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Axolotl in Minecraft, shown for the The Healing Power of Friendship! advancement (Husbandry tab)
Axolotl in Minecraft, shown here for The Healing Power of Friendship! in the Husbandry tab. Image: Axolotl Imminent Demise.jpg from minecraft.wiki, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0.
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The Healing Power of Friendship! advancement icon in Minecraft, Bucket of Axolotl in medium difficulty

The Healing Power of Friendship!

Team up with an Axolotl and win a fight

Requirements: Let an axolotl start a fight with a mob.

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Overview

The Healing Power of Friendship! is a task advancement in the Husbandry tab of Minecraft's advancement system, carrying the in-game description "Team up with an Axolotl and win a fight." It branches directly off The Cutest Predator, so that earlier advancement is its prerequisite and must be earned first. The Husbandry tab covers advancements related to farming, animal breeding, food, and the natural world. The Healing Power of Friendship! was added in Minecraft 1.17, from the Caves & Cliffs update, and is still in the 26.2 advancement set.

It is rated Medium difficulty on this site: requires some preparation or specific resources. Part of normal gameplay progression. It uses the standard task frame, meaning it is a normal step in the tree rather than a goal or challenge milestone. Nothing else in the tree depends on it, so it is a leaf at the tip of its branch.

In tree terms, The Healing Power of Friendship! sits fourth along its line: the full path from the Husbandry root reads Husbandry -> Fishy Business -> Tactical Fishing -> The Cutest Predator -> The Healing Power of Friendship!. That means 4 advancements must be completed before this one becomes available, and The Healing Power of Friendship! is one of 31 total advancements in the Husbandry tab. No other advancement shares its parent, so it is the only thing that branches from The Cutest Predator.

How to Complete The Healing Power of Friendship!

Earning The Healing Power of Friendship! comes down to the following, performed in order:

  1. Let an axolotl start a fight with a mob, then land the killing blow yourself while you are within 20 blocks of the axolotl.
  2. It gives you Regeneration and clears Mining Fatigue.
  3. Release an axolotl from a bucket near drowned or guardians and join in, because a kill the axolotl makes on its own doesn't count.

Tips & Fastest Route

  • Fastest route: Release an axolotl near hostile water mobs and finish off the mob it is fighting yourself, within 20 blocks of the axolotl.
  • Drowned and Guardians are ideal targets for an axolotl ally.
  • The killing blow has to be yours, since a mob the axolotl kills by itself doesn't count. It also fails while you already have Regeneration II.
  • Make sure The Cutest Predator is already ticked off before you start, otherwise The Healing Power of Friendship! will not be tracked even if you perform the steps correctly.
  • At Medium difficulty, The Healing Power of Friendship! is a routine step once you have the prerequisites in hand; no special grinding is usually needed beyond the items the steps call for.

Common Mistakes

  • Remember that The Healing Power of Friendship! will not appear as available until The Cutest Predator is done, since the game only tracks an advancement once its parent has been unlocked.

Reward & What It Unlocks

The Healing Power of Friendship! grants no experience directly; its value is progression rather than a point payout.

It is a leaf advancement, so nothing further unlocks from it; it stands as a completed tip of its branch.

Details

Advancement ID
minecraft:husbandry/kill_axolotl_target
Category
Husbandry
Difficulty
Medium
XP Reward
None
Version Added
1.17

Advancement Tree

Child Advancements

Leaf advancement (no children)