# Chest Chest is for filling containers with loot. You build a loot table in a menu, decide how rare each item is, then point Chest at an area and it fills every chest and barrel in it. Handy for stocking a dungeon, refreshing a loot event, or setting up a map before players arrive. ## Try it Open the menu and make a table: ``` /chest ``` Then fill everything within 50 blocks of you: ``` /populate nearby 50 my_loot_table ``` ## What it does **Loot tables in a menu.** No YAML. Open `/chest`, drop in items, give each one a weight so common things show up more often than rare ones. **Fill an area in one go.** Chests, barrels and shulker boxes, within a radius, inside a box you describe, or across your WorldEdit selection. **Vanilla tables work too.** Use `minecraft:chests/simple_dungeon` anywhere you'd use one of your own. **Mix tables together.** Name several at once and Chest draws from all of them, so you can layer a rare table on top of a common one. **Quiet mode.** Filling thousands of containers reports progress as it goes. `/chest silent` turns that off. ## Premium plugin Chest is premium, from [lode.gg/plugin/chest](https://lode.gg/plugin/chest). Your licence is attached to your Discord account when you buy it. Lost access to that account? Email [email protected] with proof of purchase and we'll move it. ## Installing it 1. Buy and download Chest from [lode.gg](https://lode.gg/plugin/chest). 2. Drop the jar into `plugins/`. 3. Start the server once so it writes its files. 4. Set your licence key up at [lode.gg/plugin/chest/configure](https://lode.gg/plugin/chest/configure). 5. Restart. Chest checks the licence and switches itself on. ## What you need | | | |---|---| | Server | Paper 1.20.4 or newer | | Java | 21 or newer | | Licence | required, see above | ## Optional extras | Plugin | What it adds | |---|---| | WorldEdit or FastAsyncWorldEdit | Lets you use `/populate selection` | | Bookshelf | Shared menu handling and utilities | Neither is required. ## Related Pages - [[Chest/Server Owners/Commands]], every command with examples - [[Chest/Server Owners/Configuration]], where loot tables live - [[Lead/Developers/Overview]], for plugin developers