Wood Lamp-post
| Wood Lamp-post | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Crafted Item |
| Recipe | Carpenter's Shop (500g) |
The Wood Lamp-post is the brightest light a farmer can craft, and it never needs switching on. Robin sells the recipe at the Carpenter's Shop, and each post swallows a heap of Wood plus a Battery Pack, which is what keeps it burning. Its glow reaches about seven tiles, strongest in the few squares nearest the base, so a short row of them lights a whole path home. Braziers can be put out when they are not wanted, but a lamp-post stays lit all night and all day, which makes it the choice for a walkway rather than a mood piece. The Battery Pack is the ingredient that decides when one can be built, since a Lightning Rod has to catch a storm first.
Recipe
Robin sells the recipe at the Carpenter's Shop for 500g, and it is on the shelf from the beginning rather than waiting on a skill level. Crafting a post then takes fifty Wood and one Battery Pack.
Fifty Wood is a serious bite out of a lumber stock early on, though it is nothing once a farm has a few Oak and Maple trees in rotation. The Battery Pack is the part that takes planning. A Lightning Rod catches a bolt during a thunderstorm and turns it into one pack, so a bank of rods on the farm fills the chest over a rainy Summer. A Rain Totem used on a stormy day keeps the weather going into the next, which gives the rods another chance. A Solar Panel produces a pack every week of clear weather instead, with no storms needed at all. Packs also turn up in the Traveling Cart's stock, in Skull Cavern crates, from Iridium Bats and in the post from Pam and Kent once they are friendly.
These are the ingredients one batch needs.
| Name | Image | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Wood | 
|
50 |
| Battery Pack | 
|
1 |
Use
The lamp-post can be carried for light or set down anywhere a farmer likes. It works indoors and out, and it works underground too, so a post dropped on a dark floor of the Mines lights the way back to the ladder.
Light matters most on the farm after dark. Watering, feeding and shipping all carry on after sunset, and the paths between the farmhouse, the coop and the shipping bin are easier to follow when they are lit. A post also makes a tidy marker at a gate, a bridge or the top of a track, since it is visible from a long way off.
Taking one back up is simple. Striking it with a Hoe, a Pickaxe or an Axe knocks it loose, so a lighting plan can be rearranged without losing the posts.
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) |
| 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 |
| Wooden Brazier | 
|
Wood (10), Coal (1), Fiber (5) | Carpenter's Shop (250g) |
Notes
The Iron Lamp-post is the same fitting in metal, and Robin charges 1,000g for that recipe. It needs one Battery Pack as well, but a single Iron Bar instead of the pile of Wood, which makes it the cheaper build for a farm that is short on lumber and long on ore.
Cheaper light has its place alongside the posts. The Wooden Brazier takes Wood, Coal and Fiber and can be toggled on and off, which suits a patio or a fire pit. A plain Torch costs a piece of Wood and some Sap, gives a modest glow and can be stood on a fence post, which is the cheapest way to line a long fence with light.
Battery Packs have competition. Iridium Sprinklers, Crystalariums, Mini-Jukeboxes and Farm Computers all want one, and the Engineer's Bundle asks for a pack too, so a lamp-post lit purely for decoration is a real expense until the Lightning Rods are producing faster than the recipes can drink them.
All Crafting
Every entry in this group, with its key details.
