Tutorials/Achievement guide

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

= 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 . A fairly big screen should pop up. This is the inventory and crafting menu.

Players before the Beta 1.4 update have their default inventory key as, so if you played before Beta 1.4, 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.

Break several Tall Grass Blocks until you gain three Seeds - use your hands or the hoe to do this. 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 Chicken 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: This achievement is a reference to the video game Portal which spawned the meme phrase "The Cake Is A Lie".

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, unless it is an ocean biome. 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 (Fly a pig off a cliff.)
Goal: Take any fall damage when riding on a pig.

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. It should also be noted that pigs will only rarely jump off of or go near steep drops or cliffs of their own volition; it may be necessary for the player to fence the pig off in some manner to make use of snowballs effectively.

Other option: Go to a cliff. Dig a trench 3 blocks deep that leads to the edge of a cliff. Put a Fence Gate at the very edge. Place Water so that the current go towards the cliff. Get a Pig to fall into the trench. It will be pushed slowly towards the edge of the cliff. Put the Saddle on the pig, ride it, then open the gate. The pig (and you) will fall off the edge and you will get the achievement.

Video Tutorial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpeEa7r0ZQw

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 harder 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 but don't think you can run from it easily.Since 1.1.0 zombies actually have good AI and can run around corners and walls.
 * 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.
 * With the addition of sprinting, it is much easier to fight creepers with a sword. Hitting it while sprinting will knock the creeper back far enough to cancel its attack. However, be especially careful, as if the creeper's flight is interrupted by a block in its path it may still be in range.
 * Enderman: (1.8.1 Medium Weak) (1.9.3-1.0.0 Strong) Endermen are easy to kill as they have low health, and their attack is extremely weak, and the best method to use is to lead an Enderman to water and let it die, but make sure not to be fooled by its ability to teleport anywhere.. Although, if you are playing on a version of 1.9.3 and above, it is highly recommended not to kill an Enderman, as they have high health, and mixing this with their ability to teleport, they can mean big trouble. Also, if you need to startle an Enderman, you can just look straight at them (for more than 0.5 seconds) and look away.

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.

Sniper Duel (Kill a skeleton with an arrow from more than 50 meters.)
Goal: Kill a skeleton by firing on it from a distance of at least 50 blocks.

Find a large flat area on the surface. Dig trench one and a half blocks deep, two block wide and several blocks long. Line the trench with light. Just over 50 meters away from the lip of the trench, make a tower 15 blocks tall. When night comes, wait for a skeleton to fall into the trench or lure it in (giving it up to 2 arrows in the process). Then from your tower, aim just above the skeleton, about halfway between it and the horizon, and fire from full charge.

Note: This has been tested for killing a skeleton from over 50 meters away, but for unknown reasons it will not gain the achievement even in version 1.0.0. This bug has been fixed as of version 1.1.

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

Collect two wood blocks. 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 Stone Pickaxe from sticks and cobblestone.

Collect three blocks of Cobblestone, as well as two Sticks. Then align three Cobblestone and two sticks 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, DIAMONDS!

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 378 Iron Ingots as well as 63 Sticks to craft 1000 Rails. Instead, you can find them in Old Mines. 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.

DIAMONDS! (Acquire Diamonds using your Iron tools.)
Goal: Pick up a Diamond (Gem).

Make an Iron Pickaxe. Search below layer 16 for Diamond (Ore) and destroy it using your Iron Pickaxe.

Unlocks: We Need To Go Deeper, Enchanter

We Need To Go Deeper (Build a portal to the Nether.)
Goal: Enter the Nether.

Collect at least 10 Obsidian with a Diamond Pickaxe and build Nether Portal. Open the Nether Portal with Flint and Steel, and then step inside the purple portal block.

Unlocks: Return to Sender, Into Fire

Enchanter (Use a book, obsidian and diamonds to construct a Enchantment Table.)
Goal: Craft an Enchantment Table.

Acquire 4 Obsidian, 2 Diamond (Gem) and a Book to craft an Enchantment Table.

Unlocks: Librarian, Overkill

Return to Sender (Destroy a Ghast with a fireball.)
Goal: Kill a Ghast with a fireball.

Aim the Ghast then punch the fireball when it is close enough to you to deflect it. If you are extremely lucky, a thrown arrow or fishing rod bobber may hit the fireball and deflect it.

Into Fire (Relieve a Blaze of its rod.)
Goal: Pick up a Blaze Rod.

Kill a Blaze and collect its dropped Blaze Rod. An easy way to do this is to set the game to peaceful until you find a nether fortress, then set the game to easy upon finding a blaze spawner. Armed with over 7 snowballs, attack the blaze from range. Upon the blaze's death, set the game to peaceful, then collect the rod.

Unlocks: Local Brewery, The End?

Overkill (Deal eight hearts of damage in a single hit.)
Goal: Deal 8 hearts of damage in a one hit.

Enchant a sword with Bane of Arthropods, Smite or Sharpness with a level high enough to deal together with the swords base damage at least 8 hearts of damage in one hit to a Mob/Player. Dealing critical hits greatly helps for this achievement.

Librarian (Build some Bookshelves to improve your Enchantment Table.)
Goal: Craft a Bookshelf.

You will need 6 Wooden Planks and 3 Books. Put 3 Wooden Planks in the upper 3 slots and 3 in the lower 3 slots, then place the 3 Books in the middle 3 slots.

Local Brewery (Brew a potion.)
Goal: Pick up a Potion from one of the 3 lower Brewing Stand's slots.

Craft a Brewing Stand, get a Water Bottle, Place it in one of the 3 lower Brewing Stand's slots, Then put either Nether Wart, Redstone Dust, a Spider Eye, a Fermented Spider Eye, a Glistering Melon, Blaze Powder or Glowstone Dust in the upper slot to get a Mundane, Thick or Awkward Potion.

The End? (Locate the End.)
Goal: Enter the End.

Craft an Eye of Ender, throw it to locate a Stronghold, find the Stronghold's Portal Room. Activate the portal by inserting (rightclicking) an Eye of Ender in every empty portal slot, then jump into the opened portal.

Unlocks: The End.

The End. (Defeat the Ender Dragon.)
Goal: Enter the portal created after killing the Enderdragon

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

When Pigs Fly Achievement Guide

= See also =

Achievements

Anleitungen/Achievements Tutoriels/Trophées Гайд по достижениям