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

Nature's Compass is an item that lets you search for a biome's location anywhere in the world and view information about it. If you're hunting for a specific biome, whether vanilla or modded, this is the tool for the job.^[1]

This pack includes version 1.21.1-3.4.0 for NeoForge.^[2]

How you use it

• Right-click with the compass to open the biome selection GUI. From there you can search for a biome or view information about it.^[1]
• Once a biome is found, information about it is displayed on the HUD.^[1]
• Shift-right-click to reset the compass's state.^[1]
• When the compass isn't pointing at a biome, it points at the world spawn.^[1]

Who it's for

It's for anyone who wants to find a particular biome without wandering aimlessly. It supports all registered biomes, so biomes added by other mods in the pack are covered too. The mod's own page says things like blacklisted biomes and the maximum search distance can be adjusted in its config file.^[1]

The compass only finds biomes. If you want to locate structures, the mod's page points to a separate mod, Explorer's Compass.^[1]

Unverified The sources I have don't show Nature's Compass in any quest or on the ATM Star path, and they don't give this pack's recipe or config values for it. I can't say where it fits in this pack's progression.

Your first step in this pack is simple: make a Nature's Compass. It lets you search for a biome anywhere in the world and view information about it. It supports all registered biomes, both vanilla and modded.^[1]

Craft the Nature's Compass

The pack has its own shaped crafting recipe for the compass. Here is the exact in-pack version:^[3]

Nature's CompassMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any sapling	any log	any sapling
any log	Compass	any log
any sapling	any log	any sapling

Recipe id: naturescompass:natures_compass

Pick a biome

Right-click with the compass to open the biome selection screen. From there you can search for a biome or just view information about it.^[1]

Once a biome is found, information about it is displayed on your HUD. While the compass is not pointing at a biome, it points at the world spawn instead.^[1]

The repair recipe

The pack also includes a shapeless recipe for an existing Nature's Compass, listed as the repair recipe.^[3]

Nature's CompassMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Nature's Compass
• Compass

Recipe id: naturescompass:repair_natures_compass

Good to know

• The mod's config file can adjust things like blacklisted biomes and the maximum search distance.^[1]
• If you want a compass that locates structures instead of biomes, the mod's author points to a separate mod called Explorer's Compass.^[1]

Nature's Compass from Nature's Compass is a single item with no machines, power or multiblocks to set up. It finds biomes for you anywhere in the world, so the mechanics are all about how you use the compass.^[1][4]

Using the compass

• Right-click with it to open the biome selection GUI. From there you can search for a biome or view information about it.^[1]
• Once a biome is found, information about it is shown on the HUD.^[1]
• Shift-right-click to reset the compass's state.^[1]
• While the compass is not pointing at a biome, it points at the world spawn.^[1]

It supports every registered biome, vanilla and modded. That means biomes added by other mods in the pack can be searched for the same way as vanilla ones.^[1]

Getting and repairing it

The pack has two recipes for the compass: the one that makes it, and a shapeless repair recipe.^[3]

Nature's CompassMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any sapling	any log	any sapling
any log	Compass	any log
any sapling	any log	any sapling

Recipe id: naturescompass:natures_compass

A shaped crafting recipe from the mod.

Nature's CompassMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Nature's Compass
• Compass

Recipe id: naturescompass:repair_natures_compass

A shapeless crafting recipe that gives you a Nature's Compass back.

Config

The mod's project page says things like blacklisted biomes and the maximum search distance can be adjusted in its config file.^[1]

Unverified What the pack sets for the biome blacklist and the maximum search distance is not shown in the sources here. Those values live in the mod's config file, which the sources do not include.

Nature's Compass doesn't have a tier ladder in this pack. There is one item, Nature's Compass, and the pack's recipe data shows one crafting recipe for it plus one repair recipe.^[3]

Crafting it

The mod's own shaped crafting recipe is the only recipe in the pack's recipe dump that makes the item from scratch. Here is the exact in-pack version.^[3]

Nature's CompassMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any sapling	any log	any sapling
any log	Compass	any log
any sapling	any log	any sapling

Recipe id: naturescompass:natures_compass

This is the mod's shaped crafting recipe as it appears in the pack's recipe dump.

Repairing it

There is also a shapeless recipe named as a repair recipe, and it gives you a Nature's Compass as its result. Check the block below for what it takes.^[3]

Nature's CompassMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Nature's Compass
• Compass

Recipe id: naturescompass:repair_natures_compass

This is the mod's shapeless repair recipe as it appears in the pack's recipe dump.

Unverified The sources here show no quests, quest-path steps or upgrade tiers for this mod, so I am not describing any. Any quest steps would be told in the pack's quest book, and the sources here do not show them.

All the Mods 10: To the Sky 2.0.4 ships Nature's Compass 1.21.1-3.4.0-neoforge. The mod has been in the pack since 1.1.1 or earlier, so if you've been playing a while, you've had it the whole time.^[2]

3.4.0 (the version in this pack)

The changelog describes everything in this release as a backport to the 1.21.1 NeoForge line. Here's what it brings:^[5]

• You can search for the next instance of a biome you've already located.^[5]
• New config options let the compass consume XP levels when you search for a biome.^[5]
• A config option adds durability to the compass, along with a recipe to repair a broken compass.^[5]
• Biomes with the c:hidden_from_locator_selection tag are now properly hidden, which was previously a bug.^[5]
• The biome selection GUI got improvements.^[5]
• Ecuadorian Spanish translations were added.^[5]

Earlier: 3.0.2

Version 1.21.1-3.0.2-neoforge was the release that updated the mod to NeoForge 1.21.1.^[6]

Unverified The changelogs don't say whether this pack turns on the XP cost or the durability options, so check the mod's config in your instance to see how your compass behaves.