Minecraft Barrel & What it Does

You might wonder what exactly a "Barrel" does in Minecraft and it's rather simple. These are special chest-like items that hold your items in a new way. They’re very specific in nature, yet neat to use within the game to handle your inventory. The Barrels can be broken with any tool, but axes are the quickest in doing so.

These are easy to craft items requiring wood types depending on the platform in order to create them. You can find Barrels naturally generating within fisher cottages houses of the villages. For a fun fact, the table can be used as fuel within a furnace to smelt 1.5 items. That is, if you’re desperate to cook something in there I suppose. More details and crafting guide below.
Uses and Other Details:
To essentially summarize, the latest item is mostly focused on providing a new way to store items. Instead of having a limitation on spacing for chests, barrels can be stacked together and opened regardless of what’s around them. The inventory setup is exact to a single chests, they can be filled by droppers while being filled or emptied by hoppers.

The Barrel crafting creation is as follows on Bedrock, with Java after. The top row; Stick | Wood Slab | Sticker, second row is Stick |Blank | Stick, and the third row is Stick | Wood Slab | Sticker. The Barrel crafting creation is as follows on Java Edition. The top row; Wood Plank | Wood Slab | Wood Plank, second row is Wood Plank |Blank | Wood Plank, and the third row isWood Plank | Wood Slab | Wood Plank. Keep in mind that the wood selections can be of any combination for this particular creation. You collect flint at this point by smashing up gravel blocks. Hopefully you found this helpful, you can read about composters below or check out our hub for further coverage.

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