How to get all advancements in Minecraft 1.19 update

Minecraft has a few different methods for gaging progress. The first, and most obvious, is through the advancements listed in the game. However, players might also gage their progress with the number of bosses beaten or the number of builds completed.

These advancements are separated into sections based on where they become available, and have pathways that naturally encourage progression through new content.

How to get Minecraft’s many advancements

Players can progress through Minecraft and earn advancements by completing the tasks as listed below:

The Minecraft List

The crafting table, where players make nearly all their items (Image via Minecraft)

Minecraft: Have a crafting table in your inventory
Stone Age: Have either cobblestone, blackstone, or cobbled deepslate in your inventory
Getting an Upgrade: Have a stone pickaxe in your inventory
Acquire Hardware: Have an iron ingot in your inventory
Suit Up: Have any type of iron armor in your inventory
Hot Stuff: Have a lava bucket in your inventory
Isn’t It Iron Pick: Have an iron pickaxe in your inventory
Not Today, Thank You: Block any projectile with a shield
Ice Bucket Challenge: Have a block of obsidian in your inventory
Diamonds!: Have a diamond in your inventory
We Need to Go Deeper: Enter the Nether dimension
Cover Me with Diamonds: Have any type of diamond armor in your inventory

An example of an enchanting area (Image via Minecraft)

Enchanter: Insert an item in an enchanting table, then apply an enchantment
Zombie Doctor: Throw a splash potion of weakness at a zombie villager, feed it a golden apple, and wait for it to be cured
Eye Spy: Enter a stronghold
The End?: Enter the End dimension

The Nether List

An example of bastion and its treasure (Image via Reddit)

Nether: Enter the Nether dimension
Return to Sender: Kill a ghast with a ghast fireball
Those were the days: Enter a bastion remnant

An example of the inside of a Nether Fortress (Image via Minecraft)

A Terrible Fortress: Enter a nether fortress
Who is Cutting Onions?: Have a block of crying obsidian in your inventory
Oh Shiny: Give a piglin a gold item
This boat has legs: Boost a strider with a warped fungus on a stick
War Pigs: Open a naturally generated bastion chest
Country Lode, Take me Home: Use a compass on a lodestone

Enchanted Netherite Armor (Image via Minecraft)

Cover Me in Debris: Have a full set of Netherite armor in your inventory
Spooky Scary Skeleton: Have a wither skeleton skull in your inventory
Into Fire: Have a blaze rod in your inventory
Not Quite “Nine” Lives: Charge a respawn anchor to the maximum
Feels Like Home: While riding a strider, travel fifty blocks in lava in the overworld
Hot Tourist Destination: Visit a basalt delta, crimson forest, nether wastes, soul sand valley, and warped forest biome
Local Brewery: Pick up an item from a brewing stand potion slot. This does not need to be a potion, water bottles or even glass bottles can trigger this advancement.
Bring Home the Beacon: Be within a 20x20x14 cuboid centered on a beacon block when it realizes it has become powered.
Beaconator: Be within a 20x20x14 cuboid centered on a beacon when it realizes it is being powered by a size four pyramid.
A Furious Cocktail: Have all of the following affects applied at once:

Fire resistance
Invisibility Jump boost
Night vision
Poison
Regeneration
Resistance
Slow falling
Slowness
Speed
Strength
Water breathing
Weakness.

How did we get here?: This advancement requires players to have every status effect applied at the same time. This list includes 27 total effects:

Absorption
Bad Omen
Blindness
Conduit Power
Darkness
Dolphin’s Grace
Fire Resistance
Glowing
Haste
Hero of the Village
Hunger
Invisibility
Jump Boost
Levitation
Mining Fatigue
Nausea
Night Vision
Poison
Regeneration
Resistance
Slow Falling
Slowness
Speed
Strength
Water Breathing
Weakness
Wither

Uneasy Alliance: Kill a ghast in the overworld
Hidden in the Depths: Have a piece of ancient debris in your inventory
Subspace Bubble: Use the nether to travel between two points in the overworld with a minimum horizontal Euclidean distance of 7000 blocks between each other, which is 875 blocks in the nether
Withering Heights: Summon the Wither

The End List

The End?: Enter the End dimension
Free the End: Kill the Ender Dragon
The Next Generation: Have a dragon egg in your inventory
Remote Getaway: Throw an ender pearl through, fly, or walk into an end gateway

The End… Again…: Be in a certain radius of the exit portal when an Ender Dragon is summoned using end crystals
You Need a Mint: Have a bottle of dragon’s breath in your inventory
The City at the End of the Game: Enter an End City
Sky’s the Limit: Have a pair of elytra in your inventory
Great View From Up Here: Move a distance of 50 blocks vertically with the levitation effect applied, regardless of whether it is caused by the effect

The Adventure Tree

A totem of undying going off (Image via Minecraft)

Adventure: Kill any entity, or be killed by any entity
Voluntary Exile: Kill an entity with the #raiders entity tag wearing an ominous banner
Monster Hunter: Kill any of the game’s hostile mobs
What a deal: Take an item from a villager or wandering trader’s trading output slot and put it into your inventory
Sticky Situation: Collide on a vertical side of a honey block when in the air
Ol’ Betsy: Shoot a crossbow
Surge Protector: Be within 30 blocks of a lightning strike that does not set any blocks on fire, while an unharmed villager is within or up to six blocks above a 30x30x30 volume centered on the lightning strike.
Caves and Cliffs: Fall from at least Y=319 to at most y=-59 with a vertical distance of greater than 379
Sneak 100: Sneak within eight blocks from a sculk sensor, or 16 blocks of a warden
Sweet Dreams: Lie down in a bed
Hero of the Village: Kill at least one raid mob during a raid that ends in victory
A throwaway Joke: Hit a mob with a thrown trident
It spreads: Kill a mob near a sculk catalyst
Take Aim: Shoot an entity with an arrow
Monsters Hunted: Kill each of the hostile mobs in the game
Postmortal: Activate a totem of undying by taking fatal damage
Hired Help: Summon an iron golem
Star Trader: Stand on any block that is higher than 318 and trade with a villager
Two Birds, One Arrow: Use a crossbow enchanted with piercing to kill two phantoms with one shot

A pillager outpost, the best place to find pillagers (Image via Minecraft)

Who’s the Pillager Now?: Kill a pillager with a crossbow
Arbalistic: Kill five unique mobs with one crossbow shot
Adventuring time: Visit all 52 of the game’s unique biomes
Sound of music: While in a meadow biome, place a jukebox and use a music disc on it
Light as a Rabbit: Walk on powdered snow while wearing leather boots
Very Very Frightening: Hit a villager with lightning created by a trident with the channeling enchantment
Sniper Duel: Be at least 50 horizontal blocks away when a skeleton is killed by an arrow after the player has attacked it once
Bullseye: Be at least 30 blocks away horizontally when the center of a target is shot with a projectile by the player
Is It a Plane?: Loot at the Ender Dragon through a spyglass
Is It a Balloon?: Loot at a ghast through a spyglass
Is It a Bird?: Look at a parrot through a spyglass

The Husbandry Tree

Husbandry: Consume anything that can be consumed
Bee Our Guest: Use a glass bottle to collect honey without angering bees
The Parrots and the Bats: Breed any of the game’s breedable mobs
You’ve Got A Friend in Me: Give an allay an item and then have it return to the player with more of that item
Whatever floats your goat: Enter a boat with a goat
Best Friends Forever: Tame one of Minecraft’s tamable mobs

An example of a glowing mahogany sign (Image via Minecraft)

Glow and behold: Use an ink glow sac on a sign
Fishy Business: Catch a fish using a fishing rod
Total Beelocation: Move a bee nest with three bees inside, using silk touch
Bukkit Bukkit: Catch a tadpole in a bucket
A Seedy Place: Plant one of the game’s crops

An example of an underground farm (Image via Minecraft)

Wax On: Use a honeycomb on a copper block
Two by Two: Breed a pair of each of the game’s 22 breedable mobs
Birthday Song: Give an allay a cake and then use a note block to make the allay drop the cake at a note block
A complete catalogue: Tame each of the 11 cat variants
Tactical fishing: Catch a fishing using a water bucket

An example of frogs, frogspawn, and tadpoles (Image via Minecraft)

When the Squad Hops into Town: Get each frog variant on a lead
A Balanced Diet: Eat each of Minecraft’s 40 foods
Serious Dedication: Have a netherite hoe in your inventory
Wax off: Use an axe to revert a waxed copper block
The Cutest predator: Use a water bucket to catch an axolotl
With out Powers combined: Have all the different colors of froglight in your inventory
The healing power of friendship: Have the regeneration effect applied from assisting an axolotl or it killing a mob

Thankfully, most advancements in the game are quite easy to get, with the in-game text being more than sufficient in describing how to get them.

Unfortunately, some advancements, such as How Did We Get Here? are genuine challenges that will push even the most dedicated Minecraft players to the limits of their abilities and problem solving.

The list above should help players keep their heads, push through the list of advancments, and slowly collect them all.