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HipLantern

by shudnal · for Valheim

Craftable little lantern on your hip to cast away the darkness

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About HipLantern

From Thunderstore

Craftable little lantern on your hip to cast away the darkness

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HipLantern

Craft a little lantern and place it on your hip to cast away the darkness.

If you like darker nights you can also check CircletExtended and Firefly mods.

Must be installed on server in multiplayer. Configuration is synchronized with Conditional Config Sync.

EpicLoot integration supports both legacy releases and EpicLoot 0.13 or later.

Features

You can change some item and light properties:

  • crafting station and recipe
  • fuel usage and refuel recipe
  • light color
  • light intensity, range and shadows strength (indoors and outdoors)
  • lantern hip position and rotation
  • equip duration
  • AzuEPI custom slot support
  • lantern can be enchanted with EpicLoot or socketed with Jewelcrafting (disabled by default)

Item recipe is confurable: SurtlingCore x3, BronzeNails x10, FineWood x4.

Refuel recipe is configurable: SurtlingCore x1.

The Lantern takes its own equipment slot. That slot ID is configurable to avoid potential incompatibilities. You can also configure it to use the standard Utility item type. Utility mode is compatible with EquipmentAndQuickSlots 3.x, including its additional Utility slots.

The goal of the mod is to make fighting easier at dungeons or at night. Default light intensity is only good to barely see your enemy up close.

It serves the same purpose as the Hand Lantern in Bloodborne and Elden ring.

Lantern can be placed an item stands to provide light. At the night it will lure insects to create cozy effect.

Heat sound

The continuous heat sound plays only while an equipped lantern's heat mode is active. The Heat / Enable heat sound option is enabled by default. Heat sound volume and Heat sound pitch both default to 0.5; the allowed ranges are 0 to 1 for volume and 0.1 to 3 for pitch.

Switch sound volume controls the one-shot light/heat toggle sounds and defaults to 0.5. Toggle sounds are positional world sounds and are emitted once per actual lantern toggle. Switch effects are local audio instances synchronized by HipLantern, preventing the vanilla effect prefabs from being network-replicated a second time.

Changes apply without restarting or re-equipping the lantern; adjusting volume or pitch does not restart the playing loop. Disabling the sound does not change the heat aura, fuel consumption, or the separate Emit sound effects on switch setting. These settings use ConditionalConfigSync, so server policy determines whether clients control their own values. The heat loop is positional, fades with distance from other players, and follows the local client's Master and SFX volume settings.

Fuel and crafting presets

  • Default settings - craft at forge, refuel(recraft) at hands, can't be repaired
  • To make lantern repairable - clear Refuel recipe (if refuel crafting station is set - it will be used as repair station)
  • Crafting station minimum level is also level required for repair (vanilla behaviour)
  • To make fuel infinite - set Fuel minutes to 0
  • Fuel is set in minutes to better displayed in tooltip
  • All crafting and item settings is applied on the fly

Installation (manual)

Install Conditional Config Sync, then extract the HipLantern folder to your BepInEx\Plugins\ folder.

Configurating

The best way to handle configs is Configuration Manager.

Or Official BepInEx Configuration Manager.

Dependencies

Install ConditionalConfigSync as a separate dependency; do not copy its DLLs into this mod's package.

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Highlights

From source data

Loaders

Runs on BepInEx.

Footprint

Rated a light load on a server.

Dependencies

Needs 3 other projects installed alongside it.

HipLantern on Nxeon

From our catalogue
One-click install
Supported on Nxeon Valheim servers, for BepInEx servers. We download it from Thunderstore, place it, and restart the server.
Server side
Optional on the server
Server type needed
BepInEx
Server load
light
Smallest plan we suggest
Valheim — 4 GB (4 GB RAM). This follows our own load rating above, not a benchmark.
Latest build
1.1.14, released 2026-10-15

Game versions by loader

LoaderGame versionsNewest
BepInEx

From 27 recorded builds of HipLantern.

Recent builds

BuildReleasedGame versionsLoaders
1.1.142026-10-15n/aBepInEx
1.1.132026-10-08n/aBepInEx
1.1.122026-09-21n/aBepInEx
1.1.112026-09-21n/aBepInEx
1.1.102026-09-21n/aBepInEx
1.1.92026-09-18n/aBepInEx

Dependencies

Declared by the newest build that lists any. Required ones are installed with it on one-click installs.

Run HipLantern on a Valheim server

Pick a server or deploy a new one above; it is installed in one click.

What kind of mod it is

From the catalog
Listed on Thunderstore as “Content”

Gameplay & overhauls

New mechanics, content and overhauls that change how the game plays.

Works on a server

From source side support

Thunderstore lists server-side support for HipLantern as optional: it can run on a server, but isn’t required there.

Compatibility

Game
Valheim
Loaders
BepInEx
Runs on
Serveroptional on the server
Requires
One-click install needs a BepInEx server. 3 other projects installed alongside it.

Verified at the source

  • ✓ThunderstoreOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-15Open ↗
  • ✓Authorshudnal, as published on Thunderstore
  • ✓LicenseNot published by the sourceFree

HipLantern, answered

Generated from the mod’s own source data.

Do my players need to install HipLantern?

Thunderstore lists server-side support for HipLantern as optional: it can run on a server, but isn’t required there.

Which loaders does it support?

BepInEx.

Is it free?

Yes. HipLantern is free to download from Thunderstore.

How do I add it to my Nxeon server?

Use “Add to a server” on this page, or open NxLabs from your dashboard. We install it, restart your server and switch it on.

NxLabs

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