Minecraft:Lantern

Template:Infobox block Lanterns are Minecraft:blocks that emit Minecraft:light.

Obtaining

Breaking

The suitable tool to break lantern is Minecraft:pickaxe. Template:Breaking row Lantern drops itself when it's destroyed.

Natural generation

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

Usage

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

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

Lanterns can be placed on the ground (if a supporting floor block is present) or hung (if a ceiling block is present). 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 below it.
• Press use on the lower half of the adjacent block to "place" the lantern on top of it.

If the block the lantern is placed on receives a block update that makes it so it can no longer support the placement of the lantern, the lantern is removed and dropped as an item (e.g: the lantern is placed on a trapdoor, and then the trapdoor is flipped).

Light

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

When the Minecraft:Render Dragon Features for Creators experiment is enabled in Minecraft:Minecraft Preview, the inside of lanterns emits colored point lighting with Template:Color. The casing of the lantern blocks a part of the light and casts some shadows around the lantern.

Piston interactivity

Lantern is destroyed when the Minecraft:piston tries to push it. It can't be pulled by the Minecraft:sticky piston.

Data values

ID

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Block states

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History

Trivia

• Minecraft:Turtle eggs can support lanterns placed both above and below them, despite the fact that this causes the lanterns to appear floating.<ref>Template:Bug</ref>
• Before they were added to Minecraft:Minecraft, lanterns were already present in Minecraft:Minicraft.

Gallery

• A lantern inside a house that was made by a Minecraft:player.
  A lantern inside a house that was made by a Minecraft:player.
• A lantern naturally generated in a Minecraft:bastion remnant.
  A lantern naturally generated in a Minecraft:bastion remnant.
• The first image of lanterns, which was posted by LadyAgnes.<ref>Template:Tweet</ref>
  The first image of lanterns, which was posted by LadyAgnes.<ref>Template:Tweet</ref>
• The official header for snapshot Minecraft:18w46a, featuring lanterns.<ref>Template:Snap</ref>
  The official header for snapshot Minecraft:18w46a, featuring lanterns.<ref>Template:Snap</ref>
• A screenshot from Minecraft:JAPPA showing lanterns used in a village build.<ref>Template:Tweet</ref>
  A screenshot from Minecraft:JAPPA showing lanterns used in a village build.<ref>Template:Tweet</ref>

See also

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