RajCraft – What Does The Compass Do In Minecraft?

Wondering what the compass does in Minecraft this video is going to explain the crafting recipe for the compass how to use the compass and villager trades involving the compass let’s first talk about where to get the compass in minecraft in the crafting table the recipe for a compass is for iron ingots

And redstone dust in this pattern will create a compass other places you can find compasses are 7.7% in map chests and shipwrecks which is the bottom section in the rear 26.3% in villager cartographer chests and 10.9% in stronghold altar chests in stack of one with villager trading there are five

Levels ranging from novice to master as you trade with the villager it will level them up and increase the level of the villager unlocking to potential trades at each level with the expert level librarian villagers which is the fourth level there is a 50% chance of them having a trade for four emeralds

For a compass now let’s talk about what you can do with a compass a compass will point towards a world spawn point the compass will do this if it is a dropped item if it’s in the player’s hand if it’s in your inventory in the crafting

Table or in an item frame even the compass at the topmost tab of the recipe book will point towards the world spawn the direction the compass is pointing is relative to the player holding it in the nether and the end the compass will spin around pointing in random directions and

Is basically just useless in the 1.16 update the addition of the lodestone you can use the compass with the lodestone so the recipe for the lodestone is a chiseled stone brick and a nether write ingot the lodestone can be placed in all dimensions once you place the lodestone

Right click the compass onto the lodestone and this will set it as the point the compass will point towards once the compass is attached to the lodestone it will look like it is an enchanted item so this will store the dimension type and the position in the compass and the compass points towards

That store position if the dimension type doesn’t match the compass will spin in a random direction similar to how a normal compass does in the nether or the end if the lodestone is broken the compass will start to spin in correction in the 1.16 update one of the

More unusual additions is now you can enchant a compass with the curse of vanishing this enchantment means that when the player dies the compass will disappear it is a cursed enchantment and can’t be removed once you enchant the item the curse of vanishing can only be found through fishing chests loot or villager

Trading for enchanted books it is unusual that it’s the only enchantment but compasses don’t use durability and none of the other enchantments would have a purpose with the compass the other crafting recipe with the compass is the map in the crafting table the recipe is eight pieces of paper and a

Compass will create an empty map with an empty map you can use them to map out the world gives you an idea about the terrain or the structures this is probably the best use for the compass especially if you like to map the world if you don’t want compasses there are

Two traits involving the cartographer villager you can make the first one is that an apprentice level cartographer which is the second level will buy thirteen emeralds and a compass for an ocean Explorer map at journeyman level which is the third level cartographers will buy fourteen emeralds and a compass

For a woodland Explorer map just remember with these maps the cartographer will be trading you the same map as it is just giving you the map to the closest structure to them