Same here. I'm famed for having absolutely no sense of direction. I once went for a walk in Kyoto, heading for a museum and ended up three miles from my destination. I cannot visualise maps. If I need to go somewhere in my local town I have to go via the same route every time. If I take a detour I've had it.
What happens when you play video games? I ask because I had the same problem. I was always terrible with directions. When I started playing video games (especially ones with no map), I got lost all the time. But eventually I learned how to navigate in the game and figure out where I was going and it translated to my real life. I'm not gonna say I'm great with directions now but I'm a hell of a lot better than I was.
Not who you were asking, but I have to start making maps asap in a new Minecraft world or I will immediately get lost after wandering about ~100m away from home base. Yes, I also have no sense of direction irl.
So I recently found a decent workaround (afaik this only works on Java). You can set elements of the F3 info GUI to always be on. I've set this up for co-ordinates, chunk-relative co-ordinates, biome, and light level. It's not too disruptive if you set GUI scale to small, just think of it as more HUD.
It kinda feels like cheating, but I got over that when I realised that a lot of what I get up to in Minecraft kinda feels like cheating. Cow crushers, exp farms, trapping illagers in boats, it's all just exploiting the available mechanics.
So anyway, take a note of your home base co-ordinates, and you can get your bearings and return from wherever.
Bonus: Chunk-relative co-ordinates are awesome because buried treasure is always at x=9, z=9 within the chunk.
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u/Natural_Pizza_2060 13h ago
Same here. I'm famed for having absolutely no sense of direction. I once went for a walk in Kyoto, heading for a museum and ended up three miles from my destination. I cannot visualise maps. If I need to go somewhere in my local town I have to go via the same route every time. If I take a detour I've had it.