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Almost every Minecraft player knows what it's like to get lost on an expedition. If you're not ready to give up on your old house and start a new civilization in the wilderness, there are many tricks you can use for getting back home. Even better, for future expeditions, use your coordinates, a map, or a series of landmarks to prevent yourself losing track of home another time. | Almost every Minecraft player knows what it's like to get lost on an expedition. If you're not ready to give up on your old house and start a new civilization in the wilderness, there are many tricks you can use for getting back home. Even better, for future expeditions, use your coordinates, a map, or a series of landmarks to prevent yourself losing track of home another time. | ||
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#Use this method to find your original spawn point. Each Minecraft world has a world spawn point, where new players appear. Compasses only point to this location, which may be helpful if you built your base near where you first appeared. They will ''not'' point to your individual spawn point, which is the last bed you rested in. | #Use this method to find your original spawn point. Each Minecraft world has a world spawn point, where new players appear. Compasses only point to this location, which may be helpful if you built your base near where you first appeared. They will ''not'' point to your individual spawn point, which is the last bed you rested in. | ||
#*See the other methods if you are trying to find a house far away from the world spawn point. | #*See the other methods if you are trying to find a house far away from the world spawn point. | ||
| − | #Acquire iron and redstone. To make a compass, you'll need four iron ingots and one redstone. Using an [[Make | + | #Acquire iron and redstone. To make a compass, you'll need four iron ingots and one redstone. Using an [[Make a Pickaxe on Minecraft|stone pickaxe or better]] for iron, or a [[Make a Pickaxe on Minecraft|iron pickaxe]] or better for redstone, you can obtain the raw ingredients. Redstone ore looks like a stone block with red flecks, and is found deep underground, less than 16 blocks above the bedrock.<ref>http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Redstone_Ore</ref> Iron ore has beige flecks instead, and is usually fairly easy to find. |
#*You can also find redstone by killing witches, trading with villagers, or looting jungle temples. | #*You can also find redstone by killing witches, trading with villagers, or looting jungle temples. | ||
| − | #Smelt four iron ingots. [[Make | + | #Smelt four iron ingots. [[Make a Furnace in Minecraft|Build a furnace]] and click on it to begin smelting. Add any type of fuel, such as coal or wood, to the lower box, and put the iron ore in the top box. This will smelt the iron ore into iron ingots. |
#Craft a compass. Click on a crafting table and place a piece of redstone into the center box. Place the four iron ingots above, below, to the left, and to the right of the redstone. A compass should appear in the results box. Drag it to your inventory. | #Craft a compass. Click on a crafting table and place a piece of redstone into the center box. Place the four iron ingots above, below, to the left, and to the right of the redstone. A compass should appear in the results box. Drag it to your inventory. | ||
#*If you want to save materials, you can look at the compass needle, then take the ingredients back into your inventory instead of the compass. The compass needle in the icon will point toward the spawn point, just as it does when equipped. It can be tedious trying to use a compass this way on a long trip, however. | #*If you want to save materials, you can look at the compass needle, then take the ingredients back into your inventory instead of the compass. The compass needle in the icon will point toward the spawn point, just as it does when equipped. It can be tedious trying to use a compass this way on a long trip, however. | ||
