Minecraft gives you the freedom to do anything. This ranges from creating large-scale multiplayer servers to small, single-player worlds filled with grand builds. No matter what your play style is, you'll also be able to complete a variety of advancements (achievements) that the game has to offer.

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One advancement that you can complete is How Did We Get Here. This is a unique achievement that has a lot of steps that require some intense preparation. In this guide, we are going to go over how you can complete this advancement as efficiently as possible. First, let's review the exact requirements for completing this massive feat.

How Did We Get Here Achievement Requirements

In order to get How Did We Get Here, you will need to have every effect applied at the same time. This achievement is hidden, so you won't be able to see it until it's completed; that's okay though, as it doesn't actually list the effects that you need to have.

Below, you can check out every effect that needs to be applied in order to get How Did We Get Here.

  • Absorption
  • Bad Omen
  • Blindness
  • Conduit Power
  • Darkness
  • Dolphin's Grace
  • Fire Resistance
  • Glowing
  • Haste
  • Hero of the Village
  • Hunger
  • Infested
  • Invisibility
  • Jump Boost
  • Levitation
  • Mining Fatigue
  • Nausea
  • Night Vision
  • Oozing
  • Poison
  • Raid Omen
  • Regeneration
  • Resistance
  • Slow Falling
  • Slowness
  • Speed
  • Strength
  • Trial Omen
  • Water Breathing
  • Wither
  • Weakness
  • Weaving
  • Wind Charged

How To Complete How Did We Get Here

That is a lot of effects, so let's take a look at each one in detail. This will also include the easiest way to obtain each one. Some just require you to eat a food or drink a potion, making them easy to apply. We'll cover some methods later for more difficult effects.

Effect

Description

Best Way To Obtain

Absorption

Adds extra yellow hearts to your HP

Eat a Golden Apple

Bad Omen

This doesn't do anything on its own, but it can transform into Raid or Trial Omen

Kill a Pillager Captain

Blindness

Adds a black fog to your vision

Eat Suspicious Stew made with Azure Bluet

Conduit Power

Increases abilities while underwater (water breathing, night vision, and haste)

Be near an active Conduit

Darkness

Similar to Darkness but caused by the Warden

Be near a Warden

Dolphin's Grace

Increase swim speed

Be near a Dolphin

Fire Resistance

Grants immunity to fire

Drink Potion of Fire Resistance

Glowing

Outlines entities

Get hit with a Spectral Arrow (or ring a bell, but this lasts only 3 seconds)

Haste

Increases attack and mining speed

Be near an active Beacon

Hero of the Village

Get a discount while trading with villagers for 40 minutes

Defeat a raid

Hunger

Increases the rate of food exhaustion (get hungry faster)

Eat Raw Chicken, a Pufferfish, or Rotten Flesh

Infested

Chance to spawn Silverfish when hurt

Drink a Potion of Infestation

Invisibility

Turn invisible

Drink a Potion of Invisibility

Jump Boost

Increase Jump Height

Drink a Potion of Leaping or be near an active Beacon

Levitation

Levitate off the ground

Get hit by a Shulker

Mining Fatigue

Reduces attack and mining speed

Be near an Elder Guardian in an Ocean Monument

Nausea

Causes your vision to get warpy

Eat a Pufferfish (eating a Pufferfish also inflicts Poison and Hunger)

Night Vision

See in the dark

Drink a Potion of Night Vision

Oozing

Slimes spawn upon death

Drink a Potion of Oozing

Poison

Inflict damage over time

Drink a Potion of Poison or eat a Pufferfish

Raid Omen

Trigger a raid

Enter a village with Bad Omen

Regeneration

Restore HP over time

Drink a Potion of Regeneration or be near an active Beacon

Resistance

Reduce damage

Drink a Potion of the Turtle Master

Slow Falling

Reduce fall damage and cause falling to be slower

Drink a Potion of Slow Falling

Slowness

Decrease walking speed

Drink a Potion of the Turtle Master

Speed

Increase walking speed

Drink a Potion of Swiftness or be near an active Beacon

Strength

Increase attack power

Drink a Potion of Strength or be near an active Beacon

Trial Omen

Transform Trial Chambers spawners into an Ominous version

Enter a Trial Chamber with Bad Omen

Water Breathing

Delays drowning

Drink a Potion of Water Breathing or wear a Turtle Shell

Wither

Inflict damage over time (and turns hearts black)

Step over a Wither Rose

Weakness

Decrease melee damage

Drink a Potion of Weakness

Weaving

Cobwebs spawn upon death

Drink a Potion of Weaving

Wind Charged

A wind burst spawns upon death

Drink a Potion of Wind Charging

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Consumable-Based Effects

So, that's a lot of effects, right? Let's break it down into a few categories. First, let's look at every effect that can easily be obtained by consuming an item.

Item

Effect Granted

Potion or Food?

Golden Apple

Absorption

Regeneration

Food

Suspicious Stew (with Azure Bluet)

Blindness

Food

Potion of Fire Resistance

Fire Resistance

Potion

Pufferfish

Hunger

Poison

Nausea

Food

Potion of Infestation

Infested

Potion

Potion of Invisibility

Invisible

Potion

Potion of Night Vision

Night Vision

Potion

Potion of Oozing

Oozing

Potion

Potion of the Turtle Master

Resistance

Slowness

Potion

Potion of Slow Falling

Slow Falling

Potion

Potion of Water Breathing

Water Breathing

Potion

Potion of Weakness

Weakness

Potion

Potion of Weaving

Weaving

Potion

Potion of Wind Charging

Wind Charging

Potion

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In theory, you just need to consume these potions and foods in order to get the mentioned effects. Of course, drinking all of these can take a while, so to tackle this, we highly suggest using splash potions. You can set up a dispenser system to splash all of the potions down on the ground, giving you all the effects simultaneously.

From there, you'll just need to eat a Pufferfish, Golden Apple, and Suspicious Stew made with an Azure Bluet.

Beacon Effects

Many of these effects can easily be obtained by standing near to a beacon as well. This achievement is best completed while standing in a designated area, so you should definitely set up some beacons that offer the following effects.

  • Haste
  • Jump Boost
  • Regeneration
  • Speed
  • Strength

Tips To Obtain Other Effects

There are a handful of other effects that are a bit harder to obtain. Below, you can check out helpful tips to obtain each one.

Effect(s)

Tips

Bad Omen, Raid Omen, and Trial Omen

These three are tied together. As such, you can kill a Pillager Captain, which by a village, and then head to a Trial Chamber

Trial Omen lasts for 15 minutes at minimum, Bad Omen lasts for 1 hour 40 minutes, and Raid Omen lasts for 30 seconds after entering a village

Conduit

Simply be near an active Conduit (this applies underwater, but lasts for 12 seconds after leaving the water)

Hero of the Village

This is done by simply defeating a raid, and it lasts for 40 minutes

Levitation

Only Shulkers give this effect, so you will need to complete the difficult task of bringing a Shulker into the overworld

Mining Fatigue

Elder Guardians are in Ocean Monuments; as such, you can either bring one to you, or set up your How Did We Get Here? station near a monument

You just need to be within 50 blocks of the Elder Guardian

Wither

Wither can be gained by touching a Wither Rose

These drop when the Wither kills a mob (the flower drops from the dead mob)

Dolphin's Grace

Dolphins live in the ocean, so you'll need to find one and most likely capture it

Thankfully, you can put a lead on a Dolphin and bring it to wherever you are completing this advancement

Glowing

You can set up a dispenser to fire a Spectral Arrow at you

Darkness

This can be hard to obtain, as it comes from either the Warden or a naturally generated Sculk Shrieker

To streamline this process, you can capture/transport a Warden

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So, with this in mind, one strategy would be to have an open area where to can stage the effects. This includes having dispensers to drop potions and the Spectral Arrow, as well as a Wither Rose, dolphin, Shulker, and Warden.

It's important to note that this is not going to be easy. There are several ways that it can be done in order to streamline the process; you can find several other Minecrafters online who have come up with a process that worked for them.

  • Cyan8888 on Reddit (1.21)
  • LNXS on YouTube (1.21)
  • Barbar31 on YouTube (1.21)

Overall, the biggest piece of advice that we can give you is to prepare ahead. How Did We Get Here is hard and not something you can decide to do on a whim. This will take a lot of preparation, and you may need to do some trial runs.

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