Snapshot season is here again! Minecraft 1.11.1 has its first (and possibly only) snapshot, Minecraft 1.11.1 Snapshot 16w50a adds a few new goodies, and fixes a lot of bugs.

The holidays account for a few new additions (the fireworks in particular, for example), but more still are there just for fun!

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Features:

  • Change to combat mechanics
    • The crosshair attack indicator now always displays if fully loaded while looking at an entity (signified by an exclamation mark underneath)
  • Enchantment changes
    • New sword enchantment
      • “Sweeping Edge”
      • Up to 3 levels
      • Improves sweeping damage
    • Mending is no longer compatible with Infinity on bows
  • Iron nuggets
    • Crafting: 9 nuggets for 1 ingot and vice-versa
  • Many tools and items can now be recycled in furnaces
    • Gold and iron tools/weapons/armor/horse armor yield one gold/iron nugget each
    • Chain armor -> iron nugget
  • A fireworks feature
    • Right-clicking fireworks while flying gives a small speed boost
    • Firework rockets with an explosion now do damage
      • Death message: “<player> went off with a bang”

Bug Fixes:

  • Some entities, enchanted gear and end portals render white while in fog / red while in lava
  • 1-9 keys, hoppers/droppers and shift-clicking ignore stacking restrictions
  • Dropped item disappear in Creative
  • Lag while taking screenshot with F2
  • Mouse click position always lags a few frames behind the crosshair
  • Decimal numbers are displayed using the default Locale value
  • Cannot use leads on wild ocelots
  • Bed God Mode Exploit
  • Non-hostile wild wolves and ocelots cannot be put on leashes
  • Infinite Durability for Carrot on a stick
  • Clouds flicker between different positions when spectating minecart
  • Baby Zombie Villager Voice sounds deep as adult version
  • XP orbs sound effects mostly play high pitch sounds
  • followRange Attribute doesn’t work properly on some mobs
  • Fences and cobble walls moved by pistons don’t move entities in the upper part of their collision box
  • CustomPotionColor doesn’t change the colors of the AreaOfEffectCloud / TippedArrow
  • Picking up a flower from a Flower Pot makes no sound when you already have that flower in your inventory
  • Spawner with missing “minecraft:” in entity id (or with not lowercased entity id) spawns this entity until you reload the world
  • Farmland can be placed on invalid locations
  • Heads in inventory face backwards.
  • “commands.title.usage” uses a different syntax
  • Shift-Jumping on Magma Block deals damage to the player
  • Weighted Pressure Plate name gets truncated when applying enchanted book in anvil
  • Entities can fall through moving fences
  • Renaming a Wither doesn’t change the boss bar
  • Moving blocks use 0,0,0 as surrounding to calculate their bounding box
  • Moving blocks can move entities into other moving blocks (also when they move in a different direction)
  • Mounted horse disappeared after 1.11 upgrade
  • Activator Rail ejects Players (and 2 high Mobs) to the wrong spot inside of 2 high rooms
  • Unicode characters which are not converted 1:1 when calling toLowerCase result in wrong formatting
  • Llama yellow carpet model error
  • Final firework rocket of a stack does not explode
  • Eating Pufferfish in a stack of 1 does not give debuffs

Screenshot:

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To get snapshots, open your launcher and press the “New Profile” button. Call it “snapshots” and check the box saying “Enable experimental development snapshots” and save. To switch to the normal version, you can select it in the dropdown at the bottom left corner of the launcher. Back up your world first or run the game on in a different folder (See the “new profile” dialog). Snapshots can corrupt your world, please backup and/or run them in a different folder from your main worlds.

Minecraft 1.11.1 Snapshot 16w50a Download Links

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