Tutorials/Achievement guide

This guide is intended for people who are interested in completing the Achievements in Minecraft Beta 1.5.

= Introduction = This tutorial is all about the Achievements and how to complete them. It is divided into the starting three Achievements and the three paths afterwords.

= Start =

Taking Inventory (Press 'e' to open your inventory.)
Goal: Open your inventory

This one is pretty straightforward. Press E. A fairly big screen should pop up. This is the inventory and crafting menu.

Players before the 1.5 update have their default inventory key as 'I', so if you played before Beta 1.5, then press I.

If you changed your inventory key to something else, press that key instead.

Unlocks: Getting wood

Getting Wood (Attack a tree until a block of wood pops out.)
Goal: Punch a tree until a block of wood pops out and collect it.

This one is easy as well. 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. Just look around.

Unlocks: Benchmarking

Benchmarking (Craft a workbench with four blocks of planks.)
Goal: Construct a Crafting Table.

Use the wood block you collected and turn it into Wooden planks. Then align them to make a Crafting Table.

Unlocks: Time to Strike!, Time to Farm!, Time to Mine!

= The three paths =

Time to Farm! (Use planks and wood to make a hoe.)
Goal: Construct a Wooden Hoe.

Collect another wood block. Turn it into Wooden planks. Then first align two planks to make Sticks, and then align two sticks and two planks to make a Wooden Hoe.

Unlocks: Bake Bread, The Lie

Bake Bread (Turn wheat into bread.)
Goal: Make Bread.

Use the hoe on Grass Blocks until you gain three Seeds. Use the hoe on three Dirt or Grass Blocks to get Farmland, preferably near Water. Holding the Seeds, right click on each Farmland Block. Wait 1-3 ingame days for Wheat to grow. After that, left click the wheat. Put the wheat into a row in the crafting table to get Bread.

The Lie (Wheat, sugar, milk and eggs!)
Goal: Make Cake.

Collect the following:
 * 3 Milk Buckets: Craft 3 Buckets with nine Iron Ingots. Use each bucket on a Cow to obtain Milk.
 * 3 Wheat: Grow 3 Wheat from Seeds. Collect Wheat.
 * 2 Sugar: Find or grow 2 Sugar Cane and collect. Put all of the Sugar Cane into one crafting square of the Workbench to craft Sugar.
 * 1 Egg: Follow a Chicken around for 4-5 minutes. If you are lucky you may stumble upon an Egg laid by a Chicken already.

Arrange the ingredients in the following order to craft cake:

Time to Strike! (Use planks and wood to make a sword.)
Goal: Construct a Wooden Sword.

Collect another wood block. Turn it into Wooden planks. If you don't have any Sticks align two planks to make them. Then align two planks and a stick to make a Wooden Sword.

Unlocks: Cow Tipper, Monster Hunter

Cow Tipper (Harvest some leather.)
Goal: Collect Leather.

Find a Cow. They may appear at any place with Grass and enough light. You may have to wander a bit to find one, so take care so you'll be able to find your way back. When you find the Cow, equip the Wooden Sword by putting it in the lowest (4th) line of your inventory and then scrolling your mouse wheel until it is selected. Stand next to the Cow and click to swing the sword at it. You will need to hit it three times to kill it. The Cow may drop one or two Leather. If you don't get any, try with another cow.

Unlocks: When Pigs Fly

When pigs fly (Let a pig fly of a cliff.)
Goal: Let a Pig jump of a cliff while sitting on it.

First you need to get a Saddle out of a chest in a Dungeon. Follow the link for more information. Now use it with right click on a Pig, which should be near a cliff. The easiest way to get it to jump off a cliff is to throw a Snowball at it while it is near a cliff because it doesn't get damaged and you automatically do two things: throw the snowball and ride the pig. There are also other ways of doing it but in most of them the pig gets damaged and once it is dead a new Saddle is needed. Also, make sure that your cliff isn't over water, because the pig will just land in it safely and not get hurt.

Monster Hunter (Attack and destroy a monster.)
Goal: Kill an aggressive Monster.

First you'll need to find an aggressive Monster. They can appear only in darkness, so you will need to wait until the night. While you're waiting, you should construct a shelter so the Monsters don't kill you. You can build a wooden house, dig a hole in the ground, build a stone house or think of something else. Refer to Tutorials/Shelter_Types for different designs. When it gets dark, you can either go out and try to kill a Monster (more dangerous) or wait until daytime and kill one then (less dangerous). It takes five hits with a Wooden Sword, or four with a Stone Sword to kill an aggressive Monster. Monsters you can kill to gain this achievement (note that Zombies and Skeletons will burn during the day, making it impossible to use them for the achievement if you aren't fighting at night):
 * Zombie: Weak. When it sees you it will walk to you and hurt you if it touches you. An easy way to kill one is to wait until it is in the reach of your sword, and then hit it. The Zombie will fly back a little, and you can wait until it gets near again and hit it again.
 * Skeleton: Medium. Skeletons will shoot at you when they see you, and they can't run out of arrows. They are hard to kill with a Sword, so you should probably choose another Mob for this achievement. They are, however, very easy to kill with a Bow.
 * Spider: Medium weak. Spiders will attack you at night, but won't attack you if you don't hurt them during day. They can be killed fairly easily if you hit one, run backwards and hit it again when it jumps. You may get hurt, but you will probably manage to kill the Spider.
 * Creeper: Strong. Don't try to kill it without practice or a Bow. Creepers will walk towards you when they see you and explode if they come near. They can be killed with a Bow easily, and with a Sword by hitting it and running backwards until it stops glowing (so it won't explode). Repeat until you kill it.

If you want to cheat a bit with Creepers, set the difficulty to Easy. Hitting a creeper with a sword and running back 5 blocks will immediately cancel the explosion.

Time to Mine! (Use planks and wood to make a pickaxe.)
Goal: Construct a Wooden Pickaxe.

Collect two wood block. Turn it into Wooden planks. If you don't have any Sticks align two planks to make them. Then align three planks and two stick to make a Wooden Pickaxe.

Unlocks: Getting an Upgrade, Hot Topic

Getting an Upgrade (Construct a better pickaxe.)
Goal: Construct a Pickaxe that is not out of wood.

Collect three blocks of Cobblestone Iron or Diamond as well as two Sticks. Then align three Cobblestone Iron or Diamond and two stick to make a Pickaxe.

Hot Topic (Construct a furnace out of eight stone blocks.)
Goal: Construct a Furnace.

Collect eight Cobblestone and craft them in the Crafting Table to a Furnace.

Unlocks: Delicious Fish, Acquire Hardware

Delicious Fish (Catch and cook fish!)
Goal: Cook fish.

Craft a Fishing Rod to catch a fish, then put it in the Furnace to cook it.

Acquire Hardware (Smelt an iron ingot.)
Goal: Get Iron Ingot.

Gather an Iron Ore and smelt it in the Furnace.

Unlocks: On a Rail

On a Rail (Travel by minecart at least 1km from where you started.)
Goal: Travel 1000 blocks with a minecart from where you started.

It will take at least 375 Iron Ingots as well as 63 Sticks to craft 1000 Rails. Build a continuous track so that a Minecart can travel the full distance. Place a Minecart on the start of the track, then travel from the start to the end without leaving the Minecart. The achievement does not allow you to repeatedly loop the same section of the track.

You will likely need a Powered Minecart or Powered Rails to get this achievement. These will take additional resources.

If you are low on gold for power rails, you can make the original Minecart boosters to propel yourself.

= Video Guides = On a Rail Achievement Guide (with map)

When Pigs Fly Achievement Guide

= See also =

Achievements