Its actually anti-RP that vendors sell something thats not useful. If they sold a broom at least you could decorate your house with it.

You can take them off their sconces in dungeons. It's one of the most useful stealth mechanics added, besides arrows drawing people to where they hit.

I found at least 20 in a short dungeon when I took them all off their sconces. I dropped them all in a chest, because they're kind of useless.

Close. Actually it's coke. Raw coal is heated in an airless chamber in order to cook off impurities like sulfur, water, and a variety of hydrocarbons. Coke is a much purer form of carbon than raw coal. You also need a flux material. Like crushed limestone. This is added to the mix to draw out more impurities especially oxygen.

Not that metallurgy is Bethesda's strong point.

As for torches, charcoal would be useless for this. Charcoal burns steadily, but the spectrum of light given off is mostly infrared. In Skyrim with all the coniferous trees around, I'm sure they would use pine tar for their torches.

we wouldn't want it to turn into a science class though XD
if minecraft has thought us one thing it's that coal+wood=torches
we're gamers not science teachers XD

Actually from what I've seen of Minecraft's crafting on YouTube, that would have been a good model for the crafting in Skyrim. Make it just a little more in-depth. As it is, I have no real complaints about the crafting system, I just wish there was some way to use various things to customize armor and weapons. Surely some bandit-wannabe would want shoulderpieces on their armor made from human skulls of their enemies, or maybe a helmet made partly from a bear skull or something? Maybe a cape made from a bear's fur, that sort of thing, just like armor can be made from dragon bones and scales. If you want fancy armor, maybe you'd have to find some gold or copper ore for some inlaid artwork, or maybe have a shield with an elaborate crest drawn on it. There's a lot of potential there.

Hell, I'm surprised the hard-core RPers aren't full-time begging for this, rather than talking about how they want a more in-depth cooking system or wishing their clothes would get wrinkled over time so they'd have to use the clothes iron for something.

Collecting it is for hipsters.

Someones never performed the Jazz Singer outside of Markarth before, eh?

im surprised that they didnt implement scroll-making for enchanting using those charcoal sticks to write.

personally, i think every in-game item should have SOME use, because we all think like that penny arcade comic at some point. make eating food while sitting at a table with a plate in your inventory give you a temporary speechraft bonus for using proper table manners or something . make brooms 2-handed weapons, and when you attack the floor of your house, you get a "tidy" buff when in your house for a few hours :whistling: . its like food, it doesnt have to much of anything useful, just some minor use really helps with RPing.