Minecraft Compass & What it Does

You might wonder what exactly a "Compass" does in Minecraft and it's rather simple. These are special items that you hold in your hand to get an idea of the direction you’re headed. They will point towards a world spawn, which is likely where your house is located. They are available through natural generation or creation. In the world you can find them in Shipwreck chests, village cartographer chests and stronghold library chests in a single stack. You can also trade for these through Expert level librarian villagers which carry a 50% chance to sell a single compass for four Emeralds on Java.

This is slightly different for Bedrock as they’ll have a third of a chance to sell one for four Emeralds. For general use you’ll note the needle point facing towards the spawn point of the world. It will point here no matter where you’re looking. It’s an item in your hand, it can also be dropped on the ground or placed in various chests. You can also throw it in an item frame if you’d like, neat looking for sure. More details and crafting guide below.
Uses and Other Details:
To summarize, this will assist with guiding you in certain directions. A helpful navigation tool with Minecraft. You can stack these as a pile of sixty-four items, but you’ll largely find them in a single availability within the world.

The Compass crafting creation is as follows. The top row; Blank | Iron Ingot | Blank, second row is Iron Ingot | Redstone | Iron Ingot, and the third row is Blank | Iron Ingot | Blank. A very simple thing for you to create, just a piece of red stone and some iron ingots.

Now for some advanced variations in regards to using it with maps. For an empty locator map you’ll use this. The top row; Paper | Paper | Paper, second row is Paper| Compass | Paper, and the third row is Paper | Paper | Paper. One final option is a map with marker. This is simple, just place a compass with a map, or empty map beside it and this is Bedrock only. Hopefully you found this helpful, you can read about grindstones below or check out our hub for further coverage.

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