Tallow Candle

WorldObject

A candle which can burn tallow to produce a small amount of light.

Notes

A Tallow Candle is a simple light source that burns animal fat to illuminate a small area, making it one of the earliest lighting options available. It contributes a small amount to a room's housing value as a Lighting furniture item, though placing multiple candles in the same room has diminishing returns. Since it is also an ingredient in several advanced lighting fixtures such as the Candle Stand and Wall Candle, keeping a stock of tallow candles on hand is practical for upgrading your home decor later without starting from scratch.

Notes are AI-generated and may be imprecise.

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Farming level 0Skill level changes labor only.

Talents

Nutrient Deficient (Farming Lv 3) Seed Sorting (Farming Lv 3) Natural Selection (Farming Lv 6)

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Ingredients

Ingredients for this recipe

Ingredient	Qty	Type
Tallow	4	item
Cotton Thread	1	item

Byproducts (garbage)

Garbage byproducts of this recipe

Material	Qty / craft
Food Scrap	0.03
Bio Residue	0.02

Crafting waste collects in the station's garbage output and must be hauled away or recycled — see the Garbage & Recycling guide.

Crafting

Crafting stats

Labor	50 calories
Craft time	2 min
Throughput	≈ 30 Tallow Candle / hour (base)

As a placed object

Each extra copy of this furniture type in the same room counts for less housing value than the one before.

Recycling & waste

• 0.2× Bio Residue

The same salvage value leaks out as garbage when this item is consumed in crafting.

How garbage, sorting & recycling work

Total raw to craft this

Recompute for my setup

• 4× Medium Carcass (any)
• 2× Cotton Boll

Approximate — category ingredients and any production cycles are counted as raw.

Categories

• Can Be On Surface
• Housing
• Housing Objects
• Ingredient
• Lighting
• On Off
• Product
• Storage Container
• Usable
• World Object

Obtained from

• Tallow Candle

Used in

• Candle Stand
• Ceiling Candle
• Wall Candle

• Carved Pumpkin

See also

Candle StandCarved PumpkinCeiling CandleChandelierElectric Wall LampHanging Electric Wall Lamp