Lantern

"Soul Lantern" redirects here. For the artifact in Minecraft Dungeons, see MCD:Soul Lantern.

Lantern

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Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool
Blast resistance	3.5
Hardness	3.5
Luminant	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.

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.

Breaking

When broken with a pickaxe, a lantern drops itself. When broken without a pickaxe, it drops nothing. A lantern always drops if its supporting block is removed.

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

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 above or below 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. Lanterns, like torches, melt snow slowly.

Piglins

Soul lanterns repel piglins.

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Block tags (JE)	Item tags (JE)	Form	Translation key
Lantern	lantern	None	None	Block & Item	block.minecraft.lantern
Soul Lantern	soul_lantern	piglin_repellents	piglin_repellents	Block & Item	block.minecraft.soul_lantern

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID	Form	Translation key
Lantern	lantern	461	Block & Item	tile.lantern.name
Soul Lantern	soul_lantern	524	Block & Item	tile.soul_lantern.name

Metadata

See also: Data values

In Bedrock Edition, lanterns use the following data values:

Block states

See also: Block states

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					32px 32px LadyAgnes tweets an image of a lantern, implying that they are once again in development.
Java Edition
1.14		18w46a			32px 32px 32px Added lanterns.
		18w49a			Lanterns can now spawn naturally in snowy tundra villages.
		19w05a			Lanterns now have a unique sound for being placed and broken.
1.14.3		pre3			Lanterns can now be placed and hung on iron bars and glass panes.
1.16		20w06a			32px 32px 32px Added soul fire lanterns.
		20w07a			32px 32px 32px The textures of soul fire lanterns have been changed. The wood colors from the textures have been removed. They are also now animated.
		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.
Upcoming Java Edition
1.17		21w13a			The model of the hanging lanterns has now been tweaked that the backside textures of the chains are mirrored.
Bedrock Edition
1.9.0		beta 1.9.0.2			32px 32px 32px 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			32px 32px 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			32px The item texture of lanterns has been changed.
					32px 32px 32px 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					32px 32px 32pxAdded lanterns.

Issues

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

Trivia

• Regular lanterns were likely to be a "replacement" version of the torch if they were added in the 2010 Halloween Update.
• Lanterns are the fifth animated light-source in the game, the others being magma blocks, sea lanterns, fire and lava.
• Turtle eggs can support lanterns placed both above and below them, despite the fact that this causes the lanterns to visually float.

Gallery

• 18w46a.jpeg

  The official header for snapshot 18w46a, featuring lanterns.

• Jappa lantern screenshot.jpg

  A screenshot from JAPPA showing lanterns used in a village build.

• Lantern In Player Made House.png

  A lantern inside a house that was made by a player.

• Naturally Spawned Lantern Bastion Remnant.png

  A lantern naturally generated in a bastion remnant.

See also

• Torch
• Sea lantern