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How to Craft Lantern in Minecraft

Lantern in Minecraft, drawn from the game's own item texture. Light source with level 15. The recipe first appears in the game's files in Minecraft 1.14.

The bill for a Lantern is 8 Iron Nuggets and 1 Torch, and the work happens at a Crafting Table. From the top down: three Iron Nuggets; then two Iron Nuggets in the left and right columns and a Torch in the middle column; then three Iron Nuggets. Done once, that is 1 Lantern.

Lantern Item ID and Give Command

The item ID for Lantern is minecraft:lantern. In commands the namespace may be left off, so lantern works too. Checked against Minecraft Java 26.2.

Give yourself one
/give @p lantern
Give a full stack of 64
/give @p lantern 64
Give it to a named player
/give Steve lantern 1

Cheats have to be on for Lantern to appear this way, and the same command works on Bedrock Edition, where the name is written the same.

Overview

Lanterns emit light level 15 and can be placed on the floor or hung from ceilings and chains. Lantern uses a shaped recipe: the ingredients only work in the pattern shown.

This recipe first appears in the game's own data files in Minecraft 1.14, and not in the release before it.

The materials come together from a few sources: you will be working with iron nugget (craft from iron ingots) and torch (craft from coal and stick).

Stack Maths

Counted per stack: 64 iron nuggets, 8 crafts, 8 lanterns. On top of that: 8 torches. Nothing is wasted: craft 8 takes the rest.

Materials Needed

ItemAmountWhere to Find
Iron NuggetIron NuggetIron Nugget8xCraft from iron ingots
TorchTorchTorch1xCraft from coal and stick

Gather 8x Iron Nugget (craft from iron ingots) and Torch (craft from coal and stick), then take the lot to a Crafting Table.

The Full Chain

5 crafts deep: Stick, Iron Ingot, Torch, Iron Nugget, then the Lantern. All in: 1 Coal, 1 Iron Ore and 2 Planks.

  1. 1
    2StickStick4Stick
  2. 2
    Iron IngotIron IngotIron IngotFurnace
  3. 3
    CoalCoalStickStickTorchTorch4Torch
  4. 4
    Iron IngotIron IngotIron NuggetIron Nugget9Iron Nugget
  5. 5
    LanternLanternLanternthis page

Gather this first

CoalCoalCoalIron Ore2Planks

Step-by-Step Instructions

  1. 1

    Iron NuggetIron Nugget8x Iron Nugget

  2. 2

    TorchTorchTorch

  3. 3

    Lantern

Minecraft crafting recipe for Lantern: 8 x Iron Nugget, 1 x Torch in a crafting table, making 1 Lantern.

Tips & Notes

  • One craft costs 8x Iron Nugget and 1x Torch. Start with the Iron Nugget: craft from iron ingots.

Uses for Lantern

  • Light source with level 15
  • Can hang from ceilings or sit on floors

View detailed item stats, durability and properties for Lantern on the Astroworld Items Database.

Frequently Asked Questions

What do I need to craft a Lantern in Minecraft?
8 Iron Nuggets and 1 Torch at a Crafting Table: that is the whole shopping list for a Lantern. Copy the grid above cell for cell, and one craft produces one Lantern.
What do you need to make a Lantern from scratch?
Counting all the way down, a Lantern comes to 1 Coal, 1 Iron Ore and 2 Planks, spread over 5 crafts.
Where do you find the materials for a Lantern?
Each ingredient in a Lantern has its own source. Iron Nugget: craft from iron ingots. Torch: craft from coal and stick.
How many Lanterns do you get from one craft?
The Lantern recipe makes one Lantern per craft.
What is the item ID for Lantern in Minecraft?
Lantern is registered as minecraft:lantern. Commands accept the short form lantern as well, and Bedrock spells it the same. Checked against Java 26.2.
What is the give command for Lantern?
The command for Lantern is /give @p lantern. Add a number for more than one, so /give @p lantern 64 hands you a full stack, and it only runs with cheats enabled.
What version of Minecraft added the Lantern?
For the lantern the answer is Minecraft 1.14, and it is not a guess: that release carries the recipe, the one before it does not. That pattern above is still the one the game uses.

Sources

Grid, ingredients and yield
8 Iron Nuggets and 1 Torch in, 1 Lantern out, Crafting Table. Java 26.2, .
That Bedrock agrees
Bedrock 1.26.40.05, same 2 ingredients.
How far back it goes
Java 1.14 is the first release that knows this recipe at all. From all 163 released Java clients, rd-132211 to 26.2.
That the ingredients come back
What drops, what villagers trade and what farms regrow in Minecraft Java, followed through the recipes to see what those ingredients can be turned into.
Stack size
The Astroworld Items Database, built from the same jar.
The recipe book unlock
What unlocks it in the recipe book. Java 26.2.
The stack sum
Counted, not played: 1 Lantern per craft against the stack size.

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