Lantern (disambiguation)

Lantern is a planned object, it will be added in the Minecraft Halloween Update on the 31st of October, 2010. 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.