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So I tried the WIki couldn't find anything in the creepers or chest section.

So my friend was building and he had a couple chests with random supplies... then BOOM!
Creeper crept up and blew a hole in the ground and blew up one of his chests....

So is there a loss of supplies? I know with TNT there is a percentage loss of any given blocks it destroys.
So I asked him if he noticed any loss? Well with it all being filled with random items and him having about 4 chests in close proximity he couldn't tell..
So I ask you fine people... from experience, is there a loss of items inside a chest after a creeper attack?

Yes, you lose some of the items the same as you would lose blocks from an explosion.

The other issue that makes this particularly bad is the item limit. Anything over 200 items laying on the ground disappears.

Quote from Urban_Blackbear

the item limit. Anything over 200 items laying on the ground disappears.

Cool I was assuming it would.. But one stack of 64 counts as "one entity" on the ground as part of the
200 entity limit right?

Quote from OverlookeDEnT

So I tried the WIki couldn't find anything in the creepers or chest section.

So my friend was building and he had a couple chests with random supplies... then BOOM!
Creeper crept up and blew a hole in the ground and blew up one of his chests....

So is there a loss of supplies? I know with TNT there is a percentage loss of any given blocks it destroys.
So I asked him if he noticed any loss? Well with it all being filled with random items and him having about 4 chests in close proximity he couldn't tell..
So I ask you fine people... from experience, is there a loss of items inside a chest after a creeper attack?

Absolutely.

This is why you should NEVER have a chest in an open room where a Creeper can sneak up on you. If the contents are precious, keep them in a closed room that is insanely well lit so you never have to worry about it.

Quote from Evilwillhunting

Absolutely.

This is why you should NEVER have a chest in an open room where a Creeper can sneak up on you. If the contents are precious, keep them in a closed room that is insanely well lit so you never have to worry about it.

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Quote from OverlookeDEnT

Cool I was assuming it would.. But one stack of 64 counts as "one entity" on the ground as part of the
200 entity limit right?

Good question. I think you're right in that if they're already stacked, the stacks count as one. I've been lucky to have never had a chest blown up by a creeper, but I'm pretty sure that the stacks I have gotten back from my inventory when I've been blown up would have been well over 200 if the items had of been counted by the game individually rather than as whole stacks.

I contest this 'blocks on floor over 200 dissappear' thing . . . from experience.

I once had a double chest FULL of blocks. Nothing of value, just cobblestone, dirt, gravel, y'now. A creeper creeped up on me and blew me down to 1 heart, took out my wall, AND the chest which was on the other side of the wall.

Now, I quickly built another double chest, and as quick as I could, put the strewn supplies back into the new chest. I did not lose any of the blocks. Only the chest.

Whether there is a time limit, I don't know. But I managed to pick them all up, and re-chest them in probably under 1 minute.

I am being serious, and not just making up stories.

If you want to look at my showcase, you'll notice most of our houses are either on man-made islands or floating in the sky. Rarely on the ground with a surrounding wall. When playing survival with monster's spawning, I'd recommend adopting one of those techniques. You can make trenches, cactus walls, ect. I can show you some examples sometime if you'd like.

Quote from OverlookeDEnT

Cool I was assuming it would.. But one stack of 64 counts as "one entity" on the ground as part of the
200 entity limit right?

1 Stack of 64 counts as 1 one entity, I've wrecked a couple of my own chests that were full of things like dirt or cobble stone and nothing disappeared when the chest was broken open, so each stack is one entity of the 200.