Iron Lamp-post
| Iron Lamp-post | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Crafted Item |
| Recipe | Carpenter's Shop; (1,000g) |
The Iron Lamp-post is a tall electric street lamp for the farm. Along with the Wood Lamp-post, it gives the strongest light a farmer can craft, and it casts a much wider pool of light than a Torch. The recipe is bought from Robin at the Carpenter's Shop rather than learned through a skill. Every lamp-post needs a Battery Pack, which makes it a mid-game decoration more than an early one. It suits paths, yards and the area around the farmhouse, where a strong steady light makes the farm feel lived-in after dark.
Recipe
Robin sells the recipe at the Carpenter's Shop, alongside her brazier recipes and the Wood Lamp-post.
Crafting an Iron Bar with a Battery Pack makes one Iron Lamp-post. Smelting Iron Ore with Coal in a Furnace gives the bar. The Battery Pack is the bottleneck. A Lightning Rod catches one when a thunderstorm strikes it, and a Solar Panel fills one after a week of sunny days. Saving packs from the stormy days of Spring and Summer builds up enough for a row of lamps.
The Wood Lamp-post is its twin. Robin sells that recipe too, for less gold, and it swaps the Iron Bar for a stack of Wood. Both give the same light, so the choice comes down to looks and which material is easier to spare.
These are the ingredients one batch needs.
| Name | Image | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Iron Bar | 
|
1 |
| Battery Pack | 
|
1 |
Use
A placed lamp-post lights up a broad area around it at night. It is far brighter than a Torch, and it gives a stronger glow than the braziers, which offer a softer, more decorative light.
The lamp-post fits anywhere a farmer wants steady light. Lining the main paths with a few of them makes night-time chores easier to see. A pair beside the farmhouse door or the barn turns those spots into well-lit landmarks.
Robin's other lights are worth weighing against it. Her brazier recipes start cheap, with a wooden one costing a fraction of the lamp-post recipe and asking only for Wood, Coal and Fiber. The ladder climbs through stone, barrel, stump and gold designs to a carved one, a skull one built from Bone Fragments and a marble one that wants Marble, an Aquamarine and a heap of Stone. The braziers are the decorative end of the range, and a click turns each one off, so a farmer who wants a dark yard for a party has that option. The lamp-posts stay lit and simply do their job.
Variants
The other lights in the game, with what each one takes and where the recipe comes from.
| Name | Image | Ingredients | Recipe |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barrel Brazier | 
|
Wood (50), Solar Essence (1), Coal (1) | Carpenter's Shop (800g) |
| Campfire | 
|
Stone (10), Wood (10), Fiber (10) | Starter |
| Carved Brazier | 
|
Hardwood (10), Coal (1) | Carpenter's Shop; (2,000g) |
| Gold Brazier | 
|
Gold Bar (1), Coal (1), Fiber (5) | Carpenter's Shop; (1,000g) |
| Jack-O-Lantern | 
|
Pumpkin (1), Torch (1) | Spirit's Eve (2,000g) |
| Marble Brazier | 
|
Marble (1), Aquamarine (1), Stone (100) | Carpenter's Shop; (5,000g) |
| Skull Brazier | 
|
Bone Fragment (10) | Carpenter's Shop; (3,000g) |
| Stone Brazier | 
|
Stone (10), Coal (1), Fiber (5) | Carpenter's Shop (400g) |
| Stump Brazier | 
|
Hardwood (5), Coal (1) | Carpenter's Shop (800g) |
| Torch | 
|
Wood (1), Sap (2) | Starter |
| Wood Lamp-post | 
|
Wood (50), Battery Pack (1) | Carpenter's Shop (500g) |
| Wooden Brazier | 
|
Wood (10), Coal (1), Fiber (5) | Carpenter's Shop (250g) |
Notes
Battery Packs have many other uses, so it is worth deciding where lamps matter most before crafting them. Iridium Sprinklers, Crystalariums and the Slime Egg-Press all compete for the same packs. A farm with a strong Lightning Rod setup can afford lamps freely, while a newer farm may want to save its packs for sprinklers first.
The order of a farm's build-out usually settles the question on its own. Lightning Rods go up for the storms, the first packs go into sprinklers that save a watering can every morning, and the lamps come once the fields run themselves. By then a farm that has kept a row of rods through two stormy seasons has packs to spare, and a lit path from the farmhouse to the barn costs nothing it needs elsewhere.
All Crafting
Every entry in this group, with its key details.
