TheWoWDBHanging Paper Lanterns
Accents · Ornamental
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Description
Hanging Paper Lanterns is a huge piece from Mists of Pandaria in the Accents catalog, under Ornamental. Its catalog tags give it Pandaren culture and a Lavish, Alliance and Horde style. The color filter lists it under red and orange. At its default scale the model covers about 1.9 by 2.6 yards and stands 16.5 yards tall.
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How to Get Hanging Paper Lanterns
In our data, Hanging Paper Lanterns is crafted by a recipe.
Sources come from the game files (collection vendor rows, quest and achievement rewards, journal loot, recipes, RenownRewards and HouseLevelRewardInfo text) and Blizzard's quest API. Auction House figures are the lowest listed price on each US connected realm in our latest scan, not sale prices.
How to Obtain
Hanging Paper Lanterns has 1 source in the game data: recipes.
Craft or Buy Hanging Paper Lanterns
Hanging Paper Lanterns (Pandaria Inscription, skill 1) makes Hanging Paper Lanterns from 3 reagents. Not every reagent has a current listing, so no total is given.
| Reagent | Quantity | Lowest listed price | Subtotal |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bamboo Lumber | 7 | no listing | |
| Starlight Ink | 4 | 20 gold | 80 gold |
| Bolt of Windwool Cloth | 2 | 93 silver | 1 gold86 silver |
Reagent prices are the lowest listed commodity price in our latest US scan; the decor’s own price is the lowest listing on one connected realm. Reagents and quantities come from the recipe spell in the game files.
First seen in build 12.1.0.69497 (August 25, 2026).
In the Decor Catalog
Tags are the in-game Decor Catalog filters, read from the game files (DataTagXHouseDecorRecord, named by DataTagInfo and DataTagGroup). Model size is the bounding box of the game model, in yards, at the decor’s default scale.
Placing Hanging Paper Lanterns
Placing Hanging Paper Lanterns spends 5 of your yard decor budget. That budget is a pool of weight points, not a piece count, and it grows with the house: at house level 7 its 350 points hold 70 of this piece.
| House level | Yard decor budget | Copies of Hanging Paper Lanterns |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 200 | 40 |
| 3 | 250 | 50 |
| 5 | 300 | 60 |
| 7 | 350 | 70 |
Yard budgets read from HouseLevelRewardInfo in the game files. Interior budgets are not stored there, so none is quoted.
Decor like Hanging Paper Lanterns
Every piece here shares the Pandaren, Mists of Pandaria, Lavish, Alliance and Horde tags with Hanging Paper Lanterns. Ranked by the Decor Catalog tags each piece has in common with it, rarer tags counting for more; under a name are the further tags that piece shares.
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Listed in: Midnight Patch 12.1.5 Housing Decor Guide · Midnight Housing Decor Guide. The guide tracks additions and removals after each new client build, and every name links to this database page.