Voted for option 4.
I think lava really should start fires and while preventing fire from burning leaves won't prevent it from spreading between trees altogether, it should in theory help limit the scope of out-of-control fires. Leaves also disappear automatically if there's no piece of trunk/branch nearby, and the fire should always get rid of those... so we won't have any little leave clouds oddly floating in the air.

I neglected to put a poll expiration on this originally, so just set it to 5 days. I don't know if that's from "now" or from when the poll first started...

But it should expire sometime around this weekend.

It's a matter of saving time - and as I said in my post, before there was a glitch which made it mandatory, otherwise the leaves would just persist.

Generally saplings and wood aren't in such a dire need that burning the leaves off hurts much.

Either way, lava starts fires again - nice to see at least one piece of functionality restored.

So wood no longer burns for eternity as of 1.3 update. Might as well set it to default functions in my opinion.

Mhm.. just tested to verify it and.. eternal burning doesn't have all that much to do with forest fires spreading. Fires usually go from leaves to leaves, not trunks to trunks. And even if it does go trunk to trunk, it'll spread before the previous trunk despawns.

Anyway.. just disintegrated a couple small batches of trees by setting one on fire. If trees were as dense as they were during "the big burn", the same thing would have happened. You just wouldn't have had the leftover eternally burning trunk pieces afterwards.

Eternal fires haven't existed on the server since Bukkit and the plugins were added, which predated this poll and predated 1.3. Further, eternal fires are only mentioned in the poll as a side note of option 1.

The setting wasn't changed originally due to eternal fires; it was changed because of the level of destruction the fire caused. It literally spread from the origin farther out than the game's maximum render distance. And originally the setting was just to have lava prevent the start of fires, since that seemed like the most likely accidental cause.

This poll was then created to revisit that solution to the problem; to solve it more accurately. So it still had nothing to do with eternal fires. The problem was the same as the original one: the scale of the fire.



Yes. I'm fully aware how fire works. That was kind of the point of revisiting the problem to find a more accurate solution.

Weren't you the one saying you often burn leaves off to get through them quick? If you knew anything about fire you'd know that'd turn the trunks to char in seconds, too. Maybe you should follow your own link.



Says the person whose only notable contribution to the server is bitching, blowing up others' creations, and building penis statues.
Clearly you really know how to use Minecraft to its fullest potential.

Meanwhile I'll just sit back and laugh at your attempts of telling people how a sandbox game is suppose to be played...