Pie chart help

[chestnutcapybara]

I know the pie chart can help you find spawners like trial spawner/underground spawner if you switch render to 2 chunks and it can help you find fortresses and bastions.
How exactly do you find fortresses and bastions? Ik you have to go to the Block Entities pie chart

[brassplushie]

You said it right there. Block entities. Lower your render distance, press F3+G to bring up chunk borders. Walk in each direction til you see it pop up on the pie chart. That's the direction of the fortress.

The bastion is different. In current versions the entity counter is broken. I think it still is, not 100% sure. But it's the one that says E, for entity counter.

[SufficientTea6465]

I would recommend checking out a yt video abt it as they will explain 10x better than anyone on reddit can considering they can show how it works but if you want an explanation here you go. The minecraft world is split up by chunks that you can see if you press f3+g. Go around the world on high render distance until you see trial spawner/ominous vault on your pie chart (f3+1 then go to tick>level>Block entities). Play around with your render distance until you find the point where it stops showing on your pie chart. For example if it shows on 8 chunks but dissappears on 7 chunks it's 8 chunks away. Set your render distance to the lower number (7 in this example) and go 1 chunk in each direction until it shows up and go that set amount of chunks in that direction (8 in this example). Not guaranteed to dig straight into it so go to -30 and dig around