Soul Fire

Soul Fire

Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool	Any tool
Blast resistance	0
Hardness	0
Luminous	Yes (10)
Transparent	Partially
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No
Map color (JE)	17 COLOR_LIGHT_BLUE

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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.

Obtaining

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

Breaking

Soul fire is immediately destroyed when broken. When shears are used to break soul fire, they doesn't lose durability.

Block	Soul fire
Hardness	0
Breaking time (secs)
Default	0.05

Legend

• incorrect tool, drops nothing
• correct tool, drops nothing or something other than the block itself
• correct tool, drops the block itself
• italicized can be instant mined

Soul fire drops nothing when destroyed.

Natural generation

Soul fire naturally generates in the soul sand valley biome in the Nether. 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.

Usage

Placement

Soul fire can be placed on soul sand or soul soil using flint and steel or a fire charge, and explosions from sources like beds or ghast fireballs can ignite soul fire as well. Unlike regular fire, it can be placed only on the top of a block.

When placed, a soul fire burns and does not extinguish by itself. Water that touches soul fire extinguishes it.

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

Burning entities

Players and many mobs burn when exposed to soul fire. Burning obstructs the player's view slightly. While inside a soul fire block, the fire inflicts damage at a rate of 2HP per tick (although damage immunity reduces this to once every half-second) unless the player or mob has Fire Resistance or a total Fire Protection of 7 or higher.‌ When the player is on fire outside the soul fire block, they take damage at 1HP per second, the same as with normal fire.^[4][5] This is the same rate that the player gains health in Peaceful difficulty, so burning alone cannot kill the player in this mode. After leaving a fire source, the player or mob continues burning for some time depending on how long it was exposed to the soul fire (stored in a Fire tag shared by all entities). Players and mobs that are burning can be extinguished by powder snow, rain, water, or a cauldron.

Extinguishing

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.

Punching or hitting a soul fire block extinguishes it, making the Fire extinguished sound (see below). Hitting soul fire while holding a tool does not reduce the tool's durability. Placing blocks on soul fire also extinguishes it. Water and lava extinguish soul fires that they flow into, and thrown splash and lingering water bottles extinguish soul 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.

Piglins

Soul fire repels piglins. Like hoglins, they are not fire-resistant, which is unique among Nether-exclusive mobs. Piglin brutes are not repelled by soul fire.

Sounds

Generic

Java Edition: ^{[sound 1]}

v t e wool sound type
Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.wool.break	subtitles.block.generic.break​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.wool.place	subtitles.block.generic.place​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.wool.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit​	0.25	0.5	16
	​Something falls on a block	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.wool.fall	subtitles.block.generic.fall​	0.5	0.75	16
	​Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	block.wool.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.15	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

v t e stone sound type
Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Blocks	Once the block has broken	dig.stone	1.0	0.8-1.0
	Blocks	When the block is placed	dig.stone	1.0	0.8-1.0
	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	hit.stone	0.37	0.5
	Players	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.stone	0.4	1.0
	Players	Walking on the block	step.stone	0.3	1.0
	Blocks	Jumping from the block	jump.stone	0.12	1.0
	Blocks	Falling on the block without fall damage	land.stone	0.22	1.0

Unique

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Block tags	Translation key
Soul Fire	soul_fire	Block	fire piglin_repellents	block.minecraft.soul_fire

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID[i 1]	Translation key
Soul Fire	soul_fire	492	Block & Ungiveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -237)	tile.soul_fire.name

Video

History

Java Edition
September 28, 2019							Soul Fire shown unnamed as part of soul sand valley biome at Minecon 2019.
December 3, 2019							Maria Lemón confirms that fire set on soul sand does not become soul fire.
1.16			20w06a				Added soul fire.
							Fire no longer burns items.[6]
			20w07a				The texture of soul fire has been changed. The color channel of transparent pixels is now filled to black.
							Normal fire burns items again, and soul fire now burns items.
			20w11a				Soul sand is now capable of supporting fire on its top surface,[7] however this is regular fire, not soul fire.[8]
			20w12a				Fire lit on top of soul sand is now soul fire.
							A dedicated block tag is now used to determine what blocks support soul fire.
1.19			Deep Dark Experimental Snapshot 1				Soul fire now generate as part of ancient cities.
Bedrock Edition
1.16.0			beta 1.16.0.51				Added soul fire.
			beta 1.16.0.59				Fire lit on top of soul sand is now soul fire.
			beta 1.16.0.63				Soul fire is now created when randomTickSpeed is set to 0.
							Soul fire is now created when doFireTick is set to false.

Issues

Issues relating to "Soul Fire" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Trivia

• 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, as well as purple fire used by blastlings.
• Soul fire can not be placed on any other block other than soul sand or soul soil, even if it's placed with /setblock.‌
• In Bedrock Edition, soul fire can be placed on other blocks with /setblock.

Gallery

Screenshots

• 
  Soul fire on soul soil.
• 
  Naturally generated soul fire in an ancient city.

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