Exploration Update

Exploration Update

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There is a guide for this update!

 

See Java Edition guides/Exploration Update for a guide to all of the new features introduced in Exploration Update.

The Exploration Update is the name for Java Edition 1.11, a major update released on November 14, 2016.^[1] The official name for the update, the Exploration Update, was revealed on September 24, 2016, during the Opening Ceremony at MINECON 2016.^[2] During the "Casual Chat with Jens" panel at MINECON, he suggested that the name "Expedition Update" was more suitable to the theme of the update compared to the "Exploration Update".^[3]

The main features of the update were announced on the second day of MINECON 2016, during "The Minecraft 1.11 Change Log" on September 25, 2016.^[4] However, snapshots for the update initially began around two months prior to the reveal of the main features, with the features being added in a snapshot just a few days after MINECON.

Mojang released the first (and only) pre-release for the Exploration Update on November 8, 2016.

Exploration Update block and item additions

New blocks

• Observer
  • Crafted using six cobblestone, two redstone dusts, and a Nether quartz.
  • Used to give a redstone signal when it detects a block update.
• Shulker Box
  • Crafted using a chest with two shulker shells enclosed on top and at the bottom.
  • Allows the player to access storage on the go by keeping any inventory it has when broken.
  • Can be dyed to any of the available colors.

New items

• Shulker Shell
  • Obtained as drops from shulkers.
  • Used to craft a shulker box.
• Totem of Undying
  • Obtained as drops from evokers.
  • Holding it in the main hand or offhand resurrects the player upon being killed.
    • Absorption and Regeneration is granted upon activation.
    • Cannot prevent deaths when falling through the void.
• Explorer Map
  • Obtained by trading with cartographer villagers.
  • Used to locate ocean monuments (blue) or woodland mansions (brown).
  • The map shows the outline of land and where the location is and it is filled in as the player approaches the vicinity.
• Spawn eggs:
  • Donkey Spawn Egg
  • Elder Guardian Spawn Egg
  • Evoker Spawn Egg
  • Husk Spawn Egg
  • Llama Spawn Egg
  • Mule Spawn Egg
  • Skeleton Horse Spawn Egg
  • Stray Spawn Egg
  • Vex Spawn Egg
  • Vindicator Spawn Egg
  • Wither Skeleton Spawn Egg
  • Zombie Horse Spawn Egg

New mobs

• Llama
  • Spawns in extreme hills biomes.
  • Attacks when provoked by a player or mob.
  • Can be tamed similar to horses, but does not permit the usage of a saddle to be able to ride them freely.
  • Using a lead on a llama causes other nearby llamas to follow and form a caravan.
  • Can be bred using hay bales.
  • Drops leather when killed.
• Evoker
  • Found in woodland mansions.
  • Attacks any players and villagers nearby.
  • Summons fangs and vex to deal with the player.
  • When near a blue-dyed sheep in a 16-block radius, it converts their color into red.
  • Drops emeralds and a totem of undying when killed.
• Vex
  • Summoned by evokers.
  • Attacks any players and villagers nearby.
  • Are able to phase through blocks to attack their opponents.
• Vindicator
  • Found in woodland mansions.
  • Attacks any players and villagers nearby.
    • Vindicators named "Johnny" or have the Johnny byte tag enabled become aggressive to all but other illagers.
  • Primarily attacks using an iron axe that can disable shields.
  • Drops emeralds and rarely an iron axe when killed.
• 2 new villager professions:
  • Cartographer
    • A white-robed villager (librarian) that can sell explorer maps.
  • Nitwit
    • Cannot trade with the player at all.

New non-mob entities

• Evocation Fangs
  • Summoned by evokers.
  • Causes 6HP hearts of damage to players and mobs.
  • Does not harm any illagers unless it was spawned by the player.

New structures

• Woodland mansion
  • Found in roofed forests.
  • Consists of three floors that are procedurally-generated.
  • Evokers and vindicators can be found here.

New gameplay

• Enchanting
  • Curse of Vanishing
    • Items and armor pieces enchanted with Curse of Vanishing disappear upon the player using them getting killed.
  • Curse of Binding
    • Armor pieces enchanted with Curse of Binding cause the player to be unable to take off the armor piece until its durability is gone or the player dies.
      • It's also possible to enchant items such as mob heads or pumpkins in which the only way to remove them is by dying.

Other additions

• The command /locate

• 1.11.1 added iron nuggets and the Sweeping Edge enchantment, among numerous changes and bug fixes.
  • Firework rockets can now cause damage to entities that are within their explosion radius.
  • Firework rockets can now boost players while flying with elytra.
• 1.11.2 was released soon thereafter to fix a crash involving chicken jockeys.

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