Enshrouded Chests: How to Get Larger Storage in 1.0

To get larger chests in Enshrouded, rescue the Carpenter and work up his storage recipes: the Medium Chest holds 32 slots, the Large Chest 40, the Huge Chest 56, and the top tier, the Enormous Magic Chest, holds 72. Since version 1.0 you no longer have to empty and rebuild old chests either, because placed chests can be upgraded and converted to magic chests where they stand.

We checked the slot counts and recipes against the Enshrouded Wiki's storage pages, Keen Games' 1.0 and Update 8 changelogs, and PinDrop's 1.0 game-file breakdown in November 2026.

Every Chest Size in Enshrouded 1.0

Storage comes in two families. Plain chests just hold items. Magic chests hold the same number of items but also feed your crafting stations, so anything inside them counts as available when you craft at a workshop in your base. Each plain chest size has a magic twin with the same slot count, except the 72-slot Enormous Magic Chest, which has no plain version.

Enshrouded chest sizes and recipes (1.0, November 2026)

Chest	Slots	Recipe	Crafted at
Small Chest	24	6 of any wood log type, 3 String	Workbench
Wooden Chest	24	5 Wood Planks, 3 Metal Sheets, 3 Charcoal	Carpenter
Medium Chest	32	8 Nails, 10 Wood Planks, 2 Metal Sheets	Carpenter
Large Chest	40	12 Nails, 8 Wood Planks, 3 Bronze Bars	Carpenter
Silver Chest	40	3 Silver Bars, 6 Charcoal	Carpenter
Huge Chest	56	16 Nails, 20 Wood Planks, 2 Iron Bars	Carpenter
Small Magic Chest	24	1 Small Chest, 6 Shroud Spores	Workbench
Medium Magic Chest	32	1 Medium Chest, 1 Shroud Core, 2 Goo	Carpenter
Large Magic Chest	40	1 Large Chest, 10 Shroud Particles, 1 Alchemical Base	Carpenter
Huge Magic Chest	56	1 Huge Chest, 1 Shroud Nexus, 3 Enshrouded Oil	Carpenter
Enormous Magic Chest	72	24 Wood Planks, 1 Shroud Radiance, 15 Shroud Slime, 2 Gold Bars	Carpenter

The pattern is easy to read once you see it. Each step up costs metal from the next biome: Metal Sheets for the Medium Chest, Bronze Bars for the Large Chest and Iron Bars for the Huge Chest. The magic versions then add a Shroud material on top, from Shroud Spores at the low end to Shroud Radiance for the Enormous Magic Chest. That is why your storage grows in steps that track your progress through the map rather than all at once.

The Wooden Chest and the Silver Chest are side options at 24 and 40 slots. PinDrop's read of the 1.0 files found no upgrade or magic conversion recipe for either, so treat them as decorative choices rather than part of the upgrade path.

Why Magic Chests Are Worth the Extra Cost

A magic chest turns your storage into a shared pantry for every workshop nearby. When you craft at a workshop such as the Smelter or the Kitchen, materials in magic chests are pulled in automatically, so you never have to load a station by hand. Update 8 extended this to building: you can now pick building materials straight out of magic chests with the Construction Hammer, even when you are not carrying a single block.

The range is the one figure that is not settled. The wiki's Huge Magic Chest page describes a circular area of roughly 100 meters, while PinDrop notes that no range value appears in the 1.0 files and treats that number as unconfirmed. The wiki's Enormous Magic Chest page goes further and says its contents can be used across your entire Flame Altar base. In practice, keeping your magic chests in the middle of a base and your workshops around them avoids any doubt.

Two smaller Update 8 changes make magic chests even better. Each chest can now be toggled to accept or refuse deposits from the Quick Stack Station, and every chest shows a preview of the first three unique items inside it, so you can tell what a chest holds without opening it.

Upgrading Chests Without Emptying Them

The most welcome storage change in version 1.0 is in-place upgrading. Keen's changelog says storage chests can now be converted to magic chests and upgraded without clearing them out or picking them up first. That removes the old routine of hauling 56 slots of ore across the room just to swap a box.

These are the upgrade recipes recorded from the 1.0 files:

• Small Chest to Medium Chest: 2 Nails, 2 Wood Planks, 1 Metal Sheets.
• Medium Chest to Large Chest: 5 Nails, 3 Wood Planks, 1 Bronze Bars.
• Large Chest to Huge Chest: 5 Nails, 15 Wood Planks, 1 Iron Bars.
• Huge Chest to Huge Magic Chest: 1 Shroud Nexus, 3 Enshrouded Oil.
• Large Magic Chest to Huge Magic Chest: 1 Shroud Nexus, 3 Enshrouded Oil, 16 Nails, 20 Wood Planks, 2 Iron Bars.
• Huge Magic Chest to Enormous Magic Chest: 12 Wood Planks, 7 Shroud Slime, 1 Gold Bars, 1 Shroud Radiance.

Notice that upgrading is cheaper than building fresh. A new Enormous Magic Chest needs 24 Wood Planks, 15 Shroud Slime and 2 Gold Bars, while upgrading a Huge Magic Chest needs only 12, 7 and 1 of those. If you already have a wall of Huge Magic Chests, upgrade them one by one as Gold Bars come in rather than building a second wall.

Unlocking the Big Chest Recipes

Chest recipes appear as you collect the materials that make them, which means your storage size is really a question of how far you have pushed into the world. The Huge Magic Chest recipe unlocks when you first obtain Iron Ore, a Kindlewastes and Albaneve Summits resource that our iron ore location guide maps out. The Enormous Magic Chest recipe unlocks when you first obtain Gold Bars.

Version 1.0 also moved the first steps earlier. Keen's notes say regular 24-slot storage chests and magic chests can now be crafted earlier in the crafting progression, so a new character can start a small magic storage room within the first few hours instead of waiting for the Carpenter's later tiers.

The Carpenter himself, Cade Hawthorn, is the survivor who makes every chest above the Workbench tier. If you are still early, prioritize his rescue the same way you would prioritize the Bard for a bigger backpack: storage and carrying capacity are the two upgrades that speed up everything else.

Naming, Sorting and Quick Stacking

Bigger chests only help if you can find things in them. Several recent changes make a large storage room much easier to manage:

• Chest names: since 1.0, storage chests and custom map markers can be freely named. Label each chest by material family (ores, wood, Shroud drops, food) and you will never open the wrong one again.
• Quick Stack Station: crafted at the Carpenter from 1 Shroud Core, 2 Goo and 5 Revelwood Stone, it dumps every stackable item in your backpack into matching magic chest stacks nearby.
• Pinned recipes: recipes you pin are also shown when you open a storage chest, a change from Wake of the Water that makes it easier to grab the right inputs.
• Accidental damage: since a spring 2026 patch, filled chests and other props holding items can no longer be destroyed, apart from a few high-health exceptions such as animal food bowls.

Builders who want the storage room to look good as well as work well can line it with any of the blocks in our guide to where to find building blocks, and if you are routing water through the base, our guide to adding water to your base explains how to keep it away from your workshops.

A Simple Storage Layout That Scales

Before planning a room, it helps to know how much a slot really holds, because slot counts alone undersell the bigger chests. Stack sizes vary a lot by item type. Iron Ore stacks to 250, Archaic Essence to 500, and building blocks such as the Half-Timbered Block stack to 5,000. A single 72-slot Enormous Magic Chest filled with ore therefore holds 18,000 pieces, while the same chest filled with one block type could hold hundreds of thousands. The practical takeaway is that raw materials rarely need more than one or two chests each, and the space pressure usually comes from the long tail of items that only stack a little, such as food, potions and crafting oddities.

That also means the jump from a 56-slot chest to a 72-slot chest matters most for mixed storage. A chest dedicated to one ore barely notices the extra 16 slots; a chest holding dozens of different farm products and cooking ingredients fills those slots immediately. Put your first Enormous Magic Chests where the variety is, usually next to the Kitchen and the Farmer's stations, and leave single-material chests at the smaller sizes until you have Gold Bars to spare.

Here is a layout that works from your first Medium Chest to a full wall of Enormous Magic Chests:

1. Pick a room near the center of your Flame Altar area so every workshop sits within easy reach of the chests.
2. Place one Quick Stack Station at the entrance. Every trip home starts with one interaction instead of ten.
3. Give each material family its own chest and name it. Keep combat items such as arrows, spell charges and potions in their own chest by the door, so restocking before a trip takes seconds.
4. Upgrade chests in place as soon as the next metal tier arrives, starting with the chest that fills fastest (usually stone or wood).
5. Leave empty floor space next to the wall. When the Enormous Magic Chest unlocks, you will want room for a few more.

Skipping the Chest Grind

If gathering Shroud Nexus, Enshrouded Oil and Gold Bars for a full storage wall is not how you want to spend your evenings, the store offers huge magic chests in bulk for Enshrouded. The item page offers its large magic chests in any quantity and says the items stored in them can be used to craft anything anywhere in your base, with seller bonuses included. This item is PC only. The process on the page is pay, receive complete instructions, wait for the order to be completed in the game, then confirm, with replies usually taking 5 to 10 minutes.

You can browse the other gear and resource options on the Enshrouded store page before deciding what fits your world.

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