Smooth Flint

SmoothFlint — Flint & Steel, but smarter

SmoothFlint upgrades vanilla Flint and Steel with more intuitive ignite rules and a few extra mob mechanics — all controllable through a simple config file.

🔥 What this mod changes

Smarter igniting: entities and blocks

• Using Flint and Steel on an entity can ignite that entity (configurable).
• Special cases / vanilla safety:
• Item drops (ItemEntity) cannot be ignited.
• Dragon Fireballs cannot be ignited.
• Creepers keep vanilla behavior (Flint & Steel triggers their special mechanic).
• Water rule: living mobs in water don’t ignite (prevents underwater cheese).
• Works on non-living entities too (example: boats, wind charges) if the target can be set on fire.

🌿 Plants burn into fire instantly

Using Flint and Steel on small plants (grass/flowers-like blocks) removes the plant and replaces it with fire immediately, with smoke particles instead of block-breaking particles.

🌪️ Breeze: quick self-extinguish

If a Breeze is burning, it will extinguish itself after 20 ticks (1 second), play an extinguish sound, and spawn white smoke particles (configurable).

💥 Burning Wind Charges can ignite an area (optional)

If a Wind Charge is burning (it has fire ticks), its explosion can:

• ignite nearby living entities
• place small patches of fire around the impact
• spawn flame + smoke particles

Disabled by default for balance / vanilla-friendliness.

👀 Hostile + neutral mobs can react like you “attacked” them

Igniting a mob with Flint & Steel can make:

• hostile mobs target you
• neutral mobs (e.g. Iron Golem) become angry like after a normal hit

This is optional and can be disabled via config.

🟣 Enderman fire panic + extinguish chance

• A burning Enderman enters “panic mode” and tries to teleport every 40 ticks until it stops burning (configurable).
• After a successful teleport, a burning Enderman has a 50% chance to extinguish itself (configurable).

⚙️ Configuration

Config file is created at:

/.minecraft/config/smoothflint.json

Options

1. Ignite entities on click

ignite.enable (default: true)
If enabled, Flint & Steel can ignite entities when you use it directly on them.

1. Ignite other players

ignite.igniteOtherPlayers (default: true)
Only matters if option #1 is enabled. Allows igniting other players with Flint & Steel.

1. Breeze self-extinguish

breeze.selfExtinguish (default: true)
If enabled, burning Breeze extinguishes itself after 20 ticks, plays a sound, and spawns white smoke.

1. Burning Wind Charge ignites area

windCharge.burningIgnitesArea (default: false)
If enabled, burning Wind Charges ignite nearby entities and place fire on nearby air blocks when they explode.

1. Provoke neutral/hostile mobs on ignite

mobs.provokeNeutralOnIgnite (default: true)
If enabled, igniting a mob with Flint & Steel makes neutral/hostile mobs react like after being attacked.

1. Enderman extinguish chance on teleport

enderman.extinguishChanceOnTeleport (default: true)
If enabled, burning Endermen have a 50% chance to extinguish after a successful teleport.

1. Enderman panic while burning

enderman.panicWhileBurning (default: true)
If enabled, burning Endermen attempt to teleport every 40 ticks until they stop burning.

✅ Notes / vanilla compatibility

• Creeper + Flint & Steel remains vanilla (no changes to their special interaction).
• Item drops can’t be ignited.
• Dragon Fireballs can’t be ignited.
• Gameplay rules are applied server-side.