Fireball

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A fireball is a large, explosive, fire-starting projectile fired by ghasts as their only attack. It can be deflected with a melee attack or another projectile.

Fireballs have a straight trajectory unaffected by gravity and a theoretically infinite range. Fireballs can be deflected if hit by a player using a projectile or melee attack, sending them in the direction of the player's head.

Fireballs create an explosion upon impact with an entity or block, setting fire to nearby blocks. Fireballs shot by ghasts have an explosive force of 1. The minimum blast resistance required to absorb all blast force of a fireball is 4.034. However, blocks with resistance as low as 3.5 survive if hit from the sides or from the top.

At close range, fireballs deal massive damage; a direct hit deals 6HP👁 ❤️
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projectile damage and up to 8.5HP👁 ❤️
× 4.25, 15HP👁 ❤️
× 7.5, or 22.5HP👁 ❤️
× 11.25 explosion damage from the blast depending on difficulty, entities other than player treat all difficulties as normal. If an entity has the Fire Resistance effect or is naturally resistant to fire, a fireball does not deal projectile damage to them, although the explosion still can inflict damage. Fireballs rebounded by the player deal 1000HP👁 ❤️
× 500 damage to a ghast upon direct hit, killing them. Because ghasts are fire resistant, fireballs only damage ghasts when rebounded by the player or if the explosion is within range to damage them. Because fireball explosions only affect entities whose feet are within 2 blocks of the explosion, they are incapable of damaging ghasts except when hitting them from below or within their hitbox.

When two fireballs collide, one is deflected while the other explodes upon impact.

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

Bedrock Edition:

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Fireballs have entity data associated with them that contains various properties.

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

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

• If a player hits a fireball using an item with the Looting enchantment, any mob killed by that fireball has its drops affected by the enchantment as though the mob was killed by directly using the item.

• 👁 A fireball as it appears in Minecraft Dungeons.
  
  A fireball as it appears in Minecraft Dungeons.
• 👁 A fireball as it appears in A Minecraft Movie
  
  A fireball as it appears in A Minecraft Movie