Soul Torch can be crafted in 2 ways — the grid above cycles through all of them. Variant 1 is a shaped crafting recipe that uses 3 items: 1 Coal, 1 Stick and 1 Soul Soil. Place the ingredients exactly in the pattern shown above. The pattern can sit anywhere on the grid as long as its shape stays the same. It needs the full 3×3 grid, so you have to use a crafting table.
You need 1 Coal, 1 Stick and 1 Soul Soil — 3 items in total, arranged as shown in the crafting grid. The recipe gives you 4× Soul Torch.
Yes. The recipe needs the full 3×3 grid, which only a crafting table offers.
It is a shaped recipe: the arrangement matters. You can shift the pattern around the grid, but the shape must stay the same.
Yes. There are 2 variants of the recipe — the others use Charcoal and Soul Sand. The grid on this page cycles through all of them.
Soul Torch is an ingredient in 1 crafting recipe, for example Soul Lantern.