Firework Rocket


Behavior

See also: Firework Star⃂₧⃂Effects

Once launched, fireworks will fly out vertically, with random horizontal offset up to 5 blocks. After some time, the firework will explode into a colorful explosion based on the effects of the firework stars added upon crafting, or no explosion if no firework star was used. If multiple firework stars were added to the rocket upon crafting, they will all explode simultaneously.

The explosion of firework rockets deals 2.5 hearts of damage, per firework star. There is also a delay between detonation and the player hearing the sound, emulating real fireworks, but this sound travels much more slowly than in the real world. The explosion of a firework can be seen 64 blocks away, regardless of its height.

Care should be taken during firework assembly so as not to exceed the (unmodded) particle limit of 4k with fireworks. If the limit is exceeded, the oldest particles are removed before displaying new ones, resulting in severely diminished firework quality / duration. At most a firework should have 3 trail stars, more than that could waste diamonds, firework stars, and other fireworks. Particle counts per star are:

Ball Type Plain Trail
Small 98 ~1300
Large 387 4000+
Star 122 ~1600
Creeper 266 ~3500
Burst 72 ~930

Twinkle effect adds 2 particles to the count.

Like most other entities, they can be moved by water and explosions, and teleported via portals. They also cannot move through solid surfaced blocks, upon hitting one they will either move to a side or explode based on the duration. If a firework explodes under a block, its explosion will be flattened.

Obtaining

In the computer edition, fireworks can only be obtained by crafting and commands.

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Trivia

  • Launching a rocket by hand on a wooden pressure plate will activate it. The same doesn`t hold for stone pressure plates, or for a dispenser placing a rocket onto a wooden pressure plate.
  • 2012 New Years is what inspired Jeb to add fireworks.
  • If you shoot a firework into a Nether portal, it will explode in the Nether.

Crafting

Ingredients Crafting Crafting is the method by which many blocks, tools, and materials are made in Minecraft. In order to craft something, players must move items from their inventory to a crafting grid. A 2×2 crafting grid minecraft recipe Description
Paper+
Gunpowder















3

When crafted this way (without a firework star), the rocket will have no explosion effects.

On console, only 1 rocket is produced per recipe.

Any Firework Star Firework Star Type ? Durability 0 (Data) Renewable Trail Effect: No All Others: Yes Stackable Yes (64) First appearances See History Data value dec: 402 hex: 192 bin: 110010010 Name firework_charge Firework stars are items used to determine minecraft +
Paper+
Gunpowder






























3

Adding more gunpowder increases the duration of the rocket. Up to three gunpowder can be used. Up to five firework stars can also be used with three gunpowder. Up to seven firework stars can be used by using firework stars instead of additional gunpowder. All firework stars will go off simultaneously when the rocket detonates.

On console, only 1 rocket is produced per recipe.

Creative inventory

Five pre-made firework rockets are listed in the Creative inventory. Console⃂edition only Console Edition Author(s) Mojang AB 4J Studios Platform(s) Written in C++ Latest version Xbox 360 - TU53 Xbox One - CU43 PS3 - 1.51 PS4 - 1.50 PSVita - 1.51 Wii U - Patch 23 minecraft

They are equivalent to the following rockets:

Crafting the firework star: Adding a fade color: Crafting the firework: Preview
























Small Ball Brown Twinkle Fireworks.png





























Creeper shaped Magenta Fireworks.png




































Burst Orange fade to Red Fireworks.png




































Burst Green fade to Yellow Twinkle Fireworks.png




































Star shaped Blue fade to Red Trail Fireworks.png

Launching fireworks

To launch a firework rocket, use its item on a block. They can also be launched from dispensers.

Elytra

When you hold a firework rocket in your hand and are gliding with elytra Elytra Type Transport Durability 431 Renewable No Stackable No First appearances See History Data values PC: dec: 443 hex: 1BB bin: 110111011 PE: dec: 444 hex: 1BC bin: 110111100 Name elytra “ Elytra! Soar through The End on your freshly-minted insectoid minecraft , using the firework rocket will boost the flying speed. If the rocket is equipped with a firework star of any kind, 7 () damage will be dealt to the player. The duration or strength of the speed boost depends on the flight duration of the firework rocket.

Duration and direction

Fireworks travel different heights based on the amount of gunpowder added. The number will be displayed as a tag on the item`s tooltip with the description of "Flight Duration"

The height it rises is between 12 to 22 blocks with 1 gunpowder, 23 to 39 blocks with 2 gunpowder, and 40 to 60 blocks with 3 gunpowder. (Note: Using command blocks, firework rockets with higher durations will go much higher and keep accelerating with virtually no terminal velocity. If the duration is long enough, the firework rocket could reach heights of over 1000000 blocks and speeds of over 10000⃂m/s in a matter of minutes. Such fireworks with significant X and Z motions will speed up sideways exponentially and reach outside the world boundary in a matter of seconds.)

Fireworks can be made to travel different directions by being dispensed or launched under flowing water. The firework`s direction then rapidly arcs to the horizontal and the travel distance increases to a point further than the height.

Data values

See also: Chunk format and Player.dat format

As an item, firework rockets have an ID name of minecraft:fireworks and an ID number of 401. As an entity, firework rockets have an entity ID of fireworks_rocket and a network ID of 22.


  • Entity data
    • Tags common to all entities see Template:Nbt inherit/entity/template

    • Life: The number of ticks this fireworks rocket has been flying for.

    • LifeTime: The number of ticks before this fireworks rocket explodes. This value is randomized when the firework is launched: ((Flight + 1) * 10 + random(0 to 5) + random(0 to 6))

    • FireworksItem: The crafted Firework Rocket item.

      • tag: The tag tag.

        • Explosion: One of these may appear on a firework star.

          • Flicker: 1 or 0 (true/false) - true if this explosion will have the Twinkle effect (glowstone dust). May be absent.

          • Trail: 1 or 0 (true/false) - true if this explosion will have the Trail effect (diamond). May be absent.

          • Type: The shape of this firework`s explosion. 0 = Small Ball, 1 = Large Ball, 2 = Star-shaped, 3 = Creeper-shaped, 4 = Burst. Other values will be named "Unknown Shape" and render as Small Ball.

          • Colors: Array of integer values corresponding to the primary colors of this firework`s explosion. If custom color codes are used, the game will render it as "Custom" in the tooltip, but the proper color will be used in the explosion. Custom colors are integers in the same format as the color tag from Display Properties.

          • FadeColors: Array of integer values corresponding to the fading colors of this firework`s explosion. Same handling of custom colors as Colors. May be absent.

        • Fireworks: One of these may appear on a firework rocket.

          • Flight: Indicates the flight duration of the firework (equals the amount of gunpowder used in crafting the rocket). While this value can be anything from -128 to 127, values of -2 and under almost never detonate at all.

          • Explosions: List of compounds representing each explosion this firework will cause.

            • Same format as `Explosion` compound on a firework star, as described above.

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History

Official release
Nov. 24, 2012 Jeb stated that there may be fireworks in Minecraft at the Future Updates with the Minecraft PC Team panel at MineCon 2012.
Dec. 5, 2012 Jeb released the first image of fireworks, along with the information that colors, fade, height, effects and shapes will be craftable.
1.4.6 12w49a Added firework rockets.
12w50a Added sound and more effects to firework rockets.
1.10 16w20a Firework rocket recipe now produces 3 rockets, rather than 1.
1.11 16w32a The entity ID is changed from FireworksRocketEntity to fireworks_rocket.
1.11.1 16w50a Firework rockets can now damage entities that are within their explosion radius.
Firework rockets can now boost players while flying with an elytra Elytra Type Transport Durability 431 Renewable No Stackable No First appearances See History Data values PC: dec: 443 hex: 1BB bin: 110111011 PE: dec: 444 hex: 1BC bin: 110111100 Name elytra “ Elytra! Soar through The End on your freshly-minted insectoid minecraft .
Console Edition
TU19 CU7 1.12 Patch 1 Patch s1 Added firework rockets.
TU46 CU36 1.38 Patch 15 Updated crafting interface to allow crafting Firework Stars and Fireworks.
TU53 CU43 1.49 Patch 23 Patch s3 Firework rockets can now boost players while flying with an elytra Elytra Type Transport Durability 431 Renewable No Stackable No First appearances See History Data values PC: dec: 443 hex: 1BB bin: 110111011 PE: dec: 444 hex: 1BC bin: 110111100 Name elytra “ Elytra! Soar through The End on your freshly-minted insectoid minecraft .

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