Small Fireball

Small Fireball

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A small fireball is a fire charge launched as a projectile that deals burning damage and can start fires. They are used by blazes as their ranged attack, and cannot be thrown by hand.

Behavior

Blazes shoot small fireballs in volleys of three at a time as their ranged attack. When a fire charge is fired from a dispenser, it also shoots a small fireball.

Small fireballs, when fired either by dispensers or blazes, fly in a straight line through the air. There is a random offset in a small fireball's trajectory due to a 'cone' of spread, which can cause small fireballs to miss their target or hit something else.​^{[more information needed]}

Fireballs shot from dispensers start out stationary and accelerate, while fireballs shot by blazes maintain the same speed. They can be shot through blocks directly in front of them, as long as the block is not higher or wider than half a block.

A small fireball flies indefinitely until it hits a block or an entity, even if it is outside the player's render distance.

If a small fireball hits a block, fire is placed at that location if possible. It produces no explosive effect. Small fireballs can light campfires and nether portals and can prime minecarts with TNT.

If it hits an entity that is not immune to fire and does not have the Fire Resistance effect, the entity takes 5HP of projectile damage regardless of difficulty level. The target is set on fire for 5 seconds, which does an additional 4HP fire damage over time; it can deal up to 9HP damage from these combined effects.

A small fireball cannot be deflected by melee attacks or arrows, unlike regular fireballs. However, it can be blocked by shields, which prevents the player from being damaged and catching fire.

Sounds

Java Edition:
Small fireballs use the Friendly Creatures sound category for entity-dependent sound events.

Sounds
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Blaze shoots	Hostile Mobs	When a small fireball is fired from a dispenser or a blaze	entity.blaze.shoot	subtitles.entity.blaze.shoot​	2.0	0.8 – 1.2	32

Bedrock Edition:

Sounds
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch
	​ ?	Hostile Mobs	When a small fireball is fired from a dispenser or a blaze	mob.blaze.shoot	​ ?	3.0	0.8–1.2

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Entity tags	Translation key
Small Fireball	small_fireball	impact_projectiles	entity.minecraft.small_fireball

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Translation key
Small Fireball	small_fireball	94	entity.small_fireball.name

Entity data

Java Edition:

Small fireballs have entity data associated with them that contains various properties.

• [NBT Compound / JSON Object] Entity data
  • Tags common to all entities see Template:Nbt inherit/entity/template
  • Tags common to all fireballs see Template:Nbt inherit/fireball/template
  • Tags common to all projectiles see Template:Nbt inherit/projectile/template
  • [NBT Compound / JSON Object] Item: The item to render as, may be absent.
    • A single item stack see Template:Nbt inherit/itemnoslot/template

History

Java Edition

Java Edition
1.0.0			Beta 1.9 Prerelease				Added small fireballs.
1.5			13w02a				The texture of the small fireball has been changed from to .
			13w02b				The texture of the small fireball has been changed from back to .
1.6.1			13w24a				The texture of the small fireball has been changed from to .
			13w24b				The texture of the small fireball has been reverted from to .
1.14			18w43a				The texture of the small fireball has been changed.
			18w50a				The small fireball now has an optional Item NBT tag that can specify a different item stack to render.
1.15			19w42a				Small fireballs shot by dispensers can now light campfires when colliding with them.
1.21.2			24w34a				Small fireballs no longer go through the world border if hit.

Bedrock Edition

Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.12.1			build 1				Added small fireballs.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0			beta 1.10.0.3				The texture of the small fireball has been changed.

Legacy Console Edition

Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU7	CU1	1.00	1.00	1.00	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added small fireballs.
			1.90				The texture of the small fireball has been changed.

New Nintendo 3DS Edition

New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added small fireballs.

Data history

Java Edition

Java Edition
1.0.0			Beta 1.9 Prerelease				The small fireball’s numeric ID is 64.
1.11			16w32a				The small fireball's entity ID has been changed from SmallFireball to small_fireball.
			16w40a				NBT tags xTile, yTile, zTile, inTile and inGround have been removed from the small fireball entity data.
1.13			17w47a				Numeric IDs for entities were presumably deprecated in this version.
1.16			20w10a				The NBT tags life and direction have been removed from the small fireball.

Bedrock Edition

Pocket Edition
1.1.0			alpha 1.1.0.0				The entity ID for the fireball has been changed from smallfireball to small_fireball.

Issues

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