This guide is intended to show players how to obtain all of the advancements in Minecraft. For a more detailed list of each advancement, see the advancements page.
All Advancements
Minecraft
Obtain a crafting table.
This one is easy. 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 (as long as you didn't start out in an ocean or desert biome). Just look around.
Alternatively, you can simply pick up any wood log lying on the ground.
Use the wood block you just got from the tree and open your inventory. You will see a grid near the top-right corner, place your wood block in any of those grids.
Then click on the wooden planks that appear to obtain them.
At last put one of the four wood planks you got into each container of your grid (a 2x2 square of wood planks). You can right click to place a single plank into the grid, instead of all four.
Parent of: Stone Age.
Stone Age
Obtain cobblestone.
Place your crafting table on the ground by holding the crafting table in your hand and right-clicking the ground. Follow the crafting recipe below to make sticks (note that this can also be done in your inventory crafting grid):
| Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|
| Any Wood Planks |
Now arrange your sticks and some planks in the crafting table to make a wooden pickaxe:
| Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|
| Any Wood Planks + Stick |
All you gotta do next is find stone and mine it.
Parent of: Getting an Upgrade.
Getting an Upgrade
Obtain a stone pickaxe.
You need three cobblestone blocks in this advancement.
Using your wooden pickaxe, mine three stone blocks so you have three cobblestone blocks.
Now arrange your sticks and cobblestones in the crafting table to make a stone pickaxe:
| Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|
| Cobblestone + Stick |
Parent of: Acquire Hardware.
Acquire Hardware
Obtain an iron ingot.
Mine iron ore with a stone pickaxe, and put it in the furnace like so:
| Ingredients | Smelting recipe |
|---|---|
| Iron Ore + Any fuel |
Parent of: Suit Up, Hot Stuff, Isn't It Iron Pick.
Suit Up
Obtain any iron armor.
You need to collect at least four iron ingots.
Arrange the iron ingots in the crafting table to make the armor:
| Name | Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|---|
| Iron Helmet | Iron Ingot | |
| Iron Chestplate | Iron Ingot | |
| Iron Leggings | Iron Ingot | |
| Iron Boots | Iron Ingot |
Parent of: Not Today, Thank You.
Hot Stuff
Obtain a lava bucket.
Arrange the iron ingots in the crafting table to make a bucket:
| Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|
| Iron Ingot |
All you have to do is find lava and use your bucket to fill it up.
Parent of: Ice Bucket Challenge.
Isn't It Iron Pick
Craft an iron pickaxe.
You need to collect three iron ingots.
Arrange them in the crafting table to make the iron pickaxe:
| Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|
| Iron Ingot + Stick |
Parent of: Diamonds!.
Not Today, Thank You
Deflect an arrow with your shield.
First, you need to craft a shield:
| Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|
| Wooden Plank + Iron Ingot |
Then you need to find a skeleton, or another player to help you. Holding the shield, hold right-click, as they shoot at you.
Diamonds!
Obtain a diamond.
Using your iron pickaxe, find a diamond ore. Mine it, and collect the dropped diamond.
Ice Bucket Challenge
Obtain obsidian.
Use three diamonds to make a diamond pickaxe:
| Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|
| Diamond + Stick |
You also need a bucket of water: find water and right-click it with your bucket. Next you need to go down to the bottom of a cave, at below Y-level 12. Find a lava lake, and pour the bucket of water next to the lava. The water should flow onto the lava, turning it into obsidian. Mine the obsidian with your diamond pickaxe, and pick it up.
Nether
A Furious Cocktail
Challenge: Have every potion effect applied at the same time.
To get this challenge advancement (100xp), you will need to brew and use these 11 potions:
| Effect | Recipe |
|---|---|
| Fire Resistance | |
| Invisibility | |
| Jump Boost | |
| Night Vision | |
| Poison | |
| Regeneration | |
| Slowness | |
| Speed | |
| Strength | |
| Water Breathing | |
| Weakness |
Optional: extend using Redstone.
How Did We Get Here
Challenge: Have every effect applied at the same time.
To get this challenge advancement (1000xp) you will need many things.
| Effect | How to Obtain |
|---|---|
| Absorption |
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| Fire Resistance |
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| Glowing |
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| Haste |
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| Hunger |
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| Invisibility |
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| Jump Boost |
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| Levitation |
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| Mining Fatigue |
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| Nausea |
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| Night Vision |
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| Poison |
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| Regeneration |
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| Resistance |
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| Slowness |
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| Speed |
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| Strength |
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| Water Breathing |
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| Weakness |
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| Wither |
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