Discovery Update

Image for the Discovery Update released by Mojang

The Discovery Update is the name for Minecraft: Pocket Edition version 1.1, a major update which was released on June 1, 2017.

The official name for the update, the Discovery Update, was revealed on March 29, 2017, in a blog post on the Minecraft website.

Notable features

Main article: Pocket Edition 1.1

Additions

• Version exclusive: Minecraft Marketplace
• Woodland Mansion
  • Includes everything as of the Exploration Update, except for banners.
• 5 new blocks:
  • Concrete, Concrete powder, Glazed terracotta, Shulker box, and Frosted ice
• 7 new items:
  • Explorer maps, Totem of undying, Iron nugget, and 4 new spawn eggs
• 5 new mobs:
  • Llamas, vindicators, evokers, vexes and cartographer villagers
• Mending and Frost Walker enchants
• 6 new achievements.

Changes

• Beds can be dyed in all 16 colors.

Further revisions

• 1.1.1 and 1.1.2 were released to fix various bugs.
• 1.1.3 added fossils, as well as various blocks to the Nether.
• 1.1.4 and 1.1.5 added various skin packs to the Marketplace. 1.1.5 also saw the Marketplace extracted to its own library, so that updates to the Marketplace would no longer require version upgrades.
• 1.1.7 was released exclusively on iOS to add support for Internet Protocol version 6.

See also

• Exploration Update (1.11)
• World of Color Update (1.12)