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TakingInventory

The popup that appears when an achievement is achieved.

Achievements are a way to gradually guide new players into Minecraft and give them challenges to complete.

In an interview by Gamasutra before February 25, 2011,[1] Notch said: “I like achievements. I know a lot of people don't, but I like them. I've had the idea to make achievements kind of like the in-game questing. So you'd be able to see the first achievement in a tree of achievements, and you unlock the top ones first before you can unlock the ones further down."

He also said: “So the first one might be to chop down a tree, or kill a chicken, and then these branch into more things you can do. Hopefully it would encourage people to try new areas. It could converge into a big task, like kill a dragon or something, which would put a kind of narrative into the achievement tree.”

Finally, asked if such a move would risk leading players down a preset path, rather than encouraging exploration and invention as Minecraft does in its current state, Notch said: “Definitely not. I’d want these achievements to feel like things you can try, rather than these are things you have to do. People can follow them, but only if they want to.”

Achievements can be completed in any game mode, including Creative.

Some of the achievements are available in the Xbox 360 Edition, totalling 400 gamerscore.[2] Notable differences include "On A Rail", which requires 500 m of track instead of 1 km (due to smaller world size at the time of release), and some new achievements. The achievements are independant of each other, so you can, for example, get "Getting Wood" before "Taking Inventory".

List of achievements

Icon Achievement In-game Description Prerequisites Actual requirements (if different) Version restriction XBox points earned
Advancement-plain-raw Taking Inventory Press '[defaults to E]' to open your inventory. none Open your inventory.

The description will match the configured inventory key.

10G
Advancement-plain-rawlink= class=pixel-image Getting Wood Attack a tree until a block of wood pops out Taking Inventory Pick up Wood from the ground. 10G
Advancement-plain-raw Benchmarking Craft a workbench with four blocks of planks Getting Wood 10G
Advancement-plain-raw Time to Farm! Use planks and sticks to make a hoe Benchmarking Pick up a Wooden Hoe from a Crafting Table. 10G
Advancement-plain-raw Bake Bread Turn wheat into bread Time to Farm! Pick up Bread from a Crafting Table. 20G
Advancement-plain-raw The Lie Wheat, sugar, milk, and eggs! Time to Farm! Pick up a Cake from a Crafting Table. 40G
Advancement-plain-raw Time to Strike! Use planks and sticks to make a sword Benchmarking Pick up a Wooden Sword from a Crafting Table. 10G
Advancement-plain-raw Monster Hunter Attack and destroy a monster Time to Strike! 20G
Advancement-fancy-raw Sniper Duel Kill a skeleton with an arrow from more than 50 meters Monster Hunter "50 meters" is 50 blocks away. PC
Advancement-plain-raw Cow Tipper Harvest some leather Time to Strike! Pick up Leather from the ground. 15G
Advancement-fancy-raw When Pigs Fly Fly a pig off a cliff Cow Tipper Use a saddle to ride a pig, then have the pig (and you) get hurt from fall damage while riding it. 40G
Advancement-plain-raw Time to Mine! Use planks and sticks to make a pickaxe Benchmarking Pick up a Wooden Pickaxe from a Crafting Table. 10G
Advancement-plain-raw Getting an Upgrade Construct a better pickaxe Time to Mine! Pick up a Stone Pickaxe from a Crafting Table. 15G
Advancement-plain-raw Hot Topic Construct a furnace out of eight stone blocks Time to Mine! Pick up a Furnace from a Crafting Table. 15G
Advancement-plain-raw Delicious Fish Catch and cook fish! Hot Topic Remove a Cooked Fish from a Furnace. 15G
Advancement-plain-rawlink= class=pixel-image Acquire Hardware Smelt an iron ingot Hot Topic Remove an Iron Ingot from a Furnace. 15G
Advancement-fancy-rawlink= class=pixel-image On A Rail Travel by minecart at least 1 km from where you started Acquire Hardware Travel by minecart to a point at least 1 km (500 m in Xbox 360 Edition) in a single direction from where you started. 40G
Advancement-plain-rawlink= class=pixel-image DIAMONDS! Acquire diamonds with your iron tools Acquire Hardware Pick up a Diamond from a Crafting Table or the ground. PC
Advancement-plain-raw Enchanter Use a book, obsidian and diamonds to construct an enchantment table DIAMONDS! Pick up an Enchantment Table from a Crafting Table. PC
Advancement-fancy-raw Overkill Deal eight hearts of damage in a single hit Enchanter Deal nine hearts of damage in a single hit (this is a bug). PC
Advancement-plain-raw Librarian Build some bookshelves to improve your enchantment table Enchanter Pick up a Bookshelf from a Crafting Table. PC
Advancement-plain-raw We Need to Go Deeper Build a portal to the Nether DIAMONDS! Enter a Nether Portal. PC
Advancement-plain-raw Into The Nether Build a portal to the Nether DIAMONDS! Enter a Nether Portal. XBox 40G
Advancement-fancy-raw Return to Sender Destroy a Ghast with a fireball We Need to Go Deeper Kill a Ghast using a Ghast’s fireball. PC
Advancement-plain-raw Into Fire Relieve a Blaze of its rod We Need to Go Deeper Pick up a Blaze Rod from a Crafting Table or the ground. PC
Advancement-plain-raw Local Brewery Brew a potion Into Fire Pick up a Potion from a Brewing Stand. An already-created potion placed and removed qualifies. PC
Advancement-fancy-raw The End? Locate the End Into Fire Enter an End Portal. PC
Advancement-fancy-raw The End. Defeat the Ender Dragon The End? Enter the End exit portal which appears after the dragon's death. PC
MOAR Tools
MOAR Tools Construct one type of each tool (one pickaxe, one spade, one axe and one hoe). n/a XBox 15G
Dispense With This
Dispense With This Construct a Dispenser. n/a XBox 20G
Leader Of The Pack
Leader Of The Pack Befriend five Wolves. n/a This does not have to be in a single game, so multiple games or reloading old saves does count toward this achievement. XBox 30G
Notes
  • For achievements which may be obtained by picking up items, transferring an item from a chest to your inventory does not qualify; you must throw the item on the ground first.

Interface

AchievementInterface

The achievement interface with the first achievement done.

Minecraft's achievement system involves a tree composed of achievements, some of which must be completed before others can be. Originally the interface showed the achievement tree on the left, and a 'mini-map' of the tree on the right. The mini-map was removed in the final version, which now simply shows the tree. The background of the tree mimics the world with sand at the top with dirt spanning below, bedrock at the bottom, and ores distributed as they would be in the world.

Test achievements can also be found within Minecraft Beta 1.4's source code before the 1.5 release, and on the test video posted by Notch. Among these are opening the inventory, mining wood and building a workbench.

The Xbox 360 Edition uses the standard Xbox 360 achievement interface instead of the tree display.

History

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Achievements were added to Minecraft on the 19th of April, 2011 in the Beta 1.5 update.

The first achievement confirmed by Notch was "When Pigs Fly", although it was more explained than named.

The Beta 1.4 update was originally intended to include achievements and statistics; However, implementation was pulled from the release because it was not yet functional.[3] It was implemented into Beta 1.5 instead.

Prior to Beta 1.9 pre-release 6, the image used by "The End." was that of a Monster Spawner; this was because the Dragon Egg was not implemented at that point. This was changed upon its addition.

As of 1.0.0, there are exactly 27 achievements.

March 18th Update

On March 18th, Notch talked about Achievements and Statistics on his Blog.[4] He said the following:

I worked on the achievement and stats system. One design issue was dealing with offline mode and syncing the achievements once you get a connection again, but that’s been solved. We’ve got a couple of people in the office who don’t like achievements in games at all, so the goal is to design something that they’re fine with.

Also, he added that Achievements will not be chores:

Achievements will NOT be chores like “cut down 10000 trees”, but rather challenges like “ride a pig off a cliff”. Stats, however, will be used to keep track of how many trees you have cut down. The long term plan is to show achievements and stats from the profile page on minecraft.net as well, in case you want to brag.

However, the XBox 360 version does have an achievement that seems to be a chore: Leader of the Pack.

Preview Video

On April 8, 2011, a video was uploaded to YouTube showing weather, statistics and achievements.

Bugs

  • The achievement "Overkill" actually requires to deal nine (and not eight) hearts of damage in a single hit (verified from source code).
  • Statistics and achievements sometimes reset for no reason at all.
  • Statistics and achievements reset when you update your Minecraft.jar such as adding or deleting mods.
  • Occasionally the achievement "The Lie" will not be awarded to the player in the Xbox 360 edition after baking a cake, and thus no gamerscore will be awarded either. No explanation or fix for the rare bug has been found as of yet.

Trivia

  • "The Lie" achievement is a reference to the promised cake in the game Portal that is thought to be "a lie", and the Internet meme "The Cake is a Lie" that is of the same promised cake.
  • Another reference to Valve's games is an achievement name "On A Rail", which is the title of one of the chapters in Half-Life.
  • You can reset all of your Achievements by deleting the "stats" folder in the .minecraft app data folder. Beware that it also resets Statistics.
  • Completing achievements without their prerequisites will not count, despite the ability to do so legitimately.
  • There are neither Gold Ores nor Lapis Lazuli ores in the Achievements Menu background.
  • "Achievement Get!" is not a grammatical mistake, but a deliberate reference to a decade-old proto-meme. Early screenshots of Super Mario Sunshine used the Japanese localization, and featured Mario grabbing a "Shine" item with the prominent text "Shine Get!". Due to the prominence of the game and the attention given to these screenshots, "[noun] Get!" subsequently became a popular term used on image boards as post count benchmarks, which Notch occasionally visits.
  • If you have a texture pack that edits item/block textures, they will show up in the achievement screen as those textures.
  • An "Overkill" is "the use of excessive force or action that goes further than is necessary to achieve its goal, most commonly in acts of violence".[5]
  • "We Need To Go Deeper" is a reference to the movie Inception.
  • "Return to Sender" refers to a message often written on non-personal letters, usually in case that a letter ends up at an incorrect address. (There is also an Elvis song with the same title)
  • A "Local Brewery" is a local place where beer or other spirits are brewed.
  • You can actually complete "We Need To Go Deeper" without mining with diamond tools or going deeper than diamond level.
  • If you set your language to "Pirate Speak", "The Lie" achievement will be named as "Pirates Don' Get Portal Referances" and the achievement "The End?" is called "At World's End?" a reference to the Pirates of the Caribbean movie of the same name.

See also

  • Tutorials/Achievement Guide

References


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