How to use barrels in Minecraft.Barrels offer a similar storage capability to chests in Minecraft, but there are some caveats that make them a bit different.The barrels originally published in Minecraft are Java Edition 1.14, with 27 storage slots like one single piece. But they do not need an overhead block to open, which chests need.
Barrels are helpful storage blocks in confined areas where players may not wish to select the chest space.
Minecraft: Other facts about barrels
Minecraft players may be unaware of numerous other interesting uses and factoids on barrel blocks, including:
- Barrels possess different crafting recipes between Minecraft: Java Edition and Minecraft: Bedrock Edition. In Java, a barrel crafted with wooden planks and wooden slabs. In Bedrock, they crafted with sticks and wooden slabs.
- Barrels filled by droppers and still interact with hoppers.
- Barrels used as furnace fuel, smelting 1.5 items before expiring
- If placed under note blocks, barrels create a bass tone for the note.
- In Minecraft: Bedrock Edition, barrels moved by pistons.
- Barrels are oddly immune to lava. If placed near lava, it will flow around the block and burn surrounding flammable blocks. However, the barrel block will remain unburnt and undamaged.
- After witnessing a player opening or destroying a barrel block, piglins will become hostile and attack.
- When broken, barrel blocks will drop themselves as well as all of the items contained within.
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How to use
While the storage space for a double chest is not available, barrels still used for storage in confined spaces and for presenting new interesting avenues for decoration. They may fit aesthetically more well in certain buildings than in the more notable chest blocks with their earthy and rustic feel.
