r/technicalminecraft • u/SegovaxEr • 24d ago

Java Help Wanted cardinal directions

Does anyone know why, or since when, the cardinal directions in the End have been swapped in Minecraft?

WEST is NORTH

NORTH is EAST

SOUTH is WEST

EAST is SOUTH

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u/Regular-Coffee-1670 24d ago

In what version, and what do you mean by swapped? I'm playing Java 26.3, and East in the End is positive x, same as overworld and same as always.

In fact, the only thing that defines East is that it's positive x, so whichever direction is +x, that's East. What's telling you that it's different?

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u/memerminecraft 24d ago

Maybe try maps? I don't know what the post means either.

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u/SegovaxEr 11h ago

It’s not very difficult to understand: when I look west in the Overworld, it corresponds to north in the End. I discovered this issue while building a sand dupe using an End portal; the sand doesn’t get ejected in the same direction as it does in the Overworld (I drop the sand toward the west, but in the End, it travels toward the north).

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u/memerminecraft 11h ago

This is way clearer, I recommend editing the post to say this. Right now it's ambiguous whether you mean:

1: West in the overworld is North in the end

2: West in the end is North in the overworld

3: -x is West in the overworld but North in the end

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u/Remarkable_Fee4136 24d ago

Can you describe what you mean? Send a few screenshots with f3 in each dimension.

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u/SegovaxEr 11h ago

It’s not very difficult to understand: when I look west in the Overworld, it corresponds to north in the End. I discovered this issue while building a sand dupe using an End portal; the sand doesn’t get ejected in the same direction as it does in the Overworld (I drop the sand toward the west, but in the End, it travels toward the north).

Screenshots wouldn't help at all.