Insane LEGO® Shulker Box Hack – 100% Success

100% WORKING LEGO® Minecraft Shulker Box 40 This is a Shulker Box in Minecraft, and THIS is a real-life shulker box built from LEGO® parts. It’s packed with features, including one I had to test by dropping it from a second-story window. More on that later!

To open the shulker box, the user can use the built-in motion detector, ID card access, or even a key to enter a password. All the mechanisms are hidden in the floor, making it look magical. I’ll show you the finished shulker box, and also how I made it! Okay, quick recap on shulker boxes.

They allow players to store items, and when the shulker box is mined the items remain inside, unlike a normal chest that drops its items when broken. That’s why I need to drop it from the window, to make sure this feature is working. But I’m getting ahead of myself.

The coolest part of a shulker box is how it opens. The lid spins while opening and just floats there with no supports. How am I gonna replicate that? First I built the lid. It is one of the most recognizable features of a shulker box, so it needed to look just right.

Once the corners were in place, I built some curved pieces into each edge to help with aligning the lid to the lower portion of the shulker box. See, in Minecraft, the lid can pass right through these sections of the box.

But in real-life, those sections are going to have to be pulled into the box so the lid can spin while it opens. So I kept that challenge in mind, but building the rest of the lid went on without a problem.

Along the sides and top of the lid, I used some 1×1 Technic bricks to provide connections across colors since this type of pattern would typically make this kind of build very unstable. I finished up the lid by creating a roof, connecting it to the rest of the lid, and

Tiling it off to hide the gray plates and bring out the vibrant LEGO® colors of blue, dark azure, and medium azure. With the lid completed, I moved on to the mechanism that would lift and spin it. One motor could’ve handled both functions, but there’s a reason for keeping them separate

That I’ll show you later! The lid is pretty heavy, so I built a roller bearing with these 1×1 round tiles that will allow it to spin easily. I originally considered using this larger design, but that took up too much room, so I threw that design away–or should I say rolled.

I only have these gear arcs in the dark tan color, but I added some cool blue pieces to hide most of it. So the bearing for rotating the lid is all done, but I needed this to lift it.

It has transparent liftarms at the bottom so that the lid appears to float just like in Minecraft! It also has a worm gear to provide a lot of torque for lifting the heavy lid. Gear racks like these allow a rotating gear to move an object linearly, which is perfect for what I needed.

There you have it, spinning motion and lifting motion. I started to design a way for these sections to be pulled into the shulker box, and kept each one separate so they could have different animations while the lid opens, which is cool

Because that functionality isn’t required in Minecraft so you will have never seen it before. It takes four of these subassemblies, one for each sliding section. They’ll work by rotating something like this, but it’s just an early prototype. With that part complete, I needed to get the controllers connected, which I used these

Awesome new pins with anti-stud pieces for. I put one controller here…and one there. They’ll communicate using bluetooth. Last but not least, I added a few ways for users to access the shulker box. This color matrix will be used for password entry.

It can show individual colors in each square, so I looked up the HSV values for LEGO® colors blue and dark azure so it will blend in with the box walls until it is needed for password entry. Then I used this small motor’s encoder so the user can enter the password by rotating

A key left and right. Plus this old yet very useful spring-loaded part will always bring the motor back to center. Those barely fit, but I’m just glad that they did. On the other side, I added a motion sensor that has an RGB LED in it.

The only problem is it lights up green when measuring distance, which would be confusing to the user, so I added a second sensor just for the LED. Finally, I added an RFID sensor too, which can detect user’s ID cards through the walls

Of the shulker box, just like you’ve probably seen in my enchanting table, crafting table, and furnace videos. And if you haven’t seen them, you should totally go watch them after this one. With the wires looking like a mess, I got those cleaned up using a bunch of cable connectors.

It looked much better afterwards, plus then the cables wouldn’t interfere with any moving parts. Well, that’s all the required functionality, so all that’s left on the build is finishing the walls and covering up the mechanisms. I put together the walls for the base, and only had to modify them slightly when connecting

Them to the main assembly to adjust for the lights and password entry items. Oh yeah, I almost forgot the tool for password entry! It looks like a key, but really any axle will do because it’s more about entering the proper password sequence than having a key.

Supports for the sliding sections came next, which conveniently also helped to hide some of the mechanisms. The sliding walls were built then, which didn’t take long since I had already completed the motor and gear train portion. Final assemblies were built to hide the rest of the mechanisms.

I wanted them to be easily attached and removed so the inner workings could be shown to anyone who is interested. I initially attempted magnets for that, but found an easier solution instead! Finally, it was time to connect the lid.

It turned out to be trickier than I thought, but these Technic frames eventually made it work. Oh, and you’ll notice I had to change out these slopes because they didn’t work well for helping align the lid. Thankfully I had some other sloping/curved parts and tried a bunch of them instead, finally

Landing on a design. Once the lid went on, the build was completed! And wow, I felt like it looked even better than I had hoped it would! Let’s see the normal functions of the shulker box before I drop it from a second-story window! I’ll start with the password entry.

Normally these lights stay blue and don’t show the correct or incorrect rotations, because that kind of defeats the point of a password, but I’ll show it just for you! First I’ll show an incorrect sequence. And now the correct one. Here’s the original Minecraft opening animation, which looks super cool, but I programmed several

Other animations too! Now, let’s see what we have inside…ah yes, gold and copper ingots, diamond and netherite scrap, and of course, my life savings. Ah, did I hear you chuckle? It’s more than just a dollar…there’s a penny hiding under here too. Now let’s close it up by swiping an ID card.

Whichever way the owner triggers the box to close becomes the next method for entry, so the password entry won’t work anymore, only ID cards will. Sorry Steve, you don’t have access. Here’s one of my custom opening animations! Now I’ll close it using the motion detector so that becomes the next method for opening,

Which is cool because then anyone can open it, no password or ID card needed, which is just like it is in Minecraft. Ready for another custom animation? Tell me in the comments which animation you like best! You can rewind the video if you need to see them again.

Before I drop this from the window to test if the box could actually keep items inside when broken, check out the machine with the mechanisms uncovered! It looks pretty sick! Now to drop it from the window onto the cold, rough concrete below! Here it goes! 3…2…1… Oh, let’s check out the damage.

Wow, yeah that got obliterated. Oof, that final feature is going to need some work 😉 To keep making content like this, I really need your help, so PLEASE share this video on your social media! Check out my working Enchanting Table too! You’ll love it!

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