How to Make a Compass in Minecraft

Use this simple recipe to make a Compass in Minecraft. You can see the exact ingredients, recipe layout, and workstation below.

Compass recipe

Follow the recipe below. The pattern must use the correct slots when the recipe is shaped.

Place 4 Iron Ingots and 1 Redstone in a Crafting Table to make 1 Compass.

The 3 × 3 pattern needs the 3 × 3 grid of a crafting table. Ingredients must stay in the shown positions, and most patterns can also be mirrored.
Each craft uses 5 ingredient items and produces 1 Compass. A full stack of 64 takes 64 crafts and 320 ingredient items in total.

Output: 1 Compass

A compass points to the world spawn point. Using it on a lodestone makes it point to that lodestone instead.

This page shows the vanilla recipe for Compass. It includes the exact ingredients, recipe layout, required workstation, and amount produced.

The data comes from Minecraft Java 26.3. Recipes can change in later game versions, so check the version you play before crafting.