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?