[MC-2887] Fire doesn't spread :(

I tried to set a large forest on fire in my Minecraft world, but when I lit the trees the fire would just linger and not do anything.

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MC-2911 Gamerule commands allow parameters other than true/false Resolved

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Tails 2012-11-12T23:37:05Z

What difficulty are you playing on? Fire spreads differently on each difficulty setting

Nick Bennett Smith 2012-11-12T23:44:39Z

I was playing on hard mode because I thought that would make the fire worse. Then I turned it to peaceful just to see what would happen, and it was the same.

Nick Bennett Smith 2012-11-12T23:46:31Z

I've also been seeing "ghost fires" on random trees in the swamp biome near my island.

Nick Bennett Smith 2012-11-12T23:48:04Z

If someone could downgrade to 1.4.2 and see if it happens to them, then that would help.

Mustek 2012-11-12T23:57:49Z

can you type /doFireTick and tell me whether it returns true or false.

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Mustek 2012-11-13T00:37:49Z

go to you task manager (ctrl+shift+escape) and kill any running instances of java(w).exe

Nick Bennett Smith 2012-11-13T00:39:20Z

Like, in the processes tab? Isn't that dangerous?

Mustek 2012-11-13T00:41:22Z

In processes, yes. It shouldn't give any problems.

Nick Bennett Smith 2012-11-13T00:47:55Z

Guess what? I went into my .minecraft and tried to delete all the folders/files, and guess what stayed? The screenshots folder. I deleted all the screenshots in the folder successfully, but the folder still remained. That makes me think that someone or something is scanning that folder.

YoYoYonnY 2014-08-07T15:17:37Z

Or maybe you should just reboot your computer now