Explorer's Compass in All the Mods 10: To the Sky

Explorer's Compass is a compass that helps you find structures anywhere in the world. Instead of wandering until you stumble on a village or a modded dungeon, you tell the compass what you want and follow it.^[1]

This pack includes Explorer's Compass version 1.21.1-3.4.0-neoforge.^[2]

What it does

• Right-click with the compass to open a GUI where you pick a structure, or a group of structures, to search for.^[1]
• Shift-right-click to reset the compass state.^[1]
• Information about your current structure search is shown on the HUD.^[1]
• When the compass isn't pointing at a structure, it points at the world spawn.^[1]
• It supports all registered structures, both vanilla and modded, so it also works for structures added by the other mods in the pack.^[1]

Who it's for

It's for anyone who wants to find structures without long blind exploring: loot hunters, players tracking down a specific structure, and anyone who wants to head straight to something that modded worldgen has added. If you want to find biomes instead, the mod's author points to a separate mod, Nature's Compass.^[1]

Unverified The crafting recipe, the pack's config values and where the compass fits into this pack's progression could not be confirmed from the available sources, so check the in-game recipe viewer for the exact recipe. This site does hold All the Mods 10: To the Sky's own recipes, read from the pack itself: look the item up in the item browser.

Good news: getting started with Explorer's Compass is a one-step job. The first thing to make is the Explorer's Compass, and everything else in this mod builds on it. It locates structures anywhere in the world, vanilla or modded, so it's a handy early tool for finding what you're after.^[1]

Step 1: Craft the Explorer's Compass

The pack has its own crafting recipe for the compass. It's a shaped recipe, so the layout matters. Here's the exact in-pack version:^[3]

Explorer's CompassMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Cobweb	Cracked Stone Bricks	Cobweb
Cracked Stone Bricks	Compass	Cracked Stone Bricks
Cobweb	Cracked Stone Bricks	Cobweb

Recipe id: explorerscompass:explorers_compass

Step 2: Pick a structure

Right-click with the compass to open a GUI. From there you can select a structure, or a group of structures, to search for. Details about the search show up on your HUD while it runs.^[1]

If you want to start over, shift-right-click to reset the compass state. When the compass isn't pointing at a structure, it points at the world spawn instead, so don't be surprised if it seems to be heading home.^[1]

Repair recipe

The pack also includes a shapeless recipe for repairing the compass. You can check it here:^[3]

Explorer's CompassMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Explorer's Compass
• Compass

Recipe id: explorerscompass:repair_explorers_compass

Unverified No quests in this pack involve the Explorer's Compass, and I couldn't confirm the pack's search radius or blacklist settings, so treat any specific numbers you hear for those as unverified.

There are no machines, multiblocks, power or fluid systems to worry about here. Explorer's Compass adds one item, the Explorer's Compass, and it locates structures anywhere in the world.^[1][4]

Using the compass

1. Right-click with the compass to open a GUI. There you pick a structure, or a group of structures, to search for.^[1]
2. Once a search is running, information about the structure it found is shown on your HUD.^[1]
3. Shift-right-click to reset the compass state when you want to start over.^[1]

When the compass is not pointing at a structure, it points at the world spawn. So a needle aimed at spawn means no structure is currently targeted.^[1]

It supports all registered structures, both vanilla and modded. That means structures added by the other mods in the pack show up as search options too.^[1]

Crafting and repair

Explorer's CompassMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Cobweb	Cracked Stone Bricks	Cobweb
Cracked Stone Bricks	Compass	Cracked Stone Bricks
Cobweb	Cracked Stone Bricks	Cobweb

Recipe id: explorerscompass:explorers_compass

The pack's crafting recipe for the Explorer's Compass.

Explorer's CompassMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Explorer's Compass
• Compass

Recipe id: explorerscompass:repair_explorers_compass

A shapeless recipe in the pack that outputs an Explorer's Compass.

Search settings

The mod lets you adjust properties like the maximum search radius and blacklisted structures in its config file.^[1]

Unverified The maximum search radius and the structure blacklist are set in the mod's config file. The sources here do not show this pack's values for either, so check the config yourself in game if you need them.

The recipe dump for this pack lists a crafting recipe and a repair recipe for Explorer's Compass, and nothing beyond those. So this section covers how you get one and how you repair it.^[3]

Crafting it

The crafting recipe is a shaped recipe, and the dump tags it as a mod recipe. Here is the exact in-pack version:^[3]

Explorer's CompassMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Cobweb	Cracked Stone Bricks	Cobweb
Cracked Stone Bricks	Compass	Cracked Stone Bricks
Cobweb	Cracked Stone Bricks	Cobweb

Recipe id: explorerscompass:explorers_compass

This is a shaped recipe, so the layout in the grid matters.

Repairing it

There is also a shapeless recipe that gives you back an Explorer's Compass. Because it is shapeless, you can place the items anywhere in the crafting grid.^[3]

Explorer's CompassMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Explorer's Compass
• Compass

Recipe id: explorerscompass:repair_explorers_compass

This one is shapeless, so the placement in the grid does not matter.

All the Mods 10: To the Sky 2.0.4 ships Explorer's Compass 1.21.1-3.4.0-neoforge. The mod has been in the pack since All the Mods 10: To the Sky 1.1.1 or earlier. The pack changelogs have no entries for this mod, so everything below comes from the mod's own changelogs.^[2]

1.21.1-3.4.0 (the version in this pack)

This release brings a batch of features and fixes backported to the NeoForge 1.21.1 build. Here is what the changelog lists:^[5]

• A config option to add durability to the compass, plus a recipe to repair a broken compass.^[5]
• A feature to search for the next instance of a structure you have already located.^[5]
• Config options to make the compass consume XP levels when it searches for a structure.^[5]
• A fix for structures with the c:hidden_from_locator_selection tag not being hidden.^[5]
• A fix for certain structure types where instances west of the search starting position would be missed.^[5]
• Improvements to the structure selection GUI.^[5]
• Turkish and Ukrainian translations.^[5]

The changelog describes the durability and XP cost features as config options. The sources don't say whether this pack turns them on or what values it uses, so check the mod's config in your own instance before counting on either one.^[5]

1.21.1-3.0.3

This was the update of the mod to NeoForge 1.21.1, and the changelog lists nothing else for it.^[6]