Hey I have noticed when playing some people don't know how to use the coordinates on the map. Coordinates are found at the top of the map when viewing it. Hope this video helps.
I checked "Other Answer" because I use most of those methods... really just not the first one. When I'm playing with "the kids' we also often use the player arrows on the map to find locations where others are or even the player labels above their heads (which get larger and readable as you approach the other player... even through blocks underground.
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Usually I just hang around my base while playing Minecraft, but when I do have to travel the world and many seas I always bring my map in order to find my way back. I do know about coordinates and the location of my base, but I never need to use them because I have a built in compass In my head and I can easily re-trace my steps, even from long distances. I can even do this underground without a map, although when I mine in a new world and pop out of the ground I will use the map just to confirm it because the terrain does play a part in this after all.
The other method I will use when I don't have the map and don't know the terrain enough to find my way back is to take note of which direction the sun and moon will rise and fall each day while at my base. That way when I am far away and lost, I can look up and check the location of the sun or moon, look at which direction it is travelling in and I will know the general position of my base and current location.
I use landmarks and/or remember where on the map, visually, I am in relation to my houses or the villages. I don't have a lot of different seeds that I play at one time, so I get to remember my maps really well without using the coordinates, though I understand how they work. I also put up signs on the surface where my mines, end portal, strongholds, mineshafts, etc are, so I don't have to remember. If I had a lot of open worlds I would probably use the coordinates and make notes of them in books in the game.
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Bettie Mae Page "Queen of Pinups" April 22, 1923 - Dec. 11, 2008
“We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing. ” -- Charles Bukowski
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Hey I have noticed when playing some people don't know how to use the coordinates on the map. Coordinates are found at the top of the map when viewing it. Hope this video helps.
Good vid, Baldur.
I checked "Other Answer" because I use most of those methods... really just not the first one. When I'm playing with "the kids' we also often use the player arrows on the map to find locations where others are or even the player labels above their heads (which get larger and readable as you approach the other player... even through blocks underground.
Usually I just hang around my base while playing Minecraft, but when I do have to travel the world and many seas I always bring my map in order to find my way back. I do know about coordinates and the location of my base, but I never need to use them because I have a built in compass In my head and I can easily re-trace my steps, even from long distances. I can even do this underground without a map, although when I mine in a new world and pop out of the ground I will use the map just to confirm it because the terrain does play a part in this after all.
The other method I will use when I don't have the map and don't know the terrain enough to find my way back is to take note of which direction the sun and moon will rise and fall each day while at my base. That way when I am far away and lost, I can look up and check the location of the sun or moon, look at which direction it is travelling in and I will know the general position of my base and current location.
I use landmarks and/or remember where on the map, visually, I am in relation to my houses or the villages. I don't have a lot of different seeds that I play at one time, so I get to remember my maps really well without using the coordinates, though I understand how they work. I also put up signs on the surface where my mines, end portal, strongholds, mineshafts, etc are, so I don't have to remember. If I had a lot of open worlds I would probably use the coordinates and make notes of them in books in the game.
Bettie Mae Page "Queen of Pinups" April 22, 1923 - Dec. 11, 2008
“We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing. ” -- Charles Bukowski