Improved Advancements
by Fooze
Improved Advancements reorganizes the advancement screen, sorting its tabs and widening the view so more of the tree fits on one page.
What it does
Vanilla advancement tabs are placed first, followed by tabs added by other mods in ascending alphabetical order. The advancement screen also expands to fill more of the window, so larger trees need less scrolling. Hovering over an advancement shows a tooltip with the progress of each of its criteria.
Installation needs NeoForge, and the client is the only side that runs it: a server does not need the mod, and players joining a server gain nothing from installing it. Files target 1.21.1 alone, and the code is released under the MIT License, so the project is open source. Each feature can be switched on or off in the config file.
Key features
Vanilla tabs first
Built-in advancement tabs are listed before any tabs contributed by other mods, keeping the familiar layout in front.
Alphabetical modded tabs
Tabs from installed mods are sorted in ascending alphabetical order, so the sequence stays the same from one session to the next.
Larger advancement view
The advancement screen stretches to use more space, which shows more of each tree at once.
Criteria progress tooltips
Hovering an advancement shows how far each of its criteria has progressed.
Configurable features
Each change can be enabled or disabled in the config, so players keep only the parts they want.
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Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Use cases
Browsing large modpacks
Players with many advancement tabs can find the one they need without scrolling through an unsorted list.
Tracking partial progress
The criteria tooltips show which requirements of a long advancement are already complete.
Who it’s for: Players on NeoForge 1.21.1 who use many advancement tabs and want them sorted and displayed in a larger window. Because the mod runs only on the client, it is not needed on dedicated servers.
How it compares
Interactive Achievment Messages is also a client-side mod for NeoForge 1.21.1 under the MIT License and open source, but it changes the chat messages shown when an advancement is earned rather than the layout of the screen. Advancement-reobtain is client-side and under the MIT License, but it is built for 1.21.11 and is not open source.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Improved Advancements | NeoForge | 1.21.1 | Client-side only | 2026-09-16 |
| Interactive Achievment Messages | NeoForge | 1.21.1 | Client-side only | 2026-06-03 |
| Advancement-reobtain | NeoForge | 1.21.11 | Client-side only | 2026-09-08 |
Questions
Does Improved Advancements need to be installed on the server?
Which loader does Improved Advancements support?
Can the sorting and tooltips be turned off?
In the catalog
Improved Advancements is one of 8,016 Management mods on ModsFinder, and one of 2,689 Management mods for NeoForge. 32,366 mods support Minecraft 1.21.1.
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Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/improved-advancements
- Owner
- Fooze
- Published
- 2026-08-20
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-09-16
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15