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Minecraft has a lot of incredibly useful and rare items, such as totems of undying, diamonds, wither stars, and beacons. These items can make survival much easier, or, in the case of the totem of undying, literally stave off death. So, keeping these valuables safe and secure becomes one of the most important factors to consider in terms of storage.
Detailed below are five of the best ways to keep Minecraft loot safe and secure from other players or environmental factors like fires and lava.
Note: This article is subjective and solely based on the author's opinion.
5 best ways to protect Minecraft valuables
1) Ender chest
Minecraft's game-changing Ender chests are the classic way to protect items and by far the most secure. Every player has a unique ender chest inventory, unaccessible by other players without glitches or bugs, which means the entire chest is completely secure.
That's 27 spots of genuinely untouchable inventory spots. This is already quite a lot, as players will typically store things like powerful tools, armor, emergency survival gear like coal, wood, torches, food, and a bed with room to spare. However, where ender chests really become remarkable is their ability to also work with shulk boxes, giving 27 single chests of protected space.
2) Password Storage
A password-protected storage system uses an advanced Minecraft redstone system that takes a specifically named and created item as an input to open or unlock a storage room. What makes these designs so amazing is that they can be set up so that they only input a book written and opened by a specific player. This makes them essentially uncrackable.
This means that as long as they're hidden well enough, password storage should be one of the best ways to keep a fully featured Minecraft mega base's storage system safe.
3) Make gear caches
Similar to hiding loot chests within a base, another option players could take advantage of when it comes to keeping loot safe is setting up distant loot caches. Each cache should include tools, armor, food, blocks, and valuables. The tier and amount of gear should depend on how progressed a player is.
For example, caches made by players early on will most likely consist of basic iron armor and iron tools, while, later on, they might consist of fully enchanted Minecraft armor and tools made of either diamond or netherite. This also means if one cache is found and raided, only a small portion of items are lost, as they are much more spread out, making caches great for Minecraft's best multiplayer servers.
The best way to set up these storage caches is to use Nether. For those unaware, traveling a single block in the Nether is the same as traveling eight overworld blocks. Travel a considerable distance, make a hidden overworld cache, write down the coordinates, and return to the Nether. It's recommended to break the portal on the Nether side to stop anyone from knowing.
4) Hidden Storage Silos
The most obvious and common way to keep valuable loot safe is to keep it nearby but hidden. The community has come up with thousands of ways to hide chests, barrels, and other means of storage over the years, as hiding a base is a common means of base protection on Minecraft multiplayer servers.
For example, players in cute rustic bases could probably tuck barrels into bits of the wall while keeping them hidden through detailing. Or advanced redstone systems could be made that reveal storage halls when activated.
The benefits here are obvious: materials remain readily accessible at all times, unlike every other method mentioned thus far. Ender chests, shulker boxes, and item password systems all require players to have and hold onto a particular item: either the storage itself or an item to access it.
That makes both the biggest strength and weakness of hidden silos their biggest benefit: they're hard to find, but once someone does, there's no more defense between them and valuables. So players should make sure to hide their storage quite well.
5) Shulker boxes
The easiest and simplest way to protect gear or loot in Minecraft is to keep it safely tucked within Minecraft shulker boxes. This won't necessarily keep it safe from other players, but it will keep valuables safe from exploding out everywhere when a player dies.
This is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, since it's a single item, the odds of it falling into lava, fire, cactus, or another block-destructive source are much lower. However, it also means if the shulker box does fly that way, it won't end well for players. Fortunately, as mentioned, they can be combined with ender chests, making them significantly better at protecting loot.
