Talk:Jack o'Lantern/Archive 3

"If a Jack-O-Lantern is placed on leaves then the block will be placed but it will not be removed from your inventory, effectively duplicating  the block." Wait, what? Is it saying that the jackolantern... Ok, I can't make sense of this line. Can somebody clean it up to make sense? -Icalasari 22:00, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
 * It makes sense to me, dunno who wrote it but I can't find a flaw. He's saying if you place the jack o lantern on leaves it will appear in the world but not disappear from the inventory. (when you place for example, dirt, it goes from the inventory to the world, while the jack o lantern 'duplicates' itself because it appears in the world but also stays in the inventory. Think of it as a block with infinite amount of stacking, so long as you place it on leaves. --Antome 04:08, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Ah, alright then. I thought it was saying if the block it is placed on leaves (as in is destroyed/melted) XD Thanks for the clarification! -Icalasari 05:32, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
 * No problem :D --Antome 10:00, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

Useful underwater bug
I'm not sure where to put this but while experimenting with placing "floating" jack-o-lanterns in water (by removing blocks beneath it), I noticed that if you swim up below the jack-o-lantern there appears to be a small pocket of air where you stop drowning and can see normally. I confirmed this does not happen with all blocks but I haven't done an extensive test to figure out which blocks have the bug (dirt, cobblestone, and glowstone are all negative, the rest remain to be tested). Interestingly, however, blocks placed directly below the jack-o-lantern appear to extend the bug but not those placed horizontally next to it. I've been exploiting this to stay underwater without surfacing for long periods of time. Couldn't decide whether to note this under jack-o-lantern or drowning so I figured I'd just comment here at first in case anyone has an opinion. --Rvandam 03:43, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

Why more luminescent
Why is the Jack-O-Lantern more luminescent than torches?

Maxum 20:28, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

I was thinking about that myself recently. All of the light sources which are blocks (Jack-O-Lantern, Glowstone, and Redstone Lamp) have level 15 whereas torches are level 14, so it's at least consistent. I thought of three possible explanations: (This is all speculation, so it doesn't belong in wiki articles.) —kpreid 21:30, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
 * This ensures that the brightest air block is as bright as possible. (Since torches can be walked/seen through, you see 14 there, but you don't see the 15 of a light-emitting block.)
 * They are harder to obtain than torches, so they are better light sources.
 * It's a bug or sloppy implementation of light-emitting blocks.