Make candles a nicer alternative.

[Delamore]

Candles just got a boost by lowering the cost, but relighting them is currently tedious if you plan to light any area not tiny, I suggest the ability to load candles into them that will light when the current one runs out.
Sure it ain't realistic, but neither is half the game.
Ease of use should come before realism.

[Ryzure]

I would agree... I don't think the candles are currently all that useful because of this. Town lighting necessitates an easier way to keep them lit

A lot of developers seem to favor realism over interesting and unique gameplay, and I'm positive these guys don't fall into that category. How many games have snow apes? ...Granted they're mislabeled as sheep at the moment.

[Jackard]

less tedium is good

[theTrav]

I'd prefer an alternative, longer lasting but more expensive light source over this (lamps with lamp oil?)

[Delamore]

I'd prefer an alternative, longer lasting but more expensive light source over this (lamps with lamp oil?)

But all that would result in is people completely ignoring candles in favor of the new ones.

[KoE]

Except to stick them on their hats, mayhaps.

Tangentially related, does anybody have a ballpark estimate as to how long an uninterrupted candle burns? It seems to me that candles themselves could get expensive if used to light a moderately large area at night, every night, if it's not very long - your average flock of sheep will provide what, six-to-eight wool (twice that if you use the exploit), making the yarn sort of a gripe to get. Being an industry fellow I don't know about the difficulty of getting craptons of wax, but I don't imagine it'd be terribly hard.

[Delamore]

I've heard 4 hours, it sounds reasonable as that is the length of a night.

[kobnach]

Except to stick them on their hats, mayhaps.

Tangentially related, does anybody have a ballpark estimate as to how long an uninterrupted candle burns? It seems to me that candles themselves could get expensive if used to light a moderately large area at night, every night, if it's not very long - your average flock of sheep will provide what, six-to-eight wool (twice that if you use the exploit), making the yarn sort of a gripe to get. Being an industry fellow I don't know about the difficulty of getting craptons of wax, but I don't imagine it'd be terribly hard.

oh! What's the exploit?

I think my biggest complaint with candles is the inability to extinguish a candelabra.

[Potjeh]

Click on shear sheep, and then while you're approaching it right click it again. When you shear the first wool, click on shear again (it should be open). Tada, two units of wool from one sheep!

[KoE]

Actually, you can right-click the sheep at any point before the first shearing is done and it still works fine.

And yeah, candleabras definitely need some way to be extinguished.