Compasses can be useful. But usually they're not. I myself have only used a compass ONCE, and I've played Minecraft since Alpha.
Right now all they do is bring you back to your spawn location. However, you should be able to mark locations. Markers would be craftable (Not sure exactly what the recipe should be)and would be used to mark locations. You would name markers right after placing them. For example, if I placed a marker somewhere, it would appear in the menu of the compass. If I chose it, my compass would then lead me back to where the marker is.
You can mark as many places as you want to at once.
A nice, short idea that would make a rather useless item more useful.
Edit: I'd like to thank Dan_Of_LA for coming up with the idea of markers
if you go wandering out into the wilderness and cast find your way back then they are usefull the last time i did that was an long time ago but yes marking an spot would be more use full for expample if you make an house some way away from spawn then yse that could be handy. you can use NBT edit to change the spot of your spawn that would defeat the purpose of my idear, though there would be many othor good reasons to have it markable.so yes i think it would be use full, you dont have to use it but can if you need and change it back later
While I don't agree that compasses are currently useless, especially for long missions away from your home or spawn, I think that being able to mark way-points would be quite cool. To keep the sort of old-timey Minecraft feel though, maybe using a craftable marker that your compass 'homes' to, or something like that? I like the idea.
Thanks, I think I'll add this to the suggestion (With credit to you).
Right now all they do is bring you back to your spawn location. However, you should be able to mark locations. Markers would be craftable (Not sure exactly what the recipe should be)and would be used to mark locations. You would name markers right after placing them. For example, if I placed a marker somewhere, it would appear in the menu of the compass. If I chose it, my compass would then lead me back to where the marker is.
You can mark as many places as you want to at once.
A nice, short idea that would make a rather useless item more useful.
Edit: I'd like to thank Dan_Of_LA for coming up with the idea of markers
Thanks, I think I'll add this to the suggestion (With credit to you).
(Because this thread has been down for awhile)
No.