Nature's Compass in FTB Evolution 2

Same as in the All the Mods 10: To the Sky 2.0.4 guide

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.

Same as in the All the Mods 11 0.8.0-beta guide

Your first stop is Nature's Compass. It lets you search for a biome's location anywhere in the world and view information about it. It supports all registered biomes, both vanilla and modded, so it works with the biomes added by other mods in the pack too.^[1]

Step 1: craft the compass

The pack has a shaped crafting recipe for the compass. The block below shows the exact in-pack recipe, so check it there rather than trusting any memory of the mod's defaults.^[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

The in-pack shaped recipe for Nature's Compass.

Step 2: learn the controls

• 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]
• Shift-right-click to reset the compass's state.^[1]
• When the compass is not pointing at a biome, it points at the world spawn.^[1]
• Once a biome is found, information about it is shown on the HUD.^[1]

Repairing it

The pack also has a separate shapeless crafting recipe with the id repair_natures_compass, which also gives you a Nature's Compass.^[3]

Nature's CompassMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Nature's Compass
• Compass

Recipe id: naturescompass:repair_natures_compass

The in-pack shapeless repair recipe.

Unverified The mod's project page says blacklisted biomes and the maximum search distance can be adjusted in its config file. The sources here do not show a config file for this mod in the pack, so the pack's values for these are unverified.

Same as in the All the Mods 11 0.8.0-beta guide

Nature's Compass has no machines, multiblocks, power or fluids to set up. Everything runs through one item, the Nature's Compass, which lets you search for a biome's location anywhere in the world and view information about it.^[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]
• 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]
• Once a biome is found, information about it is shown on the HUD.^[1]

It supports all registered biomes, both vanilla and modded. So biomes added by the other mods in the pack show up in the same selection GUI.^[1]

Crafting and repair

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

The pack's crafting recipe for the compass, a shaped crafting recipe.

Nature's CompassMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Nature's Compass
• Compass

Recipe id: naturescompass:repair_natures_compass

A separate shapeless crafting recipe that also produces the compass, named as a repair recipe.

Search settings

The mod lets blacklisted biomes and the maximum search distance be adjusted in its config file.^[1]

Unverified Which biomes are blacklisted and what maximum search distance this pack uses is set in the mod's config file. The sources here do not show that file, so those values are unverified.

Same as in the All the Mods 11 0.8.0-beta guide

The pack's recipe dump lists a shaped crafting recipe and a shapeless recipe that both make Nature's Compass from Nature's Compass. The shapeless one is the repair recipe.^[3]

Crafting the compass

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

The shaped crafting recipe for Nature's Compass, shown as it is in this pack.

Repairing the compass

Nature's CompassMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Nature's Compass
• Compass

Recipe id: naturescompass:repair_natures_compass

The shapeless repair recipe, which also gives you Nature's Compass.

Same as in the FTB Evolution 2 1.1.0 guide

Everything for Nature's Compass lives in one file, config/naturescompass-common.toml, under the General section. The mod's own description says blacklisted biomes and maximum search distance are adjustable there, and you'll find those plus a few other options below.^[1][5]

Durability and XP cost

• General.compassDurability is 0 (range 0 to 10,000). This is the number of successful searches before the compass breaks, and 0 disables durability, so your compass never wears out here.^[5]
• General.defaultXpLevels is 0 (range 0 to 3), so a biome search costs no XP levels by default.^[5]
• General.perBiomeXpLevels is empty. When filled, it overrides the default cost for specific biomes using "biome_id,num_levels" pairs, with a maximum of 3 levels. With the list empty, every biome uses the default cost.^[5]

How the search works

• General.maxNextSearches is 25 (range 0 to 10,000). It caps how many times you can ask for the next instance of a located biome. Setting it to 0 turns that off, and the compass then always finds the nearest biome.^[5]
• General.maxSamples is 50,000 (range 0 to 1,000,000). This is the maximum number of samples taken when searching for a biome.^[5]
• General.radiusModifier is 2,500 (range 0 to 1,000,000). Biome size multiplied by this value gives the maximum search radius, and raising it increases search accuracy.^[5]
• General.sampleSpaceModifier is 16 (range 0 to 1,000,000). Biome size multiplied by this value gives the sample space. Lowering it increases accuracy but makes the search more resource intensive.^[5]

Teleporting, HUD and blacklist

• General.allowTeleport is true. A player can teleport to a located biome when in creative mode, opped, or in cheat mode.^[5]
• General.displayCoordinates is true, so the HUD can show the precise coordinates and distance of what you found instead of leaving you to follow the needle.^[5]
• General.biomeBlacklist is empty, so no biome is blocked from searching. If you add entries, they use resource locations, and * and ? work as wildcards.^[5]

FTB Evolution 2 1.2.1 ships Nature's Compass version 26.1-3.3.0-neoforge. The mod has been in the pack since FTB Evolution 2 1.0.2 or earlier, so you have had it for a while.^[6]

Changes in 26.1-3.3.0

This is the version you get in 1.2.1. Here is what its own changelog lists:^[6][7]

• Updated to NeoForge 26.1.^[7]
• Added a config option to give the compass durability, plus a recipe to repair a broken compass.^[7]
• Fixed the compass HUD info not rendering when any debug elements are set to always-on.^[7]
• Fixed biomes with the c:hidden_from_locator_selection tag not being hidden.^[7]
• Fixed biome names not displaying properly when the fixBiomeNames config option is disabled.^[7]

Unverified The sources here do not show any pack changelog entries for Nature's Compass, so whether the pack changed its durability option or recipes between releases is not confirmed. Check the pack's own release notes for that.