How can I hold a torch and a tool at the same time?

[USHiRi-CARROTTRiBE]

Or is the player supposed to be a onearmed person?
I can´t really find how to hold both at the same time. So if anyone can bring some LIGHT on this please do tell. cause I feel I just spent my time in the dark to find a solution to this :D

[Fulano]

There's a lantern slot for light items, but for some reason you can't put torches in it.

The first lantern comes from the copper workbench.

There's also a shortcut key to hold a torch, it's the left stick button on the controller but don't remember the keyboard key.

I'd think it would make sense to at least let players put a torch in the offhand slot.

[KoV]

Originally posted by USHiRi-CARROTTRiBE:

Or is the player supposed to be a onearmed person?
I can´t really find how to hold both at the same time. So if anyone can bring some LIGHT on this please do tell. cause I feel I just spent my time in the dark to find a solution to this :D

Hold shift to hold torch you can also place torches while holding shift
Until you get good lanterns or pets to light your way

[USHiRi-CARROTTRiBE]

Originally posted by Fulano:

There's a lantern slot for light items, but for some reason you can't put torches in it.

The first lantern comes from the copper workbench.

There's also a shortcut key to hold a torch, it's the left stick button on the controller but don't remember the keyboard key.

I'd think it would make sense to at least let players put a torch in the offhand slot.

Thanks, yeah I know if I hold down the right trigger you can temporary have the torch. but it is so weird design decision (Or perhaps a bug) that you cant wield a sword and at the same time have a torch, its just odd and unpractical. As you say it should be possible to have it in offhand. Its so irritating and something I hope they flush out from the bugs or someone makes a mod for it if its a designchoice. Got it! I just created the copperworkbench..looking forward strangely much to a lantern haha.

[USHiRi-CARROTTRiBE]

Originally posted by KoV:

Originally posted by USHiRi-CARROTTRiBE:

Or is the player supposed to be a onearmed person?
I can´t really find how to hold both at the same time. So if anyone can bring some LIGHT on this please do tell. cause I feel I just spent my time in the dark to find a solution to this :D

Hold shift to hold torch you can also place torches while holding shift
Until you get good lanterns or pets to light your way

I use a gamepad but hanks anyway. Yah I saw the lantern slot but it should be possible to have a torch thereaswell. Hope the bug gets fixed or someone makes a mod for it :)

[Nakos]

You can also cook food using the Tulips, any food you make with the Tulips will give you a glow buff (for a limited time of course, but in the short term, it'll remove the need for other light sources).

[Randombandit]

It takes two hands to use most tools...so it kinda fits...

[USHiRi-CARROTTRiBE]

Originally posted by Nakos:

You can also cook food using the Tulips, any food you make with the Tulips will give you a glow buff (for a limited time of course, but in the short term, it'll remove the need for other light sources).

Thanks, thats an interesting idea.

[USHiRi-CARROTTRiBE]

Originally posted by Randombandit:

It takes two hands to use most tools...so it kinda fits...

I dont agree with that, I think its pointless because its not really a game about realism. I mean the inventory you have stuff that only a bus could carry :)

[Fulano]

For some reason my first try of this game was extremely dark.
Fireflies were much more rare than all the other worlds I've played in, and I did see the button to craft a torch for a long time, so I took to carrying around a tulip and blindly fighting monsters in the dark until a friend played the game and started as an explorer with a lamp and showed me how they work.

I suspect this was more on the bug side and not intended to be the normal experience, but I think it would be cool to equip torches in the off hand slot for a basic starting light.

But that does cause problems. Torches seem brighter than other lights so it would kind of obsolete the starting lamps.

But now that I know how easy it is to get to crafting the basic lamp, I just go for that.

[USHiRi-CARROTTRiBE]

Originally posted by Fulano:

For some reason my first try of this game was extremely dark.
Fireflies were much more rare than all the other worlds I've played in, and I did see the button to craft a torch for a long time, so I took to carrying around a tulip and blindly fighting monsters in the dark until a friend played the game and started as an explorer with a lamp and showed me how they work.

I suspect this was more on the bug side and not intended to be the normal experience, but I think it would be cool to equip torches in the off hand slot for a basic starting light.

But that does cause problems. Torches seem brighter than other lights so it would kind of obsolete the starting lamps.

But now that I know how easy it is to get to crafting the basic lamp, I just go for that.

I dont find how to create a lamp..its just so weird that you cant hold a torch ahah.-.. its all games that I played so far over the years. But I will tr restart the game from scratch and see if its possible to start as an explorer..smart..Thanks :)

[Fulano]

Originally posted by USHiRi-CARROTTRiBE:

Originally posted by Fulano:

For some reason my first try of this game was extremely dark.
Fireflies were much more rare than all the other worlds I've played in, and I did see the button to craft a torch for a long time, so I took to carrying around a tulip and blindly fighting monsters in the dark until a friend played the game and started as an explorer with a lamp and showed me how they work.

I suspect this was more on the bug side and not intended to be the normal experience, but I think it would be cool to equip torches in the off hand slot for a basic starting light.

But that does cause problems. Torches seem brighter than other lights so it would kind of obsolete the starting lamps.

But now that I know how easy it is to get to crafting the basic lamp, I just go for that.

I dont find how to create a lamp..its just so weird that you cant hold a torch ahah.-.. its all games that I played so far over the years. But I will tr restart the game from scratch and see if its possible to start as an explorer..smart..Thanks :)

The first lamp comes from the copper workbench, which is the 2nd level workbench.

[USHiRi-CARROTTRiBE]

Originally posted by Fulano:

Originally posted by USHiRi-CARROTTRiBE:

I dont find how to create a lamp..its just so weird that you cant hold a torch ahah.-.. its all games that I played so far over the years. But I will tr restart the game from scratch and see if its possible to start as an explorer..smart..Thanks :)

The first lamp comes from the copper workbench, which is the 2nd level workbench.

haha I missed that..and I got the copperbench :D I do it right away..thanks again dear Fulano :D