They released the remaining details about 1.11 - the exploration patch - today at Minecon.
I watched the video and the features they showed were:
- Adding Llamas - rideable mount - uses carpets as saddles - can carry chests like donkeys - spits and damages wolves (which run away from llamas) - if you attach a lead to them, a group of them might follow as a caravan
- Adding Woodland Mansion - end-game dungeon - contains 2 new enemy villager mobs - Evokers - who attack from range plus summons Vexes - flying creatures that attack you and phase through walls and floors it seems - and Vindicators - enemy villager mob that attacks you with an iron axe
- Adding Totems of Undying - drop of the evoker - consumed when you die, resurrects you and gives you some life - have to be equipped in main or offhand to work
- Adding Cartographer Villager - subset of a librarian (white coat) - sells ocean maps that show where an ocean monument is and woodland maps that show where woodland mansions are. If your "dot" location is really small it means the location is really far away
- Adding Skulker box - the skulker in the end will occasionally drop a skulker shell - 2 skulker shells plus a chest will make a skulker box - Skulker boxes can be broken down with items inside but the items remain inside and will still be there when you put the box down
- Adding End Island Portals - returns you to the main end island
- Adding Observer - acts a BUD timer supposedly.
- Adding /locate command in creative mode - allows you to find temples, monuments, strongholds and nether fortresses
- I might have missed a couple of items as well
First snapshot with these items will be out on Wed Sept 28 - and since 1.11 is essentially complete, it sounds like they expect a release for 1.11 fairly soon.
http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/1.11
I've been playing on godking's minecraft realms server for the past year but it will shut down soon. Here's a link to the thread we have about it on weplayciv:
http://www.weplayciv.com/forums/showthread.php?8877-Minecraft-Realms-Server