Some changes to compass?

[jk8844]

The compass in DST, as I know, is much more useful than it in DS. But I wonder whether some changes are possible to make it better.

For now, If I want to use it, I need to equip it. And only who is also equiped with a compass can find me. But it may be too inconvenient for me to do other things. For example, if I find a giant and I want to gather other players to fight with it, I may craft a compass and wait others to come. But during this time, I could not attack it in advance, because the compass is not a weapon. I think the compass may also have a global minimap icon if it's on the ground, but only those who are equiped with compass could see it, or even it's not equiped but in my pocket. In this way, I could craft a compass, drop it on the ground or whatever, and start my attack immediately.

 

I'm a chinese so I'm not sure my words are good enough to express what I want. If anything may be misunderstood, you can ask me for further explanation.

[Tykvesh]

You can use moonlens instead.

 

"When dropped on ground, Moonlenses will appear on the Map for everyone in that world, serving as a marker, even in unexplored areas."

[Electroely]

2 hours ago, jk8844 said:

The compass in DST, as I know, is much more useful than it in DS. But I wonder whether some changes are possible to make it better.

For now, If I want to use it, I need to equip it. And only who is also equiped with a compass can find me. But it may be too inconvenient for me to do other things. For example, if I find a giant and I want to gather other players to fight with it, I may craft a compass and wait others to come. But during this time, I could not attack it in advance, because the compass is not a weapon. I think the compass may also have a global minimap icon if it's on the ground, but only those who are equiped with compass could see it, or even it's not equiped but in my pocket. In this way, I could craft a compass, drop it on the ground or whatever, and start my attack immediately.

 

I'm a chinese so I'm not sure my words are good enough to express what I want. If anything may be misunderstood, you can ask me for further explanation.

Those are the problems with compasses. They're just ways of sharing location early in the game. Later on you should just use moonlenses or tell your friends to go to a specific landmark (like Pig King, for example)

[jk8844]

6 hours ago, Electroely said:

Those are the problems with compasses. They're just ways of sharing location early in the game. Later on you should just use moonlenses or tell your friends to go to a specific landmark (like Pig King, for example)

Just as you said, the moonlenses can take the place of compass later. But the moon rock is too rare to consume in early game. And I think the compass would play a greater role if other players don't know the shape of the world in early game.