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Compete as a team to earn the most advancements within the time limit! All advancements are worth 1 point each, so your team must decide which advancements to go for and when to get the most out of your time. Hostable at any time by [[Zesty+]] Subscribers.
 
Compete as a team to earn the most advancements within the time limit! All advancements are worth 1 point each, so your team must decide which advancements to go for and when to get the most out of your time. Hostable at any time by [[Zesty+]] Subscribers.
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==Gameplay==
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A key part of doing well in Advancement Hunters is knowing what advancements to go for, which to prioritise and which to avoid. Many advancements can be easily obtained for simple things such as planting a seed or eating some food but others take serious dedication, like serious dedication. The following section will list the advancements available as of 1.15.2 and their implications to Advancement Hunters.
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===The Advancements===
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This section lists advancements in Minecraft and some of thier implications for Advancement Hunters.
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====Obtainable Advancements====
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These advancements are (given enough skill) consistently obtainable through the course of the game and should be considered a priority.
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{| class="wikitable"
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! Advancement !! Conditions !! Implications for Advancement Hunters
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| Minecraft || Obtain Crafting Table || First step to any world.
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| Stone Age || Obtain Cobblestone || Cobble is known to be the best block in the game.
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| Getting an Upgrade || Obtain Stone Pickaxe || You had to ruin cobble for this, you monster!
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| Acquire Hardware || Obtain Iron Ingot || Iron is needed for many advancements and should be a priority.
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| Suit Up || Obtain any iron armor || Iron Boots are the cheapest. A full suit is not important unless going into the nether.
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| Hot Stuff || Obtain Lava Bucket || A bucket is very useful as it can give this, Tactical Fishing and be used to access the nether without diamond.
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| Isn't It Iron Pick || Obtain Iron Pick || Needed for obtaining diamond.
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| Not Today, Thank You || Deflect Arrow with Shield || Shields are generally useful and only cost one iron.
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| We Need to Go Deeper || Enter the Nether || Can be done very quickly using buckets to place lava into a portal frame. Unless this is the only nether advancement you are going for, it is wise to come better prepared than that. As the world is small most players will end up in the same portal. The first in has a major advantage.
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| Nether || Enter the Nether || Root of the Nether advancement tree and usually obtained immediately after We Need to Go Deeper.
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| Adventure || Kill or Be Killed || This root advancement can be obtained simply by being afk.
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| Monster Hunter || Kill a hostile monster || Needed to obtain string, among other things.
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| Ol' Betsy || Shoot a Crossbow || Hitting anything with it is not required.
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| Sweet Dreams || Sleep in a bed || Wool is easily obtained from sheep. This is an easy one but gains no other benefits.
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| Take Aim || Shoot something with a Bow || You actually have to hit something for this one. String required for bow.
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| Hired Help || Summon Iron Golem || 36 iron is needed for this, and a carved pumpkin (requiring shears). A use for all that iron you'll find.
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| Sniper Duel || Kill a skeleton with a projectile while being at least 50 blocks away horizontally || Tricky but can be consistently obtained.
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| Husbandry || Eat Anything || Piece of Cake!
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| The Parrots and the Bats || Breed two Animals || Most easily obtained by breeding chickens with seeds while running around for other things.
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| Best Friends Forever || Tame an Animal || Sitting on a Horse or Llama is the easiest way to get this.
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| Fishy Business || Catch a fish with a rod || String required for fishing rod.
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| A Seedy Place || Plant a Seed || Easily forgotten but very easy.
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| Tactical Fishing || Catch a fish with a bucket || The second reason buckets are useful. Fish can be hard to find so best to get this as early as possible.
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|}
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====Time Dependent Advancements====
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These advancements can be obtained but can be a waste of time that leads to a lower overall score.
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{| class="wikitable"
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|-
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! Advancement !! Conditions !! Implications for Advancement Hunters
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|-
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| Subspace Bubble || Use the Nether to travel 7 km in the Overworld || Travelling 1000 blocks in the nether and then either making a portal and going through it or dying will net you this. Can possibly do other nether things on the way.
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| Serious Dedication || Exhaust the durability of a diamond hoe, breaking it. || Can be useful to put excess team members on this menial task. Beware, as another team killing your hoe breaker and taking it have wasted a lot of your time and gained a lot.
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| Eye Spy || Enter a Stronghold || Stronghold position can be calculated with two eye throws. Requires a lot of enderman hunting and obtaining blaze rods, and then some quick maths and a long walk.
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|}
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====(Slightly) Randomness Dependent Advancements====
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These advancements can usually be obtained but sometimes despite best efforts are not gained.
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{| class="wikitable"
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|-
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! Advancement !! Conditions !! Implications for Advancement Hunters
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| Diamonds! || Obtain Diamonds || Required for many advancements in this section but it can be difficult to get enough.
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| Ice Bucket Challenge || Obtain Obsidian || Requires mining obsidian with a diamond pick (3 diamonds).
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| Cover Me With Diamonds || Obtain Diamond Armor || Boots are cheapest at 4 diamonds.
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| Enchanter || Enchant an Item || Requires 2 diamonds, obsidian (and pick to get this...) leather and paper.
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| Return to Sender ||  Kill a Ghast with a Fireball || Usually not too tricky to get if you get a ghast firing at you.
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| A Terrible Fortress || Enter a Nether Fortress || Can require a lot of finding but opens up more advancements.
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| Into Fire || Obtain Blaze Rod || Easy to get if a fortress is found. Best to get 2-3 of these for other advancements.
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| Local Brewery || Brew a Potion || Netherwart is not required, a water bottle can be placed and removed in the output. Or brew a mundane potion.
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| What a Deal! || Trade with a Villager || Finding a village is the tricky bit here. Once found they usually have piles of hay bales which can be broken down into wheat to trade with a farmer.
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| Bee Our Guest || Use a Campfire to collect Honey from a Beehive using a Bottle without aggravating the bees || Finding a hive can be difficult and bees often forget where they live and wander off, making this unreliable.
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|}
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====(Very) Randomness Dependent Advancements====
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These advancements are obtainable but have very low chances of success for various reasons. Not all have actually been done in games yet.
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{| class="wikitable"
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! Advancement !! Conditions !! Implications for Advancement Hunters
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| Zombie Doctor || Cure a Zombie Villager || This advancement requires a lot of work and things to go right to get. Or just find an igloo.
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| Spooky Scary Skeleton || Obtain Wither Skull || Drop rate of wither skulls is very low.
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| Withering Heights || Summon the Wither || Requires 3 skulls, each of which has a very low drop chance. Killing it would be tricky.
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| Uneasy Alliance || Kill a Ghast in the Overworld || A pain to get in normal gameplay but only really needs a fishing rod and a big portal. Requires ghast to be within hooking range, a rare spawning occurrence.
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| Sticky Situation || Slide down a Honey Block || Need to get 4 honey to do this, which means bees have to work 4 times in a row.
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| Voluntary Exile || Kill a Raid Captain || Only obtainable from a Pillager Outpost
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| Hero of the Village || Defend a village from a raid || Relies on finding a pillager outpost and then a village.
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| A Throwaway Joke || Hit something with a thrown trident || Spawn chance of trident drowned is low, drop rate of them is low too. Also they're good at killing players, bring a shield. Worth going for if a trident drowned is seen.
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| Postmortal || Use Totem of Undying || Woodland Mansion is a very rare structure.
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| Who's the Pillager Now? || Kill a Pillager with a Crossbow || Needs pillager outpost.
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| Arbalistic || Kill five unique mobs with one crossbow shot || Requires peircing 4 and a lot of setup to pull off.
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| Very Very Frightening || Strike a Villager with lightning || Enchantment randomness on top of obtaining trident.
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| Total Beelocation || Move a Bee Nest, with 3 bees inside, using Silk Touch || Need to both get lucky with enchants and find a beehive where the bees have not wandered off and have 3 inside.
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| The End? || Enter the End || Requires locating a stronghold and opening the end portal. The main barrier to this is gathering ender pearls.
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| The End || Enter the End || Much like "The End?" this is the root of the End advancement tree.
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| Free the End || Slay the Dragon || Killing the ender dragon can be done very quickly using bed explosions.
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| The Next Generation || Hold the Dragon Egg || Remember to bring stuff to pick this up.
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| Remote Getaway || Use an End Gateway || Once you're done with the dragon this can be done to get out and look for cities.
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| The End... Again... || Respawn the Ender Dragon || Requires many items to do this, such as ghast tears and obsidian.
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| You Need a Mint || Obtain Dragon Breath || If you've brought bottles to the end this is easy.
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| The City at the End of the Game || Enter an End City || Requires finding the end city, in the end, after killing the dragon.
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| Sky's the Limit || Obtain an Elytra || Now you need to get into that end city and not die.
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| Great View From Up Here || Levitate up 50 blocks from the attacks of a Shulker || Obtainable by getting levitation and then using an ender pearl.
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|}
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====The Possible, In Theory?====
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These advancements are not able to be discounted as impossible but require very large amounts of luck, time or skill to obtain. If you get one of these, you're the real winner.
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{| class="wikitable"
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! Advancement !! Conditions !! Implications
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| Bring Home the Beacon || Obtain a Beacon || Would require actually killing the wither. Other players could kill your wither if released to gain this advancement.
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| Beaconator || Bring a beacon to full power || Requires a silly quantity of iron to obtain. May not even be possible.
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| Two by Two || Breed all the Animals || Locating some of the rarer mobs for this requires very good luck as they are biome dependent spawns.
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| A Complete Catalogue || Tame all cat variants! || Requires insane luck with cat spawns in villages.
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| Adventuring Time || Visit all Biomes || Requires very good luck with biome generation.
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| A Balanced Diet || Eat all foods || Requires some very rare items and a huge variety otherwise. Very difficult to get even in normal survival.
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|}
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====The Impossible====
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Due to known game mechanics these advancements cannot be obtained. This section is entirely dependent on phantoms not spawning for the first hour of game time.
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{| class="wikitable"
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! Advancement !! Conditions !! Implications
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| A Furious Cocktail || Have all potion effects at the same time || Phantoms cannot spawn in the first hour of game time rendering slow falling potions and hence this advancement unobtainable.
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| How Did We Get Here? || Have all status effects at the same time || Unobtainable for the same reasons as "A Furious Cocktail".
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| Monsters Hunted || Kill all hostile monsters || Again, cannot be obtained due to lack of phantom spawns within the first hour of game time.
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| Two Birds, One Arrow || Kill two Phantoms with a piercing arrow || This is becoming a theme of this section.
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|}
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===Historic Events===
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* 2020-3-25 - AdvancementHunters is run as part of a Wednesday Event - '''Team Coblé''' won with 29 points, followed by '''Stoney Thong''' with 26 and '''Sneak0teey''' with 24. It was a famously inhospitable, mostly covered in Tundra. [[Timoteeyy]] discovered the nether portal of team Stoney Thong and covered it in lava, managing to both kill [[Memery]] and steal all his items, grabbing some advancements in the process.
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* 2020-5-9 - After multiple attempts, '''BUMMZZ''' managed to both enter the End and kill the Ender Dragon with two minutes to spare. Amazingly, it was gaining the Parrots and the Bats achievement with ''ten seconds'' to spare tho gain their 31st advancement, as team '''Stoney Thong''' themselves racked up 30. It was also a high-point for unique advancements, with 15 achieved between the two teams.
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Latest revision as of 03:12, 16 January 2021

What is Advancement Hunters?

Compete as a team to earn the most advancements within the time limit! All advancements are worth 1 point each, so your team must decide which advancements to go for and when to get the most out of your time. Hostable at any time by Zesty+ Subscribers.


ZestyGames release AdvancementHunters3.png


Gameplay

A key part of doing well in Advancement Hunters is knowing what advancements to go for, which to prioritise and which to avoid. Many advancements can be easily obtained for simple things such as planting a seed or eating some food but others take serious dedication, like serious dedication. The following section will list the advancements available as of 1.15.2 and their implications to Advancement Hunters.

The Advancements

This section lists advancements in Minecraft and some of thier implications for Advancement Hunters.

Obtainable Advancements

These advancements are (given enough skill) consistently obtainable through the course of the game and should be considered a priority.

Advancement Conditions Implications for Advancement Hunters
Minecraft Obtain Crafting Table First step to any world.
Stone Age Obtain Cobblestone Cobble is known to be the best block in the game.
Getting an Upgrade Obtain Stone Pickaxe You had to ruin cobble for this, you monster!
Acquire Hardware Obtain Iron Ingot Iron is needed for many advancements and should be a priority.
Suit Up Obtain any iron armor Iron Boots are the cheapest. A full suit is not important unless going into the nether.
Hot Stuff Obtain Lava Bucket A bucket is very useful as it can give this, Tactical Fishing and be used to access the nether without diamond.
Isn't It Iron Pick Obtain Iron Pick Needed for obtaining diamond.
Not Today, Thank You Deflect Arrow with Shield Shields are generally useful and only cost one iron.
We Need to Go Deeper Enter the Nether Can be done very quickly using buckets to place lava into a portal frame. Unless this is the only nether advancement you are going for, it is wise to come better prepared than that. As the world is small most players will end up in the same portal. The first in has a major advantage.
Nether Enter the Nether Root of the Nether advancement tree and usually obtained immediately after We Need to Go Deeper.
Adventure Kill or Be Killed This root advancement can be obtained simply by being afk.
Monster Hunter Kill a hostile monster Needed to obtain string, among other things.
Ol' Betsy Shoot a Crossbow Hitting anything with it is not required.
Sweet Dreams Sleep in a bed Wool is easily obtained from sheep. This is an easy one but gains no other benefits.
Take Aim Shoot something with a Bow You actually have to hit something for this one. String required for bow.
Hired Help Summon Iron Golem 36 iron is needed for this, and a carved pumpkin (requiring shears). A use for all that iron you'll find.
Sniper Duel Kill a skeleton with a projectile while being at least 50 blocks away horizontally Tricky but can be consistently obtained.
Husbandry Eat Anything Piece of Cake!
The Parrots and the Bats Breed two Animals Most easily obtained by breeding chickens with seeds while running around for other things.
Best Friends Forever Tame an Animal Sitting on a Horse or Llama is the easiest way to get this.
Fishy Business Catch a fish with a rod String required for fishing rod.
A Seedy Place Plant a Seed Easily forgotten but very easy.
Tactical Fishing Catch a fish with a bucket The second reason buckets are useful. Fish can be hard to find so best to get this as early as possible.


Time Dependent Advancements

These advancements can be obtained but can be a waste of time that leads to a lower overall score.

Advancement Conditions Implications for Advancement Hunters
Subspace Bubble Use the Nether to travel 7 km in the Overworld Travelling 1000 blocks in the nether and then either making a portal and going through it or dying will net you this. Can possibly do other nether things on the way.
Serious Dedication Exhaust the durability of a diamond hoe, breaking it. Can be useful to put excess team members on this menial task. Beware, as another team killing your hoe breaker and taking it have wasted a lot of your time and gained a lot.
Eye Spy Enter a Stronghold Stronghold position can be calculated with two eye throws. Requires a lot of enderman hunting and obtaining blaze rods, and then some quick maths and a long walk.


(Slightly) Randomness Dependent Advancements

These advancements can usually be obtained but sometimes despite best efforts are not gained.

Advancement Conditions Implications for Advancement Hunters
Diamonds! Obtain Diamonds Required for many advancements in this section but it can be difficult to get enough.
Ice Bucket Challenge Obtain Obsidian Requires mining obsidian with a diamond pick (3 diamonds).
Cover Me With Diamonds Obtain Diamond Armor Boots are cheapest at 4 diamonds.
Enchanter Enchant an Item Requires 2 diamonds, obsidian (and pick to get this...) leather and paper.
Return to Sender Kill a Ghast with a Fireball Usually not too tricky to get if you get a ghast firing at you.
A Terrible Fortress Enter a Nether Fortress Can require a lot of finding but opens up more advancements.
Into Fire Obtain Blaze Rod Easy to get if a fortress is found. Best to get 2-3 of these for other advancements.
Local Brewery Brew a Potion Netherwart is not required, a water bottle can be placed and removed in the output. Or brew a mundane potion.
What a Deal! Trade with a Villager Finding a village is the tricky bit here. Once found they usually have piles of hay bales which can be broken down into wheat to trade with a farmer.
Bee Our Guest Use a Campfire to collect Honey from a Beehive using a Bottle without aggravating the bees Finding a hive can be difficult and bees often forget where they live and wander off, making this unreliable.


(Very) Randomness Dependent Advancements

These advancements are obtainable but have very low chances of success for various reasons. Not all have actually been done in games yet.

Advancement Conditions Implications for Advancement Hunters
Zombie Doctor Cure a Zombie Villager This advancement requires a lot of work and things to go right to get. Or just find an igloo.
Spooky Scary Skeleton Obtain Wither Skull Drop rate of wither skulls is very low.
Withering Heights Summon the Wither Requires 3 skulls, each of which has a very low drop chance. Killing it would be tricky.
Uneasy Alliance Kill a Ghast in the Overworld A pain to get in normal gameplay but only really needs a fishing rod and a big portal. Requires ghast to be within hooking range, a rare spawning occurrence.
Sticky Situation Slide down a Honey Block Need to get 4 honey to do this, which means bees have to work 4 times in a row.
Voluntary Exile Kill a Raid Captain Only obtainable from a Pillager Outpost
Hero of the Village Defend a village from a raid Relies on finding a pillager outpost and then a village.
A Throwaway Joke Hit something with a thrown trident Spawn chance of trident drowned is low, drop rate of them is low too. Also they're good at killing players, bring a shield. Worth going for if a trident drowned is seen.
Postmortal Use Totem of Undying Woodland Mansion is a very rare structure.
Who's the Pillager Now? Kill a Pillager with a Crossbow Needs pillager outpost.
Arbalistic Kill five unique mobs with one crossbow shot Requires peircing 4 and a lot of setup to pull off.
Very Very Frightening Strike a Villager with lightning Enchantment randomness on top of obtaining trident.
Total Beelocation Move a Bee Nest, with 3 bees inside, using Silk Touch Need to both get lucky with enchants and find a beehive where the bees have not wandered off and have 3 inside.
The End? Enter the End Requires locating a stronghold and opening the end portal. The main barrier to this is gathering ender pearls.
The End Enter the End Much like "The End?" this is the root of the End advancement tree.
Free the End Slay the Dragon Killing the ender dragon can be done very quickly using bed explosions.
The Next Generation Hold the Dragon Egg Remember to bring stuff to pick this up.
Remote Getaway Use an End Gateway Once you're done with the dragon this can be done to get out and look for cities.
The End... Again... Respawn the Ender Dragon Requires many items to do this, such as ghast tears and obsidian.
You Need a Mint Obtain Dragon Breath If you've brought bottles to the end this is easy.
The City at the End of the Game Enter an End City Requires finding the end city, in the end, after killing the dragon.
Sky's the Limit Obtain an Elytra Now you need to get into that end city and not die.
Great View From Up Here Levitate up 50 blocks from the attacks of a Shulker Obtainable by getting levitation and then using an ender pearl.


The Possible, In Theory?

These advancements are not able to be discounted as impossible but require very large amounts of luck, time or skill to obtain. If you get one of these, you're the real winner.

Advancement Conditions Implications
Bring Home the Beacon Obtain a Beacon Would require actually killing the wither. Other players could kill your wither if released to gain this advancement.
Beaconator Bring a beacon to full power Requires a silly quantity of iron to obtain. May not even be possible.
Two by Two Breed all the Animals Locating some of the rarer mobs for this requires very good luck as they are biome dependent spawns.
A Complete Catalogue Tame all cat variants! Requires insane luck with cat spawns in villages.
Adventuring Time Visit all Biomes Requires very good luck with biome generation.
A Balanced Diet Eat all foods Requires some very rare items and a huge variety otherwise. Very difficult to get even in normal survival.

The Impossible

Due to known game mechanics these advancements cannot be obtained. This section is entirely dependent on phantoms not spawning for the first hour of game time.

Advancement Conditions Implications
A Furious Cocktail Have all potion effects at the same time Phantoms cannot spawn in the first hour of game time rendering slow falling potions and hence this advancement unobtainable.
How Did We Get Here? Have all status effects at the same time Unobtainable for the same reasons as "A Furious Cocktail".
Monsters Hunted Kill all hostile monsters Again, cannot be obtained due to lack of phantom spawns within the first hour of game time.
Two Birds, One Arrow Kill two Phantoms with a piercing arrow This is becoming a theme of this section.


Historic Events

  • 2020-3-25 - AdvancementHunters is run as part of a Wednesday Event - Team Coblé won with 29 points, followed by Stoney Thong with 26 and Sneak0teey with 24. It was a famously inhospitable, mostly covered in Tundra. Timoteeyy discovered the nether portal of team Stoney Thong and covered it in lava, managing to both kill Memery and steal all his items, grabbing some advancements in the process.
  • 2020-5-9 - After multiple attempts, BUMMZZ managed to both enter the End and kill the Ender Dragon with two minutes to spare. Amazingly, it was gaining the Parrots and the Bats achievement with ten seconds to spare tho gain their 31st advancement, as team Stoney Thong themselves racked up 30. It was also a high-point for unique advancements, with 15 achieved between the two teams.
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