Explorer's Compass in All the Mods 10

Explorer's Compass is a compass that locates structures anywhere in the world. If you've ever wandered for ages looking for a village, a temple or a modded dungeon, this is the item that saves you the trip.^[1]

It's for anyone who wants to go straight to a structure instead of exploring blindly. That fits both early-game loot hunting and later trips for modded structures. It supports all registered structures, vanilla and modded alike.^[1]

How it works

• Right-click with the compass to open a GUI. There you pick a structure, or a group of structures, to search for.^[1]
• Shift-right-click to reset the compass state.^[1]
• Info about your current search shows up on the HUD.^[1]
• When the compass isn't pointing at a structure, it points at the world spawn.^[1]

The mod has a config file where you can adjust things like the maximum search radius and which structures are blacklisted. I can't confirm the pack's values for those from my sources, so check the config in your instance if you need exact numbers.^[1]

Where it fits in the pack

The pack ships version 1.21.1-3.4.0 for NeoForge, and the mod has been in the pack since 2.25 or earlier.^[2]

You'll meet it in the Tips and Tricks quest chapter, in the quest "Compasses for Searching" quest. The quest accepts either this compass or Nature's Compass. Nature's Compass lets you pick a biome and search for it, and the Explorer's Compass does the same job for structures.^[3]

The first thing worth making in this pack is the Explorer's Compass. It locates structures anywhere in the world, vanilla and modded alike, so it saves you a lot of aimless wandering when you're hunting for something specific.^[1]

The pack's quest book points you to it too. The quest "Compasses for Searching" quest sits in the Tips and Tricks chapter. It explains that the Explorer's Compass works like Nature's Compass, but for structures instead of biomes.^[3]

Step by step

1. Craft the compass. The pack adds its own recipe for it, shown below.^[4]
2. Right-click with it to open a GUI. There you pick a structure, or a group of structures, to search for.^[1]
3. Start the search and follow the compass. Information about the search shows up on your HUD.^[1][3]
4. Shift-right-click to reset the compass state when you want to search for something else.^[1]

Explorer's CompassAdded by the pack

Shaped (kubejs)

Shaped (kubejs)

Netherite Ingot	Enderium Gear	Netherite Ingot
Enderium Gear	Recovery Compass	Enderium Gear
Netherite Ingot	Enderium Gear	Netherite Ingot

Recipe id: kubejs:kjs/explorerscompass_explorerscompass

This recipe is added by the pack itself.

Making another one

The mod also has a shapeless recipe with the id repair_explorers_compass, which turns an Explorer's Compass plus a vanilla compass into an Explorer's Compass.^[4]

Explorer's CompassMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Explorer's Compass
• Compass

Recipe id: explorerscompass:repair_explorers_compass

This one comes from the mod itself, not from the pack.

The mod's config file lets you adjust properties like the maximum search radius and which structures are blacklisted.^[1]

Explorer's Compass is a single item, not a machine system. The sources describe nothing about multiblocks, power, fluids or automation for it, so this section covers how the Explorer's Compass behaves and which config options shape it.^[1]

Using the compass

• Right-click with the compass to open a GUI. There 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 structure search shows 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, vanilla and modded.^[1]

How the search is configured in this pack

The search is limited by two options. General.maxRadius is the maximum radius searched for a structure, and this pack sets it to 5,000 (allowed range 0 to 1,000,000). Raising it increases search accuracy but can make the process more resource intensive.^[5]

General.maxSamples caps how many samples are taken when searching for a structure. The pack sets it to 50,000 (allowed range 0 to 100,000,000).^[5]

General.displayCoordinates is true in this pack. That means the HUD shows the precise coordinates and distance of a located structure, so you don't have to rely only on the direction the compass points.^[5]

General.structureBlacklist is empty in this pack, so no structures are hidden from the GUI or blocked from searching. Entries you add to it are hidden and can't be searched for. Wildcards work: * matches any number of characters and ? matches one.^[5]

Getting and repairing the compass

The pack adds its own crafting recipe for the compass, shown below.^[4]

Explorer's CompassAdded by the pack

Shaped (kubejs)

Shaped (kubejs)

Netherite Ingot	Enderium Gear	Netherite Ingot
Enderium Gear	Recovery Compass	Enderium Gear
Netherite Ingot	Enderium Gear	Netherite Ingot

Recipe id: kubejs:kjs/explorerscompass_explorerscompass

This shaped recipe is added by the pack.

The mod also has its own shapeless recipe with the id repair_explorers_compass.^[4]

Explorer's CompassMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Explorer's Compass
• Compass

Recipe id: explorerscompass:repair_explorers_compass

This shapeless recipe comes from the mod itself.

There is no tier ladder to climb with the Explorer's Compass. The sources show a single item, Explorer's Compass, with one quest that introduces it and a pack-added recipe alongside the mod's own.^[3][4]

The quest

The quest "Compasses for Searching" quest sits in the Tips and Tricks chapter of the pack's quest book. Its task accepts either Nature's Compass or Explorer's Compass.^[3]

The quest text explains the split. Nature's Compass gives you a list of biomes you can search for. The Explorer's Compass works the same way, but it finds structures instead of biomes.^[3]

With the Nature's Compass, the quest says to select a biome, hit Search, and then check the info in the top left while the compass points toward the target. It says the Explorer's Compass works the same way.^[3]

Crafting it in this pack

The pack adds its own shaped recipe for the Explorer's Compass, so this is the version to follow here.^[4]

Explorer's CompassAdded by the pack

Shaped (kubejs)

Shaped (kubejs)

Netherite Ingot	Enderium Gear	Netherite Ingot
Enderium Gear	Recovery Compass	Enderium Gear
Netherite Ingot	Enderium Gear	Netherite Ingot

Recipe id: kubejs:kjs/explorerscompass_explorerscompass

This recipe is added by the pack, not by the mod itself.

The mod also keeps its own shapeless crafting recipe, which takes an Explorer's Compass and produces an Explorer's Compass.^[4]

Explorer's CompassMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Explorer's Compass
• Compass

Recipe id: explorerscompass:repair_explorers_compass

This one comes from the mod and is listed under the repair recipe id.

Explorer's Compass doesn't need other mods to work. It locates structures, both vanilla and modded. In this pack, though, it connects with other mods in two ways: through its crafting recipe and through a quest that pairs it with a biome compass.^[1][3][4]

Pack-made crafting recipe

The recipe for Explorer's Compass is added by the pack through KubeJS. It is a shaped recipe that mixes items from the All the Ores namespace with vanilla items, so you will need to progress into the pack's metals before you can make one. The exact in-pack recipe is below.^[4]

Explorer's CompassAdded by the pack

Shaped (kubejs)

Shaped (kubejs)

Netherite Ingot	Enderium Gear	Netherite Ingot
Enderium Gear	Recovery Compass	Enderium Gear
Netherite Ingot	Enderium Gear	Netherite Ingot

Recipe id: kubejs:kjs/explorerscompass_explorerscompass

Pairing with Nature's Compass

The quest "Compasses for Searching" quest in the Tips and Tricks chapter treats Nature's Compass and Explorer's Compass as a pair. You can hand in either one to complete it.^[3]

The quest text explains the split. Nature's Compass gives you a list of biomes to search for. Explorer's Compass works the same way but finds structures instead of biomes. The mod's own project page also points biome hunters to Nature's Compass.^[1][3]

Unverified No other recipes or quests in the sources link Explorer's Compass with additional mods, so any further integrations are unconfirmed.

In this pack, Explorer's Compass appears in the Tips and Tricks quest chapter. There is no long questline built around it, so this section is short.^[3]

Tips and Tricks: Compasses for Searching

The quest "Compasses for Searching" quest is a helper quest for finding biomes and structures. Its task accepts either the Nature's Compass or the Explorer's Compass, so you only need whichever you have to complete it.^[3]

The quest text explains how the compasses work. The Nature's Compass gives you a list of biomes you can search for. You select a biome, hit Search, and the compass points you toward it, with some info shown in the top left. The Explorer's Compass works the same way, but it searches for structures instead of biomes.^[3]

Explorer's Compass keeps its settings in one file, and the options below are the ones you're most likely to touch. The mod's own description says you can adjust things like the maximum search radius and blacklisted structures there. Here's exactly how this pack sets each one.^[1][5]

Search settings

• General.maxRadius is set to 5,000 in this pack. It's the furthest the compass will search for a structure, and the allowed range is 0 to 1,000,000. Raising it increases search accuracy but can make the search more resource intensive.^[5]
• General.maxSamples is set to 50,000 in this pack. It caps how many samples the compass takes while searching for a structure, and the allowed range is 0 to 100,000,000.^[5]

HUD and teleporting

• General.displayCoordinates is true in this pack. When you locate a structure, the HUD shows its precise coordinates and distance, so you don't have to rely on where the compass needle points.^[5]
• General.allowTeleport is false in this pack. If you turn it on, a player in creative mode, opped, or in cheat mode can teleport to a located structure.^[5]

Hiding structures

General.structureBlacklist is an empty list in this pack, so no structures are hidden. Anything you add disappears from the compass GUI and can't be searched for. Wildcards work: * matches any number of characters and ? matches exactly one. For example, minecraft:*village* would match every village structure.^[5]

Unverified The sources list the values this pack uses but don't say which of them differ from the mod's defaults, so this guide doesn't claim that any of them were changed.

Explorer's Compass is an older member of the pack. The mod list shows it was first included in All the Mods 10 2.25 or earlier.^[2]

Pack release changes

• All the Mods 10 7.0: Explorer's Compass was updated from 1.21.1-3.0.3-neoforge to 1.21.1-3.4.0-neoforge.^[6]
• All the Mods 10 8.1: the pack ships 1.21.1-3.4.0-neoforge (file ExplorersCompass-1.21.1-3.4.0-neoforge.jar), the same version the 7.0 changelog lists.^[2][6]

If you're on 8.1, you have the 3.4.0 build that the pack moved to in 7.0.^[2][6]

Unverified What actually changed between Explorer's Compass 3.0.3 and 3.4.0 (new features, fixes or config changes) is not shown in the sources here. No changelogs for the shipped jars are stored, and the pack changelog only records the version bump.