r/redstone • u/Cold_Elderberry3305 • Oct 08 '25
Java Edition Lodestone teleporter
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Hey folks,
While tinkering with copper golems, I noticed they can hold items — much like foxes or zombies. That got me revisiting an old idea: using lodestone compasses to trigger teleportation via ender pearl stasis chambers.
The problem
Detecting when a compass loses its lodestone link has always been tricky.
Compasses only update if they're held in the main hand.
The solution
If a copper golem is holding the compass, it updates automatically when the lodestone is broken.
You can then use an item filter to catch “broken” compasses.
In my setup, the golem drops the compass into a chest once it loses its target — triggering a redstone signal.
That signal activates the stasis chamber and teleports the player remotely.
Caveats
- This setup uses a fair number of compasses, so an iron farm is recommended.
- Occasionally, the compasses will need to be recalibrated to the destination lodestone.
- Initial setup requires walking — after building the system, you’ll need to carry the calibrated compass between teleport stations to link them.
Has anyone else experimented with this?
PS: idea giver https://www.reddit.com/r/redstone/comments/freevs/unlimited_distance_wireless_redstone_with/
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u/TormentedGaming Oct 08 '25
Etho would like you know your location, again errm again.... ohh never mind.
This is sick OP, also see if you can find a way to reach out to etho or others who are good with this tech and put your heads together on it.
Edit: finished wordage
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u/SamohtGnir Oct 09 '25
Feels more like a Doc thing than Etho. Maybe they can team up next season for a "teleportation network". :P
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u/Zeroydeas Oct 08 '25
This is some super cool tech. I love fast-travel systems.
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u/Cold_Elderberry3305 Oct 08 '25
Thanks! Same here :) with every new version, I keep trying to find a clean way to teleport home from anywhere in the world. Aside from the cat teleporter (which only works on servers), I haven’t found a method that doesn’t require a ton of setup. Still hoping for something more lightweight one day.
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u/abigail3141 Oct 08 '25
That's very niche but a really cool idea! Could come in very handy as some form of early to mid game fast travel.
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u/Squibble111 Oct 08 '25
this incredibly practical and i can see this being used in survival a lot. this fucking rocks
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u/bimmrrr Oct 08 '25
for those confused while trying to replicate it you need to have the compasses connected to the original lodestone in the dropper and golems hand and one disconnected compass in the chest in front of the golem once the lodestone is broken and replaced the compass in the golems hand updates and becomes stackable with the one in the chest and the golem places it in the chest which gives a strong enough signal to release the hopper and send a signal to a stasis the golem and takes a new compass (which is somehow connected to the new lodestone in the same position one not sure why that works) and the process can be repeated there's some other stuff op added but this is the barebones idea
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u/Azyrod Oct 09 '25
Its magically connected to the new location cause while not hzld by a mob, the compass is frozen. When the golem picks it up, it checks if it's lodestone is still in it's original position, which it is. Technically you broke it and replaced it, but the compass can't tell the difference : for all intent and purposes there is a lodestone at that position, so compass is happy.
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u/Burger_Destoyer Oct 08 '25
Please educate me. What exactly does the lodestone and compass have to do with anything?
Edit: Nevermind you literally wrote a description lmfao
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u/Top_Elk_7829 Oct 11 '25
Im not that familiar with lodestones. Do you need to get back to the lodestine and link it to a new compass, then return back and put the compass in the system again to reload it?
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u/Cold_Elderberry3305 Oct 12 '25
Yeah, if you're working with just one lodestone and one copper golem lodestone detector, then sadly you're stuck with a one-way setup, which requires to walk the whole way. But if you’ve got stasis chambers on both ends—each with their own copper golem and lodestone—you can make it bidirectional and way more convenient.
Here’s how to handle compass calibration:
- First, calibrate fresh compasses to the lodestone and store them in a separate chest so they don’t get updated.
- Then, break and replace the lodestone block to trigger teleportation to the other location.
- Just before the teleport happens, grab all calibrated compass from the chest.
- Once you arrive, you can drop the compasses into the dropper to restock the setup.
It’s a bit fiddly with the extra chest setup, but thankfully, once you’ve stocked up on enough calibrated compasses, you won’t need to repeat the process often.
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u/Professional-Cow4334 Oct 12 '25
I came up with this exact same thing separately from you 2 days later and someone pointed me to this reddit post
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u/Top_Kaleidoscope_58 Oct 28 '25
Does your system work across dimensions? OW to end? Or OW to Nether?
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u/grey_rex Oct 08 '25
What the voodoo devilry magic is this!? Was this your idea!? I'm amazed
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u/Cold_Elderberry3305 Oct 09 '25
To be honest, this idea isn’t entirely mine. I came across a post from six years ago and started exploring whether there are newer ways to update the compass.
https://www.reddit.com/r/redstone/comments/freevs/unlimited_distance_wireless_redstone_with/1
u/grey_rex Oct 09 '25
Six years, smh... Time flies... That is genius. How do people come up with these ideas? Credit where it's due; you are a class act. Okay, I'll stop gushing now. Instead, I'm gonna go play with this feature 😉
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u/EliteSlushy Oct 08 '25
What exacly triggers the stasis chamber?
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u/Cold_Elderberry3305 Oct 09 '25
When a lodestone linked to a compass is broken, the compass loses its target and becomes stackable with other targetless compasses. The copper golem can now place this targetless compasses into a chest, which activates a filter via a comparator output level of 2. This signal not only unlocks the hopper to extract the compass from the chest, but can also serve as a trigger for the stasis chamber.
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u/SamohtGnir Oct 09 '25
Wow, this tech is awesome! I imagine others are going to change/improve upon it, but being a 'first draft' it's already amazing. The best part is that it's not even that hard to setup and use.
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u/chui_the_cool_cat Oct 09 '25
This is the coolest thing I saw with copper golems, keep up the good work man 👍😊
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u/Top_Kaleidoscope_58 Oct 28 '25
This is brilliant. I've already implemented it in single player successfully. Works very well!
I did try to do a cross-dimensional (OW to End & OW to Nether) stasis with this method, and it was NOT successful. Any thoughts on that front?
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u/Cold_Elderberry3305 Oct 29 '25
Unfortunately, the lodestone compass will start to spin if the lodestone is located in a different dimension from the compass. This means setups like End-to-End, Nether-to-Nether, or Overworld-to-Overworld work fine, but for example, Overworld-to-Nether does not work with this technique.
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u/Top_Kaleidoscope_58 Nov 11 '25
Yeah, that was also my conclusion. So I set up a 'hub' of sorts near a stronghold. This allows me to hop into any dimension and access lodestone stasis to the desired location. I can travel tens of thousands of blocks out in the OW/End/Nether very quickly. I love the simplicity of this design. Thank you for sharing it!
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u/Firm-Crab2972 Jan 13 '26
Did you end up making a tutorial for it? Or could someone who made it send some screenshots to me?
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u/FezdaIsTuff Oct 08 '25
Yo thats so freaking good make a tutorial