Soul Lantern

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The Soul Lantern lets you capture and re-place your tamed livestock and Beast companions. It is useful for moving companions between pens, relocating them to a new base, or packing them up before travel. Unlike a simple spawn item, it stores the animal's saved data so the companion is not reset when placed again.

Crafting

• Crafting station: Animal Husbandry Workbench
• Recipe:
  • 6x Any Wood
  • 2x Void Essence
• Craft time: 3 seconds
• Max stack: 1

How To Use

1. Hold an empty Soul Lantern.
2. Interact with a valid tamed livestock animal or Beast you own to capture it.
3. Move to the new location where you want to place that animal.
4. Use the filled lantern to release it back into the world.

Default Rules

• Works on supported tamed animals: livestock, neutral wildlife, critters, flying companions, and Beasts.
• You can only capture companions that are already tamed.
• Ownership rules apply, so this is intended for your own animals.
• The lantern stores one animal at a time.
• Capture and release range is 5 blocks, so stand fairly close when using it.

Preserved Data

The Soul Lantern preserves the stored animal's metadata instead of turning it into a fresh default copy.

• Names are kept.
• Skins and appearance variants are kept.
• Traits are kept.
• Happiness state is kept.
• Needs state is kept.
• And more...

Ownership Behavior

When an animal is captured, its ownership is cleared while it is stored inside the lantern. When that animal is released again, ownership is assigned to the player who places it.

This makes the Soul Lantern useful for trading companions between players while still preserving the animal's saved data, appearance, and progression.

Companion Panel While Captured

If the animal was already tracked by a command flute, its former owner's panel can keep a read-only Captured card while it is in the lantern. Compatible filled lanterns in that player's inventory can also appear as stored cards.

The card does not grant ownership or command access. A successful release by another player removes the former owner's flute records when that player acquires the animal. Trading the lantern by itself, or attempting a release that fails, leaves the former owner's card in place. Releasing the lantern yourself restores your companion and its command links.

Good Uses

• Move a companion to a new pasture or enclosure.
• Reposition a Beast without walking it across dangerous terrain.
• Pick up companions before rebuilding fences, barns, or habitat layouts.
• Transport valuable breeding stock without leading them one by one.

Related Pages

• Animal Taming Reference
• Beast Taming Reference
• Animal Control Flute
• Combat Beast Flute

[Screenshot Placeholder: Empty Soul Lantern in inventory] [Screenshot Placeholder: Capturing a tamed companion with the Soul Lantern] [Screenshot Placeholder: Releasing a stored companion into a new pen]