Fire Charge

| Rarity tier |
Common |
|---|---|
| Renewable |
Yes |
| Stackable |
Yes (64) |
| Network ID |
JE: 64 |
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A fire charge is an item that can be used as a single-use version of a flint and steel or shot as a small fireball from a dispenser.
Obtaining
Despite firing small fireballs, blazes do not drop fire charges.
Generated loot
| Item | Structure | Container | Quantity | Chance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Java Edition and Bedrock Edition | ||||
| Chest | 1 | 46.4%{ "item": "Fire Charge", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.46437576826185156, "structure": "Ruined Portal", "container": "Chest" }
| ||
| Chamber dispenser | 4–8 | 20.7%{ "item": "Fire Charge", "stacksize": "4–8", "chance": 0.2068965517241379, "structure": "Trial Chambers", "container": "Chamber dispenser" }
| ||
Crafting
| Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|
| Blaze Powder + Coal or Charcoal + Gunpowder |
Bartering
Piglins may barter a single fire charge when given a gold ingot.
Natural occurrence
During ominous trials, each ominous trial spawner has a 1⁄5 chance to dispense a fire charge on top of either a player or a mob it spawns. The fire charge is directly dispensed into the world and cannot be obtained in the inventory.
Usage

Fire charges can be used as ammunition in dispensers or as a single-use substitute for a flint and steel.
When used, it instantly places a fire, similar to flint and steel. The fire charge is consumed in the process. It can prime TNT, light nether portals, campfires, candles, cakes with candles and creepers like flint and steel.
When a fire charge is fired from a dispenser, it shoots a small fireball.
Crafting ingredient
| Name | Ingredients | Crafting recipe | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Black Firework Star | Gunpowder + Matching Dye + Extra ingredients (optional) |
Up to eight dyes can be added. One head, gold nugget, feather, or fire charge can be added. Both the diamond and the glowstone dust can be added with any of the other ingredients. | |
| Black Firework Star | Gunpowder + Bone Meal or Lapis Lazuli or Cocoa Beans or Ink Sac + + Glowstone Dust + Diamond |
Up to eight dyes can be added. One head, gold nugget, feather, or fire charge can be added. Both the diamond and the glowstone dust can be added with any of the other ingredients. |
Sounds
| Sounds | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sound | Subtitles | Source | Description | Resource location | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
| Ghast shoots | Hostile Mobs | When a fireball is shot by a ghast | entity | subtitles | 10.0 | 0.8-1.2 | 16 | |
| Blaze shoots [sound 1] | Hostile Mobs | When a fire charge is fired from a dispenser or a blaze | entity[sound 1] | subtitles[sound 1] | 2.0 | 0.8–1.2 | 32 | |
| Fireball whooshes | Blocks | When a fire charge is used by hand | item[sound 2] | subtitles[sound 2] | 1.0 | 0.8-1.2 | 16 | |
| Fireball whooshes | Hostile Mobs | When a fire charge is used to light a creeper | item[sound 2] | subtitles[sound 2] | 1.0 | 0.8-1.2 | 16 | |
| Sounds | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sound | Source | Description | Resource location | Volume | Pitch |
| Hostile Creatures Hostile Mobs | When something shoots or uses a fire charge | mob | 1.0 | 1.0 | |
Data values
ID
| Name | Identifier | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|
fire_charge | Item | item |
| Name | Identifier | Alias ID | Numeric ID | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
fire_charge | fireball | 509 | Item | item |
Entity data
Achievements
| Icon | Achievement | In-game description | Actual requirements (if different) | Gamerscore earned | Trophy type (PS) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PS4 | Other | ||||||
| Into The Nether | Construct a Nether Portal. | Light a nether portal. | 30 | Bronze | |||
Advancements
| Icon | Advancement | In-game description | Actual requirements (if different) |
|---|---|---|---|
![]() | We Need to Go Deeper | Build, light and enter a Nether Portal | Enter the Nether dimension. |
Video
History
| Java Edition | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0.0 | Beta 1.9 Prerelease | ||||||
| 1.2.1 | 12w04a | Added fire charges, which use the above texture. They can be crafted only with coal. | |||||
| 12w05a | Fire charges can now be crafted with charcoal. | ||||||
| 1.4.2 | 12w38b | The sound when using the fire charge has now been changed together with the sound for using a flint and steel. | |||||
| 1.4.6 | 12w49a | Fire charges can now be used to craft fireworks. | |||||
| 1.8 | 14w31a | The sound when using fire charges to set fire has now been changed; it now uses the same sound as when fired from dispensers. | |||||
| Fire charges can now be used to ignite TNT. Previously using it on it resulted in fire being placed adjacent to it. | |||||||
| 1.9 | 15w33c | When firing a fire charge, dispensers now shoot a dragon fireball entity instead of a small fireball. | |||||
| 15w44b | Dispensers shoot fire charges as small fireballs once again. | ||||||
| 1.14 | 18w43a | ||||||
| 1.15 | 19w42a | Fire charges shot by dispensers can now light campfires when colliding with them. | |||||
| 1.16 | 20w07a | Fire charges have a 5⁄109 (~4.59%) chance of being given by the new piglins when bartering, in a stack size of 1. | |||||
| 20w09a | Fire charges now have a 20⁄226 (~8.85%) chance of being given by piglins when bartering, in a stack size of 1–5. | ||||||
| 20w10a | Fire charges now have a 40⁄411 (~9.73%) chance of being given by piglins when bartering, in a stack size of 1–5. | ||||||
| 20w11a | Fire charges now have a 40⁄417 (~9.59%) chance of being given by piglins when bartering, in a stack size of 1–5. | ||||||
| 20w13a | Fire charges now have a 40⁄424 (~9.43%) chance of being given by piglins when bartering, in a stack size of 1–5. | ||||||
| 20w16a | Fire charges now generate in ruined portal chests. | ||||||
| 20w20a | Fire charges now have a 40⁄423 (~9.46%) chance of being given by piglins when bartering, in a stack size of 1–5. | ||||||
| 1.16.2 | 20w28a | Fire charges now have a 40⁄459 (~8.71%) chance of being given by piglins when bartering, in a stack size of 1. | |||||
| 1.19.3 | Pre-release 2 | Fire charges can now be used to forcibly detonate creepers.[1] | |||||
| 1.19.4 | 23w06a | Added the fire charge to the "Ingredients" tab in the creative inventory. | |||||
| 1.20.3 Experiment | 23w45a | Fire charges can now generate in trial chambers dispensers. | |||||
| 1.20.5 Experiment | 24w13a | Fire charges can now be dispensed by ominous trial spawners. | |||||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||||
| v0.15.0 | build 1 | ||||||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||||
| 1.2.0 | beta 1.2.0.2 | Fire charges can now be used to craft firework stars. | |||||
| 1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | ||||||
| 1.16.0 | beta 1.16.0.57 | Fire charges can now be obtained from bartering with piglin. | |||||
| Fire charges can now be found in ruined portal chests. | |||||||
| 1.20.60 Experiment | Preview 1.20.60.20 | Fire charges can now generate in trial chambers dispensers. | |||||
| 1.21.0 Experiment | Preview 1.21.0.20 | Fire charges can now be dispensed by ominous trial spawners. | |||||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||||
| Xbox 360 | Xbox One | PS3 | PS4 | PS Vita | Wii U | Switch | |
| TU9 | CU1 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | Patch 1 | 1.0.1 | |
| TU31 | CU19 | 1.22 | 1.22 | 1.22 | Patch 3 | Fire charges now make sounds when igniting blocks. | |
| 1.90 | |||||||
| New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||||
| 0.1.0 | |||||||
Data history
| Java Edition | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.13 | 17w47a | Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 385. | |||||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||||
| 1.16.100 | beta 1.16.100.56 | The ID of fire charges has been changed from fireball to fire_charge. | |||||
Issues
Issues relating to "Fire Charge" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.
Gallery
Screenshots
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A fire charge found in a ruined portal chest, together with an enchanted golden apple.
See also
References
External links
- Taking Inventory: Fire Charge – Minecraft.net on January 11, 2019
