AdvancementHunters

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.

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.