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Chest Protection
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WorldGuard provides rudimentary self-serve chest protection that a player may utilize by placing a sign underneath their chest with specially formatted text. We generally advise new setups to **not** use this chest protection as it is not an actively updated part of WorldGuard. In addition, :doc:`regions <regions/index>` are a preferred method of defining ownership because it does not have problems involving blocks like hoppers.

.. warning::
    Chest protection in WorldGuard does not support UUIDs, so users will not be able to access chests if they change names.
    It also operates independently of regions and other protection.

    **It is highly recommended to not use this feature in WorldGuard, but use a dedicated plugin such as LWC Extended if you need single-block, sign-based protection.
    The feature will be removed from WorldGuard in a future version.**

Getting Started
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Chest protection must first be enabled in the :doc:`config`. With it disabled, chest protection will not be active but it will still not be possible to make "lock signs" (however, this can also be disabled in the configuration).

A sign is protected as long as a *special sign is placed under a chest*. This sign:

* Must be a sign post
* Must be under a chest or inventory (for double chests, it only needs to be under one side)
* Have the text ``[Lock]`` on the first line
* Have the player's username on the second line
* Have up to two more other players' names on the next two lines

It is not possible to place someone else's name on the second line.