Filter Advancements with Blacklist and Whitelist Mode

Remove specific advancements or entire advancement trees from Minecraft using Custom Advancements’ blacklist and whitelist configuration options.

Custom Advancements lets you control precisely which advancements exist in your game. You can remove individual advancements, wipe out an entire tree with a single entry, or flip the logic so that only the advancements you explicitly list survive. All of these options live in config/customadvancements-common.toml.

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advancementsBlacklist

advancementsBlacklist is a list of advancement resource location IDs that Custom Advancements removes before the game presents them to players. Resource locations follow the standard Minecraft format namespace:path, for example "minecraft:story/root" or "botania:main/roots".

config/customadvancements-common.toml

["Config for Custom Advancements"]

    advancementsBlacklist = [
        "minecraft:story/mine_stone",
        "minecraft:adventure/kill_a_mob",
        "botania:main/roots"
    ]

When an advancement is removed, all of its children are removed automatically. The cascade is recursive — grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and so on are all cleared without needing to list them individually. This is what makes removing a whole mod’s tree a one-line job: blacklist its root advancement.

Use the /ca generate resource_locations command to write a file containing every currently loaded advancement ID, which makes it easy to find the exact resource locations you need. See Commands for details.

Removing a root advancement (one with no parent) removes its entire tab from the advancements screen along with every advancement in that tree. Make sure this is intentional before blacklisting a root advancement.

Wildcards are not supported. "modid:*" is not a valid entry — each line must be a complete resource location. Entries that do not match an advancement loaded on the server are rejected as invalid.

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blacklistIsWhitelist

Setting blacklistIsWhitelist = true inverts the list: instead of removing the listed advancements, Custom Advancements keeps only the listed advancements and removes everything else.

When whitelist mode is active, the parent advancements of any whitelisted advancement are preserved automatically even if they are not listed — this prevents broken trees where a child exists without its parent.

Edge case — empty list plus whitelist mode: if advancementsBlacklist is empty and blacklistIsWhitelist = true, there is nothing to keep, so every advancement is removed. Combine that with your own files in the customadvancements folder to build an advancement system entirely from scratch.

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Examples

Blacklist mode

Remove specific advancements while keeping everything else.

config/customadvancements-common.toml

["Config for Custom Advancements"]

    # Remove two vanilla tabs and one mod's entire tree
    advancementsBlacklist = [
        "minecraft:end/root",
        "minecraft:nether/root",
        "botania:main/root"
    ]

    blacklistIsWhitelist = false

This removes the End and Nether advancement tabs along with every advancement in Botania’s tree, because removing a root also removes its children. All other advancements load normally.

Whitelist mode

Keep only the advancements you list; remove everything else.

config/customadvancements-common.toml

["Config for Custom Advancements"]

    # Only these advancements (and their ancestors) will be kept
    advancementsBlacklist = [
        "minecraft:story/root",
        "minecraft:story/mine_stone",
        "minecraft:story/upgrade_tools",
        "minecraft:story/smelt_iron",
        "minecraft:story/obtain_armor"
    ]

    blacklistIsWhitelist = true

Only the listed advancements and the parents they depend on survive. Every other advancement — including those from other mods — is removed.

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Additional filtering options

noRecipeAdvancements

Setting noRecipeAdvancements = true removes every advancement whose path contains recipes/. This covers both vanilla recipe-unlock advancements and any added by mods. It is processed independently of advancementsBlacklist, so you do not need to list recipe advancements by hand. Many modpack authors use it simply to stop recipe advancements from cluttering the advancements screen.

config/customadvancements-common.toml

["Config for Custom Advancements"]

    noRecipeAdvancements = true

noAdvancements

Setting noAdvancements = true removes every advancement in the game in a single line — vanilla, modded, custom, and recipe advancements alike. It takes precedence over the blacklist, so nothing else in this section applies while it is enabled. Use it when you want a completely clean advancements screen.

config/customadvancements-common.toml

["Config for Custom Advancements"]

    noAdvancements = true

disableStandardAdvancementLoad

Setting disableStandardAdvancementLoad = true discards the advancements Minecraft and other mods would normally load, so that only the files in your customadvancements/ folder are registered. This is the option to use when your own advancement set is meant to replace the vanilla one rather than sit alongside it — for example after exporting templates with /ca generate advancement all and editing them.

config/customadvancements-common.toml

["Config for Custom Advancements"]

    disableStandardAdvancementLoad = true

With this option enabled, any advancement in your folder whose parent is missing from the folder is skipped, and its own children are skipped with it. Make sure every tree in your folder is complete, starting from a root advancement, before turning it on.

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Common scenarios

Remove one mod’s advancements

config/customadvancements-common.toml

["Config for Custom Advancements"]

    advancementsBlacklist = [
        "botania:main/root"
    ]

Because removing a root removes all of its children, this single entry clears the mod’s whole tab.

Keep only your own advancements

config/customadvancements-common.toml

["Config for Custom Advancements"]

    advancementsBlacklist = [
        "customadvancements:chapter1/root",
        "customadvancements:chapter2/root"
    ]

    blacklistIsWhitelist = true
    noRecipeAdvancements = true

Remove recipe advancements plus a few specific entries

config/customadvancements-common.toml

["Config for Custom Advancements"]

    noRecipeAdvancements = true

    advancementsBlacklist = [
        "minecraft:adventure/kill_a_mob",
        "minecraft:adventure/trade"
    ]

Both mechanisms work together — noRecipeAdvancements handles all recipes, and the blacklist handles the individual entries you want gone.

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Finding advancement IDs

Run /ca generate resource_locations in-game or from the server console to write every currently loaded advancement ID to customadvancements/resource_locations.txt. This is the fastest way to find the exact resource location strings to paste into advancementsBlacklist. See Commands for more information.