Does Minecraft's Torch Recipe work IRL?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ม.ค. 2025
- The Minecraft Torch Recipe is possibly the most well-known crafting recipe in the game, but in real life the ingredients just don't seem to add up. Just Coal and a Stick? And it lights without even a flint and steel? It seems completely impossible -- but as it turns out, minecraft might not be as unrealistic as you might expect...
Let me know in the comments which version of this torch was your favorite, and if there are other things you'd like to see tested! Remember to share this video with a friend who you think would enjoy it, and be sure to check out the other videos where I've tested Minecraft Crafting Recipes in Real Life.
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#ihadaquestion #minecraftIRL #RealityCheck
"Yo can I get a lighter"
" Yea I gotchu"-
Lol 😂
800 likes and 1 reply??
What 800 likes and only 2 comments
what 830 likes and only 3 comments
994 likes and 4 replies?
When you realize he just made a big match
when you realize steve figured out how to make big matches with sticks and urine 🧠
@@Weisz This dude can also compress diamonds into solid blocks and armor with just his hands and a workbench.
@@BrokenLifeCycle can't you do that?
@@Emily-fm7pt Yeah what a pleb
i was gonna say
I love how blunt he is
“Letting buckets of piss sit around.”
“It’s used to make meth.”
Lol
Piss-->Meth
I love how I can now make white phosphorus because of this man
Meet the Sniper
@@4zy1 JARATE
@@halwamaster jarate
"Phosphorus doesn't actually exist in Minecraft"
Minecraft Education Edition: Am I a joke to you?
Always has been
Lol
@@DogHeadset Always has been...since November 1, 2016
Yeah.
Yes
Sick burn bro
😂 this made me laugh harder than it should have
Stick burn tho
@@level98magikarp38 exactly
hey
@@Weisz you were having trouble lighting the coal because coal requires a good amount of heat, not to mention time to light, in normal circumstances. In forges we light it with paper, but we get a big trashball of paper and blast it with air to get the heat we need to get the coals going.
Louis Weisz: The torch is the most iconic 2x2 crafting recipe.
Crafting bench: am I a joke to you?
crafting bench recipe is like using microsoft edge to install chrome
@@Xernitory 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
*WOODEN PLANKS: "HEY"*
You can still create a torch even tho you don't have crafting bench
@@i_love-potatoes69 you need coal, and if you're not near a village/wrecked ship you're gonna have to do some mining and for that you need a pickaxe, and for that you need a crafting table
"The torch is likely the most iconic" *Crafting table wants to know your location*
Tree i wanna know did u break me
Creeper:ssssssssss
Grass block:
Wood planks:
Create World button:
“Thinking quickly, Louis constructs a large homemade match, using only some glue, a stick, and some matches”
this has the same energy as making a spoon out of a spoon
@@fuze7885 i did a thing
Yeah but have you ever needed to light a *really* big cigar, though? Thought not. Otherwise you would understand this man's need to evolve his match into a bigger match.
and it goes out longer than a normal giant match would do the flamable liquid lights up quickly and burns out slowly and longer than a regular stick and a burning thing i dont know how do it spell it
@@kranegun torch? Pitch? Phosphorus?
Steve can create enough friction to light pitch... I mean he's the one that can carry ten acres of gold
Or has enough force to punch down a full grown tree & turn it into planks with his bare hands.
@@theairsoftpro2014 or can just create castles almost out of nowhere without blueprints or stuff
even more with mbt data and creative
@@theairsoftpro2014and rip apart planks into sticks. Even wearing heavy armor made entirely of gold
Crafting on Minecraft: Just 5 seconds
Crafting on Real Life: About several hours
1 second in real life is a minute in minecraft. Also being skilled isnt that good of a reason imo.
@MrCrazyNahid what? I never said it was bad
Days
Well if you consider that a day (12 hrs) is around 7? minutes in mc, it make sense
@@emil____4896 a day is 24 hours??
Him: “Minecraft Torch”
The people IRL who invented the torch:
thats why he said minecraft torch and not just torch
@@spaghettigum The joke is that the "Minecraft Torch" is but a torch, rendering the video pointless since its an ordinary invention
@@taihus8881 but its not tho is it. its called a sub category.
@@spaghettigum you're
E
@@spaghettigum shut you’re up.
Edit: shut the up
... it's just a match.
Hi
@@Rice-ss4np Hey, how are you?
@@commenter4368 I am good thank you
@@commenter4368 How about you?
@@darksteiner631 I’ve been better, anything new with you?
"pee"
"Glows in the dark"
me holding a glow stick : hol' up
“Opens up glow stick” begane to pour it out “says i Gotta pee” *pees in. Glow stick* it’s a INF GLOW STICK
WAIT I JUST REALIZED THAT THEY SAID ITS USED IN METH SO WHEN YOU DO METH YOUR DOING PEE LMAOOOO
@@ninprestendo2452 I cut out the middle man and just do pee
@@plorby infinite drugs
@@ninprestendo2452 that's like saying that when you are drinking water you are drinking explosives (?)
2 Minecraft videos in a row? What are you gonna test next Lava Casting?
Hahaha i would love to get my hands on some lava, but nope, actually the next video is not going to be a minecraft one! This isn't a minecraft channel lol
He gonna make a real life nether portal
@@Weisz should still ride the MC wave tho .....
Don’t put your hands on lava, they’ll burn
Bro
When you combine RTX shader with a dynamic lighting resource pack:
when you explode your computer
The heat is so realistic that my PC burns
@@cyberseai9305 your PC turns on a torch...
On a good computer
When's this man testing diamond armor?
100 million subs (unless we can get de beers to sponsor me)
Why not to try netherite also?
@@medvemapping7263 yeah hes gonna build a portal to hell and steal some irl
It break from a wood sword it’s brittle
@@Weisz lol
No player would be caught without torches in their hotbar
Full Bright Players:
*hold my beer*
CORRECT
Did you notice that music is in mark robers video and almost looks kind of the Same so idk 😂
and kinda almost does the same as mark rober but idk if its true or not so yeah....
@@doniego theoryyyys??
It is possible
*lights charcoal on a stick on fire*
“This blew my mind.”
Because charcoal usually doesn't just light, that's why there's a difference between easy light and regular charcoal. Easy light usually comes presoaked in a lighting agent
L I T E R A L L Y
Dude dont be a jerk if you aren't smart enough to understand what's going on
fire looks cool
@@polarispulsar he used a blowtorch on store bought charcoal of course it’s gonna light that doesn’t take brains to figure out
thats *lit*
Will smith voice: “ahhhh that’s hot”
Piss torch
*That’s it*
Agreed
you're going to wake up without kneecaps.
*Lights a piece of charcoal with fire*
“The results literally blew my mind”
LOL! You do usually have to let charcoal fester though
Yep
*The first of us*
It was covered in lighter fluid. Charcoal catching fire that easily would indeed be a surprise
cavemen be like
"Most Iconic item to be crafted without a crafting table."
Actual crafting table recipe: "Am I a Joke to you?"
Personally, I think Steve is just really buff. He just uses charcoal covered in pitch, stabs it with a stick, and then uses i m m e n s e friction to light it, and then stabs the stick through stone/dirt.
He can carry a shit ton of gold blocks while running so he could rip anythings head off realistically
How would Steve breath inside a cave with all those torches making smoke
Shhh no using your brain... we'll just say Steve has modern petrochemicals 😉
Who said Steve had to breath.
@Christopher Corriveau I never said he didn't need another gas that water didn't have
You know the phrase 'Canary in a coal mine'? You should be asking if there is even enough oxygen in those caves to begin with, and if there are any other, more concerning, gasses like carbon monoxide..
@@drakolithe6493 no he's right you lost
I just realized he’s telling everyone who does meth how to get phosphorus off of match boxes
Dude everyone knows that. Its been in main stream media since breaking bad
Pretty sure people who do meth already know that.
BTW tweakers like to use road flares as well since the caps contain red phosphorus.
its all fun and games until he hear hisses on his back
Cat
That’s why you have a shield and mob proof your base either with torches or half slabs.
@@tinsku332Xd bruh its a creeper
@@rashdalmansuri no worries cats still hiss
@@rashdalmansuri i know but just use cats it will help
2:49 few zombie spawn eggs hmm
u caught me
Lol yeah it was for a bit tho
Imagine watching someone walk around with a torch in the middle of a city.
This man trying to be the gamer verision of mark rober, and thats not a bad thing.
a gamer version of mark rober? Sign me up!!!
He even uses Dansez (the song mark rober uses a lot)
@@DanielG03 I was literally gonna comment that but I didn't know the name of the track. Thanks!
*Mark Rober noises*
thought the same thing because of the music
When u realize that u found a way to make meth without the risk of getting caught buying the ingredient
You can't buy it but you can make it just piss in a bucket or go for the easy way crush and boil adderall and sudafed and boil it down to a consistency and chill chip and smoke
@@giovannicervantes2053 LOL really?!
Let’s‘a Go!!
IM STARTING THE NEW GERMAN METH EMPIRE
@@giovannicervantes2053 thanks now i can get back to making drugs
:)
@@giovannicervantes2053 how do you know that?-
@@kennzow8646 i don't i just know that sudo is a good ingredient in meth and adderall is the same chemical structure as meth
My father used to work in Estonia as a repair man for a company that operated unmanned and manned forest tractors, and he often would have to go out in the night to fix them, and he was pretty great at making torches, what were often even better than flashlights that were kind of limited to certain types, he used a big wooden stick with a fabric on top, + then Vodka or ethanol or even fuel to soak the fabric in to get it started. Otherwise one type torches are pretty popular in Estonia and you could find them in any bigger store so he usually tho used those.
Very interesting- so cool that your Dad can do that!
@@sandrah4358 it's not really that difficult, at least easier than a molotov cocktail
Wow! All this stuff can be super dangerous and reactive- need to keep safe out there!
this guy found Mark Rober algorithm.
even the music
I was just about to comment that about the music lol
Ya lol
Yea I’ve been tryna find that damn song...
@@christianmendoza8543 just search mark rober music
same
So basically the end result is an over sized matchstick
yes
No. Matchsticks use the wooden sticks themselves as fuel meaning they burn out quickly as the fire travels down the stick. This uses pitch as fuel and not the stick itself, making it fundamentally different.
@@arstulex thank you I agree!
@@arstulex it was a joke
@@groundhog678 It was a bad joke. You didn't even word it like a joke, you just worded it like a false statement.
I never realized how much I could learn from watching a video about Minecraft, very educational, please make more of these!!!
Red phosphorus might be in game as netherrack, since its so good at being on fire it will stay on fire forever
Type on TH-cam "What is Netherrack in Real life" It will anwser your question
7:15 that ''let's go" gives me joy on a daily basis. It's amazing to see this working and to see Louis so happy with the result
Ah yess now we mine diamond and iron
@@edbertdharmawan1819 it'd be cool to actually see a pickaxe just as mojang designed them
@@hattocatto Image made in diamond
I like this youtuber. He makes an effective use of my time. No bullshit long intros, just straight to the point. Giving the people what they wanna see. 👍
You here binge watching his videos after watching the chicken video too... yeah me too
🤜🤛
Same
🤜🤛
Yep
@@Sir. indeed
this is litteraly mark rober low budget and i’m here for it.
yep
Ya
Yap
Memento Mori my friend, it shall live on in our memories forever!
Lol, yes, still entertaining though.
Dude, nostalgia hit me HARD seeing that Tekkit Classic logo.
"it used to make meth"
me: oh... well that's a good reason to make a product difficult to purchase
By that logic we should ban bleach because you can use it to make chlorine gas...
@@kgkbuugj all you need to do is add some good ol' vinegar
He never said it was banned. It’s just controlled, meaning you need a chemical dealing license to purchase, just like thousands of other chemicals.
@@kgkbuugj I mean bleach is useful, what do we use meth for?
@@rwholemilkisgood5050 I'm not saying meth is good or should be legal but just because something is an ingredient to make something bad it shouldn't be illegal.
“Torch is the most iconic crafting recipe that does not require a crafting table”
Crafting table: bruh
Planks: *a m e t e u r s*
The keyboard or controler: hmmm
the mom: *h m*
God: *hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm*
L
SY - 05GP 804319 Hanover PS
Hmmmm (i wonder if I said that)
Moral of the story: reread things
Walter white has shown me enough TH-cam clips to know that if you need phosphorus you should get the big pack of individual matchboxes 😂
00.20: shows totem of undying while explaning the minecraft recipes
me: "confuse"
And the bucket
@@tacticalbarstool3385 bucket can be crafted
@@sebastiank1771 in a crafting table
yeah, but im talking the item that cant be crafted with or without crafting table
@@sebastiank1771 oh
7:15 The Caveman’s reaction after he invented torch
English to cave man translation OOOOOOGA BOOOOOGA BOOGA!
Why are mortals always trying to replicate the power of steve.
Ikr
got this in recomended. underrated stuff man, keep it up! super interesting content
Thanks man, glad you liked it!
Me: hears the song in the beginning "MARK ROBER?"
Was about to comment the exact same thing 😅
What song is it?
@@neuratlas idk
1:26
Have you ever had a cookout before bro?
"As you can see it looks like steve might be striking the torch againt something"
Yeah, big brain time
as you can see, before placing anything, steve strikes the item against the block to make it increase its size to 1 cubic metre, instead of the more practical carrying size.
@@alechs 🧠
Aren't we all overthinking this ?
@@Martin-rb9se no totally not
@@slavicnonatho8062 like, thats the normal animation for anything
"the results literally blew my mind" whoa there chad boy
Louis: it swings the torchs against the wall to light it
steve: *place glass with the same animation*
nice looking torch. Its cool how easily it lit with friction. How long did that pitch flame last for?
Well, I had to put it out myself because I filmed the ending at night & wanted to sleep - but at least 20 minutes.
That said, as I alluded to in v2 of the torch, using a rag to hold the pitch would help it last a lot longer. As it is the pitch kind of drips off the stick, which (obviously) shortens the burn time. I did mitigate this somewhat by cutting ridges into the wood (like a honey wand), but a rag or some absorbent paper would help even more. Basically the more pitch you can hold on the stick, the longer it’ll last.
I can’t be the only one who learned what glass was made out of until I played Minecraft
Clay too
I feel u bro
Actualy smelting the sand isn’t the best method, you need to add some chemicals for it to work
@@vladimirvikentije5202 Pepega
Runescape did that one for me, also cakes
Steve truly is a madman.
-He can carry around many stacks of gold blocks while sprinting and jumping
-He can break his fall by less than 10 cm of water
-He can craft everything in less than a second (material gathering not included)
*10 inches
@@Clown_the_Clown No, I meant cm, I'm from Europe.
Puts a piece of charcoal on a stick and lights it: “that blew my mind!”
Literally
Next thing: Make a Nether portal
Can we make a Minecraft nether portal in real life? (Gone wrong) accidentally opened gate to hell
he doesnt even have a bucket yet
Louis: Soon..
@@NightmareTrash88 The show Lucifer started like this, when Lucifer got out of hell, now we know the reason
@@NightmareTrash88 well then if it's to hell then it was a success
"Steve already has all the tools needed to make it himself"
"Fire,"
Uh huh
"Sand,"
Yep
"And buckets of urine"
what
if you make him drink water bottles for a week once a day (in minecraft) then right click while holding a bucket gives you urine
@@oldveryveryoldmanfromthe1900s did your elementary school friend teach you that
Imagine thinking “Man this flammable would probably make a good drug”
Its used for its reactivity to perform a chemical reaction that needs something strongly reactive to pull atoms from it. It isnt used in the drug directly.
@Project Eternity I meaaaan searching how to make meth might not be the best thing to search LMAO
@@melody3741 wait a second, how do you know that?
@@webeewaboo why *_don't_* you know that?
@@webeewaboo if you knew anything about chemistry and phosphorus you wouldnt have to look it up. (This came off as really condescending but i promise im not trying to be like that i just dont know how else to phrase it - nothing wrong if you haven’t studied chemistry.)
Drug synthesis is really just chemical reactions like anything else. So you learn what certain chemicals do and can infer their role in the drug. Plus, in the past i have been hanging out with some.... questionable people. I had drug problems and while i never made any myself except for turning hard into soft for myself, i heard a lot about how they were made particularly from this one girl in rehab.
Wow you went hard on this one! It's like a creative mix of theorizing + practical building, nice job!
That was the goal! Thanks!
Damn, I wanted to see a time-lapse of it burning out at the end
0:18 talks about crafting recipes
Shows saddles and totem of undying
He just knows something we don’t
I don't get why you don't have more subs, your videos are awesome
Feel like you could've coated the tip of the stick in the pitch, once it became soft and not so runny you roll it in the phosphorus like you might with glass.
2:01 it sounds like hes rapping
OMG it's trueeee
For videos like this I’m actually really surprised you don’t have at least 100k views, this was actually really interesting to watch
what are you, 5?
i can assure you that he is not 5
the big boy called for his friend
7:07 i don't know if you have mixed those but please never do that, that stuff can self-ignite at any second when you mix them
Also, the safe way to do this is to make paste of the 2 chemicals separately and then apply them as 2 layers onto the match. BTW safe does not mean anyone should try this at home.
Armstrong's mix doesn't autoignite under atmospheric conditions. It's shock and friction sensitive, but it won't spontaneously combust just sitting there.
"I did not think that would work at all" You mean literally exactly how you start a BBQ? but just on the end of a stick?
Maybe you start a barbecue with a blow torch, but a lot of people just use lighter fluid and a match...
@@BruceNJeffAreMyFlies flamethrower.
@@BruceNJeffAreMyFlies rocket launcher
Approved by enderman. You will be the next mark rober.
I love the mark rober stock music in the begining.
Lol , from the background music + the script + the way you talk , I can see you are a fan of Mark Rober :D
"red phosphorus is hard to get in the us"
*easily gets some from matches*
It's hard because you need a lot of matches
I think he meant hard to get from buying ig or getting it professionally.
I think he just meant white phosphorus itself
@@santiagomendez246 he used red phosphorus
@@henriquenogueira31 ye but I think he was saying that white phosphorus is used to make meth
1:29
What did you expect? you expose charcoal to heat and it burns?
*Blasts a charcoal briquette with a torch*
*It catches on fire*
"The results LITERALLY blew my mind."
This man used mark rober music. Respect
Nice pfp 👌😂
This gives me game Theory, mythbusters and mark rober vibes
Bruh it's not finished until it can stick to the wall
Shove it in a crack or hole
Done
@@dannyleyamato1309 what type of hole
@@tacticalbarstool3385 make one using your pickaxe
@@tacticalbarstool3385 uh.
Why did this have to turn so weird
Coal is so hard to light without like a real fire, hmu if you wanna forge/test some minecraft tools. I was thinking the shield would be dope. 😎
@Tyler Proganda ?
I’ve used pine resin mixed with ground charcoal as a glue in my bushcraft training. It’s great and waterproof once cooled, it’s almost thermoplastic-like, but it’s so flammable and a campfire doesn’t have temperature controls.
"You can kinda blow on it and start it up again..."
When someone ask u for a light this guy just pulls out a torch
0:17 gotta love how literally everyone one of those items needs a crafting table lmao
Or just something other than your hands
This is just the torch recipe in Minecraft: Education edition
Holy cow I thought you were one of my old comments or something 😂
@@thatotherrandomfloridian9456 *Spider men pointing*
@@failmeep5167 ikr lol
@@thatotherrandomfloridian9456 I keep seeing you in my notifications and I just, keep getting confused.
@@failmeep5167 lol
Fun fact: Hennig Brand discovered phosphorus while trying to turn urine into gold.
Bunch of these comments saying it's just a match like they make matches all the time. Like they thought a torch was something different than a stick with a burney burney at the end.
"No serious player would be caught dead without a handful of torches in their hot bar"
Dream: "hold my beer."
That's just minecraft speedrunners in general. I'm always expecting a creeper to come blow them up every time they jump down a cave without torches, but it never seems to happen. I think they actually load a cave system and leave it so fast that there's hardly any time for the regional difficulty to rise and so almost nothing has a chance to spawn by the time they've gathered what they needed from it.
I've heard this song in a Mark Rober. You sound like him as well
0:24
Crafting Table : "why am i so forgotten?"
The lack of safety glasses is stressing me out so bad 😅
4:37 “aKSchUalLee pitch is still a liquid at low temperature, just with a very very low viscosity”
You mean high viscosity
"No serious player would be caught dead exploring without at least a handful of torches in their hotbar." Uh yeah, they'd be dead if they didn't have them.
I love how he sounds like matpat from The Game Theorists lol
Someone should make a MC mod that goes super in detail on crafting like this!
Google any 1.12 expert tech pack and you’ll see how complicated those bastards made it
2:01 the beat complimented your speaking pattern PERFECTLY. Sounded intentional lol
Plot twist: The Minecraft torch was designed from a real torch.
Holy i never thought of that!
@@Sartfla It was a joke, bud.
@@Sartfla Yeah lol
POV: you said you where gonna try to sleep
Please don’t do this to meeeee
Teacher:What do you like doing
Him:it’s complicated
“the torch is probably the most iconic recipe needed without a crafting table”
the crafting table: AM I A JOKE TO YOU
*0:28* Meanwhile me in Optifine who just carries around a single lantern with no problems of lighting the whole cave up: I am four parallel universes ahead of you.
Next should be Minecraft's Bookshelf. Right from the sugarcane 😂 Great video though G. I'm subbed.
This man is trying to convert real life in to Minecraft life
Wojak Yes