Minecraft lodestone guide: Recipe, uses, and more

The lodestone is one of the most important blocks in Minecraft and is a great tool for players who love exploring the host of biomes in the game. This unique item can help you navigate the endless biomes and vast lands in-game. You can easily find it or craft it for use in all three in-game dimensions as you explore.

Here's everything you need to know about the lodestone in Minecraft.

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How to craft lodestone in Minecraft

Crafting a lodestone in Minecraft is easy. However, before making one, make sure you have these resources at hand:

• 8 chiseled stone bricks
• 1 Netherite Ingot

Craft chiseled stone bricks with this recipe (Image via Mojang Studios)

If you do not have chiseled stone bricks, you can mine infested blocks with Silk Touch to obtain them. Additionally, you can also craft it using two stone brick slabs placed on top of each other on the crafting bench. Another way to get your hands on this block is by using a stonecutter. Refine stone in it to get chiseled stone bricks as the output.

Netherite Ingot can be crafted from a Netherite block (Image via Mojang Studios)

As for Netherite Ingot, you can craft it using four Netherite scraps and four Gold Ingot in your crafting bench. Place them in any format since it is a shapeless recipe. Additionally, you can also refine a Block of Netherite to get this resource.

Place the resources in the format shown above (Image via Mojang Studios)

After you have collected or crafted these materials, here's how you can craft a lodestone:

• Open the crafting table and place the Netherite Ingot in the center block.
• Place eight chiseled stone bricks around the Netherite Ingot.
• Select the Lodestone from the crafting table and place it in your inventory to complete the build.

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How to use Lodestone in Minecraft

Use the lodestone to navigate your way to a specific point in your world (Image via Mojang Studios)

Lodestone can be used to alter the compasses to point towards it. It can essentially serve as a waypoint marker on your map. Place a lodestone anywhere you want and interact with it using a compass. This will transform your regular compass into a custom lodestone compass that will always point toward the block it was generated from.

You can place multiple lodestones across your world and use them to navigate your way to important POIs or locations, such as the upcoming Pale Garden in Minecraft. Similar to the Eternal Pose in One Piece, you can use the lodestone and its compass to navigate your way to a fixed point.

That said, you must remember that lodestone compasses are paired to one lodestone. You cannot use a lodestone compass to interact with another lodestone and calibrate it for that block. Additionally, if you break a lodestone, the compass attached to it will spin randomly, as regular compasses do in the End and the Nether dimensions.

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The Lodestone in Minecraft has a hilarious Easter egg

Craft a lodestone and interact with it to unlock an advancement (Image via Mojang Studios)

The lodestone hides a hilarious Easter egg that can be easily unlocked after you craft your first lodestone. This works in all game modes with achievements unlocked.

Crafting a lodestone and successfully generating a lodestone compass will also reward you with the "Country Lode, Take Me Home" advancement. The name of the advancement is a pun on the popular song 'Take Me Home, Country Roads' by John Denver.

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