How to Make and Use a Recovery Compass

A Recovery Compass is a tool in Minecraft that directs you to your last death location. You can craft a Recovery Compass with Echo Shards. Learn more about the item and the ingredients for its recipe, how to get it, and what it's used for.

Recovery Compass Overview

Recovery Compass Basic Information

Recovery Compass
Type	Tools
Stack	64

The Recovery Compass is a 1.19 Item that functions just like a normal Compass, but with the purpose of directing you back to the location of where you died last.

How to Get a Recovery Compass

Craft in a Crafting Table

There are 9 slots in a Crafting Table. Place the appropriate items in each slot of your Crafting Table according to the recipe displayed below.

Crafting Table Recipe
Echo Shard	Echo Shard	Echo Shard	=	Recovery Compass Quantity: 1
Echo Shard	Compass	Echo Shard
Echo Shard	Echo Shard	Echo Shard

How to Use a Recovery Compass

Find the Location of Your Last Death

Follow where the Recovery Compass is pointing while holding it on hand to go back to your location before you died and respawned to a new area. If a player has not yet died, the compass will continually spin with no direction.

This can be very helpful for players who need to get back to their previous locations but were respawned somewhere far or unrecognizable, and they need a more convenient way to go back.

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