Advancement (The Aether)
Advancements are a way to gradually guide new players into the Aether and give them challenges to complete, similar to the advancement system in the base game.
Obtaining
Advancements can be completed in most game modes, and are obtained and saved per world. Advancements can also be granted (and revoked) using the /advancement command.
Although advancements guide players logically through the Aether, they are independent of each other; an advancement can be completed without having completed the advancements "before" it. There are 28 of them in the Aether tab.
When advancements are obtained, a sliding toast notification displays in the top right corner, and a message is displayed in chat if the game rule announceAdvancements is set to true. The color of the header text in the notification depends on the advancement; normal and goal advancements have yellow header text, while challenge advancements have pink header text. Completing a normal advancement causes the header text to display "Advancement Made!", completing a goal advancement results in a "Goal Reached!" header, and completing a challenge advancement shows "Challenge Complete!" In addition, music plays and experience is rewarded when completing these kinds of advancements.
Interface
The button to access the Advancements screen is found on the pause menu screen. The player can also open this screen by pressing L (this can be changed in the in-game options menu).
The advancement system involves a tree composed of advancements, beginning with a root advancement from which several branches diverge. By clicking and dragging, the player can view different branches of the advancement tree.
Advancement icons display a header name and description when hovered over. The advancement descriptions have a unique color depending on the type of advancement with normal and goal advancements having green descriptions and challenge advancements having purple ones. As more advancements are unlocked, new ones become visible, with up to two advancements being displayed ahead of an unlocked one. Unlocked advancements show all of its direct parents advancements (the advancements between the root advancement of the tab and it), even those that have not been unlocked (but only show 2 advancements downstream of advancements already unlocked). Four advancements, "A Well Earned Rest", "Ice Bucket Armor", "Plunderer's Remorse", and "Ultimate Ban Hammer" are hidden advancements, meaning that they cannot be viewed by the player until they have been unlocked.
If the player has not completed/unlocked any advancements, the interface shows a black background with white text reading "There doesn't seem to be anything here... :(".
The icon frames of advancements can vary in appearance based on difficulty, and whether or not it was completed. A legend is provided below:
| Icon Frame | Description | |
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| Incomplete/Regular | Completed | |
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Advancement |
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Goal |
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Challenge |
Extra advancements and tabs can be added and customized with the use of JSON files and data packs.
List of advancements
The Aether
| Icon | Advancement | In-game description | Parent | Actual requirements (if different) | Resource location | Rewards |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Aether | It's not dead! | — | Enter the Aether dimension. | advancements/the_aether
| — |
| Hostile Paradise | Enter the Aether | The Aether | — | advancements/enter_aether
| Book of lore and golden parachute |
| To Infinity and Beyond! | Bounce on a Blue Aercloud | Hostile Paradise | — | advancements/blue_aercloud
| — |
| Exotic Hardware | Have a Zanite Gemstone in your inventory | Hostile Paradise | — | advancements/zanite
| — |
| The More You Know! | Read a Book of Lore | Hostile Paradise | Place an item in the book of lore item slot. | advancements/read_lore
| — |
| Don't Count Your Moas... | Obtain a Moa Egg | To Infinity and Beyond! | Have a moa egg in your inventory. | advancements/obtain_egg
| — |
| When Phygs Fly | Fly on a Phyg! | To Infinity and Beyond! | Mount a phyg. | advancements/mount_phyg
| — |
| Do You Believe in Magic? | Craft an Altar. | Exotic Hardware | Have an altar in your inventory. | advancements/craft_altar
| — |
| Lore-Ception! | Place a Book of Lore inside a Book of Lore. | Hostile Paradise | Place the book of lore in the item slot of the Book of Lore. | advancements/loreception
| — |
| Baby Food | Harvest an Aechor Petal from an Aechor Plant | Don't Count Your Moas... | Have an aechor petal in your inventory. | advancements/obtain_petal
| — |
| Until They hatch! | Incubate a Moa | Don't Count Your Moas... | — | advancements/incubate_moa
| — |
| Pink is the New Blue | Use an Altar to obtain Enchanted Gravitite | Do You Believe in Magic? | Have a block of enchanted gravitite in your inventory. | advancements/enchanted_gravititie
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| Cold as Ice | Obtain Icestone | Do You Believe in Magic? | Have a block of icestone in your inventory. | advancements/icestone
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| Tending The Garden | Deter Aechor Plants by planting a flower on Enchanted Grass | Baby Food | Place a Purple Flower or White Flower on Enchanted Grass. | advancements/prevent_aechor_petal_spawning
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| Let's Fly! | Ride a Black Moa | ... Until They hatch! | Mount a black moa. | advancements/black_moa
| — |
| Defying Gravity | Have a full set of Gravitite Armor in your inventory | Pink is the New Blue | — | advancements/gravitite_armor
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| Like a Bossaru! | Defeat the bronze boss | Pink is the New Blue | Kill the Slider. | advancements/bronze_dungeon
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| Cool Jewelry! | Use a Freezer and Icestone to freeze an accessory | Cold as Ice | Have an ice pendant or ice ring in your inventory. | advancements/ice_accessory
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| Get Off My Lawn! | Deter Swets by placing down a Swet Banner | Tending The Garden | Place a Swet Banner down. | advancements/prevent_swet_spawning
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| The Power of the Gods | Obtain the Hammer of Kingbdogz from the Bronze Dungeon | Like a Bossaru! | Have a hammer of Kingbdogz in your inventory. | advancements/hammer_loot
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| Challenger to the Throne | Obtain the Valkyrie Lance from the Bronze Dungeon. Time to challenge the Silver Dungeon! | Like a Bossaru! | Have a valkyrie lance in your inventory. | advancements/lance_loot
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| Ultimate Ban Hammer | Kill a Zephyr with the Hammer of Kingbdogz. Sweet Revenge! | The Power of the Gods | — | advancements/zephyr_hammer
| — |
| Dethroned | Defeat the silver boss | Challenger to the Throne | Kill the Valkyrie Queen. | advancements/silver_dungeon
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| Battle Hardened | Obtain a Regeneration Stone from the Silver Dungeon. The final dungeon awaits... | Dethroned | Have a regeneration stone in your inventory. | advancements/regen_stone
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| Earning your Wings | Obtain a piece of Valkyrie equipment from the Silver Dungeon | Dethroned | Have a piece of the valkyrie armor set in your inventory. | advancements/valkyrie_loot
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| Extinguished | Defeat the gold boss | Battle Hardened | Defeat the Sun Spirit. | advancements/gold_dungeon
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| Plunderer's Remorse | I defeated the Silver Dungeon and all I got was this stupid Hoe | Earning your Wings | Use a valkyrie hoe. | advancements/valkyrie_hoe
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| Fireproof | Obtain a piece of Phoenix armor from the Gold Dungeon | Extinguished | Have a piece of the phoenix armor set in your inventory. | advancements/phoenix_armor
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| A Well Earned Rest | Finally sleep in the Aether | Extinguished | — | advancements/aether_sleep
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| Ice Bucket Armor | Have a full set of Obsidian Armor in your inventory | Fireproof | — | advancements/obsidian_armor
| — |
Sounds
| Sounds | ||||||||
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| Sound | Subtitles | Source | Description | Resource location | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
| None[sound 1] | Master Volume | When any The Aether advancement is completed | ui | None[sound 1] | 1.0 | 1.0 | 16 | |
| None[sound 1] | Master Volume | When 'Like a Bossaru!' advancement is completed | ui | None[sound 1] | 1.0 | 1.0 | 16 | |
| None[sound 1] | Master Volume | When 'Dethroned' advancement is completed | ui | None[sound 1] | 1.0 | 1.0 | 16 | |
| None[sound 1] | Master Volume | When 'Extinguished' advancement is completed | ui | None[sound 1] | 1.0 | 1.0 | 16 | |
History
Trivia
- The advancement "To Infinity and Beyond!" is a reference to Toy Story character Buzz Lightyear's catchphrase.
- The advancement "Defying Gravity" is a reference to the musical 'Wicked'.
- Until version 1.5.0, the advancement "Extinguished" was the only dungeon boss achievement that did not have custom advancement music.
Gallery
Previous version of the advancements tree.
