Minecraft 1.91: Everything You Need to Know

Minecraft 1.91 released on PlayStation 4 on Monday, completing the addition of the Village & Pillage features that has taken place over the past three patches. Here's everything you need to know about the patch.

Minecraft 1.91: Everything You Need to Know

Village & Pillage was a major update intended to revitalize villages across all versions of Minecraft. The PlayStation 4 received the new features and changes in the update across four updates: 1.83, 1.88. 1.90 and 1.91.

The last of these updates, 1.91, added several new blocks, items, mobs and more. Here's the full list of changes and additions:

Minecraft 1.91: What's New

Blocks

Barrel

• Acts as a storage block similar to chests.
• Generates in village fisher cottages.
• Can be opened in a one by one block space unlike chests.

Bell

• Decoration block which produces sound
• Play a shaking animation and a sound when right-clicked, hit by a projectile, or activated by a redstone signal.
• Generates in village meeting points.

Blast Furnace

• Block used for smelting ores twice as fast as a traditional furnace
• Generates in village armorer houses.

Campfires

• Act as a decorative fireplace without any fire spread.
• Can cook up to four food items, but slowly (30 seconds).
• Can be lit or unlit.
• Acts as smoke signal when placed on top a hay bale.

Cartography Table

• Found in villages, specifically cartographer houses.
• Block used for cloning, expanding and locking maps.
• Maps that are locked can't be modified.

Composter

• Produces bone meal.
• Using certain items on the composter has a chance to add 1 level of composting to the composter, up to 7 levels. After the composter reaches level 7, it will turn into level 8 which is the harvestable stage, yielding 1 bone meal when used.
• Some composted items will be consumed without adding a level. The chance a level will be added depends on the quality of the item: larger or crafted items have a higher chance of adding a layer when used (e.g. Kelp has a low chance of about 10%, while pumpkin pie has a chance of 100%).

Fletching Table

• Found inside fletcher houses in villages.
• Player functionality will be added in a later update.

Grindstone

• A new block that can be used to remove any non-curse enchantment(s) from an item.
• Can repair items by combining them together
• Generates in village weaponsmiths

Illager Banner

• A unique banner variant found at pillager outposts or held by raid captains.

Smithing Table

• Found inside Toolsmith houses in villages.
• Player functionality will be added in a later update.

Smoker

• Found in villages, specifically butcher shops.
• Block used for cooking of foodstuff faster than the traditional furnace.

Stonecutter

• Found inside mason houses in villages.
• Used for crafting all stone-related items and blocks.

Sweet berry bushes

• Found in Taiga biomes and their variants.
• Can be planted from sweet berries.
• Have 4 stages of growth: 'sapling', 'no berries', 'some berries', and 'full berries'.
• Drop 1–2 berries in younger stage, 2–3 in full growth stage.
• They slow movement of all mobs in all stages of growth.
• Any mob can stand inside them, but they deal damage similar to a cactus if the mob isn't standing still, as long as the bush has grown past the 'sapling' stage.

Items

Sweet Berries

• A new food item.
• Found on Sweet Berry Bushes.

Mobs

Illager captain

• Spawn in illager patrols and around pillager outposts
• Are pillagers or vindicators that wear special illager banners on their heads.
• Give the player a Bad Omen status effect when killed.

Ravagers

• Large, hostile bull-like creatures equipped with armor and saddles.
• Very tough.
• Destroy crops and leaves.
• Spawn in Raids.

Wandering Trader

• A type of villager that will appear at a village's gathering site periodically and stays for a period of 2–3 in-game days (40–60 minutes of real-life time).
• This trader offers items from a wide variety of different biomes, random dyes, and other rare materials.
• Accompanied by two Trader Llamas.

World Generation

Bamboo forests

• New biome variant of jungles.
• It contains bamboo shoots, podzol, and pandas.

Pillager outposts

• Generate in the same biomes as villages, and pillagers will respawn around the tower.

Gameplay

Raids

• Triggered when a player goes to a village with the Bad Omen status effect applied to them.
• A large group of illagers that come to attack villages and kill the villagers.
• Mobs appear in waves – the amount of mobs and length of waves is 3 on easy, 5 on normal and 7 on hard.
• A raid boss bar will show the player how many enemies are left.
• A sound similar of a battle horn will play during raid waves, centered from raiding mobs.
  

Illager patrols

• A group of 2–5 random illagers that spawn in the world.
• One of the illagers will be a raid captain.

Status effects

• Added Bad Omen and Hero of the Village effects.

Sounds

• Added new sounds for lanterns.

Trading

• Revamped the trading system and UI, and added villager restock functionality.

General

Trophies

• Added Expansion Pack 10, which contains seven new trophies:
• Kill the Beast! - Defeat a ravager
• Buy Low, Sell High - Trade for the best possible price
• Disenchanted - Use a grindstone to get experience from an enchanted item
• We're being attacked - Trigger a pillager raid
• Sound the Alarm! - Ring the bell with a hostile enemy in the village
• I've got a bad feeling about this - Kill a pillager captain
• Master Trader - Trade for 1,000 emeralds.

Minecraft 1.91: What's Changed

Blocks

Furnaces

• Will now store experience from smelting items when emptied by a hopper.

Hoppers

• Can now be used to fill and empty composters.

Lectern

• Now emits a redstone signal when a page is turned.

Scaffolding

• Increased the amount of scaffolding that can be placed out from its initial support from 4 to 6.

Items

Splash water bottles

• Can now be used to extinguish campfires.

Mobs

Pillagers

• No longer attack baby villagers.
• Now drop special loot if spawned from raids.

Vindicators

• No longer attack baby villagers.
• Now drop special loot if spawned from raids.
• Can now break down doors during raids.

Evokers and vexes

• No longer attack baby villagers.

Iron golems

• Now spawn in pillager outpost cages.
• An iron golem now spawns in each village.
• Improved pathfinding.

Cats

• Now respawn based on the number of beds in the village.
• One cat spawns for every four beds in the village.
• Total caps at 10 cats per village.

Snow golems

• They now take damage when walking over campfires.

Villagers

• New villager behavior:
• Implemented some of the new villager schedule behaviors.
• Implemented new villager sleep behaviors.
• Villagers may now wander to the village outskirts.
• Villagers will attempt to find a door when it rains during the day, but will navigate to their bed at night.
• Updated and improved pathfinding.
• Villagers now have a visual based trading system, and will hold up the item they wish to trade.
• Villagers have new clothing to indicate their level, profession, and biome.
• Villagers will now mingle together around gathering sites in the village.
• Librarians will inspect bookshelves.
• Villagers can switch professions depending on the job site blocks available in the village.
• Villagers now interact with beds and corresponding job site blocks.
• Added Mason, green-coated (nitwit), and Unemployed (no-overlay) villager professions.
• Old villagers in existing worlds will convert to new villagers.
• Can now restore health by sleeping in beds.

Zombie Villagers

• Now have new clothes to indicate their biome and profession.
• Old zombie villagers in a world will convert to new ones.
• Added new sounds.

World Generation

• Note on World Generation: In order to deliver the coolest generated villages possible, some world seeds may have villages generate in different areas than they used to before this update

Villages

• Have a new look, differing per biome.
• Added village job sites and gathering sites.
• Number of houses depends on beds.
• Taiga villages are now more common.
• Removed zombie villages, due to new village changes.

General

Options

• How to Play section has now been updated with helpful Village & Pillage knowledge.
• Updated the scaffolding guide in How to Play slightly, to change the diagram of how much scaffolding can be placed from its support.

Texture Update

• Added even more new textures to blocks and items, including stained glass and status effect icons.

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