Better Burning

Better Burning changes several burning and fire rules in Minecraft. A burning skeleton has a chance to fire a flaming arrow that deals some burn damage on a hit, 70% by default. Flint and steel used as a weapon against a mob inflicts a small fire damage amount, 3 by default, and wears the item's durability the way any weapon does. Each of these can be switched off separately in the config file.

Fire resistance clears the burn timer while the potion is active, so leaving lava no longer keeps the fire animation running after the potion has taken effect. Fire damage over time and instant fire damage are also treated alike when loot tables decide whether a mob drops cooked food, which fixes cases such as a chicken dropping raw meat from a campfire. A mob that is on fire can set its target alight when it attacks with an empty hand, with a 30% chance by default, extending a vanilla zombie behavior to all mobs.

The mod is Forge only, released for 1.20.1 in its latest file 9.0.3, and runs on client and server, so both the server and every player need it. Builds cover 1.7.10 – 1.20.4, and the code is under the GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1 only, which makes the project open source.