Horse Compass
by DrunkBlood
Horse Compass lets a player craft a compass that locks onto a chosen horse and points toward it across the same dimension.
What it does
A player crafts a horse compass from the listed recipe, then right-clicks a horse with it to start tracking that animal. A heart particle marks the horse once it is tracked, and the compass glows and points toward the horse's location while both stay in the same dimension. Players who lose a favorite mount can use this to find it again instead of searching the map by hand.
The mod covers skeleton horses and zombie horses as well as regular horses. Tracking a named horse renames the compass to match its name. The set of trackable entities can be extended with a datapack by adding entries to the horsecompass:trackable entity type tag, and the Minecraft Wiki's tag documentation explains how to write those entries.
Horse Compass is published for NeoForge only, with version 1.0.0 for 1.21.10 as the sole file. It runs on client and server, so the server and every player need it, and the source code is under the MIT License, which makes it open source. Public links exist for the source code and the issue tracker.
Key features
Compass tracking
A compass is linked to a single horse by right-clicking it, and the compass then points toward that horse.
Skeleton and zombie horses
Skeleton horses and zombie horses can be tracked in the same way as ordinary horses.
Named horse renaming
Tracking a named horse gives the compass the same name, so several compasses can be told apart at a glance.
Datapack-extendable trackable set
Additional entity types can be made trackable by adding them to the horsecompass:trackable tag in a datapack.
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Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
How it compares
Crafting Horse Armor is server-side only and has no open-source license, with a file for 1.21.4. Tameable Zombie Horse And Skeleton Horse is also server-side only, is open source under the GNU General Public License v3.0 or later, and covers 1.21.1 – 1.21.5. Create: Guidance Compass is a client and server mod under All rights reserved, published for 1.21.1, and adds a compass for a different purpose.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Horse Compass | NeoForge | 1.21.10 | Client and server | 2025-10-21 |
| Crafting Horse Armor | NeoForge | 1.21.4 | Server-side only | 2025-07-21 |
| Tameable Zombie Horse And Skeleton Horse | NeoForge | 1.21.1 – 1.21.5 | Server-side only | 2025-06-16 |
| Create: Guidance Compass | NeoForge | 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2026-07-12 |
Questions
Does Horse Compass need to be installed on the server?
Which Minecraft version does Horse Compass support?
Can the compass track mobs other than horses?
In the catalog
Horse Compass is one of 19,031 Adventure mods on ModsFinder, and one of 8,588 Adventure mods for NeoForge. 15,569 mods support Minecraft 1.21.10.
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What the author says
Have you ever lost your horse? Tired of searching? Craft a horse compass and track your favorite horse. Right click a horse with the compass to track it. A heart particle indicates that the horse is now tracked. A tracking compass glows and points to the location of the horse if you are in the same dimension.
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/horse-compass
- Owner
- DrunkBlood
- Published
- 2025-10-21
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2025-10-21
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15