The lanterns are not well implemented to begin with. They look nice but cast almost no usable light. The exclusion from placing them on surfaces is arbitrary and makes no sense. They don't render until you are very close to them so they fail as beacons. Their use as hand lanterns is almost nil given how late in the game they become available. If they were belt lanterns they might almost be usable but wisplights are better anyway. They need to be improved all-around other than appearance.

They are AFAIK the first craftable hardware component of other recipes so maybe we could make chain too? Pretty please?

The discussion of chains seems beside the point. No, they are not easy to obtain and even if you disagree, the Dvergr themselves frequently place them on tables or other surfaces. We should be able to do that as well. The horizontal stand mechanic is well defined, just add the lanterns to the list of displayables. I'm not interested in workarounds. There is no good reason for this exclusion that I can see.

Devs! Please include this in the next minor patch! Thanks.

Chain is a pain in the ass to farm and requires a fix. That's it.

"by mistlands you really shouldn't have any shortage or trouble getting chain but it would be nice to put them on a table etc."

What am I missing? Chain only comes from swamp crypts and dead wraiths. Both with low productivity. Is there a source in the Mistlands?

Chains are a limited-use resource that is guaranteed to drop and they are pretty easy to hunt in swamps during night – higher level creatures like fulings or seekers won't spawn in swamps during the night (according to wiki). They can also be found in crypts as loot.

Originally posted by Malnaur:

"by mistlands you really shouldn't have any shortage or trouble getting chain but it would be nice to put them on a table etc."

What am I missing? Chain only comes from swamp crypts and dead wraiths. Both with low productivity. Is there a source in the Mistlands?

there IS a source in the mistlands. and its a 100% drop too. but its not common. these dvergr cranes you can sometimes find. if you destroy these theyll drop a chain aswell.

and tbh these lanterns provide too little light currently compared to other infintie sources. not worth useing imo aside for decoration. for which you can just make the wall and post ones.

if you wanna use a display just put a dvergr circlet on it. way better light source and available earlier. coins are useless at lategame anyway.

You don't need many of them is the key, and you need like 10k units of iron, so by this time, I guess I was mostly assuming you had found and stashed enough. But yes, the ML drops them here and there, though faster and easier to zip through a swamp at night and get 3 or so once in a while. If you plan to make hundreds of the new lamp posts, that could be a little annoying.

you can just drop them at a spot. its a bit of a pain to do that because if not careful you pick it back up unwanted sometimes, but if its out of your way like the far corner of a big table, it kinda works.
I did not try it but it may also count as offhand on an armor rack (?) if you want to try that.

by mistlands you really shouldn't have any shortage or trouble getting chain but it would be nice to put them on a table etc.