Minecraft Update Aquatic - 100% Guide for PS3 and Vita

baboon_overlord · April 2

Major Update: This is now a 100% Guide that allows you to get every trophy in the game in the Tutorial World on PS3 and Vita!!

Hi everyone,

I decided to see how easy and quick it was to build a Trophy World and/or get all the trophies (except the dedicated multiplayer ones of course) in the Tutorial World. I am delighted to say that building a Trophy World is super easy and relatively quick if you use this guide.

Not only was I massively enjoying the game, I keep seeing people setting up boosting sessions on here looking for someone with a Trophy World to help them. So I thought I would do the next best thing and write up everything I have learned so people can have fun building their own!

I can understand the issues: most of the information on the web and on YouTube is massively outdated or applies to other versions of the game. Finding stuff that applies to the last patch for the Legacy Editions is very difficult.

This is going to be ridiculously detailed. It took a huge amount of research and time to find everything, but I have it all done now. I was going to test it on an alt on PS3 but then decided to look into the Vita version. I played it on PSTV and everything works perfectly - apart from some very minor differences, everything is identical, including the controls using a DS3/4.

Roadmap:

Step 1: If you want to play the game and work out how to get everything done in the Tutorial World by yourself, then just bear the following in mind. Read this step and then stop reading, or else I'll give you very detailed instructions how to do everything yourself, so consider this as a Spoiler Alert.

If you want to build your own Trophy World or just get the trophies yourself as quickly as possible, then keep reading.

Whilst you CAN get all the trophies on one continuous save file, I would recommend you do NOT do that for the following reasons:

I recommend you play on Peaceful and only switch the game to Easy or harder for specific monster related trophies. Easy is very annoying - Villagers can die and Creepers can wreck all your hard work
Once you set the game to Peaceful, Evokers, Elder Guardians and guaranteed spawn points for Witches and a Zombie Villager will permanently remove these enemies from the game
This will prevent you from earning the following trophies: "Feeling ill", "The Deep End" and "Dry Spell". It will make Taste of Your Own Medicine more time consuming because you will need to find a Witch in the wild.
The Zombie Villager isn't really an issue as I have an even easier solution for that, but that requires using a seed I discovered. As this is the Spoiler Free section, all I will say is that yes, you can get Zombie Doctor using a couple of methods depending on whether you play on Easy or not.

So I highly recommend you create a dedicated save file for these specific enemy trophies. I did this last night so I could help a friend out with those trophies in the near future and it took me about two and a half hours - the biggest timesink there being building a Conduit near the Ocean Monument for the Elder Guardian. You can definitely do it faster than that if you just want the trophies for yourself. Building the Conduit is helpful but probably not necessary.

You can do this step first or last or even in-between, it doesn't matter.

Just remember to rename your save files - if you have one named "Tutorial", creating a new save in the Tutorial World will wipe your existing one. In the Load menu, press Triangle and then Rename Save. Also, I would highly advise backing up your saves regularly, just in case.

OK, stop reading now if you don't want Spoilers as things are going to get detailed!

Step 2:

We are now going to get every other singleplayer trophy in the game. I've marked the fully completed map of the Tutorial World below to show you where some of the most important locations are. I have found videos that show you places like the End Portal location, so those will be included under the relevant trophy solutions. I will also provide exact coordinates for finding things where necessary.

If you really want to make your life as easy as possible - when building a Trophy World or just knocking everything out as fast as possible, then I found this duplication glitch which works perfectly on both the PS3 and PSTV. I just tested it now and it works on Vita as well.

Thanks to kathacro for the amazing video. I tried looking for something like this but was getting older or different versions of the game. This magically appeared in my YouTube feed when I wasn't looking for it!

From here on in I am going to be referring to the starting area, all the Tutorial areas and the Conduit Tutorial area as the "Tutorial Fortress", because that's literally what it is I guess. Get to know your way around, everything is sign posted and it will help you do everything as fast as possible.

Just so you have an idea of where my preferred base area is, here's a picture:

So your first order of business when you start a new Tutorial World is to construct an Iron Pickaxe and then go and get a load of Iron, Gold, Diamond and Emerald blocks.

1) Go to the Farming Tutorial area, there is an absolute ton of Oak Wood used decoratively here, make some sticks.

2) Go to the Beacon Tutorial area and grab the five iron ingots. Make an Iron Pickaxe. There's a Crafting Table by the Conduit Tutorial you can steal and bring it back to base. Mine all the Iron and Gold blocks.

3) Refer to the image above - that giant Diamond Pickaxe is made of Diamond blocks! Build some stairs up and grab a load of Diamonds. Stick everything except your Iron Pickaxe in a chest.

4) This one is a bit trickier. Go to the Minecart Tutorial and ride a Minecart until you get to the aqueduct overlooking the Conduit Tutorial area. Get off when you see the Emerald sculpture to your right as you can see in the image below:

Carefully mine down so you are standing on the sculpture and mine as many Emerald blocks as you can. If you are careful you can jump and safely land in the water, but it really doesn't matter if you die. If you do just go and collect everything.

5) Congratulations! You now have basically infinite resources to complete the game with! Go make Diamond Armor, Diamond Tools and Swords, grow carrots and make them into Golden Carrots and get cracking.

Some notes before we start:

On PS3, the trophies in the main game can take ten seconds or more to pop; the Mini Game (multiplayer) trophies pop as you would expect. On PSTV, all trophies popped instantly
Finding things in the crafting menus can be very frustrating. Reading the Wiki or looking up videos is generally a waste of time, so I will be explaining building things in the menus that I had problems with
ALL the Mini Game multiplayer trophies HAVE to be done in public matches or they won't pop
ALL the trophies are obtainable
The below list is in rarity order on PSN Profiles, just use Ctrl+F to find the trophy you want
I am going to give credit to people who gave solutions in random places that I had to do some serious digging to find
I am going to use two terms: "Glitchy" means that the game itself is annoying; "Glitched" means that the previous methods for obtaining the trophies no longer work, or that the trophies don't unlock due to various factors and you need to use a workaround

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MAIN GAME TROPHIES

Sniper Duel
Kill a skeleton with an arrow from more than 50 meters.

- Glitchy: This one is very annoying. At (I would estimate) 52 meters, skeletons can despawn completely from the game. I did this in my friend's world on PS3. On PSTV I was having problems, tried a few strategies and was having the same issues. I was around the area marked on the map in Step 2 above that says "Clay", as there are tons of skeletons in that area, as well as two Skeleton Mob Heads (see "Camouflage" for more information and coordinates). However, as soon as I tried moving to the coordinates: X:243 Y:74 Z:359 I got it first time. It's on a roof that you will have to climb up on top of. The image below shows the location and the direction I was firing in when I got it.

The End.
Kill the Enderdragon.

- Glitchy: I'm marking this as Glitchy because the description is wrong: This trophy pops when you jump in the Portal back to the Overworld, not when you kill the Dragon, so the Dragon can stay dead if you invite other players into your world and get it.

Since I want this guide to be complete, the Dragon is super easy to kill and can even be fought on Peaceful if you like. On top of several Obsidian towers are End Crystals that heal the Dragon. You have to destroy them all so you can actually start hurting him. Two towers need to be climbed by placing blocks and the Crystals smashed by a Pickaxe, the rest can be shot with arrows.

The only way realistically that he will kill you is if you shoot all the End Crystals first. This will make him very aggressive and he will start destroying the blocks you are climbing for the other two towers and you will fall to your death.

So bring a load of blocks with you. The towers you need to climb are the tallest ones and have iron cages around the crystals. Face the crystal, turn around and build a two block high wall behind you - if you don't the End Crystals will explode and knock you off the edge of the tower to your death.

After you have done this, run around shooting the other End Crystals with a bow and arrow. If you are a decent shot you should get all or most of them first try.

Wait for the Dragon to land and shoot him with your bow or smack him with your Diamond Sword. Rinse and repeat until he's toast.

Collect the green and yellow orbs for XP and jump back into the Portal the Dragon was standing on when you were fighting him.

Just so you know, you can save your game in The End.

On A Rail
Travel by minecart to a point at least 500m in a single direction from where you started.

- On PS3 I got this in a friend's Trophy World so everything was pre-built. Building it out in the Tutorial World is a pain, since this is Update Aquatic and there's water everywhere. I tested a bunch of candidate locations but the best one I found was on the map I posted above.

Coordinates:

Start of Railway: X:-236 Y:69 Z: 361

End of Railway: X:-235 Y:64 Z: -163

I accidentally built a slight curve into mine and couldn't be bothered to fix it. I tested it and got the trophy anyway. I didn't use any powered rail and just held my thumb down on the left analogue stick to push the cart forward. I made all the rail - just standard rail using six iron ingots and a stick.

I built a long tunnel through the Terracotta section, then as soon as I got to Sand I started building overland. There are sections over water, which is annoying, you have to swim backwards while placing blocks on the previous ones, but these were short and it didn't take very long. I highly doubt there's anywhere else on the map where you could do this so easily.

The End?
Enter an End Portal.

- Massively Glitched! OK, so don't panic!. The glitch is that Eyes of Ender don't work properly on the Tutorial World. They take you to a cave that only has Bedrock underneath it. The real Stronghold/Portal location is actually immediately on the left as you swim out of the Tutorial Fortress, in front of the giant Prismarine Creeper statue.

If I hadn't found this video, which probably took me an hour to locate, I would not have been able to find the Portal. I tried searching YouTube for every conceivable term I could think of. It was only when I read that PS4 version 1.76 is equivalent to PS3 version 1.84 that I finally found what I was looking for.

Massive thanks to iamarghus for posting this.

Now, in that video they are digging straight down to save time. But for you and me, this is a very bad idea! You want to build a nice spiral staircase so you can easily get in and out. So dig the marked block, then dig out the one on the right (facing the statue), then the one in front of that and finally the one to the left. There's no Bedrock here so you can dig all the way down with no issues.

Bring a load of torches so you can see what you are doing. There's tons in this area that you will never need so just go and grab those.

I tested this three times - twice on PS3 and once on Vita (on PSTV) and I came out in slightly different locations every single time. I never came out at the staircase like in the video but I was always close. However, the coordinates of the End Portal are always the same - X:19 Y:12 Z:30 - as shown at the end of the video. You might need to dig through a wall but you will get to the Portal, I guarantee it.

To activate the Portal you need 12 Eyes of Ender. In the tiny Village at the start of the Tutorial (after the Farming Tutorial), there's the Trading Tutorial. In the second building to your right as you head South is a Librarian, who sells Enchanted Books, and a Cleric. The Cleric sells Ender Pearls for four Emeralds. There's loads of Blaze Powder scattered around the Tutorial World but it can easily be farmed in the Nether if you look up my solution for the "Into Fire" trophy.

Eyes of Ender can be made at a Crafting Table using one Ender Pearl and one Blaze Powder. For some reason, Blaze Powder is classed as a food and can be found eighth on the right in the Food crafting menu. Eyes of Ender are a Tool and can be found at the far right of the menu where the Clock is.

I would make a save before placing the Eyes of Ender - sometimes the game will throw them instead of placing them!

Once placed, jump into the Portal and the trophy will pop when you emerge in The End.

The Nether and The End seem to be identical across playthroughs in the Tutorial World. As soon as you spawn in The End, turn to your left and start digging out, you should find the exit almost immediately.

When are outside, turn right and make stairs up, the Dragon will be right in front of you.

When Pigs Fly
Use a saddle to ride a pig, then have the pig get hurt from fall damage while riding it.

- You can easily get this in the Tutorial Fortress. From the opening area, head up the stairs, past the giant Minecraft sign and towards the tiny Village. To your left and right are staircases that take you to every animal needed for trophies. Grab the saddle, grab a carrot, get the fishing rod from a chest near the Conduit Tutorial. Make a "Carrot on a Stick" which is the sixth item along in the Tools menu where the Fishing Rod is. Tame the pig, put the saddle on and equip the Carrot on a Stick. Ride the pig off the cliff towards the Conduit area.

Dispense With This
Construct a Dispenser.

- Dispensers are Mechanisms and can be found in the eighth row to the right in the Mechanism menu.

Return to Sender
Destroy a Ghast with a fireball.

- This trophy is annoying as the Ghasts move around a lot. Just keep spamming R2 and eventually you will kill one with their own fireball.

If you look up my solution for the "Into Fire" trophy, the Nether is always the same, as is The End on the Tutorial World. I tested placing the Portal in a few locations but you will come out in a place where Ghasts are a guaranteed spawn and are pretty easy to kill.

The Lie
Bake a cake using wheat, sugar, milk and eggs!

- This can be done in the Tutorial Fortress. Everything is easy to get but the biggest issue is three milk Buckets. There's a lava Bucket that you can empty by the forge, a water Bucket you can empty by the potion tutorial and more than enough Iron Ingots to make another Bu00cket by the Beacon tutorial.

Using the infinite dupe trick you can make as many buckets are you like.

Sugar Canes grow in the Farming Tutorial area. Make them into Sugar by going into a Crafting Table and selecting Food - it's the second one on the far right.

Visit the chickens/ducks in the animal area for eggs.

Wheat grows in the Farming Tutorial and doesn't need anything done to it. The Cake itself is next to the Sugar in the Food menu.

Into Fire
Relieve a Blaze of its rod.

If you look up my solution for the "Into Fire" trophy, the Nether is always the same, as is The End on the Tutorial World. I tested placing the Portal in a few locations but you will come out in a place where a Nether Fortress is. Blaze are a guaranteed spawn and are extremely easy to kill.

Once you are in the Fortress, you can save, exit, change the game from Peaceful to Easy and they will spawn in.

Leader Of The Pack
Befriend five wolves.

- Easily done in the Tutorial Fortress. From the opening area, head up the stairs, past the giant Minecraft sign and towards the tiny Village. To your left and right are staircases that take you to every animal needed for trophies. Once you have the bones from the chests in these areas, save your game. Tame two wolves, quit the game without saving, reload, tame two wolves and quit without saving again. Load the game again and the trophy will pop when you tame the fifth wolf.

Enchanter
Construct an Enchantment Table.

- Unlike some of the other things you need to craft, this one is easy to find. Fifth row along to the right in the Structures menu.

To easily obtain Obsidian, look up the solution to the "Into The Nether" trophy.

You have infinite Diamonds using the dupe.

For Books, go to the Enchanted Book Tutorial. It's past the Potion Tutorial in a small house. There are tons and tons of Bookcases here. Mine as many as you want and then steal the Enchantment Table by mining it. Take it back to base. Save your game, make an Enchantment Table for the trophy and reload your save to prevent wasting the Obsidian.

Local Brewery
Brew a potion.

- Can easily be done in the potion tutorial in the Tutorial Fortress. The Potion Tutorial forces you to make a Fire Resistance Potion which you can then use to obtain the "Stayin' Frosty" trophy.

Into The Nether
Construct a Nether Portal.

Glitchy: I did this in my friend's world on PS3 and it popped with no problems. However, I 100% used a Flint and Steel.

On Vita, I didn't have any Flint and couldn't be bothered to look for any. The Fletcher in the larger Village (see map, above) sells it but he wants Emeralds + Gravel for it, which is very hard to find.

So I made a Fire Charge, built my Portal, lit it and went into the Nether. No trophy. Tried reloading a few times. Nada. So I am marking this as Glitchy because it will only pop if you use a Flint and Steel to light the Portal and therefore the trophy description is wrong.

OK, now onto the solution.

I was scavenging Obsidian - there's quite a few blocks scattered across the Tutorial Fortress and some in the wilds. I was two short. I somehow died and respawned at the very start where you do the opening tutorial.

As I walked forward towards my base, something caught me eye. Since I had my eyes tuned for Obsidian, I could swear that there was some right above me! So I climbed up there and low and behold there is a completed Nether Portal! The devs cheekily hid it in plain sight!

Even more hilariously, there's another Portal on the other tower facing the giant Minecraft sign, so there is a ton of Obsidian to play with.

Now, I tried using the ones that are already in-situ on PS3 on my own Trophy World I started building and the location is completely useless because you start in a place where you will have to dig a long way down before you get to where you need to be.

There is another fully built and operating Portal in the far Southeastern corner of the map (where the Skeleton Mob Heads are) but this spawns you by a lava lake and is completely useless.

If you look at the photo of my base in the Roadmap, you can see I built the Portal just before the Farming Tutorial section on the left as you come from the spawn point. The coordinates are X:8 Y:86 Z: -251

Grab your Obsidian (you need a Diamond Pickaxe) and go and construct a Portal, you can make two variants but either will do (you can also make it larger apparently but let's keep things simple).

Check out the Wiki here: https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Nether_portal#Creation

Now we need a Flint and Steel. You need an Iron Ingot and some Flint. Grab some Emeralds and head towards the larger Village as indicated on the map I posted. Very near to this area is a pink piece of coral you can stand on. This is mounted on a square structure which, fortuitously, has Gravel. The coordinates are X: -205 Y:63 Z:9

I have no idea how I managed to find this, I guess I just got lucky. Grab as much Gravel as you can and buy some Flints. Make a Flint and Steel at a Crafting Table (Tools menu, fifth on the right where the Shears are). The Flint and Steel can be used more than once so don't worry about using it.

Light the Portal and stand in it for a few seconds. It will take you to The Nether and the trophy will pop.

Now, I'm not done yet because there's a bit more to do here. I tested this on PS3 and Vita and I probably built my stairs down slightly differently, or there are some minor differences. Here's what my setup looks like on PSTV when you spawn through the Portal into the Nether:

As soon as you spawn, turn to your right and start digging stairs down. Make sure you bring torches and steal some banners from the Banner Tutorial because it's very easy to get lost here. You want to be able to easily find your way back to the Portal.

Keep digging down until you either come out in a massive cavern with Ghasts in (which is what happened to me on PS3) or you hit the wall of the Nether Stronghold (which happened on Vita). Either way, this is all the same location. you might just arrive at different places. I knew where I was in the Vita version because I recognized the few landmarks that exist, so it's definitely the same location.

The only things you have to do here are kill a Ghast with its own fireball and kill a Blaze and pick up its Rod. You can farm Blaze Rods by saving the game, setting it to Easy from Peaceful and they spawn in.

Delicious Fish
Catch and cook a fish!

- Can easily be obtained in the Tutorial Fortress near the Conduit tutorial. There's a fishing rod and a furnace in this area as well.

Bake Bread
Turn wheat into bread.

- Can easily be obtained in the Farming Tutorial area. Just farm some Wheat and use a Crafting Table, Bread is under the Food menu, last one on the right.

DIAMONDS!
Acquire diamonds with your iron tools.

Glitchy: The trophy doesn't work as expected- mining Diamonds with iron tools does nothing. On PS3 I just had my alt throw a diamond at me. This can easily be obtained in the Tutorial Fortress using two controllers - see the Roadmap of how to easily get Diamonds.

On the Vita version, I was finishing powering up a Beacon and accidentally still had the Diamonds selected when I exited the Beacon menu. I threw Diamonds at myself off the Beacon and the trophy popped!

Time to Farm!
Use planks and sticks to make a hoe.