Minecraft players have noticed a strange detail about an achievement in the Xbox edition of the game. Achievements were first introduced to Minecraft back in the Beta 1.5 update in April 2011, and have continued to be updated as new content has been added to the game by Mojang.
Achievements aren't a huge focus of the modern Minecraft experience and were added during a period when it felt like achievement systems were still a selling point of games. They're certainly not redundant, but most Minecraft players will be focused on harnessing their creativity through incredible builds rather than achievements. To this day, players continue to surprise with their remarkable creations in-game, with one Minecraft player even creating a giant map of their world using smaller maps. This enduring creativity from the community is a huge reason that the game has remained so popular over such a long period of time.
In a post online, Redditor ThatOGMan1 realized that in the Xbox version of Minecraft, only 61.72% of players have completed the "Taking Inventory" achievement, which is achieved by opening the inventory with a single button press. It seems improbable that anyone could play the game at all without opening the inventory. With Minecraft being one of the most popular games on Xbox Game Pass, it's possible that players who download the game through the service are also contributors to the interesting statistic.
Players in the thread had their theories about how the strange statistic had occurred. The most common theory is that Xbox's achievement tracking includes every player that has bought the game, even if they've never launched it. This could massively skew the numbers and would make a lot of sense. Others pointed out that players using Minecraft's Creative Mode will have achievements locked, so this would also exclude anyone who used the game exclusively in Creative Mode.
Over a decade after it was first released, Minecraft retains incredible support from developer Mojang. The upcoming Minecraft 1.20 update has the potential to be the largest content drop for the game in a very long time. Next month's release of Minecraft Legends shows that the developer also remains dedicated to ensuring the series is always looking to expand into new genres, following in the footsteps of titles such as Minecraft Dungeons and Minecraft Story Mode. It remains a great time to be a Minecraft fan, with the franchise still at the pinnacle of pop culture as the best-selling video game of all time.
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