Torch

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 "field": "0",
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 "field": "Yes",
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Torches are non-solid blocks that emit light.

Torches can be broken instantly using anything, and drop themselves as an item.

A torch is removed and drops itself as an item if:

• Its attachment block is moved, removed, or destroyed
• Water or lava flows into its space
• A piston pushes it or moves a block into its space

In the Overworld, torches can be found among the supports in a mineshaft's corridors, as part of village lamp posts and most houses, in various rooms in strongholds, in the basements of igloos, in woodland mansions, and on top of pillager outposts. Torches also generate around bonus chests if each side has a block at the same height around it. Torches also generate in ancient cities.

{ "item": "Torch", "stacksize": "1–16", "chance": 0.657, "structure": "Mineshaft", "container": "Chest not located in a sulfur cave" }

{ "item": "Torch", "stacksize": "1–16", "chance": 0.578125, "structure": "Mineshaft", "container": "Chest located in a [[sulfur cave]]" }

{ "item": "Torch", "stacksize": "3–6", "chance": 0.20351336037302348, "structure": "Trial Chambers", "container": "Supply chest" }

{ "item": "Torch", "stacksize": "3–6", "chance": 0.19614132283617636, "structure": "Trial Chambers", "container": "Corridor chest" }

{ "item": "Torch", "stacksize": "1–2", "chance": 0.11323884996174782, "structure": "Village", "container": "Savanna house chest" }

When the ender dragon dies or is re-summoned using end crystals, the four torches on the exit portal regenerate. If the original torches are still in position, they drop as items, and the new torches take their place.

Torches can be placed on the top or the sides of most solid blocks, although some blocks require sneaking. Being non-solid, torches have no collision box. More information about placement can be found at Opacity/Placement.

Gravity-affected blocks like sand and gravel will not start falling if the space immediately beneath is occupied by a torch. Falling blocks break if they fall onto a solid block with a torch above it. If there is an air block under the torch, the falling blocks fall through the torch onto the surface below.^[1]

Torches give off a light level of 14. Torches also melt snow layers within 2 blocks and ice within 3 blocks (taxicab distance).

When the Render Dragon Features for Creators experiment is enabled in Minecraft Preview, the top part of torches emits colored point lighting with
 #f39a5e. This causes the bottom part of the torch to render a small square shadow.

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Java Edition:
Wall

Bedrock Edition:

• 👁 The first image of torches posted by Notch.
  
  The first image of torches posted by Notch.
• 👁 Torches in early Java Edition Indev 0.31.
  
  Torches in early Java Edition Indev 0.31.
• 👁 A torch from a Pocket Edition Alpha version with a cross outline box.
  
  A torch from a Pocket Edition Alpha version with a cross outline box.
• 👁 A wall torch from a Pocket Edition Alpha version with a cross outline box.
  
  A wall torch from a Pocket Edition Alpha version with a cross outline box.

Issues relating to "Torch" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

• In physically based rendering, the block light of a torch is 1262.665039 lumens.^[7]

• 👁 Image
  
• 👁 Image
  

• 👁 An example of a torch melting ice.
  
  An example of a torch melting ice.
• 👁 Torches on a pillar in a stronghold. The torch on the right has an orientation error.
  
  Torches on a pillar in a stronghold. The torch on the right has an orientation error.
• 👁 Preview from Jappa of the Texture Update torch texture.
  
  Preview from Jappa of the Texture Update torch texture.

• 👁 Official T-shirt artwork by JINX, depicting a scene that resembles a torch.
  
  Official T-shirt artwork by JINX, depicting a scene that resembles a torch.
• 👁 An official light up torch by JINX.
  
  An official light up torch by JINX.
• 👁 Ditto
  
  Ditto
• 👁 A torch as it appears in Dungeon Crawl!
  
  A torch as it appears in Dungeon Crawl!
• 👁 Image
  
• 👁 Image
  
• 👁 A torch as it appears in Minecraft: Story Mode.
  
  A torch as it appears in Minecraft: Story Mode.
• 👁 A torch as it appears in Minecraft Earth.
  
  A torch as it appears in Minecraft Earth.

• 👁 Image
  Soul Torch
• 👁 Image
  Redstone Torch
• 👁 Image
  Redstone Lamp
• 👁 Image
  Underwater torch
• 👁 BlockSprite red-torch.png: Sprite image for red-torch in Minecraft
  Colored torch
• 👁 Image
  Lantern
• 👁 Image
  Copper Torch

• "Taking Inventory: Torch" by Duncan Geere – Minecraft.net, December 10, 2018.