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Yeah you don't get negative effects, but you can still get positive so not using the right torches is effectively worse for drops. That said unless you're actively farming a spot, it doesn't matter too much. But when you farm a spot for a rare drop or fish for extended periods of time it's worth making some torches for the right biomes. A lot of them are as easy as mining a few blocks/dropping a couple bombs, then converting normal torches to biome torches(ice desert hallow corruption torches are just one of the biome blocks+3torch=3biome torches). The only "annoying" ones are the non specific torches where you need bone torches that the skeleton merchant sells, but when I found him I bought 999 torches and never needed to find him again after and jungle which requires spores so you can't get them easily at first until you've explored a fair amount and crafted everything you want with spores first unless you run into a lot of chests.
Basically you can just explore with normal torches(or bone torches once you have them, no reason to use normal torches after that) but if you're farming, make 5-10 of the right torches and use them in your farming area. It's also worth getting a garden gnome that you drop wherever you're farming and carry in one of your mobile chests(pig or void bank and such). Having both gives a fairly substantial boost to drop chance and requires nearly nothing, it's basically the same as dropping a water candle to spawn shit quicker, might as well do it.
