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Hey guys,
I'm completely new here, so please don't be kind if I do something wrong
After crafting a compass and sleeping in my bed to set that as the spawn point, I set out to explore. However, upon the return trip to my cabin, I noticed that the compass was malfunctioning. It would tell me cross a ravine, and once I was on the other side, it told me to go back across D:
Finally finding my way back home, I decided to scrap that one and craft a new compass and sleep in my bed again to see if it would happen again. However, with this new compass, the needle won't move, and remains pointing south whichever direction I face.
I'm on Minecraft 1.5.2 survival world, with a legit account.

Any help would be appreciated
Thanks.

Your compass will always point to the original spawn point, not if you reset it with a bed. If your spawn point was in that ravine, the compass is working fine.

Also, from another source of yahoo answers: "Did you create this world on a previous version and updated it afterwards? If so, you were out of the chunk and it force updated itself. Minecraft does this once in a blue moon. Several worlds I have created have completely changed the spawn point. Sorry "

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Also, from another source of yahoo answers: "Did you create this world on a previous version and updated it afterwards? If so, you were out of the chunk and it force updated itself. Minecraft does this once in a blue moon. Several worlds I have created have completely changed the spawn point. Sorry "

I have serious doubts about the validity of this statement. As far as I know my alpha world still has the same spawn point through all the updates until now. I've never had a single player world spawn point change. However I have had spawn point issues in multiplayer.

As was said previously, the compass always points to your original spawn point. Think of your original spawn point as the north pole which all compasses point to (roughly). Thats why its a good idea to always know your way from your original spawn point to any house/base you make. Many people just want to abandon it and go run off exploring, but as you found it's a pretty important spot in minecraft.

Thanks for your responses guys, but don't beds reset your spawn point? The wiki says: 'and they reset the player's spawn point to within a few blocks of the bed.'
I do regularly transfer my world save between my normal computer running 1.5.2 to a laptop running 1.5, would this impact anything?
Thanks

A bed you sleep in will set your spawn point to that bed, however if you remove the bed or obstruct it so that there is no spawnable block around it then the game will go back to the original spawn point.

Sorry if I'm being derpy, but does the compass always point to your original spawn point, or to any new one such as a bed? (Funny thing is, I'm pretty sure I didn't spawn in the ravine D:) Also does anyone have any ideas on the needle not moving? Maybe the two are related?
Thanks

If there is any obstructing it like lava,your spawnpoint will change to a nearest undisturbed block.I discovered this while derping in my redstone world with water floods

It should always point to your original spawn point.