Yes... the developers really added this to the game

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Skyrim ٠ Yes... the developers really added this to the game

[ggsnoobtopro]

casual 56 million damage pickaxe at 00:47

[kennichdendenn]

Skyrim Cells are only allowed to have 4 dynamic shadow casting light sources before shit goes south in the engine and weird lighting bugs happen. Thats why torches usually do not cast shadows.

[Bobbyjoe]

Wait... You're saying the devs could've added shadow casting from torches this whole time?? While we have to install mods for it instead?!

[santoven]

That's the only torch in the game with 0 weight.

[andrewcavallo]

Not only does that torch actually cast shadows, but it also has 0 weight and never burns out, fun fact

Edit: it apparently did burn out in my game? I was told it doesn’t

[ryaneiler]

Dynamic lighting was added to the 0 weight torch because it was 'supposed' to just sit there on the ground and be part of the background, but you had to go and pick it up, didn't ya

[CinJyxxe]

Found this randomly during my last playthrough. It kind of feels intentionally left behind, since the 0 weight keeps it from stacking on top of other torches, and even makes it more desirable if you decide to not abuse the enchant/alchemy loop and have limited carry weight.

[darrennew]

My guess is the developers had planned to have torches you carry cast shadows and ones in the environment not, because otherwise the shadow computations get too heavy. (You basically have to redraw the scene from the POV of each light that casts shadows as part of the calculation.) And then they figured out that looked silly or something, but one of the torches you could pick up wound up with the other parent ID.

[isaiahworden]

Wait there’s actually a dwarven ruin in that house!!!!?

[darkopalinfinity]

so..., wait, you can "switch" shadows on and off with a torch?

[sethharris]

So I had discovered they were zero weight torches a long time ago and decided to give them to my followers. The engine did not care for all that dynamic lighting and would crash constantly.

[marymuir]

wish they had done more with the hrolduf house, where's the fire from the deep?? instead of a silly easter egg, they could have added a horror story based on that. They did one horror story with that lighthouse family in the pale, why not a dunmer or dwemer or Red Mountain version on solsteim? That lighthouse horror has really stuck with me, it was so effective!

[johnprager]

I wish they had ruins to Uncle Sweetshare's Workshop too

[alfredlongbottom]

Duplicated this torch to hell. Currently resting on 200 of them.

[raulfreitas]

Please, what is your modlist to make your environment so pretty?

[Haxior]

And now this is what I call hidden secrets I've never knew.
Now I know I can go behind this bookshelf.

[demoonmunkay]

Didn’t notice anything until I read a comment about shadow casting. Went back and watched again and… why not just standardize all the torches to cast shadows? Performance?

[TheBHAitken]

You discovered that they had two variety of torches, one not intended for general use. Congrats.

[billball]

The bigger question is what is that round dwarven construct cause I'm convinced it's either the head or shoulder or some part of that giant automaton the dwarves were making. The whatyoumecallit. Damnit I can't remember it's name.

[seventyfourty]

I've been in that basement and never realized it was there