Data Packs Game Mechanic

Cartographer Compasses

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Minecraft 1.20
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GatKong
Lvl 70Legendary Technomancer
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Cartographer Compasses adds new loot to the Cartographer's loot chest. One special compass will typically be found in each chest.
This datapack does not overwrite the vanilla Minecraft village_cartographer.json. It simply adds the new compass to the chest.

These special compasses help the adventurous player find specific items in a "getting warmer-getting colder" fashion, by letting the player know how far they are from their destination when they hold the special compass in their main hand. Players wandering closer will see the distance decrease, and players wandering further away will see the distance increase. The compass needle itself is unchanged, and will function as it always has pointing to spawn.

Some destinations provide live distance feedback. However some destinations, those that can be super far away (and thus lag the server trying to find them repeatedly) will provide distance updates only once every minute.

Special compasses that may be found in the Cartographer's loot include:
  • Ancient city compass
  • Bee nest compass
  • Desert pyramid compass
  • End city compass
  • Home compass
  • Igloo compass
  • Jungle temple compass
  • Mineshaft compass
  • Nether fossil compass
  • Nether portal compass
  • Ocean ruin compass
  • Pillager outpost compass
  • Ruined portal compass
  • Shipwreck compass
  • Mushroom biome compass
  • Swamp hut compass
  • Trail ruins compass
  • Village compass
  • Fortress compass
"Certificate of Gapple Excellence" awarded to this datapack
1. No per-tick functions to lag the server.
2. Properly formatted target selection.
3. Performs the intended function seamlessly.
4. No resource pack dependency.

  Have something to say?

illager
03/22/2025 4:05 pm
He/Him • Level 63 : High Grandmaster Loremaster Theorist
This is really cool! It's a pretty basic mechanic, but it goes a long way. It's like a more convenient version of the cartographer explorer maps.
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GatKong
03/23/2025 1:48 am
Level 70 : Legendary Technomancer
Thank you 😸
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SsrrjryjfjFUKR
04/25/2024 4:43 pm
Level 1 : New Miner
Da quello che ho visto il datapack è bello ma mi stavo chiedendo una cosa, se installo un datapack che modifica i villaggi tipo (overhauled village) nei bauli del villaggio modificato si può sempre trovare la bussola?
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DanYuseong
02/06/2024 5:42 am
Level 3 : Apprentice Network
Great Datapack! Are there any function commands I can use to acquire these compasses? I have Villager Shopkeepers on my server who sell functional blocks/items (including ones from Datapacks), that's why I'm wondering.
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GatKong
02/06/2024 11:37 pm
Level 70 : Legendary Technomancer
loot give @s loot gatkong:compasses/village_cartographer
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