Over 100 distinct challenges and milestones define a player’s journey through the blocky worlds of Minecraft. These aren’t just arbitrary tasks; they are a sophisticated progression system, guiding new players and providing seasoned veterans with ambitious goals to conquer across dimensions.

A player character standing proudly before a wall displaying numerous glowing Minecraft advancements, with an Ender Dragon flying in the distance.

Minecraft (Story) Advancements

This tab focuses on the core progression and fundamental mechanics of the game.

  • Minecraft

    Description: The heart and story of the game.

    How to Earn: Have a crafting table in your inventory.

  • Stone Age

    Description: Mine stone with your new pickaxe.

    How to Earn: Obtain cobblestone, blackstone, or cobbled deepslate.

  • Getting an Upgrade

    Description: Craft a better pickaxe.

    How to Earn: Craft a stone pickaxe.

  • Acquire Hardware

    Description: Smelt an iron ingot.

    How to Earn: Obtain an iron ingot by smelting iron ore or raw iron, killing an Iron Golem or Zombie, or looting.

  • Suit Up

    Description: Protect yourself with a piece of iron armor.

    How to Earn: Have any piece of iron armor in your inventory.

  • Hot Stuff

    Description: Fill a bucket with lava.

    How to Earn: Obtain a lava bucket.

  • Isn’t It Ironic?

    Description: Upgrade to an iron pickaxe.

    How to Earn: Craft an iron pickaxe.

  • Not Today, Thank You

    Description: Block a projectile with a shield.

    How to Earn: Deflect any projectile with a shield.

  • Ice Bucket Challenge

    Description: Obtain a block of obsidian.

    How to Earn: Obtain a block of obsidian.

  • Diamonds!

    Description: Acquire diamonds.

    How to Earn: Obtain a diamond.

  • We Need to Go Deeper

    Description: Build and enter a Nether portal.

    How to Earn: Enter the Nether dimension.

  • Cover Me in Diamonds

    Description: Wear a full set of diamond armor.

    How to Earn: Have any type of diamond armor in your inventory.

  • Enchanter

    Description: Enchant an item using an enchanting table.

    How to Earn: Enchant an item at an enchanting table.

  • Zombie Doctor

    Description: Cure a zombie villager.

    How to Earn: Use a golden apple on a zombie villager under the Weakness effect to convert it into a villager.

  • Eye Spy

    Description: Follow an Eye of Ender.

    How to Earn: Enter a stronghold.

  • The End?

    Description: Enter the End dimension.

    How to Earn: Enter the End dimension through an End Portal.

Nether Advancements

These advancements are focused on exploring and surviving in the Nether dimension.

  • Nether

    Description: Bring summer clothes.

    How to Earn: Enter the Nether dimension.

  • Return to Sender

    Description: Deflect a Ghast fireball.

    How to Earn: Destroy a Ghast with its own fireball.

  • Those Were the Days

    Description: Enter a Bastion Remnant.

    How to Earn: Enter a Bastion Remnant.

  • Hidden in the Depths

    Description: Mine ancient debris.

    How to Earn: Obtain Ancient Debris.

  • Subspace Bubble

    Description: Travel 7 km in the Nether.

    How to Earn: Travel 7,000 blocks in the Overworld using the Nether (875 blocks in the Nether).

  • A Terrible Fortress

    Description: Enter a Nether Fortress.

    How to Earn: Break into a Nether Fortress.

  • Who is Cutting Onions?

    Description: Obtain crying obsidian.

    How to Earn: Obtain a block of Crying Obsidian.

  • Cover Me in Debris

    Description: Wear a full set of Netherite armor.

    How to Earn: Have a full set of netherite armor in your inventory.

  • Spooky Scary Skeleton

    Description: Get a Wither Skeleton skull.

    How to Earn: Obtain a Wither Skeleton skull.

  • Into Fire

    Description: Survive fire damage with a fire resistance potion.

    How to Earn: Survive fire damage while under the Fire Resistance effect.

  • Not Quite “Nine” Lives

    Description: Respawn using a respawn anchor.

    How to Earn: Charge a Respawn Anchor to its maximum.

  • Hot Tourist Destinations

    Description: Visit all Nether biomes.

    How to Earn: Explore all Nether biomes.

  • This Boat Has Legs

    Description: Ride a strider with a warped fungus on a stick.

    How to Earn: Ride a Strider with a Warped Fungus on a Stick.

  • Uneasy Alliance

    Description: Rescue a ghast from the Nether.

    How to Earn: Kill a Ghast while the player is in the Overworld.

  • Bartering Trade

    Description: Distract Piglins with gold.

    How to Earn: Throw a gold ingot at a Piglin.

The End Advancements

These advancements are centered around the End dimension and defeating the Ender Dragon.

  • The End

    Description: Or the beginning?

    How to Earn: Enter the End dimension.

  • Free the End

    Description: Defeat the Ender Dragon.

    How to Earn: Kill the Ender Dragon for the first time.

  • The Next Generation

    Description: Obtain the Dragon Egg.

    How to Earn: Obtain the Ender Dragon egg.

  • Remote Getaway

    Description: Enter an End Gateway.

    How to Earn: Enter an End Gateway.

  • The End… Again…

    Description: Respawn the Ender Dragon.

    How to Earn: Respawn the Ender Dragon.

  • You Need a Mint

    Description: Collect Dragon’s Breath.

    How to Earn: Collect Dragon’s Breath in a glass bottle.

  • The City at the End of the Game

    Description: Find an End City.

    How to Earn: Find and enter an End City.

  • Sky’s the Limit

    Description: Obtain an Elytra.

    How to Earn: Obtain an Elytra.

  • Great View From Up Here

    Description: Levitate 50 blocks above the ground by Shulker.

    How to Earn: Levitate 50 blocks high by a Shulker’s attack.

Adventure Advancements

This category involves exploration, combat, trading, and interactions with mobs.

  • Adventure

    Description: Adventure, exploration, and combat.

    How to Earn: Kill any mob or die to any hostile or neutral mob.

  • Voluntary Exile

    Description: Kill a Raid Captain.

    How to Earn: Defeat a Pillager Captain or obtain the Bad Omen effect.

  • Is It a Bird?

    Description: Spy on a phantom through a spyglass.

    How to Earn: Use a spyglass to look at a Ghast.

  • Monster Hunter

    Description: Attack and destroy a monster.

    How to Earn: Kill any hostile mob.

  • The Power of Books

    Description: Place a Bookshelf.

    How to Earn: Build some bookshelves to improve your enchantment table.

  • Take Aim

    Description: Hit a target with an arrow.

    How to Earn: Shoot and hit a target block with an arrow.

  • Ol’ Betsy

    Description: Shoot a crossbow.

    How to Earn: Fire a crossbow.

  • Caves & Cliffs

    Description: Fall and survive from a high place.

    How to Earn: Fall from world height limit to the bottom of the world and survive.

  • Sweet Dreams

    Description: Change your spawn point by sleeping.

    How to Earn: Sleep in a bed to set your spawn point.

  • Hero of the Village

    Description: Successfully defend a village from a raid.

    How to Earn: Successfully defend a village from a raid.

  • A Throwaway Joke

    Description: Throw a trident at something (and pick it back up).

    How to Earn: Throw a trident and pick it up.

  • Two Birds, One Arrow

    Description: Kill two phantoms with one arrow.

    How to Earn: Kill two Phantoms with a single piercing arrow.

  • Who’s the Pillager Now?

    Description: Kill a pillager captain with a crossbow.

    How to Earn: Kill a Pillager with a crossbow.

  • Arbalistic

    Description: Kill five unique mobs with one crossbow shot.

    How to Earn: Kill five different unique mobs with a single crossbow shot that has the Piercing enchantment.

  • Adventuring Time

    Description: Discover every biome.

    How to Earn: Visit every Overworld biome.

  • Very Very Frightening

    Description: Strike a villager with lightning.

    How to Earn: Strike a villager with lightning.

  • Sniper Duel

    Description: Kill a skeleton from 50+ blocks away.

    How to Earn: Kill a Skeleton from more than 50 meters away with an arrow.

  • Bullseye

    Description: Hit a target block bullseye from 30+ blocks.

    How to Earn: Hit the center of a target block from at least 30 blocks away.

  • Monsters Hunted

    Description: Kill one of every hostile mob.

    How to Earn: Kill all 34 hostile mobs.

  • Postmortal

    Description: Use a Totem of Undying to cheat death.

    How to Earn: Survive fatal damage while holding a Totem of Undying.

  • Go Deep

    Description: Mine Iron, Coal, and Diamond.

    How to Earn: Acquire iron, coal, and diamond ores.

  • Sound the Alarm!

    Description: Ring the bell in a village after a villager has been hurt.

    How to Earn: Ring a village bell after a villager has been damaged.

  • Hot Tourist Destination

    Description: Visit all new Nether biomes.

    How to Earn: Visit all four new biomes added in the Nether Update (Crimson Forest, Warped Forest, Basalt Deltas, Soul Sand Valley).

  • Who’s Going to Stop Me?

    Description: Get an Iron Golem to die to a mob.

    How to Earn: Have an Iron Golem die to a hostile mob.

  • It Spreads

    Description: Kill a mob with a poisonous potato.

    How to Earn: Kill a mob using a poisonous potato.

  • Light as a Rabbit

    Description: Walk on powder snow without sinking.

    How to Earn: Equip leather boots and walk on powder snow without sinking.

  • Under Lock and Key

    Description: Use a trial key on a vault.

    How to Earn: Use a trial key on a vault in a Trial Chamber.

  • Revaulting

    Description: Use a heavy core on a vault.

    How to Earn: Use a heavy core on a vault to open it.

Husbandry Advancements

This tab involves farming, breeding, animal taming, and food-related activities.

  • Husbandry

    Description: The world is full of friends and food.

    How to Earn: Consume any food or drinking item.

  • Bee Our Guest

    Description: Make a campfire and place it underneath a beehive or a bee nest to extract honey without disturbing the bees.

    How to Earn: Extract honey from a beehive or bee nest using a campfire and a glass bottle.

  • The Parrots and the Bats

    Description: Breed two animals.

    How to Earn: Breed any two animals.

  • You’ve Got a Friend in Me

    Description: Receive a gift from a tamed cat in the morning.

    How to Earn: Receive a morning gift from a tamed cat.

  • Fishy Business

    Description: Catch a fish.

    How to Earn: Catch a fish with a fishing rod.

  • A Complete Catalogue

    Description: Tame all cat variants.

    How to Earn: Tame all cat variants in the game.

  • Tactical Fishing

    Description: Catch a fish in a bucket.

    How to Earn: Catch a fish in a water bucket.

  • A Balanced Diet

    Description: Eat every single edible item in the game.

    How to Earn: Eat all 40 unique food items.

  • Two by Two

    Description: Breed every single breedable animal in the game.

    How to Earn: Breed all breedable animals.

  • Whatever Floats Your Goat!

    Description: Get in a boat when a Minecraft goat is inside it.

    How to Earn: Be in a boat with a goat.

  • Wax On

    Description: Apply wax on a copper block.

    How to Earn: Apply wax to a copper block using a honeycomb.

  • Wax Off

    Description: Remove wax from a copper block.

    How to Earn: Right-click a waxed copper block with an axe to remove the wax.

  • Total Darkness

    Description: Have all three froglights (pearlescent, ochre, and verdant) in your inventory at the same time.

    How to Earn: Obtain all three types of Froglights.

  • Little Sniffs

    Description: Breed a baby Sniffer.

    How to Earn: Right-click a Snifflet (baby Sniffer) with Torchflower seeds.

  • Planting the Past

    Description: Plant a Torchflower seed or a Pitcher Pod.

    How to Earn: Plant a Torchflower Seed or a Pitcher Pod.

  • Careful Restoration

    Description: Make a Minecraft decorated pot with 4 pottery sherds.

    How to Earn: Create a decorated pot from four pottery sherds.

  • Crafty Combat

    Description: Let a crafter make a crafter.

    How to Earn: Place an item in a Crafter and power it with Redstone to automatically craft another Crafter.

In Minecraft’s Java Edition, advancements serve as a comprehensive progression system, effectively replacing the older achievement system. They are designed to encourage players to delve into every facet of the game, from basic survival and crafting to intricate exploration and challenging endgame encounters. Organized into five distinct tabs-Minecraft (Story), Nether, The End, Adventure, and Husbandry-these milestones track a player’s accomplishments and provide a clear sense of progression, rather than offering traditional in-game ‘stats’ or ‘pros/cons’.

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