Beacon Kindling

Beacon Kindling

Type	Placeable item
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Resource location	matcha:beacon_kindling
Base item	minecraft:chicken_spawn_egg
Defined in	beacon_kindling.json

A beacon kindling is an item that lights a signal fire to call a Wandering Trader to the player. The trader arrives 10 minutes after the kindling is placed and leaves 5 minutes later.

Obtaining

Crafting

Name	Ingredients	Recipe
Beacon Kindling	Obol + Kindling + Hay Bale

The recipe is unlocked when the player obtains an Obol.

Usage

Using a Beacon Kindling on a block places a lit signal-fire Kindling (campfire) there, with a burst of flame particles and the sound of a fire charge and a quieter Wither spawn sound. While the beacon is active, it gives off trial spawner detection particles every half second.

The fire then summons a wandering trader:

Time after placing	Event	Chat message
0:00	Beacon lit	A Wandering Trader has spotted your beacon, they will arrive in 10 minutes
10:00	Trader appears beside the fire	The Wandering Trader has arrived, they will depart in 5 minutes
15:00	Trader leaves and the fire goes out	The Wandering Trader has left

The pack counts down in 10-second steps. The fire starts at 90 steps (15 minutes) and summons the trader when 30 are left; the trader gets 30 steps (5 minutes) of its own. Each event can happen up to 10 seconds late. The countdowns run only while the fire, or the trader, is in a loaded chunk, so a beacon left out of range waits and carries on when a player comes back. It also survives reloading the data pack and leaving the world. The first message goes to players within 128 blocks of the player who placed the kindling, the arrival message to players within 128 blocks of the fire, and "has left" to players within 128 blocks of the trader.

• The fire is checked every 10 seconds, before the trader is summoned. If it is no longer a lit campfire (put out with water, broken, or replaced), the beacon is cancelled: players within 128 blocks of it see "The Wandering Trader has lost sight of your beacon...", the campfire, if still there, is put out, and if the trader has already arrived, the summoned trader nearest to the fire leaves.
• Each player can light one beacon every 15 minutes. The cooldown starts when the beacon is placed, counts down only while the player is online, and isn't ended by cancelling the beacon. A Beacon Kindling placed during the cooldown is used up and leaves an ordinary lit signal fire, and only that player sees "You have already summoned a Wandering Trader, please wait patiently while they travel". Other players can have their own beacons lit at the same time.
• The summoned trader is invulnerable. When it leaves, it is teleported 1,000 blocks down and removed, so it drops nothing.

See Wandering Trader#Trades for what the trader sells and buys.

Behavior

The Beacon Kindling is a chicken spawn egg that places an invisible marker instead of a chicken. As with other spawn eggs, using it on a spawner or trial spawner in Survival destroys every spawner within 16 blocks and deals 1 damage to the player.

Advancements

• Bonfire Lit: "Use a Beacon Kindling to signal a Wandering Trader". Rewards 1 obol.

History

1.10	Added. The idea was requested by many players, particularly Josax.
1.12.1-alpha	Added the Bonfire Lit advancement. Summoning items can no longer be used on spawners.
1.12.2	Removed from the rooted dirt recipe group. The Bonfire Lit advancement can be completed.
1.12.3	The timer keeps running while any player is still waiting for a trader. When there is no active beacon and no waiting player, the summoned traders are removed and each player who was waiting is told that the trader "has lost sight of your beacon...".
1.12.7-beta	Beacons no longer break when the data pack reloads, a player leaves the world or the fire goes out of range: their countdowns pause while unloaded. A player's 15-minute cooldown between beacons is no longer cleared for every player when any beacon is cancelled or the data pack reloads. The fire is checked before the trader is summoned, and the trader counts its own 5 minutes. The recipe works in any column of the crafting grid, not only the middle one.