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Fire

512Block states
6Properties
NoItem form

Fire is a block in Minecraft that grows through several stages as it burns.

Contents (6)
  1. Data values
  2. Sounds
  3. Block states
  4. Natural generation
  5. History
  6. See also

Data values

Read from reports/blocks.json of Minecraft 26.3.

Identifierminecraft:fire
Numeric default state ID4962
Block states512
State properties6
Item formNo

Sounds

Sound events named after this block. Blocks that share a generic sound group are not listed, because the game keeps those groupings in code rather than in its data files.

WhenSoundClosed captionIdentifierTranslation key
AmbientFire cracklesblock.fire.ambientsubtitles.block.fire.ambient
—Fire extinguishedblock.fire.extinguishsubtitles.block.fire.extinguish

Block states

6 properties combine into 512 distinct states.

PropertyDefaultAllowed valuesMeaning
age00 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15Growth stage.
eastfalsetrue false
northfalsetrue false
southfalsetrue false
upfalsetrue false
westfalsetrue false

Natural generation

Biomes whose own feature list places this block, followed from worldgen/biome through placed_feature to feature. Blocks that the terrain itself is made of (stone, dirt, deepslate) come from the surface rules instead and are not listed here.

Placed by the worldgen feature patch_fire.

History

Worked out by reading the registry of every Minecraft build Mojang has published, in release order.

VersionDateWhat the files show
before 18w01a—Already in the game when Mojang’s data generator first shipped, in 18w01a (3 January 2018). The files do not say which earlier version added it.

See also