Firelight

The firelight is a piece of equipment in Phasmophobia. It is a deployable light source that can be lit using a source of fire such as an igniter or another firelight. It can be used to continuously light up a room with a warm, orange glow, and mitigate sanity drain from darkness, until it eventually burns out.
Ghosts tend to blow out nearby firelights, making them effective at checking if a ghost is nearby. 
== Usage ==
Firelights may be purchased from the item store. Purchased firelights can be lit, grabbed, carried, and can slow sanity drain. Firelights also appear as candles on certain maps, but those candles can't be grabbed or carried, and have no effect on sanity drain.
=== Lighting firelights ===
Players can a firelight item held in their hand if they have an igniter in their inventory. A firelight placed down can be lit while holding an igniter and pressing . One can also hold a lit firelight, aim at an unlit firelight, and use the Secondary Use key.
An unorthodox way is to have the wick of one lit and one unlit firelight to collide (this may need velocity).
=== Placement ===
Firelights can be down on surfaces. Holding the placement key will show a translucent highlight of the firelight. This will place the firelight upright relative to the surface. Firelights can topple/fall over when placed on a slope or vertically.
=== Function ===
Ghosts will occasionally blow out a firelight that is within 5 metresA firelight blowing range test (on YouTube). 21 February 2024.Another firelight blowing range test (on Twitch). 21 February 2024. of it. The fire will be extinguished with a blowing "sigh" effect. Ghosts can blow out firelights at any time, even during hunts. A firelight will also extinguish by itself at the end of its duration which depends on its tier level. Tier I and Tier II firelights will produce smoke when blown by the ghost or self-extinguishing.
Every third firelight that an Onryo blows out will cause it to attempt to initiate a hunt, regardless of sanity; the frequency of it blowing out firelights increases for every dead player. Having firelights nearby also act as crucifixes, being blown out instead of the Onryo hunting.
 a lit firelight/one falling with sufficient velocity (Tiers I and II only), placing it in the inventory, or leaving it out in heavy rain (Tiers I and II only) will cause it to extinguish.
When a player is within 2 metres of a lit firelight, it will slow passive sanity drain that results from being in the dark, at a rate depending on the firelight's tier level. Lit firelights do not affect sanity drain from other sources such as ghost events or other players dying.
The Tier II firelight counts as a single flame for all purposes.
=== Maps ===
Candles will also spawn in fixed locations on some maps:
* 6 Tanglewood Drive
* 10 Ridgeview Court
* 13 Willow Street
* 42 Edgefield Road
* Bleasdale Farmhouse
* Grafton Farmhouse
* Sunny Meadows Mental Institution
These candles cannot be picked up, cannot self-extinguish, and have no effect on sanity drain, but otherwise function normally.
== Tips ==
* Placing firelights on the sides of tables, shelves, or other elevated objects may improve their lighting by covering a wider area.
* In larger maps like Brownstone High School or Sunny Meadows Mental Institution, firelights may be helpful as navigation markers for important areas such as the fuse box, ghost room, or exit door(s), though they are not as reliable as UV lights or spare flashlights, as firelights both burn out after a time (except for tier III) and can be blown out by the ghost.
* As firelights are not electronic, they are not affected by hunts and will continue to provide a steady light source. The downside is that players may not be able to tell when a hunt is occurring, especially if the ghost is too far away to be heard.
* In Sunny Meadows and its Restricted version, the candles in the chapel are lit by default and may be extinguished by the ghost, allowing the "Get the Ghost to blow out a Firelight" objective to be completed without consuming a firelight or an igniter. However, this might also cause an unexpected early hunt if the ghost is an Onryo.
== Objectives ==
Objective 	Actual requirements
Get the Ghost to blow out a Firelight	-
==Trivia==
* Showers and sinks filled with water do not extinguish firelights.
==History ==
Early Access Alpha	Early Access Alpha
31 January 2020 	Increased the duration that candles stay lit.
23 March 2020 	Candles can now be used to light other candles or Smudge Sticks.
7 July 2020 	Increased the candle lighting range, allowing it to prevent passive sanity drain when held.
Early Access 	Early Access
23 September 2020 	Candles can now be lit via the Secondary Use key if a lighter is also in the player's inventory.
0.3.0 	Updated the candle model.
0.4.0 	Candles will now extinguish when thrown or left out in the open in heavy rain.
0.7.0 	Candles now extinguish when swapped into the inventory.
0.9.0 	Candles were renamed to firelights.
0.9.0 	Light from firelights no longer fully block sanity drain, and instead reduce the rate of it depending on equipment tier.
0.9.0 	Candles found inside contracts can still be lit, but are no longer grabbable and do not provide any sanity-altering effects.
0.10.0 	Increased the light intensity and range for tier I and tier II.
0.10.0 	Increased the duration for tier I and tier II to 5 minutes and 10 minutes, respectively.
==See also ==
*Summoning Circle
==References==
Category:Equipment
fr:Lumière à feu
ru:Светильник