Im making this for everyone to share their knowledge of the FUCKING AMAZING update.

So far, Hell is built by a portal that looks like this

X = Obsidian
A = Air

XXXX
XAAX
XAAX
XAAX
XXXX

You light fire to the middle of the portal to create a portal, stand in it to enter The Nether.

In hell, there are many new block types, so far the normal ground is on fire forever. And there is a muddy block that slows you. Also their is a block that's illuminated, when you destroy it you get a yellow powder.
You can create that illuminated block by doing this

Y = yellow powder

YYY
YYY
YYY

In hell there are 2 new enemies, the ghast and Pigmen

Ghasts are huge white jellyfish that scream like a woman and shoot fire bombs at you. They die with one hit of a diamond sword. According to z0mb1n3, you can deflect fire bombs with arrows.

Pigmen are friendly mobs that only attack if provoked. They carry tools and travel in groups. Attack one and they're all after you.

That's all I know about hell so far.

Everyone knows about biomes, but grass changes to the biome you're in. It might be greener or look more dead, etc.

The sunrise looks more epic than usual.

Fishing rods work and you can catch fish. The fish can Be cooked.

Raw fish heal 1 heart, cooked heals 3 and a half.

you can craft a watch now. It looks like this

G = Gold
R = Redstone
A = Air

AGA
GRG
AGA

That's All I know of at the moment, please contribute and share more!

You can find jack o lanterns in some places, seemingly more common in forest areas. you can put them on your head and it looks like youre looking through it i.e. screen is black except for the eye holes and mouth.

CBF re-reading OP but:

You don't drop items when you die.
Mods currently don't work.
The "Nether" portals are not very trustworthy (I go through it and I am in "Nether" I go the way I went in and BOOM I'm not where I came from but in the middle of nowhere) (I'm actually gonna hack a compass and see how far it is to my house)

Raptor, there is a real reason as to why you spawn far away. You notice how you're near a lava lake or a cliff when you go into the Nether? It's because those are not suitable spots to put the portal, you know in mid air or in a lake. To fix it either make a big platform if you're on a cliff or put a bucket of water over the lake.

This is where my Portal is (on a beach)

Take a screenie of your portal in the actual Nether, that's what I'm talking about

Okay

Probably because you're on a cliff of some sort, do you spawn back at your beach or at a random portal?

I'll use Cartographer I guess and show you through that.

EDIT:

Cartographer SUCKS
using MineMap



ANYWAY

here it is:



I'm sorry for the small size of the image (I could not zoom in on it or I would have)

GEEZ

I CANT GET IN MINECRAFT

WHAT SHOULD I DO SOMEONE HELP ME OR I WILL DIEEEEEEEEE

are you all playing by download or in browser?

I AM FISHING!!! ITS AWESOME!

Oh yeah, and the biomes are awesome. I got a forest next door with a HUGE cave right below it, so most of the trees are on floating islans.