Is It Possible to Beat Minecraft Without Getting ANY Advancements?

Is It Possible to Beat Minecraft Without Getting ANY Advancements?

Hello So, I was looking at people speedrunning all advancements in Minecraft And when I saw that, I thought: hey What if, instead of getting every advancement, we tried to avoid them as much as possible? So, let’s do it! First, let’s set the rules for this challenge.

Firstly, it will be played on the current latest version of Minecraft, which to this day is 1.19.4 Secondly, it has to be done on a random seed. And thirdly, anything in the Advancements tab counts as an advancement, even the ones that don’t show in chat.

For example, having a crafting table in your inventory grants you the Minecraft advancement, which doesn’t write anything in the chat but still shows in the Advancements tab, so it counts as an advancement for this challenge. Alright, now that the rules are set, let’s get going!

So the first thing we need to do is find a crafting table, since we’re not allowed to have one in our inventory. We can sometimes find them in villages and we can always find one in Witch Huts and Igloos so we start looking for those.

After a few minutes, we find a first village. Unfortunately, it’s a plains village, so there’s no crafting tables in here but we can still grab a few beds that we will need for later We go back to walking around and, talking about walking, there’s a bit of an issue with this.

You might be wondering why I’m walking instead of sprinting and to explain this, let’s talk a bit more about the hidden advancements. Each category has a hidden starting advancement (also called root advancement) For the Minecraft tab, you get it by having a crafting table in your inventory

For the Adventure tab, you get it by killing any entity OR being killed by any entity And for the Husbandry tab, you get it by consuming anything that can be consumed This includes eating food. Yup. That means we’ll have to beat the entire game without ever eating food.

Let me add this to the list of things I can’t do real quick Thankfully, walking does not consume any food points so I can walk around as long as I want without my food bar ever going down. Just before the night falls, we find another plains village

Where we can spend 10 minutes waiting the night away while looking at the bed we can’t sleep in because it would give us an advancement After the night has passed, we grab a few more beds and we go back to searching for a crafting table.

On the way we find pumpkins, which we will need for later And we also find a broken Nether portal which gives us some gold armor and a bunch of other stuff. After a few more nights and empty villages

We find another broken portal with a flint and steel and a tooon of iron nuggets And we finally find an igloo. Now that we have a crafting table, we can finally start playing the game. We craft some tools and we go gather a few materials

And by a few materials, I mean mostly dirt and wood, because that’s basically all we can get since having cobblestone in our inventory would grant us an advancement. And we don’t want that. We then refill our food bar by drinking water

And we need a few more iron nuggets, so it’s time to search for a broken portal, or for a shipwreck. And now that we can craft boats, adventuring will be a lot easier Because we can travel on water Slide on ice *very questionable car sound*

And we can also use a boat to sprint. …wait what? Well Normally, hitting an entity stops your sprint and puts you back to a walking state However, if you hold the sprint button, you’re almost instantly going to sprint again but, at this point, the game still thinks you’re walking

So you only have the extra speed of the sprint, without the extra knockback and food consumption. So by placing down a boat, sprinting and hitting it we can effectively sprint without consuming any food points. Which is quite convenient. Anyway After some boat sprinting, we find the broken portal we were looking for

And we get the iron nuggets we needed. But, by the way, why do we need iron nuggets? In order to make the Nether portal, we’re going to need a bucket. However, having an iron ingot in our inventory would give us the Acquire Hardware advancement, which would be problematic.

And that’s where the iron nuggets come into play. When we use the iron nuggets to craft iron ingots and immediately craft something with them the iron ingots never land in our inventory, they stay in the crafting table. So, we don’t get the advancement. We also craft a pair of shears

Which we then use to peacefully cut our pumpkins And now, we’re ready to make the Nether portal. First, we’re going to need lava so we completely fill our inventory with random items so we can’t grab any cobblestone And we start digging down We even find some diamonds on the way! nice

And after a bit more digging we find the lava we need. But, wait. we have an issue here Usually, when we make a Nether portal, we have two possibilities: Either we grab obsidian and place it down to make a portal or we use lava buckets to forge a portal in water.

However, obtaining obsidian gives an advancement and obtaining lava also grants an advancement. So, how can we make a Nether portal without obsidian AND without lava buckets..? Well If we can’t forge a portal in water we’ll forge a portal directly in the lava. For this, we will need a 5 blocks deep lava lake

Which is more common to find near bedrock level. So we get to bedrock level and find some new lava. Then we carefully place dirt and sand to forge the shape of the portal in the lava And now we simply use water to create the obsidian blocks. And with a final right click *click*

The Nether portal is ready. So far we managed to do all of this without getting a SINGLE advancement. Let’s hope this continues! … Unfortunately, this one isn’t really avoidable and, entering the Nether actually gives TWO advancements. One in the Minecraft tab, and one in the Nether tab. So that’s our first two advancements.

Anyway The magic of the pie chart tells us that there’s a Fortress nearby which makes things a lot easier. However, before going to the Fortress I realized I was missing a few things so we’ll have to go back to the Overworld. In order to kill the Blazes, we will need two things:

Clay and Eggs. trust me ok it’s gonna make sense later on So we dig some clay put it in the furnace find some chickens And we make a top quality free-range egg farm with very happy chickens living a very happy chicken life. …aaand we wait.

Alright, now we have the eggs so we’re ready to go back to the Nether. We grab the bricks in the furnace and we make some slabs. We go back to the portal, and we start looking for the Fortress. On our way to the Fortress, we find two Endermen

So we lock them in a boat and watch them slowly suffocate to their death …and one of them seemingly starts to get possessed by Satan. what the ??? And after a bit more wandering around we find the Fortress. but, wait a second.

Entering the Fortress gives an advancement, so how do we get to the Blazes? Well, if we can’t get to the Blazes we’ll have to get the Blazes to us. The game only counts us as being in the Fortress when we’re in the main areas of the Fortress, like on this bridge for example.

So, if we dig inside this pillar and stay low enough to NOT enter the height of the bridge we don’t get the advancement. This way, we can dig under the Blaze Spawner and let them fall to us without really entering the Fortress. Alright, the Fortress issue is solved!

But now, we have a new, MUCH bigger issue. We need to kill those Blazes, but if we just killed them we would get the Monster Hunter advancement. And we don’t want that. So, you could be thinking: “why don’t you make them suffocate like you did with the Endermen?” Well, unfortunately that wouldn’t work.

For some reason, in order for a Blaze to loot a Blaze Rod it needs to be killed by a player, or by a tamed wolf. If you kill it with gravel for example, it won’t loot anything. And unfortunately, taming a wolf also gives an advancement, so we can’t do that either.

So, to recap. We need to somehow kill a Blaze …without killing a Blaze …but we have to participate in the kill …but we can’t deal damage to the Blaze without getting the advancement …and you can’t kill him either. How the hell are we gonna do this?? Well Remember when I said this?

“we will need two things” “Clay and Eggs.” Yup. It’s egg time. First, we get the Blaze to 1HP then we wait around 15 seconds for the game to forget we’ve hit the Blaze. Ok. Now we have a Blaze at 1HP but How do we kill him without hitting him? Simple.

We build a Snowman. Snowmen melt very fast in the Nether but they still have enough time to shoot one snowball and since Blazes take damage from snowballs the Snowman can kill them. However, if we just did that, the Blaze wouldn’t loot anything because there’s no player participation in the kill.

And that’s where it’s finally time to use those eggs. By hitting a Blaze with an egg, we add ourselves to the list of kill participations but since eggs don’t deal any damage, the Snowman dealt 100% of the damage to the Blaze So the game counts this as a Snowman kill

And we both get the Blaze Rod without getting the advancement. oh, and gathering a Blaze Rod gives an advancement. not much we can do about that (actually read the pinned comment) Also, there’s one little downside to using eggs: they sometimes spawn baby chickens

And, if we accidentally killed one, it would give us the Adventuring advancement. So, whenever a baby chicken spawns We’ll have to gently get it out of the way in a very peaceful manner. Alright, we’ve got the Blaze Rods we needed so we can go back to the Overworld.

We go back to the Igloo, and now that we have Blaze Rods we need to farm the item that goes with it: Enderpearls. Since we can’t trade with Villagers or with Piglins as that would give advancements We’ll have to farm Enderpearls the old school way: Endermen.

Originally, I thought about farming them in the Warped Forest biome in the Nether but I was scared of accidentally getting the Hot Tourist advancement. So instead I opted for the even more old school method: The tower. Let’s build it.

First, we need to find a area with a clear view, so I chose to build it in these plains. Then, we build a small house with open windows we dig a hole in front of the entrance, with a fast respawn pit next to it

Put slabs on the roof to prevent mobs from spawning And now we make a 140 blocks high tower with a little bed on top. So. How does this work? We fall from the tower into the little house look around to see if there’s any Enderman and, if there’s not

We fall in the respawn pit. Respawn on top of the tower and, since we’re more than 128 blocks from the surface all of the hostile mobs despawn. So when we fall back down, new enemies will spawn with a chance for an Enderman. So we can just keep respawning until we see an Enderman

And when we see one, we place down a boat look at his eyes to lure him in he gets stuck in the boat we dig under it to make him fall into the little room under the entrance and we use sand to suffocate him. Perfect. So far, everything goes perfectly according to plan

Fghjoiazjdfhgd Alright… we need to improve the farm. We need to craft a few things so we quickly travel back to the igloo ??? Craft what we need go back to the tower wait for the night to pass… And now, let’s make this farm Creeper-proof.

Alright, now we can go back to farming Endermen without the fear of a Creeper breaking everything. And we can even capture multiple Endermen at once! We’re gonna get those Enderpearls in no time! *way too much time later* yay… we got the last enderpearl… Okay Now that we have the Enderpearls

It’s time to look for the Stronghold. So we’re going to triangulate its location. To do this, it’s pretty simple: I throw an Eye Note the angle Move around 20 blocks Throw another Eye …and watch a tutorial on YouTube because I forgot how to do it.

On the way to the Stronghold, we find a Shipwreck which I thought would be useless but then I remember I forgot to craft slabs so I steal a few slabs from the Shipwreck. And the next Eye of Ender goes straight into the ground so we make sure our inventory is full

And we start digging down. but wait Entering the Stronghold gives an advancement, so we would like to avoid that. But, if we can’t enter the stronghold, how can we get to the End? Well Similarly to the Fortress, the game only counts us as being in the Stronghold when we’re in the main areas.

So if we never enter the walls of the Stronghold we don’t get the advancement. So we dig this way until we find the portal room. Now we need to place down the Eyes. If we hug the walls of the Stronghold we have just enough range to place the eyes in the portals

Without entering the Stronghold. So we just have to mine around the room, and …I almost grabbed a cobbletsone. We keep mining around the room to place down the remaining pearls …aaaand we have two problems. First, we can’t quite reach the portal in the middle And second,

Lighting up the portal is cool and stuff but, we need to enter it, right? …and it’s inside the Stronghold, right? Thankfully there’s a way around this. The game doesn’t instantly give you the advancement as soon as you enter the Stronghold,

It only gives it after you’ve been in the Stronghold for about a second. So if we drop from above the Stronghold with enough momentum and light up the portal while we’re falling, we should be able to enter the End before the game gives us the advancement for entering the Stronghold

So, we dig a hole above the portal clean our inventory by taking only the items we need …and it’s time for the scary jump. “Let’s goooo!” As planned, we manage to enter the End portal WITHOUT getting the Eye Spy advancement. We did get the advancements for entering the End though, but

There’s nothing we can do against that. Now, it’s time for the dragon fight! But before fighting her, we have a small issue. Killing the dragon gives an advancement. …actually, it would even gives three advancements. But thankfully, we can avoid all of that with just one item: Beds.

Beds explosions are counted by the game as environmental damage, so by killing the dragon with beds, we don’t get ownership of the kill so we don’t get any of those advancements. Alright it’s time for the final fight then, so let’s resume the video.

After digging out of the cage with our almost broken pickaxe we run to the portal to set it up, and we quickly go back to the pillar to build a big tower. There’s two reasons for building a tower: Firstly, by being high enough in the sky

We can avoid every attack from the dragon AND we have a clear view of the area. And secondly, since we’re positioned perfectly in line with the portal, the dragon will perch horizontally, which makes the fight easier. Now, we just need to wait for the dragon to perch.

The way we can tell when the dragon is perching is when he snaps STRAIGHT to the portal. Then we just throw the pearl, and start placing beds. If you’re curious, the way to deal the most damage to the dragon

Is to explode the bed when the dragon’s head gets near the pillow of the bed. The closest its head is to the pillow, the more damage she will take. …and just like that it’s done. So, let’s recap. In total, beating Minecraft took 5 advancements, with two of them being root advancements.

Two advancements for entering the Nether. Two advancements for entering the End. And one advancement for gathering a Blaze Rod. So, yeah. 5 advancements in total. That’s it for this video, I hope you enjoyed it, feel free to comment, subcribe, bla bla bla all that stuff b-bye! *outro music*

hi this is a video where steve from the famous mining game minecraft doesn’t actually do any of the mining stuff because he wants to avoid advancements for some reason
[EDIT: English subtitles have been added!]

[Music used]
All of the music used in this video (except for the end screen music) comes from Minecraft’s original soundtrack. Here are the tracks used in order of apparition in the video:
C418 – Sweden
C418 – Minecraft
C418 – Mall
C418 – Alpha
C418 – Dreiton