If you have been playing Minecraft for some time now, you should know how to make a barrel in Minecraft. After collecting and crafting so many objects, players always look for additional space to keep their belongings.
You can use a chest or a barrel to keep your valuables safe in Minecraft. This guide will help you make a barrel and use it in various ways. Also, let’s talk about the difference between chest and barrel.
How to Make a Barrel in Minecraft
You can craft a barrel in both Java and Bedrock Minecraft editions. Though the ingredients are slightly different, the barrel recipe is the same in both editions.
Let’s see what materials you require to craft the barrel in Java and Bedrock and how to get it.
Crafting a barrel is cheap and easy in Minecraft, as it takes significantly less wood and effort.
Java edition: six wooden planks and two wooden slabs.
Bedrock Edition: six sticks and two wooden slabs.
You can use any wood to make slabs and planks. It will not affect the final product, and the barrel will look the same.
Crafting Planks
To obtain wooden planks, cut or punch any tree, and it will give you logs. Put a log in the central grid on a crafting table, and you will get four wooden planks.
Crafting Slabs
For crafting slabs, use wooden planks. Put three of them on a manufacturing table in the middle row, and you will get your six slabs.
Crafting a Barrel
Now that you have all the ingredients, let’s see how to craft a barrel in Java edition.
Get 6 wooden planks and place them in a 3 by 3 grid crafting table. Put three wooden planks on the right and three on the left column of the grid. Get two wooden slabs and put them in the top and the bottom middle of the grid. You will see a barrel appear in the result box.
Note: If you are playing the Bedrock edition, use six sticks instead of six planks, and you will have your barrel.
Minecraft Barrel vs. Chest
Both barrel and chest boxes have the same storage space, 27 items. However, you can combine the two chests and enlarge them, but you can’t do this with barrels.
Both barrel and chest are relatively inexpensive, but barrels are cheaper. You need fewer materials and items to make barrels. Moving barrels is not an option. So you can’t take them with you. Chests are also immovable, but you can attach them to your donkey or other animals. You can also put your chest on a boat in the latest versions.
Barrels you can open from all sides even when there is a block on them, but you can’t open the chest if there is a block on it. Also, the barrel will stay safe in lava or underwater bodies.
You can make a chest or barrel. It is a matter of your preference.
Conclusion
Now that you know how to make a barrel in Minecraft go ahead and create one. With a barrel, there is no limit to how much you collect.