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End City in Minecraft, shown for the You Need a Mint advancement (The End tab)
End City in Minecraft, shown here for You Need a Mint in the The End tab. Image: 2 endcities generated close to each other.png from minecraft.wiki, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0.
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You Need a Mint advancement icon in Minecraft, Dragon's Breath in medium difficulty

You Need a Mint

Collect Dragon's Breath in a Glass Bottle

Requirements: During the Ender Dragon fight, when the dragon uses its breath attack on the portal or shoots acid at you.

You Need a Mint advancement icon in MinecraftGoal Reached!You Need a Mint

Overview

You Need a Mint is a goal advancement in the End tab of Minecraft's advancement system, carrying the in-game description "Collect Dragon's Breath in a Glass Bottle." It branches directly off Free the End, so that earlier advancement is its prerequisite and must be earned first. The End tab covers advancements for the End dimension, from slaying the Ender Dragon to finding End Cities and the Elytra. You Need a Mint was added in Minecraft 1.12 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 is classed as a goal advancement, which renders with the rounded goal frame in the menu and marks a notable objective along the way rather than a trivial step. Nothing else in the tree depends on it, so it is a leaf at the tip of its branch.

In tree terms, You Need a Mint sits second along its line: the full path from the End root reads The End -> Free the End -> You Need a Mint. That means 2 advancements must be completed before this one becomes available, and You Need a Mint is one of 9 total advancements in the End tab. It shares its parent with 3 sibling advancements (The Next Generation, Remote Getaway, and The End... Again...), all of which open from the same point in the tree.

How to Complete You Need a Mint

Earning You Need a Mint comes down to the following, performed in order:

  1. During the Ender Dragon fight, when the dragon uses its breath attack on the portal or shoots acid at you, use a glass bottle on the purple particles to collect Dragon's Breath.
  2. Used for lingering potions.

Tips & Fastest Route

  • Fastest route: During the fight, right-click a glass bottle inside the dragon's purple breath cloud.
  • The breath lingers where the dragon's ranged attack lands or where it exhales on the portal; bottle it there.
  • Dragon's Breath is the ingredient that turns splash potions into lingering potions.
  • Make sure Free the End is already ticked off before you start, otherwise You Need a Mint will not be tracked even if you perform the steps correctly.
  • At Medium difficulty, You Need a Mint 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 You Need a Mint will not appear as available until Free the End is done, since the game only tracks an advancement once its parent has been unlocked.

Reward & What It Unlocks

You Need a Mint 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:end/dragon_breath
Category
The End
Difficulty
Medium
XP Reward
None
Version Added
1.12

Advancement Tree

Parent Advancement

Free the End
Good luck

Child Advancements

Leaf advancement (no children)