Ladders on fire would not go out

[jackatthekilns]

I had some ladders catch fire in the Nether. I understand that this is kind of an inherent risk in using ladders in the Nether, but I hit them repeatedly and the fire would not go out. Is this intentional? It feels off, I expected to put them out the way I put out logs that are on fire, which usually only takes 1 swipe to put out.

[FlowerChild]

Yup, it's intentional due to them not being an isolated block like with regular fire. You'd inevitably end up with oddities due to the zero block hardness of fire otherwise.

I forget the particular circumstances that finally caused me to settle on this, but I know that playing around with it both ways, the one-hit extinguish did not work well. I remember one thing I didn't like was that it leaves you with cheese like being able to climb a flaming ladder just by holding down left click as you go, but I know there were other bits as well.

Now that you remind me though, I think it might be better (and more consistent), if I changed regular fire to not behave like that either, as it really reduces the threat that fire poses substantially to be able to put it out so easily.

[jackatthekilns]

Fair enough. I already switched to a staircase in that area anyway.

[FlowerChild]

Well, it's a valid point about consistency. The more I think about it, the more I think getting rid of 1 hit extinguish across the board is the right thing to do here.

[jackatthekilns]

That will make charcoal more interesting to make, but there are solutions to that problem as well