Minecraft: Java Edition/Version Differences/1.1

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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.