How to extinguish fire in Minecraft

Use potions. You can use a Potion of Fire Resistance to negate lava/fire damage, or maybe a Potion of Regeneration/Potion of Health to hold off death until you are safe. Golden Apples can do both.

You can try to get somewhere safe and die there/put items in a chest so you can come back after you respawn and get the items.

If you don't mind cheating, type "/gamemode 1" to enter creative mode; flying, invincibility, and infinite items can be achieved with this. If it says "You don't have permission" or something, and your on singleplayer, press "Esc" (Escape), Click Open to LAN, Enable "Allow Cheats", and Click "Start LAN world." Now type /gamemode 1 and it should work.

For the furnace mechanic, see Smelting. For the smoke-producing block for cooking food, see Campfire. For the NBT tag, see Entity format § Entity Format. For other uses, see Fire (disambiguation).

Fire

No

Yes (64)

Any tool

0

0

Fire: Yes (15)
Soul Fire: Yes (10)

Partially

No

Yes

Fire is a non-solid block that can spread to nearby flammable blocks and destroy them.

Soul fire is a dimmer turquoise variation of fire that is created when soul sand or soul soil is ignited. Soul fire deals more damage than normal fire and does not spread.

Contents

• 1 Natural generation
  • 1.1 Post-generation
• 2 Obtaining
• 3 Usage
  • 3.1 Placement
  • 3.2 Burning entities
  • 3.3 Spread
    • 3.3.1 Flammable blocks
    • 3.3.2 Non-flammable blocks
  • 3.4 Extinguishing
  • 3.5 Eternal fire
  • 3.6 Bees
  • 3.7 Piglins
• 4 Sounds
  • 4.1 Generic
  • 4.2 Unique
• 5 Data values
  • 5.1 ID
  • 5.2 Block states
• 6 History
  • 6.1 Fire "items"
    • 6.1.1 Appearances
      • 6.1.1.1 Fire
      • 6.1.1.2 Soul Fire
    • 6.1.2 Names
• 7 Issues
• 8 Trivia
  • 8.1 Bedrock Edition
• 9 Gallery
  • 9.1 Screenshots
• 10 References

Natural generation[]

Fire naturally generates in random patches across the terrain of the Nether. Soul fire generates exclusively in soul sand valley biomes in the Nether. However, it exclusively generates on soul soil; it does not generate on soul sand within either the same biome[1] nor in the nether wastes biome.[2] Soul fire also generates in ancient cities.

Post-generation[]

Lava generated next to flammable blocks can naturally cause fires.

Fire spreads quickly across flammable blocks, and can spontaneously ignite when flammable blocks are near lava, even though many blocks that should be flammable cannot catch fire from nearby lava.

Lightning strikes can also set fires.

Placing an end crystal on bedrock or obsidian in the End will cause fire to appear at the end crystal's location.

The explosion from sleeping in a bed in the Nether or the End creates fire, as does the explosion of a ghast fireball or the impact of a blaze fireball. Using a charged respawn anchor in the Overworld or the End also creates fire from the explosion.

Obtaining[]

Fire cannot be obtained as an item under any circumstances in Java Edition, though in Bedrock Edition both fire and soul fire may be obtained as an item via inventory editing.

Usage[]

Placement[]

Before a fire.

During the fire.

After a fire.

Fire can be placed using flint and steel or a fire charge. Fire created on soul sand or soul soil becomes soul fire.

When placed, a fire burns for a short and randomly determined amount of time. If nothing flammable is adjacent to it, the flames die out. Water that touches fire extinguishes it.

It cannot be placed suspended in midair, even with commands.[3]

Burning entities[]

Players and many mobs burn when exposed to fire. Burning obstructs the player's view slightly. While inside a fire block, the fire inflicts damage at a rate of 1

Most dropped items that are in fire briefly catch fire and disappear. This includes the item forms of blocks that would not be flammable if placed, including obsidian. The only exceptions are these netherite-related items: netherite tools and weapons, netherite armor, blocks of netherite, netherite scrap, netherite ingots, and ancient debris.

If a mob able to drop meat dies while on fire, it drops the cooked version of it, with the exception of fish that is dropped by polar bears‌[JE only] or guardians. This also applies to the zombie's uncommon potato drop; if a zombie dies while on fire and should drop a potato, it becomes a baked potato.‌[JE only]

Most Nether mobs are invulnerable to fire and cannot burn. Exceptions include skeletons, as well as endermen, piglins, and hoglins. Zoglins are also invulnerable to fire.

Burning is not considered a status effect and therefore cannot be cured by milk.

Spread[]

Safe building area around a fire

Fire spreads over flammable surfaces and can climb up walls, across floors and ceilings, and over small gaps. More precisely, a fire block can turn any air block that is adjacent to a flammable block into a fire block. This can happen at a distance of up to one block downward, one block sideways (including diagonals), and four blocks upward of the original fire block (not the block the fire is on/next to). Therefore, if the player is using fire to build a fireplace, caution is needed. Blocks in the way do not prevent fire from igniting blocks above it—so even if the player protects a wooden roof with cobblestone between it and the fire, the fire ignores that cobblestone.

Fire spreads from a still lava block similarly: any air block one above and up to one block sideways (including diagonals) or two above and two blocks sideways (including diagonals) that is adjacent to a flammable block may be turned into a fire block.

Unlike normal fire, soul fire cannot spread and does not burn any flammable blocks nearby.

Fire that naturally spreads into a valid nether portal frame activates the portal.

Flammable blocks[]

Fire can spread onto and burn away any flammable block (or in the case of TNT, ignite it). On the other hand, a fire that is not adjacent to any flammable block and not on top of a forever-burning block does not spread, even to another flammable block within the normal range.

In the following table, the higher the ignite odds, the more quickly a block catches fire if the fire is available to spread there. The higher the burn odds, the more quickly a block on fire burns away. These are relative values; actual ignite odds and burn time depends not only on these values, but on difficulty, rain, the age of the fire, the direction of the block relative to the fire, and multiple random values including how long the fire waits between block ticks and further checks based on the previous factors. Fire spread is reduced if tries to spread to a block more two blocks higher than itself. Fire spread is furthermore reduced by a half if the flammable blocks in a humid biome (swamp, mushroom fields and jungle, excluding sparse jungle).

Non-flammable blocks[]

Non-flammable blocks can be lit but do not burn away, and such fire does not spread. Non-flammable blocks other than netherrack or magma blocks extinguish themselves quickly. In the End, bedrock also does not extinguish itself.

If a block is a part of a flammable material, it catches fire from lava. However, certain blocks do not burn away:

Extinguishing[]

Fire burns out after a while when on a non-flammable block other than netherrack or magma blocks; however, punching or hitting the side of a burning block extinguishes the fire on that side, making the Fire extinguished sound (see below). Hitting fire while holding a tool does not reduce the tool's durability. Placing blocks on the fire also extinguishes it. Water and lava extinguish fires that they flow into, and thrown splash and lingering water bottles extinguish fires in the block hit and the four blocks horizontally surrounding it.

Mobs on fire are extinguished when in water or in a cauldron containing it. In the latter case, one layer of water disappears.

Fire extinguishes more quickly if nothing flammable is present, and soon after it consumes a flammable block immediately beneath it.

• Fire has an age property that determines how it extinguishes, ranging from age 0 when the fire is set, and growing to age 15. For fire older than age 3, if nothing flammable is adjacent to the fire, or if the block below doesn't have a solid top surface, the fire is extinguished by the next block tick. At age 15, as long as there isn't a flammable block below the fire, a block tick has a 1⁄4 chance to extinguish the fire.

If a fire is exposed to rain, it extinguishes quickly.

• Rain affects fire if it falls directly onto the fire, or into the four adjacent blocks. Specifically, no matter the age, any block tick has a 20–65% chance of rain extinguishing the fire, depending on the fire's age: 20 perrcent plus 3 percentage points per age of the fire.

Fire burning on netherrack creates a perpetually burning fire.

Soul fire never extinguishes unless punched or when it receives a block update and finds there is no soul soil or soul sand below it.

Eternal fire[]

When lit, netherrack and magma blocks maintain fire forever, unless extinguished by any method except rain. Bedrock in the End also burns eternally. Soul fire burns eternally anywhere. Eternal fire cannot exist on the sides of these blocks.

The blocks that can support eternal fire are defined per-dimension, in the #infiniburn_overworld, #infiniburn_nether, and #infiniburn_end block tags.

If /gamerule doFireTick is false, fire lasts forever until it is put out by the player, and does not spread or affect flammable blocks.

Bees[]

Setting fire to a beehive or bee nest causes the contained bees to be ejected from the block.

Piglins[]

Soul fire repels piglins. Like hoglins, they are not fire-resistant, which is unique among Nether mobs.

Sounds[]

Generic[]

Java Edition: [sound 1]

1. ↑ The hit and break sounds are still assigned, but unused (not called) for fire
2. ↑ a b MC-177082

Bedrock Edition:

Unique[]

Java Edition:

1. ↑ a b c d MC-177457

Bedrock Edition:

Data values[]

ID[]

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

1. ↑ ID of block's direct item form, which is used in savegame files and addons.
2. ↑ a b Unavailable with subtitles.block.generic.break4 command
3. ↑ a b The block's direct item form has the same id with the block.

Block states[]

See also: Block states

Java Edition:
Fire:

Bedrock Edition:
Fire and Soul Fire:

History[]

This section is missing information about Closely inspect fire before and after 13w02a - pixels may have become stretched. 

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This article is missing information about place an end crystal on bedrock or obsidian in the End will create the fire in the end crystal location. 

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Fire "items"[]

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Appearances[]

Fire[]

Soul Fire[]

Names[]

Item names did not exist prior to Beta 1.0.

• Beta 1.0 - 14w21b: Fire
• (As block name, item does not exist) 14w25a and onwards: Fire

Uncraftable items did not have visible displayed names prior to v0.5.0 alpha.

• v0.5.0 alpha - ?: Fire

Issues[]

Issues relating to "Fire" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia[]

• Sometimes, in Survival, when the player walks into a fire briefly and walks out quickly enough, the player takes minor damage, but does not stay on fire.
• Fire uses two texture files, one for the inner fire and one for the outer fire.
• Each end crystal continuously generates a block of fire at its location, if the crystal is placed or generated in the End.
• While soul fire was not announced until MINECON Live 2019, a similar-looking blue fire was seen in the spin-off game Minecraft: Story Mode, years earlier.
  • Minecraft Dungeons also has a similar feature whenever a wraith attacks.
    • There is also a purple fire seen in Minecraft Dungeons.
• Soul fire can not be placed on any other block other than soul sand or soul soil, even if it's placed with /gamerule doFireTick19.‌[Java Edition only]
• Both types of fire have the third highest number of possible block state combinations, at 512, behind note block's 800 and redstone dust's 1296.

Bedrock Edition[]

• Burning mobs have the same animation as Java, yet differently scaled.
• The fire spreading mechanic is based on how it would be prior to Java Edition Beta 1.6.
• The sides of the fire model in this edition are rotated like in versions before Java Edition 1.8.
• When the player is on fire, there is a different burning animation on the screen than in Java Edition (it partially obstructs view when looking downward).
• Players with Fire Resistance do not visibly burn when in fire sources.
• Soul fire can be placed on other blocks with /gamerule doFireTick19, but eventually extinguish.‌[Bedrock Edition only]

Gallery[]

Screenshots[]

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  A house that has caught fire because it was too close to a lava lake, and made out of wood.

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  A burning zombie in Bedrock Edition emitting unique fire particles.

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  A natural fire started by lava flowing into a trees.

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  A fire spreading across several trees.

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  Fire as seen in a burning forest.

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  Invisible fire as seen in early Pocket Edition, and could burn up non-flammable blocks such as stone and dirt.

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  Animated render of the mob burning fire.

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  Soul fire on soul soil.

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  Forest and lava lake before the fire.

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  Forest and lava lake during the fire.

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  Forest and lava lake after the fire.

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  Naturally generated soul fire in an ancient city.

References[]

1. ↑ MC-175325
2. ↑ MC-184561
3. ↑ MC-182709
4. ↑ "Aaaand I just nerfed fire. It will no longer spread infinitely." – @notch (Markus Persson) on Twitter, May 23, 2011

   What is the command to extinguish fire in Minecraft?

   A new command: If you or a block are on fire, you could extinguish yourself/the block by running the extinguish command! For example: '/extinguish @s' would extinguish yourself if you were on fire. '/extinguish 13 79 -56' would extinguish the block at that coodinate.

   How do I extinguish a fire?

   Here are some options:.

   If the fire is small enough, cover it with a metal cooking lid or cookie sheet. ... .

   Cover the fire with a fire blanket, a large piece of fire-resistant material such as fiberglass..

   Don't swat at the flames. ... .

   Pour a large quantity of salt or baking soda over the fire. ... .

   Turn off any heat source..