Chest

Chest
A place to store your items.
Information
Source	Crafting
Sell Price	Cannot be sold
Crafting
Recipe Source	Starter
Ingredients	Wood (50)

See also: Stone Chest, Big Chest, Big Stone Chest.

The Chest is a craftable storage item that holds up to 36 different types of items. You can stack a maximum of 999 identical items into a single slot. Items do not decompose in chests.

Chests can be left in many different places in Stardew Valley. However, if a chest is left on a walking pathway for a villager it will disappear, and its contents dropped.

An empty chest can be picked up and returned to inventory by hitting it with any tool, or hitting repeatedly with an empty hand. Chests with any items inside cannot be picked up until emptied; however if a filled chest is hit with an Axe, Pickaxe, or Hoe, it will be pushed one tile away from the player. If that tile is not valid for item placement, the chest can jump to the nearest acceptable tile, such as behind the player, to a diagonally adjacent tile, or over other items to a valid one.

Coloring

When opened, chests have a color bar above their inventory window which allows players to select a different color for the chest. This can be changed at anytime without cost. There are 20 colors available to select in the color picker, plus the original brown color.

Color Picker

Individual chests

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Chests outside the farm

It is possible to place chests and other crafted items outside the farm. Chests are useful for storing gifts close to the homes of Villagers who prefer them or to allow additional storage when Mining, Fishing, or Foraging. Worm Bins can be placed near fishing spots, Furnaces can be placed at the entrance to the Mines, and entire sections of the Valley may be utilized for Keg or Preserves Jar processing. Common Trees can be planted in tillable soil and tapped.

If a villager walks through the square where a crafted item was placed, the item will be destroyed. Below are player-created maps to indicate which tiles on the map are safe from villager-pathing. The tiles with the Rotten Plant should be safe.

Safe-pathing images of the interiors of homes and buildings can be found in the complete image gallery located at https://imgur.com/a/JlRXGlc

Note that items placed on the docks at the beach may be destroyed by villagers during the Dance of the Moonlight Jellies, Night Market, or by Emily if married to her. The image below is accurate for players who do not attend the festivals and don't marry Emily.

Note: These images are accurate as of v1.4; they do not include any of Leo's paths outside of The Mountain.
For updated images, please see this reddit post or this imgur album.

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  Pelican Town as of v1.4
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  Cindersap Forest
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  The Bus Stop
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  The Railroad
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  Calico Desert
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  The Beach
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  The Mountain as of v1.5

Note that the game uses a unique beach map during festival days, so items a player has placed on the Beach (Crab Pots, Chests, etc.) may disappear during the Night Market. These items should return on Winter 18.

Trivia

Chests can be acquired without crafting by:

• Placing Furniture or crafted items in a spouse's room and then divorcing them. A chest will appear the day after the divorce, containing the items.
• Placing crafted items inside the submarine or the mermaid boat during the Night Market. A chest containing the items will appear on the beach when the Night Market ends. (Furniture will not yield a chest and will instead stay inside the structure and can be retrieved during the next Night Market.)
• Demolishing a Cabin in Multiplayer. A chest containing the farmhand's inventory will replace the cabin.

History

• 1.0: Introduced.
• 1.1: Added ability to change color, and chests are no longer able to be placed in the mines.
• 1.4: When an NPC walks over a chest, it will dump its contents out instead of destroying them. Added menu button "Add to existing stacks". Chests can now be stacked in a player's inventory and in other chests.
• 1.5: Chests can be moved by repeatedly hitting them with an empty hand. A duplication glitch involving chest organization was fixed.
• 1.6: Chests can be moved by hitting it with a tool instead.