When mobs are placed on top of a magma block, a campfire or a soul campfire take the same time to die. Is supposed die faster in soul campfire than campfire and more faster in campfire than magma block.
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This extends into fire as well. Fire, soul fire, both campfires, and magma blocks all deal the same amount of damage to mobs/players.
MCPE-81499 is just one small part of the issue, this report covers the whole thing.
Also, a simple test on java edition will show you the different damage amounts of these various blocks, @bugsbugsbugs.
How to reproduce:
1. Summon a mob(like a creeper) onto a magma block, and time how long it takes to die.
2. Repeat step one, but this time with a (soul) campfire or (soul) fire.
3. You will notice it takes the same amount of time to die on all 5 things.
Expected results:
All 5 things should deal the correct damage to mobs/players, and therefor kill mobs at different speeds.
Demo video of this in action: https://youtu.be/_14orGAL1Xc?t=190
a simple test of this setup on java will show significantly different results.
Soul fire is supposed to deal twice the amount of damage as normal fire, this is the case on java, but not on bedrock. That is being trakced at MCPE-65615. The soul campfire is supposed to deal twice the amount of damage as normal campfire. Like already mentioned, this is tracked at MCPE-81499. For me on java the normal campfire deals the same amount of damage as magma blocks.
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Why would you expect the normal campfire to deal more damge than magma block?
On java zombies die quicker from campfires than on magma blocks, because they have 2 armor point by default and they reduce magma block damage, but not campfire damage, causing the zombie to die quicker on the campfire than on the magma block. So the campfire doesn’t deal more damage than magma block on java.
I just tested this on Bedrock, and armor reduces damage from both magma blocks and campfires. I'm inclined to believe that Bedrock has the intended behavior here, and that armor should reduce campfire damage on Java. And if that is the case, then this bug report should probably be resolved as invalid or as a duplicate of MCPE-81499, since magma blocks and campfires are supposed to deal the same amount of damage.
I created a ticket for armor not reducing damage from campfires on java. MC-199066
Glad to see you've all been able to figure it out! This is being resolved as a duplicate of MCPE-81499 now.
Soul campfire not dealing more damage than the normal one is being tracked at MCPE-81499. Do you have a source, that the normal campfire is supposed to deal more damage than magma blocks?