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Lamp is a handheld oil light in Windrose. It is the primary light source for indoor exploration: caves, cellars, ancient ruin interiors, and the inside of large pirate camps. Without one, dark interiors hide chests, lever-and-button puzzles, and the difference between an Old Skeleton and a Drowned that is about to bite.

How To Get a Lamp

The first Lamp does not need to be crafted. It is the guaranteed drop from the Decrepit Chest at Pirate Remains, a hand-placed point of interest on the eastern beach of the starting island. Looting the chest also gives a Blurry Sketch quest item that triggers Fifteen Men on a Dead Man's Chest, and it teaches the Lamp recipe at the same time.

Crafting Recipe

The recipe unlocks the moment the Decrepit Chest at Pirate Remains is opened. If a Lamp is lost or destroyed, craft a replacement with the same recipe at any Level 1 Workbench.

Refilling the Lamp

A Lamp shows a fuel bar on the right side of its inventory icon. When the bar empties, the Lamp stops emitting light until it is refilled at a Workbench.

Refill Recipe

Animal Fat drops reliably from Boars and Sows on the starting island and most Coastal Jungle islands. Both wildlife types are common around the bonfire and inland clearings, so a single hunting loop usually banks 6 to 9 Animal Fat, enough for two to three full Lamp refills.

Practical Use

• Caves: the Jungle Cave interiors and the central Copper Deposit cave on the starting island are dark enough that a Lamp is mandatory for spotting waste-rock walls and the Smugglers' Cache off-shoots.

• Ancient Ruin cellars: the cellars under Ancient Ruins branch into multiple chambers. A Lamp is required to see the chest in the back room without leading with a torch.

• Trial Circle Ruins: spike traps and the rope-only entrance both punish blind movement. A Lamp on belt plus a few Torches placed at the climb-down keep the route legible on a return trip.

• Sailor camps at night: dark tent interiors hide quest items like Marcel Boucher's diary pages and Damaged Flask in the Buccaneer site cluster.

Lamp vs Torch

A Lamp is a held item that follows the player; a Torch is a placed building piece. Use a Torch to permanently mark a junction (a cave fork, the entrance of a cleared ruin) and use a Lamp to actually move through unfamiliar rooms. Torches do not consume a fuel resource after placement; Lamps do.

Common Mistakes

• Letting the fuel run to zero in the middle of a cave clear. Always keep at least 3 Animal Fat in inventory before going underground.

• Trying to refill in the field. The refill action is only available at a Workbench, in the Refill / Repair sub-menu. There is no field-refill option from the inventory screen.

• Carrying two Lamps. Only one Lamp can be active at a time, and a second Lamp does not stack into the same slot. A spare Lamp slot is wasted inventory; carry the spare Animal Fat instead.

See Also

• Pirate Remains

• Animal Fat

• Workbench

• Torch

• Fifteen Men on a Dead Man's Chest