Torch

A Torch is a portable light source with a much smaller radius than a Campfire. It is made with 2 Cut Grass and 2 Twigs and can be made from the start of the game. It only burns (and as a result loses durability) while it is held; regardless of what time of day it is. A Torch will stay lit for 75 seconds (2.5 game hours).

Usage
To equip and use a Torch right-click it from the belt. As long as the player is holding the torch it will burn with a consistent intensity and illuminate a small area around him or her. Clicking a Torch on objects such as Trees, Spider Dens, or Bee Hives will light them on fire. If the burning object contains creatures like a Beehive does, they will exit the structure when it is set alight. Burning objects will also ignite other objects (or creatures) if they are nearby, possibly spreading to cause massive forest fires. Torches also provide some heat and thereby prolong Freezing. Torches can be used as weapons to deal 17 damage per strike.

Rain decreases burning time of Torch by 1.5 times.

Known Exploits
An easy way to keep the Torch 10x longer is by repeatedly clicking the Torch, which basically just keeps unequipping and equipping the Torch. This method however doesn't work when trying to do any other actions, and mostly just serves for traveling during night, or just going through the night.

Other methods similar to this, to get the character through the night if there are no available resources to make a fire, is to swap out the Torch with any other tool in the inventory either by rapidly pressing the hotkey button for the slot the torch rests in or only equiping the torch long enough to reset Grue's attack timer, thus the Torch's durability will not have sufficient time to deplete. (This method doesn't work with the Miner Hat). This method can preserve the torch almost indefinitely.