'Minecraft' Update 1.11.1 Smooths Rough Edges And Adds New Features

A new patch for Minecraft’s recently released Exploration Update is out now, five weeks after the update it looks to tidy up, and fans might be surprised to hear Mojang included a few new features in the latest version of Minecraft. Even more surprising is just how much the studio managed to accomplish in that time, particularly in regards to bug-fixing, while also prepping new features for deployment. Here’s everything we know about Minecraft 1.11.1.

The biggest change in this week’s Minecraft patch is unquestionably the addition of smelting; a new process by which players can recycle old armor, tools and weapons into bits of metal that can eventually be recombined into full ingots. Minecraft 1.11.1 also includes new enchantments and a tweak to make fireworks 100 percent more deadly than they have been in previous builds. The new patch also includes dozens of bug fixes, addressing everything from friendly animals that can’t be leashed to mounted horses disappearing from existence in the Exploration Update.

Here are the patch notes for Minecraft 1.11.1, via Jens Bergensten :

General

• Enchantments

  • Sweeping Edge

    • Applicable to swords

    • 3 tiers

    • Improves sweeping damage based on the sword's attack damage

  • Mending and Infinity are no longer compatible

• Smelting

  • Many things can now be recycled in Furnaces to obtain single Nuggets

    • Golden tools/weapons/armor/Horse Armor yield one Gold Nugget

    • Iron tools/weapons/armor/Horse Armor yield one Iron Nugget

    • Chain Armor yields one Iron Nugget

• Fixed some bugs

  • Fixed enchanted potion items that don't usually have a glint overlay not displaying a glint overlay

  • Fixed some entities, enchanted gear and End Portals rendering white while in fog and red while in Lava

  • Fixed Hoppers/Droppers and shift-clicking ignoring stacking restrictions on Brewing Stands

  • Fixed dropped items not appearing in creative

  • Fixed the mouse click position lagging a few frames behind the crosshair

  • Fixed decimal numbers being displayed using the default locale value

  • Fixed non-hostile wild Wolves and Ocelots not being leashable

  • Fixed infinite durability for Carrots on Sticks

  • Fixed clouds flickering between different positions when spectating Minecarts

  • Fixed baby Zombie Villager voices sounding as deep as the adult versions'

  • Fixed experience orb sound effects mostly playing high pitch sounds

  • Fixed the followRange attribute not working properly on some mobs

  • Fixed Fences and Cobblestone Walls moved by Pistons not moving entities in the upper part of their collision box

  • Fixed CustomPotionColor not changing the colors on AreaOfEffectCloud / TippedArrow

  • Fixed picking up Flowers from Flower Pots making no sound when you already have a non-full item stack of that Flower in your inventory

  • Fixed Mob Spawners with missing "minecraft:" in entity id or with not lowercased entity id spawning that entity until the world is reloaded

  • Fixed Farmland being placable at invalid locations

  • Fixed Skulls facing backwards in the inventory and when held

  • Fixed commands.title.usage being wrong

  • Fixed shift-jumping on Magma Blocks still dealing damage

  • Fixed Weighted Pressure Plate names getting truncated when applying Enchanted Books on Anvils

  • Fixed entities being able to fall through moving Fences

  • Fixed renaming the Wither not updating the boss bar until a reload

  • Fixed moving blocks using 0,0,0 as surrounding to calculate their bounding boxes

  • Fixed moving blocks being able to move entities into other moving blocks

  • Fixed mounted Horses disappearing after updating to 1.11

  • Fixed Activator Rails ejecting players and 2 blocks high mobs to the wrong spot inside of 2 blocks high rooms

  • Fixed unicode characters which are not converted 1:1 when calling toLowerCase resulting in wrong formatting

  • Fixed a small texture error on Yellow Carpets on Llamas

  • Fixed the last Firework Rocket out of a stack not exploding

  • Fixed eating Pufferfish in a stack of 1 not giving debuffs

  • Fixed a Bed god mode exploit

  • Fixed a crash

  • Fixed `cullface on Snow Layers not working properly

  • Fixed the "Fish Caught", "Junk Fished" and "Treasure Fished" statistics not working

  • Fixed experience orbs playing multiple instances of their sound when picked up

  • Fixed "minecraft:" not being optional for entity ID in EntityTag and Mob Spawners

  • Fixed debug worlds spamming "Tried to assign a mutable BlockPos to a block entity" warnings

  • Fixed there being no sounds while riding entities in Water

Blocks & Items

• Firework Rockets

  • Right-clicking Firework Rockets while gliding now gives a short speed boost

    • Screenshot

  • Explosions now do damage

    • Death message: "

      went off with a bang"

• Iron Nuggets

  • Screenshot

  • Crafting recipes: 9 Iron Nuggets craftable from 1 Iron Ingot and vice-versa

Minecraft is now available on PlayStation 3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, PS Vita, Wii U, Nintendo 3DS, PC, iOS and Android.

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