Ender chest — `/enderchest`

Your ender chest is a single inventory shared across all ender chest blocks in the world — and accessible from anywhere via /enderchest (alias /ec). It survives death, making it the top spot for irreplaceable items.

How to use it

Two ways to open it:

Or right-click any ender chest block in the world — opens the same inventory.

Both methods open the same content. There's no per-location ender chest; it's one inventory tied to your account.

Capacity by rank

The cap is 6 rows / 54 slots at Legend.

What to keep in the ender chest

The ender chest is small and survives death. Use it for:

• Best enchanted gear — your top tools, top weapons, top armor
• Totems of undying — auto-recognized in any inventory slot when held, so put a stack here for refills
• Mending books — irreplaceable per-enchantment work
• The brewing kit you absolutely don't want to re-buy — quality stand, key bottles
• A small emergency kit — food, gold apple, pearls, blocks for a death-recovery push

Skip the ender chest for:

• Bulk loot — too small. Use vaults instead
• Things you'd be fine losing — those go in pack or vanilla chests at base
• Anything you need open access to from a base — bookshelves and linked chests fit better there

Ender chest survives death

This is the headline feature. When you die, your inventory drops to a recovery chest (with a window of 5–60 min depending on rank). Your ender chest stays untouched. Even if you don't recover the death drop, your ender chest is intact.

That's why: top gear, totems, irreplaceables → ender chest. You can rebuild a base from scratch faster if you have your enchanted netherite gear waiting.

Ender chest blocks vs the command

The command (/ec) opens the inventory anywhere, no block needed. But ender chest blocks still have a use:

• Friend-accessible — placed at a shared base, your friends can use the block to access their own ender chests (each player still sees their own contents — block is just an interaction point)
• Decorative — they look nice in a "wizard's tower" or end-themed build
• Vanilla muscle memory — if you're used to right-clicking a chest to open it, the block fits the habit

The command is faster for solo play. The blocks make sense for shared spaces.

Ender chest on Bedrock

Same as Java — the inventory is shared across editions. Open /ec on Java, see the same content when you next open /ec on Bedrock.

See also

• Pack — for portable carry that doesn't survive death
• Vaults — for bulk death-protected storage
• Recovery chests — what happens to your inventory on death