Is It Possible to Beat Minecraft Without Getting ANY Advancements? 

Hi! [THERE IS A WAY TO AVOID THE INTO FIRE ADVANCEMENT] Firstly, thanks for watching the video, I didn't expect this to blow up like that! Secondly, a way to avoid the Into Fire advancement was found!!! As DrMeanie and nameedited1936 stated in the comments, the streamer/youtuber SmallAnt discovered a way to avoid the Into Fire advancement: if you make the blazes die on top of a hopper with a boat chest under it, you can then bring the boat chest all the way back to the overworld next to your crafting table, open the menu of the boat chest while pointing towards the crafting table, and if you click the offhand button, it will put the blaze rods in your offhand, and you don't get the advancement as long as you don't close the GUI of the boat chest, so if you close the boat chest menu and instantly open the menu of the crafting table on the same frame, you can avoid the advancement! Here's a small video example: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dcIkwGbjYlc.html This makes the game beatable with only 4 advancements (including root advancements)! Now, there's also a few questions I see a lot in the comments, so instead of answering the same thing to every comment individually, I'll answer them all here: Q: Your food bar keeps going up and down, did you eat food off camera? A: No, I did not eat any food. Respawning resets your food bar, so whenever I see my food bar going down I place all my items in a chest, jump from a bit too high or stay in water for a bit too long, and once I respawned my food bar is now full, and I come back to get the items from the chest I placed (which I often sort the exact same way, so the only thing that changes after a cut is my food bar). I do it at 3:08 for example. Also, this doesn't have any repercussions in the run, the world is not in hardcore so we can respawn as much as we want, and lava/water don't count as entity damage so we don't get the "Adventure" advancement. Q: You said you're playing in 1.19.4 but your game has old Netherrack textures, how? A: I did play in 1.19.4 but I used the "Programmer Art" resource pack, which shows the textures from pre-1.14. Q: How did you change your spawnpoint without getting the "Sweet Dreams" advancement? A: You only get that advancement by sleeping in the bed, if you click on the bed during daytime, it will change your spawnpoint without giving you the advancement. Q: Doesn't collecting seeds give the "A Seedy Place" advancement? A: Nope, you only get that advancement by planting the seeds, not by collecting them. Q: How did you avoid "Getting Wood", "Taking Inventory" and "Time to Mine!"? A: Those used to be "Achievements", but in Java Edition they got removed in 1.12, where they got replaced by Advancements. So there are no advancements for opening your inventory, gathering wood or making wooden tools anymore. Q: Doesn't entering a boat in water give an advancement? A: No, that's a recipe. Q: Isn't there another way to get Blaze Rods or Blaze Powder without going in the Nether like trading with villagers or killing witches? A: No. In the current version of Minecraft (Java Edition), Blazes are the only way to obtain Blaze Rods and Blaze Powder, and Eyes of Ender can only be crafted. Witches don't drop blaze powder, Eyes of Ender do not spawn in any chests, cleric Villagers stopped trading Eyes of Ender in 1.9 and they have never traded Blaze Rods or Blaze Powder, and the brewing stand in igloos do not contain any Blaze Powder. Q: Can't you get a fully light up portal to avoid the Nether entirely and finish the game in two advancements? A: Theoretically, yes. However, that would only be realistically possible on a set seed, since an end portal only has one chance in a TRILLION to spawn pre-filled with 12 eyes. Q: You can avoid "Into Fire" by using the gui skip glitch!! A: That would've been a way to avoid it, but unfortunately this got patched in version 1.17, so we can't do that anymore, and reverting to an older version would go against the rules I set for this challenge. However, as stated at the top of this comment, another way was found to avoid this advancement. Q: Banana and Bread did it first, you copied them!! A: Actually, I had the idea for this challenge long before they made a video about it. I finished writing the route for this video in September 2022, while Banana and Bread uploaded their video in March 2023. I only started recording for this video in late April though, and in the meantime they had the same idea and made a video first. Anyway, their video is good, you should watch it, it's interesting to see how we found completely different ways to avoid some advancements! Q: wow old netherrack is ugly A: yeah but i like it Also, at 11:00 I said we couldn't trade with Piglins without getting an advancement, but actually if you wear gold armor when trading with the Piglin, you don't trigger the "Oh Shiny" advancement, so trading gold to Piglins would've worked. I hope that will answer some of your questions, thanks for your comments! :)

even if it's not possible to beat minecraft with zero advancements, I loved seeing all of the creative ways he avoided seemingly "necessary" advancements like entering a nether fortress or the stronghold

7:11 A whopping 0.5m^2 per chicken is unironically really spacious compared to modern industrial intensive chicken farms sadly

4:45 This encounter is even more terrifying realizing if the creeper kills you you get an advancement. 10:43 That cut was perfect.

17:13 "[Intentional Game Design] has made the advancement [Free The End]

Now I kinda wanna see a minimal advancement speedrun category. I feel like it could go crazy

the newest version actually makes this challenge maybe easier because in older versions, you have the "taking inventory" and the "getting wood" advancement.

I'm pretty sure you can trade with piglins without getting the advancement. If you're wearing gold, it wont be considered "distracting" it because its not mad at you.

I'll be honest, I came here for the entertainment, and didn't expect to learn SO MUCH about obscure game mechanics. Great vid.

As a speedrunner, I have huge amounts of respected for what you did here. Only thing I would have done differently is on the one cycle. There's a way to make it easier and more similar to what Speedrunners usually do which is by waterlogging a slab in the position where obsidian usually goes. That avoids the slab from blowing up. GG, dude. Hope this vid blows up

10:46 "We have to get them out of the way in a peaceful manner"

The amount of creativity this guy has is incredible. I never would have thought of that Nether portal trick.

11:00 actually you CAN trade with piglins, the "oh shiny" achievement is only gained when the piglin is attacking you, and THEN you drop the gold, if you drop the gold while wearing gold armor you will NOT get the "oh shiny" advancement

The effort put into this video is insane, and the editing is suprisingly smooth for such a small channel.

I admire the commitment to not use a seed with a complete end Portal.

Minecraft players when they go 5 minutes without finishing the game by doing the weirdest challenges possible

Thank you for the calmness, I"m tired of ppl yelling for nothing

If you put your gold in a chest, then break it, you can still avoid getting the "Oh Shiny" advancement and avoid the need for a mob tower for pearls. Also works for a furnace, if you want an inventory piglins won't get mad about breaking. *Edit* Apparently, it also doesn't give you that as long as you trade without them being aggro, which is much simpler. I think the only other improvements would be hoping you hit the lottery with a 12 eye, then just digging around randomly forever to find the stronghold, but this obviously isn't a practical strat in random seed. It would shave 3 advancements though...

This video is seriously underrated. Not only did you explain your thought process clearly but you also slipped in some witty comedy that made it entertaining. I haven’t watched a MC video in a while that’s kept my attention the whole way through like this. Humbly take my sub because you deserve it

I like to see another person who also uses the programmer art texture pack. However, I recommend you get a pack that fixes the new 1.14+ textures so they keep the same style. I think that if you prefer the old textured over the new ones, this might make your graphics even nicer.

6:25 I misread this as "this one isn't really available" even with the audio queuing my brain to read it as "avoidable".

To skip "Into Fire," you can use bundles. You can craft bundles from just rabbit hide and string, which can both be gotten by suffocation. Craft a hopper (using the same iron nugget trick as the bucket) to pick up the rod, then use a bundle to take the rod directly out of the hopper. While the bundled blaze rod is in your inventory it doesn't give you the advancement. I just tested it on 1.19.4 and a few snapshots, and you can unbundle it directly into the crafting grid to get blaze powder without "Into Fire." In fact, the bundle + hopper combo lets you pick up off the ground any item without getting an advancement, and you can also use the bundle to take iron ingots, diamonds, etc. out of chests to make the run a bit easier. You have to enable the experimental datapack for bundles, but I think this is a lot more reasonable than downgrading to before 1.17 to do the "gui skip" that other comments have talked about because presumably the bundles are going to be permanently in the base game at some point.

5:09 hurts my soul

Minecraft Low%

I appreciate this guy for still using the better textures

Something I learned from a different video on this topic. You can avoid "Into Fire" by doing what is known as a gui skip. Fill your inv. Open a crafting table. Move an item in your inv so that you pick up the blaze rod while still inside the crafting table and craft it into powder which won't grant an advancement.

Player: *obtains one block of dirt* Minecraft: Advancement made! Good job, you're doing great!

this was great, minecraft speed runs and challenge runs are so cool to me. been playing this game since before there was a survival mode and i love they there’s so much micro-tech for fringe scenarios that i’m constantly learning about lmfao.

I loved the part where Rhododo said "It`s egging time." and egged all over the place.

WOW. Major Props. This seemed like an absolute nightmare to accomplish! Beating the game all the while only completing 5 advancements. I really liked how you used the technical mechanics and your knowledge of the game to avoid as many advancements as possible.

This is getting me thinking so much about the minimum amount of advancements you need to beat the game in the best case scenario. Ty

i like how i'm not the only one using the old textures. also i like your clever ideas of trying to not get advancements

The enderman at 7:39 caught on fire because while in a boat, endermen can still teleport, they just end up right back in the boat, for one tick the enderman teleported into lava.

Good video! I suppose for set-seed, you could get a fully lit stronghold and avoid the nether / blaze rod advancements, to get the total down a bit.

The biggest coincidence ever happened with this video. Like i was just thinking about beating minecraft without advancements just randomly and i scrolled down and saw this video... Really cool

Hey, i subscribed. I can't even beat minecraft normally without using commands! You deserve it.

Insanely high effort video, wow! Only thing I want to say is that I'm pretty sure you only get "Ooh Shiny" if you barter with an *aggressive* Piglin, so if you wear gold armor while doing it it should be fine. I dunno if that's actually faster though, since to obtain any significant quantity of gold you'd have to either get an iron pickaxe (which would add an advancement) or explore around for structures that generate with it.

Insane challenge, I was skeptical as first knowing that there are some advancements that are unavoidable, but I kept watching and saw your tactics and looparounds and I was like; "wait, this guy might actually pull this off"... But then the unavoidable happened. I was so disappointed, not at you tho XD but at minecraft. Still, you did awesome! I enjoyed every bit of it. I like the way you explain things, and I like your humor as well. I also love the fact that there's no obnoxious editing. You earned a sub, we hope to see more!

the amount of effort behind this is incredible, thoroughly enjoyed it :)

10:42 fml that was so perfectly cut

huuge props to you, rhododo! i also found myself watching all advancements speedruns (there goes hours of my life), but a no advancements run is even crazier! i have immense respect for your dedication and commitment to what was probably the most tedious minecraft game you’ve ever played. while those 5 unavoidable advancements are a bummer, the fact that you managed to do it with as little advancements as possible is extremely commendable. you should be proud that you accomplished such a feat!

I cant even imagine the insane planning and dedication that went into pulling this off. All the respect to you man. My only critique is I would’ve loved to see a timer on the bottom of the screen just so I could have an idea of how long you suffered in this challenge :)

The "hello" will never get old

Advancements are the way how Mojang want you to play so this is basically Playing minecraft how Mojang does not want me to play

I think it’s still possible to trade with a Piglin without getting the Oh Shiny! advancement. The description says the Piglin has to be aggravated, so by wearing gold armor while bartering with them, you can avoid getting the advancement.

saw Smallant's run of the 'low%' advancement run. interesting to see the different methods to obtain the needed items. the big differences is in the eye of ender item collections and getting into the end portal. 1: smallant was already wearing gold items he found so he could trade for the pearls without distracting the piglins. (still find the boat killing great) 2: with a bit further understanding of monster hunter advancement, it only checks if you are final blow and not if you dealt damage, while to get the blaze rod a player/tamed wolf just needs to damage the blaze. so he punched a blaze and had an angry piglin shoot the blaze to kill it. 3: smallant was able to dig under his portal for easier eye placement, then used a pearl to tp into the portal. 4: he did utilized the Into the Fire skip you added in the comments to craft the powder, plus he managed to grab himself some diamond tools with the same boat method + tnt to 'mine' the diamonds. still a great run and a great vid about it.

Hey, I wanted to say that with the new auto-crafting feature, you could avoid the into fire achievement easily, i.e, if it spawns naturally, or is made by resources that are not obtained by you, like droppers from jungle temples, etc.

Yo can we blow this guys channel up? He is genuinely awesome! God bless

You are the first one I see playing with the old textures, and for this you deserve my full respect

This could be a cool niche speedrun for the game. It’s not “Zero advancements” but super Mario odyssey has a category called minimum captures, so this similarly could be run as minimum advancements. That sort of categorization would also let you run it on other versions with different advancements that might have more or less required.

This video was just magical to watch. Clear, concise, engaging, entertaining, the works. One of the best Minecraft videos I’ve seen in terms of quality.

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As 1.7 speedrunner I use the tower strategy, there is a lot of improvements possible on yours. You can find a way to trick enderman’s pathfinding to let them fall in a hole under your tower so they can die by fall damage. This vidéo is really cool anyway. Great job !

this video is awesome - from the run itself, to how you've explained everything so concisely, to the music choice and little text bits on screen so the video didn't get boring - really really well done :D

This has probably been said before but Oh Shiny only activates if you distract an agro’d pigman, IIRC you don’t get it when bartering with gold armor OR if it’s dropped from a dispenser (To get a dispenser you can get string from cobwebs and make a bow, you don’t get take aim until you shoot an enemy with the bow)

wow this was really cool! your humor was also very funny and enjoyable. great vid!

The amount of research you did on this astounds me, I'm definitely subscribing

this video has every ingredient in the formula to show up in people's recommended and blow up soon, very well made

"Sir, I'm afraid murdering an entore family of 5 is an unforgivable crime. You will be sentenced to death." "Well"

Rhododo always explains everything with detail, even when he can briefly show what it does.

This was actually really creative and entertaining. Well done.

Best editing xD 10:40

This is such an amazing video, thank you for clarifying many different processes and explaining them in your comment. I heard you couldn't avoid into fire and I was like what if you used the method for the bucket by using a hopper!

Wow you're smart man! I never would've thought of some of these ways to get around advancements! Good work!

You could avoid the "Into Fire" advancement by putting a hopper under the blaze, and picking the item with a bundle. That way it is never directly in your inventory and then you can just take the item out while in a crafting table or just inventory and put the rod in the crafting grid.

There was a duo of people that did less advancements. If I remember correctly, they were able to avoid getting Into Fire and such by tick-perfectly picking up the item out of their inventory to craft it up.

Congrat for 1.3m view on this video mate, i was here on a day after you upload and found that this video seem good to watch. Thanks for you effor 🎉

This guy is so underrated. He deserves more attention.

Ive seen a person do a similar kind of video with a similar title, however they didnt even try to come up with unique strategies like you do and blatantly got advancements. Very nice video.

I loved this and I loved the ending where you quickly did the recap of all the advancements and didn't drag it out

Amazing vid, the strat of placing the final eye while jumping down into the end portal is hilarious

11:07 I think you can trade with piglins if you have gold armor on. To get the achievement you need them to chase you and then distract them but if you have gold armor on and you give them gold it doesn't count as distraction.

This was super entertaining! Wonderful job with the challenge (you’re super smart in trying to go around stuff and taking the time to do so) and video editing skills!

This was epic dude. I love when people go out if their way to do something this silly and take it so serious. Great content👌🏼

Saw reposts of this video on tiktok with no credit to you so I searched for it myself. Love the chill vibe of this ❤

Holy cow, this is insane. I thought you had WAY more subscribers. Thanks for the awesome content!!

This deserves much more attention for all the effort you put into this video!

This is really awesome lol, for the production quality I thought this channel would have had hundreds of thousands of subscribers, hope you make it big dude

This is like the challenge where you have to collect zero coins in Subway Surfers.

Stumbled upon this as the first video I’ve seen of your channel. It was awesome, already subbed now

This had so many interesting and brilliant ways to avoid getting advancements! I'm glad you managed to succeed so well and that it blew up! Consider yourself a new sub right here. I'll be expecting more amazing videos soon!

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diamonds. nice. actually laughed at that part lol

this is the best minecraft weirdly beating it video ive seen before!! youre so creative and know minecraft so well!

This was super interesting and I loved seeing the clever ways you avoided the advancements!

This video is beautifully made, I love your sense of humor and the little edits between game footage. 10/10

The eggs and clay method was really mind-blowing bro, nice effort

4:00 that´s actually a pretty good trick that i didn´t kno about. Thanks a lot.

Amazing video. Interesting concept (both to my speedrunning brain and to my minecraft brain) clearly explained, fun narration, fun editing, just everything I want to find in a minecraft video, very cool!

Or you can hire a friend to do most of the work. Although this wouldn’t be fun if you did. Respect for not doing that and doing this solo.

This is one of the most engaging videos I’ve ever seen Keep it up dude your doing a great job 👏

the "im hydrated now" joke made me laugh more than it shouldve

Somebody has probably already said this, but you could go even lower if you used one of the seeds with a twelve eye portal. This would allow you to skip all the nether advancements, bringing the total required down to 2.

Just subscribed, you’re incredible! Keep it up

So when a baby chicken spawns, we'll have to move it out of the way in a very peaceful manner, - casually burns chicken alive

That "hellooo" was so adorable

next video: how many advancements can u get at the same time? like one for hitting a mob w an arrow, but also that arrow came from a crossbow. also, it hit a pillager, had piecing 5, went through 3 different mobs, killing all 4 of them, including a skeleton at 50 blocks, then reflecting a ghast fireball, killing it in the overworld. you'd get take aim, ol'betsy, who's the pillager now?, arbalistic, sniper duel, return to sender, and uneasy alliance, for a total of seven advancements with one arrow. but can you actually acomplish this? (I couldn't) or, can you come up with a better setup?

burnt chicken

respect for using programmer art bro 🗿

This video is pretty inspiring. This shows that a video doesn’t need to be edit fast and contain heavy use of text in order to get more retention