Tutorials/Advancement guide

This guide is intended to show players how to obtain all of the advancements in Minecraft. For a more detailed list of each advancements, see the advancements page.

All Advancements
Currently there are 481 different advancements in the game.

Minecraft
Goal: Pick up a crafting table.

This one is easy. Just hold down the left-click on a wood block until it breaks, then collect the dropped block by walking over it.

Wood blocks are found on trees, which are very easy to find (as long as you didn't start out in an ocean or desert biome). Just look around.

Alternatively, you can simply pick up any wood log lying on the ground.

Use the wood block you just got from the tree and open your inventory. You will see a grid near the top-right corner, place your wood block in any of those grids.

Then click on the wooden planks that appear to obtain them.

At last put one of the four wood planks you got into each container of your grid (a 2x2 square of wood planks). You can right click to place a single plank into the grid, instead of all four.

Unlocks: Stone Age.

Stone Age
Goal: Pick up cobblestone from the ground.

Place your crafting table on the ground by holding the crafting table in your hand and right-clicking the ground. Follow the crafting recipe below to make sticks (note that this can also be done in your inventory crafting grid):

Now arrange your sticks and some planks in the crafting table to make a wooden pickaxe:

All you gotta do next is find stone and mine it.

Unlocks: Getting an Upgrade.

Getting an Upgrade
Goal: Craft a Stone Pickaxe.

You need three cobblestone blocks in this advancement.

Using your wooden pickaxe, mine three stone blocks so you have three cobblestone blocks.

Now arrange your sticks and cobblestones in the crafting table to make a stone pickaxe:

Unlocks: Acquire Hardware.

Acquire Hardware
Goal: Smelt an iron ore.

Mine iron ore with a stone pickaxe, and put it in the furnace like so:

Unlocks: Suit Up, Hot Stuff, Isn't It Iron Pick.

Suit Up
Goal: Craft any iron armor.

You need to collect at least four iron ingots.

Arrange the iron ingots in the crafting table to make the armor:

Unlocks: Not Today, Thank You.

Hot Stuff
Goal: Fill a bucket with lava.

Arrange the iron ingots in the crafting table to make a bucket:

All you have to do is find lava and your bucket to fill it up.

Unlocks: Ice Bucket Challenge.

Isn't It Iron Pick
Goal: Craft an iron pickaxe.

You need to collect three iron ingots.

Arrange them in the crafting table to make the iron pickaxe:

Unlocks: Diamonds!.

Not Today, Thank You
Goal: Deflect an arrow with your shield.

First, you need to craft a shield:

Then you need to find a skeleton, or another player to help you. Holding the shield, hold right-click, as they shoot at you.

Diamonds!
'''Goal: Find and mine a diamond

Using your iron pickaxe, find a diamond ore. Mine it, and collect the dropped diamond.

Ice Bucket Challenge
Goal: Form and mine a block of obsidian.

Use three diamonds to make a diamond pickaxe:

You also need a bucket of water: find water and right-click it with your bucket. Next you need to go down to the bottom of a cave, at below Y-level 12. Find a lava lake, and pour the bucket of water next to the lava. The water should flow onto the lava, turning it into obsidian. Mine the obsidian with your diamond pickaxe, and pick it up.