Elevate Your Mining Experience!

The Miner's Compass is an innovative tool designed for the savvy Minecraft miner. With its unique functionality, this compass is not just a direction finder but a game-changer in your mining adventures.

This mod is perfect for miners who want to streamline their resource gathering, offering a smart, customizable, and efficient way to locate essential ores. Enhance your mining efficiency and never miss valuable ore deposits again with the Miner's Compass!

Key Features

Ore Detection Customization

Customize your search with ease by shift-right-clicking any ore block. The compass can store up to 3 ore types, a limit adjustable via the maxBlocks variable in the configuration file.

Dynamic Targeting System

As you explore the Minecraft world, the compass dynamically targets nearby ores from your selected list, scanning an impressive 5x5 chunk radius. This radius is adjustable through the chunkRadius variable.

Exclusive Ore Compatibility

Designed specifically for ore detection, the compass initially works with a range of ores. This includes gold, coal, copper, diamond, iron, lapis, redstone, emerald ores, and nether quartz ore.

Extendable Ore List

Enhance the compass's capabilities by creating a datapack with data/miners-compass/tags/blocks/ore_compass_detectable_blocks.json file, allowing the addition of more ores for detection.

Smart Memory Management

To add an ore to your search list, simply shift-right-click the ore block for removing do same process again. For a fresh start, a shift-right-click while looking at the air clears your entire search list.

Crafting Recipe

Example ore_compass_detectable_blocks.json

{
  "replace": false,
  "values": [
    "#minecraft:gold_ores",
    "#minecraft:coal_ores",
    "#minecraft:copper_ores",
    "#minecraft:diamond_ores",
    "#minecraft:iron_ores",
    "#minecraft:lapis_ores",
    "#minecraft:redstone_ores",
    "#minecraft:emerald_ores",
    "minecraft:nether_quartz_ore"
  ]
}

Example config

{
    //The entity's chunk, 1 = 3x3 chunks around the entity, 2 = 5x5 etc...
    "chunkRadius": 2,
    //Max holdable ore block amount
    "maxBlocks": 3
}

Q&A

Forge/Backport?

No, I mainly play Fabric.

Curse Forge?

Nope, Modrinth is the reason i did start publishing my mods.

Y-Axis Direction?

For those interested in knowing the Y-axis direction, I highly recommend using Compass3D, developed by AdamRaichu. My gratitude goes out to him for integrating support for this feature into the mod.

Miner's Compass