How to turn on coordinates in Minecraft Realms Bedrock

In a Minecraft Realm the option to turn on the coordinate system is not available without turning on cheats. That is not good because then you’ll lose achievements.

Many tutorials recommend downloading the realm locally, flipping the switch for coordinates, and then uploading that copy of your world back to the realm. Turns out that some server commands will work in the Realm… coordinates being one of them!

Enter this into your chat window to enable coordinates:

You can, of course, turn them back off via:

Keep getting lost while exploring? Check out this article to enable coordinates in your Minecraft world!

Setting up a Minecraft Realm is a quick and easy way to play with your friends online. However, every Minecraft realm is vast and unique, even though it is a pretty simplistic game. Hence, you can get lost frequently, especially from a survival game standpoint. Nevertheless, you can always enable coordinates in the world settings in your Minecraft Realms world so that you will always have the map coordinates in hand.

Enabling Coordinates in Minecraft Realms Java Edition

To show coordinates while playing Minecraft Realms in the Java Edition is as simple as pressing a button. You do not have to tinker with the world settings or contact the realm owner just to enable coordinates.

Follow these steps to easily see your current coordinates in Minecraft Java Edition:

1. While playing in-game, go to a safe place where enemies cannot attack you while you are preoccupied.
2. After which, all you need to do is to press the F3 button (Fn + F3 on Mac) along the function row on your keyboard to bring up the debug screen.
3. Your current coordinates are shown on the top left-hand side of the screen marked as XYZ.

Note: Typing in the command “/gamerule reducedDebugInfo true” can disable the feature to see your coordinates on the debug screen.

Enabling Coordinates in Minecraft Realms Bedrock Edition

New Realm Maps

The easiest way to enable coordinates in a new Minecraft Realms map is to enable coordinates in the world settings option tab before creating the world or uploading a new map.

The steps to do this method is as follows:

1. The creator of the offline map should navigate the main menu.
2. Find the world settings (pencil icon) of the realm.
3. Scroll down to find the "Display Coordinates" button.
4. Toggle the button to enable coordinates in your Minecraft realms.

Doing this will create a coordinates-enabled version, wherein everyone on the server will have their exact distance coordinates in Minecraft Realms shown on the upper left-hand side of their screen. This is similar to the debug screen in the Java Edition of the game, but without the more complicated data.

Established Realm Maps

You can input a simple game rule command in the Minecraft console to show coordinates in an established realm. You can only input Minecraft's console commands as long as the realm owner has cheats turned on in the realm settings.

Activate the Coordinates System WITH cheats

1. Ensure that cheats are enabled for the realm.
2. Then, simply type in the console or chatbox, "/gamerule showcoordinates true" to turn coordinates ON
3. On the other hand, type "/gamerule showcoordinates false" to turn it OFF.

However, if you do not want actual cheats to be on in the game, you can follow another method to have the coordinates activated.

Minecraft on its new update of 1.2.8 introduced a new option where the Minecraft players can turn on the Coordinates. But in order to enable this, you must have Enabled the cheat. So how to turn on the Coordinates from the realm? In order to enable the option to turn on the Coords in the Realm do the following set of instructions given below.

Turn on Cords in Minecraft Xbox Realms

To enable the option to turn on Cords in Minecraft Xbox Realm do the following steps,

• Go to the realm that you want to enable the Coords.
• Click on the settings with the pencil icon
• The settings tab will be opened up, Scroll down and click on the Download world.
• After the download is complete, Backout to the options menu.
• Your Realm will be copied right next to the copied Realm.
• Click on the settings (pencil icon) of the newly copied Realm.
• Scroll down to the world options and enable Show Coordinates.
• Backout the options. Click on the Settings option of your default Realm.
• Click on “Replace world” and hit “Confirm”.
• Open your realm now and you will have your Coordinates at the top left corner of your screen.

How to Turn Cords in Minecraft Xbox Realms Using Commands?

If you use Cheats your achievements will be lost, so in order to Turn Cords in Minecraft Xbox Realms, you can also use the Commands in the Chatbox in the game. Enter the commands in the chat window in order to enable Minecraft.

/gamerule showcoordinates true

To turn off the Cords in Minecraft Xbox Realms,

/gamerule showcoordinates false

Minecraft Realm Coordinates

• Coordinates are usually based upon The x-axis shows the distance of the player to the east (positive) or west (negative) of the point of origin, i.e. the longitude,
• The y-axis displays how high or lows the player is (from 0 to 255, with 64 being sea level), i.e. the height
• The z-axis shows the distance of the player to the south (positive) or north (negative) of the point of origin, i.e. the latitude.
• The length of the units of the three axes is equal to the side of the block. And, one block equals 1 cubic meter in terms of real-world calculation.

Block position - Minecraft Realm

The location of a block is the coordinates of the point at the lower northwest corner of the block, i.e. the integer coordinates obtained within the block by rounding down the coordinates. In Minecraft coordinate block location is the rounded integers of the Coordinates, decimal coordinates typically need to be converted into integer coordinates.

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