Minecraft 1.1 Release

The other day the 1.1 update was released for Minecraft, bringing with it new features, bug fixes and more blocks! There is now four new enchantments specific to bows: Power, Punch, Flame and Inifinity, smoother colour transition between biomes, and more importantly; a new map type. There is now, of course, default.. and Superflat! This new map types entails a completely flat map, useful for servers, or even just for saving the time of editing the world. As usual, you can still find Strongholds or Villages, so the games fun has not been entirely been removed. Albeit missing the nice landscape and cliffs, players will now be able to experience a new level of building. Realistic auto-correct out the way, i'm sure alot of players are glad about this new map type. Even if it is less prefferable, the choice is still open for either way! Passing over the other major features that have been introduced (sheep eat grass, turning it into a dirt block!), there is the less noticeable, and quite frankly, less (but still) awesome features introduced such as:

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.
Removed collision box from Ladders.
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 as Strongholds
Void fog removed in creative mode.
Melons and Pumpkins can now grow on Dirt, instead of only on Farmland.
New settings in Server.properties:
level-type
spawn-npcs
generate-structures
Magma Cubes can now drop Magma Cream on death.
In SMP servers, non-ops are kicked if they spam in chat too much (Ops are not notified of the kick, they must assume that the player was auto-kicked)
The distance that Wheat attracts friendly mobs has increased from 2-3 to 8-9.
All Music discs except for "11" can be dropped from creepers killed by skeletons

Aside from all of this, there was 56 new language translations added by Jeb, including Pirate (??). ARR! That be all me hearties!

Full patch notes: http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Version_history