/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Ok anons, I've been conducting some tests on flammability.
Wool is an extremely easy and convenient building material, but it's also intensely flammable. So long as you're careful with fire, that shouldn't be an issue. But during a thunderstorm, random lightning strikes can light your house on fire. Pekora lost her house this way on the JP server.

During my experiments, I was looking for a convenient way to prevent fires.
Lightning strikes generate some fire in a small radius. The rain quickly puts these out without much issue. But if there's an overhang, or the fire somehow gets inside the structure, the entire thing can burn in minutes.

I found that wood is flammable, but not nearly as much as wool.
Wool fires burn faster, spread faster, and are overall much more of an issue. Sometimes wood fires will go out on their own. Whereas even in the rain, wool fires can consume a large chunk of the structure before they go out.

Some things which prevented fires:
1) Stone slabs
2) Railroad tracks
3) Trapdoors
4) Torches
And the most important discovery: tripwire.
Tripwires are almost invisible, they are very unobtrusive. This is almost like a magic bullet to fire-proof a cloth house.

However there's a problem. Through my experiments I learned that lightning can also ignite the sheer surface of a block, if it hits the flat surface above or below. This means you also have to lightning-proof the sides of your house nearby flat surfaces, if those flat surfaces can see the sky.

But there's not that many hanging blocks which prevent fire. Torches, banners, and that's basically it.
Are you seriously going to banner your entire house? Probably not practical. So it's all for naught.

There is a saving grace however. In the 1.17 update, Minecraft is planning to add copper ore. And guess what you can build with copper ore? A lightning rod. This provides protection to everything in a 32x32 block area. This update comes in mid-2021, so you have a time to wait.