Filter Advancements with Blacklist and Whitelist Mode

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

Custom Advancements lets you surgically control which advancements exist in your game. You can remove individual advancements, wipe out everything from a specific mod, or flip the logic entirely so that only the advancements you explicitly list are kept. All of these options live in config/customadvancements.toml and take effect on every server start.

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advancementsBlacklist

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

Wildcard support: If you want to remove every advancement belonging to a specific mod in one line, use the wildcard form "modid:*". For example, "create:*" removes all advancements from the Create mod without needing to list each one individually.

Use the /ca/generate/ids command to export a file containing every currently loaded advancement ID, making it easy to find the exact resource locations you need. See Commands Overview for details.

When an advancement is removed, all of its children are removed automatically as well. The cascade is recursive — grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and so on are all cleared without needing to list them individually.

Removing a root advancement (an advancement with no parent) removes its entire tab from the advancements screen. Players will see no trace of that tab. Make sure this is intentional before blacklisting a root advancement.

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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, parent advancements of any whitelisted advancement are automatically preserved even if they are not explicitly listed — this prevents broken advancement trees where a child exists without its parent.

Edge case — empty list + whitelist mode: If advancementsBlacklist is empty and blacklistIsWhitelist = true, there are no advancements to keep, so all advancements are removed. This can be combined with disableStandardAdvancements = true and a custom advancements folder to build a fully custom advancement system from scratch.

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Examples

Blacklist mode

Remove specific advancements while keeping everything else.

config/customadvancements.toml

["Config for Custom Advancements"]

    # Remove individual advancements and all advancements from one mod
    advancementsBlacklist = [
        "minecraft:end/root",
        "minecraft:nether/root",
        "create:*"
    ]

    blacklistIsWhitelist = false

This removes the End and Nether advancement tabs along with every advancement from the Create mod. All other advancements load normally.

Whitelist mode

Keep only the advancements you list; remove everything else.

config/customadvancements.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 their required parent advancements 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.

config/customadvancements.toml

["Config for Custom Advancements"]

    noRecipeAdvancements = true

disableStandardAdvancements

Setting disableStandardAdvancements = true bypasses the vanilla and mod advancement loading pipeline entirely. When this option is active, only advancements you have placed in the customadvancements folder are loaded — no vanilla advancements, no mod advancements, nothing else. This is the most aggressive option and is intended for modpack authors who want full control over the advancement system.

config/customadvancements.toml

["Config for Custom Advancements"]

    disableStandardAdvancements = true

Enabling disableStandardAdvancements will remove every recipe advancement unlock notification and all mod-added advancements. Recipes that rely on advancement triggers may behave unexpectedly unless you recreate the necessary advancements yourself.

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Finding advancement IDs

Run /ca/generate/ids in-game or from the server console to write a file containing every currently loaded advancement ID to disk. This is the fastest way to find the exact resource location strings to use in advancementsBlacklist. See Commands Overview for more information.