Large Paper Lantern

WorldObject

A large paper lantern.

Notes

A Large Paper Lantern is a placed light source that provides a housing value of 4 when placed outdoors. It belongs to the Lights furniture category, where each additional lantern in a room contributes only 40% of the previous one's value, so spreading lanterns across different rooms is more efficient than clustering them. As an easy early-game housing object, consider placing one outdoors to boost your housing score where lighting is needed.

Notes are AI-generated and may be imprecise.

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Talents

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Ingredients

Ingredients for this recipe

Ingredient	Qty	Type
Paper	20	item
Cotton Fabric	8	item
Light Bulb	1	item

Byproducts (garbage)

Garbage byproducts of this recipe

Material	Qty / craft
Textiles	0.13
Glass Scrap	0.08
Copper Scrap	0.04

Crafting waste collects in the station's garbage output and must be hauled away or recycled — see the Garbage & Recycling guide.

Crafting

Crafting stats

Labor	60 calories
Craft time	1 min
Throughput	≈ 60 Large Paper Lantern / hour (base)

As a placed object

Each extra copy of this furniture type in the same room counts for less housing value than the one before.

Recycling & waste

• 1× Bio Residue
• 1× Textiles
• 0.5× Copper Scrap
• 0.5× Glass Scrap

The same salvage value leaks out as garbage when this item is consumed in crafting.

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Total raw to craft this

Recompute for my setup

• 80× Natural Fiber (any)
• 64× Cotton Boll
• 20× Limestone
• 16.03× Silica (any)
• 8.75× Copper Ore
• 7.83× Crushed Limestone
• 3.14× Clay
• 2.33× Wood (any)
• 1.25× Iron Ore

Approximate — category ingredients and any production cycles are counted as raw.

Categories

• Can Be On Surface
• Housing
• Housing Objects
• On Off
• Outdoor
• Product
• Usable
• World Object

Obtained from

• Large Paper Lantern

See also

Ashlar Large Basalt FountainAshlar Large Gneiss FountainAshlar Large Granite FountainAshlar Large Limestone FountainAshlar Large Sandstone FountainAshlar Large Shale Fountain

A giant paper lantern casts a warm, inviting glow over the settlement's outskirts.