| “ | Lantern of radiance... lantern of deception, more like... | ” |
–in-game dialogue | ||
The Lantern of Radiance is a lantern that produces a small radius of light around the character when worn in the belt slot. The lantern can be purchased from hivers who will claim it protects you from the creatures of the Fog Islands. However, the lantern has no anomalous effects. Ironically if sneaking through the Fog Islands it could cause you to be discovered, leading to combat and maybe death if unprepared.
The lanterns have both charges and quality, but the charges never decrease, and the quality will always stay at 20.
Western Hive Caravan Traders will pester players into purchasing a Lantern of Radiance for c.2,500 while its retail price is c.90. It's likely because of this that there are some dialogues in game complaining about being scammed from Hivers.
Tips[]
- Wearing the Lantern of Radiance will affect your stats in relation to lighting. (Meaning that mining, crafting or shooting at night will give only small debuffs).
- Avoiding detection while sneaking will be more difficult if wearing a Lantern of Radiance at night.
- Most other light sources (i.e. a torch post) are still superior to the Lantern of Radiance in terms of brightness as they completely negate the penalty of working in the dark however they require you to stand by them.
- Lanterns can be placed onto NPCs when they are sleeping to help keep track of them better at night.
- If for whatever reason you wanted to have 200 charges you can sell a lantern to the store, close the shop, and then open it back up and purchase the lantern. It will have full charges.
- Beware if doing this with multiple lanterns at once as they may stack together into less lanterns if the charges are not enough to exceed the 200 charges point. (If you were to sell 2 lanterns, both with 90 charges they would just combine into a single lantern)
- Attacking Hiver Caravans is a great and quick way to get tons of lanterns for large squads as they always spawn with one on their hip.
- You can find a lot of Hiver Caravans around Flat's Lagoon.