Talk:Java Edition 15w38a

Fire going out less often in the rain
Seems odd.. , if the chance of fire going out is now 0–45% in the rain, what is it without rain, and what was it before? – Sealbudsman talk/contr 20:13, 16 September 2015 (UTC)
 * In rain before, the fire would go out with 100% chance when the fire block had a fire tick while it was being rained on. Now when the 0–45% chance fails the fire acts like it's not raining. As for the not-raining code:
 * If "age" is less than 15, 1/3 chance of incrementing "age".
 * If nothing flammable is adjacent, go out if age > 3 or the block below doesn't have a solid top surface.
 * If nothing flammable is below and "age" is 15, 25% chance to go out.
 * Might destroy adjacent flammable blocks.
 * Might spread.
 * A "fire tick", BTW, is just a block tick on the fire block. One gets scheduled for 30–39 ticks after the fire block is placed and again after any fire tick. A random block tick also counts as a fire tick (note though that the way scheduled ticks work, trying to schedule a new one when one is already pending has no effect). HTH. Anomie x (talk) 21:44, 16 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Oh, duh. I totally thought the sentence meant "fire goes out less often in the rain than when it's not raining".  Thanks for the play-by-play of how fire works, as well.  I think I'll transcribe this onto the Fire page, as I was wondering earlier how the "age" property worked, and it seemed a little sparse in the article. – Sealbudsman talk/contr 03:14, 17 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Please do turn my description into good article prose, and thanks! Anomie x (talk) 11:23, 17 September 2015 (UTC)