Bolt Protection

Lock chests, doors and entities with Bolt, share access with friends, groups and passwords, and transfer protections.

BoltReviewed 3 October 2026

Bolt protects individual blocks and entities, such as your chests, doors and item frames, without fencing off whole regions. You decide exactly who can open, use, or break what you own.

What can be protected

Items marked with 🔒 are locked automatically when you place them. Everything else can be locked by hand with /lock.

  • Anvil
  • 🔒 Armor stand
  • Banners
  • 🔒 Barrel
  • 🔒 Beacon
  • 🔒 Blast furnace
  • 🔒 Brewing stand
  • Cauldrons
  • 🔒 Chest
  • 🔒 Chest boat
  • Chiseled bookshelf
  • 🔒 Composter
  • 🔒 Dispenser
  • Doors
  • 🔒 Dropper
  • Ender chest
  • Fence gates
  • 🔒 Furnace
  • 🔒 Glow item frame
  • 🔒 Hopper
  • 🔒 Item frame
  • Jukebox
  • 🔒 Leash hitch
  • Lectern
  • 🔒 Minecart with chest
  • 🔒 Minecart with furnace
  • 🔒 Minecart with hopper
  • Note block
  • 🔒 Painting
  • 🔒 Shulker boxes
  • 🔒 Smoker
  • Signs (standing and wall)
  • Trapdoors
  • 🔒 Trapped chest

Locking and unlocking

Run the command, then right-click the block or entity you want to change.

Command Effect
/lock Fully private: nobody else can open, use, edit or break it.
/lock display Others can look inside but not take or add items.
/lock deposit Others can put items in but not take them out.
/lock withdrawal Others can take items out.
/lock public Others can see, deposit and withdraw, but cannot edit or break it.
/unlock Removes the protection.
/bolt info Shows who owns a protection and who has access.
Tip: /lock deposit on a chest makes a perfect donation box or shared drop-off point.

Sharing access

Add a single player

/bolt edit add <player>
/bolt edit remove <player>

Fine-grained access lists

/bolt modify (add|remove) <access> <source-type> <sources...>

Adds or removes sources with a given access level on a protection’s access list. Source types:

  • player: a specific player.
  • password: anyone who enters the password with /bolt password.
  • group: a group you created with /bolt group.

Groups

/bolt group (create|delete|add|remove|list) <group> [players...]

Create a named group, such as your town or your guild, and add it to as many protections as you like. When someone joins or leaves, update the group once instead of every chest.

Trust

/bolt trust [list|confirm|add|remove] [player] [admin|normal]

Trusted players get access to all of your protections at once.

  • normal trust lets them open and use your protected blocks, but not break them.
  • admin trust also lets them break your protected blocks. Only give it to people you would trust with your house keys.

Passwords

/bolt password <password>

Unlocks a protection that has a password source. Share the password only with the people who should have it.

Other commands

Command Effect
/bolt transfer <player> Hands ownership of a protection to another player.
/bolt mode <mode> Toggles a mode such as persist, nolock or nospam. persist keeps a command active, so you can apply it to many blocks in a row.
/bolt help [command] Shows in-game help.