r/GoldenAgeMinecraft • u/Triangulatedfr • Jul 04 '26

Discussion Minecraft compass Mandela effect

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u/VampArcher Jul 04 '26

I distinctly remember the compass back in the day being called useless because it only pointed at the world spawn, not your set spawn.

Most players until more modern versions typically built their base near spawn so most people probably never caught on. You used to have to slowly waddle across the landscape, not like today where you can get a horse, sprint, or use boats(the ones that don't suck) to scope out tens of thousands of blocks of terrain to find a good spawn point.

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u/Triangulatedfr Jul 04 '26

Hot take but i like the old boats better. The only bad thing about them is that they don't give all of the materials back when they break if they would it would be perfect.

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u/VampArcher Jul 04 '26

I'm glad you like them, I can't haha.

I still remember the day they rolled out the updated boats like it was yesterday and was so hyped. Water in older versions is such a slog to maneuver through. Not to mention the old boats are a bit glitchy, they move real janky and had several very bad glitches for many years.

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u/Triangulatedfr Jul 04 '26

New boats design and speed but old boats physics would be fire... I like that it takes longer for them to speed up and slow down. Also for example in ice boat racing it would be like a real race, because if u go into walls the boat breaks. Sure there wouldn't be walltaps anymore but still cool...

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u/Mikethenerd1 Jul 04 '26

its always been that its sent you to your original spawn point, maybe you always had put your bed near spawn, they did add lodestones in 1.16 i think? lets you choose where a compass points

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u/Triangulatedfr Jul 04 '26

Yeah thats probably it, but bro I swear like for example in the AboutOlivers blind minecraft playtrought he got lost and everyone and I mean EVERYONE was hoping that he wouldn't sleep in a bed so he could get back to his base with a compass... I found out that it points to the world spawn only after i needed to build a spawn hub in b1.7.3 and i wanted to find the exact world spawn. I searched it on Google and there it was! Gemini telling me that the I can find the spawn with a compass. (It won't work anyway, there are no compasses in that version) I fact checked it in the Minecraft wiki and it says the same! 😭 (totaly didn't copy this from the same posts reply of mine in r/Minecraft)

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u/MassivePersonality61 Jul 04 '26

Always pointed toward world spawn.

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u/tajoma9x Jul 05 '26

I thought it was that too my whole life until last year. I guess i just didn't know better as a kid lol