Talk:Achievement/Archive 1

Confirmed Achievements/How to get them:


 * Taking Inventory - Open your inventory
 * Getting Wood - Get some wood!
 * Benchmarking - Make a crafting table
 * Time to Farm - Make a hoe
 * Bake Bread - Make bread
 * The Lie - Make a cake
 * Time to Strike - Make a sword
 * Monster Hunter - Kill a monster
 * Cow Tipper - Kill a cow
 * When Pigs Fly - Use a saddle to ride a pig off a cliff
 * Getting an Upgrade - Make a stone pickaxe
 * Hot Topic - Make a furnace
 * Delicious Fish - Cook a fish
 * Acquire Hardware - Smelt Iron
 * On A Rail - Make a rail

Tutorial of Achievements
I can make a tutorial on achievements. I'm hyped up about them so I can make a tutorial on how to do these. --R ocĸetor talk  23:22, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

I would like to see individual pages for each achievement and directions on how to solve them and of course a tutorial would do wonders too. --Youassassin 11:53, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Do we really need a page for each achievement? I mean, 99% of them are just going to be a one-sentence entry that says "Make a Wooden Pickaxe" - what else can you say about that?  The tutorial covers everything fine.  --Warlock 11:59, 18 May 2011 (UTC)

bug?
I've cut down many trees with bare hands, with many types of axes and other tools, but I still don't get the getting wood achievement. Is there a bug that prevents it? --TheKax 14:14, 19 April 2011 (UTC)

Have you tried using a new map? --Poiuyt580 14:18, 19 April 2011 (UTC)
 * After changin the level it worked fine, but IMO it's a bug that you cant earn the achievements on some worlds. It sucks my main world is one of those. Is there anything I can do? --TheKax 14:20, 19 April 2011 (UTC)

Trivia addition
I was thinking, since 1.5 was released today, 4/19, and portal 2 was aswell, maybe Notch planned to do this because of the "the lie" achievement reference to portal. You could say something in the trivia about that. Chris32 04:09, 20 April 2011 (UTC)


 * I wouldn't really say that's a trivia. If you look on The Word of Notch and it says that he planned it that way then put it up, but otherwise don't speculate. It isn't a fact if it's based on observation only. Fai 00:56, 21 April 2011 (UTC)


 * It was coincidence. Notch said on his Twitter that he'd decided to push out 1.5 before he started playing Portal 2, since otherwise, the update wouldn't have happened until he'd finished playing (leading to the inevitable and incessant whining). 「 ダイノ ガイ 千？！ 」? · ☎ Dinoguy1000 09:07, 21 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Notch was talking about the popular internet meme 'The Cake is a Lie' in which people say the cake is a lie, and some say 'NO! THE CAKE IS TRUE!' and this ever-going war goes on until one person kills the other. I, myself believe the cake is not a lie, but true.*Holds up shotgun* --R ocĸetor talk  09:15, 21 April 2011 (UTC)


 * But the meme began thanks to Portal, as "The cake is a lie" was scrawled on several walls, while GLaDOS continually told the player that there is cake, (Spoiler alert!) and the player can actaully see the cake if he/she plays the full game through, but GLaDOS never had any intention of sharing it. So, the cake both is and is not a lie, thereby starting a meme and countless hours of internet squabble. Beefrocks 04:26, 24 May 2011 (UTC)


 * The cake is a lie, in that at no point in the game does the player (Chell) either receive any, or even get to see it. And after this long, there's really no point to warning about spoilers in a Portal plot summary; if someone really still doesn't know what happened, they're incredibly good at avoiding popular culture on the internet (or they don't use the internet in the first place). 「 ダイノ ガイ 千？！ 」? · ☎ Dinoguy1000

Rearrangement
we should rather do something like the following:

Taking Inventory: Press 'E'/'I' to open your inventory. └ Getting Wood: Punch a tree until a block of wood pops out. └ Benchmarking: Craft a workbench with four blocks of wooden planks. ├ Time to Farm!: Use planks and sticks to make a hoe. │ ├ Bake Bread: Turn wheat into bread. │ └ The Lie: Wheat, sugar, milk and eggs! ├ Time to Strike!: Use planks and sticks to make a sword. │ ├ Monster Hunter: Attack and destroy a monster. │ └ Cow Tipper: Harvest some leather. │  └ When Pigs Fly: Use a saddle to ride a pig, then fall off a cliff while riding it. └ Time to Mine!: Use planks and sticks to make a pickaxe. ├ Getting an Upgrade: Construct a better pickaxe. └ Hot Topic: Construct a furnace out of eight stone blocks. ├ Delicious Fish: Catch and cook fish! └ Acquire Hardware Smelt an iron ingot. └ On A Rail: Travel by minecart at least 1 km from where you started.

does anybody know a template we can copy over from another wiki which does this with css? – Flying sheep 22:16, 19 April 2011 (UTC)

This format will fail if achievements with more than 1 prerequisite is ever introduced in the future. - Xinhuan 05:29, 20 April 2011 (UTC)


 * I also thinks that format might be a bit risky with considerations to future achivements. Keep It Simple is a good rule to follow. On another note, why is the pic from the preview video still on the page? It's not the one used in the game and will only serve to confuse people. --Urian 06:56, 20 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Yes, the achievements will definitely grow in size, since everything there is now could be easily done within one hour, and as Notch said they could be used for bragging online, I don't think any of the yet is worth much bragging for. They are still all quite easy to achieve. TheKax 15:07, 20 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Notch is probably going to constantly add new achievements every update, for example, this update they were all noobish achievements (eg. make a crafting table) but next update he might include intermediary tasks  (such as kill a Ghast with your fists), and later on they might converge into very dangerous tasks, such as 'kill 100 creepers without being hurt once' or 'Craft 1,000,000 items' --R  ocĸetor talk  23:01, 20 April 2011 (UTC)


 * @Rocketor’s acievements: Umm, no, notch said he wouldn’t add collection achievements, so most achievements with a big number in it won’t make it into the game. “On a rail” is an exception since it means you will have to create ONE big minecart track, as opposed to collecting items or racking up kills or sth. “Survive a fall 98 blocks deep” would be an example too, because according to the fall damage formula, 9.5=⅕(x-3)÷2 (⅕ being full armor protection) is solved to 2·9.5·5+3=98. long story short: “fall 98 blocks deep” means “survive the deepest survivable fall”
 * @Tree View: More achievements mean more complexity means we need something clearer than this table. maybe we can use the achivement map directly from the game? – Flying sheep 23:44, 21 April 2011 (UTC)
 * That would make sense and is the best choice IMO, but then, again, this will put a lot of work to us. But then, there's always someone willing to do this...-- TheKax 07:51, 22 April 2011 (UTC)


 * @flyingsheep I was just giving an example. I didn't mean these actually, just giving an example of more difficult achievements. --R ocĸetor talk  21:36, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

It's a killer.
After I updated 1.5_01, I started an existing world, and opened up my inventory, getting the first achievement. I then continued to play, until I tried to place a workbench, where upon the game froze and quit. I tried again and the same happened. I started a new world, but the same thing happened when I tried to craft wood planks, which isn't an achievement. Is this just me? Fai 00:51, 21 April 2011 (UTC)

On A Rail
Does it count if you make a circle with one or two boosters and wait until you reached 1 km or do you need to go 1 km away from your start point? Maybe we could write this in the article. --Pedi94 16:11, 21 April 2011 (UTC)
 * You have to go 1 km from where you started unfortunately. :(
 * Yes, and this poses an obstacle if your longest tracks have right angles in them. --Theothersteve7 17:57, 21 April 2011 (UTC)
 * I tried doing that, and sadly, it didn't work D: I went past 1 Km and wondered why I didn't get the achievement. So I'm guessing you do have to go 1 KM away. D: I don't know if I have that much iron yet... oh and also, the when pigs fly one, oh boy, that is HARD. I followed a pig for an hour and the highest cliff it went off was 2 blocks high. T.T Cool12309(T 06:27, 22 April 2011 (UTC)
 * for the pigs fly one.. the best thing to do is make a hole in the ground or find a steep mountain, then shoot the pig off with snowballs either while riding, or jump on quickly. However, you have to shoot the snowballs at the very edge of the pig, or if you are riding, you will jump off at the same time you throw a snowball. Mellamokb 19:44, 29 April 2011 (UTC)

On a Rail & When Pigs Fly
Why do the achievements 'When Pigs Fly' and 'On a Rail' have yellow text and different shaped border things around their pictures? This could be because they are the two hardest to get achievements so far (requires finding a dungeon for the saddle, and mining out enough iron to make the rails). --mroberts, 14:30, 22 April 2011

A Bug?
When I Place My New Texture Pack in the Texturepacks Folder, my stats and Achievements Reset. --Amigopen The Gemini! 10:25, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

Does not happens to me, I have 3 16x16 standard texture packs, switching between them keeps my stats/achievements. C ali nou - talk × contribs » 11:30, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

A not Bug? (Undo Edit)
I'm not a big fan of mercilessly deleting other people's stuff, but I'm pretty sure that achievements not 'getting' until you've unlocked their prerequisites isn't a bug. It more like the definition of a prerequisite. Troagador 16:15, 3 May 2011 (UTC)

Trivia - Background - More is missing
To be correct, not only a Gold ore is missing in the background image, because of Lapis Lazuli. Besides it's missing everything over ground as well as sand, clay, dungeons, lava and water. It would be nice to see the achievements arranged to the correct spot. --DerGpunkt 06:19, 10 May 2011 (UTC)