Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition

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Passing the Time

Play for 100 days.

How to unlock the Passing the Time achievement in Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition - Definitive Guide

Noodles Jr

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27 Apr 2015 21:57

This will more than likely be the last achievement you get in the game. It requires you to play for 100 Minecraft days, which is equal to 33.3 hours of playtime. If you play Minecraft regularly, this should come naturally, as 33.3 hours is not too much time. But if you're just in it for the gamerscore, the best way to come about doing this is to set up an online game, with it set to 'invite only'. Once that's done, load up a survival world on peaceful and find a nice place to stand. It really doesn't matter where. From this point, all you have to do is hang out for however many hours you have left to do. I'd suggest doing this overnight, or while you're not at home. Once you're in the game, I'd suggest turning off your controller, to avoid wasting battery power. Since it's an online game, your controller being turned off will not stop the day-cycle so you can still work towards this achievement. After you've played for the required amount of time, the achievement will pop and you're good to go.

EDIT: As you may be able to tell from the comments, this achievement is extremely buggy. It works for some but not for others. If you can't get it to unlock, try the generic troubleshooting, such as clearing the cache, making a new world and starting over, disconnecting and reconnecting you account, etc. If all else fails, contact xbox support here: http://support.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-360/games/minecraft-xbox-... by making a thread. If you see a thread already there for it, use that thread to post the issue. If they realize how many people are having the same problem, it'll have a better chance of getting noticed and forwarded to 4j Studios.

27 Apr 2015 21:57

132 Comments

Anyone who has "met the requirements" before the title update will get this achievement unlocked instantly the next time they load up a world with the title update applied.

For those players, it will be their first achievement from Title Update 24 for Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition

By lightsup55 on 29 Apr 2015 13:03

^ Didn't happen for me, played a lot more than 100 days, achievement didn't pop (Yet...)

By Spakon on 29 Apr 2015 13:11

Mine popped immediately too. Should speed things up a bit

By AfflictedJK on 29 Apr 2015 14:01

Doesn't having your controller turned off and being in the pause menu stop the timer for the achievement?

By CowboySoldier11 on 30 Apr 2015 01:01

That's why you should set the game to be an online game. If it's an online game, having your controller off and the game paused wont stop the daylight cycle, and it'll all count towards the achievement.

By Noodles Jr on 30 Apr 2015 02:21

I don't trust this explanation, especially since you have not even earned the achievement yet. Just use a wired controller and leave it plugged in.

By justG0Twicked on 30 Apr 2015 03:47

did the update started a new world and got the achievement immediately. sweet

By Blazing Noble on 30 Apr 2015 06:03

My achievement popped immediately. Didn't even think I played enough to get it.

By Edweirdd on 30 Apr 2015 11:51

I haven't gotten the achievement on the 360 version, but I got it on the One version by doing exactly what I said. I wrote it in the walkthrough for the game and it helped lots of people get it. You can trust this explanation.

By Noodles Jr on 30 Apr 2015 19:07

My achievement didn't pop yet either, and I've played well past the required time. On a side note, I loaded up my netfix profile just to throw some diamonds at another player, and the 100 days achievement popped instantly for the netflix profile when I joined. I know for sure that the other profile didn't have enough play time to pop it. That said, this cheeve seems a little buggy to me. No fault of the solution, tho, and I didn't downvote. Any thoughts to get mine to pop?

By oXI deviant IXo on 30 Apr 2015 20:43

^ Have you played the required time on the 360 since the achievements have been updated?

By AfflictedJK on 30 Apr 2015 21:33

Deviant, the fact that the Netflix profile unlocked it is a common glitch, where signing in a second player into the game will randomly unlock a handful of achievements for them. It's just by chance that he got that specific achievement. It also (in case you didn't know) must be done in Survival, not Creative and for a full day to count, you must go through the full 20-minute cycle. So, if I backed out halfway through a day-cycle, and then did another half-day-cycle on another world, that wouldn't count as one day. The sun must set and rise 100 times.

By Noodles Jr on 30 Apr 2015 21:54

I do believe that this one is bugged, I know I should have this so left it going overnight hoping it would unlock but nothing.

By Arador on 01 May 2015 00:54

@ Noodles... I did know about playing in survival, and as far as the day/night cycle, I was unaware of that. Nonetheless, with the time I spent playing, I can't see how I wouldn't have played long enough. Thanks for the info, tho. Guess I'll keep chipping away at it.

By oXI deviant IXo on 01 May 2015 04:06

Does it count ,if i skip the night like in the Xbox one version or have i to play 100 nights ,too?

By axelnator94 on 02 May 2015 18:46

I don't trust your guide, because you don't have the achievement yet

By oo EVIL GOAT oo on 02 May 2015 22:24

Evil Goat, I have the achievement on the Xbox One edition of Minecraft, and I used this exact method. Trust me, all's good.

By Noodles Jr on 02 May 2015 23:49

To clear things up.. I just won this achievement on my 360 with the described method. Let my xbox run for the night and it just popped ;)
So no more doubts, it works ;)

By Cpt Kuesel on 04 May 2015 07:50

Well the achievement hasn't popped for me and I've spent over 3000 hours I game since launch and over 40 since the achievements were released and still nothing. The game was not paused and the day/night cycles run through atleast a hundred times by now too. :/ Guess it's bugged.

By Pyro1099 on 04 May 2015 14:53

Same as Pyro1099, I'm starting to wonder if it's bugged as well. I've spent over 50 hours on the 360 version since the update and still no achievement.

By ShowtimeCM on 04 May 2015 15:33

@ noodles jr yeah?, why don't you have it for 360 yet? as others have said just leave box on overnight

By oo EVIL GOAT oo on 04 May 2015 18:11

Because in my household, we have the family 360 and I have my own personal 360. My personal 360 doesn't have Minecraft, while the family one does. It's hard to find a time when I can let it run for 33 hours when everyone else in my house wants to use that Xbox. I'm sure I'll get it sooner or later.

By Noodles Jr on 04 May 2015 20:49

I have now gotten this achievement on the 1 and the 360. I used the same method as this guide to get this achievement on both consoles, online game, peaceful, turn off controller. This does work. A few notes that I have not seen yet. For a full day to count the day has to start from sunrise and end at sundown without quitting out of the game or sleeping (I tested this on xbox one with the snap app checking to see if when i slept or quit out half-way during a day if it would still tick a day in the progress meter. While looking through the comments I noticed that a lot of people say that this achievement is probably bugged. I highly doubt that due to the fact that this achievement is a online leaderboard achievement, which rarely if ever glitch because they are saved on a leaderboard and if you have the required number, it unlocks. I believe (but am not 100% sure) there is a "days played" leaderboard stat on the minecraft main menu, I think I remembered seeing something like that once. Also, this guy created a guide for this achievement to help you guys, I get that he doesnt have the achievement, if you don't believe him thats fine, just go find a guide created by someone who has the achievement (like on the xbox one achievement guide, they arent different, just on different consoles), don't downvote him and be sarcastic brat to him in the comments just because you dont have the acheivement, like i said, he made this guide to help people who dont have the achievement, just like you.

By AypL on 05 May 2015 04:16

I highly doubt your right tbh. I've done this on the X1 too and I know what I have been doing is right so it is bugged to some extent. My world is on hard, online, never been loaded on creative and still hasn't popped the achievement. I'm on the 3rd day running this non stop, with a couple of saves every few hours, and checking randomly to make sure the day/night cycle is running.

By Pyro1099 on 05 May 2015 08:06

And fyi I'm not part of the arguments above and I don't neg vote unless the solution is wrong and this isn't.

By Pyro1099 on 05 May 2015 08:09

And the leader boards on Minecraft 360 are very buggy. They reset progress randomly and even boost the scores of some. Both mentioned have happened to me.

By Pyro1099 on 05 May 2015 08:12

Uninstalling your game and reinstalling it maybe. If not it may just be one of those achievements where you're just going to have to wait until they do a leaderboard update until it'll unlock.

By AypL on 05 May 2015 15:05

Ya, Pyro. Maybe try making a new world or something. It's pretty safe to assume this achievement is bugged and I'm not too sure how to work around that. Might as well give a new world a shot though, just in case the Title Update only accounts for time in worlds generated since the update.

By Noodles Jr on 05 May 2015 21:00

yeah I can confirm this achievement is glitched, ive done every possible solution and still hasn't unlocked :/ just gonna have to wait til they patch it.

By CowboySoldier11 on 06 May 2015 13:12

It has unlocked for me.

I need to post another solution because mine differs a little bit.

By Ehrenfried on 06 May 2015 20:19

I can confirm that the cheeov IS retroactive even if you don't have your save game anymore.

By Ehrenfried on 07 May 2015 15:50

Mine popped straight away after the update although my younger brother spent hours and hours at least 300. All his worlds were corrupted though, started a new game and popped

By Eenieakane on 07 May 2015 23:55

I've tried everything, this is my last achievement and its buggy, it won't unlock, but on my other account, I got it as soon as I played in on my 2nd controller, while my main account was on the 1st controller, and I know for sure my 2nd account does not have 100 days played on it, hopefully there's a way to get it.

By Kombat 36O on 12 May 2015 16:44

There's a glitch going around that allows people to unlock a handful of achievements, simply by logging on as a second controller during a game, so that's why your second account got it. And after what everyone has been saying, it's safe to assume this achievement is bugged.

By Noodles Jr on 12 May 2015 21:23

Has anyone on here gotten the achievement, after having trouble with it?

By Kombat 36O on 13 May 2015 07:05

EVERYONE! There's actually no trouble unlocking this achievement. Just make sure you have a world created in Survival mode (Creative mode disables achievements, even if it is loaded in Survival mode after), and then set the difficulty to Peaceful so there aren't any enemies trying to kill you in the night. Just stand anywhere for 100 days to pass. The day and night cycle is about 20 minutes long. So 20 X 100 = 2000 minutes, and that's approximately 1 day, 9 hours and 20 minutes(?) (I don't know exactly).

By SpeedBumpVDrop on 13 May 2015 15:59

My solution doesn't need 2000 minutes only 1000.

By Ehrenfried on 13 May 2015 19:03

No shit speedbumppony, but thanks for your suggestion. Theres still a problem with it, being loaded on creative or on a save that previously loaded it isn't the problem. Though it can be that isn't the reason it bugged.

By Pyro1099 on 14 May 2015 05:30

Any1 figure out how to fix it, I been trying for days now and nothing, about to give up on it and hope for a patch

By Kombat 36O on 14 May 2015 16:28

For the ones having issues, are you using physical or digital copies? Has the typical troubleshooting been done, like clearing the system cache, deleting and installing the game again, creating a new world and starting from scratch, etc?

By Mr Granstaff on 15 May 2015 12:48

I'm on digital, I've deleted the update and the game then started a new world and let the game sit on a on with a timer going on my phone, after 34 hours I checked it but nothing, so let it sit till 40 hours and nothing, then turned timer of and tried for few more hrs and nothing, btw cleared system catche before that, and I tried my old worlds first, and a new world on the hdd with no timer, just left on 2 nights, when I tried with the timer I played on a flash drive but no luck, after failing, I deleted update again, did system catche, and moved everything from hdd to flash drive, and started new world and am now working on it, no luck so far, btw also tried signing in to another account as player 1 then signing into my main hoping it would glitch it since it gave my other account passing the time and a few other Cheevos to that account, also tried my gfs account and gave her a few my not passing the time so I thought that would work, but no, I'm going keep trying, I'm starting to wonder if u have to be moving for 33.3 hrs and not just go afk on online mode, will try and see what happens, but I know it should of unlocked before cuz I had at least 500 hrs on my saves. Other things I'm wondering is if it has to be on 1 map without quiting out, idk but will try to keep going, just hopefully 4j looks into it, I twitted them telling them the problem, just hopefully they see it, if anyone has gotten it that had this problem plz comment telling how u got it.

By Kombat 36O on 15 May 2015 15:27

Hm. I'm using a physical copy and currently idling myself. I'm hoping it unlocks over the weekend.

I was thinking if we had the same version, we could rule out some anomalies in regards to this buggy achievement and help each other, should mine fail to unlock.

Good point. I wondered this myself, if having to move around is needed versus letting your character just sit there, AFK.

I'm doubtful this would be the case, but I have heard clearing the system cache more than once is beneficial, but I can't back that statement, personally.

Now, what's this mention of a leaderboard? Does it display how long someone has played the game?

By Mr Granstaff on 15 May 2015 15:44

I'll try the system cathe a few times more and see what happens

And idk about the leaderboard, I've heard you can see how many days you played, but idk how.

By Kombat 36O on 15 May 2015 16:50

I've deleted minecraft and cleared the system cache twice.
Gone idle for the necessary amount of time on new and old worlds, and also tried sleeping for 100 days. Played on HDD, internal storage and a flash drive as well as other consoles. Then as a final attempt, deleted and then recovered my account to see if that would work. I guess we just have to wait for 4j to patch the game.

By Twenty Sevens on 16 May 2015 03:28

@Twenty Sevens did u play 100 days on 1 map and move around the whole time, Also u try what AypL said at top, that it has to been from sunrise to sundown without quiting to count as a full day, I'm wondering cuz I've tried everything u did as well, besides deleting my profile, I just did that today and started over, but haven't finished yet, but I haven't tried those things I asked u about yet, that's the only thing I can think off that might work, but about to just give up and wait to see if 4j patches it, I messenged them on twitter but no response, besides a couple of ppl saying it worked fine for them, so idk I just hope the patch it

By Kombat 36O on 16 May 2015 07:08

I have a map that I play on regularly where I move around and build stuff in survival. Been playing on it for so long, that I'm sure that I've passed 100 day/night cycles by now. I've also left my console on for days at a time while the game was running in the background, so I'm sure I've done what Aypl suggested.

By Twenty Sevens on 16 May 2015 17:09

Well guess have to wait on a patch it seems

By Kombat 36O on 16 May 2015 19:05

Sure seems that way.

By Twenty Sevens on 16 May 2015 19:27

Having trouble with this achievement. I've had worlds before played probably at least 400+ hours in Minecraft 360 not including Xbox One hours.

Made two worlds & left my console aka for 4 days with both worlds. I even moved around probably longer than 4 days to make a Skyrim village. Just not sure what to do anymore. Hope it's patched. I have this achievement on the One and it didn't take even close to this long. I guess I'll make another world and try again for longer than 4 days.

By A Batwoman on 18 May 2015 02:13

I gave up on it, I tried to contact 4J but no reply, just hope there's a patch for it one day

By Kombat 36O on 21 May 2015 06:36

Pretty certain I've met the requirements on 2 worlds now. Not popped. All 5 Avatar awards unlocked though.

For those interested it's a Digital copy. Cleared cache 3 times, started new worlds. I hope they release a patch for this!

By Chris1984uk on 28 May 2015 19:32

Sorry, everyone. I meant to comment sooner, but I think I posted on another solution on why I think I might have unlocked this achievement while others didn't.

The only difference I can think of is this: I'm using a physical copy and I actually set up a turbo controller to constantly press

even though I was set up in an online world to prevent myself from idling out or whatever.

I genuinely hope this aids you all in someway and pray that I don't come across as condescending. I realize all of you have at least half a brain. :)

By Mr Granstaff on 28 May 2015 19:39

Looks like I'm cracking out my Arcade stick (with Turbo) then and praying that works with Minecraft, I've had one or two games where it hasnt worked (understandably!)

Thanks for the "quick" response :P

By Chris1984uk on 28 May 2015 21:57

@Mr Granstaff did u have a problem with your achievement too?

By Kombat 36O on 29 May 2015 17:15

No, it seemed to have unlocked when it should have.

By Mr Granstaff on 29 May 2015 17:41

While I don't have a turbo controller, I do currently have my A button held down with a rubber band. If the tactic works, I should have the achievement sometime around 4am.

By Twenty Sevens on 29 May 2015 22:37

I made a new world, idled for about 5 hours, and the achievement popped for me. I had played the game previously and confident I put in the 100 days before but oh well. Anyways, I'm on the digital copy, I didn't clear any caches or some such. I used a wireless controller and let it go to the pause screen.

By dropK1CK ninJA on 30 May 2015 22:55

Okay, so the A button trick did not work for me, but I am trying something new. I've deleted the updates for minecraft and am currently playing the non-updated version offline. There are some texture issues that occur when doing this, but everything seems to work fine. Once I've played for the amount of hours required for 100 days, I will update minecraft and load up that world and see if the achievement pops. I'll get back to everyone here if this strategy works or not.

By Twenty Sevens on 31 May 2015 19:22

My achievement finally popped. None of my own methods (or even the suggestions left in the comments) seemed to work. But, I think what finally caused the achievement to unlock was I switched the difficulty over from peaceful to easy.

I set the world to an online game on easy difficulty, dug out a hole, lit it up with torches, and idled for a little over 24 hours. I had a wired controller plugged into the console the entire time that sat across the room untouched. When I woke up today, the achievement had unlocked.

By Twenty Sevens on 02 Jun 2015 19:51

anyone have news ?

By REGIX 117 on 07 Jun 2015 12:51

My game has been running for 5 days straight and nothing has popped for me!!! Tried all of the above methods and nothing. Love how my second account popped it immediately. Stupid bug!

By qG Lecca on 07 Jun 2015 17:31

Strange thing happened to me. I left it idle on an online world while I went to bed. Got up in the morning and saw that it had the error message telling me it had lost connection to Xbox Live. I checked my achievement list and noticed it had not unlocked. So I restarted my Xbox, loaded up the online game, and as soon as the next day/night cycle ended, it unlocked. I checked, no time stamp, the game marked it as an offline unlock. I hit the guide button and confirmed I was in fact online. I updated my TA scan and got conflicting information. My friend feed had me unlocking it today, as it should, but the Minecraft page says I unlocked it yesterday. I assume it has something to do with my loss of internet during the night. It may have actually still been cycling through the days while the error message was on screen, and maybe I hit 100 days then. Since I was actually "playing," the game probably needed another day cycle to update, but I still should have gotten the time stamp.

By Lumberjay85 on 19 Jun 2015 22:18

I wonder if trying to fulfill the requirement offline and then reconnecting could be a workaround? Lumber, you're the second person I've spoke to who managed to unlock PTT in this manner. Were you having issues unlocking it before, or was this just your first go-around?

By Avata on 20 Jun 2015 11:04

First try

By Lumberjay85 on 20 Jun 2015 11:17

Started a new world and have been in it for 48 hours IRL while using this solution. Still no achievement. Really frustrating that this is the last achievement I need and it won't pop. GG.

By Heavyminded on 23 Jun 2015 03:28

@Twenty Sevens, awesome that u got it, glad to see someone that had problems with it, finally get it, I gave up for awhile, but i might try what you did, since I know now its still possible to get the achievement.

By Kombat 36O on 26 Jun 2015 07:28

TU25 is scheduled for release today (June 30th, 2015) and does NOT include a fix for the issue according to the change log :(

By Avata on 30 Jun 2015 22:18

Another Update today, doesn't seem to have done anything

By Arador on 04 Jul 2015 09:01

Can I get the damn achievement, please!!! I have been trying for nights on the same world, and nothing has come up!

By SpeedBumpVDrop on 20 Jul 2015 12:46

Looks like last comment was 2 days ago and people are still having issues.. was gonna pop in and see if it was fixed, but answers my question. Like all the others I spent days on end with game running and nothing. Guess I won't bother trying again for a while.

By VeLiaNTx on 22 Jul 2015 18:16

I gave up for awhile, going to start trying again.

Just moved all my Minecraft stuff from the HDD to a flash drive, cleared the System Cache 3 times, logged out my Xbox profile, made a new game, and now I'm sitting in a tree (for no real reason) praying it unlocks.

I'm also doing the online/idle method. If you turn the controller off while your world is loading the game won't pause and it'll still autosave. It'll say "Please reconnect controller", but that goes away after the first autosave.

By ood26 on 24 Jul 2015 06:27

Ok, I'm going at it again. I'll try all the solution from these comments. If i get it (or not) i will post my sulution her. First, i'll let it run in my old world for a couple of hours. Let's see what happens.

By Coke Maan on 24 Jul 2015 08:56

TU27 was just released a couple hours ago. No mention of "Passing the Time" in the changelog. http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/minecraft-xbox-360-edit...

By ood26 on 24 Jul 2015 12:28

Until the devs themselves decide to actually address this issue just give it up. I have uninstalled, reinstalled, deleted profile, redownloaded profile, cleared cache, run game for a week straight, contacted support, had support tell me they unlocked it on their end, had support try to get me to sign up on another achievement site, had support send me to another third party site, etc etc etc. Still no achievement! Until Mojang fixes this, it is hopeless.

By VeLiaNTx on 02 Aug 2015 16:22

VeLiaNTx, the only other thing I can think to do is play offline. That's (sort of) how I got mine. If that doesn't work, play online and kill your internet connection after a cycle or two, and then play offline for another. In either case, you won't get a time stamp, but at least it will (hopefully) unlock (probably not).

By Lumberjay85 on 02 Aug 2015 16:32

(probably not) was the outcome lol. So I went and posted on the minecraft forums and hopefully someone takes notice because this is flat out broken.

http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/support/minecraft-xbox-...

http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/minecraft-xbox-360-edit...

If anyone else wants to post there as well maybe more people complaining might make them bump this up to a priority.

By VeLiaNTx on 07 Aug 2015 14:22

VeLiaNTx, what exactly does "unlocked on our end" mean? Does that mean that, according to Microsoft's records, the achievement is unlocked on your profile? Because if that's the case, this is an entirely different problem than what everyone's been investigating. It sounds like, somehow, your profile has unlocked it, but it isn't visible on your card. How does this happen? How do we fix it? Not a clue, but if that's the case, the game might not be the only thing at fault here.

By Lumberjay85 on 07 Aug 2015 14:52

They told me that they did something on their end to unlock it... then told me to delete my profile and redownload it. But that accomplished nothing.

By VeLiaNTx on 07 Aug 2015 17:00

Tried Lumber's methods, didn't work.
Tried VeLiaNTx's method, didn't work.
Tried Twenty Sevens' method, didn't work.
Cleared the System Cache a few times, didn't work.
Tried creating new worlds, didn't work.

Until 4J Studios get their asses together and releases an update where they finally fix this, I will not be playing Minecraft no more (officially, this time).

By SpeedBumpVDrop on 16 Aug 2015 22:27

Achievement was glitched for me with playing around 100 hours. I tried all the above methods and could not unlock it. I do remember winning the avatar award twice when I first started playing and after an update. This might be what caused the glitch in the first place.

What worked for me using the physical copy:
-Backup world onto USB and move the save file info for profile onto the USB.
-Delete title update
-Clear cache
-Start Minecraft unpatched (Avatar award unlocked at title screen, game generated new save file info for profile)
-Played world save from HDD (world was regenerated)
-Save and exit world
-Quit Minecraft
-Install Update
-Start Minecraft and tried to play on the world saved on HDD (Xbox froze and needed reset)
-After restart generated new world on easy and achievement unlocked immediately

Restored old world and save file info for profile from USB and world loaded normally. Leaderboard values glitched out somewhere in this process with some resetting to zero and others being highly inflated. Hopefully this will work for others having the same issue.

By PhilSpeedAhead on 19 Aug 2015 18:48

Cune, I tried your method, but couldn't work because of my Xbox freezing when I started Minecraft without the update and going into my Hard Drive to create a new save.

By SpeedBumpVDrop on 19 Aug 2015 21:45

Tried Cune's method with digital version and it was a no go. To be more specific, when I start up a new game or load an old one without the title update or try to save either of these, no new save info file is generated. Loading my old world does cause it to regenerate the seed as stated but no new save info file is made, so when I load it after reinstalling the title update it loads fine. There is no freeze and no achievement pop. Nor does creating a new world after reinstalling title update cause it to pop.

On a side note: Its been nearly a month since microsoft support told me to contact their super special achievement ambassador team to fix this.. I have still not heard back from them. I have also received 0 input on the threads I posted on minecraft forums weeks ago. Seems no-one cares about this issue, so unless you manage to stumble on a miracle like cune did.. just give up now.

By VeLiaNTx on 26 Aug 2015 20:10

Cunegonde2142's solution worked for me, I followed every step but made 1 extra one (I transfered the orignal digital version of the game to my USB as well)
Just as described my world was regenerated and I then quit the world, re-downloaded the update and then loaded the world (Pop went the achievement) immedialtly after the world was loaded.
After it pops go delete the copied save and your new save info, then transfer the digital game, your old save info, and the orignal world save. And your good to go (your leaderboard stats will be all messed up, but its worth it "atleast it was for me")

By Gamer Freak JTM on 31 Aug 2015 18:36

Ok lets see that I am clear on cune's method. Heres what I did that did not work.

I deleted everything to do with minecraft from my main harddrive. Game, Update, saves, save info. I then deleted my profile as well. I then cleared cache on main harddrive and internal memory drive 4-5 times each to be safe. So at this point I am at a clean slate.

I then copied a world save (that I know for sure has met the requirements) to the main harddrive from a usb. (Did not copy the save info file... should I?)

I then reinstalled digital version of game, which also automatically seems to install the update. So I deleted the update. Re-downloaded my profile. Cleared cache a few more times. So now I have just my old save and non updated version of game on main harddrive, usb removed, cache cleared.

Loaded old game - World regenerated. Saved game. Exited game. Checked Harddrive. No new save info file was generated. Reinstalled update. Loaded game. Nothing popped.

Repeated all steps. Pre reinstalling update. This time after loading and regenerating my old world I let the game run for 40 hours. When I came back there was a popup saying I had once again unlocked watch avatar award.. Was hopeful... Reinstalled update again.. loaded world.. No achievement. Ran world another 30-40 hours with update installed.. no achievement. What am I missing? Is microsoft support right? Is there something on Mojang's server end thats messing this up for me? If so I am screwed because Mojang support is non existant.

By VeLiaNTx on 02 Sep 2015 21:43

Veliantx did you try to generate a new world after you did your steps? I was unable to load my world after I saved it unpatched and was forced to generate a new world. I am confused why the save file info does not get recreated. Maybe try to force a leaderboard stat change by running around and breaking blocks.

By PhilSpeedAhead on 04 Sep 2015 14:50

I finally got it to work! Things didn't exactly work as they did for you cune, so I will one final time list step by step what I did in case it helps someone else.

- Delete Everything (Game, Update, Saves, Save Info, Profile) - Or simply move them all to an external that can be removed.
- Clear Cache on any internal Drives ( Multiple times to be safe)
- Reinstall Base Game (Delete update if it came along with download)
- Make sure any external usb devices that contain anything to do with the game are not plugged in.
- Clear Caches again
- Re-Download Profile
- Make a NEW save in Unpatched Version.
- Play normally for a while and see if you get a popup saying you unlocked an avatar award like the T shirt ( As this indicates you are on the right track)
- Save and Exit Game
- Re-install Update
- Load your New world you created and either play normally for 40+ hours or idle.

This does not have to be in one setting, but must be same world. After idling while asleep I came back to find my internet had died and I was completely kicked from the game. I loaded the game back up where I left off hoping for the best. After Idling for the remainder of the 40 or so hours (probably only need 33ish as stated by others) I turned my tv back on and saw that I had a popup stating I had unlocked the watch avatar (Yet again) but this time I checked and the achievement had finally popped. On a side note.. I had my game running with the online game box checked this time. I don't know if that had any effect or not. I know on previous attempts I had tried while connected to xbl but I might not have actually had the game running as online and joinable, so better safe than sorry assuming this was the missing link. If you have seen any of my previous posts you can see that I tried many many variations of this method over 3 months time. Hopefully if you follow these steps exactly it works for you. Best of luck to anyone still struggling.

By VeLiaNTx on 05 Sep 2015 07:24

Congrats on every1 who got it, so glad to see that some ppl finally got it after having problems.

By Kombat 36O on 12 Sep 2015 14:33

VeLiaNTx thank you so much for figureing out a way to get this buggy achievement, thx to u I finally got it, did everything u said and it worked :)

By Kombat 36O on 14 Sep 2015 09:18

Ok so I tried Veliant's steps and now I can not even create a game. With or without the patch, online or offline, nothing. Once I try to make a game it freezes every single time. Any suggestions?

By Irish Millitant on 16 Oct 2015 20:03

Ok response to my last post. So I finally got a Minecraft game to load and it popped the achievement. So I did exactly as Veliant said and afterwords could not make a game (I was using a physical copy and not downloading the update so it forced me to be offline) but when I would try to make a game itd just freeze. So I did Veliant's steps again, and this time disconnected my xbox's Ethernet cord so it was totally offline and was able to make a game. Saved and exited that game. Reconected my xbox to the internet, downloaded the patch on launch and boom, got my achievement as soon as I loaded that game. Thanks for this find Veliant and hopefully this data helps anyone struggling. This achievement almost drove me nuts!!!

By Irish Millitant on 17 Oct 2015 04:54

@Irish ...And just how did you fix the game's freezing issues before creating a game? Explain iin more detail, and in simpler terms.

By SpeedBumpVDrop on 21 Oct 2015 00:59

Does anyone know if the latest patch fixes this achievement?

By Coke Maan on 12 Apr 2016 09:58

nope. it does not.

By Pyro1099 on 13 Apr 2016 02:42

I loaded my game up today and the achievement popped immediately. It hasn't this entire time so try loading your game one more time before you delete everything. Good luck.

By EludingKarma on 21 Apr 2016 13:43

Just popped onto my world randomly today and the Achievement unlocked, it has been fixed :)

By Arador on 30 May 2016 07:32

Tried VeLiaNTx's method several times with no success, then tried Irish Millitant's version where I unplugged ethernet cable and achievement popped, finally... after 2 weeks of attempts!

By visheyry on 29 Jun 2016 02:29

Played Minecraft since launch, this wouldn't pop. What I did to make it work:
- remove minecraft, title update, worlds, savegame info, everything
- download minecraft again (I had only a digital copy, no disc)
- launch minecraft, install 700mb title update
- create new world, play for 15 minutes to create 'house' with door+window
- idle for ~30 hours (4-5 nights with console auto-turning off after 6 hours)

This morning I saw the achievement had popped. Finally!

By mrbellek on 21 Dec 2016 07:19

Definitely glitched. Bah, I really don't want to have to idle this for another 30 hours...

By WithTheDawn on 24 Apr 2017 23:58

I had everything unlocked except for the achievement. I just let the game run overnight. the next morning I looked and saw that the achievemen was there but in the total game not 86/87 2005/2025 GS. I deleted the game with updates and profile and downloaded new. when I started a new game I did not play the avatar award for 100h but no achievemen. then started a new game with the dummy account and then log in my profile with second controller and i got it :-)

By CLARION 85 on 05 Jan 2018 15:23

After torturing my poor 360 by having it run for days, if you suspect that it might be buggy (I thought something was wrong where I needed to put 100 days on one world, i was wrong), go for the transfer your saves to a different drive method. Had to basically put in double the hours. Someone at Mojang who didn't fix this bug is a lowly crook in my eyes forever now.

By Ah Fun Ghoul on 14 Feb 2018 06:37

woooh got the achievemnt thanks to following veliant steps

By Romel Blades on 16 Jul 2018 01:39

Hey Everyone, I played Minecraft. I did I got this game for a long time, last in 4 to 5 years ago. 4 to 5 years later. Last year as 5 months on June 29th, 2018 at 6:24 p.m. Finally, it’s just a real life for 100 days and maybe it worked for more than 100 days. I got Minecraft on my game disc and launched Minecraft. I did go to “Play Game” and go to “Load” and maybe I just say “Create”. So, without a glitched and without getting buggy. I did I hope this works. I think so I guess. And then finally, BING! The Achievement Popped. I got Passing The Time Achievement. And that’s it, that’s how it works when I got Minecraft last in 4 to 5 years ago when I got my first achievement already is Taking Inventory. And finally, it worked. The last on second achievement is Passing The Time. I got Passing The Time Achievement. I did I got this achievement already last year as 5 months on June 29th, 2018. I did it guys! Thanks for this solution everyone! It did worked for me!

By Brett Evans15 on 30 Nov 2019 05:12

😵Confusing but clearly excited post from Brett. Congratulations on the completion🎉🎉🎉

By Gamer Freak JTM on 30 Nov 2019 16:31

Thanks man! Thank you very much!

By Brett Evans15 on 01 Dec 2019 04:03

i have been playing minecraft since 2013 but i only entered the xbox live on july 2017, and im sure i have much more than 100 days played but even with the online trick i couldnt get it...

By erick xbLiV on 17 Jun 2020 18:02

Ok guys I have experimented with this achievement and I got the perfect answer! Passing the time achievement only works in YOUR WORLDS!!! It doesn't matter if its the tutorial world it still counts. However DO NOT SLEEP! Because you have to play 100 consecutive day cycles as sleeping will restart you progress or just one minecraft day im not sure. But you are correct online games work as well but it must be hosted by you!

By xYTSUPAx on 06 Oct 2020 05:08

So I have found out from a friend (Delta4907) who experienced this issue and found out that this bug is related to the avatar award item "A Minecraft Watch".

Check your Awards (on the Xbox 360 guide under Achievements). If you have "A Minecraft Watch" unlocked and don't have the "Passing the Time" achievement, you'll need to delete the avatar award from your Xbox 360 console's storage device. Be sure to also clear the cache. After that, re-launch the game, create a new world (survival on peaceful), then keep your console on for about 33 hours.

You might need to try this while offline (no timestamp for the achievement), though you will need to make sure you have the latest title update downloaded.

By lightsup55 on 20 Oct 2020 17:27

@GlitzyCoffee390 That's not true about it working only in your worlds because I helped a friend with other achievements tonight and it popped for them for some reason when I invited them to my world.

@lightsup55 I will try that though. I've tried everything else. So, delete the avatar watch award from storage, clear cache, create new world and try. I'll give this a try after I finish helping somebody else out so I can have a fresh start and not bounce between other worlds.

By atryeu1 on 15 Nov 2020 02:43

Finally have time to start testing lightsup55's solution. I set it up last night, deleted the Watch avatar items from the Storage and cleared the cache last night so I could jump right in today. Started a brand new world on Peaceful (got a horrible seed but found 1 village I can mess around with I guess while I waste time). I'm reluctant to believe it will work though because the watch is still already in my Avatar Awards so I don't know what good deleting it from the storage will do but we'll see. I'll update this as I go/complete it.

Dec 20th: 36 day cycles ; 12hrs (and counting)
Dec 21: 67 day cycles ; 21hrs 20min
Dec 22: 101 day cycles ; 33hrs

No achievement :( The time played was a slight estimate but only off by 15-20min at most but the days plays should be accurate. I'll try and run it another hour tomorrow just in case but I'm thinking it didnt work for me at this point :(

By atryeu1 on 21 Dec 2020 03:46

@atryeu1 I don't know how Avatar Award and achievement coding work, but I would guess whenever you hit the criteria for something, the game checks if you already have the relevant Award/achievement unlocked, and if not, unlocks it for you.

Yes Awards are marked as unlocked or not on your profile, but part of unlocking an Award is installing it on your storage device. So perhaps for this game, deleting it fools the game into thinking it's not unlocked yet, so it re-unlocks the award and unlocks the achievement too.

As I'm writing this I'm realizing that I forgot to clear my cache before attempting this. Guess I'll be a guinea pig for whether that step is necessary or not.

By zeldafanjtl on 21 Dec 2020 17:43

@zeldafanjtl Good luck on yours! I think I hit 40 days last night before I shut things down. If I dont' lose power again today I'll continue working on it. We had no power for several hours today -_-

The thing with the Awards in my case however were they came from the disc which contains TU9 if I remember right (which was long before the 100 days achievement). My nephew oddly has this exact same glitch too and only plays off my console. We had both played a massive amount before I had high speed internet though to get the game fully updated and the 100 days was the one that just never worked.

Guess we'll see in another day or two (or three). Good luck to you! I'll post if I get it and I'll update my previous post with the progress as I go :)

By atryeu1 on 21 Dec 2020 18:55

So after 40+ hours of idling, still no achievement for me, but as I said earlier, I screwed up and forgot to clear my cache when attempting lightsup55's method.

For what it's worth, my watch Avatar Award wasn't reinstalled either.

I'm going to let my 360 cool off for now, and try another attempt at some point this week with a cleared cache. Fingers crossed!

By zeldafanjtl on 23 Dec 2020 07:33

@zeldafanjtl: I just edited my other comment actually.... 101 days and about 33hrs played and nothing for me. I did clear the cache though. I also split the gaming up over 3 days because I'm not going to let my system run for that long straight. It was set as an Online game (invite only) and it was a mix of idle and actually messing around doing random stuff to pass the time. I'll run it another hour or so tomorrow just in case my count was off slightly because I was distracted a bit on the phone yesterday at one point but I gave it that extra day to make up for that. Guess I'll see and I'll write back tomorrow with whatever happens. Either way I won't be trying again. This was the 5th or 6th attempt for this achievement and it's to the point where the game isn't even fun anymore because of this glitch :(

By atryeu1 on 23 Dec 2020 10:28

lightsup55's method didn't work for me it seems :( 109 days and about 35hrs played and nothing. I was reluctant to believe it would work for me to begin with but still am disappointed because that's a lot of time wasted again trying. I guess my nephew and I will be forever stuck at 92 of 93 achievements :(

By atryeu1 on 23 Dec 2020 22:07

So I made sure to clear my cache and confirmed the Avatar Award was still deleted, and ran the game for 33+ hours again. Still no achievement, unfortunately. My console lost its Xbox Live connection a few times; don't know if that mattered.

Interestingly, lightsup55 said you may need to do this fully offline. I'll give that a try next.

By zeldafanjtl on 26 Dec 2020 17:09

Thanks to lightsup55, VeLianNTx, PhilSpeedAhead, and everyone else who contributed to the fix, I finally got this to unlock today, 12/27/2021.

I used a mix of the posted fixes to get it to work. My game kept freezing every so often so it took about 4 days of idling with a wired controller, rubber banded to walk in broad circles. Main thing I did different(not sure if it made a difference or not) is use an old pre-update version of Minecraft from XBox Live Arcade that I luckily still had on my old 360. Older 360 - never online during process. Newer 360 - Always online during process(although did lose connection a few times, had to log back in or restart console).

1) Newer 360 - Moved Minecraft Update file and Gamer Profile to thumb drive, deleted everything else(worlds, Minecraft, cleared cache x3).
2) Loaded Gamer Profile onto old 360(no Update) and played for about 10 minutes, save/quit. Got a reward unlock notification after digging up some dirt by hand.
*Tried installing update file onto old 360, game would not load, no matter what I tried.
3) Moved pre-update Minecraft, New World Save, and Gamer Profile from old 360 HDD to newer 360. Cleared cache(3 times again, just to be thorough).
4) Loaded New World Save, had some issues loading, was prompted to re-download game, did so. Download froze about 2/3 way through, restarted console, was able to start Minecraft.
5) Loaded into Online New World Save, played for about 30 minutes, ate a cooked porkchop, got another reward unlock notification - good sign.
6) Left idle, checking every so often, and on last check, had notification I unlocked the Watch award. Cheevo finally popped.

Thanks everyone!

By Badger Sauce on 28 Dec 2021 00:50

I finally got this today using lightsup55' method. I was on the cloud save and got two awards, one for the Porkchop, another for mining some coal (unsure if it was an actual award or something else. Then did AFK online game on a new world on easy, slept about 4 times. Took 4-5 days of AFK sessions (6-8 hours each)

By XxXTheAIRNESS23 on 18 Apr 2022 19:51

So thanks to @lightsup55 for pointing out about the avatar watch issue.

I took the watch off my avatar (which I apparently applied at one point).
Deleted the item from my history (had 2 for some reason).
Deleted saves from HDD (kept the ones on the cloud).
Cleared cache 3 times.
Reloaded game and installed update.
Started a new save (Survival, Easy).
Built a shelter and had a bunch of food on standby just in case.
(As I was digging dirt I had an avatar item pop up. Good sign)
Idled over 4 sessions the 33 hrs and it popped perfectly!

So glad it’s done and hopefully those steps help somebody else here.

By Leigrez on 15 Sep 2022 22:47

no tengo que dormir en la noche para que se complete este logro???

By DustyTwo7268173 on 17 Feb 2023 15:43

Does anyone know if the tutorial world counts?

By JuggaloMaggotLP on 02 Mar 2023 21:58

I only have about 4 hours total in minecraft and this popped randomly for me. Here's what I did

started on the tutorial world on the newest update.
moved the update to a usb drive to get the original tutorial world back. (don't delete the update unless you want to wait 12 hours for it to download again) Made a save.
Moved the newest update back on the hard drive and loaded up the original tutorial world and worked on some of the achievements.
I went to sleep on one of the beds during this time so that may have effected glitching this achievement to popping.

By miguelenojado on 09 Nov 2023 23:10

@Migeuelenojado is 100% correct. saved me 30 hours of idling. Like they said, move the update to a memory stick and then remove it from the console.
Load up the game and reject the update ( this will load you up offline ) Start the tutorial and make a save. Once saved, go back to the dashboard, put the memory stick back in and load up as usual and then log back into your newly created (older version) tutorial world. Upon doing this my achievement popped as soon as I loaded in✅

By Donatellli on 08 Apr 2024 18:54

Unfortunately the method from miguelenojado and Donatellli did not work for me.

1. Loaded up my game to make sure it was fully updated
2. Dashboarded and moved the update file to a USB drive
3. Removed the USB drive
4. Started the game, rejecting the prompt to update, so played offline
5. Started the tutorial and saved
6. Dashboarded, reinserted USB, and moved the update back to my hard drive
7. Played on the tutorial save
8. No achievement :(

I even tried waiting until night and sleeping, but that didn't seem to do anything.

For what it's worth, when I booted the game up for step 7, it didn't prompt me to choose a save, it just put me straight into the new tutorial world. Though afterwards I quit and played on my save of the old version's tutorial. The game also gave me popups about various blocks as I walked by them, so maybe this process made the game think I had never played before or something.

By zeldafanjtl on 20 Apr 2024 06:14

@zeldafanjtl
You'd need to use the 400 Gamerscore base game Tutorial world (i.e. no title update), Save & Exit, dashboard (exit the game entirely), relaunch Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition, play the 400G Tutorial world you saved from earlier, then idle for 2,000 minutes (about 33 hours) in real time all over again. I've done this on another profile that also experienced this glitch. The achievement DID unlock as expected.

By lightsup55 on 20 Apr 2024 06:22

@lightsup55 are you suggesting idling on the old version of the game, or with the update?

By zeldafanjtl on 20 Apr 2024 06:26

zeldafanjtl

Step by step guide:
1) delete the 1.2 GB title update from Xbox 360 storage
2) disable Auto Downloads (via settings on the Xbox 360 dashboard)
3) disable Auto Shut Off (via settings on the Xbox 360 dashboard)
4) launch Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition again
5) DECLINE the title update (i.e. select NO)
6) load up the Tutorial (old 400 Gamerscore Tutorial world)
7) Save & Exit
8) exit Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition (i.e. return to the Xbox 360 dashboard)
9) relaunch Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition again
10) ACCEPT the 1.2 GB title update (i.e. select YES)
11) wait for the title update to finish downloading
12) Load the old 400 Gamerscore Tutorial world which you saved from earlier (difficulty doesn't matter)
13) leave the game running for exactly 2,000 minutes (i.e. about 33 hours) while on that world

- Peaceful difficulty is best if you only need the Passing the Time achievement

Alternatively, use a USB flash drive to MOVE the 1.2 GB title update so you don't need to wait for it to redownload later. Follow the other steps accordingly.

By lightsup55 on 20 Apr 2024 06:42

Thank you so much everyone. This was my third or fourth time doing the 34 hour idle, and it finally popped this time. Unfortunately no timestamp because my Xbox lost its Live connection overnight, but hey, I can't complain. So glad to finally be done with this game.

By zeldafanjtl on 23 Apr 2024 15:16

Had the game on over night and ach unlocked offline. Huge ocd for me I like to have a time stamp but at least that’s Minecraft over with thanks for all the memories

By OBlockMafia on 29 Apr 2024 06:49

I tried the solution above but when initially creating the tutorial world, my game freezes and I have to power off my Xbox. Tried this 4 times all with the same result. Anyone have any ideas what I could do?
EDIT: Eventually got this to work, didn't really do anything differently though I just came back the following two days and kept trying, clearing my cache before each attempt, and eventually it worked and I loaded into the new world. I then played shortly in this new world, before saving and exiting, reinstalling the Title Update, and then going back into the world, leaving idle for 33+ hours in two sessions, and then it finally popped while I was disconnected from Xbox Live.

By bobstickles01 on 27 Jun 2024 23:07

Did everything like lightsup55 said in his last message. Worked first time, thanks man

By AxllowFifty on 07 Jul 2024 19:04

If the game crashes during an attempt, is there anything recommended before continuing with the 34 in-game hours on the tutorial world (clearing cache, etc.)?

I've played for 34-40 hours several times now using the method described by Lightsup55 without any luck. During each attempt there has been at least one crash where I had to restart the game. One attempt was done while disconnected from Xbox Live the whole time, where as all other attempts were done while connected.

By Avidous on 30 Jul 2024 14:18

Its glitched for me, too! I played for almost 40 to 50 hours and the achievement hasn't unlocked yet. Is there a workaround for this? A new world or reinstall?

By Coke Maan on 07 May 2015 15:40

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VeLiaNTx

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16 Nov 2015 15:17

Ok it is well known that this achievement is fairly buggy. This solution is for those who have had problems unlocking the achievement through normal means. I fought with this issue for months and posted my solution in the comments of another TA member's solution. I received a message asking me to post it as a solution by someone it helped, because they almost missed it. I will paste it here in the hopes that someone else who is struggling might more easily find it.

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Again These are the steps to follow only if you are experiencing a bug that prevents
the achievement from unlocking through normal means.
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- Delete Everything (Game, Update, Saves, Save Info, Profile) - Or simply move them all to an external that can be removed.
- Clear Cache on any internal Drives ( Multiple times to be safe)
- Reinstall Base Game (Delete update if it came along with download)
- Make sure any external usb devices that contain anything to do with the game are not plugged in.
- Clear Caches again
- Re-Download Profile
- Make a NEW save in Unpatched Version.
- Play normally for a while and see if you get a popup saying you unlocked an avatar award like the T shirt ( As this indicates you are on the right track)
- Save and Exit Game
- Re-install Update
- Load your New world you created and either play normally for 40+ hours or idle.

This does not have to be in one sitting, but must be same world. After idling while asleep I came back to find my internet had died and I was completely kicked from the game. I loaded the game back up where I left off hoping for the best. After Idling for the remainder of the 40 or so hours (probably only need 33ish as stated by others) I turned my tv back on and saw that I had a popup stating I had unlocked the watch avatar (Yet again) but this time I checked and the achievement had finally popped. On a side note.. I had my game running with the online game box checked this time. I don't know if that had any effect or not. I know on previous attempts I had tried while connected to xbl but I might not have actually had the game running as online and joinable, so better safe than sorry assuming this was the missing link. If you have seen any of my previous posts you can see that I tried many many variations of this method over 3 months time. Hopefully if you follow these steps exactly it works for you. Best of luck to anyone still struggling.

16 Nov 2015 15:17

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Thanks for this guide. I would just like to note in case anyone else experiences this when trying it. I moved my profile to an external drive and tried to download it again but it kept saying that my password was incorrect. It wasn't, but due to having two step verification on my account it was causing an issue. I turned this off and it worked no problem. Also I re-downloaded the game and then I couldn't delete the title update before I started the game up. Booted the game up, updated the game, backed out and deleted the update. Then unplugged my Ethernet cable and continued with your guide. I went for the easiest avatar award (to cook a pork chop) and that unlocked. Saved the game, plugged the Ethernet cable back in and updated the game. To be safe, I went for the second avatar award (to kill a creeper with arrows, just kill skeletons with a sword to get a bow and arrows) to make sure that the update hadn't messed anything up. This unlocked. Continued to Idle the game and eventually the achievement unlocked. Again, many thanks for this guide!

By qG Lecca on 31 Dec 2015 10:13

Thanks so much for this, should've gotten this achievement years ago but just couldn't.

Thanks a lot!

By iiCatastrophic on 23 Jun 2016 13:37

I feel I should note that I got this achi on an alt. account when I was booting up a local battle mini game to get some of the update 40 DLC achis. In a similar fashion I got the achi right away on my main account when I first booted up the DLC, and I don't think I'd played the game for 30+h before that, much less on the same world. Is it possible you can get this achi by playing for the first time in 100+ days or something?

By Doopliss SWE on 30 Aug 2016 22:51

VeLiaNTx - This method is the only one that finally worked for me.

I did one slightly different thing though, and that was I after re-starting the game for the first time (with LAN cable unplugged to ensure offline) i first set up a new world with my primary account (that needed the achievement), Did the roast pork thing, except i've already unlocked all awards and other achievements
Sooooooo I then loaded up a second account, did the same cooked pork thing and the award popped.

I then re-downloaded the update from scratch (i did not move/copy from external drive), and then as soon as i restarted the game with my primary account, on the newly saved file, the Achievement automatically popped (did not have to re-do the whole 33hrs idle).

Thanks again mate - nothing more painful than a single achievement that wont unlock to give 100%

By DUS SOULWOUND on 17 Apr 2017 03:06

If you never transferred your licences and you're on a different console than the one you bought Minecraft initially on, then it won't let you save a new world without being online basically restricting you to the trial.

By TorqueEmPup on 08 Jun 2017 03:28

This did not work for my nephew or I. The only step I skipped was installing the base game as I have it on disc (with the version TU9) and it cannot be installed. I kept track of the hours we played and we hit 36 hours today and still no achievement :( This is the very last achievement we both need and I don't want to keep it at 86/87 :(

By atryeu1 on 18 Jul 2018 01:45

Yeahit wouldn’t let never me save while offline. Looks like I’m not gonna be getting this one

By MAJIN BOOSH on 31 Oct 2018 03:41

This solution worked for me and just popped! Thanks so much, the 100 day achievement was such a pain in the ass to try and fix

By a Ma N ii aC x on 21 Jun 2019 19:29

This solution unfortunately did not work for me.

By zeldafanjtl on 06 Aug 2019 03:50

Tried step by step and it finally unlocked. Thank you so much for saving me from torturing my 360 for weeks.

By Xx sunkevin xX on 26 May 2020 06:07

I had the Disc version of this game, AND had played it years ago before any of the Title Updates had been created. I had the Awards, but once jumping back on for said Updates, this achievement wouldn't unlock despite having the avatar watch unlocked, among others.

Worse, I had tried to fix this by going on another box. But I think the issue is, some games like this have some sort of 'extra' storage, not directly on your profile or on some other branch of it, that is also external of Cloud Storage. It will sync them up along different boxes, based on which one is 'Newer'. Without you getting an option to say NO! to the damned thing.

So, I did the above on the box I originally played on, then it did the sync ("You last played this game on another box..."), and I think that ruined it the first time. So I repeated the steps, did another DL of my profile after deleting the first download attempt, played a bit in a created, Non-Tutorial world to have a few days saved in it. Then I got the updates by loading up the game with a secondary XBOX LIVE Gold account so it would do the update that way. Then I quit back out, switched to my main profile, then loaded up. And, since I was playing on the same box AFTER it "updated and sync'ed" whatever secondary data was there, it didn't do it again. Instead, when I loaded up my world, I *FINALLY* got this damned thing done.

Also of note, the syncing or whatever, with the original update prior to the 1.3GB title update, caused all my settings to be 0. Including control, so the right-stick wouldn't turn/move at all. Probably related to whatever was horribly broken with the Console Edition.

By Bahaumaut on 04 Jun 2020 17:35

By lightsup55 on 20 Oct 2020 17:28

Solution still works in Feb 2021. Had the watch award and hours done before any of the updates, came back in 2021 to mop all the updates. Unfortunately, got kicked off XBL while 360 was left running so it unlocked offline. See no reason why it wouldn't have unlocked online however see most of the new hours were online.

By Cloudmount on 04 Feb 2021 20:22

I've had no luck with the watch deleting method myself :/

By zeldafanjtl on 05 Feb 2021 07:06

What DUS SOULWOUND wrote worked for me and I didn't had to do the 33h idling again.

By RoD xXD4N13LXx on 26 May 2021 07:19

lightup55’s solutions worked for me! I had well over 33 hours played back in the day before this achievement came out. I already had 2 watch awards for my avatar but never got the achievement. I deleted both watch awards from my hard drive and cleared the cache. Started a new world and after letting my character idle for 33 more hours, the achievement popped.

By Wolf718 on 01 Jul 2021 13:47

Thumbs down because the steps are impossible to follow. I assume you are meant to re download profile other wise how to you re download the game? Only after this do you redownload profile.

Removed thumbs down. It's obvious, but because it wasn't explained it was confusing. Silly me, right? Except this takes 33.3 hours and that's not something I want to repeat.

Simple enough process.

By sobadnomad on 26 Feb 2022 19:12

Thumbs up, this solution did work as of March 2023. Here’s what I did:

- Checked avatar awards for Minecraft 360. Had all of them, including the two watches (there are two because one is for male avatars and one is for female ones)
- My 360 is the S model that just came with the built-in 4 GB memory unit. I later upgraded it with a 120 GB hard drive. Most of my Minecraft data were on the hard drive.
- I deleted the data for the two watches, started a new game and idled with a wired controller for 33+ hours on a new survival/peaceful world. I spawned right next to a woodland mansion, ha. No achievement.
- I deleted the game and title update from the hard drive and moved all of the other save data to cloud storage. I also moved a couple saves that I had on the memory unit to cloud storage too. Cleared cache on both a few times.
- Re-downloaded Minecraft to hard drive. Disconnected from internet.
- The title update was included in the download. Deleted it.
- Opened the game. Started a new game. It crashed as soon as the world popped up.
- Started a new game again: survival, easy.
- I found a pig, killed it, built some tools and a furnace and cooked the meat. It said I got a t-shirt avatar award.
- Saved and quit. Re-connected to Xbox Live and started the game again. Let the title update download.
- Opened the game I’d saved in the unpatched version. Built a small house. While I was mining for stone and coal, the game said I’d earned a Gamerpic of Steve. Not sure what I did to get it. Figured that was good.
- Killed some chickens for feathers and spiders for string, and made a bow and arrows. Shot a Creeper with them. It said I’d unlocked a Creeper cap avatar award.
- Went back in the house and left the game on. I used a wired controller just in case.
- I’m away from home for the weekend, but checking my Xbox app I see that I got the achievement, nice.

Anyway, that’s what worked for me. Good luck to any still looking for this one. My unlock date for the avatar watch was in 2012 so I should have got this over 10 years ago!

By Glowblue1 on 11 Mar 2023 17:14

is there a way to recover my personal gamerpic? I lost it deleting my profile for this dumb buggy achievement xD

By HELLRAZORANGEL on 25 Sep 2023 15:54

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DefiantZero

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18 May 2015 04:18

For this particular achievement you will be spending about 34 hours to get this. Each Minecraft day is a solid 20 minutes.

You will get this normally if you play the game and don't sleep in a bed at night to skip to morning.

If you average 8 hours a day of mine craft you will have this achievement in 4 days of idling.

However, if you are just loading this up to sit in a corner you will want to play on peaceful while in an online game. Otherwise if you don't play online (and you have a wireless controller) your controller will turn off and the game will pause and once that happens the games paused and no more time shall elapse.

If you have friends who are jerks I suggest playing in an invite only game to keep any random deaths or problems from happening.

You will also want to have your settings set to an auto save preferably to the nearest 30 minutes to save your progress as well so none of your days are lost. If you lose Internet while in an online game it will be paused to switch to an offline lobby as well.

Only real problem with the pause screen is it overrides the ability to auto save until you back out of the screen. Having a wired controller just dims the screen forever until you touch it again. If you must (much like Mr Granstaff) keep the game running at all costs use a turbo for the A button or a rubber band to spin in circles with the joysticks.

I also recommend saving the game before you exit as well. On a side note this seems to be able to be done across multiple world's/seeds.

For anyone with an old world that you have played for months building that perfect castle, your dream home, or putting giant genitals and placing TnT in your friends world's you should get this as soon as your world loads up.

18 May 2015 04:18

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So far this has not been buggy for my dummy account and my buddy who was hesitant about this achievement being "buggy"

By DefiantZero on 18 May 2015 04:46

I should mention that I lost internet connection at one point, but the achievement unlocked as expected. I wish we knew what causes the achievement to become buggy for others. I wonder if it's a digital versus physical version conflict or something?

By Mr Granstaff on 18 May 2015 14:03

Oh, my game continued to sit idled when I lost network connectivity as well. Probably by my controller constantly pressing 'A' it went ahead and unpaused the game when the menu popped up.

I also set my autosave for 15 minute intervals, because I'm cautious like that.

By Mr Granstaff on 18 May 2015 14:05

By lightsup55 on 20 Oct 2020 17:33

lightsup55's tip helped me get this!

By Ohh Werd on 22 Oct 2020 12:22

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Ryze

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27 Nov 2023 03:36

I have been struggling with this achievement for years and found a very simple solution compared to what I have read. Buy the physical minecarft xbox360 disc and load up a brand new world on a 360 while OFFLINE. Idle for 48hrs then save and quit the world. Go back to the dashboard. Connect to xbox live and relaunch the game you will have to update it and once it's done you load into your world and the achievement will pop instantly

27 Nov 2023 03:36

IC3, L3G3ND, ETKC, Ninjamark, Corrupt, x360a, Darth, G

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The name of this achievement may look intimidating, but don't worry it's Minecraft days not real life days. It should take you about 33 hours in-game time to unlock this.