Greetings.
I am a man in a suit who has fallen into the world of Minecraft.
At the river port I built in Episode 92, warm lanterns light the way from the foot of the wooden bridge to the landing.
I leave those lights in place and make room for copper lanterns on stone pedestals.
What will the port look like from a boat with a little green in the mix?
Making Copper Lanterns for the Port
I make charcoal in the fuel workshop’s furnace, then go over to the crafting table.
A copper nugget, charcoal, and a stick in a vertical line give me four copper torches.
Each lantern needs one of those green torches.
I put a copper torch in the middle and surround it with eight copper nuggets. That makes one copper lantern.
I make four in all: three for the path and one for the landing.
Copper lanterns arrived in Minecraft Java Edition 1.21.9, The Copper Age.
The crafting grid here shows the recipes I use in Java Edition 1.21.11.
I set three copper lanterns on stone pedestals along the path at night.
One by one, green flames join the warm lights already there.
I know this path well, but it feels a little different tonight.
Flying to the Apiary for Honeycomb
I want to see the copper change color and keep a few of the shades I like along the way.
I take off with my elytra for the forest apiary I built in Episode 60.
The trees come into view below me as I glide.
There’s the bee nest on its tree, with the hopper and collection chest underneath.
I go straight to the chest to see what’s waiting inside.
There are 15 pieces of honeycomb in the chest.
I take what’s there. That’s plenty for a bit of waxing.
Keeping the Copper Colors and Finding the Landing at Dusk
At the river port, I put the fourth lantern at the edge of the landing and wax it while the copper is still a warm reddish orange.
Orange particles scatter around it. This is the light I want to spot first from the boat, so I keep its freshly placed look.
The lantern by the bridge is at the exposed stage. Green is just starting to show through the red.
I wax this one, too. It’s nice having that in-between shade close to the brighter copper at the landing.
Another lantern is now weathered, with more green showing on its body.
The one I just waxed at the landing is still reddish in the distance. From here, the difference is easy to see.
I leave the weathered one for now to see how it changes.
Farther along the path, another lantern has gone all the way to the blue-green oxidized stage.
I like that shade, but I’d also like to keep one lantern at the weathered stage, with patches of green. I get my axe out to take this one back a stage.
I crouch beside the lantern and use the axe.
A little burst of blue-green particles flies off, and the metal changes shade.
From the same spot, I can see it’s gone back one stage, from oxidized to weathered, with green patches on the frame.
The flame is still green.
I use a piece of honeycomb to keep this shade.
Same lantern, same pedestal, and now the color will stay where I want it.
The riverside lantern I left alone has now gone blue-green.
It’s still unwaxed in this picture. I like this shade, so I use honeycomb after taking a look.
Starting at the landing, the order is unoxidized, oxidized, weathered, and exposed. All four are waxed.
I can pick out three body colors from here. The exposed lantern by the bridge is out of frame.
Every copper flame is green, but in daylight I can see how different the metal looks.
At dusk, I take a boat out into the port’s bay and turn back toward the landing.
Part of the bridge comes into view on the left. Next to the warm lights, I spot a little green flame.
There’s the way up. That lantern I placed earlier makes a handy marker from the water.
I bring the boat in and step onto the stone stairs. Behind me are the new green flame and the warm lights that were here before.
On foot, I look at the different shades of copper. Coming in by boat, I look for that little green light.
Funny how much depends on where you’re standing, or sitting.
That is all for this time.
Greetings.