Does darkness only reduce your sanity or does it effect ghost events and ghost behavior as well?

[greg]

What the title says ^^^ Wondering if you have to be in the darkness to get ghost events or ghost interactions. Thanks

[A Loaf of Bread]

The darkness drains your sanity and lower sanity means more ghost activity(but also risks for hunts If it gets too low so its a bit risky as well)

I know some stuff like spirit box works only If you are speaking in a dark room. If its an alone ghost you need to be alone in the room to get a response.

I think that also the blowing out of candles has a higher chance to happen If the lights are off

[Myth Alric]

Darkness doesn't seem to effect the ghost interactions or ghost events at all. You do have to be in the dark to use spirit box, and mares hunt at higher sanity if you are in the dark though. It seems like the lights have to be out for the ghost to blow out the candle. However that only applies to the room the ghost is standing in. The ghost has an area effect around it where it can interact with stuff, so you could have a candle in the hallway and the lights are on in the hallway, but the lights are off in the room the ghost is in and it will blow out the candle in the hallway. So it some times seems like it is blowing the candle out with the lights are on, but it isn't really, it is just reaching outside the room.

Anyway, aside from that darkness doesn't seem to effect anything. After getting spirit box and checking for orbs(which doesn't require darkness but are easier to see in the dark) I usually leave the light on the ghost room on.

I actually like to the keep all the lights on, because when the ghost does an event it turns off the lights. So some times the ghost might appear in a different room and you can check quickly which room it might be in by seeing what lights are off.

[dankuul]

doesnt affect evets only affects sanity but lower the sanity is the more ghost events/interactions and hunts there will be