Lantern Consumption

[Raldavar]

My lanterns are being consumed as soon as they are made. As far as I am aware, only cathedrals and deep mines uses them. All of those buildings are turned off yet lanterns keep disappearing from my inventory.

Are there any other buildings that consume lanterns?

[PK_Ultra]

people

[Raldavar]

Is there anyway to stop citizens from consuming lanterns?

[tripodalt]

yes in the main panel where you see all the graph their is a tab where you can deny cityzen access to food and i guess items too

[Raldavar]

I've tried that tab but the option to ban lantern usage isn't available.

[Elzjexx]

a cathedral consumes lanterns!

[tripodalt]

it will better to have a tag consumable on unintuitive items

[Raldavar]

So basically there's nothing you can do to stop citizens from consuming lanterns. Is there even a benefit to them using lanterns? Does it boost their health or happiness?

For those that didn't read the original post turning off cathedrals doesn't prevent lanterns from being consumed by people.

[tripodalt]

its obivious all good consumtion give bonus and seem than using it for industry is permanant single spent

[s_walt]

Do you have any mosques? Mosques also consume lanterns same as cathedrals. Out of curiosity I just ran an experiment and turned off lantern consumption in my 8 cathedrals and mosques. i also turned off my 3 lighting factories producing lanterns. So basically nothing producing or consuming lanterns. Running at X10 speed for a minute or 2 there was a small fluctuation up and down. I assume this was from residual effects of transport and such. After a few minutes of monitoring my lantern stock, the stock stabilized at 316 lanterns and did not increase or decrease. I also adjusted the priority usage form 1 to 9 in the stock management screen giving a few minutes to have an effect. There was no change in my lantern inventory. I would think with a population of 1200 that if citizens were consuming lanterns I should have seen a drop in lanterns. I did not. Back to the test to let it run for 15 minutes.

[Raldavar]

How did your test go? By this point I don't know why the devs don't change cathedrals and Mosques to use lamp oil instead.

[s_walt]

I ran the test for 15 minutes and my lantern supply never changed. Not 1 single lantern was added or removed from stock.

[tripodalt]

is that mean every cityzen requiert a single lantern in their life?
and about the oil stock did they consume it ?

[n8mac]

I have this same problem and its ruining my city. I have many senior mines, most have run out so I stopped all but the last one mining iron. I went to upgrade them to deep mines and I cannot because I can never get 120 lanterns. So I made a ton of lighting factories to the point of running out of fat to make oil. I am now buying mass quantities of fat to make oil then lanterns. As soon as I make lanterns they disappear and i can never get 120 of them at once. I have 300+ population and Im running out of coal for heat. I think this is a bug as my pop should not be consuming this many lanterns. This sux.

[Baton]

Each church/mosque will consume lanterns to increase the faith bonus it provides . You can actually toggle the consumption on and off when you click on the building. When you hover over it will explain how many lanterns does it cost - 40 lanterns per month.

I have population of around 2100 and 8 churches
40 x 12 = 480 per year per building
8 x 480 = 3840 per year

my production is at 3600-ish and i can see the hapiness fluctuate when churches run out of lanterns.

The production tab is not going to reflect the consumption, i presume it's because its NOT the people who consume lanterns but the building itself.

[n8mac]

ok thanks, will look into it.