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A wildfire is a powerful mob that was added in the Luminous Night seasonal adventure and appears in the Flames of the Nether DLC. It is a more powerful variant of the blaze, even capable of summoning them in combat.

Appearance

A wildfire is a large mob, similar in appearance to a blaze albeit bigger and somewhat tougher. It possesses four large shields which float around it, which act as protection. These four shields of the wildfire happens to be its own model and entity that is separate from the wildfire. Wildfires also blaze rod like pillar under its blaze-like head. What makes its head different from blazes, however, is the helmet that it wears which is fitted with a small red gem.

Spawning

Behavior

Wildfires act as shielded mobs similar to royal guards, skeleton vanguards, and tower guards, where the mob's shield must be destroyed first. However, unlike most shielded mobs, wildfires have four shields, all of which must be destroyed before inflicting damage, and the shields can also take multiple hits before breaking. When wildfires are low on health, they will retreat to seek out a fire source to heal itself like blazes, but can also regenerate damaged and destroyed shields.

shield debris attack

Wildfires will occasionally shoot a barrage of shield debris instead of fireballs at a hero.

Shockwave attack

Wildfires will slam the ground if a target gets too close, sending out a small shockwave, knocking back both heroes and mobs.

Summon blazes

Wildfires are also capable of summoning one or two blazes to assist it.

Sounds

Music

SoundDescription
File:Bgm env wildFireLoop-001 soundWave.OGGWildfire Theme
Wildfire Theme End

Wildfire

SoundDescription
Shield Debris Attack
Basic Attack impact
Death
Hurt
File:S2 sfx mob wildfire Crackels loop.oggIdle Loop
File:S2 sfx mob wildfire breathes ShieldDebriAttack vocals 01.oggFile:S2 sfx mob wildfire breathes ShielddebriAttack vocals 02.oggFile:S2 sfx mob wildfire breathes ShieldDebrisAttack vocals 03.oggIdle basic attack Vocal
File:S2 sfx mob wildfire Breathes vocals 01.oggFile:S2 sfx mob wildfire Breathes vocals 02.oggFile:S2 sfx mob wildfire Breathes vocals 03.oggFile:S2 sfx mob wildfire Breathes vocals 04.oggIdle Vocal
Shield Destroyed
Shield Break Vocal
Shockwave
Step
Stun

History

Minecraft Dungeons
April 4, 2022The wildfire was revealed to be returning to the game in the Luminous Night seasonal adventure.
April 15, 2022The wildfire was revealed to be a mini-boss. It was also revealed that it would spawn in the flames of the Nether missions as well as the tower.
1.14.1.0Tropical fish also have assigned names that can be seen after capture. In Java Edition, the smaller text under the item name is displayed showing the fish name, similar to the text that displays enchantments under enchanted items. In Bedrock Edition, the item name is displayed showing "Bucket of <fish name>". Their colors are mostly named according to the colored block names, though with a few exceptions:
  • White
  • Silver
  • Gray
  • Black
  • Brown
  • Red
  • Orange
  • Yellow
  • Lime
  • Green
  • Teal
  • Sky
  • Blue
  • Plum
  • Magenta
  • Rose

The base color comes first, and if the pattern color is different, it comes after that. Lastly, the fish bucket is given a name according to the shape and pattern of the fish:

Flopper Glitter Betty
Stripey Blockfish Clayfish
Tropical Fish Patterns
Kob Snooper Brinely
SunStreak Dasher Spotty

Some tropical fish don't follow the normal naming system, and instead, reference real-life fish species. Apart from these names, these types of fish aren't different from regular tropical fish in terms of design or behavior.

These varieties are:

Name Type
Anemone Orange-Gray Stripey
Black Tang Gray Flopper
Blue Dory ‌[Bedrock Edition only] Gray-Sky SunStreak
Blue Tang ‌[Java Edition only] Gray-Blue Flopper
Butterfly Fish ‌[Bedrock Edition only]/Butterflyfish ‌[Java Edition only] White-Gray Clayfish
Cichlid Blue-Gray SunStreak
Clownfish Orange-White Kob
Cotton Candy Betta Rose-Sky Spotty
Dottyback Plum-Yellow Blockfish
Emperor Red Snapper White-Red Clayfish
Goatfish White-Yellow Spotty
Moorish Idol White-Gray Glitter
Ornate Butterfly ‌[Bedrock Edition only]/Ornate Butterflyfish ‌[Java Edition only] White-Orange Clayfish
Parrotfish Teal-Rose Dasher
Queen Angel Fish ‌[Bedrock Edition only]/Queen Angelfish ‌[Java Edition only] Lime-Sky Brinely
Red Cichlid Red-White Betty
Red Lipped Blenny Gray-Red Snooper
Red Snapper Red-White Blockfish
Threadfin White-Yellow Flopper
Tomato Clown ‌[Bedrock Edition only] Red-White SunStreak
Tomato Clownfish ‌[Java Edition only] Red-White Kob
Triggerfish Gray-White SunStreak
Yellowtail Parrot ‌[Bedrock Edition only]/Yellowtail Parrotfish ‌[Java Edition only] Teal-Yellow Dasher
Yellow Tang Yellow Flopper
Wildfire (Dungeons)Added wildfires.
Changed the name of the sound files.

Data values

  • In the game files, the wildfire is referred to internally as the HoveringInferno while it’s shield is referred to internally as the HoveringInferno_Shield. The wildfire projectile is referred to internally as Shield_Debris.

Trivia

  • The wildfire was one of the available mobs players could vote for during MINECON Earth 2017 to be in the main Minecraft game, with the temporary name "Mob D" (The Hovering Inferno). The eventual winner of the vote was "Mob B" (or “The Monster of the Night Skies”), which would become the Phantom. Also, some of its abilities are based on potential abilities the Wildfire would have if it was added to Minecraft, such as the shields and summoning blazes.

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