Minecraft’s Advancements and Achievements system provides a structured way for players to explore the game’s vast content and master its mechanics. This comprehensive guide offers a detailed list of all Advancements (Java Edition) and Achievements (Bedrock Edition), explaining how to unlock each one. Whether you’re a new player looking for guidance or a seasoned veteran aiming for 100% completion, this guide will help you navigate the challenges and rewards that Minecraft has to offer.
Advancements (Java Edition)
The Java Edition features 85 Advancements, divided into five categories: Minecraft, Husbandry, Adventure, Nether, and The End.
Minecraft Advancements
| Advancement | How to Unlock |
|---|---|
| Minecraft | Place a crafting table in your inventory. This Advancement marks the starting point of your Minecraft journey, symbolizing the game’s heart and story. |
| Stone Age | Mine stone with your new pickaxe. This early-game Advancement pushes you to gather essential resources. |
| Getting an Upgrade | Construct a better pickaxe, showcasing progression in tool crafting. |
| Acquire Hardware | Smelt an iron ingot, demonstrating resource processing and material acquisition. |
| Suit Up | Protect yourself with a piece of iron armor, highlighting the importance of defense and preparedness. |
| Not Today, Thank You | Deflect a projectile with a shield, showcasing combat skills and defensive tactics. |
| Hot Stuff | Fill a bucket with lava, a task required for obtaining obsidian and progressing to the Nether. |
| Ice Bucket Challenge | Obtain a block of obsidian, a crucial material for building a Nether Portal. |
| Isn’t It Iron Pick | Upgrade your pickaxe, demonstrating the upgrading of tools for increased efficiency. |
| Diamonds! | Acquire diamonds, a major milestone in the game, allowing for stronger tools and armor. |
| We Need to Go Deeper | Build, light and enter a Nether Portal, marking your entry into a dangerous dimension. |
| Enchanter | Enchant an item at a Enchanting Table, demonstrating the use of magic to enhance your items. |
Minecraft advancement icon, earned by placing a crafting table.
Husbandry Advancements
| Advancement | How to Unlock |
|---|---|
| Husbandry | Consume any consumable items, emphasizing the importance of food and resourcefulness. |
| Bee Our Guest | Use a Campfire to collect Honey from a Beehive using a Bottle without aggravating the bees, demonstrating careful resource gathering. |
| Wax On | Apply Honeycomb to a Copper block, showing the decorative and protective uses of resources. |
| The Parrots and the Bats | Breed two animals together, demonstrating the breeding of animals for resources or companionship. |
| Two by Two | Breed all the animals, a more challenging task requiring dedication and care. |
| Whatever Floats Your Goat! | Get in a Boat and float with a Goat, a playful interaction with a new mob. |
| Best Friends Forever | Tame an animal, highlighting the companionship animals can provide. |
| A Complete Catalogue | Tame all cat variants, requiring patience and exploration to find all the feline companions. |
| Glow and Behold! | Make the text of a sign glow, showing the use of glow ink sacs for enhanced visibility. |
| Fishy Business | Catch a fish, a simple task that unlocks a sustainable food source. |
| Tactical Fishing | Catch a fish… without a fishing rod, a creative challenge rewarding ingenuity. |
| Total Beelocation | Move a Bee Nest, with 3 bees inside, using Silk Touch, demonstrating the careful relocation of beneficial creatures. |
| A Seedy Place | Plant a seed and watch it grow, emphasizing the importance of agriculture. |
| A Balanced Diet | Eat everything that is edible, even if it’s not good for you, highlighting the diverse food sources available. |
| Serious Dedication | Use a Netherite ingot to upgrade a hoe, and then reevaluate your life choices, an humorous challenge about the worth of a hoe. |
| Bukkit Bukkit | Catch a Tadpole in a Bucket, a charming task featuring the cute amphibian. |
| When the Squad Hops into Town | Get each Frog variant on a Lead, showcasing the different frog types and their mobility. |
| You’ve Got a Friend in Me | Have an Allay deliver items to you, demonstrating the usefulness of the helpful Allay. |
| Birthday Song | Have an Allay drop a Cake at a Note Block, a fun interaction with the Allay and music. |
| With our Powers Combined! | Have all Froglights in your inventory, requiring the collection of all froglight variants. |
Icon for the Best Friends Forever advancement, achieved by taming any animal.
Adventure Advancements
| Advancement | How to Unlock |
|---|---|
| Adventure | Kill or be killed by any mobs, emphasizing the dangers and excitements of the Minecraft world. |
| Is It a Bird? | Look at a parrot through a spyglass, an amusing use of the spyglass tool. |
| Is It a Balloon? | Look at a ghast through a spyglass, a comical use of the spyglass in a perilous situation. |
| A Throwaway Joke | Throw a trident at something. Note: Throwing away your only weapon is not a good idea, a risky move for ranged combat. |
| Very Very Frightening | Strike a Villager with lightning, a chaotic act with potential consequences. |
| Take Aim | Shoot something with an arrow, a basic yet essential combat skill. |
| Sniper Duel | Kill a Skeleton from at least 50 meters away, demonstrating marksmanship and ranged combat skills. |
| Monsters Hunted | Kill one of every hostile monster, requiring players to face every threat in the game. |
| Bullseye | Hit the bullseye of a Target block from at least 30 meters away, showing precision with ranged weapons. |
| Postmortal | Use a Totem of Undying to cheat death, an important strategy for survival. |
| What a Deal! | Successfully trade with a Villager, opening up resource opportunities. |
| Hired Help | Summon an Iron Golem to help defend a village, showing the protective power of the Iron Golem. |
| Star Trader | Trade with a villager at the build height limit, a challenge that tests exploration and trading skills. |
| Sticky Situation | Jump into a Honey Block to break your fall, demonstrating resourceful use of environmental resources. |
| Two Birds, One Arrow | Kill two Phantoms with a piercing arrow, showcasing archery prowess. |
| Ol’ Betsy | Shoot a crossbow, expanding ranged combat options. |
| Who’s the Pillager Now? | Kill a Pillager using a Crossbow, showing the ability to turn the tables on enemies. |
| Surge Protector | Protect a villager from an undesired shock without starting a fire, requiring caution and precision. |
| Caves & Cliffs | Free fall from the top of the world (build limit) to the bottom of the world and survive, a daring feat of survival. |
| Adventuring Time | Discover every biome, showcasing exploration and discovery skills. |
| Sweet Dreams | Sleep in a bed to change your respawn point, an essential survival strategy. |
| Sound of Music | Make the Meadows come alive with the sound of music from a jukebox, an aesthetic advancement creating ambiance. |
| Light as a Rabbit | Walk on powder snow…without sinking in it, requiring special footwear or strategy. |
| Sneak 100 | Sneak near a Sculk Sensor or Warden to prevent it from detecting you, emphasizing stealth and strategy. |
| It Spreads | Kill a mob near a Sculk Catalyst, showing the dangerous impact of the Sculk. |
The Sniper Duel advancement icon, completed by killing a skeleton from 50 meters away.
Nether Advancements
| Advancement | How to Unlock |
|---|---|
| Nether | Get into the Nether, the gateway to the dangerous Nether dimension. |
| Return to Sender | Destroy a Ghast with a fireball, a challenging and satisfying feat. |
| Those Were the Days | Enter a Bastion Remnant, exploring the dangerous structures of the Nether. |
| Hidden in the Depths | Obtain Ancient Debris, a precious resource for Netherite gear. |
| Subspace Bubble | Use the Nether to travel 7 km in the Overworld, exploiting the Nether’s fast travel capabilities. |
| A Terrible Fortress | Break your way into a Nether Fortress, a dangerous task requiring skill and preparation. |
| Who is Cutting Onions? | Obtain Crying Obsidian, a rare and decorative block. |
| Oh Shiny | Distract Piglins with gold, a strategy for avoiding conflict in the Nether. |
| This Boat Has Legs | Ride a Strider with a Warped Fungus on a Stick, navigating the lava seas of the Nether. |
| Uneasy Alliance | Rescue a Ghast from the Nether, bring it safely home to the Overworld… and then kill it, a strange and challenging task. |
| War Pigs | Loot a chest in a Bastion Remnant, demonstrating skill and courage in the Nether. |
| Country Lode, Take Me Home | Use a compass on a Lodestone, a navigational tool for staying oriented in the Nether. |
| Cover Me in Debris | Get a full suit of Netherite armor, demonstrating the ultimate protection in the game. |
| Spooky Scary Skeleton | Obtain a Wither Skeleton’s skull, a rare item for summoning the Wither boss. |
| Into Fire | Relieve a Blaze of its rod, a dangerous task in the Nether Fortress. |
| Not Quite “Nine” Lives | Charge a Respawn Anchor to the maximum, allowing respawning in the Nether. |
| Feels like home | Take a Strider for a loooong ride on a lava lake in the Overworld, showing a peaceful moment in a dangerous dimension. |
| Hot Tourist Destinations | Explore all Nether biomes, discovering the diverse landscapes of the Nether. |
| Local Brewery | Brew a Potion, an essential skill for survival and combat. |
| Withering Heights | Summon the Wither, a challenging boss fight. |
| How Did We Get Here? | Have every effect applied at the same time, a complex challenge requiring extensive potion brewing. |
Icon for the Country Lode, Take Me Home advancement, unlocked by using a compass on a Lodestone.
The End Advancements
| Advancement | How to Unlock |
|---|---|
| The End | Go to The End dimension, the final dimension in Minecraft. |
| Free the End | Slay the Ender Dragon, the ultimate boss battle in Minecraft. |
| The Next Generation | Put the Dragon Egg in your inventory, a trophy for defeating the Ender Dragon. |
| Remote Getaway | Leave The End dimension, escaping the island after defeating the Dragon. |
| The End… Again… | Respawn the Ender Dragon, facing the boss again for rewards and challenge. |
| You Need a Mint | Collect dragon’s breath in a glass bottle, a resource for brewing lingering potions. |
| The City at the End of the Game | Enter an End City, exploring the structures of the End dimension. |
The End advancement, obtained by entering the End Dimension.
Achievements (Bedrock Edition)
The Bedrock Edition features 122 Achievements, offering a wide range of challenges and rewards.
| Achievement | How to Unlock |
|---|---|
| Caves & Cliffs | Free fall from the top of the world (build limit) to the bottom of the world and survive. |
| Star Trader | Trade with a villager at the build height limit. |
| Sound of Music | Make the Meadows come alive with the sound of music from a jukebox. |
| Feels Like Home | Take a Strider for a loooong ride on a lava lake in the Overworld. |
| The Healing Power of Friendship! | Team up with an axolotl and win a fight Reward: Friendship Bracelet |
| Whatever Floats Your Goat | Get in a boat and float with a goat Reward: Goat Floaties |
| Wax on, Wax off | Apply and remove Wax from all the Copper blocks!!! Reward: Copper Headband |
| Hot tourist destination | Visit all Nether biomes Reward: I’m on FIRE!? |
| Oooh, shiny! | Distract a Piglin using gold Reward: Golden Watch |
| Cover me in debris | Wear a full set of Netherite armor |
| Bullseye | Hit the bullseye of a Target block Reward: Bullseye Top |
| Sticky Situation | Slide down a honey block to slow your fall. Reward: Beekeeper Suit |
| Total Beelocation | Move and place a Bee Nest, with 3 bees inside, using Silk Touch. Reward: Beekeeper Hat |
| Bee our guest | Use a Campfire to collect Honey from a Beehive using a Bottle without aggravating the bees. Reward: Honey Pot |
| Time for Stew | Give someone a suspicious stew. Reward: Witch’s Robe |
| Master Trader | Trade for 1,000 Emeralds. Reward: Emerald Headwrap |
| I’ve got a bad feeling about this | Kill a Pillager Captain. |
| Sound the Alarm! | Ring the bell with a hostile enemy in the village. Reward: Fake Villager nose |
| We’re being attacked! | Trigger a Pillager Raid. |
| Disenchanted | Use a Grindstone to get experience from an enchanted item. |
| Buy Low, Sell High | Trade for the best possible price. Reward: Gold Club Jacket |
| Kill the Beast! | Defeat a Ravager. |
| Plethora of Cats | Befriend twenty stray cats. Reward: Calico Headset |
| Fruit on the Loom | Make a banner using an Enchanted Apple Stencil |
| Where have you been? | Receive a gift from a tamed cat in the morning. Reward: Kitty Face :3 |
| Top of the World | Place scaffolding to the world limit. |
| Zoologist | Breed two pandas with bamboo. |
| Echolocation | Feed a dolphin fish to have it lead you to treasure Reward: Sine Wave Tee |
| Moskstraumen | Activate a Conduit Reward: Glub Glub |
| One Pickle, Two Pickle, Sea Pickle, Four | Place four Sea Pickles in a group Reward: Pickled Feet |
| Do a Barrel Roll! | Use Riptide to give yourself a boost |
| Alternative Fuel | Power a furnace with a dried kelp block Reward: Power Core |
| Sleep with the Fishes | Spend a day underwater. Reward: Octo Beard |
| Me Gold! | Dig up a buried treasure Reward: Treasure Map Shirt |
| I am a Marine Biologist | Collect a fish in a bucket Reward: Sailor’s Hat |
| Ahoy! | Find a shipwreck Reward: Spyglass |
| Castaway | Eat nothing but dried kelp for three in-game days Reward: Shredded Shirt |
| Sail the 7 Seas | Visit all ocean biomes Reward: Nautical Tricorn |
| Atlantis? | Find an underwater ruin |
| Treasure Hunter | Acquire a map from a cartographer villager, then enter the revealed structure Reward: Archaeologist’s Hat |
| Organizational Wizard | Name a Shulker Box with an Anvil |
| Cheating Death | Use the Totem of Undying to cheat death Reward: Fake Death |
| Feeling Ill | Defeat an Evoker Reward: Vex Wings |
| Let It Go! | Using the Frost Walker boots, walk on at least 1 block on frozen water on a deep ocean |
| So I Got That Going for Me | Lead a Caravan containing at least 5 Llamas Reward: Llama Poncho |
| The Haggler | Acquire or spend 30 Emeralds by trading with villagers. Reward: Emerald Suitcoat |
| You Need a Mint | Collect dragons breath in a glass bottle |
| Super Sonic | Use Elytra to fly through a 1 by 1 gap while moving faster than 40 m/s |
| Great View From Up Here | Levitate up 50 blocks from the attacks of a Shulker Reward: Elder Dragon Wings |
| The End… Again… | Respawn the Enderdragon |
| Beam Me Up | Teleport over 100 meters from a single throw of an Ender Pearl Reward: Abduction? |
| The End | Kill the Enderdragon |
| The End? | Enter an End Portal |
| The Beginning. | Kill the Wither |
| Super Fuel | Power a Furnace with Lava |
| The Beaconator | Create and fully power a Beacon |
| Dry Spell | Dry a sponge in a furnace Reward: Spongey |
| The Deep End | Defeat an Elder Guardian |
| The Beginning? | Spawn the Wither |
| Rabbit Season | Cook and Eat Rabbit Meat Reward: Hunter’s Hat |
| Overpowered | Eat an Enchanted Apple Reward: Diamond Bod |
| Free Diver | Stay underwater for 2 minutes Reward: Underwater Dancing |
| Artificial Selection | Breed a mule from a horse and a donkey. Reward: Horse Mask |
| Saddle Up | Tame a horse. Reward: Cowpoke Chaps |
| Inception | Push a piston with a piston, then pull the original piston with that piston. |
| When Pigs Fly | Use a saddle to ride a pig, and then have the pig get hurt from fall damage while riding it. Reward: Winged Pig Boots |
| Adventuring Time | Discover 17 biomes. Reward: The Pickaxe |
| Tie Dye Outfit | Use a cauldron to dye all 4 unique pieces of leather armor. Reward: Tie Dye Tank |
| Zombie Doctor | Cure a zombie villager. Reward: Plague Doctor Mask |
| Trampoline | Bounce 30 blocks upward off a slime block. Reward: Slime |
| Time to Strike! | Use planks and sticks to make a sword. |
| Time to Mine! | Use planks and sticks to make a pickaxe. Reward: Miner Headband |
| Time to Farm! | Make a Hoe. Reward: Wheat Toothpick |
| The Lie | Bake a cake using: wheat, sugar, milk and eggs. Reward: Cake Apron |
| Taste of Your Own Medicine | Poison a witch with a splash potion. |
| Taking Inventory | Open your inventory. |
| Stayin’ Frosty | Swim in lava while having the Fire Resistance effect. Reward: Lil’ Chilly |
| Sniper Duel | Kill a Skeleton with an arrow from more than 50 meters. |
| Smelt Everything! | Connect 3 Chests to a single Furnace using 3 Hoppers. |
| Return to Sender | Destroy a Ghast with a fireball. |
| Repopulation | Breed two cows with wheat. Reward: Cowbell Necklace |
| Renewable Energy | Smelt wood trunks using charcoal to make more charcoal. Reward: Wind Turbine |
| Rainbow Collection | Gather all 16 colors of wool. Reward: Rainbow Sweater |
| Pot Planter | Craft and place a Flower Pot. Reward: Flower Pot Shoes |
| Pork Chop | Cook and eat a pork chop. |
| Passing the Time | Play for 100 days. Reward: Very Long Hair |
| Overkill | Deal nine hearts of damage in a single hit. |
| On A Rail | Travel by minecart to a point at least 500m in a single direction from where you started. Reward: Conductor Hat |
| Monster Hunter | Attack and destroy a monster. |
| MOAR Tools | Construct one type of each tool. |
| Map Room | Place 9 fully explored, adjacent map items into 9 item frames in a 3 by 3 square. Reward: Compass Coat |
| Local Brewery | Brew a potion. Reward: Witch Hat |
| Lion Hunter | Gain the trust of an Ocelot. Reward: Ocelot Print Pants |
| Librarian | Build some bookshelves to improve your enchantment table. Reward: Stack of Books |
| Leader of the Pack | Befriend five wolves. Reward: Wolf Mask |
| It’s a Sign! | Craft and place an Oak Sign. Reward: Divination Cape |
| Iron Man | Wear a full suit of Iron Armor. |
| Iron Belly | Stop starvation using Rotten Flesh. Reward: A Hunger? |
| Into the Nether | Construct a Nether Portal. Reward: Feel the Nether |
| Into Fire | Relieve a Blaze of its rod. |
| Hot Topic | Construct a furnace out of eight cobblestone blocks. Reward: Furnace mask |
| Have a Shearful Day | Use Shears to obtain wool from a sheep. Reward: Wooled |
| Getting Wood | Punch a tree until a block of wood pops out. Reward: Lumberjack Shirt |
| Getting an Upgrade | Construct a better pickaxe. |
| Freight Station | Use a Hopper to move an item from a Chest Minecart to a Chest. |
| Enchanter | Construct an Enchantment Table. Reward: Enchanters Hat |
| Dispense With This | Construct a Dispenser. |
| DIAMONDS! | Acquire diamonds with your iron tools. Reward: DIAMOND CROWN |
| Diamonds to you! | Throw diamonds at another player. Reward: Diamonds To You! |
| Delicious Fish | Catch and cook a fish! Reward: Fisherman Hat |
| Cow Tipper | Harvest some leather. Reward: Faceplant |
| Chestful of Cobblestone | Mine 1,728 Cobblestone and place it in a chest. Reward: Cobblestone |
| Camouflage | Kill a mob while wearing the same type of mob head. Reward: Creeper Costume |
| Body Guard | Create an Iron Golem |
| Benchmaking | Craft a workbench with four blocks of wooden planks. Reward: Tool Belt Trousers |
| Bake Bread | Turn wheat into bread. Reward: Chefs Hat |
| Archer | Kill a creeper with arrows. Reward: Archers Quiver |
| Acquire Hardware | Smelt an iron ingot. Reward: The Hammer |
| It Spreads | Kill a mob next to a catalyst. |
| Birthday Song | Have an Allay drop a cake at a note block. |
| With our Powers Combined! | Have all 3 froglights in your inventory. |
| Sneak 100 | Sneaking next to a Sculk Sensor without triggering it. |
Minecraft – Achievements
Understanding Advancements and Achievements
Advancements and Achievements serve as a guided path for new Minecraft players, teaching them the basics and encouraging exploration of the game’s vast content. They are unlocked by completing specific objectives, which range from simple tasks like crafting a workbench to more complex challenges like defeating the Ender Dragon. In the Bedrock Edition, some Achievements also reward players with emotes and character customization items, adding an extra layer of incentive.
By using this complete catalogue Minecraft guide, you’ll be well-equipped to tackle any challenge and unlock every Advancement and Achievement that Minecraft has to offer. Good luck, and happy crafting!
