Lantern (disambiguation)

Lantern is a planned object, it will be added in the Minecraft Halloween Update on the 31st of October. Little is currently known about it, but it is known that it will be a permanent source of light, unlike torches, which will burn out after a certain period of time and need to be reignited with Flint and Steel. Notch has stated that all preexisting torches in a save before the update will be replaced by lanterns. To do this, the lanterns will use the (former) block ID of torches along with a re-skin.