Fire Resistance

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Positive |
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Fire Resistance is a status effect that grants the affected entity complete immunity to all sources of fire damage.
Effects
Fire Resistance grants immunity to all kinds of fire damage, including fire, blaze fireballs, fire charges, magma blocks, and lava. It also negates any bonus fire damage from bows enchanted with Flame and swords enchanted with Fire Aspect, but the attacks themselves are unaffected.
Fire damage is defined by the game as any damage type in the minecraft/tags/damage_type/is_fire tag. Custom damage types defined by data packs can be added to this tag to allow damage dealt with with the damage type through the /damage command to be negated by Fire Resistance.
This effect does not work against direct hits/explosions from ghast fireballs or against melee attacks from a blaze, as neither of these sources are considered to deal fire damage. It does, however, prevent damage from any fire created by a ghast's fireball.

Fire Resistance also reduces the fog effect created due to being submerged under lava. In Bedrock Edition, Fire Resistance also prevents the affected targets from catching fire, which stops the fire itself from covering the player's screen.
Any undead mobs that receive Fire Resistance do not take damage from exposure to sunlight, nor do they catch fire from it.
However, in Java Edition, outside of sunlight, Fire Resistance does not prevent the affected target from catching fire, but it does prevent any damage that would normally be taken due to being set on fire. This can cause the player (or mob) to start taking damage if the effect expires before said player/mob is able to put themselves out.
Fire Resistance allows snow golems to survive in hot biomes.
Causes
| Cause | Potency | Length | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| I | 5:00 | ||
| I | 3:00 | ||
| I | 8:00 | ||
| I | 3:00 | ||
| I | 8:00 | ||
| I | 0:45 | ||
| I | 2:00 | ||
| I | 0:22 | ||
| I | 1:00 | ||
| I | 0:40 | ||
| I | 0:03 | Must be crafted with |
Brewing
| Potion | Reagent, base | Effects | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Potion of Fire Resistance |
Potion of Fire Resistance (extended) |
- | Grants immunity to fire, lava, magma blocks, campfires, and blazes' ranged attacks. |
Immune mobs
- The wither and ender dragon are immune to this status effect.
- Many Nether mobs (blazes, ghasts, magma cubes, striders, wither skeletons, zoglins, zombified piglins) are naturally resistant to fire and lava, and are unaffected by the Fire Resistance status effect. Wardens are also resistant to fire and lava, despite not spawning in the Nether.
Data values
ID
| Name | Identifier | Numeric ID | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|
fire_resistance | 12 | effect |
| Name | Identifier | Numeric ID | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|
fire_resistance | 12 | potion |
Achievements
| Icon | Achievement | In-game description | Actual requirements (if different) | Gamerscore earned | Trophy type (PS) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PS4 | Other | ||||||
| Stayin' Frosty | Swim in lava while having the effect. | — | 20 | Bronze | |||
Advancements
| Icon | Advancement | In-game description | Actual requirements (if different) |
|---|---|---|---|
![]() | A Furious Cocktail | Have every potion effect applied at the same time | Have all of these 17 status effects applied to the player at the same time:
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![]() | How Did We Get Here? | Have every effect applied at the same time | Have all of these 33 status effects applied to the player at the same time:
The source of the effects is irrelevant for the purposes of this advancement. Other status effects may be applied to the player, but are ignored for this advancement. |
History
| Java Edition Beta | |||||||
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| 1.8 | Pre-release | Fire Resistance is added along with 18 other status effects but is currently unobtainable in regular gameplay. | |||||
| Java Edition | |||||||
| 1.0.0 | Beta 1.9 Prerelease 2 | ||||||
| 1.14 | 18w43a | ||||||
| 1.16 | Pre-release 3 | Visibility under lava is now slightly better when under the effect of Fire Resistance. | |||||
| 1.16.2 | 20w28a | Fire Resistance can now be obtained from totems of undying. | |||||
| 20w29a | The level of Fire Resistance given by the totem of undying is now reduced from II to I.[1] | ||||||
| 1.19.4 | Pre-release 3 | The potion & effect color have been changed from #E49A3A to #FF9900. | |||||
| 1.20.5 | 24w09a | Visibility under lava when under the effect of Fire Resistance has been improved again to match Bedrock Edition. | |||||
| 1.21.4 | 24w45a | Decreased the duration of Fire Resistance obtained from suspicious stew made with an allium from 4 seconds to 3 seconds. | |||||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||||
| v0.11.0 | build 1 | ||||||
| Fire Resistance is currently unobtainable. | |||||||
| v0.12.1 | build 1 | Fire Resistance can now be obtained from eating enchanted golden apples and a | |||||
| v0.14.0 | build 1 | Added witches, which can apply the Fire Resistance effect to themselves when set on fire by drinking potions. | |||||
| v0.15.0 | build 1 | Added the | |||||
| Pocket Edition | |||||||
| 1.0.0 | alpha 0.17.0.1 | Fire Resistance can now be obtained from lingering potions of Fire Resistance. | |||||
| 1.1.0 | alpha 1.1.0.0 | Fire Resistance can now be obtained from totems of undying. | |||||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||||
| 1.11.0 | beta 1.11.0.5 | ||||||
| 1.13.0 | beta 1.13.0.9 | Fire Resistance can now be obtained from suspicious stew. | |||||
| 1.16.0 | beta 1.16.0.51 | Visibility under lava is now slightly better when under the effect of Fire Resistance. | |||||
| 1.16.100 | beta 1.16.100.54 | The level of Fire Resistance given by the totem of undying is now reduced from II to I.[2] | |||||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||||
| Xbox 360 | Xbox One | PS3 | PS4 | PS Vita | Wii U | Switch | |
| TU5 | CU1 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | Patch 1 | 1.0.1 | Fire Resistance is added along with 18 other status effects but is currently unobtainable in regular gameplay. |
| TU7 | Added the Potion of Fire Resistance and Splash Potion of Fire Resistance. | ||||||
| TU56 | CU48 | 1.55 | 1.55 | 1.55 | Patch 26 | 1.0.6 | Fire Resistance can now be obtained from totems of undying. |
| 1.85 | Fire resistance now hides the burning animation from affected entities to match Bedrock Edition. | ||||||
| 1.91 | |||||||
Issues
Issues relating to "Fire Resistance" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.
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