Q&A for How to Find Your Way to Your House when Lost in Minecraft

I suggest you write down the coordinates of different locations, most importantly your house, so you can always find them again.

If all else fails, there's one last thing you could do. If, when you logged on and entered your world, you started by your house, you can check your Minecraft log file. It's located in .minecraft/logs (the .minecraft folder can be found by entering %appdata% in your search bar). In the log file named latest.log, look or search for a line that looks something like this: "YOUR USERNAME" [random text] logged in with entity id 999 at (xx, yy, zz). These are the coordinates where you spawned when you logged in. Make sure cheats are enabled and type /tp xx yy zz in the chat to teleport to those coordinates.

Make a beacon of some sort and place it in your current location. Pick a direction and look for landmarks. If you are unsuccessful, return to your beacon and pick another direction. Repeat this until you've found your house. Make sure to always keep your beacon in sight, or use the breadcrumbs method.

You did not sleep in it yet. This makes you spawn in the spawnpoint of the world.

Destroy the bed, use / kill on yourself, and you should respawn on the bed.

Yes, it should. If you are having any trouble, it could be that your edition is out of date. It could also be that your electronic is not running properly.

Craft a compass and a map. Look at the map, and run in the direction of your home.

When selecting the world, tap the pencil and select "creative." The world is now in creative mode. When you are done, repeat the process and select "survival."

Go into creative mode and fly around the world until you find your house or something you recognize.

Sadly, it does not. /locate only works for naturally occurring structures such as a village or temple.

You probably won't, but if you do, use /tp to get to your house, set the time to night, and sleep in the bed.

You could either make the portal (since you're in creative) or put landmarks or use the bread crumb trick.

Build your house around a recognizable landmark (an unusual floating island, a really tall mountain) or build a house at the world spawn point (so that a compass points towards the house).

Unfortunately, no. But you can dig three blocks down where you know it is familiar. If night, place a red stone torch.

You probably entered the coordinates incorrectly, so try again and go slowly.

If you built your house close to your original spawn point, kill the character.

Enable cheats and then use the command: /teleport [your user name] [your coordinates]. If done correctly you should teleport to your house.

The mobile version has an unlimited world, so it might be lost forever...

They will always point towards the sun's current position. It could be a glitch.

Use your surroundings. If there is a flat mountain nearby, or a mesa that you saw when you explored, remember these landmarks. If you have a bed, you can also kill yourself and respawn there.

What you should do depends on the valuables you had there. If you are just starting out, build a new house. If you had diamonds, build a new house and build up your supplies. You can continue to venture around to see if you find your house. Before you leave, make sure to write down the sun's position and coordinates, and build a giant glowing tower of dirt.

In the Nether, 1 block equals about 7 blocks in the Overworld. Your son should've spawned back in the Overworld at his original spawn point (where he started when he created the world) or at his bed (if he ever slept in one). You might want to switch the game to Creative and fly around looking for where his house is if you want to find it. Depending on how far he traveled in the Nether, he could be quite a distance from his home.

If you created another portal, it will not link to the portal near your house. Instead, it will choose a random location in the world and teleport you there.

Yes, it is. Usually, if you die, you re-spawn near your original spawn point.

Build a tower with torches, place a chest on it, put your most important things in the chest and kill your character. Or use the tower to locate your house.

You would use the command "/tp [your username] [the name of the person you want to teleport to]."

Make a new portal back to the overworld and try and find your original portal.

If you have the coordinates you can /tp or if you slept there do /kill. If you’re doing /kill you should /game rule keep inventory.

If you die without ever sleeping in a bed, you will spawn at your original spawn point, which could be quite far away (depending on how far you traveled). Sleeping will reset your spawn point so if you die, you will appear right where your bed is, so you should listen to your friend. Be aware that if you ever destroy your bed, you'll have to sleep in it again to change your spawn point.

Try to retrace your steps. Were there any certain landmarks that stood out to you while exploring? Maybe a certain tree, a block that stood up, etc. If so, try to find them. They could help a bit on finding your way back.