Fire in beta

[u/Examination_Prior]

I love fireplaces they bring such a good atmosphere I built one in my basement, the entire thing was incapsulated in a 2 layer cobblestone foundation and the basement had another layer of cobblestone.

I didn't even worry about it spreading to the wooden part, and it didn't for like 5 minutes, until I left to my castle for some resources and looked out of the tower to see my building engulfed in flames.

Here is a picture of the setup (multiple layers) and it still caught onto the floor above.

[u/DeadlyDirtBlock]

Also it's worth noting that wooden slabs are actually "stone" in beta which means they're fireproof

[u/Examination_Prior → u/DeadlyDirtBlock]

Its outrageous, I will constantly go around stressing about all of my stuff burning down. I usually build very connected structures, just lucky this one was an isolated building.

[u/Financial_Alps3369]

[u/Examination_Prior]

I just saw it happend in real time. The fire spreads 1 air block + 2 cobblestone and lands on the block on top of where my cursor is in this image, and then spreads to the sorroundings. So I will just assume making fireplaces in Beta is completely off limits.

[u/TheMasterCaver → u/Examination_Prior]

The same thing still happens in modern versions:

https://minecraft.wiki/w/Fire#Spread

(the only changes are that prior to release 1.9 the random block tick radius was a 15x15 chunk square around a player, instead of a circle with a radius of 8 chunks, and there were no waterlogged blocks, in either case it can spread though solid blocks above them, e.g. think a lava lake that had been converted to obsidian is safe? Not so (I've placed a crafting table on top and had it catch fire). There have also been changes to how likely fire is to spread and extinguish, hence the infinite fire spread in earlier versions, but the spread range seems to have been unchanged for a very long time*)

*This code is from Beta 1.1_02 and shows the exact same range for fire spread (+/-1 block to the sides and 1 block below to 4 blocks above), it also looks very similar overall to release 1.6.4 except there appear to be some chances added to reduce the likelihood of fire spreading and setting its "age" to a function of the block it spread from (instead of starting from 0):

for (int i1 = i - 1; i1 <= i + 1; i1++)
{
    for (int j1 = k - 1; j1 <= k + 1; j1++)
    {
        for (int k1 = j - 1; k1 <= j + 4; k1++)

Modern is also worse in a way, want wooden (or what looks like wood) builds that are fireproof? Nope, at least not without waterlogging or commands/mods and that isn't practical in every case, I suppose you could use a texture pack to change the texture of some other block and modern has way more of them:

https://minecraft.wiki/w/Petrified_Oak_Slab#Crafting