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How to use the Compass on Java

Find out all you need to know about how to use the Ender Compass on Java Edition!

Updated over 3 months ago

In the Minecraft Club, the Ender Compass is the main point of navigation across the club. It lets you go to other rooms, find & join breakouts, friend players, create private breakouts and use room specific features such as managing your land on Survival. It's a core aspect of the Minecraft Club and therefore it's important that your child knows how to use it!

❗ The Ender Compass works differently on Java Edition than it does on Bedrock Edition. If you play on Bedrock, read this guide instead.

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How to open the Ender Compass

To open the Ender Compass, you'll need to hold the compass item in your hot bar.

  1. Navigate to Slot 9 in your hot bar

  2. Hold the compass and Right-Click

  3. The Ender Compass has opened!

Using the Ender Compass

The Ender Compass will look different depending on where you are in the club. For example, the Compass on Survival lets you manage your land, whereas in Player Worlds it lets you manage access to your player world.

Lobby Ender Compass

Learn how to use the Ender Compass in the Lobby room.

Navigating the Club

At the top of the Compass, you'll see buttons that take you to the different rooms or areas in the Minecraft Club.

From left to right, you have the following buttons:

  1. Lobby Room - takes you to the lobby room

  2. Player Worlds - opens the player rooms menu

  3. Event Room - takes you to today's event

  4. Survival Room - takes you to the survival room

  5. Creative Room - takes you to the creative room

Accessing Other Features

There are a few buttons in the Lobby Compass that allow you to access other important features within the Minecraft Club. All of these buttons are accessible in every Ender Compass throughout the club.

These buttons are found under the navigation buttons:

  1. Spawn - teleports you to that rooms spawn

  2. Milestones - opens the milestones menu

  3. Breakouts - opens the breakouts menu

  4. Friends - opens the friends menu

Survival Ender Compass

Learn how to use the Ender Compass in the Survival room.

❗ Similar to the Lobby Ender Compass, buttons for navigating the club and buttons to access other features* can be found in the Survival Ender Compass.

Managing Your Land

The Ender Compass in the Survival room lets you view your land (protection stones) and then manage them, such as adding/removing players from your land, renaming your land or teleporting to it.

By default, you can place up to 6 protection stones which will give you individual pieces of land. You'll see Redstone Blocks for any land you haven't claimed with protection stones and Emerald Blocks for any land you have claimed with protection stones.

To manage your land:

  1. Click an Emerald Block (claimed land)

  2. Click the blue Teleport to Land button to teleport to your land

  3. Click the orange Rename Land button to rename your land

  4. Click the green Add Player button to add players to your land

If people are added to your land, their head will show in the slots within the manage land menu. You can click a player's head to remove them from your land.

Creative Ender Compass

Learn how to use the Ender Compass in the Creative room.

❗ Similar to the Lobby Ender Compass, buttons for navigating the club and buttons to access other features can be found in the Survival Ender Compass.

Managing your Plots

The Ender Compass in the Creative room lets you view your plots and then manage them, such as adding/trusting players to your plot, removing them from your plot, renaming your plot or teleporting to it.

When you're standing on a plot you own, it'll show up as an Item Frame item in the compass - otherwise it'll show up as a Painting item.

To manage your plot:

  1. Click the Item Frame or Painting item

  2. Click the blue Teleport to Plot button to teleport to your plot

  3. Click the orange Rename Plot button to rename your plot

  4. Click the green Add Player button to add a player to your plot (they can build while you're online)

  5. Click the yellow Trust Player button to trust a player to your plot (they can build while you're online and offline)

Accessing Creative Features

Aside from managing your plot, there are some specific Creative features you can access directly within the Creative menu.

These buttons include:

  1. Create Plot - creates a new plot (green button)

  2. Teleport to Last Plot - teleports you to the last plot you were at (blue button)

  3. Filter Plot Worlds - filters the plots you're seeing by their worlds (gray button)

Friends in the Ender Compass

When using the compass in any room, clicking the Friends button (pink) will open the Friends menu which lets you add friends, remove friends, manage friends and also teleport to other players in the club.

❗ Opening the Friends menu without already having a friend will prompt you to add a friend now, or do it later. You can still access friend requests and teleport to other players in this menu.

To open the friends menu:

  1. Open the Ender Compass

  2. Click the pink Friends button

If you already have a friend added, in the main Friends menu, you can also open the Teleport to Players menu , view your Friend Requests , Add Friend and Filter or Search for friends.

To add friends:

  1. Click the green Add Friend button in the Friends menu

  2. Look for the player's head, or search for their name

  3. Click their player head to send a friend request

  4. Wait for them to accept!

To view friend requests:

  1. Click the orange Friend Requests button in the Friends menu

  2. Click the player head to confirm the request

  3. Click "yes" to accept it or "no" to decline it!

To manage friends:

  1. Click a friends head in the Friends menu (if you have friends added)

  2. Click the blue Teleport button to teleport to your friend

  3. Click the purple Join Breakout button to speak to friends privately

  4. Click the red Remove Friend button to unfriend the player

Breakouts in the Ender Compass

When using the compass in any room, clicking the purple Breakouts button will open the Breakouts menu which lets you switch between different breakout sections and breakouts within them and talk to kids in separate groups!

To open the breakouts menu:

  1. Open the Ender Compass

  2. Click the purple Breakouts button

You'll want to be connected to a voice room on our web based platform in order to use breakouts via the Ender Compass!

To open a breakout section:

  1. Click a breakout section button at the top of the menu

  2. View all breakouts within the slots below the sections

To join a breakout:

  1. Click a breakout button in the slots under the breakout section.

  2. Talk with other kids!

To join your own breakout:

  1. Click your player head that says "Your Breakout"

  2. Have friends join your breakout by clicking "Join Breakout" in the Ender compass

Player Worlds in the Ender Compass

When using the compass in any room, clicking the Player Worlds button (globe) will open the Player Worlds menu which lets you teleport to your player world, or teleport to your friends player worlds.

To open the player worlds menu:

  1. Open the Ender Compass

  2. Click the Player Worlds button at the top of the compass

To go to your own player world:

  1. Click the Go to your Player World button (looks like a big map!)

  2. Start playing!

To enter a friends player world:

  1. Click the purple Friend Player Worlds button

  2. Find the friend you want to join and click their head

  3. Start playing!

The 5 most recent friend player worlds that you've joined will be shown directly in the Player Worlds menu above the purple "Friend Player Worlds" button.

To add friends to your player world:

  1. Join your player world and open the Ender Compass

  2. Click the green Add Friends button

  3. Find your friends head or search for their name

  4. Add them to your world!

Click the red Remove Friends button to remove players from your player world!

Milestones in the Ender Compass

When using the Ender compass in any room, you can view your Milestone progress and also access rewards for each Milestone you've unlocked.

To open the milestones menu:

  1. Open the Ender Compass

  2. Click the yellow Milestones button

To view your progress & rewards:

  1. Click a blue or green concrete block to claim & view rewards

  2. Click the Info button in Creative or Survival to access quests

  3. Green concrete blocks are milestones you've unlocked & claimed rewards

  4. Blue concrete blocks are milestones you haven't claimed rewards for

  5. Yellow concrete blocks is the milestone you're progressing through

  6. Red concrete blocks are milestones that are locked

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