The Halloween Update was a major update for Alpha released on October 30, 2010 as Alpha 1.2.0. The addition of the Nether; a Hell world that can be used for quick travel, where you portal in walk ten meters and then portal out and you are 80 meters away - movement in the Nether in relation to the normal world is 1:8, meaning that for every block traveled in the Nether, 8 blocks are traveled in the normal world. Torches were planned to become temporary light sources with the new permanent light source being lanterns, but the update didnt make it in time, and the idea has now been officially rejected . The update was announced on October 4, 2010, as seen at Notchs blog.And on October 11 Notch wrote the following on his twitter: I just made the most unfair mob ever even more unfair.