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How to Craft Sea Lantern in Minecraft

Sea Lantern in Minecraft, drawn from the game's own item texture. Underwater light source with level 15. Minecraft has used the name Sea Lantern since 1.8.

Stand at a Crafting Table with 4 Prismarine Shards and 5 Prismarine Crystals and you can make a Sea Lantern. From the top down: two Prismarine Shards in the left and right columns and Prismarine Crystals in the middle column; then three Prismarine Crystals; then two Prismarine Shards in the left and right columns and Prismarine Crystals in the middle column. Expect 1 Sea Lantern from every craft.

Sea Lantern Item ID and Give Command

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

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

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

Overview

Sea Lanterns emit light level 15 and are commonly found in ocean monuments. They work perfectly underwater. Sea Lantern uses a shaped recipe: the ingredients only work in the pattern shown.

Minecraft has used the name Sea Lantern since 1.8, the oldest release whose language file lists it.

The materials come together from a few sources: you will be working with prismarine shard (kill guardians) and prismarine crystals (kill guardians).

Counting The Stack

Stack sum: 64 over 5 is 12 crafts, times 1 is 12 sea lanterns. On top of that: 48 prismarine shards. Left behind: 4 prismarine crystals.

Materials Needed

ItemAmountWhere to Find
Prismarine ShardPrismarine ShardPrismarine Shard4xKill guardians
Prismarine CrystalsPrismarine CrystalsPrismarine Crystals5xKill guardians

Gather 4x Prismarine Shard (kill guardians) and 5x Prismarine Crystals (kill guardians), then take the lot to a Crafting Table.

Step-by-Step Instructions

  1. 1

    Prismarine ShardPrismarine Shard4x Prismarine Shard

  2. 2

    Prismarine CrystalsPrismarine Crystals5x Prismarine Crystals

  3. 3

    Sea Lantern

Minecraft crafting recipe for Sea Lantern: 4 x Prismarine Shard, 5 x Prismarine Crystals in a crafting table, making 1 Sea Lantern.

Tips & Notes

  • Shopping list: 4x Prismarine Shard and 5x Prismarine Crystals. Plan the Prismarine Shard first: kill guardians.

Uses for Sea Lantern

  • Underwater light source with level 15
  • Ocean monument decoration

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

Frequently Asked Questions

What do I need to craft a Sea Lantern in Minecraft?
a Sea Lantern asks for 4 Prismarine Shards and 5 Prismarine Crystals, and the work happens at a Crafting Table. Lay them out exactly as the grid above shows, and one craft produces one Sea Lantern.
Can you craft a Sea Lantern without a crafting table?
You need a table for a Sea Lantern. It is laid out as four Prismarine Shards in the left and right columns and five Prismarine Crystals, and that takes 3 rows, more than the 2x2 grid in your inventory can hold.
Where do you find the materials for a Sea Lantern?
A Sea Lantern draws its parts from several different places. Prismarine Shard: kill guardians. Prismarine Crystals: kill guardians.
How many Sea Lanterns do you get from one craft?
The Sea Lantern recipe makes one Sea Lantern per craft.
What is the item ID for Sea Lantern in Minecraft?
Sea Lantern is registered as minecraft:sea_lantern. Commands accept the short form sea_lantern as well, and Bedrock spells it the same. Checked against Java 26.2.
Can you farm everything you need for a Sea Lantern?
Sea Lantern needs nothing you have to go find: prismarine shard and prismarine crystals from guardians. Set those up once and you can keep making sea lantern.
What is the give command for Sea Lantern?
Use /give @p sea_lantern to put a Sea Lantern in your own inventory, or /give @p sea_lantern 64 for a full stack of 64. Cheats have to be on.
Is the Sea Lantern recipe the same in Java and Bedrock Edition?
Java and Bedrock agree on a Sea Lantern: both want 4 Prismarine Shards and 5 Prismarine Crystals at a Crafting Table in the layout above, and both give one at a time.
Which material does a Sea Lantern need the most of?
A Sea Lantern needs more Prismarine Crystals than anything else: 5 Prismarine Crystals out of 9 items in total. Gather that first and the rest of the recipe follows easily.
What version of Minecraft added the Sea Lantern?
As far back as the language files go, the sea lantern appears under this name in Minecraft 1.8 and not before. The recipe file cannot narrow that down, because recipes only became separate files in 1.12. The Sea Lantern recipe above matches the current release.

Sources

Grid, ingredients and yield
4 Prismarine Shards and 5 Prismarine Crystals in, 1 Sea Lantern out, Crafting Table. Java 26.2, .
That Bedrock agrees
Bedrock 1.26.40.05, same 2 ingredients.
How far back it goes
Java 1.8 is the earliest release that calls it this. 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 Sea Lantern per craft against the stack size.

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