Advancements all 121 advancements in Minecraft

Advancement, goal or challenge: the three frames

The frame around the icon tells you how big the step is. A square frame is a plain advancement: the small milestones, from Stone Age to entering the Nether. A rounded frame marks a goal, a long-term target such as Sky's the Limit (finding Elytra) or Beaconator. A spiked frame is a challenge: the hard ones, with their own toast sound and, for 23 of the 25, an XP reward.

When you get one, a toast shows up in the corner of the screen and the chat tells every player, unless the game rule show_advancement_messages is off (see /gamerule). An advancement appears in the Advancements screen once the one before it, or the one before that, is done. Hidden ones only appear once you have them.

Tips for the long challenges

• Adventuring Time asks for 56 Overworld biomes; you only need to stand in each one. Rare ones like Mushroom Fields and Deep Dark take the longest. Recent biomes such as Sulfur Caves only generate in chunks created since their update, so an old world needs fresh exploration.
• Monsters Hunted lists 41 mobs, bosses included. Plan the rare ones: Elder Guardian in Ocean Monuments, Piglin Brute only in Bastion Remnants, Evoker in Woodland Mansions or raids, Shulker in End Cities.
• A Balanced Diet means 40 foods, poisonous ones too. The Enchanted Golden Apple has no recipe: you find it in chests. Chorus Fruit grows in the End and Suspicious Stew is crafted with a flower.
• Two by Two needs 26 animals. A Mule counts: breed a horse with a donkey. The Sniffer hatches from an egg found by brushing suspicious sand in warm ocean ruins.
• A Complete Catalogue and The Whole Pack ask for every Cat and Wolf variant. Each wolf variant lives in its own biomes.
• How Did We Get Here? is hidden: 34 effects active at the same time. Gather the short effects last.

Drop your advancements file in the tracker above: it lists every biome, mob and food you still miss, with pictures.

Java advancements and Bedrock achievements

Java Edition has had advancements since 1.12, when they replaced the old achievements. Bedrock Edition kept achievements: they belong to your Microsoft account, add Gamerscore and stop working in a world where cheats were turned on or Creative mode was used. Java advancements belong to the world instead. Each world, and each server, keeps them in its own advancements folder. They still work with cheats on and in Creative, and /advancement can grant or remove any of them. The two lists are different too: a few achievements have the same goal as an advancement, such as Sniper Duel, but most names and conditions differ.

✓ Checked in Java Edition 26.3 · updated 2 November 2026