Lantern

Lanterns are blocks that emit light.

Soul lanterns are turquoise variants crafted from soul torches.

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
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.

Trading
Apprentice-level librarian villagers have a 50% or 66.7% 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. 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
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...) 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.

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).

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Trivia

 * Turtle eggs can support lanterns placed both above and below them, despite the fact that this causes the lanterns to appear floating.