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1.1 is a major update to Minecraft: Java Edition that was released on January 12, 2012. It is the first update to begin using snapshots, did not have any pre-releases, had no further revisions (minor versions), and is the only major release version to not introduce any new blocks.

11w47a

11w47a is the first snapshot released for Java Edition 1.1, the first snapshot released in 2011, and the first snapshot for Java Edition released under the modern naming conditions. It was released on November 24, 2011.

Changes#

Optimizations#

Subtle code optimizations not worth mentioning.

Bug Fixes#

A bug with double doors where one may not open correctly has been fixed.

11w48a

11w48a is the second snapshot released for Java Edition 1.1. It was released on December 1, 2011.

Changes#

Blocks#

Farmland#

Farmland can now only be trampled if the player jumps/falls on it; walking no longer affects it.
Mobs can similarly trample farmland by jumping on it, but not by walking.

Items#

Apples#

Apples now have a 1/200 chance of dropping from Oak leaves.

World Generation#

Void Fog#

Void fog has been removed in Creative mode.

Bug Fixes#

Taiga biomes now once again contain snow and ice.

11w49a

11w49a is the third snapshot released for Java Edition 1.1. It was released on December 8, 2011.

Additions#

Items#

Spawn Egg#

Creative-exclusive item which can spawn the following mobs:

Blaze
Cave Spider
Chicken
Cow
Creeper
Enderman
Ghast
Magma Cube
Mooshroom
Pig
Sheep
Silverfish
Skeleton
Slime
Spider
Squid
Villager
Wolf
Zombie
Zombie Pigman

General#

Language Files#

Multiple languages were added.

Bulgarian
Czech
Welsh
Danish
German
Canadian English
English (UK)
Spanish
Estonian
Finnish
Canadian French
French
Hebrew
Croatian
Hungarian
Icelandic
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Lithuanian
Maltese
Dutch
Norwegian Nynorsk
Norwegian
Norwegian Bokmål
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese
Portuguese
Russian
Slovenian
Swedish
Turkish
Chinese Simplified (China)

Changes#

Mobs#

Sheep#

Sheep can now eat grass and tall grass to regrow their wool. As a counterbalance, shearing sheep now yields 1-3 wool instead of 2-4.

General#

Menu Screen#

"Save and quit to title" is now "Save and Quit to Title".

Bug Fixes#

Farmland is no longer destroyed by items and particles.
A setTileEntity multiplayer bug was corrected.
A powered rail bug was corrected.
A redstone update bug was corrected.

11w50a

11w50a is the fourth snapshot released for Java Edition 1.1, and the final snapshot released in 2011. It was released on December 15, 2011. This update's version number was incorrectly labeled as 11w49a.

Additions#

General#

Splash#

15 new splashes were added.

Colormatic
Cześć Polska
FUNKY LOL (obfuscated)
Helo Cymru!
I see your vocabulary has improved!
if not ok then return end
Lennart lennart = new Lennart();
My life for Aiur!
Who put it there?
You can't explain that!
Γεια σου Ελλάδα!
Привет Россия!
日本ハロー！
한국 안녕하세요!
你好中国！

Changes#

Items#

Music Discs#

All music discs, except for 11, can now be obtained if a skeleton kills a creeper.

Mobs#

Sheep#

Baby sheep now eat faster.

General#

Debug Features#

Pressing B now no longer changes gamemode.

12w01a

12w01a is the fifth and final snapshot released for Java Edition 1.1, and the first snapshot released in 2012. It was released on January 5, 2012.

Additions#

World Generation#

Beaches#

Beaches were re-added after being removed in Beta 1.8.
They are now biomes instead of Generated Structures.

Superflat#

Superflat is a completely flat world composed of grass blocks, dirt, and bedrock. Villages are able to be generated.
World Type selection was added in the options menu. Only Default and Superflat are available as options.

World Type#

World Type has been re-added after being removed in Infdev.

General#

Language Files#

17 new translations have been added.
- Afrikaans
- Arabic
- Catalan
- Greek
- Pirate English
- Venezuelan Spanish
- Basque
- Georgian
- Latvian
- Malay
- Romanian
- Slovak
- Serbian
- Thai
- Klingon
- Ukranian
- Chinese Traditional (Taiwan)
One language has been removed.
- Maltese

Changes#

Blocks#

Fence Gates#

The fence gate collision and hit boxes have been updated to align with fences.

Ladders#

The collision box has been removed from ladders, meaning they are no longer solid and cannot be stood on.

Items#

Spawn Egg#

Spawn eggs' colors have been changed to better represent their respective mobs they spawn.
Spawn eggs have also been reordered in the Creative Inventory.

World Generation#

Biomes#

Color transitions between biomes has been slightly smoothed.
Proper color transitions for the darkened swamp biomes into other biomes has been added.
Biomes have been changed to be slightly more varied. For example, hills in forests and deserts.

Villages#

A single chest is generated in each blacksmith building.

General#

Brewing#

Brewing time has been reduced to 20 seconds.

Enchanting#

The various possibility of enchantment levels has been narrowed.

1.1

Additions#

General#

Language#

There are 38 new translations. This includes constructed and fictional languages, such as Pirate Speak, Klingon, and Quenya.

server.properties#

New settings:

level-type
spawn-npcs
generate-structures

Changes#

Blocks#

Melon & Pumpkin#

Melons and pumpkins can now grow on dirt instead of only farmland.

Items#

Bow#

Bows are now enchantable, with four new possible enchantments specific to bows: Power, Punch, Infinity, and Flame.

Arrow#

Arrows that are burning now set entities on fire upon hit.

Golden Apples#

Golden apples are now made with gold nuggets instead of blocks of gold, restore 2 hunger, and give 5 seconds of Regeneration I.

Wheat#

The distance that wheat attracts mobs has increased from 2–3 blocks to 8–9 blocks.

Mobs#

Mob AI#

The infrastructure for improved mob AI has been added.
- This allowed for more complicated behavior than before.
- These behaviors themselves have not been implemented yet.

Magma Cube#

Magma Cubes can now drop Magma Cream upon death.

General#

Server#

Non-operator users are auto-kicked in multiplayer servers if they spam in chat too much.
Operators are not notified of the kick; they must assume that the user was auto-kicked.

Bug Fixes#

A bug where the "Sniper Duel" achievement did not work was fixed.
A bug where powered rails were not depowering was fixed.
A bug where powered rails did not update when placed was fixed.