I'm calling this the community update as I decided to add some of your ideas to this plugin, I hope you like it!
- added soul sky lantern variant (let free a trapped soul)
- added target sky lantern variant (can be popped with an arrow)
- added permission nodes for each individual command
- both commands can now be run from the console / any other non-player source
- added remove command
- added give command
- added config for global entity limit
- added config for sky lantern use cooldown
- added config for sky lantern max altitude
- bugfix for error message on crafting
- bugfix for unintentional player interaction events, i.e. walking on a pressure plate
- bugfix allowing lanterns to be placed against fake interactable blocks (stairs, fence, redstone ore, wire, pumpkin)
- disallowed placing a lantern in liquid
- disallowed interacting with the sky lantern entity