The Challenge
Start a solo vanilla Minecraft world in HC or UHC mode and complete all advancements.

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Advancement List
Advancement | In-game description | Actual requirements (if different) |
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Minecraft | The heart and story of the game | Have a crafting table in your inventory |
Stone Age | Mine stone with your new pickaxe | Have cobblestone in your inventory |
Getting an Upgrade | Construct a better pickaxe | Have a stone pickaxe in your inventory |
Acquire Hardware | Smelt an iron ingot | Have an iron ingot in your inventory |
Suit Up | Protect yourself with a piece of iron armor | Have any type of iron armor in your inventory |
Hot Stuff | Fill a bucket with lava | Have a lava bucket in your inventory |
Isn't It Iron Pick | Upgrade your pickaxe | Have an iron pickaxe in your inventory |
Not Today, Thank You | Deflect an arrow with a shield | Deflect any projectile with a shield |
Ice Bucket Challenge | Form and mine a block of Obsidian | Have a block of obsidian in your inventory |
Diamonds! | Acquire diamonds | Have a diamond in your inventory |
We Need to Go Deeper | Build, light and enter a Nether Portal | Enter the Nether dimension |
Cover Me With Diamonds | Diamond armor saves lives | Have any type of diamond armor in your inventory |
Enchanter | Enchant an item at an Enchanting Table | - |
Zombie Doctor | Weaken and then cure a Zombie Villager | Throw a splash potion of weakness at a zombie villager and give it a golden apple (by facing the zombie and pressing the use key with a golden apple in your hand), then wait for the villager to be cured. |
Eye Spy | Follow an Eye of Ender | Enter a stronghold |
The End? | Enter the End Portal | Enter the End dimension |
Advancement | In-game description | Actual requirements (if different) |
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Nether | Bring summer clothes | Enter the Nether dimension |
Return to Sender | Destroy a Ghast with a fireball | Kill a ghast using a ghast fireball |
Subspace Bubble | Use the Nether to travel 7 km in the Overworld | Use the Nether to travel between 2 points in the Overworld with a minimum horizontal distance of 7000 blocks between each other, about 875 blocks in the Nether |
A Terrible Fortress | Break your way into a Nether Fortress | Enter a Nether fortress |
Uneasy Alliance | Rescue a Ghast from the Nether, bring it safely home to the Overworld... and then kill it | Kill a Ghast in the Overworld |
Spooky Scary Skeleton | Obtain a Wither Skeleton's skull | Have a wither skeleton skull in your inventory |
Into Fire | Relieve a Blaze of its rod | Have a blaze rod in your inventory |
Withering Heights | Summon the Wither | Be within a 100.9×100.9×103.5 cuboid centered on the Wither when it is spawned |
Local Brewery | Brew a potion | Pick up an item from a brewing stand potion slot |
Bring Home the Beacon | Construct and place a Beacon | Be within a 20×20×14 cuboid centered on a beacon block when it realizes it has become powered |
A Furious Cocktail | Have every potion effect applied at the same time | Have all of these 13 potion effects applied to the player at the same time. Check out the tutorial at Gamepedia. |
Beaconator | Bring a beacon to full power | Be within a 20×20×14 cuboid centered on a beacon block when it realizes it is being powered by a size 4 pyramid |
How Did We Get Here? | Have every effect applied at the same time | Have all of these 26 effects applied to the player at the same time. Check out the tutorial at Gamepedia. |
Advancement | In-game description | Actual requirements (if different) |
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The End Or the beginning? | Enter the End dimension | - |
Free the End | Good luck | Kill the ender dragon |
The Next Generation | Hold the Dragon Egg | Have a dragon egg in your inventory |
Remote Getaway | Escape the island | Throw an ender pearl through or walk into an End gateway |
The End... Again... | Respawn the Ender Dragon | Summon an ender dragon using ender crystals |
You Need a Mint | Collect dragon's breath in a glass bottle | Have a bottle of dragon's breath in your inventory |
The City at the End of the Game Go on in, what could happen? | Enter an End city | - |
Sky's the Limit | Find Elytra | Have a pair of elytra in your inventory |
Great View From Up Here | Levitate up 50 blocks from the attacks of a Shulker | Move a vertical distance of 50 blocks with the levitation effect applied |
Advancement | In-game description | Actual requirements (if different) |
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Adventure | Adventure, exploration, and combat | Kill any entity, or be killed by any entity |
Voluntary Exile | Kill a raid captain. Maybe consider staying away from villages for the time being... | Obtain an Ominous Banner, whether from a Pillager Outpost or from a Raid Captain |
Monster Hunter | Kill any hostile monster | Kill one of these 25 mobs. Other mobs are ignored for this advancement |
What a Deal! | Successfully trade with a Villager | Take an item from a villager's trading output slot, and put it in your inventory |
Ol' Betsy | Shoot a crossbow | - |
Sweet Dreams | Change your respawn point | Lie down in a bed. The advancement will be granted as soon as the player is in the bed, even if the player does not successfully sleep |
Hero of the Village | Successfully defend a village from a raid | - |
A Throwaway Joke | Throw a trident at something. Note: Throwing away your only weapon is not a good idea | - |
Take Aim | Shoot something with a bow and arrow | - |
Monsters Hunted | Kill one of every hostile monster | Kill each of these 25 mobs. Other mobs may be killed, but are ignored for the advancement. Check out the tutorial at Gamepedia. |
Postmortal | Use a Totem of Undying to cheat death | - |
Hired Help | Summon an Iron Golem to help defend a village | Summon an iron golem |
Two Birds, One Arrow | Kill two Phantoms with a piercing arrow | - |
Who's the Pillager Now? | Give a Pillager a taste of their own medicine | Kill a pillager with a crossbow |
Arbalistic | Kill five unique mobs with one crossbow shot | |
Adventuring Time | Discover every biome | Visit all of these 42 biomes. Other biomes may also be visited, but are ignored for the advancement. Check out the tutorial at Gamepedia. |
Very Very Frightening | Strike a Villager with lightning | Hit a villager with lightning created by a trident with the Channeling enchantment |
Sniper Duel | Kill a Skeleton from more than 50 meters away | Kill a skeleton with a projectile while being at least 50 blocks away horizontally |
Advancement | In-game description | Actual requirements (if different) |
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Husbandry | The world is full of friends and food | Eat anything that can be eaten |
The Parrots and the Bats | Breed two animals together | - |
Best Friends Forever | Tame an animal | - |
Fishy Business | Catch a fish | Use a fishing rod to catch a fish |
A Seedy Place | Plant a seed and watch it grow | Plant one of these 5 seeds. Crops and plants without seeds are ignored for the advancement |
Two by Two | Breed all the animals! | Breed pairs of each of these 14 mobs. Other tamable mobs, if any, are ignored for the advancement |
A Complete Catalogue | Tame all cat variants! | - |
Tactical Fishing | Catch a fish... without a fishing rod! | Use a water bucket on a fish mob to get a bucket of fish |
A Balanced Diet | Eat everything that is edible, even if it's not good for you | Eat each of these 38 foods. Other foods, like cake, are ignored for the advancement |
Serious Dedication | Completely use up a diamond hoe, and then reevaluate your life choices | Use up the final bit of durability on a diamond hoe, so that it breaks |