Soul Fire

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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.

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.

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

Soul fire drops nothing when destroyed.

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.

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]

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, twice as many as with the normal fire (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.‌^{[BE only]} 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.

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.

Soul fire repels piglins. Piglin brutes are not repelled by soul fire.

Java Edition: ^{[sound 1]}

Bedrock Edition:

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

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

• 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.
• Soul fire cannot normally be placed on any other block other than soul sand or soul soil, even if it's placed with /setblock.‌^{[Java Edition only]} In Bedrock Edition, soul fire can be placed on other blocks with /setblock.

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