Forum: gaming.stackexchange.com
Tags: <minecraft-java-edition>
Title: How do I move my spawn point?
Question: I am spawning too far from my home. How do I move my spawn point?

Answers:
sents: text: In Minecraft Beta 1.4 and later, sleeping in a bed will set your spawn point.
text: On older SMP servers running Minecraft Beta 1.3, spawn points can be changed using the /setspawn command, provided the server is running any of the common mods to provide this functionality.
text: Sometimes this command is called /sethome, and sometimes the /sethome command has a different purpose.
text: There is no way to set the spawn point ingame on Single Player Minecraft Alpha/
text: Beta < 1.4.
text: Some third party tools will change it for you however.
text: For Minecraft Classic, pressing Enter sets the spawn point.
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/109/Macha
score: 24
sents: text: Simply make a bed and lay into it.
text: If you're in multiplayer mode, you don't need to wait for all others to also get in a bed in order to sleep - laying down is enough to change your spawn point so long as your bed doesn't get destroyed .
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/23/badp
score: 17
sents: text: You can't do this without cheating.
text: If you're okay with cheating, you can use NBTEdit using this guide .
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/None/
score: 13
sents: text: The location of the spawn point can be changed if the player digs 3 spaces downwards from it.
text: This will however only move the spawn point a few blocks away from the original location; it is not possible, using this method, to dramatically or controllably alter the location of the spawn point
text: but there is tools that allows you to change the spawn point.
text: From http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Spawn
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/3375/Jader Dias
score: 5
sents: text: An idea similar to the badp answer : Build a river from somewhere near your spawn point to your house.
text: This way, the water flow will help you move fast toward your house.
text: It's also very cheap to build.
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/1552/Denilson Sá Maia
score: 5
sents: text: In the next minecraft update, players will be able to move their spawn point.
text: Source: http://notch.tumblr.com/
text: I’ve been able to focus on development a lot the last couple of weeks, and we’re hoping to get the new update out soon.
text: It will include the wolves, the ability to change your spawn point, and a rather ambitious statistics tracking and achievement system.
text: And, officially, from the changelog: Sleeping in a bed now resets your spawn position
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/336/Raven Dreamer
score: 4
sents: text: If you don't wanna spawn too far away from your housemake a bed: (wool wool wool)(wood wood wood) or put up a signal thats above the clouds, it will be like a pin on a treasure map.
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/10484/ian
score: 2
sents: text: In the newer versions of Minecraft (tested on 1.8.9) you can use /setworldspawn
text: X Y
text: Z where X, Y and Z are coordinates, where you want to set the spawn point.
text: You can easily check your current coordinates e.g. with debugging screen (press F3 ).
text: You can learn more about the command with /help
text: setworldspawn
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/167108/Samuel Dobriakov
score: 0

Summary of the answers:
Make a bed and that will set your spawn point. In Minecraft Classic, pressing enter sets the point.
Whereas the most common solution is to sleep in a bed, in other versions of minecraft, Enter sets the spawn point or digging 3 spaces below it. If one is so inclined, third party tools like NBTEdit will do this for you.