How to Determine Coordinates on Minecraft

Minecraft tracks your position in the world using a coordinate system. These coordinates are hidden in the Debug screen of the PC version of Minecraft. On a handheld game console, the coordinates will appear when you open the Map. If you’re playing Minecraft PE, you can determine the coordinates as long as cheat mode is on in the world.

Table of Contents

On PC/Mac

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Turn on the Debug screen. By default in recent versions, the Debug information has been reduced. You can enable the Debug screen from within the Options menu.

Open the Options menu and select “Chat Settings”. Disable the “Reduced Debug Info” option. ^{[1] X Research Source}

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Press the Debug button. Minecraft’s Debug information will appear on the screen. Usually the Debug button is F3 , but the specific key depends on the computer: ^{[2] X Research source}

On a desktop PC, pressing F3 opens the Debug screen.
For most laptops and Macs, you need to press Fn + F3 .
On newer Macs, press Alt + Fn + F3 .

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Specify the coordinates on the Debug screen. There is a lot of information on the Debug screen. Simple coordinates are noted as “Block”, and detailed coordinates will be “XYZ”. The information in the “Facing” section will show which direction you are facing.

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Read coordinates. Your location is determined based on your spawn location (or starting block) in the Minecraft world. The “Block” line will display three coordinate numbers (XYZ) with no legend.

“X” is the location to the East or West of the place it appears (longitude).
“Y” is the position above or below the place of appearance (pitch).
“Z” is the location to the South or North of the place it appears (latitude).

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Move around and observe the change of the “Block” value. This will help you understand how the coordinate system works. If the value “X” is negative, you are on the West side of the spawn location. If the “Z” value is negative, you’re north of the spawn location.

While you usually start at X,Z:0,0 (unless the block is underwater), the Y value of the starting position will usually be around 63 because this is sea level.

On game consoles

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Open Map. On the console version of Minecraft (Xbox, PlayStation, Wii U) you can find the coordinates on the map. All players start with the map when the new world is created. Open the map in the inventory.

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Find coordinates. The current coordinates will be at the top of the map once you open it. There are three coordinates: X, Y and Z.

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Read coordinates. The coordinates are based on the first block when you appear. “X” is the longitude or position East or West relative to the first block. Z is the latitude or position North or South relative to the first position. Y is your current elevation above the bedrock.

The place that appears usually has coordinates X,Z:0,0. If the 0,0 coordinate is underwater then the starting block will be nearby.
The starting Y coordinate will be different depending on the altitude where you appear. Sea level coordinates are Y:63.

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Observe how coordinates change as you move. Coordinates change in real time as you move through the world. If “X” is a positive number, you are east of the spawn location. If the “Z” value is a positive number, you are south of where it appears.

On Minecraft PE

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Activate cheat mode if you are in the Survival world. In the Creative world, cheat mode is enabled by default and you can continue to the next step. ^{[3] X Research Source} To enable cheat mode in the current Survival world:

Open the Worlds menu.
Tap the pencil icon next to the world name.
Turn the “Activate Cheats” switch to the On position (green or blue).
A message that the achievement will be permanently disabled in this world will appear on the screen. If you agree (this is required if you want to enable cheat mode), click Continue .
Return to the location where you want to see the coordinates in the world.

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Tap the chat button with the conversation bubble icon located at the top of the screen. ^{[4] X Research Sources}

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Type /tp ~ ~ ~ into the chat window and press ↵ Enter . This is the command to teleport yourself to your current location so you can see your coordinates. The coordinates will be displayed in the lower left area of the screen.

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Read coordinates. The three coordinate data (in order) are X, Y and Z.

“X” is the longitude. If X is positive then you are east of the spawn location. If X is negative, you are in the West.
“Y” is pitch. Sea level is 63, bedrock is 0.
“Z” latitude. If Z is positive then you are south of the spawn location. If Z is negative, you are north of the spawn point.

Advice

When the coordinates change by 1 unit, you have just moved 1 block. For example, if you just moved 1 block above the bedrock, the Y coordinate will increase by 1.

Steps

On PC/Mac

On game consoles

On Minecraft PE

Advice

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