The Glade 4.0

I was convinced my lava waste disposal pit was safe. In the basement, surrounded by dirt & stone ... a stray spark would have to perform gymnastics and superhuman feats of leaping to get at the undersides of my ground-level floorboards. Then, I turned around from having spent several minutes translating the runes on my enchanting table to find my entire house burning down around me. WTF?

Spoilered for size:

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Go back to zero, take a pill, and get well ~ Lemmy Kilmister

With all the effort to fireproof, why not go that one step further and make sure there was a dirt or stone buffer to protect the wooden floors...

...either that or craft a sprinkler system. That's a craftable item, isn't it?

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This must be Thursday. I could never get the hang of Thursdays.

My new system utilizes a sticky piston (triggered by pressure plate) to ensure that the lava is completely enclosed when not in use.

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Go back to zero, take a pill, and get well ~ Lemmy Kilmister

Maybe something else caught your house on fire?

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"

It wasn't raining, so I'm pretty sure it wasn't struck by lightning and there's really nothing else that could start a fire like that.

Oh, and in answer to your question, Foamy - the lava trashcan was an afterthought to the original house design. Finding a way to fireproof around the lava is a heck of a lot easier than re-working the house to add that extra layer of separation between basement and ground floor. Hopefully, my next blueprint will take into account everything I need/want to do inside, so I don't have to tack on extra **** later.

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Go back to zero, take a pill, and get well ~ Lemmy Kilmister

That's a burnt-down house? What the **** am I looking at?

The little embers that fly out of lava are cosmetic and do not start fires. However, any wooden objects within a certain radius around the lava can catch fire, even if the lava is surrounded by stone.

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+1

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I screenshotted the lava "trashcan" to share my disbelief that it somehow wasn't well-shielded enough to prevent the fire in the first place.

Yeah, I know that and I've seen the top of a chest catch even though the closest lava was on the other side of a wall, but the fire didn't consume the chest and my wooden floor in this case was 3 blocks up. I just don't think it should have caught.

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Go back to zero, take a pill, and get well ~ Lemmy Kilmister

According to the wiki, flammable things can catch fire within 3 blocks of lava. Intervening material does not matter. Your ceiling needs to be 4 blocks up to be safe.

Chests, in spite of being made out of wood, are not actually flammable. If your floor is wood (in the picture, it's cobblestone?) I don't know why it hasn't caught fire. Just lucky, I guess.

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Sail forth! steer for the deep waters only!
Reckless, O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me;
For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.

His wooden floor did catch fire. The lava is in the basement.

Sounds like you should lower the lava to the same level as your basement floor.

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Whoops. I misread that. The "ceiling" in the picture is the floor.

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Sail forth! steer for the deep waters only!
Reckless, O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me;
For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.

I thought the fire was faster-than-light. Apparantly I was correct.