Is It Possible to Beat Minecraft Without Getting ANY Advancements?

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!]
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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:
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[@Rhododo]

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: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mpSsnKp9l8-MosU 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! :)

[@ItzTerraYT]

I was literally watching this video as you commented this

[@MaharsheeKShah]

@@ItzTerraYT same!!

[@I_am_here_to_eat_your_toes]

there is a way to craft blaze powder without ever having the blaze rods in your inventory, if you transport the blazerods in chestboat to the craftingtable then you can do a tick perfect trick to enter the crafting table without the game ever noticing you have had blaze rods, this is done by hotkeying the blazerods from the chestboat to your offhand and then exiting out of the chestboat inventory and clicking on the crafting table, if done right the game doesn't notice that you have them in your inventory, from there you need to hotkey the blazerods from the offhand directly into the crafting grid from there you can just craft as usual. this works for any item needed in a crafting recipe. as far as i know this is still possible in 1.19 as i have seen a streamer avoid it this way.

[@AGENT_MIFTAHUL]

2K SUBS ONLY?! man you deserve more subs than this. you asked a really strange-yet interesting question and showed it to us by proving it. because of such a topic, im pretty sure this video will go above 1 million views soon because of couse, everyone might be curious like you were. keep it up dude.

[@sraiaan]

im pretty sure trading with villagers only gives 1 advancement so what i was thinking was that to avoid the "Into Fire" advancement, you could go to a village and get an alchemist to trade you blaze powder so instead of getting 3 advancements for going through the nether, u only get 1

[@Gertrude______________________]

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

[@YMandarin]

or eating food or getting cobble

[@bearmugs1408]

super interesting, especially all the little technical details about the game (e.g only getting Eye Spy for being in the stronghold for 1 second, not immediately) and he did it all with just wooden picks!

[@gaelleon5815]

Wow, thanks for the spoilers -_-

[@DogeGaming26]

I dont care its not cool until he gets at LEAST -4 advancements

[@theendeeminer21]

​@@gaelleon5815 Why are You reading comments without haven't watched they full Video? lol

[@MrNicePotato]

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

[@henrysanecdotes5323]

Lol yeah that’s enough room for a human

[@ErikVRed]

I’ll be sure to make a tribute to all the dead chickens the next time I bite into fried chicken

[@oz_jones]

​@@henrysanecdotes5323calm down prison industrial complex

[@ProSnakeWilliam]

free the end

[@ArgoDevilian]

...wait, Squared? Not Cubed?

[@TheAdvertisement]

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

[@octoanimationsalt]

Hello archrival it is great that you like Minecraft too

[@TheAdvertisement]

@@octoanimationsalt We are not rivals.

[@matthewseverything5752]

Did he sprint when he ran from the creeper it looked like it?

[@blairjparker]

@@matthewseverything5752 Didn't matter at the time. The only reason to avoid sprinting is so your food doesn't decrease as fast, but the food bar refills on every death and the farm setup sees you dying pretty often. There's no advancement tied to sprinting

[@matthewseverything5752]

@@blairjparker oh yeah you're right my bad

[@notatallbruh2011]

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

[@ItsTi0]

lmao

[@infiniteshay8660]

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

[@PurePain_1]

We have half all all advancements speedrun. Now get ready for... *... half heart no* * *advancements speedrun* *(*minimal)*

[@SmartyLuke]

Low%

[@toaster5181]

it exists lol, smallant did it without getting the blaze rod advancement too lol

[@avakmar21hadio59]

that kinda speedrun is usually called low% for most games

[@sampsonphillips2912]

​@@toaster5181saying lol that much gives me a headache

[@theguy5855]

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

[@bobwood522]

How tf are u supposed to beat the game without opening your inventory lol

[@Ollie_nel]

​@@bobwood522I guess make sure everything you need stays in your hotbar.

[@theguy5855]

@@Ollie_nel one block at a time but worse

[@WatchmanMatt]

@F same thing

[@nexitron_835]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/aJ3PgGxvh9CNrrc yes

[@enderstrikegaming8578]

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.

[@wallysullivan9315]

True but I wonder how he'd pull it off. There are three items piglins can trade that WILL give you an advancement. Obsidian will give you "ice bucket challenge", Crying obsidian will give you "who is cutting onions" and blackstone will give you "stone age". So you need some way to avoid picking up those items and only pick up pearls Edit: four items, iron boots will give you "suit up". I dont know if theres more, point is you have to be extremely careful or you'll throw the challenge

[@enderstrikegaming8578]

@@wallysullivan9315 You could simply trade one item at a time. It would take a while, but if you fill your entire inventory up with anything, like dirt or netherack for example, and then manually hand a single piglin gold and then after he throws the traded item only pick it up if it's useful. If it's a bad item you could walk away from it and leave it there to eventually despawn.

[@admakrnowl6806]

@@wallysullivan9315You can use hopper for doing this(make sure crafting it like how he craft bucket).

[@turxe3110]

@@admakrnowl6806or you can fill your inventory with items other than those so you don’t pick it up once you get one ender pearl so you can still pick those up

[@omegaman6104]

@@wallysullivan9315he can burn what he doesn’t want

[@TheStudioArchitect]

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

[@SmartyLightYT]

going to the nether gives you an advancment

[@JoBot__]

@@SmartyLightYT Not what they were talking about. They were talking about the way he built the portal without collecting obsidian or lava.

[@chad-vt5ir]

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

[@deez.69]

AHH- *dies*

[@LOL_MC_GAMER]

5:09 hurts my soul

[@BoughtChip]

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

[@TNM-4442]

fo real breh

[@LilacMonarch]

it could still be problematic though, for example you'd have to make sure that your inventory is full with a pearl(s) already in a slot so you only pick that up. since they like to drop a lot of crying obsidian and that gives an advancement

[@BoughtChip]

@@LilacMonarch true

[@obito797]

​@@LilacMonarchhe managed not to get a COBBLESTONE while he mined to get in the stronghold as well as newr bedrock level for the lava..sooo that wouldn't be a problem to him 💀

[@LilacMonarch]

@@obito797 sure, i was just saying it's something you'd have to do

[@ktorn1]

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

[@santiagoruiz7490]

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

[@deanagay9183]

i love the idea but I see some problems with his run (I'm not a speed runner but have played Minecraft for a ferly long time and yes I may mistake a few achievements as I have played modded for a long time too and I have played bedrock and java) like in the beginning he says he cannot sleep in a bed but latter says he dose and also show himself doing so, I'm pretty sure collecting seeds is an achievement and along with that isn't getting in a boat that is in water an achievement?, he punched a tree, and he crafted wooden tools (note: I'm not trying to be mean and it has been a while since i played Minecraft he just didn't even bring up the bed one witch he said was a achievement and also because I haven't played I replied under someone who says they do speed running so they can correct me)

[@janimbierczak6173]

​@@deanagay9183 There is an achievment for placing seeds not picking up

[@santiagoruiz7490]

@@deanagay9183 the bed one only applies when it's night. If you just set your spawn during the day to reset your hunger (we call that a death reset) it doesn't count as sleeping and doesn't give the advancement. About the other 2 I'm not really sure since I'm not familiar with all the "hidden" advancements, the ones that don't show on chat, but I'm pretty sure those are not advancements. I can research them and come back later with the info

[@raiissquid4957]

​@@deanagay9183I could be wrong as its been quite some time since i have played the java version of minecraft but im pretty sure the wooden tools advancement is only gained by crafting all wooden tools, if that is correct then he wouldnt get it due to not crafting a wooden hoe.

[@Rhododo]

Thanks! Interesting, I didn't know about that waterlogging strat! Definitely would've made the fight easier

[@RyanEglitis]

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...

[@JMS0398]

I believe there is a set seed with full end portal so would be interesting to see this run on there. But to randomly come across a seed like that would takes years and years and years given the probability

[@DUDA-__-]

@@JMS0398 ilmango had one in his peaceful series.

[@whocares2277]

@@JMS0398 There are many known set seeds with 12 eyes. It makes the challenge pretty boring, however. Run to a village, grab beds, punch your way down to the stronghold, pillar up again before jumping into the porta. Wait for the dragon to perch, kill it with beds.

[@JMS0398]

@@whocares2277 yeah but mean RANDOM seed, set seed is easier

[@jadorelepain9228]

Not a speedrunner, but I think you can avoid getting « Oh Shiny » by wearing a gold armor. The advancement requires to distract the piglin with gold, not simply trade with them; it triggers when you shift their state from hostile to neutral by giving them a gold ingot, which cannot happen if the piglin isn’t hostile in the first place

[@jijansguidetotheuniverse1852]

10:42 fml that was so perfectly cut

[@___Somebody___]

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

[@jerryz.3358]

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

[@G_Matto_shorts]

Yea true, i'm really impressed

[@Fuzzi974]

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

[@STA-3]

I was also thinking about that however the chance to it is like 1 in 1 billion.

[@Forl3s]

​@@STA-3 in a trillion actually

[@STA-3]

@@Forl3s Damn.

[@fabian2062]

​@@STA-3 only 18 of 12 eye seeds are found to this day

[@STA-3]

@@fabian2062 Nice.

[@dasokuazureflux]

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

[@purplehaze2358]

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

[@mmmmythical]

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

[@PotatoPatatoVonSpudsworth]

It has 1.5 million views. That is NOT underrated.

[@mmmmythical]

@@PotatoPatatoVonSpudsworth uh my comment was 4 months ago lol obviously now it isn't underrated things were very different back then :O

[@nanoboso3656]

If you find an already finished end portal by absolute chance, you could theoretically skip the entire Nether part and have two less advancement. There is 1/1000000 chance for that, but still...

[@NotchArrow]

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.

[@8bit_cat72]

This is cool and all but how would a crafting table get there?

[@byzantiumgaming]

​@8Bit_Cat yeah with this method you choose between which advancement you want to avoid, as the other you will have to get. Or you could get the blaze to the overworld

[@NotchArrow]

@@byzantiumgaming You could also gui skip to craft hoppers and if using he same with cobblestone, you could send the item to the overworld with a dispenser and craft it with a table there

[@byzantiumgaming]

​@@NotchArrow Yes that is true and will avoid both advancements. But for the sake of sanity (as getting a nether portal close enough to the blaze spawner is a very low chance or gui skipping throwing the item 1 block at a time) the crafting table is preferable as it can help with other things too, if you forgot to craft something.

[@victoralander1398]

Could you transport the item in a chest boat to the overworld?

[@pikazilla6405]

Theoretically it would only require 2 advancements if your world has a filled in end portal but i don’t exactly need to explain why that isn’t realistic for an unseeded run

[@horseman699]

I appreciate this guy for still using the better textures

[@DarkSoul.2410]

new ones are better, you are just blinded by nostalgia. anyway that's your opinion :)

[@jebalitabb8228]

@@DarkSoul.2410it’s okay to have a wrong opinion

[@quoimafu]

netherrack kinda ugly tho

[@tierdokuparodien8460]

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

[@J_-_]

Ayo?! lowkey tho keep it on the DL that part was kinda hot

[@moonlight_is_a_weirdo]

I read it as "it's edging time" 💀

[@tierdokuparodien8460]

@@moonlight_is_a_weirdo That's what I feared when writing this.

[@magma6865]

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.

[@Rhododo]

Yeah, tbh I think the only old texture that's really ugly is the Netherrack, so I think I'll make a quick texture pack that replaces the old Netherrack with the new one and put it on top of the Programmer's Art one, so that I'll have all the old textures except for the Netherrack.

[@TheBigHossman]

​@@RhododoOld Netherrack on ruined portals looks cursed.

[@binavandepoll]

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

[@Slackow]

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.

[@SmartBerry.]

Very fake lier

[@SmartBerry.]

Don't misinformed us

[@Slackow]

@@SmartBerry. it's true though lol

[@SmartBerry.]

@@Slackow it's not he is playing on 1.19.4

[@SmartBerry.]

I guess enderman got too angry that's why he turned his azz and died 😭💀

[@itskoder]

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.

[@alitajk372]

it's impossible to beat minecraft with no advancment, but you tried

[@Letter-Lore-E]

The "hello" will never get old

[@the_witchdoctor]

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.

[@Rhododo]

Yup, for set seed you can avoid all the Nether part so you only get 2 advancements (when entering the End)

[@JohnTitorSG]

isn't the blaze rod advencement avoidable by using a hopper?

[@preistestdragon4634]

@@JohnTitorSG no as you have to retrieve the rod from the hopper/chest then go into a crafting table. the instant from putting the rods in your inventory will give you the advancement.

[@LeWi100]

@@JohnTitorSGif you have an auto crafting mod, then yes 😅

[@the_witchdoctor]

Due to the lack of an automatic crafting system in the base game, I don't think you could turn the rod into an eye of ender without it going through the player's inventory.

[@koraoyadondon5142]

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 :)

[@andrewsaffle]

He didn’t. The second he crafted a boat. It was an advancement

[@juub5171]

?@@andrewsaffle

[@refertopfp9627]

​@@andrewsaffle So you're the one he called out in the pinned comment edit for mistaking a recipe for an advancement.

[@Loxu69]

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)

[@HoradelJuegoV2]

11:02 the piglin only gives the advancement if you don't have a gold armor part

[@shaiyan2]

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!

[@regenratior_rule]

W comment

[@carotteatomique]

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.

[@droidy365]

Can you wear armour without getting the *"Suit Up"* advancement? It might just be iron and diamond, I don't remember.

[@qwart22]

@@droidy365 iron gives suit up, diamond gives cover me in diamonds

[@Cruxin]

​@@droidy365 they wear armour in the video lol

[@erickmontes2149]

​@@Cruxin gold Armour to be specific

[@filipbitala2624]

@@erickmontes2149or chainmail or leather, only one piece has to be real, gold

[@jayanths1221]

Speed runners in 5 years - "Is it possible to beat Minecreaft WITHOUT beating Minecraft"

[@Michael.Nietzsche.Macucows]

04:46 bro's reflexes are up to date but is awareness isn't

[@Rhododo]

Yeah I took like two eternities to see the Creeper 😴

[@aZulTo]

​@Rhododo he meant that u sprinted without boat so that counted as 1 achievement

[@Rhododo]

​@@aZulTo Well, the thing is: sprinting is NOT an achievement. Like really I got that comment a lot of times and I don't understand the confusion, I literally explained the reason why we avoid sprinting in the video Sprinting consumes food, so that's why we want to avoid it, because we can't eat food to regenerate the hunger bar (eating food IS an advancement), so everytime the hunger bar falls the only way to refill it is to 💀 But that's the only thing sprinting does, it does NOT give an achievement by itself (also i think his comment just meant that i took two years to see the creeper)

[@theunknownonetuo2033]

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!

[@thecheese2165]

He mined cobblestone at 11:37

[@lildub5415]

@@thecheese2165 even though he mined it he didn't pick it up so he didn't get the advancement

[@JaySantos-yd7qb]

12:43 sad boat

[@BlueSkiesAreGrey]

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

[@literallyrohan]

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

[@eshansingh1]

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.

[@Rhododo]

Thanks! :) I just tried it and you're right, we don't get the Oh Shiny advancement when we wear a gold armor! However, we'd have to be very careful when trading with them because they can give iron armor and obsidian, which both give advancements upon collecting them, so I probably would've ended up going with Endermen anyway.

[@janb.3600]

Nether gold ore can be mined with a wooden pick, so gold is not an issue.

[@RyanEglitis]

@@Rhododo You could get around that with a hopper pointing into a double chest, though you'd need the 5 iron.

[@byzantiumgaming]

​@@Rhododo you could fill your inventory with other things and leave one spot with and ender pearl so they stack there but you don't pick up anything, you still have to get one ender pearl some other way though first.

[@Lephiz]

@@janb.3600 wait, you are saying none of the gold ores can be mined with a wood pick, then how is gold not an issue?

[@cranberrysauce61]

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.

[@Rhododo]

Thanks! Yeah SmallAnt found some really creative ways to avoid advancements. Just a bit of a precision for the Monster Hunter advancement though, it doesn't exactly count who did the final blow, I'm pretty sure it also counts who dealt the most damage to the monster. Since he just punched the Blazes once and let the Piglins do the rest of the job, he didn't get the advancement, but for example with my Snowman strat, since I dealt 19HP of damage to the Blaze, if I just spawned the Snowman to finish the Blaze without waiting, I would've gotten the credit for the Monster Hunter advancement. So there's more to it than just who dealt the final blow (unless it has something to do with the Snowman dying before the snowball lands on the Blaze)

[@linuslucke3838]

​@@Rhododo Idk if this still works but if you jump on a rod and open your inventory you don't get the advancement for picking it Up, similarly to the chest boat method, meaning you can just craft it into powder there, which is way easier

[@Kaelicles]

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.

[@latvian_fallen_angel]

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.

[@fisch37]

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.

[@formaleggplant]

banana and bread were very creative

[@martinshoosterman]

They theory crafted how it could be done, but in their actual run they were very sloppy and ended up getting a bunch of advancements

[@letsprogress4124]

@@martinshoosterman that's kind of disappointing

[@psychopiper8224]

@@letsprogress4124 A lot of their methods were similar in concept to the methods used in this video, but were massively hair-pullingly inefficient and not super suited for an actual run. For example, building the portal

[@martinshoosterman]

@@letsprogress4124 yeah they decided to do a "punishment system" for each advancement they got. but that was really lazy IMO.

[@alfredomariasammartino7728]

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

[@romaldosanford5893]

they look like shit though

[@happyhippoeaters4261]

Minecraft Low%

[@heh._.86]

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.

[@NedJeffery]

This was actually really creative and entertaining. Well done.

[@Ani]

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

[@Rhododo]

Thanks! :)

[@splendidpheasant9192]

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

[@Meichrob7]

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.

[@imprincesswolfy2565]

It’s called low%

[@C1yde902]

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.

[@andrewdevlin8756]

One of the rules was it had to be a random seed. So that doesn’t really apply to this challenge

[@C1yde902]

@@andrewdevlin8756 ah, my bad. Technically possibly though with Dream luck

[@Simy999]

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

[@Nazeeeem_]

The fact that he has the old textures makes me happy

[@Lord_Raymund]

Best editing xD 10:40

[@The_Carb1de]

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

[@duckified.]

i had no idea that food conservation glitch was a thing, and i've been playing the game before boats were even updated. that seems really useful for running down long branch mines

[@uwulilac]

15:49 gotta appreciate the correction, even if you forgot in the recording. not many people know this at all

[@RadBoi123]

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.

[@nutronstar45]

bundles are experimental features

[@PickPig]

bundles are not fully vanilla

[@generalhux1818]

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?

[@SonicEndouRed]

u can also kill a blaze to get into the fire

[@scrp6638]

Monster hunter too

[@8bitalex]

​@@SonicEndouRed into fire is for collecting the rod, not killed a blaze

[@lawfulcartoon72]

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

[@flashingy5892]

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

[@firstoffproductions1462]

12:33 "Very Forward Thinking Creepers" -50 Ways To Die In Minecraft, Part: I Don't Remember

[@Nuuust]

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 !

[@Rhododo]

Thanks! :) Yeah, I never actually used the tower strategy before so I kinda just improvised it, was a bit chaotic but worked well enough

[@gabe2029]

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

[@user-gy6fq3lu7q]

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

[@byugoi]

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

[@SpartanWithXs]

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

[@juliajones2k1]

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

[@SamOfTheSmokies76]

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

[@gamingfreak2_767]

6:40 you could avoid the nether achievements by finding a stronghold with the portal already lit but that would be extremely difficult with random seed

[@carlsanchez9087]

It was stated in the intro no 1 in a trillion seed with a fully lit end portal

[@TheWorldsLargestOven]

0:27 read it

[@yanipenaflor2950]

But going to the end gives an advancement

[@gamingfreak2_767]

@@yanipenaflor2950 I said avoid the nether achievements not avoid all achievements. Please think about what the other person is saying before you try to correct them

[@Alfonso-mb5ie]

14:50 you can just dig underneath the portal to place the last eye and then enderpearl in

[@TheWorldsLargestOven]

What

[@Alfonso-bo7wp]

@@TheWorldsLargestOven wdym what

[@burtmacklin1880]

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

[@user-ur2gt7je5c]

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!

[@Superkid33]

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!

[@DeltaDoesGarbaj]

That "hellooo" was so adorable

[@clearcodee_]

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

[@realmjumper8154]

Seeing you break a diamond ore with a wooden pick axe caused me physical pain.

[@hexagonalprism]

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

[@brobeckskazooremixes8703]

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

[@IshayabaKurone]

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 🎉

[@elijah7430]

10:44 "gently get it out of the way in a very peaceful manner" *BAKAWK*

[@Shepherdboy16]

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👌🏼

[@somyeol804]

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.

[@Pi_Maaster]

the advabcement "oh shiny" its granted only if the puglin whant to kill you because you didn't have gold armor

[@Harvol44]

Ngl, making the portal the opposite way to usual was actually so cool

[@cqu_w]

ngl one of the best minecraft vids, I really thought this vid had sm views but turns out that it dosn't even tho it deserves to.

[@Rhododo]

Aww thanks, I'm glad you liked the video!

[@jaydenborjas4763]

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!

[@lucynokata]

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

[@GreatDynamics]

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

[@Rhododo]

Thanks! :)

[@itsLeroy-v-]

It's really insane and I could not imagine how much effort you've put into this, well done! And especially I love the sound of your voice and humor tone, can't wait to see more crazy ideas in your future videos, keep it going! :)

[@connermorg]

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

[@rainbowpants345]

you sir, have earned a new well deserved fan. really appreciating the english subtitles!

[@foolishmortal5151]

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.

[@Aphelia.]

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