Lantern Night



The Lantern Night is a peaceful event that generally occurs the night after a boss or invasion has been defeated for the first time.

During the event, many lanterns can be seen floating up into the sky in the background. During a Lantern Night, the player will have a flat +0.3 increase to their luck stat, and the Party Girl will sell the Release Lantern.

If a boss is summoned during the event, it will stop, and will not continue even after the boss despawns. However, if a Lantern Night is set to start but a boss or event is active when night begins, the Lantern Night may be pushed back instead; see the Notes section below for details.

In addition, a Lantern Night fulfills the requirements for Enchanted Nightcrawlers to spawn naturally if a Meteor Shower is also ongoing, since a Lantern Night will enforce virtually no clouds in the sky. These can be caught for easy bait.



Initiating a Lantern Night

 * Defeat any boss for the first time, with the exceptions of Mourning Wood, Santa-NK1, and Everscream.
 * Defeat any invasion for the first time, with the exceptions of the Frost Moon and Pumpkin Moon.
 * Killing Pumpking or Ice Queen for the first time will start a Lantern Night, however.
 * After defeating the Moon Lord, Lantern Nights may happen randomly.

Tips

 * Because of a significant luck increase, this event is best spent hunting for rare drops in the underground layer or below. (For surface drops, Blood Moon is preferable, as long as you can handle the increased number of enemies.)

NPC Quotes
The Guide may say these two quotes during a Lantern Night:

Trivia

 * This event was teased during the development of 1.4 as "something straight out of ", a Disney film where lanterns are released into the sky to honor the birthday of the character Rapunzel.