For those who are new to Minecraft, you might find yourself in a position where you could have little idea as to how to progress the game. After all, there is no right nor wrong way to play Minecraft, plus there are no set goals, which can leave players aimless in certain circumstances. With the help of advancements, you can be given a play-by-play or step-by-step set of goals for you to accomplish in different categories to naturally progress yourself in the game. In this article, we shall be going over how you can progress in these advancements and what categories there are in the first place.
For this article, we will be going over each category as well as a few examples of some of the advancements that would be included in them.
Minecraft: Obtain a Crafting Table. |
Stone Age: Mine Stone with your new Pickaxe. |
Getting an Upgrade: Construct a better pickaxe. |
Acquire Hardware: Smelt an Iron Ingot. |
Suit Up: Protect Yourself with an iron armor piece. |
Nether: Enter the Nether Dimension. |
Return To Sender: Kill a ghast using a ghast fireball. |
Those Were the Days: Enter a Bastion Remnant. |
Hidden In The Depths: Have an ancient debris in your room. |
Subspace Bubble: Use the Nether to travel between 2 points in the Overworld with a minimum horizontal distance of 7000 blocks between each other, 875 blocks in the Nether. |
The End: Enter The End Dimension. |
Free The End: Kill the ender dragon. |
The Next Generation: Have a dragon egg in your inventory. |
Remote Gateway: Throw an ender pearl through or walk into the end gateway. |
The End...Again…: Summon an ender dragon using end crystals |
Adventure: Kill an entity, or be killed by an entity. |
Voluntary Exile: kill an entity in the #raiders entity tag wearing an ominous banner |
What a Deal!: Take an item from a villager or wandering trader's trading output slot, and put it in your inventory. |
Sticky Situation: Collide on a vertical side of a honey block when in air |
Sweet Dreams: Lie down in a bed. The advancement is granted as soon as the player is in the bed, even if the player does not successfully sleep |
Husbandry: Consume anything that can be consumed. |
Bee Our Guest: Use a bottle on a beehive or bee nest while not angering the bees inside. |
Tactical Fishing: Use a water bucket to pick up any fish mob. |
Fish Business: Use a fishing rod to catch any of these fish: Cod, Salmon, Tropical Fish, Pufferfish. |
Serous Dedication: Have a netherite hoe in your inventory. |
If you turn advancements on, accomplishing tasks like the one listed above will allow you to obtain these aforementioned advancements which can all be gained separately in different worlds.
None of them have to be finished in any specific order which means you have free reign over how and when you can gain each advancement.
Advancements can be seen by either accessing them through the pause menu or by pressing the L key depending on if you are on console or PC. Each type of Advancement can be seen through the different tables that were shown earlier in this article, keeping certain advancements under a certain tree through which they are organized.
Use a console command. The console command to accomplish this is as follows:
Command: /gamerule announceAdvancements false.
Advancements are a great way for beginners to get the hang of how things go in Minecraft, as well as a method for measuring your progress of success within the game. If you want a guide on how far away you are from completing the basics within the game then this is the feature for you.