InMinecraft, inventory management and storage are some of the most important things for players. Keeping items organized and accessible to everyone a player is crafting with can be imperative to cooperative game play. Other than aMinecraftchest, there is one other type of storage players can make: the barrel.
Chests vs Barrels
Barrels are wooden storage vessels made from different kinds of wood. It functions almost identically to a chest. Both chests and barrels can be moved by pistons, water, and lava, and both of them have 27 spaces inside for objects. Both can be used as fuel inside of furnaces andMinecraftblast furnaces. In spite of their similarities, however, barrels do have one distinct advantage. They don’t need a space empty above them to be opened.
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This one difference can make barrels a much better storage solution in small, tight spaces. Since players can stack barrels and still open them, they can also be used to build and decorate as well as provide storage. And thankfully for players, the recipe is not much more complicated than making a basic chest.
How to Make a Barrel in Minecraft
Making barrels inMinecraftrequires different recipes depending on which version of the game a player is using. Java Editions and Bedrock Editions ofMinecrafthave their own barrel recipes, which require either planks and wood slabs or sticks and wood slabs. Wood slabs are half-height wooden blocks made by combining three identical planks; this recipes makes six wood planks of the same wood type.
Both recipes require one wood slab of any kind for both the top and bottom, but the Bedrock Edition requires six sticks to complete the recipe while theJava Edition ofMinecraftneeds six planks to finish. Regardless of the color and type of planks and wood slabs, the color of the barrel remains the same.
