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Sea Lantern

Sea Lantern

A sea lantern is an underwater light source that appears in ocean monuments and ocean ruins. It has an animated pulsing texture.

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Contents (25)
  1. Obtaining
  2. Breaking
  3. Natural generation
  4. Crafting
  5. Usage
  6. Light source
  7. Conduit power
  8. Transparent block
  9. Sounds
  10. Data values
  11. ID
  12. Achievements
  13. Videos
  14. History
  15. Java Edition
  16. Bedrock Edition
  17. Legacy Console Edition
  18. New Nintendo 3DS Edition
  19. Data history
  20. Issues
  21. Gallery
  22. Screenshots
  23. In other media
  24. References
  25. External links
For other uses, see Lantern (disambiguation).
Sea Lantern
Invicon Sea Lantern.png: Inventory sprite for Sea Lantern in Minecraft as shown in-game with description: Sea Lantern
Renewable Yes
Stackable Yes (64)
Tool Any tool
Blast resistance 0.3
Hardness 0.3
Luminous Yes (15)
Transparent Partial (suffocates mobs, blocks sunlight, blocks beacons)
Flammable No
Catches fire
from lava 		No
Map color
 14 QUARTZ
Note block instrument Hat
Sulfur cube archetype Slow Bouncy

A sea lantern is an underwater light source that appears in ocean monuments and ocean ruins. It has an animated pulsing texture.

Obtaining

Breaking

See also: Fortune § Discrete random

No tool can accelerate the breaking process of sea lantern.

Block Sea Lantern
Hardness 0.3
Breaking time (secs)
Default 0.45 (JE)
0.45 (BE)
Efficiency
00
Legend
  • incorrect tool, drops nothing
  • correct tool, drops nothing or something other than the block itself
  • correct tool, drops the block itself
  • italicized can be instant mined

Sea lantern drops 2~3 prismarine crystals when it's destroyed using a tool without Silk Touch. In Java Edition, the Fortune enchantment makes the sea lantern drop extra 0~level prismarine crystals at the equal chances, but it is capped at 5. In Bedrock Edition, the number of drops is not affected by Fortune.[1]
Sea lantern drops itself when it's destroyed using a tool with Silk Touch.

Natural generation

Sea lanterns generate throughout ocean monuments, as well as in some ocean ruins.

Crafting

Ingredients Crafting recipe
Prismarine Shard +
Prismarine Crystals
Invicon Prismarine Shard.png: Inventory sprite for Prismarine Shard in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Prismarine Shard with description: Prismarine ShardInvicon Prismarine Crystals.png: Inventory sprite for Prismarine Crystals in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Prismarine Crystals with description: Prismarine CrystalsInvicon Prismarine Shard.png: Inventory sprite for Prismarine Shard in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Prismarine Shard with description: Prismarine ShardInvicon Prismarine Crystals.png: Inventory sprite for Prismarine Crystals in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Prismarine Crystals with description: Prismarine CrystalsInvicon Prismarine Crystals.png: Inventory sprite for Prismarine Crystals in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Prismarine Crystals with description: Prismarine CrystalsInvicon Prismarine Crystals.png: Inventory sprite for Prismarine Crystals in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Prismarine Crystals with description: Prismarine CrystalsInvicon Prismarine Shard.png: Inventory sprite for Prismarine Shard in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Prismarine Shard with description: Prismarine ShardInvicon Prismarine Crystals.png: Inventory sprite for Prismarine Crystals in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Prismarine Crystals with description: Prismarine CrystalsInvicon Prismarine Shard.png: Inventory sprite for Prismarine Shard in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Prismarine Shard with description: Prismarine Shard
Invicon Sea Lantern.png: Inventory sprite for Sea Lantern in Minecraft as shown in-game with description: Sea Lantern

Usage

Light source

Sea lanterns emit a light level of 15, the brightest possible light level in the game.

Conduit power

Main article: Conduit

Sea lanterns can be used to activate a conduit by building a structure around it. By doing this, the conduit emits the Conduit Power effect in a certain radius, depending on how many blocks are used to power it. Prismarine, dark prismarine, and prismarine bricks can also be used for this purpose.

Transparent block

The Sea lantern blocks all sunlight, players and mobs suffocate inside it, and it blocks a beacon's beam, preventing the beacon's activation. However, like transparent blocks, it does not prevent the opening of chests, monsters (including slimes) cannot spawn on it,‌[Java Edition only] and it does not transfer a redstone signal. This behavior also occurs in glowstone.

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Sounds

Java Edition:

BlockSprite glass.png: Sprite image for glass in Minecraft glass sound type
SoundClosed captionsSourceDescriptionIdentifierTranslation keyVolumePitchAttenuation
distance
​Block brokenBlocksOnce the block has brokenblock.glass.breaksubtitles.block.generic.break​1.00.816
​Block placed​[until: JE 26.4]BlocksWhen the block is placedblock.glass.placesubtitles.block.generic.place​1.00.816
​Block breakingBlocksWhile the block is in the process of being brokenblock.glass.hitsubtitles.block.generic.hit​0.250.516
​Something falls on a blockEntity-DependentFalling on the block with fall damageblock.glass.fallsubtitles.block.generic.fall​0.50.7516
​FootstepsEntity-DependentWalking on the blockblock.glass.stepsubtitles.block.generic.footsteps​0.151.016

Bedrock Edition:

BlockSprite glass.png: Sprite image for glass in Minecraft glass sound type
SoundClosed captionsSourceDescriptionIdentifierTranslation keyVolumePitch
​Block brokenBlocksOnce the block has brokenrandom.glasssubtitles.block.generic.break​1.00.8–1.0
​Block placedBlocksWhen the block is placedplace.stonesubtitles.block.generic.place​1.00.8–1.0
​Block breakingBlocksWhile the block is in the process of being brokenhit.stonesubtitles.block.generic.hit​0.40.6
​FootstepsPlayersFalling on the block with fall damagefall.stonesubtitles.block.generic.footsteps​0.41.0
​FootstepsPlayersWalking on the blockstep.stonesubtitles.block.generic.footsteps​0.31.0
​FootstepsBlocksJumping from the blockjump.stonesubtitles.block.generic.footsteps​0.121.0
​FootstepsBlocksFalling on the block without fall damageland.stonesubtitles.block.generic.footsteps​0.221.0


Data values

ID

Java Edition:

NameIdentifierForm Translation key
BlockSprite sea-lantern.png: Sprite image for sea-lantern in Minecraft Sea Lanternsea_lanternBlock & Item block.minecraft.sea_lantern

Bedrock Edition:

NameIdentifierAlias ID Numeric ID FormItem ID[i 1] Translation key
BlockSprite sea-lantern.png: Sprite image for sea-lantern in Minecraft Sea Lanternsea_lanternsealantern169Block & Giveable Item[i 2]Identical[i 3] tile.seaLantern.name
  1. ↑ ID of block's direct item form, which is used in savegame files and addons.
  2. ↑ Available with /give command.
  3. ↑ The block's direct item form has the same ID as the block.
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Achievements

IconAchievementIn-game descriptionActual requirements (if different)Gamerscore earnedTrophy type (PS)
PS4Other
MoskstraumenActivate a ConduitPlace a conduit in a valid prismarine/sea lantern structure to activate it.50Gold

Videos

History

Java Edition

Java Edition
1.8May 17, 2014 The first images of the sea lantern are previewed by Jeb on his Instagram page. The texture is different and has a more noticeable animation.
May 29, 2014 Jeb names the new block "sea lantern".
June 11, 2014 Jeb releases the new texture of the new sea lantern.
14w25a Added sea lanterns.
1.1318w09a Sea lanterns now generate in ocean ruins.
18w15a Sea lanterns are now used to activate a conduit.
26.2snap1 Added sulfur cubes, which have the ability to absorb sea lanterns, providing the football/regular effect to the mob.
snap6 Changed effect from football/regular to slow bouncy.

Bedrock Edition

Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.16.0build 1 Added sea lanterns.
Unlike other editions, sea lanterns conduct redstone.
Bedrock Edition
1.4.0beta 1.2.20.1 Sea lanterns now generate in ocean ruins.
1.5.0beta 1.5.0.1 Sea lanterns are now used to activate a conduit.
1.18.30beta 1.18.30.26 Sea lantern's id is changed from sealantern to sea_lantern.
1.21.30Preview 1.21.30.23 Sea lanterns no longer conduct redstone.[2]
26.20
Experiment
Drop 2 of 2026		Preview 26.20.23 Added sulfur cubes, which have the ability to absorb sea lanterns, providing the football/regular effect to the mob.
26.30Preview 26.30.20 Implemented all features from the "Drop 2 of 2026" experiment in vanilla gameplay.
Preview 26.30.27 Sea lanterns' sulfur cube archetype has been changed from regular to slow bouncy.

Legacy Console Edition

Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360Xbox OnePS3PS4PS VitaWii USwitch
TU31CU191.221.221.22Patch 31.0.1 Added sea lanterns.
TU69 1.761.761.76Patch 38 Sea lanterns now generate in ocean ruins.
Sea lanterns are now used to activate a conduit.

New Nintendo 3DS Edition

New Nintendo 3DS Edition
1.3.12 Added sea lanterns.

Data history

Java Edition
1.1317w47a Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 169.

Issues

Issues relating to "Sea Lantern" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Screenshots

In other media

References

  1. ↑ MCPE-179273
  2. ↑ MCPE-79271 – Sea lanterns conducting redstone and not acting like transparent block – resolved as "Fixed".
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