diff --git a/src/entity/Entity.php b/src/entity/Entity.php
index e24c6067c..97cdc19de 100644
--- a/src/entity/Entity.php
+++ b/src/entity/Entity.php
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ use pocketmine\player\Player;
 use pocketmine\Server;
 use pocketmine\timings\Timings;
 use pocketmine\timings\TimingsHandler;
+use pocketmine\utils\Limits;
 use pocketmine\utils\Utils;
 use pocketmine\VersionInfo;
 use pocketmine\world\format\Chunk;
@@ -700,9 +701,16 @@ abstract class Entity{
 	 * @throws \InvalidArgumentException
 	 */
 	public function setFireTicks(int $fireTicks) : void{
-		if($fireTicks < 0 || $fireTicks > 0x7fff){
-			throw new \InvalidArgumentException("Fire ticks must be in range 0 ... " . 0x7fff . ", got $fireTicks");
+		if($fireTicks < 0){
+			throw new \InvalidArgumentException("Fire ticks cannot be negative");
 		}
+
+		//Since the max value is not externally obvious or intuitive, many plugins use this without being aware that
+		//reasonably large values are not accepted. We even have such usages within PM itself. It doesn't make sense
+		//to force all those calls to be aware of this limitation, as it's not a functional limit but a limitation of
+		//the Mojang save format. Truncating this to the max acceptable value is the next best thing we can do.
+		$fireTicks = min($fireTicks, Limits::INT16_MAX);
+
 		if(!$this->isFireProof()){
 			$this->fireTicks = $fireTicks;
 			$this->networkPropertiesDirty = true;