You know that when fighting blazes on netherack, or even netherbrick, the area quickly become saturated with fire. I assume you also know that bringing snowballs is a good idea when fighting blazes (especially for the first time, before fire resistance potions). Sometimes, you want to dodge fireballs, but your escape path is ablaze (lol), and the range at which you can put out fire doesn't give you a lot of safety margin, if you were to miss you click on the fire, you probably wouldn't be able to stop before stepping in the fire.
We already have fire charges, that can light fire from a distance, so why not something that can put out fire from a distance too? I think that the nature of snowballs makes them pretty adequate for that job.
This could also be used to trigger distant BUD switches using fire blocks.
(By extension, snowballs could also be used to douse burning entities, as an alternative to water, though it could be OP. )
Unless they make it so that jumping into a filled cauldron put out fire too, that would be the only way to do so in the Nether, where you can't use water buckets. (That's why some might think it's op) (Jeb once said he liked the idea of splash water bottle (to put out fire and damage blazes), but that it would require a huge recoding since water bottle were never meant to splash.)
Throwing a snowball on yourself much be hard, but one could set up a "shower" with a pressure plate and a dispenser.
Also, since fire won't stop until it did a set amount of damages, it burns foreverrrrr when you're under the effect of a fire resistance potion, sometime the potion wears off before the fire. It's annoying as hell, so being able to douse yourself would be appreciated.
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We already have fire charges, that can light fire from a distance, so why not something that can put out fire from a distance too? I think that the nature of snowballs makes them pretty adequate for that job.
This could also be used to trigger distant BUD switches using fire blocks.
(By extension, snowballs could also be used to douse burning entities, as an alternative to water, though it could be OP. )
Throwing a snowball on yourself much be hard, but one could set up a "shower" with a pressure plate and a dispenser.
Also, since fire won't stop until it did a set amount of damages, it burns foreverrrrr when you're under the effect of a fire resistance potion, sometime the potion wears off before the fire. It's annoying as hell, so being able to douse yourself would be appreciated.