Lantern

Lantern

Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool
Blast resistance	3.5
Hardness	3.5
Luminous	Yes (15)
Transparent	Yes
Waterloggable	Yes
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No
Map color (JE)	6 METAL

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Lanterns are a block that emits light.

Obtaining

Breaking

A lantern can be mined with anything, but pickaxes are the fastest. A lantern also breaks and drops itself if a piston extends or pushes a block into its location, or if its supporting block is moved or destroyed.

Block
Hardness	3.5
Tool
Breaking time (sec)[A]
Default	5.25
Wooden	2.65
Stone	1.35
Copper ​	1.05
Iron	0.9
Diamond	0.7
Netherite	0.6
Golden	0.45
Options
Efficiency	000
Haste	001 1JEBE

Legend

• incorrect tool, drops nothing
• correct tool, drops nothing or something other than the block itself
• correct tool, drops the block itself
• italicized can be instant mined

Natural generation

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

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Iron Nugget + Torch

Trading

Villager	Probability		Villager wants	Player receives
	JE	BE
Apprentice Librarian	67%	50%	Emerald

Usage

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.

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 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.

The player's angle of camera against the targeted block dynamically affects placement control of the lantern. Looking up at the target block from below mostly hangs the lantern, while looking down from above guarantees its placement.

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

Light

The lantern is among the most luminous of light sources, emitting a light level of 15. Lanterns also melt snow layers within 2 blocks and ice within 3 blocks (taxicab distance).

Sounds

Java Edition:

v t e lantern sound type
Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​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
	​Something falls on a block	Blocks	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.lantern.fall	subtitles.block.generic.fall​	0.5	0.75	16
	​Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	block.lantern.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.15	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

v t e lantern sound type
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

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

Block states

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

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 for 1 emerald.
1.14.3			pre3				Lanterns can now be placed and hung on iron bars and glass panes.
1.16			20w16a				Lanterns now generate as part of bastion remnants.
1.16.2			20w30a				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.
1.21.4			24w44a				Now drop when broken with any tool.
Bedrock Edition
1.9.0 Experiment Experimental Gameplay			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.
							Lanterns are now available outside of Experimental Gameplay.
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.
1.16.100			beta 1.16.100.54				Lanterns can now be waterlogged.
1.20.30			Preview 1.20.20.21				Decreased the hardness and blast resistance of both regular and soul lanterns from 5 to 3.5.
1.21.50			Preview 1.21.50.24				Lanterns are mined faster when using an improper tool.
PlayStation 4 Edition
1.90							Added lanterns.
1.91							Lantern sounds have been added.
							Lanterns can now be bought from librarian villagers.
							Lanterns now generate in snowy tundra villages.

Issues

Issues relating to "Lantern" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Trivia

• Turtle eggs can support lanterns placed both above and below them, despite the fact that this causes the lanterns to appear floating.^[1]
• Before they were added to Minecraft, lanterns were already present in Minicraft.

Gallery

• 
  A lantern inside a house that was made by a player.
• 
  A lantern naturally generated in a bastion remnant.
• 
  The first image of lanterns, which was posted by LadyAgnes.^[2]
• 
  The official header for snapshot 18w46a, featuring lanterns.^[3]
• 
  A screenshot from JAPPA showing lanterns used in a village build.^[4]

See also

• Torch
• Sea lantern

References

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