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Hi everyone again I was just milling around and thought hey what if I made a lantern that was powered by redstone?!


I frankly have no Idea what the crafting should be but this is what I have thought of


What it does: what this does is place an invisible torch (or a invisible glowstone block that you can walk though that provides the same lighting as a torch) at your feet that gets picked up and placed every step.

How to power it: when you have it out you can right click and it will consume redstone to power it. (not sure if it should be 1 redstone for 2 seconds of light or 4 seconds of light) Right click with it to stop

side note: if I have it activated on my hot bar it would hang off the side of my character still providing light.


I'm just really wondering if you think this is OP or not.

There is already an item called "redstone lamp" although it doesn't work like the item you described.

Mitchyc99 beat me to it.

Well yeah there is a redstone lamp, but I think the OP is talking about a redstone lantern? I think it might be cool to have, although honestly there wouldn't be much use for it. Torches are convenient, and restone lamps are already there to be used as a block.

I think the OP is talking about a way to get around the "no dynamic lighting" problem. The redstone lamp he's proposing would behave exactly like a held lantern while actually being a placed object which is automatically removed and replaced as the player moves.

I think though that the overhead of the server having to continually pick up and put down the lamp would cause far too much lag on multiplayer, and it would probably even slow down single-player.

Also, there may be problems caused by the player travelling over half-slabs.

Nice idea, but no support unless the problems can be overcome.

sorry everyone saying it was a redstone lamp was a typo (i fail at spelling sometimes >.<) I ment to put lantern

Quote from Melkior_Wiseman

I think the OP is talking about a way to get around the "no dynamic lighting" problem. The redstone lamp he's proposing would behave exactly like a held lantern while actually being a placed object which is automatically removed and replaced as the player moves.

I think though that the overhead of the server having to continually pick up and put down the lamp would cause far too much lag on multiplayer, and it would probably even slow down single-player.

your right there it could cause lag but I'm thinking now it won't provide light if the player is jumping or sprinting jumping = in air away from blocks Sprinting= going to fast

Also, there may be problems caused by the player travelling over half-slabs.

for this we could change it from a torch to a invisible glowstone block that you can walk though and it gives off the same amount of light as a torch.


Nice idea, but no support unless the problems can be overcome.

I'm also going to update the op (original post)