How to Find Specific Items in a Large Chest Wall

Scanning Stacked Chests

Stacking dozens of chests adjacent to one another is a space-efficient way to build a survival storage room, but finding a single item usually requires repeatedly opening and closing multiple chests. You can locate items quickly by scanning chest walls with your crosshair.

1. Stand a few blocks away from your chest wall so that multiple chest blocks are within your line of sight and reach.

2. Position your crosshair on the first chest in a column or row.

3. Read the tooltip that appears over the container to check its contents.

4. Pan your crosshair across the neighboring chests one by one.

Narrowing Down Your Search

• Watch the tooltip contents change dynamically as your aim transitions from one container to the next.
• Look for the specific block, tool, or resource you need inside the preview tooltip.
• Once you spot your item in the displayed container, right-click that specific chest to open it and retrieve what you need.