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MINECRAFT PC ACHIEVEMENT GUIDE
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Copyright 2016 Ashley Moore
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Some of this information is from the Minecraft Wiki, which is at
minecraft.gamepedia.com.
Thanks to Coorpse from trueachievements.com for the adventuring time strategy.
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TAKING INVENTORY
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Official description: Press 'E' to open your inventory.
Time consumption: Regardless of your experience, you will get this almost
immediately.
Difficulty: Trivial.
This will probably be the first achievement you get, possibly the second if you
bother to acquire wood first. You shouldn't need guidance with it.
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GETTING WOOD
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Official description: Attack a tree until a block of wood pops out.
Time consumption: In almost all cases this should take no more than two minutes
to get.
Difficulty: Trivial.
There is only one exception with the difficulty of this: starting a new world
in a desert biome. In these biomes, the plant life is pretty much just cacti
and dead bushes. You'll have to explore a little to find some trees. They are
found in jungles, forests, taigas, swamps, etc.
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BENCHMARKING
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Official description: Craft a workbench with four blocks of planks.
Time consumption: Should be even faster to get than the previous achievement.
Difficulty: Trivial.
This one will require you to once again bring up your inventory (E), and use
the 2x2 crafting grid in the top right of the window. Click on the wood in your
inventory and bring it over to any of the four boxes on the aforementioned
grid, and you should see some planks appear as the output. Click on those
planks and move them onto a space in your inventory. You can also shift-click
an item on the grid to automatically move it back into a free inventory space.
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TIME TO MINE
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Official description: Use planks and sticks to make a pickaxe.
Time consumption: Can be done in well under five minutes even if you're new to
the game.
Difficulty: Trivial.
You're going to need some more planks for this. Recall that you need to move a
block of wood onto the crafting grid in your inventory to make them. Once you
have a decent amount (I would recommend about twenty at this stage), take two
of those said planks and put them on the crafting space. You need to arrange
them so that one plank is above the other, like this:
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|XX| |
|XX| | XX: Wood plank
-------
|XX| |
|XX| |
-------
This will make 4 sticks. Next, you'll need to go over to the workbench/crafting
table you made (if not, see the achievement 'benchmarking' above). Make a row
of three across the top with the planks, and then move sticks into both the
middle and bottom middle boxes. As you can see, the recipe kinda resembles a
pickaxe.
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|XX|XX|XX|
|XX|XX|XX| XX: Wood Plank
---------- OO: Stick
| |OO| |
| |OO| |
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| |OO| |
| |OO| |
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Remember to take the output before leaving the crafting window. The ingredients
will be dropped on the floor otherwise.
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HOT TOPIC
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Official description: Construct a furnace out of eight stone blocks.
Time consumption: Only slightly longer than collecting your first pieces of
wood.
Difficulty: Trivial.
You'll need a crafting table to make a furnace as the crafting space in your
own inventory is insufficient; it needs a 3x3 grid. I'm also going to assume
that you've made a pickaxe at this point. Make sure you have it equipped on the
hotbar. In order to find the cobblestone for the furnace, simply dig through a
few layers of dirt/sand anywhere and you'll come to it. It can also be found
well above ground if the terrain you are in is mountainous. When you have the 8
pieces of cobblestone, arrange it on the table as follows:
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|XX|XX|XX|
|XX|XX|XX| XX: Cobblestone
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|XX| |XX|
|XX| |XX|
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|XX|XX|XX|
|XX|XX|XX|
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You can carry the crafting table on your person and place it on the ground when
necessary to shave off a few minutes.
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ACQUIRE HARDWARE
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Official description: Smelt an iron ingot.
Time consumption: Depends on a lot of variables. Probably no more than seven or
eight minutes.
Difficulty: Little
Before you attempt this, make sure you have a stone pickaxe. The recipe for
this is similar to the wooden one, only the row at the top needs to be filled
with cobblestone blocks instead of planks. Please see the 'time to mine'
achievement above if you need to be reminded of the recipe. Also, if you happen
to find an extreme hills biome, you might want to go spelunking around there.
This and plains are great environments to look for cave entrances as they are
very visible. Most of these cave entrances will lead to the iron ore you need
for this achievement. Keep an eye out also for coal. This is a durable fuel for
the furnace. Once you find some iron, interact with a furnace to bring up its
interface, and place the coal at the bottom and the iron at the top. After
about ten seconds you can take the smelted iron.
You should mine as much coal as you can. What you don't use a fuel, save to
make torches. Place a chunk of coal somewhere on a crafting grid and a stick in
a space directly below it.
If you somehow manage to find little or no coal, you can use wood planks or
tree saplings as fuel in the furnace, though it depletes much faster.
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TIME TO FARM
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Official description: Use planks and sticks to make a hoe.
Time consumption: If you still have some planks and sticks left, you could do
this right away.
Difficulty: Trivial.
You'll need two planks and two sticks for this. Collect more wood if you need
to, and open a workbench interface. Here is the recipe:
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|XX|XX| |
|XX|XX| | XX: Wood Plank
---------- OO: Stick
| |OO| |
| |OO| |
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| |OO| |
| |OO| |
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Much like the pickaxe recipe it resembles the actual object it makes when laid
out on the table. Now that you have a hoe (hehe), you can till some dirt so you
can grow things like wheat on it.
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BAKE BREAD
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Official description: Turn wheat into bread.
Time consumption: Almost fifteen minutes. Markedly faster if you can get bone
meal.
Difficulty: Trivial.
I'm assuming you've made a hoe before this. See 'time to farm' for the recipe.
Either find a flat area of dirt or place some somewhere that is convenient;
preferably near water in any case. Use the hoe on it to till it (right click).
This will allow you to grow crops on it. This process can take quite a while if
the dirt in question is not close to a water source. You should also place
torches around the farmland. Now, you need to go and get some seeds by breaking
some grass. You're better off going to a plains or forest biome for this. When
you've found some grass, do not be surprised if destroying the first few blades
of it does not yield anything. When you have the seeds, return to the farmland
you created and right click on the soil while you have the seeds equipped. They
will grow into wheat after about one-and-a-half in-game days (please note that
this will take longer if you don't have a water source or adaquate light
levels).
After the wheat has grown (it should be about a block tall and a yellowish
colour), break it to harvest it. It will drop some wheat and also anywhere
between 0-3 seeds. Remember to replant the seeds so you can keep gaining these
resources. Once you have 3 clumps of wheat, lay them in a row on the crafting
table; arranging them vertically won't work. It should make a loaf of bread.
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THE LIE
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Official description: Wheat, sugar, milk, and eggs.
Time consumption: Unless you have sugar cane and animal farms... A while.
Difficulty: Little.
I'm assuming both that you have made a hoe and know how to farm wheat. You
might want to expand the farmland you made and plant another five-or-so seeds
as well. Now, going by the achievement description, the next thing you're going
to need to have is sugar. This is made from sugar cane, a somewhat rare plant
that grows one block adjacent to water on the surface. You might be able to
stumble across some of it if you follow a river or find a village. Once you
have some, place it on a crafting grid to turn it into sugar. You don't even
need a workbench for the recipe as it only needs one cell. Thirdly, you need
buckets of milk. Three to be exact. You need three iron ingots for each bucket.
Make a 'V' shape with the iron ingots on the workbench interface. Take the
three buckets and use them on a cow to fill them with milk. You can actually
milk a single cow an infinite amount of times. Lastly is eggs. If you can find
chickens, they will periodically drop them. I would advise you to herd some
chickens and cows, as well as making a sugar cane farm. This will make it easy
to make cakes in the future.
Gather the three milk buckets, two heaps of sugar, one egg and three strands of
wheat and arrange them on the workbench as follows:
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|MM|MM|MM|
|MM|MM|MM| MM: Milk bucket
---------- SS: Sugar
|SS|EE|SS| EE: Egg
|SS|EE|SS| WW: Wheat
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|WW|WW|WW|
|WW|WW|WW|
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There's quite a bit involved in the creation of a cake, but you can streamline
the process a little if you keep farms for the ingredients close to your base.
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GETTING AN UPGRADE
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Official description: Construct a better pickaxe.
Time consumption: A five minute task, no more.
Difficulty: Trivial.
After you've made a wooden pickaxe, you'll need to progress to a stone one to
net this achievement. If you're going for the 'Acquire Hardware' achievement
(above) this will need to be done anyway. Simply mine at least three pieces of
cobblestone by unearthing it, and then arrange them, along with sticks, on a
crafting table like this:
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|XX|XX|XX|
|XX|XX|XX| XX: Cobblestone
---------- OO: Stick
| |OO| |
| |OO| |
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| |OO| |
| |OO| |
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Not only will this mine cobblestone faster, but you'll need to have at least a
stone pickaxe to mine valuable ores. I would advise forgetting about wooden
ones after this.
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DELICIOUS FISH
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Official description: Catch and cook a fish.
Time consumption: Anywhere up to ten minutes, possibly longer.
Difficulty: Little.
Before you think about doing this one, make sure you have a fishing rod. This
can be made using string and sticks. This means that you're likely to have to
kill a few enemies to make one. String is often dropped by spiders (wait until
nighttime and then roam around the surface for a little. They carry bows). It
can also be dropped the cave variety, obtained from destroying cobwebs and even
spawns in jungle temples. From a beginner's standpoint the likelihood is that
normal spiders will be your source of string. Anyway, find two lots of it and
three sticks and arrange them on a workbench like this:
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| | |OO|
| | |OO| ST: String
---------- OO: Stick
| |OO|ST|
| |OO|ST|
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|OO| |ST|
|OO| |ST|
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Now all you have to do is find a body of water. This shouldn't be a problem
unless you are in a desert. Right click while holding the fishing rod and it'll
be cast into the water. Providing that you catch a fish and not a junk item,
you'll be able to cock the fish in a fuelled furnace. Remember that coal makes
for a durable fuel, but even wood planks or tree saplings can be utilised for
this. So, when it's cooked, this achievement should pop up.
Alternatively, you can catch six fish raw and trade them with a fisherman
villager for six cooked ones. This is relatively cheap at only 1 emerald, but
of course you'll need to spend time catching six instead of just one.
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ON A RAIL
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Official description: Travel by minecart at least 1KM from where you started.
Time consumption: I hope you have enough hours spare for this...
Difficulty: Little.
Definitely not the hardest, but certainly the most time-consuming, achievement
in Minecraft. Not only is it made worse on PC because you have to construct a
track a kilometre long, rather than the 500 metres on other platforms, but
you'll probably work through lots of pickaxes or shovels to get this done. Make
sure you build the rail in a straight line.
I'd say the best thing way to approach this is to first decide upon whether you
want this track to be located underground or on the surface. If you do it
underground, you'll be using up pickaxes. There will also be the danger that
you can dig out some lava. If you decide to build it along the surface, you'll
have to contend with mobs at night regardless. You'll also be using up shovels
instead of picks, as the terrain will probably have to be adjusted to
accomodate for the track. I would strongly suggest doing it on the surface if
you are playing on the PC version: making a thousand-block long tunnel is going
to be tedious.
Once you've decided on the location, you're going to want to obtain LOTS of
rails. You can either craft some using irong ingots and sticks, or take some
from an abandoned mineshaft (if you are lucky enough to stumble across one).
Here is the recipe for rails, it makes 16 sections:
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|II| |II|
|II| |II| II: Iron ingot
---------- SS: Stick
|II|SS|II|
|II|SS|II|
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|II| |II|
|II| |II|
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Here is where you should put down the first few pieces of track. Following
this, make a minecart with the following recipe on a workbench:
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| | | |
| | | | II: Iron ingot
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|II| |II|
|II| |II|
----------
|II|II|II|
|II|II|II|
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Equip the minecart and place it down on the very first section of track. This
is just so that you can ride it when the project is complete, or whenever you
need to test it out. With some quick maths it will take 375 iron ingots to make
the necessary 1000 rails. This is a substantial amount of iron and will
probably incur some hours of mining. I would suggest seeking out ravines; the
sides and bases of them are usually covered in the stuff. Making an iron
pickaxe will help speed things up. Why 1000 rails? Well, each block in
Minecraft is taken to be a metre long, which means that in order to make a 1KM
(1000 metre) long track, you'd need it to span a thousand blocks. One section
of rail covers one block, so you'd need a thousand rail sections to stretch
that distance.
Your troubles don't end here, however: gold ore and redstone will be necessary
to find. For every tenth or so piece of track on your rail you should be sure
to place a powered rail. These give the cart a small boost so it can keep its
momentum up throughout its travel. To build one, you're going to need six gold
ingots, a piece of redstone dust, and a stick. Arrange them on a workbench like
this:
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|GG| |GG|
|GG| |GG| GG: Gold ingot
---------- SS: Stick
|GG|SS|GG| RR: Redstone
|GG|SS|GG|
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|GG|RR|GG|
|GG|RR|GG|
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The real downer is that this produces six powered rails rather than the sixteen
that the regular rail recipe yields.
Anyway, continue placing sections of track in a straight line and powered rails
after every ten or so blocks in this fashion. Make sure you are running power
to the powered rails with redstone torches. You can craft these in the same way
you would craft a regular torch, only the recipe uses redstone in place of the
coal. Place a redstone torch on the block adjacent to each powered rail. Now
when the minecart travels over these it will retain speed. You have no hope for
the cart to travel 1KM in a certain direction without stopping if you don't use
powered rails.
A big pat on the back is yours once you get this achievement.
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TIME TO STRIKE
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Official description: Use planks and sticks to make a sword.
Time consumption: Almost none at all.
Difficulty: Trivial.
This is something you'll end up doing quite regularly in the game. As the
description implies you need planks and sticks, this makes a basic wooden
sword. Once you've made a crafting table, arrange them like this:
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| |XX| |
| |XX| | XX: Wood plank
---------- OO: Stick
| |XX| |
| |XX| |
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| |OO| |
| |OO| |
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It won't last very long or do much damage, so I would suggest you try to craft
at least a stone sword as soon as possible. To make the different tiers of
sword, just replace the two planks in the above recipe with the appropriate
material.
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MONSTER HUNTER
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Official description: Attack and destroy a monster.
Time consumption: No more than five minutes.
Difficulty: Little.
There are plenty of ways you could get this done, and the only reason it isn't
a completely trivial difficulty wise is that this could involve killing a
creeper before he has chance to explode. I would recommend waiting until
nightfall, roaming a little until you find a hostile mob. This will most likely
be either a skeleton or a zombie. Try to target a zombie if you can: they are
the less formidable of the two. Don't forget to take the loot that they drop. A
zombie will drop rotten flesh, and a skeleton will drop bones, arrows and,
although only on occasion, a bow.
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COW TIPPER
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Official description: Harvest some leather.
Time consumption: Up to around 15 minutes.
Difficulty: Trivial.
If you're lucky enough to start your world on or near a mushroom island, great.
All you need to do is kill about three-or-so mooshrooms. They are cow-looking
animals with a red tinge and mushrooms on their backs. Failing this, find and
kill a couple of the standard cows which are usually found in plain biomes. If
you look around those relatively flat grassy environments for a while you'll
come across them in herds of four or more. Some of them may not drop any
leather, but they can drop up to two pieces.
Fishing is a third option. Leather is one of the 'junk' items that can be
caught. You can even kill horses to get it; however, that is a method I would
not recommend.
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WHEN PIGS FLY
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Official description: Fly a pig off a cliff.
Time consumption: Around 20 minutes, depending on luck.
Difficulty: Little.
Before you even get a pig ready, make sure you have a saddle. Saddles can be a
pain to get hold of if you don't go fishing for them. I wasn't actually aware
that they could be found as 'treasure' when you fish. So keep trying using this
method, it will be much faster than searching for one in abandoned mineshafts
or dungeons. Alternatively, if you've been fortunate enough to find a village,
look for a leatherworker. One of their higher tier trades is usually a saddle.
It is not cheap, however. You're talking around 8 emeralds.
Once you have a saddle, craft a carrot on a stick with the following recipe:
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| | | | FF: Fishing rod
---------- CC: Carrot
|FF| | |
|FF| | |
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| |CC| |
| |CC| |
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If you don't have the necessary carrot for this, you'll need to find a village.
The crops that grow nearby contain carrots quite often. The only other choice
is to go zombie hunting for a while. Zombies drop them, but only on rare
ocassions.
Now approach a pig, saddle in hand. Use the saddle on him and make sure you
bring out the carrot on a stick. The pig will let you control him for as long
as you have this item out. Eventually he will eat it. Anyway, either find a
suitable drop somewhere or dig out your own which is at least six blocks deep.
Give the pig a nice push and hop on. Ride him directly into it. It's sadistic,
but it nets you this achievement.
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SNIPER DUEL
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Official description: Kill a skeleton with an arrow from more than 50 metres.
Time consumption: Heavily skill based. Could take up to 20 minutes.
Difficulty: Some.
I'm assuming you have a bow and some arrows for it. If not, kill some skeletons
before hand until one of them drops it, or even craft one. The recipe is a
follows, and should be assembled at a crafting table:
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| |OO|ST|
| |OO|ST| OO: Stick
---------- ST: String
|OO| |ST|
|OO| |ST|
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| |OO|ST|
| |OO|ST|
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The 50 metres minimum distance equates to 50 blocks (each block is a metre
across). This must be horizontal distance, so there's no point in killing a
skeleton that's far below you. You might want to give yourself a small height
advantage, anyway. It could make life easier. Stand on top of a small hill, if
you wish and scan all around you in the distance. Increasing the render
distance a little in the option menu should also help. Account for gravity by
aiming quite a bit higher than the target. Pull the string on the bow all the
way back (hold the right mouse button). Depending on the difficulty it could
take three fully-charged shots to make the kill. You'll know it when the
skeleton dies as it will show a keeling over animation and there will be a puff
of white smoke.
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DIAMONDS
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Official description: Acquire diamonds with your iron tools.
Time consumption: Almost entirely based on luck. I'd say between 15-40 minutes.
Difficulty: Little.
Before you go for this one, make sure you familiarise yourself with the
coordinate system. Assuming you are playing on the PC version, press F3 to see
some extra useful information. You should see a data item named 'XYZ'. The
three numbers next to this are your coordinates, respectively. The second value
is your Y coordinate, which is essentially the depth you are at. The most
common depth at which diamonds are found is at Y=11. Craft an iron pickaxe
using the following recipe on a workbench:
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|II|II|II|
|II|II|II| II: Iron ingot
---------- OO: Stick
| |OO| |
| |OO| |
----------
| |OO| |
| |OO| |
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I would also urge you to bring torches, ladders, a bucket of water, food and a
decent weapon (at least a stone sword). After you've gathered those either look
for a cave entrance or start digging wherever you like. If you can find an
extreme hills biome, even better. Those places tend to have greater ore
supplies. Now, whatever you do, DO NOT DIG STRAIGHT DOWN. You could end up
dropping into a pool of lava and burning to death. You will not be able to
reclaim your items if you die this way. You could also end up uncovering quite
a sheer drop. Instead of digging straight down, consider making a 2X2 shaft.
Always mine the other three blocks that you're not standing on. Make sure that
there are no hazards in the area you've unearthed, then move to a different
spot and dig out the other three blocks again. Repeat this until you're at
Y=11. Once there, mine a two-block tall tunnel in any direction you like. It
shouldn't take very long at this particular Y coordinate to find a small
diamond deposit. They look like pieces of rock with unmistakable light-blue
specks on them. Mine a space around the diamond to make sure that you get the
whole vein, and also to ensure that there isn't any lava below the diamond
itself.
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WE NEED TO GO DEEPER
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Official description: Build a portal to the Nether.
Time consumption: Not much if you have lava at your disposal.
Difficulty: Little.
Craft a bucket if you haven't already. If not, get three iron ingots and
arrange them in a 'V' shape on a crafting table. Fill it with a water. After
finding diamonds, go over to a crafting table and, along with some sticks, make
a diamond pickaxe like so:
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|DD|DD|DD|
|DD|DD|DD| DD: Diamond
---------- OO: Stick
| |OO| |
| |OO| |
----------
| |OO| |
| |OO| |
----------
You'll need this to mine out the material for the Nether portal: obsidian. To
create obsidian you have to get your water bucket in hand and pour (right click
on a space on the ground) directly over a level body of lava. It must be from
above, otherwise cobblestone will be created instead. Recollect the water you
poured.
After some obsidian generates (it should be a dark-purple rock), mine it with
the diamond pickaxe. It might be advantageous if you pour out some water by the
side of the obsidian you're mining; this is because you could uncover some lava
below that will consume it. If water is flowing onto the obsidian, it will
prevent this from from happening. You will need to mine an absolute minumum of
10 pieces of obsidian to build a portal to the Nether. If you only decide to
mine 10 pieces, choose a spot where you'd like the portal to be, and arrange
the obsidian like this, vertically:
[][]
[] []
[] []
[] []
[][]
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This design is an 'economic' portal of sorts. It requires the least materials
to build. I think it's more aethetically pleasing to have corners on the frame
as well, though. In order to activate the portal itself, you're going to need
to use a flint and steel on it. You can make one using a single iron ingot and
a piece of flint (found by breaking gravel). Here's the recipe:
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| | | |
| | | | II: Iron ingot
---------- FF: Flint
|II|FF| |
|II|FF| |
----------
| | | |
| | | |
----------
While it's in your hand, use it anywhere within the portal's frame. A purple
gateway will appear. Now, before you enter the nether, I would strongly
recommend you put away your diamond pickaxe in a chest. Take an iron pickaxe
instead. It will be able to mine anything you could want in the nether, and
diamond pickaxes aren't exactly expendable at this point. Do suit yourself up
in some iron armour (preferably a full set), bring a bow with plenty of arrows,
and go with lots of cobblestone. DO NOT TRY TO SLEEP IN THE NETHER.
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RETURN TO SENDER
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Official description: Destroy a Ghast with a fireball.
Time consumption: Ten minutes, maybe fifteen at most.
Difficulty: Some.
This is why you need to bring a good amount of cobblestone with you into the
Nether. When you first emerge in the dimension, you should be on some kind of
island entirely constituted of a blood-red stone, called Netherrack. You should
also be able to spot a Ghast or two flying around nearby; walk around the edges
of the platform for a while if you can't see any initially. You need to time it
just right to deflect their projectiles the moment before they hit you. It may
take a few attempts, and it can only be done with a sword. If you get hit by a
fireball before you manage to deflect it, and you very well might, quickly
retreat behind a cobblestone wall. Cobblestone will supress attacks from Ghasts
as it's inflammable. Eat some food and wait for your health to regenerate
before coming out from behind the wall and trying again.
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INTO FIRE
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Official description: Relieve a Blaze of its rod.
Time consumption: Could be up to half-an-hour.
Difficulty: Some.
The very first time you do this is always going to be the toughest. You
probably don't know what to expect, nor will you have fire resistance potions.
The best you can hope to do is only take on one Blaze where possible, and to
retreat as soon as you take even moderate damage. You want to locate a Nether
fortress to find them. The fortresses are not hard to miss, just look for tall,
complex structures built with dark purple bricks. They will have walkways
stretching in different directions. These are probably the feature you'll
notice first. Just mine your way through the side of one of the pillar
supports, and work your way up to the top. You'll probably surface in one of
the corridors. If you search these corridors for a while, you will come across
a Blaze spawner or two. Stick around - these spawn the enemies you're looking
for. As a side note, I would recommend you create a roof over the tiny rooms
with the spawners; this will prevent the Blazes from flying out of reach. Try
to take on only one at a time, and don't try to collect more Blaze rods than
you need. You can come back later with fire resistance potions for an easier
time.
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LOCAL BREWERY
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Official description: Brew a potion.
Time consumption: Around ten minutes.
Difficulty: Trivial.
UPDATE: If you are playing on version 1.9 or above, please note that brewing
stands require blaze powder to operate. To make said powder just stick a single
blaze rod in the centre of a crafting grid (doesn't have to be on an actual
crafting table) and you can crush it into 2 heaps of powder. Each amount of
the stuff can be used to make up to 20 potions.
Far easier than a few of the preceeding achievements, this one simply involves
backtracking a little to somewhere safe and doing a little crafting. Make sure
you have a Blaze rod available. Go to a workbench and lay out three cobblestone
blocks and the rod as follows:
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| | | |
| | | | BB: Blaze rod
---------- CC: Cobblestone
| |BB| |
| |BB| |
----------
|CC|CC|CC|
|CC|CC|CC|
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Place the newly created brewing stand on a surface in your home. The only thing
left to do now is make your first potion. The base of all potions is a water
bottle. Make a glass bottle using the following recipe:
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| | | |
| | | | GG: Glass
----------
|GG| |GG|
|GG| |GG|
----------
| |GG| |
| |GG| |
----------
If you already have one or two laying around somewhere that you found from
killing witches, great. To fill one with water, just hold the bottle in your
hand and right click a body of water. You can even fill them with water from a
cauldron.
Next, you need to bring the glass bottle over to the brewing stand. Bring up
the interface and place said bottle in one of the three lower slots. The space
at the top is for an ingredient. For now, just use some Nether wart. You can
easily find this is the Nether fortresses (I'm assuming you stumbled upon some
when you were getting a Blaze rod). Wait for 20 seconds for the brewing to take
place and collect your potion.
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THE END?
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Official description: Locate the End.
Time consumption: A few hours.
Difficulty: Some.
The first step is to gather some Ender Pearls. If you are fortunate enough to
have a village with clerics, and loads of emeralds, great. You can skip the
Ender Pearl gathering and immediately buy Eyes of Ender for about 8 emeralds
(on average). In the likelier event that you don't have the means to just buy
them straight from villagers, you're going to have to do some nighttime
hunting. Wait for nights where it isn't raining. Providing that is isn't,
Endermen should spawn. They are about three blocks tall and are quite a threat
if you are not prepared. I would recommend, at the very least, wearing a full
suit of iron armour and bringing an iron sword to combat them. After about six
hits they should die, depending on the difficulty. Do not use a bow to fight
them.
Some of them will drop Ender Pearls. You need to hoard them. Collect at least
12 and you will be able to locate and activate the portal to the End; but first
you need to turn the Ender Pearls into Eyes Of Ender. To do this simply place
some Blaze Powder next to the pearl on a crafting grid (you don't even need a
workbench). Blaze Powder can also be obtained by placing Blaze Rods on a
crafting grid.
Now all you have to do is stand anywhere you like on the surface on the
Overworld, right-click while holding one of the Eyes and it will fly towards
the nearest stronghold. You need to follow it in whatever direction this is.
Think of it as following a waypoint somewhere. Once at the stronghold, place
the Eyes in the empty frames and the portal will light up. Only pass through it
when you have the best equipment you can muster up.
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THE END.
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Official description: Defeat the Ender Dragon.
Time consumption: Around ten or fifteen minutes.
Difficulty: Considerable.
Before you even walk through the End Portal, make sure you have the majority of
these items. Items nearer to the top are what I'd say are more essential:
- Diamond armour (preferably enchanted with Thorns and/or Fire Protection)
- Bow (preferably enchanted with Power and/or Infinity)
- Diamond sword (preferably enchanted with Sharpness)
- Several potions (preferably Healing II, Strength II or Regeneration II)
- A few stacks of arrows (if your bow doesn't have the Infinity enchantment)
- A few stacks of snowballs
- Iron pickaxe (preferably diamond)
- A pumpkin
You can use the pumpkin as a facemask to prevent the Endermen from becoming
aggressive when you look at them. It won't grant you any defence, but luring
the Endermen away while fighting the Ender Dragon might give you some peace of
mind.
When you confront the Ender Dragon after entering the dimension, be prepared
for a tougher fight than your average zombie. Make sure you destroy each of the
crystals that sit atop the columns all around you - each one will regularly
heal the Dragon for half a heart. Only after you've gotten rid of all of them
should you focus on the Dragon, before then you should simply try to avoid its
attacks. When you've destroyed all of the crystals, heal if you need to and
give the beast all you've got. Even snowballs do actually damage him, and you
can throw them at a fast pace. While you're at it, make sure you use your
potions liberally. The last piece of advice I can give you is to not stop
moving. Strafe even when you are lining up a shot with the bow.
Once you manage to kill the Dragon, it will drop enough XP to grant you about
40 or 50 levels; more if you're lacking XP to begin with.
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ENCHANTER
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Official description: Use a book, obsidian and diamonds to construct an
enchantment table.
Time consumption: Maybe half-an-hour if you lack the leather or diamonds.
Difficulty: Trivial.
There's nothing to taxing here. All you have to do is mine long enough to
obtain diamond (consider doing it at a depth of Y=11), use a diamond pickaxe to
collect obsidian, kill some cows and get some paper. Of these four steps I
would recommend going for the paper first. You'll need to find some sugar cane
in order to craft this. It grows on the surface on blocks directly next to
water. They are not too common, but you should spot some if you walk along the
edge of a river. Get three bundles of it and lay them in a row on the interface
of any workbench. Next you'll need leather, which can be obtained the following
ways: from killing cows, mooshrooms or horses; or caught by going fishing. I
would suggest you go for the bovine option and kill cows. After you have
leather and paper, craft a book with this recipe:
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| | | |
| | | | PP: Paper
---------- LL: Leather
|PP|PP| |
|PP|PP| |
----------
|PP|LL| |
|PP|LL| |
----------
You now have one of three components for the enchantment table. In order to get
the other two you'll need to make a diamond pickaxe. If you have one of these,
as well as at least 2 spare diamonds, then you can go ahead and grab obsidian.
If you don't, go underground to a depth of Y=11 (press F3 and see the Y
coordinate statistic); this is the level at which diamonds will be most likely
to generate. Collect enough to make a pickaxe (3 diamonds), plus another two
for the enchantent table recipe. Make the pickaxe in the same manner you've
made those of other tiers, only with three diamonds across the top row of the
grid.
To get the last component, obsidian, just get a bucket and fill it with water,
pour it over some lava and mine the aforementioned material. It will take
longer to break than your average cobblestone. Collect at least 4 blocks off it.
Gather your book, 2 diamonds and 4 blocks of obsidian and place them on a
workbench in the below orientation:
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| |BB| |
| |BB| | BB: Book
---------- DD: Diamond
|DD|OO|DD| OO: Obsidian
|DD|OO|DD|
----------
|OO|OO|OO|
|OO|OO|OO|
----------
That's it. Now just place the enchantment table wherever you like.
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OVERKILL
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Official description: Deal nine hearts of damage in a single hit.
Time consumption: Depends on your XP level.
Difficulty: Little.
I'm assuming you've made an enchantment table before this (it's required
anyway). I'd also strongly suggest that you complete the Librarian achievement
(below), and you have enough bookshelves around your table to have level 30
echantments available. Pick a diamond sword (an iron one should be sufficient
if this is too expensive). Make sure you have at least 3 pieces of lapis lazuli
in your inventory. Also ensure you have as many experience levels as possible,
ideally 30 for the best enchantments. Go over to your enchantment table. Notice
the two small slots on the middle left? Place your weapon in the one on the
left and all 3 pieces of lapis on the right. You should now see three different
options appear on the right hand side. Pick the most expensive option. Don't
worry: as of a recent update the level cost is more of a requirement, and only
either 1, 2 or 3 levels will be spent. Try to get Smite V or Sharpness V.
Again, don't worry if you fail to get either of these on the first try. You can
kill some mobs until you earn the three levels back.
Now, wait until nighttime and find one of the lesser enemies. A typical zombie
would be a good choice. If you have Smite V on your sword, an undead enemy will
take far more damage. If you keep striking zombies until you land a critical
hit on one, you should deal a few more than 9 hearts of damage.
Alternatively, if you don't have enough bookshelves around your enchantment
table for level 30 enchantments to be available, you can brew some strength II
potions at a brewing stand. Start off with the basic Awkward Potion (infusing a
glass bottle with Netherwart), then add Blaze Powder to the mix. This will
create a tier one strength potion. To make it more potent, and therefore
likelier to make your blows damaging enough to net this achievement, add
Glowstone Dust afterwards to almost double its effects.
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LIBRARIAN
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Official description: Build some bookshelves to improve your enchantment table.
Time consumption: If you don't have a cow farm, it could take half-an-hour.
Difficulty: Trivial.
First of all, know that making just one bookshelf won't do you much good in the
long run. You should make enough to allow for level 30 enchantments at the
table, which is 15. Each of them in turn is going to require six planks of wood
and three books to make; therefore, to make all 15 bookshelves to fully amp-up
your enchantment table, you'll need 90 planks of wood and 45 books. That will
require a rather large amount of leather.
The recipe for a single bookshelf is as follows (on any crafting bench):
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|PP|PP|PP|
|PP|PP|PP| PP: Wood Plank
---------- BB: Book
|BB|BB|BB|
|BB|BB|BB|
----------
|PP|PP|PP|
|PP|PP|PP|
----------
You can use planks of any wood you like, be it oak, dark oak, spruce, etc.
You need to arrange all your bookshelves, however many there may be, like so:
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|--|--|--|--|--| In the illustration the diamond shape represents the
enchantment
|--|--|--|--|--| table, and the lined boxes represent the bookshelves.
Essentially
--------------- you must keep a block of air between the shelves and the table
at
|--| | | |--| all times, and the whole build must be contained within a 5x5
|--| | | |--| space with the table in the centre. You can stack a second
level
--------------- of bookshelves on top of the other for aesthetic, but remember
|--| |/\| |--| that any more than 15 will not improve the enchantments you can
|--| |\/| |--| recieve.
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|--| | | |--| Also notice that you will still be able to access the table
using
|--| | | |--| this design: there is an empty space in the middle of the
bottom
---------------- row.
|--|--| |--|--|
|--|--| |--|--|
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ADVENTURING TIME
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Official description: Discover all biomes.
Time consumption: Several hours, although you'll be doing other things while
making progression towards this.
Difficulty: Trivial.
You're going to have to set foot 36 different biomes to finally get this titan
to pop. Know that this will take you quite some time. Nonetheless there are a
few strategies you can use to speed this up.
Firstly, you should keep on creating new seeds (worlds) and exploring them.
When you start each new seed, walk for fifteen minutes or so in a certain
direction, and then quit. Start a fresh seed and then do the same again. While
doing all this keep your eyes peeled for oceans. Press F3 and take note of the
'biome' statistic. It will tell you whether you are in an ocean, jungle,
savanna, etc. You will need to discover the 'deep ocean' environment as well,
so don't just skim the edge of these areas; go as far into them as you can.
When you've discovered an ocean, seek out a river. They are slightly rarer than
oceans, but it's not an unreasonable task.
The other biomes you'll need to find are placed under the following categories
(prepare... this list is extensive):
SNOWY BIOMES - Frozen River, Ice Plains, Ice Plains Spikes, Cold Beach, Cold
Taiga,
Cold Taiga M.
COLD BIOMES - Extreme Hills, Extreme Hills M, Taiga, Taiga M, Mega Taiga, Mega
Spruce Taiga, Extreme Hills+, Extreme Hills+M, Stone Beach.
MEDIUM/LUSH BIOMES - Plains, Plains M, Sunflower Plains, Forest, Flower Forest,
Swampland, Swampland M, River, Beach, Jungle, Jungle M, Jungle Edge, Jungle
Edge M, Birch Forest, Birch Forest Hills, Birch Forest Hills M, Roofed Forest,
Roofed Forest M, Mushroom Island, Mushroom Island Shore.
DRY/WARM BIOMES - Desert, Desert M, Savanna, Savanna M, Mesa, Mesa (Bryce),
Plateau, Plateau M.
NATURAL BIOMES - Ocean, Deep Ocean, Hills.
Please note that you don't need to visit The Nether or The End to get this
achievement. So, write the above biomes down on a piece of paper and cross them
out as they are encountered. You could even cross them out if you discover a
certain environment while underground; it still counts.
The user 'Cooorpse' has posted a list of seeds which you might find beneficial.
They will help you to discover 23 biomes, most of which are needed for the PC
version. Create worlds with the following seeds:
2, 14, 30, 153 898 937 729 1000 229, 32478, 902 963 153 450 15 956.
I have not tried these seeds so I cannot verify that they will help.
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THE BEGINNING?
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Official description: Spawn the Wither.
Time consumption: If you don't have Wither skulls, an hour or two. Not much at
all if you do.
Difficulty: Trivial.
This by itself is not a daunting task (well, collecting the skulls is slightly
problematic), but what follows may well give you a hard time. It prefaces the
Wither Boss fight. To get this done you must obtain 4 blocks of soul sand and
three Wither skulls, both of which are found in the Nether. More specifically
you need to be in or near a Nether Fortress to have any luck. Wither Skeletons
spawn near said fortresses (with a small chance that a regular Skeleton will
spawn instead). Their skulls are a rare drop, being given only about 2.5% of
the time. This means that you'll have to hunt 40 Wither Skeletons on average.
You want to look for dark grey coloured, tall, bony mobs with stone swords.
Beware of the lingering damage they can cause.
Once you have the Soul Sand and the Wither Skulls, go to the Overworld. Equip
the sand and place them on the ground somewhere in a T formation, with a row of
three sitting atop a single block at the bottom. Now lay out the three Wither
Skulls across the top of the Soul Sand. The last block you place must be one of
the skulls in order for this to summon the boss. Speaking of which, you must be
prepared to fight it immediately after you've made the figure. Don't not try
this until you are ready for the fight.
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THE BEGINNING
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Official description: Kill the Wither.
Time consumption: Ten or fifteen minutes.
Difficulty: Considerable.
Just to reiterate what I mention above, do not try this until you are armed to
the teeth and are very competent with the game's combat system. This will be
slightly more demanding than the Ender Dragon fight.
Do not try to attack it straight after it's summoned: it will flash blue and
become temporarily invincible. This is just while it gathers its immense
strength. While it does this, move the heck away like your life depends on
it... because it does. The Wither will create a sizeable explosion which can
damage you. Afterwards you should confront it. There are three important things
you should note: it is immune to fire/lava damage, cannot be suffocated, and it
will not be scathed by arrows after its health has been reduced to half. Feel
free to attack it will a bow, then, but use melee attacks after he's halfway
dead.
You must bombard him with as much damage as you can as quickly as you can. He
regenerates at a rate of half-a-heart every second. This can be overcome quite
easily, but the fight is still difficult nonetheless.
One last thing to note about this fight is his attack: he will thrown Wither
Skulls at you. If they hit you, it will turn your hearts black and drain your
health, all while healing him for 2.5 hearts. You will notice both slow and
fast moving skulls being fired by it. The damage from the fast moving ones can
be absorbed by blocks. Make a barrier of cobblestone someone you can get to.
This will be strong enough to withstand attacks from the black skulls. On the
other hand, the slower blue skulls are much more destructive, as they treat all
blocks as having a smaller blast resistance. You can't rely on a stone wall to
save yourself from these projectiles, but they are fired so rarely that they
aren't too much of a concern. It is also almost never emitted on easy
difficulty.
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BEACONATOR
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Official description: Create a full beacon.
Time consumption: Could be fast, could incur a lot of time gathering.
Difficulty: Trivial.
This involves making a beacon block and placing it on a pyramid. As for the
beacon block itself, you'll need to get a Nether Star; in order to get the
Nether Star, you'll need to kill the Wither boss. See the achievement above
this for information on how to kill it. The other things you'll need to make a
beacon block are glass and obsidian. After you have the ingrediants available,
arrange them on a crafting table like this:
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|GG|GG|GG|
|GG|GG|GG| OO: Obsidian
---------- GG: Glass
|GG|NN|GG|
|GG|NN|GG|
----------
|OO|OO|OO|
|OO|OO|OO|
----------
Collect the beacon from the output slot.
Now, that's only half of the task completed. You need to place this beacon on
top of a pyramid structure to activate it. The pyramid can be between one and
four blocks tall. You can also choose to construct it out of iron blocks, gold
blocks, diamond blocks, emerald blocks, or a mixture of them. Mineral blocks
are made from nine of their corresponding material. I would recommend building
a single-block tall pyramid out of iron blocks if you are lacking resources,
and a four-block tall one out of any of the permissable materials if you want
the beacon to be more powerful.
LEVEL 1 PYRAMID (ECONOMIC) - Lay out 9 mineral blocks in a 3x3 square and place
the Beacon on top of it, in the middle.
LEVEL 2 PYRAMID - Lay out 25 mineral blocks in a 5x5 sqaure. Place a further 9
blocks of some mineral in a 3x3 square above it such that the block in the
centre of both tiers are alligned perfectly. Place the beacon in the centre of
the very top of the structure.
LEVEL 3 PYRAMID - Lay out 49 mineral blocks in a 7x7 square. Place a further 25
mineral blocks in a 5x5 square above it. Place 9 more of the said material in a
3x3 square above it. The middle block of each level should be alligned
perfectly. Place the beacon in the centre of the very top of the structure.
LEVEL 4 PYRAMID (EXPENSIVE) - Lay out 81 mineral blocks in a 9x9 square. Place
a further 49 of the same block in a 7x7 square on top of this. Then place 25 of
the same block in a 5x5 square on top of this. For the fourth and final tier,
make a 3x3 square out of, again, the same material. Place the beacon at the
apex of the pyramid.
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REPOPULATION
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Official description: Breed two cows with wheat.
Time consumption: Not likely to take more than ten minutes.
Difficulty: Trivial.
A very menial task that involves three steps: harvest wheat, find a herd of
cows, and breed them. As for getting the wheat, please see the 'Bake Bread'
achievement for information. If you can't be bothered to find it, it
essentially boils down to breaking patches of grass until you get seeds,
tilling dirt with a hoe, planting the seeds in the tilled soil and waiting
until the wheat is ready to be picked. Find a herd of cows, usually in plain
biomes in herds of around 4, and have your wheat ready. With it in hand, right
click on an adult cow and they will emit red hearts, signifying that they are
in 'love mode'. Right click another adult cow and they will automatically come
together (no pun intended). A calf will appear and so will this achievement.
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DIAMONDS TO YOU
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Official description: Throw diamonds at another player.
Time consumption: Depends if you already have the diamonds.
Difficulty: Trivial.
Despite the words 'another player' in the description, this can be done in
single player. I personally got this by dropping a diamond and having a
villager pick it up. You can also use a zombie/zombie pigman. Basically, press
Q with a diamond in hand, or click and drag it outside of your inventory window
(opened with E). You will throw it on the floor a few metres in front of where
you are standing, and if a mob picks it up, you will get this achievement.
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OVERPOWERED
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Official description: Eat a Notch apple.
Time consumption: Depends on the version of the game.
Difficulty: Trivial.
UPDATE: As of Minecraft version 1.9, enchanted golden apples ('Notch Apples')
can no longer be crafted. If you are playing on a version prior to this, you
can still do so; however, if you are playing on the former you need to seek
out one of these structures in order to find one:
-Desert temples
-Dungeons
-Abandoned Mineshafts
You should be able to find chests deep inside any of these. Some will present
you with the so-called Notch apple.
