Chest locks

This feature locks chests one at a time, rather than protecting the surrounding land. You can therefore protect chests even in resource worlds where land claims do not work, including Resource Server 2, the Resource Nether, Resource Nether 2, and the Resource End.

The command alone does not apply the action

After running a command, always click the target chest. Looking at a chest while entering a command does not apply any action.

Protecting a chest

Normal chests, trapped chests, and copper chests are not automatically protected when placed.

To protect one, run this command, then click the chest.

/bolt lock

The shorter alias is /lock.

Once locked, the player who locked it becomes the chest’s owner. Only the owner can open it.

Sharing a chest

Run this command, replacing player with the other player’s name, then click the chest you want to share.

/bolt edit add player

To remove someone’s access, run this command and click the chest.

/bolt edit remove player

Use the player’s exact Minecraft name.

Someone with land permissions still cannot open the chest

Land protection and individual chest locks are separate systems.

Even someone granted /trust or /containertrust on the land cannot open an individually locked chest unless you also share that chest with them.

Remember to use /bolt edit add player for anyone who needs access.

Removing a lock or transferring ownership

To remove protection completely, run this command and click the chest.

/bolt unlock

The shorter alias is /unlock. The chest becomes an ordinary chest that anyone can open.

To give ownership of the chest to someone else, run this command and click it.

/bolt transfer player

After you click, that player becomes the owner. Be careful: you will no longer be able to open it yourself.

Checking a chest’s protection

To see who owns a chest and who it is shared with, run this command and click it.

/bolt info

Behavior in resource worlds

Land protection does not work in resource worlds. Anyone can open or break an unprotected chest there.

Resource Server 2, Resource Nether 2, and Resource End are regenerated in turn, one world each Sunday morning. Chests and their locks in the world being reset are removed at that time. Keep anything you want to store long-term in the Building Server; see Worlds and travel.

Items that cannot be individually locked

Only normal chests, trapped chests, and copper chests can be protected this way.

The following cannot be locked. Do not leave valuable items in them unprotected.

• Containers such as barrels, furnaces, blast furnaces, hoppers, and shulker boxes
• Decorations such as item frames, armor stands, and paintings

In the Building Server, these are protected when placed inside your land claim. In resource worlds, do not keep valuables in containers that cannot be protected.

If something unprotected is broken, investigate who did it.