Minecraft’s huge world is awesome to explore, but it’s super easy to get lost. Whether you’re a pro or just starting out, finding your way back home can be a pain. Good news: a compass can save the day! This guide will walk you through crafting a compass and making it point to your house in Minecraft, updated for 2025 (Java 1.21.3 and Bedrock Edition). Plus, we’ll toss in some cool mods to make navigation even better.

Compass in Minecraft: FAQs

The Compass still continues to point to the World Spawn when dropped.

The compass is a handy tool for getting around in Minecraft. It points to the World Spawn—where you first pop into a new world—or a lodestone if you link it to one. Here’s the quick rundown:

  • It always points to the World Spawn unless tied to a lodestone, even if you drop it or stick it in an item frame.
  • In the Nether or End, a regular compass goes wild and spins randomly. A Lodestone Compass will still point to its lodestone, no matter the dimension, as long as the lodestone’s still there.
  • Regular compasses stack up to 64, but Lodestone Compasses only stack with others pointing to the same lodestone.

How to Make a Compass in Minecraft

Compass recipe

To craft a compass, you need:
  • 4 Iron Ingots: Dig up iron ore (usually at Y=-59 to Y=63) with a stone pickaxe or better, then smelt the raw iron.
  • 1 Redstone Dust: Mine redstone ore (found at Y=-59 to Y=-32) with an iron pickaxe or better.

Crafting Recipe

Pop these into a crafting table:

  • Center: 1 Redstone Dust
  • Around it (top, bottom, left, right): 4 Iron Ingots
Compass Crafting Recipe: Picture a cross of Iron Ingots with Redstone Dust in the middle

This recipe hasn’t changed in 2025 and works for both Java and Bedrock.

Other Ways to Get a Compass

Minecraft players can trade with villagers for a compass.

Don’t feel like crafting? Try these:

  • Loot Chests:
    • Shipwreck Map Chest: 7.7% chance
    • Stronghold Library Chest: 10.9% chance
    • Village Cartographer Chest: 26.3% chance
  • Trading: Trade 4 emeralds with an expert-level librarian villager for a compass (50% chance in Java, 33% in Bedrock).

How Does the Compass Work?

Normally, The Compass always points to the spawn point.

A compass points to the World Spawn in the Overworld, so it’s great for finding your starting point. In the Nether or End, it spins like crazy unless it’s a Lodestone Compass, which sticks to its lodestone. Sleeping in a bed sets your respawn point but doesn’t change where the compass points unless your bed’s right on the World Spawn.

Why Doesn’t the Compass Point to Your Bed?

The compass doesn’t care about your bed—it’s locked onto the World Spawn. Unless your bed is exactly at the spawn point, you’ll need a lodestone or some cheats to make it point to your house.

The Compass won't point to your bed unless you place it on top of the World Spawn.

How to Make a Compass Point to Your House in Minecraft

There are two ways to get a compass to point to your house: use a lodestone or tweak the World Spawn with cheats. Here’s how, updated for 2025.

Method 1: Use a Lodestone to Guide the Compass

Bind the Compass to a lodestone to guide it.

A lodestone lets you set a custom spot for your compass to point to, perfect for your house. The 2025 update made crafting lodestones way easier by ditching the netherite requirement.

Crafting a Lodestone

Locating the Ancient Debris may take some time.

You’ll need:

  • 1 Iron Ingot: Smelt some iron ore.
  • 8 Chiseled Stone Bricks: Use a stonecutter with 8 stone bricks (made by smelting stone from cobblestone).
Lodestone Crafting Recipe: Picture an Iron Ingot in the center, surrounded by Chiseled Stone Bricks
One Ancient Debris will smelt into one Netherite Scrap.
Netherite Ingot Recipe
Lodestone Recipe

Finding a Lodestone

You can also grab a lodestone from a Bastion Remnant Bridge Chest in the Nether—it’s a guaranteed drop.

Binding the Compass

  1. Place the lodestone at your house (like near your bed).
  2. Hold your compass and right-click (or tap) the lodestone.
  3. The compass turns into a Lodestone Compass, glowing like it’s enchanted and always pointing to that lodestone, even in the Nether or End, as long as it’s not broken.

If the lodestone gets destroyed, the compass goes back to the World Spawn or spins in other dimensions. Store it in a chest if you need to move the lodestone, and it’ll keep its link.

Method 2: Use Cheats to Change the World Spawn

Want a quick fix? Use cheats to set the World Spawn to your house so all compasses point there.

Use cheats if you don't want to make a lodestone.

Steps:

  1. Make sure cheats are on in your world settings (turn them on when creating the world or use /gamerule commandBlockOutput true if you’re an operator).
  2. Stand where you want the spawn point in your house.
  3. Open chat and type: /setworldspawn
    • Or use exact coordinates: /setworldspawn
    • Using ~ sets it to where you’re standing.
  4. Restart or keep playing—your compass now points to your house.

Heads-up: In multiplayer, this changes the spawn for everyone, and the World Spawn snaps to the chunk’s center, so it might be slightly off from your bed.

Those are the two answers we have for your question of how to make a compass point to your house in Minecraft. We hope that you have found the information you need in our article today. For more in-depth Minecraft guides, visit our website at GuruGamer.com.

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