How to Get Every Advancement in Minecraft: Complete Guide

Minecraft has over 100 advancements spread across five tabs: Minecraft, Nether, The End, Adventure and Husbandry. Earning every single one is a serious time investment, but with a clear plan you can avoid doubling back. This guide lays out the optimal order, tracks the hardest roadblocks and gives you a system for staying organised from first craft to final advancement.

The five advancement tabs

Each tab represents a progression tree. You unlock child advancements by completing the parent first. The five tabs are:

• Minecraft: The main survival tree. Starts with getting a crafting table and branches through mining, the Nether, the End and beacon construction.
• Nether: Everything related to the Nether dimension, from portal entry through ancient debris to defeating the Wither.
• The End: Covers the Ender Dragon fight, elytra, End cities and chorus fruit.
• Adventure: Combat, exploration and trading. Includes biome exploration, mob kills and the raid sequence.
• Husbandry: Animals, farming and food. Contains some of the grindiest advancements like Two by Two and A Balanced Diet.

Recommended order of completion

Do not try to complete one tab at a time. Many advancements require cross-dimension travel and gear that you only get later. Instead, follow this general progression:

1. Early survival (Day 1-3): Complete the Minecraft tab basics: crafting table, stone tools, iron tools, first diamonds. Start a basic farm and breed your first animals for the Husbandry tab.
2. Nether entry: Build a portal, enter the Nether, and start working through the Nether tab. Gather blaze rods and ender pearls. Explore a bastion and a fortress.
3. Dragon fight: Locate the stronghold, enter the End, defeat the Ender Dragon. This unlocks the entire End tab tree.
4. End exploration: Find End cities, get an elytra, collect shulker shells. The elytra dramatically speeds up biome exploration for Adventuring Time.
5. Biome tour: With elytra and rockets, systematically visit every biome for Adventuring Time. Use the F3 screen to confirm biome names.
6. Mob hunting: Work through Monsters Hunted by tracking down every hostile mob type. Some spawn only in specific biomes or structures.
7. Husbandry grind: Breed every animal, eat every food, tame every tameable mob. This tab takes the longest because some animals are rare.
8. Challenge advancements: Finish with How Did We Get Here, A Furious Cocktail and other high-difficulty challenges.

Tracking your progress

Minecraft does not have a built-in checklist beyond the advancement screen. Use these strategies to stay on track:

• Press L to open the advancement screen and check each tab regularly.
• Keep a written checklist of biomes visited, mobs killed and foods eaten. The in-game tracker only shows progress bars, not specifics.
• Use F3 to confirm biome names when exploring. Some biomes like Windswept Hills and Stony Peaks are easy to confuse visually.
• Mark coordinates of structures you find but are not ready to use yet. Woodland Mansions, Ocean Monuments and Bastions all contribute to various advancements.

The hardest advancements and how to prepare

Three advancements consistently block completionists:

• How Did We Get Here: Requires every status effect active simultaneously. This takes meticulous preparation. See our dedicated guide below.
• Adventuring Time: Requires visiting every biome. Missing even one means restarting the search. Elytra and a systematic approach are essential.
• Two by Two: Requires breeding every breedable animal. Some like pandas require specific conditions. Budget extra time for this one.

Common mistakes to avoid

• Killing the dragon before getting pearls from Endermen in the overworld. You need pearls for other tasks. Stock up before the fight.
• Ignoring rare biomes during exploration. If you fly past a Mushroom Fields island, land and register it. You may never find another one nearby.
• Not saving a Wither Skeleton skull. You need three for the Wither fight, but skulls are also useful for other purposes. Farm extras.
• Eating new foods without checking if you have already logged them. There is no in-game tracker for individual foods in A Balanced Diet until you complete it or fail.

World seed considerations

Not every seed has every biome within a reasonable distance. If you are starting a completionist run, consider using a seed finder tool to confirm that all biomes exist within 10,000 blocks of spawn. This saves hours of aimless exploration later.

Multiplayer vs singleplayer

On multiplayer servers, advancements track per player. Other players killing mobs or visiting biomes does not count for your advancements. You must personally perform every action. On some servers, advancement tracking may be disabled or replaced with custom achievements. Check with the server admin before starting a completionist run.

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