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How Did We Get Here?

Have every effect applied at the same time

Requirements: Have every non-instantaneous status effect applied to the player that is obtainable in Survival mode at the same time (with the exception of Saturation).

By most criteria, this is the hardest advancement of all in Minecraft. To get it, you need to be affected by all the following status effects at once:

Before attempting this advancement, you must have killed the ender dragon, so that you can reach the outer islands of the End. You also must have killed the wither, so that you have access to at least one beacon. The method described below is not the only valid one to complete How Did We Get Here, but it was designed to be as easy and safe as possible.

First, find a naturally-generated sculk shrieker (such that its can_summon property is true according to the targeted block info on the debug screen) relatively close to an unexplored ocean monument (such that it still has at least one elder guardian). If you know your seed or are on a singleplayer world, you can use a seed map program like Chunkbase to look for a deep dark biome with a nearby ocean monument (note that, due to how the deep dark generates, it's impossible for a deep dark biome to be right under a deep ocean biome).

Dig a simple 2×2 staircase down to near the inner horizontal edge of the deep dark biome to about Y=-51 and tunnel around inside the deep dark biome to look for a cave system with a shrieker in it. Use the F3 debug screen to confirm that the shrieker's can_summon property is true, then surround the shrieker with wool (optional) and start destroying any nearby sculk sensors, followed by any sculk catalysts. If there are any other shriekers nearby besides the one you intend to use, destroy those first. If shriekers are activated three times (such that one of the "Warden draws close" sounds plays), carefully leave the area and wait at least thirty minutes for your warning level to drop back down to 0 before continuing, as a fourth shrieker activation within ten minutes after the "Warden draws close" sound will summon a warden. When done, double check that there are no more sensors nearby by making some extra noise around the area, then remove the wool surrounding the shrieker, but put a bottom slab on top of it to prevent you from accidentally stepping on it.

Then, begin building the contraption around the shrieker as shown below. (Note that you can't move or replace the shrieker, as it will remove its can_summon property). The stone bricks can be any full, solid block that blocks mob sightlines (including glass blocks), and the gold block can be any solid opaque block that can be powered by redstone. Note that all dispensers and observers are horizontal and the piston is facing up. The trapdoor in layer 2 should be covering the adjacent dispenser face, and the trapdoor in layer 1 should be covering the block under it so that the shulker minecart is raised slightly off the ground. Make sure that the lever is reachable from within the machine. When done, remove the bottom slab over the shrieker. The water column above the beacons should extend all the way up to sea level, and there should be no opaque blocks between the beacons and the sky (transparent blocks like water and leaves are fine). The iron blocks can be any beacon-compatible mineral block, but iron is the easiest and fastest to obtain because it can be farmed with iron golems.

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Once finished, place the spectral arrows in the layer 1 dispenser and seven shorter (4-minute and 3-minute) splash potions in the layer 2 dispenser and set the beacons to Strength I+Regeneration I, Haste II, Speed II, Jump Boost II, and Resistance II. Dig a simple tunnel at least 1 block wide and at least 2 blocks tall from the top of the water column (at sea level) to the ocean and fill it with at least 1 layer of water (keeping at least 1 layer of air). Find a dolphin (remember that they can spawn in all ocean biome types except frozen and cold) and lead it back to the tunnel and down to the room with the waterlogged chests, then tie it to the fence post there and put a name tag on it to prevent it from despawning. The waterlogged chests should prevent the dolphin from drowning while also allowing it to keep contact with water to prevent it from dehydrating.

From the rails on layer 4, dig a straight staircase up and toward the world spawn until you reach the surface. At that point, go directly to the world spawn and use a compass to find the specific location of the world spawn, which is (by default) the northwest corner of a chunk. Press F3+G (or equivalent on a non-QWERTY keyboard) to show chunk borders and use a compass to find the 1×1 vertical column that the compass always points to as you walk around it. Make sure that there are no blocks over this block (including non-solid ones like flowers, grass, torches, and leaves), then surround the spot with glass and rails as shown below:

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The netherrack shown above represents the world spawn, where entities show up when they come through the exit portal in the End.

Extend the rail out by 16 blocks on both ends, then begin running rails from this spot all the way to the staircase dug earlier, bridging over water if necessary. If possible, try to tunnel through hills rather than going over them, as the minecart could get stuck otherwise. It may take thousands of rails and bridging blocks to get from the world spawn to the build site, so it may be easier to simply bring a few stacks of logs and iron blocks with a crafting table to craft rails as you go. This is one of the most time-consuming parts of this advancement, but it's far more reliable than using a boat since boats can't be moved vertically up without a piston, riding a boat across water risks drowning the shulker if you move too quickly, and moving a boat across a bridge in the End risks having an enderman teleport and push the boat off the bridge and into the void. Using a minecart to carry the shulker, pushed by a furnace minecart, also allows the player to keep a healthy distance to avoid getting shot at by the shulker, and using a furnace minecart and regular rails instead of powered rails is much more resource-efficient.

Once the rails are run all the way from the world spawn to the build site, double check that there are no gaps anywhere in the rail line from the world spawn all the way up to the contraption's drop shaft. Then break the most recently used bed, make sure you're not wearing any armor with Thorns, optionally grab a shield, and head into the End to find an End city with two shulkers still at the entrance. The city should be as close to an End gateway as possible, though exact distance is less important than how much bridging you'll need to do between the two. Again, Chunkbase can be used to find a suitable candidate. Enter through the opposite side from the entrance to prevent the shulkers from seeing you and place blocks as shown below to obscure the shulkers' vision and set up the rails which will eventually be used to pick up the shulker.

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The red concrete blocks mark the spaces that must contain full, solid blocks to prevent the shulker from being ejected there instead of inside the exit portal.

Once that's done, place regular rails leading all the way up and into the End gateway. Take note of the direction your rails are facing using the F3 debug screen, then go through the gateway. A trapdoor or fence gate can be used to force you into the 1-block-tall swimming position to go through without using an ender pearl each time. Depending on the type of gateway, you'll either end up at a corresponding gateway on the main island or on the obsidian platform at 100,49,0. If you arrive at the obsidian platform, just remember that any blocks on and above it will be reset to air anytime an entity enters the End, so if you exit and re-enter the End after building here (or if anyone else enters the End if you're on a server) before you get the shulker, you'll need to replace the rails. Wherever you arrive, place rails under yourself in the same direction as before and continue placing rails up to the corner of the exit portal, with an activator rail at the end, powered by a lever. The activator rail will try to eject the shulker into one of the up-to-8 adjacent air blocks at its Y level, so make sure that there are solid blocks in the spaces around the activator rail so that the only available spot is inside the exit portal.

Now head back to the End city, double-check to make sure you don't have Thorns on your armor, enter through the back like before, place a minecart on the powered rails, and crouch and use a fishing rod to hook the minecart, then get behind the glass blocks and pull the minecart. Wait for the shulker to pass by, then place a furnace minecart on the powered rails and give it some coal/charcoal and a push toward the shulker minecart. Keeping a safe distance, follow the two through the gateway, onto the main island, and up to the exit portal. You should see an empty minecart and furnace minecart and no shulker nearby. Grab both minecarts and go through the exit portal and you should see the shulker in the glass enclosure from earlier. Place the minecart and furnace minecart on the rails leading to the shulker, give the furnace minecart some coal/charcoal and a push, and the shulker will be picked up. Follow it at a safe distance all the way to the build site, but be careful to not let the shulker take damage on the way. If you suspect the shulker may not be at full health, hit it with a splash potion of Regeneration. The shulker minecart should fall into the column on top of the trapdoor. Once it does, place a top slab just over the shulker to lock it in place.

For Raid Omen, you need to have a villager with either a claimed bed, bell, or a job site block, and it must be placed in such a way that it allows getting both Raid Omen AND Bad Omen at the same time. Raid Omen is granted if player enters a 3-by-3 chunk area centered on the villager while having Bad Omen; main contraption must be outside of this area, preferably in the next chunk, because effect lasts only for 30 seconds. In other words, there must be at least one full chunk between the main contraption and the villager. You also need to locate trial chambers in your world; these don't need to be very close, as Trial Omen can last over an hour. Find a trial spawner in these chambers and dig a tunnel from the spawner to the surface. If you have an old world and there are no trial chambers near spawn, use Nether travel to get from the chamber to the main contraption faster. If long-lasting Trial Omen is needed, get ominous bottles with higher levels of Bad Omen; you can also consider reversing the order listed below and get Trial Omen before Hero of the Village, but that is recommended only in extreme circumstances (trial chambers are very far away and you are sure that you can beat a raid very fast).

Now head to the ocean monument and time how long it takes to go from the ocean monument back to the build site. If it takes longer than about two and a half minutes, you'll need to use Nether portals to get from place to place. It may be helpful to build the portals on top of the Nether roof to facilitate easy, safe transit. Now look for a pillager outpost and village (Chunkbase can be used for this as well) and build portals to get there (unless you can get from the village to the pillager outpost and from the pillager outpost to the build site in under 10 minutes each). At the village, trap at least one villager in a fully enclosed area with access to a job site/bell/bed, as this is all that's required to count as a "village" for the purpose of raids. At the pillager outpost, it may be helpful to fill the spawning area of the outpost (a 72×54×72 cuboid centered on the top floor) with as many grass spawning platforms as possible to maximize the chances for pillagers (and therefore pillager captains) to spawn.

At this point, double check that the contraption is set up correctly with a nametagged dolphin tied to the fencepost, a shulker in a minecart next to the shrieker, spectral arrows in the lower dispenser, and splash potions of Weaving, Oozing, Wind Charging, Infestation, Slowness, Slow Falling, and Weakness in the upper dispenser (behind the vertical trapdoor). Make sure you can get from the village to trial chambers in under 20 minutes, from trial chambers to ocean monument in under 10 minutes, and from the ocean monument to the contraption in under 2.5 minutes (if not, you may need some extra Swiftness potions or some other means of fast transportation through the Nether portals). Also make sure that the bottom slab covering the sculk shrieker has been removed. If everything looks good, you should be ready to start the process of getting all the effects. Equip good armor with high level of Protection, as all debuffs combined can deal quite a lot of damage, potentially even killing you. This will also help with keeping yellow Absorption hearts - when these run out, you lose the Absorption effect.

It's recommended to make a backup of the world before continuing in case something goes wrong. It may also be helpful to record your screen so that, if something goes wrong, you can see exactly which effect(s) weren't applied. Note that Darkness does not show its icon in the top-right corner, so during a successful attempt you should see 32 icons at once: 15 in the top row and 17 in the bottom row.

The sequence for getting the effects is as follows:

  1. Go to the pillager outpost and kill at least four pillager captains to get four ominous bottles. Alternatively, go through a trial chamber to obtain four ominous bottles through vaults or chests.
  2. Go to the village, drink the first ominous bottle and beat a raid (kill at least one raid mob in a raid that ends in victory) to get Hero of the Village (1/34). Timer is now at 40 minutes. After this point, you should make sure to only eat food if absolutely necessary. Your hunger bar must be at most 15/20 by the time you reach the contraption.
  3. Go to the trial chamber and drink the second ominous bottle while standing next to a trial spawner to get Trial Omen (2/34). Depending on the level of Bad Omen, timer is now at 15 minutes, 30 minutes, or is capped by Hero of the Village.
  4. Go to the ocean monument and get cursed by an elder guardian to get Mining Fatigue (3/34). While you wait for the curse (or just after getting it), hit yourself with four long-lasting splash potions: Invisibility, Water Breathing, Fire Resistance and Night Vision (7/34). To get the maximum duration, throw the potions directly upward, so they hit your head when they fall. Timer is now at most 5 minutes.
  5. Go to the contraption. Getting within range of the beacons gives Haste, Jump Boost, Regeneration, Resistance, Speed, and Strength (13/34).
  6. Eat the enchanted golden apple to get Absorption (14/34). Timer is now at most 2 minutes. If you don't have an enchanted golden apple, don't eat the normal golden apple now; instead eat it last, after the suspicious stew.
  7. Drink the third ominous bottle and get in range of the villager. This grants Raid Omen (15/34). Timer is now at most 30 seconds.
  8. Move out of the range of the villager and drink the final ominous bottle, getting Bad Omen (16/34).
  9. Enter the contraption and close the fence gate to enter the swimming position and get Conduit Power (17/34).
  10. Sprint-swim (giving Dolphin's Grace (18/34)) over the shrieker (which will activate and give Darkness (19/34)) and toward the wither rose in the gap between the grindstones to get Wither (20/34). The shulker will also begin firing at you, giving you Levitation (21/34). Continue sprint-swimming toward the wither rose throughout the rest of the steps.
  11. Flip the lever to the right of the wither rose to trigger the dispenser behind you to shoot a spectral arrow at you (giving Glowing (22/34)) and to trigger the piston next to the lever to extend and activate an observer clock which quickly fires the potions in the upper dispenser, giving Infested, Weaving, Oozing, Wind Charging, Slowness, Slow Falling, and Weakness (29/34). The lever can be flipped again to fire another spectral arrow if necessary.
  12. Eat the pufferfish for Hunger, Nausea, and Poison (32/34). Timer is now at most 15 seconds.
  13. Eat the suspicious stew to get Blindness (33/34).
  14. Ride on the nautilus or zombie nautilus to get Breaths of the Nautilus (34/34).

This should grant the advancement.

If Glowing expired before you could eat the suspicious stew, quickly flip the lever again to fire another spectral arrow and get Glowing again. As long as you keep sprint-swimming at the wither rose, Wither, Levitation, Darkness, Conduit Power, Dolphin's Grace, and the six beacon effects can all be refreshed (though triggering the sculk shrieker too many times runs the risk of potentially spawning a warden). When Raid Omen runs out, a raid triggers at the contraption, but it likely fails to spawn any raiders due to the terrain around it; thus raid almost immediately vanishes and you can try again shortly after, potentially even before Mining Fatigue runs out.

This is a hidden advancement, meaning that it can only be viewed when the player has completed the advancement.

Completing this advancement will reward the player 1000 experience, which is the equivalent of 26 levels if the player previously had no experience. This is the most experience that a player can get by completing any advancement.

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