Minecraft: How to Make a Compass

Like most items in Minecraft, you need to combine several different materials if you want to create a compass. Specifically, you need to collect four iron ingots and one redstone. Once you have these materials in your inventory, follow the steps below to make a compass.

• ♦Open a crafting table
• ♦Place the red stone in the middle of the grid
• ♦Place iron ingots on top, bottom and both sides of redstone (see image above)
• ♦Move the compass from the crafting table to your inventory

From now on, if you ever get lost, you can use the compass to show you the way home. If you don't know how this works, let me explain. The arrow will always point to your spawn point, where you will go if you die. So if you just started the game, it will point to some random place, but once you build a bed and sleep on it, that will be your new spawn point. So if you get lost, your compass will point you to the bed, which is hopefully inside your house!

If you don't have the items we mentioned above, here's a rundown of where to find them. Iron ingots are the product of iron ore found in most underground areas. So just take the ore, go to the furnace and smelt the ore to turn it into an ingot. 

Unfortunately, finding Redstone will be a little more difficult, as you will need to mine it from 16 Nether blocks. This means that you will have to dig quite deep. Also, it can only be harvested with an iron or diamond pickaxe. It's worth noting that Redstone can also be bought from villagers and can drop from witches.