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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. There are currently 30 achievements.

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, totaling 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 independent of each other, so you can, for example, get Getting Wood before Taking Inventory. Achievements will also not be obtainable in Creative Mode, or if the map has been edited in Creative Mode. Enabling Host Privileges in multiplayer will also disable achievements.

Video

Achievement/video

List of achievements

Icon Achievement In-game description Prerequisites (PC Only) Actual requirements (if different) Version Xbox points earned Internal ID (PC Only) Scoreboard name (PC Only)
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. Both 10G 0 openInventory
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. Both 10G 1 mineWood
Advancement-plain-raw Benchmarking Craft a workbench with four blocks of planks Getting Wood Pick up a Crafting Table from your inventory's crafting field or a Crafting Table. Both 10G 2 buildWorkBench
Advancement-plain-raw Time to Mine! Use planks and sticks to make a pickaxe Benchmarking Pick up a Wooden Pickaxe from a Crafting Table. Both 10G 3 buildPickaxe
Advancement-plain-raw Hot Topic Construct a furnace out of eight stone blocks Time to Mine! Pick up a Furnace from a Crafting Table. Both 15G 4 buildFurnace
Advancement-plain-rawlink= class=pixel-image Acquire Hardware Smelt an iron ingot Hot Topic Remove an Iron Ingot from a Furnace. Both 15G 5 acquireIron
Advancement-plain-raw Time to Farm! Use planks and sticks to make a hoe Benchmarking Pick up a Wooden Hoe from a Crafting Table. Both 10G 6 buildHoe
Advancement-plain-raw Bake Bread Turn wheat into bread Time to Farm! Pick up Bread from a Crafting Table. Both 20G 7 makeBread
Advancement-plain-raw The Lie Wheat, sugar, milk, and eggs! Time to Farm! Pick up a Cake from a Crafting Table. Both 40G 8 bakeCake
Advancement-plain-raw Getting an Upgrade Construct a better pickaxe Time to Mine! Pick up a Stone Pickaxe from a Crafting Table Both 15G 9 buildBetterPickaxe
Advancement-plain-raw Delicious Fish Catch and cook a fish! Hot Topic Remove a Cooked Fish from a Furnace. Both 15G 10 cookFish
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) from where you started. Distance is measured as the crow flies (Direct Distance), not Manhattan distance (Distance from the rails themselves). Both 40G 11 onARail
Advancement-plain-raw Time to Strike! Use planks and sticks to make a sword Benchmarking Pick up a Wooden Sword from a Crafting Table. Both 10G 12 buildSword
Advancement-plain-raw Monster Hunter Attack and destroy a monster Time to Strike! A "monster" is defined as any hostile mob. Both 20G 13 killEnemy
Advancement-plain-raw Cow Tipper Harvest some leather Time to Strike! Pick up Leather from the ground. Both 15G 14 killCow
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 get hurt from fall damage while riding it. Both 40G 15 flyPig
Advancement-fancy-raw Sniper Duel Kill a skeleton or wither skeleton with an arrow from more than 50 meters Monster Hunter "50 meters" is 50 blocks away. PC N/A 16 snipeSkeleton
Advancement-plain-raw DIAMONDS! Acquire diamonds with your iron tools Acquire Hardware Pick up a Diamond from a Crafting Table or the ground. PC N/A 17 diamonds
Advancement-plain-raw We Need to Go Deeper Build a portal to the Nether DIAMONDS! Enter a Nether Portal. PC N/A 18 portal
Into The Nether Acquire Hardware Xbox 40G N/A N/A
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 N/A 19 ghast
Advancement-plain-raw Into Fire Relieve a Blaze of its rod We Need to Go Deeper Pick up a Blaze Rod from the ground. PC N/A 20 blazeRod
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 N/A 21 potion
Advancement-fancy-raw The End? Locate the End Into Fire Enter an End Portal. PC N/A 22 theEnd
Advancement-fancy-raw The End. Defeat the Ender Dragon The End? Enter the End exit portal while being in the End. PC N/A 23 theEnd2
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 N/A 24 enchantments
Advancement-fancy-raw Overkill Deal eight hearts of damage in a single hit Enchanter Deal nine hearts of damage in a single hit (The description is wrong.) PC N/A 25 overkill
Advancement-plain-raw Librarian Build some bookshelves to improve your enchantment table Enchanter Pick up a Bookshelf from a Crafting Table. PC N/A 26 bookcase
Advancement-fancy-raw Adventuring Time‌[upcoming] Discover all biomes The End? unknown PC N/A unknown exploreAllBiomes
Advancement-plain-raw The Beginning?‌[upcoming] Spawn the Wither The End. PC N/A unknown spawnWither
Advancement-plain-raw The Beginning.‌[upcoming] Kill the Wither The Beginning? PC N/A unknown killWither
Advancement-fancy-raw Beaconator‌[upcoming] Create a full beacon The Beginning. Place a beacon block with a 4-level pyramid. PC N/A unknown fullBeacon
Advancement-plain-raw Repopulation‌[upcoming] Breed two cows with wheat Cow Tipper PC N/A unknown breedCow
MOAR Tools
ConsoleOnly MOAR Tools Construct one type of each tool (one pickaxe, one spade, one axe and one hoe). Benchmarking Xbox 15G N/A N/A
Advancement-plain-raw ConsoleOnly Dispense With This Construct a Dispenser. Acquire Hardware Xbox 20G N/A N/A
Leader Of The Pack
ConsoleOnly Leader Of The Pack Befriend five Wolves. Monster Hunter This does not have to be in a single game, so multiple games or reloading old saves does count toward this achievement. Xbox 30G N/A N/A
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.

The button to access the Achievements screen is found on the "pause" screen of Minecraft. That is, when in a world, you would hit the 'Escape' key (on a PC or Mac) to bring up the screen (from which you can also exit the game). Next to it is a button to access the Statistics interface.

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 dirt at the top with stone spanning below, bedrock at the bottom, and ores distributed as they would be in the world.

Test achievements can also be found within 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

beta
1.5Achievements added.

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.
1.9pre6Implemented the Dragon Egg, and changed the image used by The End. Before, it was that of a Monster Spawner; This was changed upon its addition.
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1.5Achievements no longer reset when downgrading Minecraft.
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1.713w36aUpdated the Achievement system, works now individually per world/server.
Added more achievements: Adventuring Time, The Beginning?, The Beginning., Beaconator, and Repopulation.
Achievements can now be used as objectives in the Scoreboard system.

March 18th update

On March 18, 2011, 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.

It could be argued that some of the achievements, such as On a Rail and Leader of the Pack, require grinding, however.

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.
  • The achievement The End? cannot be obtained properly in 1.4 or in 1.5.
  • It is possible to obtain "The End?" by pressing "r" many times while entering the nether.
  • GUI will not use custom textures from texture packs.

Trivia

  • The Lie is a reference to the Internet meme "The Cake is a Lie", which itself is a reference to the video game Portal.
    • Another reference to one of Valve's games is the 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.
  • "Achievement Get!" is a reference to a decade-old proto-meme: early screenshots of Super Mario Sunshine used the Japanese localization, and featured Mario grabbing a Shine Sprite 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.
  • 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. It is also the name of a song by Elvis Presley.
  • Achievements can be obtained in any game mode. Because of this, it is easy to get more difficult achievements such as On A Rail, When Pigs Fly, and Sniper Duel, and others by using Creative mode.
    • Return to Sender is an exception to the above, because it requires a Ghast fireball, and Ghasts only attack the player in Survival or Hardcore mode. Commands can be used to obtain the achievement in creative mode.
  • When Pigs Fly is a reference to a well known saying meaning something absurd that would never happen.
  • Monster Hunter is the name of a series of games created, developed, and owned by Capcom.
  • When Pigs Fly requires Cow Tipper. Cows drop leather, but there is no crafting recipe for a saddle.
  • Cow Tipper can be obtained by killing a horse.
  • The spiked achievements are achievements that are hard to accomplish.
  • Adventuring Time is a reference to the TV show Adventure Time.

See also

  • Tutorials/Achievement Guide

References

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