Announcement
The Minecraft Halloween Update is planned by notch to be released on October 31, 2010. The planned features to be released are:
- A "Hell" world that can be used for quick travel, where you "portal in" walk ten meters and then "portal out" and you're hundreds of meters away
- New monsters
- More danger at deeper depths in-game
- Torches that eventually burn out, but are relightable, and the introduction of lanterns as a new infinite light source
- Fishing
- Multiplayer fixes
- Craftable Jack-O-Lanterns and pumpkin helmets
- Craftable watch
- And more. [See image]
This was announced on October 4th, 2010, and can be seen at minecraft.net/boo
Media
No gameplay footage has been released yet, but there are some announcement videos and commentaries here and here.