MEDIUM ADVANCEMENTS

Where the medium advancements are earned

Most medium advancements ask you to reach a place before anything else. Four of the 44 are challenges, worth 190 experience together, and both goals come from the dragon fight. Sorted by where you earn them:

Deep underground and at home

Diamond ore doesn't generate above Y 16 and gets more common toward the bottom of the world, and one diamond gives Diamonds! One piece of diamond armor gives Cover Me with Diamonds, and enchanting anything at an enchanting table, made from two diamonds, four obsidian and a book, gives Enchanter. Three more can be done at home: a compass on a lodestone for Country Lode, Take Me Home, a crafter crafting another crafter for Crafters Crafting Crafters and a comparator placed against a chiseled bookshelf for The Power of Books.

The stronghold and the dragon fight

Eye Spy comes the moment you stand inside a stronghold. Once the dragon is dead, the egg in your inventory gives The Next Generation, dragon's breath in a glass bottle gives You Need a Mint, and an ender pearl thrown into a new End gateway gives Remote Getaway.

A Nether fortress

Walking in gives A Terrible Fortress, and a blaze rod gives Into Fire. One rod and three cobblestone make the brewing stand for Local Brewery.

A bastion remnant

Walking in gives Those Were the Days, and opening a chest nobody has opened before gives War Pigs.

The rest of the Nether

Bartering gold with piglins brings the crying obsidian for Who is Cutting Onions?, and six of it with three glowstone make the respawn anchor for Not Quite "Nine" Lives. A strider boosted with a warped fungus on a stick gives This Boat Has Legs, a ghast seen through a spyglass Is It a Balloon?, and a ghast killed with a fireball you hit back Return to Sender, a challenge worth 50 experience.

Trial chambers

Walking in gives Minecraft: Trial(s) Edition, and a trial key opens a vault for Under Lock and Key. Breezes drop the rods for the wind charges of Who Needs Rockets?, and a breeze killed by its own deflected charge is Blowback, a challenge worth 40. The normal vaults can hold a trident for A Throwaway Joke, though drowned drop them as well.

Pillager outposts and woodland mansions

Raid captains lead patrols and guard outposts, and killing one gives Voluntary Exile. Allays turn up in the cages next to outposts and in mansion jail cells, for You've Got a Friend in Me and Birthday Song.

Warm oceans and lush caves

Brushing suspicious sand in warm ocean ruins can turn up a sniffer egg, the start of Smells Interesting, Little Sniffs and Planting the Past. Axolotls live in lush caves, for The Cutest Predator and The Healing Power of Friendship!

Biomes with one job

A jukebox playing in a meadow gives Sound of Music, and sneaking near a sculk sensor or a warden gives Sneak 100. A creaking heart, mined with Silk Touch in a pale garden or crafted from a resin block and two pale oak logs, has to sit between two pale oak logs for Heart Transplanter. A large sulfur cube in sulfur caves has to take in TNT for Uh Oh, a dried ghast from a soul sand valley goes into water for Stay Hydrated!, and a bee nest from a tree, mined with Silk Touch while three bees are inside, gives Total Beelocation.

Archaeology and armor

Respecting the Remnants asks you to brush a suspicious block at a desert pyramid, desert well, ocean ruin or trail ruin and to hold a pottery sherd. Scutes from armadillos in savannas and badlands repair wolf armor for Good as New, and any armor trim applied at a smithing table gives Crafting a New Look.

Long shots

A skeleton killed from 50 blocks away gives Sniper Duel, and the center of a target block hit from 30 blocks gives Bullseye. Both are challenges worth 50 experience, and both distances are measured flat.

Any armor trim counts for Crafting a New Look

All 18 armor trim templates count, with any of the 11 trim materials: an amethyst shard, a copper, gold, iron or netherite ingot, a diamond, emerald, lapis lazuli, quartz, redstone or a resin brick. Put the template, a piece of armor and the material in a smithing table. This is where each template comes from:

Coast

Shipwreck chests.

Dune

Desert pyramid chests.

Wild

Jungle temple chests.

Sentry

Pillager outpost chests.

Eye

Chests in stronghold corridors and libraries.

Rib

Nether fortress chests.

Snout

Bastion remnant chests.

Bolt and Flow

Trial chamber vaults: Bolt from the normal vaults, Flow from the ominous ones.

Host, Raiser, Shaper and Wayfinder

Suspicious gravel in trail ruins.

Ward and Silence

Ancient city chests.

Vex

Woodland mansion chests.

Spire

End city chests.

Tide

Elder guardians.

Six medium advancements stay hidden in the advancement screen until you earn them: Voluntary Exile, You've Got a Friend in Me, Birthday Song, Smells Interesting, Little Sniffs and Planting the Past. The Husbandry tab takes the allay and sniffer ones step by step.