[MC-176176] Compasses react to the player position and not the chest position when in a chest

I haven't tested this in 1.15.2, but i have in 20w13a. when a compass is inside of a chest, it will point relative to which direction the player is facing. I don't know it this is a bug or on purpose. the photo below is of the same compass, in the same chest, but with me rotating around it ~90 degrees

Linked issues

relates to 1

MC-1229 Compasses in item frames move with the player. Resolved

Attachments

Compasses in Chests use the Position of the Player.mp4

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Comments 3

pine1needle 2020-04-13T00:37:01Z

I can confirm that this happens for regular compasses in 1.15.2 and for both regular and lodestone compasses in 20w15a. (I tested with one compass at a time to ensure that MC-177136 did not interfere.)

tutacat 2020-04-13T01:29:12Z

I am fairly sure that compasses only work in inventories, and that is processed by the client position and not the server (i.e. in the recipe book or creative inventory)

pine1needle 2020-04-13T02:31:59Z

@unknown, compasses are not required to be in inventories to point somewhere. For example, a compass held by a mob will point from the mob's location to wherever it tries to point to (which is used in the reproduction steps of MC-108598) and a compass placed in an item frame will point from the item frame's location to wherever it tries to point to (as seen in MC-1229 and MC-133049).