Refined Advancements
Clearer progression advancements and new side-goals to aim for
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About this Mod
About
Aims to better connect the advancements in the "Minecraft" progression with several changes in parent advancements and the addition of new ones. This project also adds some new goal and challenge advancements to the other advancement tabs.
Show Features
New "Minecraft" tab Advancements
- Create a crafting table
- Obtain an ender pearl
- Enter the Deepslate cave layer
- Craft a diamond pickaxe
- Eat food
- Kill the Enderdragon
- Reach Level 30
- Encounter phantoms
- (moved) Sleep in a Bed
- (cloned) Blaze Rod
- (cloned) Monster Hunter
- (cloned) Enderdragon
New Advancements
- Obtain all overworld ores
- Find an amethyst geode
- Enter an Ancient City
- Kill a hostile mob with an arrow while riding and moving on a mount
- Ride one mount on a journey of 5,000 blocks and travel back home
- Home is considered 64 blocks within a bed
- Fly above world height with your elytra
- Ignite a creeper and use its explosion to kill a group of mobs
- Swim over magma
- Swim over soul sand
- Enter the deepslate cave layer
- Bucket clutch
- Create a conduit
- Play a disc
- Enter the ocean
- Loot a structure chest
- Loot a Buried Treasure Chest
- Find a Monster Spawner
- Use a sponge
- Sneak with the Swift Sneak enchantment
- Trade for mending
- Obtain a shulker box
- Use bone meal on a plant
- Use a goat horn
- Plant a carrot, wheat seed, beetroot seed and potato
- Attack a zombified piglin
- Obtain a netherite ingot
New Challenge Advancements
- Max enchant your armor with the highest level enchantments
- Perform a bucket clutch from 60 blocks high
- Kill 10 mobs without touching the ground or water using elytra
- Get a charged creeper to explode on a mob to receive its head
- if the explosion kills the player, the advancement isnt given
- Obtain all wool colors
- Obtain all wood logs
- Go Above the Nether Roof
Advancement Changes
- Combat advancements from the adventure tab are now in their own new tab, Combat
- When killing the Ender Dragon, all players within 128 blocks of the player who killed the dragon also get the advancement for it.
- The Minecraft tab root advancement is now granted immediately when entering the world rather than after collecting wood
- Major changes to the order and parents of advancements in the Minecraft progression tab and other tabs
- All hidden advancement descriptions have aqua description text now
- Allay advancement is no longer hidden
- Sniffer advancement is no longer hidden
The improved "Minecraft" tab. Advancements with a white filling in the image are the newly added ones
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Available Versions
How to Install Refined Advancements on Your Server
Order Server
Order a Minecraft Java server with at least 3 GB RAM (4 GB recommended).
Set datapack Loader
In the panel under "Egg", select the datapack loader and matching Minecraft version (26.1).
Install Mod
Open the mod browser in the dashboard and search for "Refined Advancements". Click "Install" – done! Alternatively, upload the .jar via SFTP to the /mods folder.
Compatibility
Mod Loaders
Minecraft Versions
26.1, 1.21.11, 1.21.10 (+27 more)
Server-side
✓ RequiredRecommended RAM
4 GB(min. 3 GB)Frequently Asked Questions
Refined Advancements server crashes on startup – what to do?
Most common cause: wrong datapack version or insufficient RAM. Check the server log (latest.log) for "OutOfMemoryError" or "Mixin" errors. With Mado Hosting: ensure at least 3 GB RAM is allocated and the loader matches the mod version (26.1). You can switch loaders with one click in the panel.
Is Refined Advancements compatible with datapack and fabric and forge and neoforge and quilt?
Refined Advancements officially supports datapack, fabric, forge, neoforge, quilt for Minecraft 26.1, 1.21.11, 1.21.10. Note: Forge and Fabric mods are NOT cross-compatible – pick one loader and stick with it. The Mado dashboard automatically detects incompatible loader combinations.
Server lagging with Refined Advancements – how to optimize performance?
Recommended RAM: 4 GB (per 8 players). Use /spark profiler to check if Refined Advancements consumes the most tick time. Common fixes: reduce server view-distance to 8-10, install "performant" or "starlight" as supplementary mods on Forge. With Mado Hosting, your server runs on NVMe SSDs with dedicated CPU cores for minimal latency.
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