Butters LANTERNS

Your imagination is the weapon.

Wield a power ring, bring your own constructs to life, summon giant equipment and fly beyond the Overworld.

Butters LANTERNS brings Green Lantern inspired powers to Minecraft, with custom creations, physics-powered flight, space exploration and Lantern recruitment encounters.

Build something useful. Create something ridiculous. Find another world to call home.

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Your ideas. Your constructs.

Open The Mind to draw, save and summon your own designs across nine custom construct slots.

Create structures, design weapons or build a rideable construct. Assign supported functions, preview where your creation will appear and bring it into the world.

Finished with a construct? Aim at it and use the dismissal control.

Summon tools on a giant scale

Open the ability wheel and choose Handheld, Large or Giant equipment.

Handheld tools stay in your hand, while larger tools float beside you. Supported oversized mining tools work across 3×3 or 5×5 areas, and oversized bows fire wider, piercing arrows that can strike multiple enemies.

Mining follows normal Minecraft loot rules: eligible blocks produce drops in Survival, while Creative removes blocks without drops.

Take flight. Leave the Overworld behind.

Switch between Hover and Fast flight, then boost, dive and dodge as you explore.

Ready to go further? Open the Galaxy Atlas to discover destinations and travel to planetary and lunar surfaces. Your builds persist, so you can return to the places you make your own.

Discover your Lantern path

Different lights have their own acquisition encounters and bond rules.

Discover recruitment through sleep encounters, pursuing rings and exploration, while character emotions develop behind the scenes.

The available lights currently share a core power system. Hope recruitment is still in development, and Life is currently available through commands.

Visit Oa and meet the Corps

Travel to Oa, meet named NPCs and take on the Aster Vale relief supply assignment.

Gather resources, trade and deliver supplies to complete the current playable assignment. More alien encounters, missions and Corps systems are planned.

Bring Back-Up

Create a Back-Up companion with a captured appearance and memories.

Talk through its menu or in-game chat, and give supported commands to follow, guard or collect real materials.

Dialogue runs locally. No online chatbot service is required.

Requirements and installation

Minecraft 1.20.1 · Forge

1. Install Forge for Minecraft 1.20.1.
2. Download the mod and place its JAR file in your Minecraft instance’s mods folder.
3. Launch the game using your Forge installation.

For multiplayer, install the same mod version on the server and every client.

Getting started

In Survival, discover Lantern recruitment through gameplay.

For an immediate demonstration, enable cheats and run /lantern kit.

Equip your ring in your offhand, then try these default controls:

• Hold X: Open the Equipment and Powers wheel.
• N: Open The Mind and construct workbench.
• V: Dismiss an aimed construct or toggle flight.
• G: Open the Galaxy Atlas.

You can change these bindings in Minecraft’s Controls menu.

Alpha development

Butters LANTERNS is an actively developed alpha. Back up your worlds before updating.

Features are still being developed and refined. Additional alien encounters, missions and Corps systems are planned. The current playable assignment is the Aster Vale relief request.

When reporting a bug, please include:

• Your mod version.
• The steps needed to reproduce the issue.
• Relevant logs or crash reports.

Credits and support

Created by BuDeR.

Space technology incorporates work adapted from Dragon Block Noea, credited to ButterJaffa and its contributors.

Support development on Patreon