Achievements in Minecraft
This Minecraft tutorial explains all about achievements with screenshots and step-by-step instructions. Let's take a closer look.
What is an Achievement?
When you complete certain challenges in Minecraft, you earn achievements. These achievements are saved with the world you are playing and can be earned in any game mode including Creative and Survival. Some achievements have prerequisites and can not be earned until you have completed other challenges.
In Minecraft, you can also use the /achievement command to give or take away an achievement.
List of Achievements
Here is a list of the achievements that you can earn in Minecraft:
| Achievement | Requirements | Minecraft ID (PC) |
|---|---|---|
| Taking Inventory | Open your inventory | achievement.openInventory |
| Getting Wood | Pick up wood (Prerequisite: Taking Inventory) |
achievement.mineWood |
| Benchmarking | Craft a crafting table (Prerequisite: Getting Wood) |
achievement.buildWorkBench |
| Time to Mine! | Craft a pickaxe (Prerequisite: Benchmarking) |
achievement.buildPickaxe |
| Hot Topic | Craft a furnace (Prerequisite: Time to Mine!) |
achievement.buildFurnace |
| Aquire Hardware | Smelt iron ingot (Prerequisite: Hot Topic) |
achievement.acquireIron |
| Time to Farm! | Craft a hoe (Prerequisite: Benchmarking) |
achievement.buildHoe |
| Bake Bread | Craft bread (Prerequisite: Time to Farm!) |
achievement.makeBread |
| The Lie | Craft a cake (Prerequisite:Time to Farm!) |
achievement.bakeCake |
| Getting an Upgrade | Craft a better pickaxe (Prerequisite: Time to Mine!) |
achievement.buildBetterPickaxe |
| Delicious Fish | Cook a fish (Prerequisite: Hot Topic) |
achievement.cookFish |
| On a Rail | Travel in a minecart (Prerequisite: Acquire Hardware) |
achievement.onARail |
| Time to Strike! | Craft a sword (Prerequisite: Benchmarking) |
achievement.buildSword |
| Monster Hunter | Kill a hostile mob (Prerequisite: Time to Strike!) |
achievement.killEnemy |
| Cow Tipper | Pick up leather (Prerequisite: Time to Strike!) |
achievement.killCow |
| When Pigs Fly | Ride a pig off a cliff (Prerequisite: Cow Tipper) |
achievement.flyPig |
| Sniper Duel | Kill a skeleton with an arrow from more than 50 blocks away (Prerequisite: Monster Hunter) |
achievement.snipeSkeleton |
| DIAMONDS! | Pick up a diamond (Prerequisite: Acquire Hardware) |
achievement.diamonds |
| Diamonds to You! | Throw a diamond to a player and that player picks it up (Prerequisite: DIAMONDS!) |
achievement.diamondsToYou |
| We Need to Go Deeper | Use a Nether Portal to travel to the Nether (Prerequisite: DIAMONDS!) |
achievement.portal |
| Return to Sender | Kill a ghast with a fireball (Prerequisite: We Need to Go Deeper) |
achievement.ghast |
| Into Fire | Pick up a blaze rod (Prerequisite: We Need to Go Deeper) |
achievement.blazeRod |
| Local Brewery | Craft a potion (Prerequisite: Into Fire) |
achievement.potion |
| The End? | Enter an End Portal (Prerequisite: Into Fire) |
achievement.theEnd |
| The End. | Kill the Enderdragon and leave the End through exit portal (Prerequisite: The End?) |
achievement.theEnd2 |
| Enchanter | Craft an enchanting table (Prerequisite: DIAMONDS!) |
achievement.enchantments |
| Overkill | Deal 9 hearts of damage in a single hit (Prerequisite: Enchanter) |
achievement.overkill |
| Librarian | Craft a bookshelf (Prerequisite: Enchanter) |
achievement.bookcase |
| Repopulation | Breed cows (Prerequisite: Cow Tipper) |
achievement.breedCow |
| The Beginning? | Spawn the Wither boss (Prerequisite: The End.) |
achievement.spawnWither |
| The Beginning. | Kill the Wither boss (Prerequisite: The Beginning?) |
achievement.killWither |
| Beaconator | Craft a full beacon (Prerequisite:The Beginning.) |
achievement.fullBeacon |
| Adventuring Time | Discover all biomes (Prerequisite: The End?) |
achievement.exploreAllBiomes |
| Overpowered | Pick up an enchanted golden apple and eat it (Prerequisite: Getting an Upgrade) |
achievement.overpowered |
How to Earn an Achievement
When you complete a challenge in Minecraft, you will earn an achievement. Let's show you how to earn the first achievement called "Taking Inventory".
To earn "Taking Inventory", it is as simple as opening your inventory in the game. In Minecraft Java Edition (PC/Mac), you can open your inventory by pressing the E key.
Once you have opened your inventory, you will see the Achievement message "Achievement get! Taking Inventory" appear in the top right of the game window.
Once you close the inventory menu, you will also see an achievement message in the Chat window that says "DigMinecraft has just earned the achievement [Taking Inventory]".
This message is broadcast to all players on the server.
How to View your Achievements
Achievements are found under the Game Menu in Minecraft. To open the Game Menu, press the esc key in Minecraft Java Edition (PC/Mac).
Then view your achievements by clicking on the Achievements button in the Game Menu.
Your Achievements window should look like this:
The Achievements window shows a sort of tree structure with arrows pointing to the next achievements that you can earn.
If you hover over an achievement, you can see the achievement name and the requirements to get the achievement. In this example, the achievement is called "Taking Inventory" and the requirement is to "Press 'E' to open your inventory."
If the achievement says "Taken!" in blue text, then you have already earned this achievement.
In Minecraft Java Edition (PC/Mac), the Achievements window is now zoomable. Use your mouse wheel to zoom in and out. Or hold down the left mouse button and drag to change the focus point in the Achievements window.
Congratulations, you just learned about achievements in Minecraft.
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