Lost my house in Minecraft. Will it despawn?
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What the title says. I'm playing the most recent version on Nintendo Switch as of 6/9/22 on survival mode. I made a house not too far away from my spawn point. I read online that a compass will direct you to your initial spawn point and I tried following it to its pole and it lead me to a biome I had never seen before, certainly not where I spawned.
The world I have is set to infinite and I'm presumably very far away from my house. Will my house despawn if I go too far away from it? Is there anything else I could do to try to find it?
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No, it won't.
Despawning only applies to mobs and dropped items. Blocks themselves don't despawn, especially not anything built by the player.
If you want, you can read more about despawn on https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Spawn#Despawning .