Enhanced Hip Lantern
Essential · Essential_Lamp2★A hip-mounted lamp that switches itself on once night falls, with a mode that keeps it lit around the clock instead. One alone is plenty to see your way through the dark.
Nothing is crafted from it — it is an end product, so anything you make is meant to be used rather than banked as a component.
Details
It stacks up to 9,999. It sells for almost nothing, so do not bother hauling it to a shop.
Enhanced Hip Lantern Crafting Recipe
Ingot×30
Wood×30
Flame Organ×30
Ancient Civilization Parts
Ore×60Crafting it takes 100 materials across 4 types.
Where to Find Enhanced Hip Lantern
Enhanced Hip Lantern is not something you find lying around — you craft it, and the recipe is below.
Using Enhanced Hip Lantern Well
The materials are the easy half. The recipe sits on the ancient branch of the Technology tree and opens at level 29, and it is bought with 2 Ancient Technology points rather than the ordinary ones you get for levelling — so it competes directly with the rest of the ancient list for a currency you cannot grind out of the tree itself. Decide where those 2 points go before you hit 29, not after.
Against the plain Hip Lantern — level 15, also 2 Ancient Technology points, and 20 Ingot / 10 Wood / 10 Flame Organ / 5 Ancient Civilization Parts — the upgrade wants three times the Wood and Flame Organ, half again the Ingot, and double the Ancient Civilization Parts. Taking both versions is 4 ancient points and 15 Ancient Civilization Parts across the run. If you are within a few levels of 29 when the level 15 entry unlocks, skipping the base lantern outright is the cheaper line: you keep 2 ancient points and 5 parts and give up only a handful of nights of light.