Minecraft Halloween update adds new monsters, fishing, wristwatches

by Griffin McElroy on Oct 4th 2010 2:35PM

A blog post on the official website for the biggest indie hit in all of recorded human history, Minecraft, has revealed that a whole slew of new features will be added to the title as part of a "Halloween Update." These new features are fairly wide-reaching, including new monsters (which are "actually difficult this time around"), torches which eventually extinguish over time, fishing, the ability to fast travel by moving through an (assumedly dangerous) "hell world," and a craftable wristwatch, which lets players keep track of how much time is left in the day before the baddies rear their ugly heads.

There are also a few mechanical changes to the game planned for the October 31 update as well, such as new music and sounds, a few bug fixes and additional multiplayer functionality. We sure hope you can finish your to-scale recreation of the Taj Mahal before Halloween, because, man, it sounds your build site is going to get hazardous.

Source: Minecraft official site

Tags: halloween, Markus-Persson, Minecraft, pc, update

Reader Comments (49)

Hell World reminds me of The Ways in the Wheel of Time.

Only.. probably much, much scarier. =/

@Ezio Auditore da Firenze How can Hell World be scarier, if it lacks Machin Shin, a wind literally composed of DEVOURED SOULS?

I hope mutliplayer has enemies and health now.

@Frostfell

I dunno about you, but the first time a zombie showed up it scared the crap out of me.

@Ezio Auditore da Firenze

Oh man, that part was sweeeet!

@ironneko The first time a zombie *blowed* up it scared the crap out of me. "Where did this pit come from?? AHHH!"
I like the idea of fast travel by mining your way through the fabric of space time. More wormhole than teleporter. That could be way fun.

Awesome!
Too bad I can't play single or multiplayer...

@shunt31

why not?

@lessthankris

My FPS randomly drops to 0 a few minutes in. Only started happenning yesterday. The client didn't even update. + http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=47213

i thought hell would look a little like bobby's office.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHGiiFFK6SQ

"actually difficult this time around"

Wtf? Do you know how many times I have been killed by a creeper. Especially the first few nights. I hope this doesn't make it too difficult.

But god, that hissing sound has haunted my nightmares.

@TraceurRyuk Prepping for LBP2

Also, looks like I'll be stocking up on iron. I imagine the lantern will be made the same as torches except with iron. Which is gonna be a real pain.

@TraceurRyuk Prepping for LBP2

Yeah, Iron is seriously hard to find. I've got about 640 stone for every 6 iron.

Also, damned creepers keep killing me too.

ALSO, I'm not looking forward to having all my torches burn out :(

@TraceurRyuk Prepping for LBP2

Ssssssssss...

Boom!

@jgillman
Just explore caves. I have more iron than I know what to do with, and I'm starting to get that many diamonds.

@Not THAT Matt
You could try using or making a different skin that lets you tell the difference more easily.

@TraceurRyuk Prepping for LBP2

I was actually just playing and mining around. http://twitpic.com/2uool3

I don't even know how the fire started, I was way underground. Note to self: Never dig right above your head. Gravel sucks.

'torches which eventually extinguish over time' ....shit

@MongolianMisfit LANTERNS!!

Finally.

@Not THAT Matt

Redstone typically appears 1-5 blocks above Adminium, which is those unbreakable blocks at the bottom of the ground.

It works best when you find an already present cave system to explore. You'll usually find more valuable stones (like diamond!) that way.

If you're still unsure download MCEdit and use it to explore the world, make note of where valuable stones are, then just return to the game and mine away!

@MongolianMisfit
Lanterns better also be made of wood and coal, even if it's just slightly more of each. There is not enough iron in any map for a light source system to be built on that resource. Also, nobody will use torches anymore. For any reason. I know I won't. If I set a light source I expect it to be indicative of my travels, my achievements, my exploration.

This is game-changing enough that I wish I'd waited a couple of weeks before considering my purchase of the game. :/

pumpkin heads ftw

They buried the lead! Biomes!

daaaaaaamn why did he have to go and make the torches temporary? :(
There better be a permanent alternative, because otherwise it makes the game STUPIDLY harder. As in, run out of coal and you have NOWHERE to be safe at overnight.

@lSpam

Read the site, there is a permanent light source, lanterns.

@lSpam Well he is adding lanterns which never go out

@TraceurRyuk Prepping for LBP2

or lava if you are feeling especially dangerous

I wonder if Lanterns will have a larger lighting radius as well.

I haven't played this game. i wonder if my old piece-of-shit computer can handle it.

I guess I know what I'm doing on my day off.

@MystileArmor

To be honest, even though the graphics don't look the best, the amount of stuff on screen at one time can take a lot of resources. But I imagine you should be fine if you have the view distance set to low. What are your specs?

@MystileArmor

More then likely, YES! It will be able to handle it!

@MystileArmor

I'm running like a 2.0 ghz Pentium III with 800mb of RAM, something along those lines. 32mb ATI Rage graphics card.

Let me put it like this, Vice City runs choppy, but a game like Jedi Knight III for example runs fine.

It obviously wasn't meant for any serious gaming, that's for sure.

@MystileArmor

You should be able to run it. You should definitely upgrade your ram eventually though.

@TraceurRyuk Prepping for LBP2

Yeah his specs are made up nonsense, I don't think it is safe to say he can run this on a P3.

I sure hope you can toggle extinguishable torches on/off.

@Fillem WIN to this comment. *thumbs up*

Looks like I'm gonna die next update. Woo-hoo.

Tell you how popular and fun this POS looking game is.

Minecraft.net

In the last 24 hours, 24105 people registered, and 8580 people bought the game.

It's 9,95euro's which is 14 US Dollars. Yeah wish I could sell something that many times in 24 hrs for only 5 dollars a pop, shoot even a dollar!

meh, i have my minecraft on peaceful anyway, no monsters for me. though i'm gonna need some lanterns...

Damn... I'm going to have replace hundreds of torches with lanterns.

@Vidikron

I've heard that the lanterns will replace the torch, so everywhere you have lit will stay lit.

But this is just hearsay.

Flint and iron to relight torches? There goes my house...

I'm all for more Minecraft content. Best game purchase I've made this year, but I'd prefer if my torches remained everlasting.

Touches that go out?

BOOOOOOOOOOO!

Also, I'm I the only one not keen on the fast travel? Half the fun was making a compass, heading out and setting up small camps around the place, bunny hopping around the map looking for goodies?

Screw the bit about the torches. If he's going to do that then he needs to put some spawning coal blocks in the game. I'm going to be pissed when I race home at night to find my house completely dark and monsters inside of it.

How are we supposed to hop across the map and move out into the world if we have to be worried about not having a safe haven? That's going to pervert the exploration and sense of accomplishment that comes with clearing and lighting an area and knowing that it's yours and yours alone.

I can program Java and I'll be damned if I don't go in and take that out the second it goes live.

@oJMan240o Quite. I want to know I've beaten and secured that cave and I can loot it's goodies at will. That and I mark routes between major camp and mine shaft entrances with touches (two torches next to each other marks the way I came in, and where to get out if I have to run for it).

Notch, if you render my thousand block tunnels underground completely dark by burning out my torches so help me god, I will continue to play the game anyways!

Wait...

ahh can't wait for this update, looks so awesome.
torches that die out are badly needed, will help for the survival aspect.

would be nice if permanent torches will be kept for peaceful/easy difficulty, as there's plenty of people who like it.

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Minecraft Halloween update adds new monsters, fishing, wristwatches

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Posted: Oct 4th 2010 2:42PM Ezio Auditore da Firenze said

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