Easily one of the most useful items in Minecraft is the compass. Crafting one will point to your world spawn point, helping out if you find yourself lost during your adventures in the survival game.
However, compasses become obsolete if your base isn’t anywhere near the world spawn point. Sure, you can use Minecraft console commands to change the spawn point if you’re the Minecraft server owner, or have admin permissions, but if that does not apply to you, you’ll want to learn about how lodestones can alter the direction a compass points. That’s where we come in.
Lodestones alter the place that your compass points to. It can also be used in the Nether, the End, and the overworld, whereas compasses only usually work in the overworld. Lodestones in the real world are naturally-occurring magnets, and rare to find.