadable content, purchase as well as merchandise, and are completely unrelated to the April Fools' joke. At the time of the locked chest being added into Minecraft, it looked identical to a normal chest. However, after Beta 1.8, when the chest model was updated to be smaller than a full block, the locked chest, a deprecated block at that point, remained with the old model, and as such became larger than an ordinary chest.

Although locked chests are not added in Bedrock Edition, there is a translation string tile.lockedchest.name for them in the language files.

for them in the language files. Booting up Minecraft Beta 1.4 with the date set between April 1st, 2011 and April 5th, 2011 generated locked chests like normal. The functionality still remains (except the link is now invalid).

Gallery [ edit ]

A locked chest glowing at night.

Unlike normal chests, locked chests continued to use the standard block model, as seen in this screenshot taken in 1.2.5.

The store after it goes to "seizure-mode".

The window popup about the "seizure-mode".