Dr. Lantern is a 7.25 tall, slender figure covered with a very dark leather trenchcoat with a blazing giant red necktie, tucked in with high-waist similar-colored pants with muddy boots. In his right hand, he holds a glooming lamp only visible in the first phase, and a menacing throat-cutting long surgical Liston knife on his left hand.

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This boss is based fully on the legendary serial killer, Jack the Ripper.

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His appearance was based on the mixed evidences provided by his victims.

• Dark, Wide-Brimmed Hat (Fedora): In the night of the Double Event (September 30, 1888) and a witness named Israel Schwartz, explicitly stated that he saw a man attacking Elizabeth Stride in Gateway/Dutfield's Yard. In his official police report, he pinpointed that the attacker was wearing a "wide-brimmed, black felt hat

• The Long Red Tie: When evaluating the primary suspects in Macnaghten's famous 1894 memorandum, Macnaghten characterized the killer as belonging to the lower classes based on the eyewitness descriptions provided by the local residents of Whitechapel.

• Salt and Pepper Texture: At around 1:35 AM on September 30, 1888—just ten minutes before Catherine Eddowes’ body was discovered mutilated in Mitre Square—Lawende walked out of a club with his friends. As he walked down the street, he spotted a man and a woman talking in the shadows. When police later interviewed him, Lawende gave a highly detailed description of the man, explicitly stating that he was wearing a loose fitting "pepper-and-salt colored jacket" (or tweed coat), a grey cloth peaked cap, and a red handkerchief tied around his neck.

• Dark, High Waisted Trousers: At around 11:45 PM on August 31, 1888—just a few hours before Mary Ann Nichols became the very first canonical victim—Marshall spotted a man talking to her on Hanbury Street. In his official police testimony, Marshall noted that the suspect looked like a clerk, wasn't wearing a jacket, and had on distinct dark, high-waisted trousers typical of a working-class or lower-middle-class man of that era.

• The Muddy Boots: While it was Thomas Cutbush’s mother and aunt who originally noticed him constantly returning home in the early morning covered in filth, it was Macnaghten who formally recorded it in the official Scotland Yard case files. In his documentation, he explicitly pinpointed that Cutbush "rambled about at night" and would frequently return to his house with mud-splattered and occasionally blood-stained clothing and boots.

• The Lamp: Referenced to the 1888 foggy streets, covered with yellow smog; the only visible light sources are the Victorian Street Lamps.

• The Liston Knife: Specifically, Dr. George Bagster Phillips (the division surgeon who examined Annie Chapman and Mary Jane Kelly) and Dr. Thomas Bond noted that the deep, clean incisions and the precise removal of organs showed a high degree of anatomical knowledge. They concluded that the weapon had to be a strong, heavy, extremely sharp blade about 6 to 8 inches long—which perfectly matches the exact technical dimensions of a Victorian Liston amputating knife.

 

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IN-GAME GENERAL:

Health Points: 500 — 1,000 (1.5k across all phases)

Mob Type/Family: Monster, Boss

On Contact: Ghost-like, large hitbox, not pushable.

• Can destroy any surrounding blocks at passive.

Entity Name: Dr. Lantern / Doctor Lantern

Based Name: Jack the Ripper

 

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Sound Effects:

DIALOGUES: [His voice is deep, aggressive, and humanly inaudible coming behind his thick leather trenchcoat.]

 

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• Idle Dialogues:

1."A lovely night for a walk in my home..."

2."No one ever looks up in the fog."

3."Where have all the good citizens gone?"

4."(*An aggressive humm*)"

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• Spot Dialogues:

1."RUN BOY."

2."I'll fix your limp."

3."OH, HELLO!"

4."*Chuckle*"

5."I'll help you. *chuckle*"

6."Another quick buck."

7."Lost in the fog? Hah, me too!"

8."KEEP RUNNING."

9."I'LL WRAP YOU AROUND MY COAT!"

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• Attack Dialogues:

1."DEAR BOSS!"

2."MWA-HA-HA-HA!!!"

3."ARE YOU LOST?"

4."*ferocious growl 1*"

5."*ferocious growl 2*"

6."*humanly growl 1*"

7."POOR GUY!"

8."I'll give you my lamp."

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All attacks have custom audio.

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Spawn and death animation have custom audio.

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Walking animation and hurt hit have custom audio.

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He has two custom OSTs made by me, purely original.

https://youtu.be/FzlQf2lHlgI?si=-FjGBmf80VFhKAQN

[I'll Catch My Prey by @sxllet on Youtube] — His Phase 1 Classical Chase Music

• Plays and starts immediately on spawn animation.

https://youtu.be/xYUm8-rmtXg?si=-AqXUq2n_BiCNBCw

[Lantern'88 by @sxllet on Youtube] — His Phase 2 Aggressive Rock 'n Violin Music

 

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ATTACKS:

Attack Damage Range:

• For Players: 11-34(+multiplier for phase 2) Physical Damage

• For Mobs (AOE): 34+ (the nearer the proximity, damage stacks up)

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Attacks the following mobs:

• Player

• Entities that damage it.

 

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[•] ATTACK TYPES:

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Attack 1: Flurry Thrust

Doctor Lantern freezes to charge his energy for several tense seconds before launching into a sudden, powerful forward leap toward his target with his left arm thrust forward. During this lunging motion, multiple cloud flurries of rapid-fire slashes erupt around his body to deal heavy, repeated multi-hit damage to anyone caught in his path. After the momentum carries him forward, he maintains his aggressive thrusting posture for a few moments before executing a slow, deliberate recovery back into his default stance.

Attack 2: Ghost Flashstep Flick

Embodying pure deception, Doctor Lantern calmly flash-steps toward the player while hiding his right arm beneath his coat and masking his Liston knife completely behind his back to catch targets off guard. The moment he executes a second rapid flash-step, he flicks the blade forward in a blinding instant, generating an explosive force that aggressively launches all nearby entities massive horizontal distances away. Once the strike connects, he smoothly cuts the momentum and resets into a calm, collective posture.

Attack 3: Tornado Combo

Doctor Lantern delivers an elegant, swift slash from right to left, immediately reversing his momentum from the downward position to throw a vicious upward-diagonal strike that launches targets so high into the air they almost touch the clouds. Just before the second strike concludes, he flash-steps forward to execute a rapid 360-degree spin pivoting his entire body, followed instantly by a reverse 360-degree spin backward. Both of these consecutive spins unleash a massive, high-damage area-of-effect cloud flurry that completely shreds surrounding entities before he slowly and aggressively recovers from his stance.

Attack 4: Aggressive Double-Slash

Designed to catch players completely off guard, Doctor Lantern pivots low to the left at extreme speed and violently unleashes a sharp, upward-curving slash from left to right. Without a single frame of hesitation, he immediately channels the momentum from the end of that curve to follow up with a brutal, rapid cross-cut from right to left. He completes the quick sequence by breaking out of the combat animation with a sharp, highly aggressive recovery frame.

Attack 5: The Golden Flurry

Doctor Lantern drops into a low, terrifying crouch to pivot his entire body before sweeping his left arm up in a sharp curve and aggressively pulling back to unleash his ultimate move. He erupts into a hyper-fast, chaotic storm of luminous golden cloud slashes that deals massive, heavily buffed multi-hit damage across a devastating 8-block radius for nearly 3 seconds. He elegantly concludes this relentless blender sequence with a final top-to-bottom downward arc of his blade before slowly standing back up to his full, imposing height.

 

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Additional Information:

— Unlike The Black Baron, he doesn't destroy blocks around him — instead, he unleashes invisible shockwaves.

— His phase 2 transformation includes him throwing his lantern upwards, creating an ear defeaning explosion, completely flooding the entire forest with the infamous dark thick smog.

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Phase Information:

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Phase 1:

• Soundtrack that plays: "I'll Catch My Prey"

• Activates the ability, Lunar Darkness.

• HP: 500

Phase 2:

• Soundtrack that plays: "Lantern '88"

• Activates all inactive abilities.

• Heals fully back and HP becomes 1,000.

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Abilities:

— Ghost Camoflauge: Upon hitting phase 2, he becomes permanently transparent. In this state, he can only be damaged only and strictly up in the head.

— Explosion Buff: Upon triggering the lantern explosion transition at Phase 2, he gains permanent status effects. He gains speed, strength, and resistance.

— Dark Runway: Upon phase 2, a massive, ginormous fog around him appears, completely covering a wide 96-block radius of blocks, covered with dark imposing particles of black clouds.

— Lunar Darkness: Upon spawning at phase 1, the time is forced to be set at night time, the moon can be repeatedly seen spinning around in its position in the sky. Beds have no effect, or even commands.

— Super Lunar Darkness: Upon triggering phase 2, the time is forced to be set at midnight this time, the moon can still be repeatedly seen spinning around in its position in the sky. Beds also have no effect, or even commands.

 

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Spawning:

Dr. Lantern's lantern can only be found at the terrifying Pale Garden.

— The floating lantern has an approximate 1.4% chance to appear glowing in the darkness during any nighttime monster spawn cycle.

— Right click the lantern and you will summon him via interaction.

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All of the References and Symbolism:

• His appearance: Built by and based on the mixed and combined witnesses' evidences.

• His glowing red eyes: Blood-thirst and malice.

• Phase 2 Lantern explosion: Highlights the chaos and abrupt noticeable change he did in London, where he introduced himself initially as Jack the Ripper.

• His Lantern: The iconic victorian street lamp poles, the only things illuminating the dark alleyways and streets of London.

• His voice line "Dear Boss!": Showcases the infamous letter he gave mocking the officials and authorities, starting the letter with Dear Boss, in which iconically cementing history with the sign at the end of the letter.

• Dark massive fog: The incredibly dense fog engulfing the streets of London at night time.

• Orange-golden to dark explosions: Simple — spookiness and the dark fog alleyway of London, the yellow mists.

• Infinite Night/Midnight: Showcases the time of Jack did the killings ranging from late-night to early morning hours. Showcases the terror and genuinely terrifying presence of his too.

• Camoflauge and translucent appearance: His ghostly figure mimics early folklore (where his name was based from), specifically Spring-heeled Jack, a folkloric character in British lore.

• His elegance and gentlemanic aggressiveness (seen from animations): Based on the main Hollywood misinterpretation, showcasing how Jack the Ripper can get twisted for entertainment. It includes mainly the iconic mistaken interpretations, but I rather turned it as "part" of his identity.