Minecraft – How much damage does fire do in total before it burns out

This issue is mainly to do with Minecraft and not your video card or even your system. Im using an old Dell Latitude x300 laptop with integrated Intel card and play the game just fine (v1.5+). So, most of the answers you may find are from non techs so ignore them. It has more to do with JAVA.

What I have done is to download and use MCPatcher as a launcher since you can allocate memory through it under the Options Tab. You dont have to run any Mods to get this to work and speed up your Minecraft.

MCPatcher http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/232701-611-update173-compatible-mcpatcher-hd-fix-210-02/

Try setting the memory to, like say, 128 first then bring it up later if this works for you.

As of Minecraft 1.0, the reach distance seems to have changed. It appears to be 4 metres (blocks) in SSP (survival single player), and 5 meters in multiplayer (most likely to compensate for the lag, making combat and block placement easier).

In my testing, when mining directly in front of your character (at head level) and when right against the block you are mining, you can mine four blocks ahead of your player. (I was right against the red wool block, and I couldn't reach the cyan block at the end.)

To further research the reach of the character, I experimented to see how far I could reach on the green block while still being able to mine it. I was able to reach about two-fifths on the block before I couldn't mine it anymore. (My cursor is on the very furthest point that I could still mine the block.)

Because calculating his reach based on exactly where his arm is relative to the physics engine and how far exactly I reached on the green block would be difficult, I'm going to estimate that he reaches approximately 3.6 meters.