{"id":78424,"date":"2026-06-04T15:33:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T12:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vpesports.com\/minecraft\/mods\/gui-compass\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T15:33:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T12:33:31","slug":"gui-compass","status":"publish","type":"mod","link":"https:\/\/vpesports.com\/minecraft\/mods\/gui-compass\/","title":{"rendered":"GUI Compass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.serilum.com\/description\/header\/header.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"838\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wsrv.nl\/?url=https:\/\/workflow.serilum.com\/badges\/svg\/curseforge.svg&#038;w=400\" width=\"200\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wsrv.nl\/?url=https:\/\/workflow.serilum.com\/badges\/svg\/modrinth.svg&#038;w=400\" width=\"200\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wsrv.nl\/?url=https:\/\/workflow.serilum.com\/badges\/svg\/patreon.svg&#038;w=400\" width=\"200\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wsrv.nl\/?url=https:\/\/workflow.serilum.com\/badges\/svg\/youtube.svg&#038;w=400\" width=\"200\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Requires the library mod&nbsp;Collective.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This mod is part of <span style=\"color:#008000\">The Vanilla Experience<\/span> modpack and <span style=\"color:#006994\">Serilum&#8217;s Client Bundle<\/span> mod.<\/strong><br \/><span style=\"font-size:18px\">GUI Compass is a minimalistic configurable client-side mod which shows the direction and coordinates in the GUI with a compass in the inventory. By default the compass is positioned in the top left, but you can change that and the height in the config.<\/p>\n<p>The format of what is visible on the screen can be changed via the &#8216;guiCompassFormat&#8217; config value.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Default format:<\/strong>&nbsp;<em>Direction: X, Y, Z<\/p>\n<p><\/em>You may also be interested in <span style=\"color:#f90\"><strong>GUI Clock<\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size:20px\">Configurable:<\/span> <span style=\"color:#008000;font-size:14px\">(&nbsp;how do I configure?&nbsp;)<\/span><br \/><\/strong><strong>guiCompassFormat<\/strong>&nbsp;(default = &#8220;FXYZ&#8221;): What of the GUI compass should be displayed. Default: [FXYZ]. F: facing (direction), X: x coord, Y: y coord (depth), Z: z coord.<strong><br \/>mustHaveCompassInInventory<\/strong>&nbsp;(default = true):&nbsp;When enabled, will only show the GUI compass when a compass is present in the inventory.<\/p>\n<p><strong>compassPositionIsLeft<\/strong>&nbsp;(default = true):&nbsp;Places the GUI compass on the left.<br \/><strong>compassPositionIsCenter<\/strong>&nbsp;(default = false):&nbsp;Places the GUI compass in the middle.<br \/><strong>compassPositionIsRight<\/strong>&nbsp;(default = false):&nbsp;Places the GUI compass on the right.<strong><\/p>\n<p>compassHeightOffset<\/strong>&nbsp;(default = 5, min 0, max 3000):&nbsp;The vertical offset (y coord) for the Compass. This determines how far down the coordinates and direction should be on the screen. Can be changed to prevent GUIs from overlapping.<\/p>\n<p><strong>drawTextShadow<\/strong> (default = true): If the text displayed should have a shadow drawn below it.<br \/><strong>RGB_R<\/strong>&nbsp;(default = 255, min 0, max 255):&nbsp;The red RGB value for the compass.<br \/><strong>RGB_G<\/strong>&nbsp;(default = 255, min 0, max 255):&nbsp;The green RGB value for the compass.<br \/><strong>RGB_B<\/strong>&nbsp;(default = 255, min 0, max 255):&nbsp;The blue RGB value for the compass.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Example of the compass while rotating the player:<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.serilum.com\/projects\/gui-compass\/a.webp\" width=\"292\" height=\"64\"><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:24px\"><strong>You may freely use this mod in any modpack, as long as the download remains hosted within the Modrinth ecosystem.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:18px\">Serilum.com contains an overview and more information on all mods available.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Comments are disabled as I&#8217;m unable to keep track of all the separate pages on each mod.<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><br \/>For issues, ideas, suggestions or anything else there is the&nbsp;Github repo. 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