Minecraft Version History
Changes
Flower pots
Can now remove the potted plant from the pot, by pressing use.
Llamas
Drops are now affected by Looting.
Fixes
33 issues fixedFrom released versions before 1.11
MC-105513 – Loading Structures that contain no blocks ignores entities.
MC-106571 – Cannot tab-complete "flush" with the save-all command.
MC-106573 – "flush" argument in save-all not included in /help save-all.
From the 1.11 development ...
Release Date: 2016-09-29
Additions
Blocks
Observers
Ported from the Pocket and Windows 10 editions.
Has slight behavior differences due to how redstone works in the Java Edition compared to Pocket and Windows 10 Edition.
Check the observer page for said differences.
Outputs a redstone signal when it detects a block update.
Normal BUDs still remain.
Shulker boxes
Crafted in a crafting table as a single column, with a chest in the middle row and ...
Release Date: 2016-09-28
Additions
Gamerules
doWeatherCycle
Determines whether the weather will change.
Defaults to true.
maxEntityCramming
Defaults to 24
If one entity tries to push more than 24 other entities, it starts to suffocate. (Note that pushing entities like minecarts also count towards this, although minecarts don't suffocate, mobs or players who push one, do suffocate)
The death message is suffocated in a wall
Setting to 0 disables the rule.
Affects mobs and players ...
Release Date: 2016-09-20
Additions
Gamerules
doWeatherCycle
Determines whether the weather will change.
Defaults to true.
maxEntityCramming
Defaults to 24
If one entity tries to push more than 24 other entities, it starts to suffocate. (Note that pushing entities like minecarts also count towards this, although minecarts don't suffocate, mobs or players who push one, do suffocate)
The death message is suffocated in a wall
Setting to 0 disables the rule.
Affects mobs and players ...
Release Date: 2016-09-20
Changes
Flowers
Their hitbox now corresponds to their exact visual location on the block (as opposed to always placed in the middle of the block).
Leaves
Particles emitted from leaves now use the corresponding color according to the biome.
Fixes
23 issues fixedFrom released versions before 1.11
MC-29544 – Particles from falling/landing/sprinting on leaves do not use foliage color
MC-41270 – Resourcepack's glyph_sizes.bin and some unicode_pages are only loaded on ...
Release Date: 2016-09-08
Additions
Internationalization
New strings within the game were made available for internationalization:
/save-all flush command output
Changes
Blocks
Blocks with custom names, including banners, hoppers, chests, furnaces, enchanting tables, dispensers, droppers, brewing stands, and beacons, will retain their custom name when the block is dropped as an item, and when the item is placed again
Use ...
Release Date: 2016-09-01
Additions
Splashes
"Should not be played while driving"
"You're going too fast!"
Changes
Shields
Will now keep enchantments and durability when crafted with banners
Subtitles
Some of elder guardians' and zombie villagers' subtitles are now distinct from the subtitles for guardians and zombies.
Smelting
More things will burn in the furnace
1 Wool smelts 0.5 items
1 Carpet smelts 0.33 items, just less than 1⁄3 items (increased ...
Release Date: 2016-08-17
Changes
Blocks
Rails
All rail types' hitbox heights are decreased from a full block to a half block.
Mobs
Green-robed villagers
Re-added this entity as Profession:5; its name is shown in the trading GUI as "Nitwit".
Spawns naturally in villages.
When spawned naturally in a village, or from an egg, it has no trades.
Green-robed zombie villagers
Re-added this entity as Profession:5.
Spawns naturally anywhere zombie villagers spawn.
Command ...
Release Date: 2016-08-10
Additions
Items
Spawn eggs
Eggs that were removed in 1.10-pre2 are re-added, except the cat spawn egg, including:
Wither Skeleton.
Mule.
Skeleton Horse.
Zombie Horse.
Donkey.
Elder Guardian.
Stray: Dark gray with light gray dots.
Husk: Brown with cream colored dots.
Added zombie villager spawn egg.
General
Splashes
"Javalicious edition"
Internationalization
New strings within the game were made available for internationalization:
World selection error ...
Release Date: 2016-08-10
Fixes
73 issues fixedFrom released versions before 1.10
MC-3761 – Boats sink through ice when placed down, are rideable, but head goes in ice and 3rd/ front view zoom very close.
MC-3923 – Mob and fence interaction.
MC-4494 – Boats sink in the ground.
MC-10117 – Speed potions do not affect pigs while riding them.
MC-11533 – Exiting a boat teleports to original location.
MC-12423 – Opening to LAN twice exiting then going to ...
Release Date: 2016-06-23
Changes
Blocks
Farmland
Now have a 15⁄16 block tall hitbox (was formerly a full block).
Are now 15⁄16 blocks tall visually.
Fixes
7 issues fixedFrom released versions before 1.10
MC-85162 – Slight player/mob offset when on farmland block.
MC-99914 – DataWatcher/EntityMetadata ID is based on the class load order.
MC-100333 – Entities from old (≤ 1.5.2) worlds are killed when loaded in current versions due ...
Release Date: 2016-06-22
Additions
Blocks
Structure void
It is an intangible block used to indicate to the structure blocks that certain air blocks can be overridden by previously existing blocks in the destination.
Intended to be a replacement for the function barrier blocks used to convey (during early development), so they can form part of the structure itself.
They are invisible and have a small hitbox.
They are only visible when they are inside a structure being saved by a ...
Release Date: 2016-06-08
Additions
Command format
Sound events
Added sound assets for existing events:
block.enchantment_table.use
entity.husk.ambient
entity.husk.death
entity.husk.hurt
entity.husk.step
entity.polar_bear.baby_ambient
entity.polar_bear.ambient
entity.polar_bear.death
entity.polar_bear.hurt
entity.polar_bear.step
entity.polar_bear.warning
entity.stray.ambient
entity.stray.death
entity.stray.hurt
entity.stray.step
Added new ambient ...
Release Date: 2016-06-07
Additions
Command format
/teleport
Usage: /teleport <entity> [<x> <y> <z>] [<y-rot> <x-rot>].
Teleports a selected entity to the executor's relative position.
Example: /teleport @e[type=Cow] ~ ~10 ~ 60 10 will reorient all cows and teleport them up 10 blocks.
NBT tags
New ParticleParam1 and ParticleParam2 integer tags for area effect cloud entities.
These work just like the ...
Release Date: 2016-06-02
Additions
General
Splashes
Added "Rule #1: it's never my fault".
Added "Replaced molten cheese with blood?"
Added "Absolutely fixed relatively broken coordinates".
Added "Boats FTW".
Changes
Command format
/tp
Relative coordinates are now relative to the executor of the command, not the teleported entity.
/execute can be used to get the old behavior.
/tp can now teleport the player to a y-coordinate in the range -4096 to 4096 (increased from -512 to 512).
Fixes
5 ...
Release Date: 2016-05-26
Additions
Command format
NBT tags
FallFlying
Allows mobs to use elytra when they fall.
Mobs lose their ability to fly after touching the ground.
Changes
Blocks
Bone blocks
No longer transparent.
Dispensers
Can now equip shields onto entities.
Rails (all types)
Bounding box for ascending rails is a full block (formerly only 5⁄32 of a block tall).
Structure blocks
No longer emit light.
Added "Structure Integrity and Seed" to load mode ...
Release Date: 2016-05-25
Additions
Blocks
Bone blocks
Crafted by filling a 3×3 square in the crafting table with bone meal.
Can be crafted back into 9 bone meal.
Found underground in desert and swamps as part of fossils.
Magma blocks
Found in the Nether, generating 4 veins per chunk between y=27 and y=36.
It has a similar frequency to blocks like andesite in the Overworld.
Crafted using four magma cream.
Mobs and players take 1 damage every second while ...
Release Date: 2016-05-18
Changes
General
Warnings
Removed incorrect snapshot version warning when loading a world saved in an older version.
Fixes
5 issues fixedFrom released versions before 1.9
MC-92057 – Particles are dark at Y≥256.
From 1.9
MC-94670 – Bat subtitle is misspelled ("squeeks").
MC-95574 – Minecraft freezes when windows loses focus.
MC-100116 – [r=x] selector is not selecting mobs/players in the full radius when run in command blocks.
From ...
Release Date: 2016-05-10
Additions
Commands
/stopsound
Permits the player to choose which specific sounds should be stopped from playing.
Syntax: /stopsound <player> [<source>] [<sound>].
Changes
Commands
/tp
No longer teleports the player to a y-coordinate outside the range −512 to 512.
General
Networking
As of the release of this version, the Netty networking library that Minecraft uses, now ...
Release Date: 2016-05-10
Changes
General
Networking
The game no longer checks https://sessionserver.mojang.com/blockedservers, as it had begun to in the previous pre-release.
Fixes
1 issue fixedFrom the previous development version
MC-101545 – Problem with the new pre-release.
Other fixes
Fixed a potential crash with spreading water or lava.
Release Date: 2016-05-03