Random Fires
A group of friends and I had a world that we shared; a survival world. Deciding that we wanted to be able to join independently, we decided to make it a Realm. But upon doing so, for the last few days, we have had many many issues with random fires starting. We revolve our central operations in a mountainous biome, so lightning strikes were what we figured had started it. But these random fires would start in the middle of the day, while no one but myself was on the server. There are no sources of fires near these buildings, including campfires, lava, lit fires, etc. I ruled it out as a player trolling, as (once again), fires would start in front of my face in the middle of the day while being the only player on the realm. This bug has caused me to spend and WASTE several hours of my time and my friends' time gathering resources to rebuild what has been destroyed. It is seriously frustrating that we pay for a service that we thought would be fun while it has only made us want to stop playing. I know I'm not the only once that has experienced this issue because upon looking it up on Google, several Reddit accounts have also reported this bug, some of them being posted all the way back in August of 2022, yet nothing has been fixed. Either patch this bug, or allow FireTick / FireSpreads to be turned off without turning on cheats. I understand that part of survival means that there will be times that lightning strikes, etc, but when random fires start with no means of starting, it wastes time and drains motivation to continue playing.
Environment
Bedrock Realms
Created Issue:
Random Fires
A group of friends and I had a world that we shared; a survival world. Deciding that we wanted to be able to join independently, we decided to make it a Realm. But upon doing so, for the last few days, we have had many many issues with random fires starting. We revolve our central operations in a mountainous biome, so lightning strikes were what we figured had started it. But these random fires would start in the middle of the day, while no one but myself was on the server. There are no sources of fires near these buildings, including campfires, lava, lit fires, etc. I ruled it out as a player trolling, as (once again), fires would start in front of my face in the middle of the day while being the only player on the realm. This bug has caused me to spend and WASTE several hours of my time and my friends' time gathering resources to rebuild what has been destroyed. It is seriously frustrating that we pay for a service that we thought would be fun while it has only made us want to stop playing. I know I'm not the only once that has experienced this issue because upon looking it up on Google, several Reddit accounts have also reported this bug, some of them being posted all the way back in August of 2022, yet nothing has been fixed. Either patch this bug, or allow FireTick / FireSpreads to be turned off without turning on cheats. I understand that part of survival means that there will be times that lightning strikes, etc, but when random fires start with no means of starting, it wastes time and drains motivation to continue playing.
Environment
Bedrock Realms
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BDS-18151 → 
REALMS-11187
We need more information, or a way to reliably reproduce the issue, in order to Confirm the bug and move the process forward.
Can you provide a video of a "random fire" starting? Some devices allow saving the "last 10 (or more) seconds" of video, so you can just watch for the occurrence and save the video.
Also, "Fire Spreads" can already be turned off in the world settings without activating cheats. You might have to do that on the local world before uploading to the realm though.
Cleaning up old tickets: This ticket had been set to 'Awaiting Response', but has not received a response from the reporter (~3 months+) so is being closed as Incomplete. If you feel this is still a valid issue then please comment, or create a new ticket following the Issue Guidelines which includes steps to reproduce the problem.
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