Minecraft 1.11, the 'Exploration Update' is now live, new launcher coming along nicely

By Liam Dawe - 15 November 2016 at 11:10 am UTC | Views: 14,169

Minecraft 1.11 is now available which is the 'Exploration Update' aimed at making the world more interesting. They also showed off the new Minecraft launcher running on Linux recently.

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The new version brings in the Cartographer, a new villager who will provide you with maps. It also brings in the Illagers, the evil cousins of the Villagers. Adds in the Vex, a hostile mob spawned by some of the Illager. Also added in are the new Llamas, which are amusing when they spit at Wolves.

There's plenty more, you can see a proper changelog here.

One of their newer developers recently showed off the new Minecraft launcher running on Linux too:

So I have screenshots to share now! Not show here: icons in system menu, crashes.
We are still testing it, but it works nicely! pic.twitter.com/mY91CnyW4R
— Shoghi Cervantes (@shoghicp) October 31, 2016

Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.

Tags: Sandbox | Apps: Minecraft

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MayeulC Nov 15, 2016

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I am not sold on their new launcher. But I might end up using it, after all.

It also looks like they added some item for respawn or falling damage prevention?

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cnystrom Nov 15, 2016

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Alas, it does not seem to be available for linux, yet. The linux version is still at 1.10.2.

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cnystrom Nov 16, 2016

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Never mind. I just had to set the version in my profile.

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