Why?

[Void Dragon YT]

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[seven]

At 2 XP you'll be infinitely punching it to get anywhere.

[SkepticJoker]

Breaking literally anything gives you XP, including candles.

[Macdallan]

Originally posted by SkepticJoker:

Breaking literally anything gives you XP, including candles.

Yep, and you're better off running around punching grass, flowers, and bushes. At least that way you gain some resources in addition to a puny amount of XP.

Even if it is infinite only earning 2 xp per candle isn't worth your time. Level 1 to level 2 takes a lot of XP, about 11k and that's the lowest it's ever going to be. When you hit certain levels the amount you need to go up each level increases. Roughly 5500 punches is the least you'll have to to to gain a level. Dig, kill enemies, harvest stuff. All much faster than punching a candle.

XP is effectively limitless anyway. POIs re-set when you start a new job so the zeds and everything you can loot comes back as do all the items you can harvest and dismantle. Traders never stop giving out jobs and they all give XP for completed jobs. You can plant trees and chop them down repeatedly, and since each fully mature tree drops 2 seeds you can never, ever, run out of them. Each time you dig you earn xp and there are massive amounts of dirt and ore in even the smallest maps, so much that I'd almost call that an infinite source. Heck, if you have the right perks you can craft and replace dirt but end up with more dirt than you started with. You can create more dirt than you harvest so again - infinite xp if you want to waste the time doing that.

[JimmyIowa]

If you're "just sitting around" pressing left mouse button, you might as well use a tool and be hitting stone for 100xp per block or iron for almost 200xp per. Plus you get the stone or iron afterward. Even digging soil or gravel with a stone shovel is much more rewarding for XP than punching a candle repeatedly. Both soil and gravel are useful for crafting too.

[JimmyIowa]

Also, btw, you don't need a candle. Any stone on the ground will do. Punch it for 2xp and get a stone in inventory (which you can drop and then gleefully punch again).

Granted this activity may be cathartic after a hard day at work. Or if you really just don't like stones that much. But other than those two cases, you are probably better off doing something useful for xp.

[william_es]

if you're idea of a fun game is punching a candle, I guess. Knock yourself out buddy.

You can roleplay, and pretend you're a shaolin monk, snuffing out candles by punching them.

[Crater Creator]

You're getting XP because technically you are 'harvesting' the block. Checking the blocks.xml, I see the candle is technically made of "Mpaper", which is defined in materials.xml to give 2 XP. The devs could change it to a material that doesn't give any XP.

This may be a very low priority bug/exploit, but it doesn't hurt anything to call it out and make the devs aware of it. See the pinned thread for where and how to file a bug report, if you're interested in seeing this changed.

[...👑 JOST AMMAN 👑...]

Originally posted by Void Dragon:

Punching a candle (instead of interacting with it) to pick it up gets 2 XP, infinite XP glitch if you are just sitting around.

Thanks for reporting. After the devs fix this, I think we can say the game will be back heading in the right direction!

[Hades]

Fixing as in punching grass allows you to hone up your bartering skills? Yep, definitely the right direction...

[Crater Creator]

I don't think this was intended as another thread to debate learn by doing. Since it's heading that way, I'll honor the OP's request to lock the thread.