Your chest is being blocked by the solid block on top. A solid block ontop of a chest not only blocks you from opening it by right-clicking, but also stops hoppers from filling in items.
I did search for the issue before and while it's related to MC-31205 I don't consider it a duplicate. The difference is, that all other bug reports I found are about the new 1.7 biome Taiga not having any snow, while I'm concerned about Taiga biomes that have been created in 1.6 already.
Markus Reiter
MC-35151
Your chest is being blocked by the solid block on top. A solid block ontop of a chest not only blocks you from opening it by right-clicking, but also stops hoppers from filling in items.
I cannot see properly on the first two pictures, but the chest on your third picture is definitely blocked by the dirt block above it.
I did search for the issue before and while it's related to
MC-31205I don't consider it a duplicate. The difference is, that all other bug reports I found are about the new 1.7 biome Taiga not having any snow, while I'm concerned about Taiga biomes that have been created in 1.6 already.