As all of you know, griefing is not allowed on smp, and currently the most effective way to "lock" chests is to place a block over them, like so :
However, all of you thieves out there (not me personally) may feel a little discouraged by everyone blocking their chests. So I believe I have a legal solution to this issue, pistons:
As far as I know, this doesn't break the no griefing rule, and will make things a little easier on thieves and provide an interesting challenge for players as well.
I'd be interested to hear some feedback from players and admins, to see if this seems fair to them.
EDIT: Seems this way is breaking the greifing rule after all. I'd still be interesting in hearing some other suggestions to how chests could be accessed
However, all of you thieves out there (not me personally) may feel a little discouraged by everyone blocking their chests. So I believe I have a legal solution to this issue, pistons:
As far as I know, this doesn't break the no griefing rule, and will make things a little easier on thieves and provide an interesting challenge for players as well.
I'd be interested to hear some feedback from players and admins, to see if this seems fair to them.
EDIT: Seems this way is breaking the greifing rule after all. I'd still be interesting in hearing some other suggestions to how chests could be accessed