Colored Torch

Colored torches are torches colored by metal chlorides, available in blue, red, purple, and green.

Obtaining
Only by crafting.

Breaking
Colored torches break instantly and drop itself when broken using anything. The tool does not take any damage. Colored torches are also broken if pushed by a piston.

Usage
Torches can be placed on the top or the sides of most solid blocks, although some require (see placement for exceptions). Being non-solid, torches have no collision box.

Gravity-affected blocks like sand and gravel do not fall if the block below them has a torch on it and break when falling onto a torch.

Light
Torches emit a light level of 14. Torches also melt snow layers within 2 blocks and ice within 3 blocks (taxicab distance). Colored torches emit normal light, not colored light, and therefore the coloring is purely aesthetic.

Placement
In general, torches can be placed only on solid, opaque, full blocks; exceptions are listed below.

Metadata
Colored torches have the following data values:

Trivia

 * As with Sparklers, the flame colors correspond to results from a flame test performed on these chloride salts.
 * The torch's stick uses the pre-Texture Update texture.