Placing and destroying blocks using Minecraft commands [duplicate]

Question

I wanted to mess with some basic commands and one of the commands that I have heard of quite frequently was one that gives someone an item than can break and place entities, blocks or items.

I have looked at some ways to write it and I use this as an example for giving myself a block of stone that can be placed on a chest:

/give Steve stone{CanPlaceOn:["chest"]}

...but it ends up not working. Can someone explain to me why?

Answer 1

If you are on PE the the command is: /give steve stone 1 0 {"can_place_on":{"blocks":["chest"]}} or if on Java /give steve stone 1 0 {CanPlaceOn:["chest"]}