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"Soul Lantern" redirects here. For the artifact in Minecraft Dungeons, see MCD:Soul Lantern. For other uses, see Lantern (disambiguation).

Lantern

• Lantern
• Soul lantern

Renewable

Yes

Stackable

Yes (64)

Tool

Blast resistance

3.5

Hardness

3.5

Luminous

Lanterns: Yes (15)Soul lanterns: Yes (10)

Transparent

Yes

Flammable

No

Catches fire from lava

No Lanterns are blocks that emit light.

Soul lanterns are turquoise variants crafted from soul torches.

Contents

• 1 Obtaining
  • 1.1 Natural generation
  • 1.2 Breaking
  • 1.3 Crafting
  • 1.4 Trading
• 2 Usage
  • 2.1 Placement mechanics
• 3 Sounds
• 4 Data values
  • 4.1 ID
  • 4.2 Block states
• 5 History
• 6 Issues
• 7 Trivia
• 8 Gallery
• 9 See also
• 10 References

Obtaining[]

Natural generation[]

Regular lanterns can generate as lamps or lamp posts above farms and on some buildings in snowy tundra villages and in bastion remnants.

Soul lanterns can generate in ancient cities.

Breaking[]

A lantern can be broken with any tool, but it breaks fastest when dropped with a pickaxe. A lantern always drops if its supporting block is removed.

Block	LanternSoul Lantern
Hardness	3.5
Tool
Breaking time[A]
Default	17.5
Wooden	2.65
Stone	1.35
Iron	0.9
Diamond	0.7
Netherite	0.6
Golden	0.45

1. ↑ Times are for unenchanted tools as wielded by players with no status effects, measured in seconds. For more information, see Breaking § Speed.

Crafting[]

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Lantern	Iron Nugget +Torch
Soul Lantern	Iron Nugget +Soul Torch

Trading[]

Apprentice-level librarian villagers have a 50%‌[Bedrock Edition only] or 66.7%‌[Java Edition only] chance of selling a regular lantern for an emerald as part of their trades.

Usage[]

The lantern is among the most luminous of light sources, emitting a light level of 15, while the soul lantern emits a light level of 10.

Lanterns can be placed on the top or bottom surfaces of most solid blocks, although some require sneaking. More information can be found at Opacity/Placement.

When placed below a block the lantern appears to hang. They connect to chains seamlessly.

In addition to lighting, lanterns provide these effects:

• Like torches, lanterns melt snow slowly.
• Soul lanterns repel piglins.

Placement mechanics[]

Both lanterns and soul lanterns can be placed (if a support platform is presented) or hanging (if a ceiling block is presented). The type of the block (solid, opaque, transparent, etc... given the block has top/bottom solid surface) does not affect the ability to hang of a lantern, similar to torches. Press use on the targeted block or a block adjacent to the air block the lantern is going to occupy to place it. If the latter is used and both the support/ceiling block is presented:

• Press use on the upper half of the adjacent block to "hang" the lantern up.
• Press use on the lower half of the adjacent block to "place" the lantern down.

This is only true if the eye level of the player is perpendicular to the targeted air block onto an adjacent block's surface. A solid block that is adjacent to the targeted air block generates two values, or "areas" on the solid block itself atop of each other that decide which placement position is used for the lantern based on which area the crosshair is aimed at, changing dynamically when the angle created by the block surface and the player's LoS line is deviated. This means that if the player is looking up at a block, hanging is prioritized; and looking down causes placing to be prioritized.

When the adjacent ceiling/surface of the targeted air block is blocked from view, the game will prioritize the placement position on the other visible surface/ceiling completely (e.g. the lantern is placed on the ceiling if the surface is not visible due to the player standing lower than the block). This is true only if the solid block whose ceiling/surface was mentioned is blocking the surfaces itself and does not taking into account other objects that might obstruct the placement of the lantern.

If the object the lantern is placed on receive a block update that does not support the placement of the lantern, it is removed and drop as an item (e.g. lantern on a trapdoor and the trapdoor is flipped).

Sounds[]

Java Edition:

Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuationdistance
	Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.lantern.break	subtitles.block.generic.break	1.0	0.8	16
	Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.lantern.place	subtitles.block.generic.place	1.0	0.88	16
	Block breaking	Entity-Dependent	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.lantern.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit	0.25	0.5	16
	None[sound 1]	Blocks	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.lantern.fall	None[sound 1]	0.5	0.75	16
	Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	block.lantern.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps	0.15	1.0	16

1. ↑ a b MC-177082

Bedrock Edition:

Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.lantern.break	1.0	0.8-1.0
	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.lantern.place	1.0	0.8-1.0
	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.lantern.hit	0.25	0.5
	Blocks	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.lantern.fall	0.4	1.0
	Blocks	Walking on the block	block.lantern.step	0.3	1.1
None	None	Undefined sound event	jump.metal	0.15	1.0
	Blocks	Falling on the block without fall damage	block.lantern.fall	0.2	1.0

Data values[]

ID[]

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Block tags	Item tags	Translation key
Lantern	lantern	Block & Item	None	None	block.minecraft.lantern
Soul Lantern	soul_lantern	Block & Item	piglin_repellents	piglin_repellents	block.minecraft.soul_lantern

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID[i 1]	Translation key
Lantern	lantern	463	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3]	tile.lantern.name
Soul Lantern	soul_lantern	524	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3]	tile.soul_lantern.name

1. ↑ ID of block's direct item form, which is used in savegame files and addons.
2. ↑ a b Available with /give command.
3. ↑ a b The block's direct item form has the same id as the block.

Block states[]

See also: Block states

Java Edition:

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
hanging	false	falsetrue	If the lantern is hanging from a block.
waterlogged	false	falsetrue	Whether or not there's water in the same place as this lantern.

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Metadata Bits	Default value	Allowed values	Values forMetadata Bits	Description
hanging	0x1	false	falsetrue	01	If the lantern is hanging from a block.

History[]

October 6, 2010					Notch says that with the addition of the lantern, torches would flicker out and need to be re-lit with flint and steel. The lantern would serve as a permanent source of light.
January 5, 2011					Lanterns were originally planned to be added in the Halloween Update, but were delayed due to lack of time.
January 13, 2011					Notch says that lanterns were "postponed".
January 20, 2011					Notch says he's "not sure" when lanterns can be implemented.
November 18, 2011					Notch announces at the Mojang Panel at MineCon 2011 that lanterns would not be added due to large negative community response toward the effects the new item would have had on torches.
April 4, 2012					Notch tweets that the team decided to not implement lanterns and instead other types of lighting were added, such as redstone lamps and glowstone.
November 9, 2018					LadyAgnes tweets an image of a lantern, implying that they are once again in development.
Java Edition
1.14		18w46a			Added lanterns.
		18w49a			Lanterns can now spawn naturally in snowy tundra villages.
		19w05a			Lanterns now have a unique sound for being placed and broken.
		19w11a			Librarian villagers now sell lanterns.
1.14.3		pre3			Lanterns can now be placed and hung on iron bars and glass panes.
1.16		20w06a			Added soul fire lanterns.
		20w07a			The textures of soul fire lanterns have been changed. The wood colors from the textures have been removed. They are also now animated.[1]
		20w16a			Lanterns now generate as part of bastion remnants.
		20w17a			"Soul Fire Lantern" has been renamed to "Soul Lantern".
					The ID of soul lanterns has changed from soul_fire_lantern to soul_lantern.
1.16.2		20w30a			Lanterns and soul lanterns can now be waterlogged.
1.17		21w13a			The model of the hanging lanterns has now been tweaked so that the backside textures of the chains are mirrored.
1.19		Deep Dark Experimental Snapshot 1			Soul lantern now generate as part of ancient city.
Bedrock Edition
1.9.0		beta 1.9.0.2			Added lanterns.
					Lanterns can currently be obtained only from the creative inventory and with Experimental Gameplay enabled.
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			Lanterns now have animated textures.
					Lanterns are now craftable.
					Lanterns now generate in snowy tundra villages.
1.11.0		beta 1.11.0.1			Lantern sounds have been added.
		beta 1.11.0.4			Lanterns can now be bought from librarian villagers.
1.16.0		beta 1.16.0.51			The item texture of lanterns has been changed.
					Added soul fire lanterns.
		beta 1.16.0.57			"Soul Fire Lantern" has been renamed to "Soul Lantern".
					Regular lanterns now generate in bastion remnants.
1.16.100		beta 1.16.100.54			Lanterns and soul lanterns can now be waterlogged.
PlayStation 4 Edition
1.90					Added lanterns.

Issues[]

Issues relating to "Lantern" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia[]

• Turtle eggs can support lanterns placed both above and below them, despite the fact that this causes the lanterns to appear floating.[2]
• Before they were added to Minecraft, lanterns were already present in Minicraft.

Gallery[]

• The first image of lanterns.
• The official header for snapshot 18w46a, featuring lanterns.[3]
• A screenshot from JAPPA showing lanterns used in a village build.[4]
• A lantern inside a house that was made by a player.
• A lantern naturally generated in a bastion remnant.

See also[]

• Torch
• Sea lantern

References[]

1. ↑ MC-170869
2. ↑ MC-169684
3. ↑ "Minecraft Snapshot 18w46a" – Minecraft.net, November 15, 2018
4. ↑ "Decorating a village with Lanterns makes me feel all cozy and warm inside" – @JasperBoerstra (Jasper Boerstra) on X, November 15, 2018

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