Torch
| Torch | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Crafted Item |
| Recipe | Starter |
| Sell Price | 5g |
The Torch is the simplest light in the game. Every farmer can craft it from the first day, and a single Torch costs almost nothing. It gives only a small circle of light, but it can be set down almost anywhere, including on top of fences and sprinklers. In the Mines, a few torches dropped on dark floors make the way easier to see, and they can be picked up again on the way out. A Torch is also an ingredient in the Jack-O-Lantern.
The in-game description reads: Provides a modest amount of light.
Recipe
The recipe is part of the starting list. Each Torch takes a piece of Wood and a little Sap. Both come from chopping trees, since felled trees drop Sap along with their Wood. Slimes in the Mines also drop Sap.
Torches also turn up from recycling. Putting a Soggy Newspaper, a common piece of fishing junk, into a Recycling Machine sometimes gives back a small bundle of them.
These are the ingredients one batch needs.
| Name | Image | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Wood | 
|
1 |
| Sap | 
|
2 |
Use
A Torch can be placed indoors or outdoors. Once down, it lights a small area of about three tiles around it. That is less than a brazier or a lamp-post gives, but a Torch takes no effort to make, so it is easy to use many.
Torches fit where other lights cannot. One can sit on top of a fence post, which turns a fence line into a lit border. One can also sit on top of a Sprinkler, adding a little light to a field without using up a planting tile.
A placed Torch comes back up with a hit from the Pickaxe, the Axe or the Hoe. In the Mines, that makes torches reusable. Dropping one on a dark stretch of floor lights it up, and picking it back up afterwards keeps the stack for the next floor.
The light ladder above it is worth knowing, because it explains what a Torch is for. Robin sells the brazier recipes at the Carpenter's Shop, from a plain wooden one up to one cut from marble, and a lit brazier reaches roughly seven tiles and clicks on and off at a touch. The Wood and Iron Lamp-posts cover a similar spread and stay lit all night. A Campfire comes free with the starting recipes and toggles like a brazier. Against any of those a Torch is a pinprick, and it is the only one of them cheap enough to scatter by the dozen.
A Torch also answers for light the farmer carries. Held in the hand it lights the ground ahead on a night walk home, which covers the long stretch of game before the deep floors pay out anything better. A few in the bag cost a scrap of Wood and Sap and save a great deal of squinting.
Uses
Crafting Torch with the other materials below makes these items.
| Item | Image | Ingredients |
|---|---|---|
| Jack-O-Lantern | 
|
Pumpkin (1), Torch (1) |
Variants
The other lights in the game, with what each one takes and where the recipe comes from.
| Name | Image | Ingredients | Recipe |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barrel Brazier | 
|
Wood (50), Solar Essence (1), Coal (1) | Carpenter's Shop (800g) |
| Campfire | 
|
Stone (10), Wood (10), Fiber (10) | Starter |
| Carved Brazier | 
|
Hardwood (10), Coal (1) | Carpenter's Shop; (2,000g) |
| Gold Brazier | 
|
Gold Bar (1), Coal (1), Fiber (5) | Carpenter's Shop; (1,000g) |
| Iron Lamp-post | 
|
Iron Bar (1), Battery Pack (1) | Carpenter's Shop; (1,000g) |
| Jack-O-Lantern |
|
Pumpkin (1), Torch (1) | Spirit's Eve (2,000g) |
| Marble Brazier | 
|
Marble (1), Aquamarine (1), Stone (100) | Carpenter's Shop; (5,000g) |
| Skull Brazier | 
|
Bone Fragment (10) | Carpenter's Shop; (3,000g) |
| Stone Brazier | 
|
Stone (10), Coal (1), Fiber (5) | Carpenter's Shop (400g) |
| Stump Brazier | 
|
Hardwood (5), Coal (1) | Carpenter's Shop (800g) |
| Wood Lamp-post | 
|
Wood (50), Battery Pack (1) | Carpenter's Shop (500g) |
| Wooden Brazier | 
|
Wood (10), Coal (1), Fiber (5) | Carpenter's Shop (250g) |
The Jack-O-Lantern recipe uses a Torch and a Pumpkin. Pierre sells that recipe at his stall during the Spirit's Eve festival in Fall.
All Crafting
Every entry in this group, with its key details.
