Your guide

Open Your guide from the Lodestar menu. It is also what opens from Mods → Lodestar Trail → Config. The screen’s line reads “Choose how Lodestar shows you the way”.

Everything you change shows straight away in the Live preview on the right, but nothing is used in the world until you press Done. Cancel, or Esc, closes the screen and keeps your guide as it was, except for anything you changed in Advanced settings (see More options). The footer reminds you: “Changes show here until you press Done”.

The Your guide screen. A yellow line at the top reads “The place you are guided to has its own colour.” On the left: three tick cards under Show me the way with (Trail ticked, Fairy light and Arrow not ticked), four Quick looks tiles named Moonlit, Firefly, Starlight and Quiet prism, and five Trail style tiles with Prism selected. On the right: the Live preview, a night hillside with a trail rising to a glowing star, and the fairy light and arrow drawn faintly with Off tags. — Your guide with only the trail ticked. The fairy light and arrow are drawn faintly and marked Off.

Show me the way with

Three tick cards choose which guides you see. Tick any combination, but at least one: if you try to untick the last one, the screen says “Choose at least one guide”.

Card	What you see
Trail	A glowing path along the ground to your destination.
Fairy light	A small light that flies ahead and waits for you.
Arrow	An arrow at the top of the screen pointing the way.

Trail is ticked when you first install Lodestar.

The trail follows the ground from you toward your destination, over hills and up steps, across the terrain your game has loaded.
The fairy light is a bright point of light with a sparkling wake and no body. It flies ahead about seven blocks, waits for you, and drifts along beside you if you walk backwards or sideways. It comes closer as you near the destination.
The arrow turns as you turn and shows the distance in blocks underneath, such as “49 blocks”. When the destination is straight above or below you it says “blocks above” or “blocks below”. It hides while the game’s HUD is hidden (F1) and while a menu is open. Arrow-only guidance is the lightest choice, because Lodestar does not need to look at the terrain.

A trail of teal and violet light running across a flat grass field toward the horizon, with sparkles along it. At the top of the screen a pale crystal arrow points ahead with 49 blocks written below it. — The trail and the arrow together.

Within about 24 blocks of your destination, the trail and fairy light also show a small star and ring on the ground to mark the exact spot.

Quick looks

Four ready-made looks are a fast way to start:

Quick look	Trail style	Colours
Moonlit	Aurora	Glacier
Firefly	Fireflies	Ember
Starlight	Glyphs	Nebula
Quiet prism	Prism	Aurora

Each also sets a size and glow strength. A quick look changes only the trail style, colours, size and glow. Your ticked guides stay as they are, and so do the options under More options. The tile that matches your current choices has a white outline.

Trail style

Five tiles show each style in miniature. Hover a tile for a short description.

Style	What you see
Prism	Sharp sparkling points: small crystal slivers over a glowing line. Prism is the starting style.
Aurora	Soft ribbons of light, with a bright edge and a fine companion strand.
Fireflies	Small drifting glows that gather and scatter.
Meteor	Streaks that rush ahead in bursts.
Glyphs	Floating rune shapes: rings that form a four-point star and dissolve again.

An Aurora trail with Vibrant on, a pale violet and teal ribbon with glowing sparkles, climbing over a stone step and up a stepped grass hill. — The Aurora style with Vibrant on, climbing a step and a hill.

Colours

Pick a colour tile: Aurora (teal and violet, the starting colours), Nebula (pink and lilac), Glacier (ice and blue), Ember (coral and amber), Rainbow (every colour, always moving) or Custom (your own two colours). The trail, the fairy light and the arrow all share these colours.

Custom colours and the colour wheel

Choose Custom and two colour chips appear: Main and Accent. Press a chip to open the colour wheel below it.

Your guide scrolled down to Colours. Six palette tiles named Aurora, Nebula, Glacier, Ember, Rainbow and Custom, with Custom outlined. Below them are two chips, Main in teal and Accent in violet. — Custom shows the Main and Accent chips.

Drag around the wheel to choose a colour, and toward the middle for a softer one. The bar beside it sets brightness.
Under the wheel are eight suggested colours, then the colours you used most recently.
Only one wheel is open at a time. Press the chip again, press Enter, or press Esc to close it.
With More options on, a Hex colour field appears under the wheel for typing a colour such as #4AF3DA. While the typed colour is not valid, the field turns red and Done waits until it is fixed.
Keyboard: Tab into the wheel, then use the left and right arrow keys to change the colour, up and down for its strength, and Page Up and Page Down for brightness.

Your custom colours are kept when you try another palette, so choosing Custom again brings them back. The first time you choose Custom, it starts from the palette you had selected so the colours do not jump.

If the place you are being guided to has its own colour, that colour is used in the world instead, and Your guide says “The place you are guided to has its own colour.” Edit the place and choose No colour to use these colours again (Places).

More options

Press More options to show these extra controls below the colours:

Control	What it does
Vibrant	Makes the colours brighter and stronger, with a larger glow.
Animate colours	Lets the two colours flow along the trail. Rainbow is always animated, so this is greyed out for Rainbow.
Size	How big the trail and fairy light are (50% to 150%).
Glow strength	How brightly the guides glow (25% to 150%).
Arrow size	How big the arrow at the top of the screen is (50% to 200%).
Arrival sparkle	Shows a sparkle when you arrive. On to start with.
Arrival chime	Plays a soft chime when you arrive. Off to start with.
Obstacle warning	Marks the spot where the trail meets a gap or wall with a small split ring. On to start with.
Reduced motion	Keeps the guides still instead of moving: the fairy holds steady, decorations and colour cycling stop, and arrival flourishes are skipped.

Advanced settings, at the end of the list, opens Lodestar’s full settings screen (Settings). That screen saves each change as you make it, so Cancel here does not undo them. This includes the trail’s shape settings, such as following the terrain or the trail’s length, which are not part of this screen’s choices. Look settings you change there join the preview here.

Saved looks

Also under More options, Saved looks keeps up to eight looks of your own. Type a Look name and press Save look. Saving with the same name replaces that look. Press a saved look’s name to load it into the preview, or Delete to remove it. Saved looks include your ticked guides and every option on this screen, and are shared by all your worlds.