Quick guide and keys

You never need a key or a command to use Lodestar: everything is on the Lodestar menu. The keys and commands here are shortcuts for players who like them.

Bind the keys

Open Options → Controls → Key Binds and scroll to Lodestar Trail. Every Lodestar key starts unbound, so none of them clash with your other mods until you choose a key.

Key binding	What it does
Hold for quick guide	Opens the quick guide wheel while held
Open Lodestar	Opens the Lodestar menu
Toggle guidance trail	Hides or shows your guide without clearing the destination, like Pause guide
Guide to looked-at block	Guides you to the block you are looking at, up to 128 blocks away
Mark return point	Remembers where you stand, without changing where you are going
Guide to return point	Guides you back to the return point you marked

Guide to looked-at block picks the first loaded block along your view. If there is none in range, Lodestar says “No loaded block in sight within 128 blocks.”

The return point is a quick, temporary bookmark, separate from Home and your saved places. Mark return point and Go back to return point are also on the Lodestar menu under More options.

The quick guide wheel

Bind Hold for quick guide to a key or mouse button. Hold it during play and four buttons appear around the middle of the screen, with the world still visible behind them:

Position	Button
Top	Go home, or Set home here if you have no Home yet
Right	Retrace my steps
Bottom	Save this place
Left	Pause guide or Resume guide

Hold the key, point at a button, and let go.

Point at a button with the mouse (or press an arrow key), then let go of the key to use it. Letting go over Cancel in the middle, pressing Esc, or switching to another window closes the wheel without doing anything.

• Set home here saves Home at once and says “Home saved. You can find your way back any time.”
• Save this place opens the place editor so you can name it.
• Retrace my steps with nothing recorded yet opens My outings to explain.
• Pause guide is greyed out until you have a destination. While you point at it, the wheel says “Choose a destination first”.

Commands

Lodestar’s commands run in your own game, so they work on any server. Type them in chat:

Command	Effect
/lodestar set <x> <y> <z>	Guide to these coordinates in your current dimension. ~ and ^ work as in vanilla commands.
/lodestar clear	Stop guiding. History and saved places are kept.
/lodestar show	Show the destination and how far away it is, or which dimension it is in
/lodestar list	List your last five different destinations, newest first
/lodestar use <1-5>	Guide to a destination from that list
/lodestar toggle	Hide or show the guide without clearing the destination
/lodestar destinations	Open Places
/lodestar favorite <name>	Save the current destination as a place with this name
/lodestar mark	Guide to the block you are looking at, up to 128 blocks away
/lodestar return mark	Mark your current spot as the return point
/lodestar return	Guide back to the return point
/lodestar journey add	Add the current destination to the journey
/lodestar journey start	Start the journey
/lodestar journey skip	Skip to the next stop of a running journey

For example, /lodestar set ~40 ~ ~20 guides you to a spot forty blocks east and twenty blocks south of where you stand.