James and Vincent are now running 1.1. You will have to update your game to MC 1.1 in order to connect, or you will receive "Outdated client" upon trying to join. New features of Minecraft 1.1 include: Bows are now enchantable, with four new enchantments specific to bows: Power, Punch, Infinity, and Flame. Arrows which are on fire now set entities they hit on fire. Golden Apple recipe changed to use gold nuggets instead of gold blocks. Golden Apples now fill 4 hunger rather than 10 and cause regeneration for 4 seconds rather than 30. 56 new language translations, including fictional ones such as Pirate. Slightly smoothed color transitions between biomes. Swamp land and water colors now smoothly transition to other biomes. Re-added beaches. Taiga biomes now contain snow and ice. Decreased randomness of enchantment levels at Enchantment Tables. Biomes are slightly more varied, with differing elevations of land in previously flat biomes. Reduced brewing time to 20 seconds from 30. Added Spawn Eggs to creative mode. Added a world type option (available types: Superflat and Default). Removed collision box from Ladders. Sheep eat Grass (converting it to Dirt) and Tall Grass to regain their Wool. Sheep only drop 1-3 wool per shearing. The collision box on Fence Gates now matches that of Fences instead of being square. Fence Gates can now be opened and closed with redstone. Leaves now have a 1/200 chance of dropping Red Apples. Blacksmith buildings in NPC Villages now hold chests with loot of the same type asStrongholds Void fog removed in creative mode. Melons and Pumpkins can now grow on Dirt, instead of only on Farmland. Magma Cubes can now drop Magma Cream on death. The distance that wheat attracts friendly mobs has increased from 2-3 to 8-9 Bug fixes: Fixed "Sniper Duel" achievement not working. Fixed Powered Rail Non-Depowering Bug Fixed Powered Rail Failure-to-Update on Placement Bug New bugs: Major crash bug in the loading screen for some users Possible to fall trough a block of Farmland or Soul Sand when walking over its edge.
