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Have you ever gone down to a cave system and thought to yourself *Man I wish I could just hold my lit torch*?

If you haven't, you're obviously blind :biggrin.gif:.

Real idea: Make lit torches holdable. They should cast less light, so as not to make it REALLY ridiculous, but just enough so that you can see 3-4 squares ahead of you without placing DOWN a torch. I'm on the fence as to whether or not to let them cast light while using a different tool, although I guess it could work if it casted less light.

Balance: requires some more items to create (for a handle and something to keep the fire from burning your face off *theoretically*) and/or burns out after sometime.

Craft recipe could be a few sticks for the handle, cloth, cobblestone and coal
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Please no flaming, offer constructive criticism.

While were on the subject of light, how about something like a flare or signal torch that casts a light strong enough to be seen clearly from almost anywhere, but casts very little light around it? I would like to have multiple levels of it (using more and more coal for more light) as in you would be able to distinguish 1 level from the other (or just colors would work too, maybe different colored cloth on top of it) so that it can be a little easier to mark out safehouses, unexplored caves, caves that you're currently exploring, farms, resource deposits etc.

Craft recipe could be magnesium, log and cloth to color it (not required, if there's no cloth then the light will just be white). Gunpowder if you don't want to add magnesium, or coal, or maybe a torch.

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I think with the game's current engine, moving light sources are difficult to add. Also, I heard it looks pretty terrible in game too.

Notch mentioned that he will eventually have a lighting system that will support moving lights and colored lights :smile.gif:

Actually he said something along the lines of: "I'll try, but it's incredibly hard and may not work." (not an exact quote)

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