Jack-O-Lantern
| Jack-O-Lantern | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Crafted Item |
| Recipe | Spirit's Eve (2,000g) |
| Sell Price | 0g |
The Jack-O-Lantern is a carved, glowing pumpkin that brings the spirit of Fall to the farm. It is mainly a decoration, because it gives off the faintest glow of any craftable light, dimmer even than a plain Torch. Its recipe is sold only once a year, at Pierre's booth during the Spirit's Eve festival. Lanterns left out in the open rot away when Winter arrives, so each one is a seasonal piece. Buying the recipe also matters for Perfection, which asks for every craftable item to be made at least once.
Recipe
The recipe is sold at Spirit's Eve, the festival held in Pelican Town on the evening of the 27th of Fall. Pierre runs a booth in the middle of the town square. Alongside the recipe, he also sells finished Jack-O-Lanterns. The recipe costs about as much as three ready-made lanterns and allows unlimited crafting afterwards, so it is the better buy for anyone planning more than a couple.
Crafting a Pumpkin with a Torch makes one Jack-O-Lantern. Crafting Wood with Sap makes the Torch, so the lantern is cheap once a pumpkin harvest is in.
The festival is a short window, which is why farmers plan the shopping. The town is closed off until ten at night and the farmer is sent home around midnight, so there is a single hour to spend. Pierre's stall shares that hour with the second of the Rarecrows, a collectible scarecrow that only turns up here, so a farmer who wants the lantern recipe and the Rarecrow in one year needs a good deal of gold in the bag before walking in.
These are the ingredients one batch needs.
| Name | Image | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Pumpkin | 
|
1 |
| Torch | 
|
1 |
Use
A placed lantern gives off a soft glow. Its light reaches barely past its own tile. That makes it useless as a working light, but it suits porches, paths and window boxes as autumn decoration.
The lantern has a short life outdoors. On the 1st of Winter, any Jack-O-Lantern still placed out turns into a Rotten Plant. Lanterns kept in a chest or in the backpack survive the change of season and can go back out the next Fall.
A lantern in the Sewing Machine spool comes back out as the Pumpkin Mask, a hat shaped like a carved pumpkin. That is the one use for the item that outlasts the season, since a hat keeps through Winter in the wardrobe.
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) |
| Iron Lamp-post | 
|
Iron Bar (1), Battery Pack (1) | Carpenter's Shop; (1,000g) |
| 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
The town decorates too. From the 17th of Fall, after the Stardew Valley Fair, Jack-O-Lanterns appear outside several homes and shops around Pelican Town, including Robin's Carpenter's Shop and Pam's Trailer.
Since Spirit's Eve falls so late in the season, a lantern bought or crafted at the festival only gets a few days on display before Winter. Packing them into a chest before the night of the 28th keeps the whole set safe for the following year.
The rest of the festival explains the lantern's mood. The Wizard spends the whole day building a haunted maze around the Community Center, and most of the villagers are either inside it or standing at the buffet carving pumpkins of their own. The chest at the end of the maze holds a Golden Pumpkin in the years it appears, which is the only sure way to pick one up.
As a gift, the Jack-O-Lantern is disliked by every villager, so it is better kept for decorating than handed out.
All Crafting
Every entry in this group, with its key details.
