Surround a compass with 4 ender pearls, with 4 of [insert item] in the corners.
Let's say you used slime balls, it would show you the location of the nearest slime mob.
Using a mushroom would show you the nearest mushroom biome.
Bones would find wolves.
Bows would find skeleton spawners.
Etc.
This would be really cool, and give a good use for compasses.
We could have 4 diamonds in the corner because a mushroom biome is really hard to find so it might balance out the ender pearl and the compass.
And carbon in a crystalized pattern has an affinity with mushrooms and slimes and demonic cages summoning the undead how? Besides, that wouldn't work with this format.
No support, considering that with only four [xxx]s and four measly ender pearls you can find dungeons and rare biomes with great ease.
It's also not really feasible, as far as I can see. The ender pearl trick for finding strongholds can work because there are only three strongholds per world and their locations can be known at all times by the software. But searching for any block you wanted would require the program to maintain a database of the locations of every type of block in order to calculate in real time which was the closest. Or worse, it would have to search through all generated chunks to find such blocks when asked. This, I suspect, would be rather laggy.
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Surround a compass with 4 ender pearls, with 4 of [insert item] in the corners.
Let's say you used slime balls, it would show you the location of the nearest slime mob.
Using a mushroom would show you the nearest mushroom biome.
Bones would find wolves.
Bows would find skeleton spawners.
Etc.
This would be really cool, and give a good use for compasses.
And carbon in a crystalized pattern has an affinity with mushrooms and slimes and demonic cages summoning the undead how? Besides, that wouldn't work with this format.
No support, considering that with only four [xxx]s and four measly ender pearls you can find dungeons and rare biomes with great ease.
Yes, the locater searches for whatever you truly desire.