
Fire Bending
This is a Fabric Minecraft server-side mod that allows server administrators to control with more detail the behaviour of fire ticking.
Fire Sources
Fire blocks produced by different sources are now their own fire blocks. The mod adds new gamerules that let you configure the fire tick delay of each fire source individually:
/gamerule lightningFireTickDelay <integer-argument>/gamerule lavaFireTickDelay <integer-argument>/gamerule flintAndSteelFireTickDelay <integer-argument>/gamerule explosionFireTickDelay <integer-argument>/gamerule fireChargeFireTickDelay <integer-argument>
The integer argument supplied to the gamerule, will modify the fire tick delay of the corresponding fire source, using the formula tickDelay = argument + RandomNumber(0, 10). Additionally, setting this value to -1 disables fire ticking for that fire source.
All of these gamerules have the default value of 30.
Tick fire based on nearby players
Furthermore, the mod adds two new gamerules:
/gamerule doTickFireOnlyWhenPlayerNearby <boolean-argument>: This gamerule toggles whether fire blocks should tick only when a player is within a certain user-configurable distance and fire ticking is enabled for the source of the fire. This isfalseby default./gamerule tickFireWhenPlayerNearbyDistance <integer-argument>This gamerule sets the distance at which a player has to be in order for fire to tick, if thedoTickFireOnlyWhenPlayerNearbygamerule is enabled. This is30by default, and the minimum value is1.
Flammable blocks blacklist
Finally, the mod offers a configuration file, found at ./config/fire-bender-config.json, where the user can configure a list for blocks that shouldn't be flammable.
You can add block identifier entries to the flammable_blocks_blacklist array, and then reload the config using the command /fire-bender reload_config.
{
"flammable_blocks_blacklist": [
"minecraft:my_block",
"modid:other_block"
]
}
Support
If you would like to report a bug, or make a suggestion, you can do so via the mod's issue tracker.
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 1.21
- How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
- Where to get it: Opens on Modrinth — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
- Ships as fire-bending-0.0.2+1.21.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 32 KB
- Download link checked 7 Sept 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.