Waystones
Craft a waystone, name it, and travel between stops you can see from another waystone.
Waystones are placed travel stops with a menu of destinations. You need to stand at one waystone to travel to another. What appears in that menu depends on the destination's visibility setting and whether you have visited it.
Craft and place one
Each of the ten waystone styles uses the same shaped recipe. Put an 
Eye of Ender in the top center, 
lodestone in the center, and an 
amethyst shard on each side of it. Fill the bottom row with three matching blocks for the style you want.
| Bottom-row block | Style |
|---|---|
| Andesite, copper block, cobbled deepslate, or tuff | Stone and metal styles |
| Mossy stone bricks, Nether bricks, or quartz blocks | Built-stone styles |
| Sandstone, red sandstone, or prismarine bricks | Sand and sea styles |
Name the crafted waystone in an anvil before placing it if you want a clear label in the travel menu. A waystone placed without a custom name uses “Waystone.” Place it on the ground, then use it to open its menu. Placing a stone also records its builder as the owner and marks it discovered for them.
Find destinations
A new stone starts in Discover visibility. Visit and open another player's Discover waystone once to add it to your list. From then on, it can appear when you open a waystone elsewhere. The owner can change visibility in the waystone menu:
- Discover (public): players see it after opening it in person.
- Public: players can see it without visiting first.
- Private: only the owner and players they share it with can see it.
- Discover (private): a shared player must also visit and open it before it appears on their list.
To change these settings, open your placed waystone. Click the helmet icon to cycle visibility and the chestplate icon to switch protection on or off. To share the stone, write one player name per page in a writable book and put it in the Shared List slot. If the list already has names, click its book icon to take it back, edit the pages, and put it in the slot again. A hidden stop is not a broken stop: check its visibility and sharing before making another trip to look for it.
Travel
Open a waystone and choose a visible destination in the menu. The trip takes you to that stop. The menu may show an experience cost or block a trip during a cooldown or combat if those rules are enabled; read the destination's tooltip and the message in chat. Some networks also limit travel between dimensions, which can hide a stop from the list. Do not count on a free escape in the middle of a fight.
A waystone is a shared structure, so place the arrival area where visitors can stand safely. A public stone near a market helps new arrivals; a private one keeps a base off the public list.
See also
- Astral runes for fixed links between pads
- Nether portals for long-distance tunnels
- Travel overview for other routes
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Astral Runes
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