33 ways to hide your Items in Minecraft 

Hope you saved some good ones for season 9!

Disclaimer: the Decorative Buttons trick does NOT work on Grians

As a wise man once told me: "It doesn't matter if it's a dirt shack or a mansion, it is home once the crafting table touches the furnace"

Grain "stole" a lot of stuff last season, I would love to see these implemented into the next season. It would be hilarious if Mumbo's whole storage was hidden

Mumbo: “If you’re on a server with someone who looks like this, your items are probably not safe.” Also Mumbo: “Strange, your beacon glitched to my base”

Also try to avoid lag, it can make things randomly disappear from your chests

Most of them were so simple, yet so clever and good looking! It definitely shows that you're getting way better as a builder as well! Also, PLEASE use some of them in S9! Maybe you could make a game out of it?

I just thought of two improvements for that lectern one. First improvement: have it hooked up to a really long delay, so the thing doesn't open right away. Second improvement: have it hooked up to a locking repeater, so that if you turn the page from the correct one it locks, and when the delayed signal gets to the end of the line, the locking repeater keeps it from triggering the piston.

I can confirm that “being poor” actually works. Never had my stuff stolen using this technique. Not once.

I love how much more thought mumbo is putting into his showcase builds for the video, he really is becoming a better builder

The one stack of diamonds in each barrel represents Mumbo’s entire fortune in Hermitcraft Season 8

The bottom of barrels also have a spruce plank-like texture, so maybe you could incorporate that into a floor design and they wouldnt realise

On that lectern one, theoretically you could still be relatively secure with just one - just add a pulse extender with a huge delay so that you just need to have it open on the page for a while before it opens. Random people scrolling through, even knowing about this trick, would likely just flick between pages until they hear the piston noise. Adding that delay would negate that.

The portal trick is actually really good. I would never figure that out

Mumbo, not sure that you know this, but with the arrow-breaking-minecart trick, you can actually make a reusable system by replacing the minecart with a pressure plate and aiming at the lower corner of the block that contains said pressure plate.

I think my best trick I came up with was making an already hard to get to vault, that wasn't exactly obscured, but just private. Stores basic armor, weapons, and semi-valued items. Then, I'd build an elaborate secred door system that's impossible to know about, which stores all the real valuables. Diamonds, advanced weapons and armor.

I must say, I love Hermitcraft, but I also love having this constant stream of funny little videos, they are so pleasing to watch!!! Love you Mumbo!!!

2:58 I like how the safe to his valuables are much more valuable then his chest

Something I like to do, is place an oak trapdoor under a chest surrounded by birch planks, then have a chest under the trap door... I think it was oak with birch planks. Simple, and blends in well.

Probably one of my best hidden valuable chests (I don’t make many) was one where it was hidden behind a dirt block in a hill with nothing giving it away. The way you got to the barrel was you had to place a lever in a specific spot and flick it to open the piston which then gives you access to it. And of course, the only way it was found was by an X-ray player. :( it was a really good spot though.

The beatmaker 👀 My favourite!

for decorative barrels: throw in some resources you don’t need in a couple of them like you just ditched them there during a building project and it will probably throw them off more

I just need Mumbo to implement some of these tricks on an SMP now to test them while near red-jumpered gremlins 😂

One that I like to use is one I call the deadman switch. I use a trapped chest rigged to a piston that will drop the thief into a lava trap if they open the chest. Then I use a noteblock and piston as part of that circuit that is tied to another circuit, something innocuous like a door at the other end of the room or lights or something like that. You have to turn that other circuit on first, which also activates the piston to "break" the chest circuit by moving the noteblock out of the redstone path, and makes it safe to open the trapped chest.

I'm sure the items will be perfectly safe as long as there's no "lag"

Mumbo: "People don't like touching complicated redstone contraptions..." Grian: "Allow me to introduce myself."

Mumbo: **is a redstone and mathmatical mastermind** Also Mumbo: "I hope it's 33 because im not that good at counting"

12:04 This word aged well lol

Scar, Grian AND Mumbo uploading the same day, this is gonna be GREAT!

The one where it takes a few seconds for the items to appear is actually neat. Also the nether portal one.

The hardest part is making sure no one sees you using your hidden chests

Also, you could use a 1x1 painting and carry a trapdoor on you, way less suspicious than a 1x2

The "pathfinder" one can be simplified by using a hoe instead of shovel, because you need no redstone- just jump on the farmland to convert it to dirt.

It’s becoming increasingly obvious. we can deny no longer!: Mumbo is a Master builder. Watching him slowly improve his building with each new episode is truly motivating

I love the nether portal one, not because hidding stuff as i play alone, but it's super useful. Linking a portal to two portals, something i didn't know you can do. (Although i'm still kinda new to minecraft)

8:15 everyone carries a shovel! Me who doesn’t have a shovel:

to protect your items in an anarchy server, store them under a naturally generated lavapool. xray doesn't look through lava although block esp would be a problem, but the best way you could store them is 27 shulker boxes in an ender chest which gets you 729 slots

17:09 This coming from the guy who stole Grian’s entire beacon.

I've had this song stuck in my head. "We dont talk about Mumbo, bo, bo, bo, bo. We don't talk about Jumbooo!" Sang to the tune of Encanto's "Ee dont talk about Bruno."

Mumbo Jumbo could be the best income tax raid officer in the entire Minecraft. You should join the F.I.B😁😁😁

I think etho's stained glass in a chest trick would work great for these ideas, take a comparator output from a chest with a single grey glass pane, when you take out the glass a door or hidden chest will be revealed. I mostly say this because in hermitcraft the chests that etho put his free glass into, looked completely empty but were actually completely full

Hear me out: use the throwing items onto the ground activation system for the "armory" but wire it up to TNT instead. In Last Life Season 3 or some similar series, put that trap in front of people's storage rooms/chestmonster (they'll probably throw junk out of their inventory and onto the floor when organising), and watch as they hear the hiss and panic, but struggle to get out. No bait or anything else necessary.

11:20 Oh so you just built Grian's storage system

I just wanted to say thank you mumbo. I've watched every episode you've put out and i listen to your Playlists while I'm working. Thank you for everything. You are awesome. Any ideas when season 9 comes out

Sometimes finding the small editing errors makes me smile. Not because I laugh at Mumbo's editing ability(sorta), but because it is making him seem more genuine and down to Earth in comparison to large RU-vidrs who are more professional and don't seem as genuine.

Does anyone else remember when corner stairs didnt have block collision, so you could just put a button or chest behind a corner?

this feels like 2019 mumbo!! :)) missed you

By the looks of it, Grian’s gonna need these in his new series 😂

Just a recommendtion, with the barrel pile, you could put a trapdoor above the stair to hide the barrel.

One of my favorites is popping something into a "hidden chest" that was empty, but then will open another area. I love misdirection

I SERIOUSLY thought that intro was gonna segway into a VPN ad for like 30 seconds. Great video.

For some of the combination-based ones like the lectern one, having the actual valuables a good distance away from the unlocking mechanism would make it harder and more time consuming for the average thief, as they wouldn't ever hear anything trigger.

i'm so glad they added barrels to minecraft. i didn't understand the use of them at first, but using them as combo decoration and storage myself and seeing how much Mumbo has used them here makes me feel like they're an under appreciated addition!

11:54 i have a way to partially fix that issue, just put trapdoors on all 4 corners it still might look a little bit suspicious but it helps a lot

When the build is arranged so that the viewer can't really see the block you're clicking on, like in the Decorative Button and Extra Chests examples, having each hidden container hold exactly the same items in exactly the same location kind of obscures the fact that there are multiple hidden containers- no matter which one you're opening, the result is identical. You could indicate "this solution lets you hide more than one container" more clearly in those examples by having the contents vary slightly- for instance, having one barrel hold a stack of diamonds in a slot just to the left of center, and another barrel have another stack of diamonds but in a slot just to the right of center. I love your videos- I've never played Minecraft but you make it interesting and entertaining whether it's goofing off with your friends in Hermitcraft, joking about crowdsourced ideas for redstone contraptions, or just showing off cool techniques. I've been watching for years and I'm pretty sure this is the first time I've felt confident enough to leave a suggestion on how you could improve. I think that says something about the overall quality of your work. :)

A lot of fun ideas here, but I must admit I miss when Mumbo's valuables were 3 diamond hoes and 3 boats.

I really love how Mumbo is STILL using diamonds as an example of valuable items rather than netherite

Mumbo: “people don’t like touching complicated redstone contraptions” Grian: “that’s what you think😈”

Mumbo saying “it’s relatively simple” Me trying to make a 2 by 2 piston door: *intense frustration*

1:07 I really appreciate the incorporation of Jimmy's building style into this video. 😏

4:10 I think it would be more secure if it activated on the last turn, not the first. That way it only takes one turn to hide your items in case someone walks past and it’s safe in case someone accidentally clicks it.

This video essentially sums up Mumbo’s season 9 Hermitcraft base.

I remember having a thought pertaining to X-Rayers and hidden underground chests: how could a person hide their valuables underground without the chest appearing on the X-Rayer's screen? I couldn't really come up with anything good, until watching this: just put the items in a dispenser. Dispensers probably aren't a very high priority on most X-Rayers' lists, so it wouldn't be actively searched for.

You'd be surprised how many people have no problem messing with complicated redstone. I have had my redstone shops broken so many times because people think they know how to "fix" my already working redstone.

As a very wise mustachioed man once said, “Be poor… this is a faultless strategy”

11:30 you could put a trapdoor on the stair to make it more hidden

I know it doesn't look as fancy but I've always preferred smooth stone slab to anvil for a sconce looking torch

All those tiny patches of beautiful buildings make me want a Mumbo Jumbo building tutorial. Imagine seeing him talk all professional and explaining tricks for buildings like he does with redstone xD

I was half expecting "100 hours in Minecraft Hardcore" but this'll do nicely 👍

Love the new mumbuild jumbuild saga where its just 90% mumbo wanting to show off how much he's improved with his building skills.

I love how among the 'would work on anyone but grian' design, there literally is a 'use a grian storage' one. (the 'decorative pile of containers, of which just one contains anything of value')

A good way to use the chorus door (especially in underground bases) is to go to the end of a very long mineshaft you don't use anymore, build a vault there, and cover up the entrance. It then takes a lot less trys to get in so you save chorus fruit!

You should definitely implement the empty barrel/wait time system on hermitcraft, but with a bunch of actually empty barrels a red herrings - if people wanna steal your stuff, they’ll have to sit there and wait at Every Single One (and we all know grian doesn’t have the patience for that)

One thing I like doing is having a big painting with a 1x1 opening behind it at ground level and using elytra to get into a crawl without trapdoors. Only way to access is knowing where the hole is and having elytra

Me: 2:40 nah screw those diamonds im taking the netherite blocks bro

Mumbo always remembers to put the download link in the description. He never misses!

For those doing the hopper drop an item through the ground thing, you don't actually need to press a block to the ground. If you place a hopper minecart on a rail and a block right on top of the rail, the minecart will grab the item on top of the block. Nice and simple

3:15 Lmao Mumbo having builder culture shock.

14:25 if I place 4 of the book stands and make some sort of combination lock that means I can have (15 pages 4 stands, 15*15*15*15 = 50625) a lock with 50 625 possible combinations! Place 1 more stand and it now has 759 375 possible combinations...this is probably the most secure lock in minecraft, use different hiding methods for all the stands and it now becomes a mega lock. P.s. Cool locks are my favourite, I guess I'll download minecraft tomorrow and try to build this lock.

I’m gonna be honest, I love hermitcraft, but these videos are just so much fun

Mumbo: this is how you can hide your diamonds Ender chest: am i a joke to you?

that one with the nether portal was really crazy i didn't know that you could abuse the existence of decimals to hide your items

I usually do the painting trick with maps, signs and a slab, so you have to shift to enter

Thanks, now I can hide my items from my HUNDREDS of nonexistent friends!

Me when I’m trying to make a red stone clock: i did all the directions step by step. WHY WONT U WOOOOORRRRK!!! The red stone: ha ha lol

Me: oh, a Mumbo Jumbo video this will have awesome red stone. Mumbo Jumbo: Play alone, bury them, ender chest, be poor.

I love how being poor is a solution for being robbed. Mumbo is a visionary!!

10:07 I actually discovered this game mechanic by accident and never really understood how that happened until this video. Thanks Mumbo!

OMG Mumbo you are my fav RU-vidr I have loved your videos for like EVER Keep up the INCREDIBLE Work

Love the redstone vids you make, I would really like to see you make a fully functioning Rubiks Cube 3x3.

The hiding spots are great, now I just need friends.

3:28 I automatically thought that mumbo had done some complicated redstone until he explained it ,the redstone on wool tricks works really well!

7:08 ah a classic "its actually pretty simple"

Mumbo: hides stuff in redstone Grian: You underestimate my curiosity.

Mumbo is the only youtuber that actually shows tips that I didn't knew about before

The fact that Mumbo is now starting to randomly refer to block palattes while looking at a build is kind of great!

thanks mumbo you actually made me learn something

If you use a polished black button you can kind of hide it with the 2x2 painting Stage. The button should be in the bottom right block so it blends in with the paintings black texture at that spot. It's similar to the stone button on stone trick so a good eye can still spot it. Also probably won't work with texture packs. But it's a nice trick to combine with other stuff.

Me: oh yeah, no one's gonna steal my stuff on singleplayer. Herobrine: are you sure about that?

8:20 you could have just used a hoe which would have automatically turned back to dirt (unless a water source is nearby) no red stone needed.