On January 9th, 2022, in version 1.18.1, I started my Minecraft: Java Edition survival singleplayer world, as I realized I never properly beat Minecraft on my own in survival. My intention was to make it last forever. To this day, it is the main world I spend most of my time in. So, today I’d like to go over what I’ve accomplished since starting.
Builds
I’m putting this at the top, because it’s what dignifies my world the most. These builds are among the ones I am most proud of making, and I am happy I get to keep playing the game around them. Here they are!
History
01/09/22 – Created the world, and beat the game in 4 hours and 36 minutes
I am aware this is a poor time to beat. It was four years ago, give me a break.
01/22/22 – Constructed my hut in the meadow
05/07/22 – Started the villager trading hall
05/24/22 – Began the construction of the city at spawn (still a work in progress to this day!)
06/07/22 – Updated to 1.19 (The Wild Update), and died immediately to a warden, losing all my stuff
07/04/22 – Filled my ender chest with 27 categorized shulker boxes
07/10/23 – Updated to 1.20 (Trails and Tales)
08/06/24 – Completed the challenge “How Did We Get Here?”
08/12/24 – Updated to 1.21 (Tricky Trials) and found some funny structure generation
10/05/24 – Found the Silence armour trim and made the advancement “Smithing with Style,” thus achieving 100% advancement completion
09/01/25 – Drained an ocean monument and repaired a shipwreck
09/07/25 – Completed my hall of trimmed diamond armour
10/31/25 – Collected every jack o’ lantern wearing mob for Halloween (except the Zombie Villager… maybe this year)
Advancements
I have 100% of the advancements in every category, as of 1.21.11, including How Did We Get Here? and Smithing with Style (fun fact: it took me longer to find the Silence armour trim than it took to complete HDWGH).
I completed HDWGH on August 6th, 2024 (940 real life days after starting the world) in 1.20.6. Although 1.21 was out by then, I intentionally put off updating the world so that I didn’t have to deal with the six new effects. That would’ve been a real pain, and I don’t know how people do it.
Closing
In year 5, I want to continue building up the city to the point where you can’t see much of the outside world from the spawn point (central park). I also want to work my way towards the beach (the wheat field is temporary and will be covered up).
Something cool I could build is a pathway from spawn leading to my starter base, and possibly continuing towards the stronghold, as a way to chart the path I took when I originally beat the game.