Reed chest

Reed chest
Material	Wood
Stackable	64
Drops	Itself
Blocks

The reed chest is a stationary containers that can be placed on the ground. It can be used to store up to 8 items.

Creation

The reed chest is created in the crafting grid using one of those 2 recipes:

Ingredients	Crafting Recipe
24x Cattails

Ingredients	Crafting Recipe
24x Papyrus

Recycling

The reed chest can be recycled for half of the cattails amount by placing it in the crafting grid:

Ingredients	Crafting Recipe
1x Knife 1x Reed chest

Note: Even your reed chest was crafted using papyrus, if you recycle it you will obtain cattails.

Usage

Storage

The reed chest can be used as storage if you place it on the ground or against a wall. It can hold up to 8 items.

Livestock relocation

The reed chest is also used to transport small animals from your livestock enclosure. However, the animals need to be sufficiently tame, they need to be at least generation 5.

Catching the animal

• Place the reed chest in an empty backpack slot of your toolbar.
• Use Ctrl + roll to select the reed chest in the backpack slot.
• Approch the animal and aim at it.
• Use to pick up the animal.
• The animal can stay in the reed chest for 24h. After that, it will die.

Releasing the animal

• Use Ctrl + roll to select the reed chest in the backpack slot.
• Aim the ground by your feet.
• Use to release the animal. (If the animal was dead, its body will drop on the ground, you can still loot it with a knife ).

Animals that can be transported in the reed chest

They need to be at least generation 5.

• Chick
• Hen
• Rooster
• Piglet
• Bihorn lamb

Note

The reed chest cannot be used to capture wild animals or your livestock animals under generation 5. For that you will need a reed basket trap .