More Lantern Corps

How you get a ring

The Green ring works the way it always has: it picks someone and flies in to ask them. The other colours don’t turn up by themselves at first. Each one is tied to an emotion:

• Green is Will
• Yellow is Fear
• Blue is Hope
• Red is Rage

To be sought by a ring you have to wake an Ancient Ruined Battery (see below) while that emotion is your strongest. The ring then flies to you and asks its question. Say yes and it brings its ring and its lantern battery. You can only own one ring at a time.

Once anyone in the world has woken a colour’s battery, that ring is unlocked for everybody. It starts seeking players on its own, like the Green one, so on a server only one person has to do it.

The Emotional Spectrum (press U)

Everything you do earns points towards Fear, Will, Hope and Rage. The menu shows your totals, and your True Affinity is whichever is highest.

• Hope: +100 for Hero of the Village, +40 for clearing a pillager outpost (once each), +50 for every 5 evokers you kill
• Will: +50 when a raid ends and the village is saved, +20 for every obsidian mined, +200 for the Ender Dragon
• Fear: +50 for Bad Omen, +50 for an iron golem, +20 for surviving a fall of more than 24 blocks
• Rage: +5 per villager, +200 for every 100 mobs killed, +50 for the Ender Dragon

Kills made with constructs and abilities count too.

Ancient Ruined Batteries

These are overgrown stone towers standing in a pond. They generate in jungles, deserts and lush caves, but they’re rare. Shipwreck chests have a 30% chance of holding a map to the nearest one, and /locate structure redlantern:ancient_ruined_battery also works. In the middle of each is a cluster of Ancient Battery Cores: grey, dark, unbreakable blocks that look like dead sea lanterns.

Once your True Affinity passes 3000 points, a Create a Spark button appears in the Spectrum menu. Press it inside a battery and:

• A tall beam of your emotion’s colour shoots into the sky
• There’s a 50% chance the battery wakes: the cores glow in your emotion’s colour and keep a beam rising for as long as they stand, and your ring sets out to find you
• The spark burns up your points for that emotion. They go back to 0 whether it worked or not, so you only get one go until you earn them again

A woken battery also charges rings. Wear the matching ring within 24 blocks of its cores and it fills up in about a minute.