Torch

Torch

Type	Nonsolid Block
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool	any
First Appearance	Indev 0.31 (December 23, 2009)
Gravity	No
Luminance	Yes, 14
Flammable	{{{flammable}}}
Data Value	50

Torches are blocks that emit light. When placed on a suitable surface, it adjusts its model in relation to how it is placed on a block, so that it can be made to attach to any side of a block except the bottom side.

From just one block of wood and eight pieces of coal or charcoal, 32 torches can be made, making them an easily obtainable item. Since the Adventure Update, torches have warmer light when placed. They can also be found naturally in Abandoned Mine Shafts, Strongholds and NPC Villages.

Properties

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Torches in various positions on Chiseled Stone Bricks.

Torches act as a full block, for the purpose of placing other objects or torches in the same area. Being treated as a block by sand and gravel this prevents them from falling down past a block with a torch on it. Instead, sand and gravel break when they fall on a torch. If they are placed directly above a torch they act as if they were on any other solid material, allowing them to be used as environmental triggers, such as airlocks. To the player, torches act as non-solid blocks, allowing players to pass through torches and place them whilst clipping into the torch. Torches also melt nearby snow and ice, making them useful to keep skylights from being snowed over and lakes from freezing in snow biomes. The torches will however only melt snow and ice from a radius of 2 blocks from the torch. The smoke from a torch extends up 2½ blocks.

When a torch is placed in water, it will be detached, as if you had destroyed it. The block it was placed in will have no water in it afterward, unless two adjacent water sources cause a third to be created. This can also be used to regain air while underwater.

Torch placement

Block name	Torch placeable
Bedrock	Yes
Obsidian	Yes
Water	No
Brick	Yes
Cobblestone	Yes
Block of Diamond	Yes
Block of Gold	Yes
Block of Iron	Yes
Jukebox	Yes*
Moss Stone	Yes
Cobblestone Stairs	No
Double Slab	Yes
Single Slab	No
Stone	Yes
Iron Door	No
Monster Spawner	Yes
Furnace	Yes*
Coal Ore	Yes
Diamond Ore	Yes
Wooden Door	No
Fence	Yes**
Gold Ore	Yes
Torch	No

Block name	Torch placeable
Iron Ore	Yes
Redstone Ore	Yes
Wooden Stairs	No
Wood Planks	Yes
Chest	Yes*
Ender Chest	Yes*
Crafting Table	Yes*
Wood	Yes
Bookshelf	Yes
Jack-O-Lantern	Yes
Pumpkin	Yes
Melon	Yes
Sign Post	No
Wall Sign	No
Wool	Yes
Rails	No
Clay	Yes
Farmland	No
Grass	Yes
Gravel	Yes
Sponge	Yes
Dirt	Yes
Ice	No
Lever	No
Pressure Plates	No
Sand	Yes

Block name	Torch placeable
Soul Sand	Yes
Stone Button	No
Cactus	No
Ladders	No
Netherrack	Yes
Glass	Yes**
Glowstone	No
Leaves	No
Snow Block	Yes
Snow	No
Crops	No
Red rose	No
Yellow flower	No
Fire	No
Lava	No
Brown Mushroom	No
Red Mushroom	No
Portal	No
Redstone Wire	No
Redstone Torch	No
Sugar Cane	No
Sapling	No
TNT	No

File:Torches on a chest.png

Torches on a chest.

* Torches may be placed on the sides of openable blocks such as chests by holding shift and right-clicking on the block.

** Torches may only be placed on the top of fences or glass, not on the sides. Template:-

Crafting

When making torches, you only get one for every piece of coal.

Name	Ingredients	Input » Output
Torch	Shaft, Coal
Torch	Shaft, Charcoal
Torch	Shaft, Nethercoal

As a crafting ingredient

Ingredients	Input » Output
Pumpkin + Torch	32x32px

Video

Torch/video

Trivia

• Notch announced that torches would become temporary light sources that would eventually go out.<ref>http://notch.tumblr.com/post/1243370641</ref> They would need to be relit with flint and steel. The permanent torch would be replaced with lanterns, and all torches that exist already in saved games whether placed, stored or in inventory would become lanterns. This was supposed to take effect on October, 31^st 2010 with the Halloween Update, but it does not appear this will be the case anymore.<ref>http://twitter.com/notch/status/22743846228070400</ref>
• If you jump on a placed torch, you will hear a sound of stepping on a wooden block. This is only the sound effect however, so you will not actually stand on it. You must also be moving in a horizontal direction as well, so running and jumping on them is the way to check it.
• It would take 1.26018466 × 10Template:^ torches to light the entire surface of a minecraft map. It would take approximately double that number to cover everything in a minecraft map, caves and all, counting the 12 million blocks as the edge of the map.
• If a block falls onto a torch (sand or gravel), it breaks the block and gives the player the resource, but the gravel will not drop flint. However, if the torch is placed quickly enough after removing the base of a stack of falling blocks, the stack remains in place.
• Because torches emit a light level of 14 and hostile mobs require a light level of 7 or less to spawn, separating them by up to 12 blocks will prevent hostile mobs from spawning. Light does not travel diagonally (see: Taxicab Geometry), so a torch at point (0,0,0) will supply a light level of 8 to point (3,2,1).
• Torches, interestingly, are created when the Ender Dragon is defeated.
• Breaking a torch with any tool does not decrease its Item durability.

See also

• Redstone Torch
• Redstone Lamp
• Lantern
• Light