How to make a Minecraft recovery compass and use it

Minecraft Recovery Compass
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Having a Minecraft Recovery Compass may not seem that important to you at first... Until you respawn and leave all your items behind. If those pesky zombies get the better of you, a Recovery Compass will guide you back to your precious belongings - very handy if you just lost a rare material such as 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Minecraft Amethyst Shards. As useful as that sounds though, Minecraft Recovery Comp💃asses are difficult to craft.

Here's how to get a Recovery Compass and how to use it in 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Minecraft.

Minecraft Recovery Compass how to use

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What does the Minecraft Recovery Compass do?

The Minecraft Recovery Compass always points to the position of your most recent death. So as long as you keep one in your 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Minecraft House, ready to grab after any unfortunate incidents, you'll be able to quickly locate and get back to where you just died. Follow the compass' directions and you can then recover all your precious items, whether they include 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Minecraft Copper, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Minecraft Glow Berries, or your best 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Enchanted Axe, plus some of your hard-earned XP.

However, the Recovery Compass only points to your most recent death provided you are in the same dimension as the one you died in. So for example, if you die in the Overworld and then go into the Nether, your Recovery Compass will 𝔉just spin♕ wildly until you return to the Overworld.

How to craft a Recovery Compass

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To craft yourself a Minecraft Recovery Compass, you’ll need a regular Compass and eight Echo Shards. To loot eight Echo Shards, you'll need to explore the Ancient City found in a Deep Dark biome (you can use one of our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best Minecraft seeds to spawn near such a biome). This’ll requi💃re lots of exploring and stealth to avoid Wardens, so be careful. Once you’ve got the eight shards, take them and your Compass to a crafting table and arrange the shards in a square around the Compass. Ta-dah! You’ll now be able to locate your lost items after death!

Minecraft Recovery Compass respawn

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If you need to get a basic compass first then you can either take a naturally generated one froꦏm a structure, such as a Shipwreck, Village, or An🙈cient City, or you can craft one with:

  • 1 Redstone Dust
  • 4 Iron Ingots

However you get one, just remember to leave the Minecraft Recovꦰery Compass near your respawn point so it's ready to grab when you die. Then you'🃏ve just got to get all your stuff back... 

A Recovery Compass will protect your items, but be sure to protect your base too - a 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Minecraft Lightning Rod will save wooden houses from incoming lightning strikes.

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