Minecraft 1.11 New Stuff In the World
Woodland Mansions – These large mansions generate in Roofed Forests. They contain an assortment of rooms, like dining rooms or rooms filled with chests. Some harbor giant chicken sculptures or strange fighting rings. You can check out some of the coolest Woodland Mansion seeds we’ve found so far here.
Return portals – In the End and near End Cities, you’ll now find portals that take you back to the base island’s spawn platform.
Minecraft 1.11 New Enchantments
Curse Enchantments – Now there are enchantments with negative effects. Items with these curses will be found as loot around the world.
Curse of Binding – This enchantment will make it so you cannot drop or remove the item unless you die.
Curse of Vanishing – This enchantments makes it so that if you die, all your items disappear permanently.
Minecraft 1.11 Miscellaneous Cool Things
Chat messages can now be 256 characters long (as opposed to the previous 100 character limit)
Shields now block 100% (up from 66%) of damage from melee attacks, making you immune to Creeper explosions, Burning Zombie fire, and Wither Skeleton wither effects.