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Minecraft: Java Edition
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Welcome to a world where every Minecraft mechanic, food, item, and block is a privilege that must be earned!
This project stays entirely within the bounds of vanilla—no superpowers or overpowered features—yet turns the usual progression upside down. Instead of handing you all abilities from the start, it locks them behind advancements. You’ll find yourself exploring alternate paths, delving into dungeons for hidden treasures, and genuinely celebrating each new resource you manage to unlock.
What’s more, this project is built to support and showcase BlazeandCave's Advancements Pack, featuring over 1000 advancements. Not only does that extensive list prolong gameplay and add extra layers of challenge, but it also serves as a thorough tutorial for newcomers—teaching every major mechanic of Minecraft. Even veterans who’ve mastered BlazeandCave’s before will discover fresh excitement, as the locked mechanics compel you to replay and rediscover Minecraft in a whole new way. If you’re looking for a more demanding survival experience that still feels like pure vanilla, this is it!
Maybe it will be clearer for you to look at the pictures? You can see screenshots in the gallery!
Gameplay
Early on, you’ll notice a scoreboard on your screen showing your completed advancements:
By default, you start the game with 1 advancement already unlocked (this acts as a little boost). As you earn more advancements, this counter goes up—so you’ll always know how close you are to unlocking the next ability!
In this world, every ability gradually unlocks as you complete advancements. You’ll find all available actions—or at least question marks for them!—on the AchieveToDo tab in your advancements screen:
At first, you’ll see mostly mystery icons. The core idea is that you won’t know which abilities are locked until you try them. For instance, if you attempt to jump right after spawning, you’ll discover that jumping is restricted:
From that moment on, the “Jumping” ability is revealed in AchieveToDo tab, so you can track how many advancements you need to earn in order to unlock it:
Once you’ve completed the required 7 advancements, a notification will pop up, proudly announcing your new power to jump:
This same system applies to a wide range of gameplay elements—from basic actions like opening your inventory or breaking blocks, to using specific items, trading with villagers, traveling to different dimensions, or even interaction with objects within structures. Each newly unlocked feature feels like its own mini-achievement in your overall journey!
World Creation
Don't forget to check the mod settings tab before creating a world:
Difficulty modes
AchieveToDo comes with four preset difficulty modes. Each mode offers a unique approach to unlocking abilities and structuring your progress, so you’re very likely to find one that fits your preferred!
Easy — Similar to Normal but with even quicker unlocks. All basic abilities are unlocked from the start.
Normal — The recommended mode. Similar to Hard but with faster unlocks to keep you constantly engaged. Only vision is available by default among the basic abilities.
Hard — A more RPG-like journey, centering advancements over core AchieveToDo mechanics. Unlocks follow all BlazeandCaves advancements, and the first advancement must be obtained blindly.
Chaos — Abilities get randomly shuffled based on the world seed, ensuring every run becomes an unpredictable. YIPPEEEEE! I WANNA BE THE CHAOS!!!
If you want even more control over how abilities unlock, check out the Custom Configuration below.
Configure Additional Options
Beyond simply picking a difficulty, AchieveToDo offers several toggles to customize your world:
Rewards for advancements
Item Rewards: Turn on/off specific item drops when you complete an advancement.
XP Rewards: Decide whether you gain experience for reaching new milestones.
Trophies: Enable special collectible items for completing certain advancements—a fun way to track your progress.
Custom Dimension Generation
Terralith (Overworld): Dramatically changes Overworld terrain for more varied biomes and landscapes.
Amplified Nether: Makes the Nether even more treacherous, with towering cliffs and cavernous drops.
Nullscape (End): Overhauls the End with enormous islands and other surprises, breathing new life into the final dimension.
Cooperative Mode
Work together with friends: share advancement progress or coordinate your abilities to tackle bigger challenges.
Automatic Data Pack Downloads
One of the best parts of AchieveToDo is that it can automatically fetch many of the recommended data packs for you. If you decide to enable Terralith or Amplified Nether, for example, the mod can handle the download or guide you through a quick process—no more hunting down ZIP files or dragging them into folders by hand. Simply toggle the features you want, and AchieveToDo will do the heavy lifting behind the scenes.
Note: In some cases, AchieveToDo may provide a direct download link to ensure you have a tested version of a data pack. Just click or follow the link, and drop the file into Minecraft’s interface if prompted—no complicated file management required.
Custom Configuration
This makes it easy to create all kinds of custom challenges or special gameplay rules—like giving players powerful abilities from the start or removing entire mechanics altogether.
- Launch with a Built-In Mode. First, start Minecraft with one of the existing AchieveToDo difficulty modes (e.g., easy, normal, hard, or chaos). This will generate the corresponding configuration file in your
config/achievetodofolder (for example,normal.toml). - Locate and Copy the Config File. Go to
config/achievetodoin your Minecraft directory, find the file that matches the difficulty you just launched (e.g.,normal.toml)—copy and rename it to something unique likecustom.toml. - Edit the Custom Config. Open
custom.toml(or whatever you named your file), look for the[abilities]section, where each line determines how many advancements are required to unlock a specific ability:- 0 (or omitting the line entirely) means the ability is unlocked by default.
- -1 means the ability is permanently locked and cannot be unlocked.
- Any positive number sets the required number of advancements before the ability becomes available.
- Use Your Custom Settings. When creating a new world, look for the AchieveToDo difficulty switch and select your custom difficulty option (named after your new file).
[abilities]
jump = -1
Permanently removes the ability to jump—an extreme handicap that’ll make you reconsider every step.
[abilities]
sleep = 1000
You can only sleep after racking up 1,000 advancements—turning bedtime into a truly hard-earned luxury. (Just don’t forget to actually sleep in real life!)
Server-side setup
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Create a Single-Player World. In the world creation menu, enable all the settings you plan to use on your server (e.g., hardcore mode, Terralith, co-op, rewards, etc.). Review each difficulty’s description (easy, normal, hard, chaos) to understand how it affects gameplay.
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Check Data Packs. Once the single-player world has been generated, open it and run the
/datapack listcommand. Take note of which data packs are active, including any external packs (likebacap.zip) and AchieveToDo’s built-in overrides (e.g.,achievetodo:bacap_override). -
Replicate the Setup. Upload the same external
.zipdata packs from your single-player world to your server’s datapacks folder, enable them in the same order shown by the/datapack listcommand and make sure to also enable the corresponding AchieveToDo override packs (e.g.,achievetodo:bacap_override) in the same order. -
Configure the Server. In your server’s
server.propertiesfile, create theachievetodo-configNameparameter. Set this parameter to the difficulty name you selected when creating the single-player world (easy, normal, hard, or chaos). -
Custom Configuration (Optional). Instead of using one of the built-in difficulty modes, you can specify the name of a custom configuration file as the value for the
achievetodo-configNameparameter.
Known issues
- The C2ME mod is not supported and may be unstable with AchieveToDo. This is because AchieveToDo tracks structure generation to determine their sizes, but does not currently support multithreading.
Acknowledgments
- This is my first large-scale Minecraft modding project, and it wouldn't have been possible without Cavinator1's BlazeandCave's Advancements Pack, which was a huge source of inspiration.
- I also want to thank the Stardust Labs team for providing the world generation features for all three dimensions.