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How to Make a Compass in Minecraft: A Step-by-Step Guide

In this tutorial, we will show you how to make a compass with screenshots and step-by-step instructions. In Minecraft, a compass is one of the many tools that you can make. It points to the world’s spawn point, which is useful for when you’re lost.
Since the release of Minecraft, the world has been entranced by its blocky landscape. With no set goals or objectives, players are free to explore and create as they please. For some, this means building epic castles and for others, it means creating intricate machines. One player, in particular, has taken his love of exploration to a whole new level.
Using only his compass, this player has managed to map out every inch of the game world. He knows where all the hidden chests are and he even knows the coordinates of every biome. His knowledge of the game is so vast that he was recently hired by Microsoft as a consultant for their new Minecraft update.
How to Craft a Compass in Minecraft: with Screenshots and Step-by-Step Instructions
With a compass, you’ll always know which direction you’re headed! Let’s get started.
In a Nutshell:
Required Materials
The materials you will need in order to craft a compass are:
- Crafting table
- furnace
- 7 iron ore
- 1 redstone
make a compass by placing redstone in the center and four iron ingots around it so that they cover all fours of your stone. Then simply take this new item from within inventory to place wherever you need its guidance!
You’ll need a crafting table, of course! And you can start by converting those recently acquired logs into wooden planks. Simply place the Logs that were collected onto one of these slots to make them turn from green back into brown with ease and then just sit there until they’re needed for your next big project or adventure through Minecraft land.
Once the logs are converted into wooden planks, you can then progress to making a crafting table. This guide explains more about how to make a crafting table.
You will need a crafting table to make the simplest type of pickaxe for collecting your first pieces of cobblestone. You need this cobblestone to make a furnace. The first part of making a pickaxe is making the sticks for the handle. You can use the survival inventory crafting table or the crafting table you just created to make your sticks.
To make sticks, place two blocks of wooden planks above each other on either the left or right side of the square, as shown above.
You need to make a pickaxe by interacting with the crafting table. Next, place one row of planks along top on your GUI and two sticks under middle plank like in image above! This will create an easy way for collecting cobblestone – which is required block if you want any hope at making furnaces properly .
Next you need to find some iron and coal. Although seven pieces will be sufficient for our recipe, it’s recommended that players collect enough of this ore since they are one-of the most important resources in gameplay with other ores being less common or simply not present at all places where players might expect them (e pessimism). To mine out these rocks however requires tools such as pickaxes made from stone which can only be produced through using certain materials in order. For example if we wanted an efficient way towards making these picks then there is no better place than surely knowing what kind.
Iron and coal spawn quite frequently and can be found around caves, in cliffsides, or even at the surface in stone-topped biomes.
Once you’ve found your coal, mine it, and begin to look for iron.
Iron generates in the generally same locations as coal and can be found really easily both in surface caves and below the surface.
Once you’ve found all 7 pieces of your iron, you have to smelt them. To smelt, use your furnace to smelt the iron down to ingots.
Open the furnace GUI:
Fill the top slot with the iron you wish to smelt:
Then place your form of fuel (in this case, coal) into the bottom slot:
Wait for the progress bar to fill, then collect your iron:
Compasses aren’t something that you can make at the start, as they do require redstone. First, you must progress from a wooden pickaxe to a stone, and then to an iron pickaxe. Redstone ore can only be collected with an iron pickaxe.
To make an iron pickaxe, simply follow the same crafting recipe for all other pickaxes, just replacing the top row with iron ingots. The image below has the recipe.
Now you have to go and find some redstone.
Redstone generates at lower Y levels than iron and coal, between bedrock and Y-level 16. Redstone, luckily, is a really abundant material that isn’t difficult to find. Mining in ravines or even just strip mining at the right Y-levels will help you to come across Redstone easily.
Once you have mined your redstone and collected at least one piece of redstone dust, you can finally craft your compass!
Simply place down your crafting table and open the crafting GUI.
Then, place the remaining iron ingots in a diamond shape in the center of the GUI, and place your one piece of redstone in the middle, as shown below.
Your Compass is made, go get it.
Give command for a compass in Minecraft:
/give @p minecraft:compass 1
More Video:
Happy exploring!
Conclusion
Congratulations on making your very own compass! This is a great way to figure out where you are and how get back home, but be careful not use it as often because there might come times when no one knows what direction anything goes in. Map-making has become obsolete over time too – guess we’ll just have fun exploring with our new toy instead of worrying about getting lost all that much anymore 🙂