Where to Find Lodestone in Minecraft

You will meet Lodestone in Nether (Bastion Remnants) and All biomes (crafting), 2 different places, and the fastest of them depends on what you already have for Lodestone. Because this is a Nether-side item, you first need an active Nether portal (a frame of obsidian lit with flint and steel) to reach the dimension where it is found. Use a Compass on a Lodestone to make it point to that location instead of world spawn. Works in all three dimensions (Overworld, Nether, End). Outside the crafting grid, getting Lodestone means looting it from generated structure chests.

Craft it rather than hunt for it: Lodestone comes off a Crafting Table from Chiseled Stone Bricks and Netherite Ingot, and that grid hands you Lodestone every single time you fill it in, which no chest or mob will do. Gather first and craft after, because Lodestone takes Chiseled Stone Bricks (craft from stone brick slabs) and Netherite Ingot (combine four netherite scrap with four gold ingots) before the grid does anything. Bastion Remnants in the Nether sometimes contain pre-placed Lodestones. Chiseled Stone Bricks are crafted from Stone Brick Slabs. A full stack of Lodestone is 64, so gather freely: 27 slots turn that into 1728, and that is a session worth of work stored in one block. One note worth having on Lodestone and its updates: Added in 1.16 (Nether Update). As a utility block, Lodestone is the sort of thing you place once and use constantly, so most players craft an early one and add more as their base grows.

If you are here for Lodestone, Recovery Compass, Respawn Anchor, and Netherite Pickaxe are the neighbours worth knowing, since a route to one tends to pass the others. The item page for Lodestone has the numbers this guide leaves out.