Dragon Egg

Dragon Egg

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition

Rarity tier	Epic
Renewable	No
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool	Any tool
Blast resistance	9
Hardness	3
Luminous	Yes (1)
Transparent	Yes
Waterloggable	JE: No BE: Yes
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No
Map color (JE)	29 COLOR_BLACK

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The dragon egg is a decorative block or a "trophy item", and is the rarest item obtainable in the game, as it generates only once (or twice in Bedrock Edition^[1]) per world.

Obtaining

The dragon egg is available in the Creative inventory. It can be obtained with pick block or the /give command, or placed in the world with commands such as /setblock and /fill.

Breaking

The dragon egg usually cannot be mined directly, as trying to do so causes it to teleport within a 31×15×31 volume centered on the egg, with locations toward the center more likely. If all air blocks in that area are filled so there is nowhere for the egg to teleport to, or if it fails to find an air block after 1,000 attempts at teleporting, it can be mined.

The dragon egg is a gravity-affected block, and drops as an item when pushed by a piston or when it falls onto a block less than a full block tall, such as a torch or a bottom slab.

When destroyed by an explosion, the block always drops as an item.

The dragon egg is not immune to destruction by the ender dragon, despite being produced by it.^[2]

Block
Hardness	3
Breaking time (secs)
Default	4.5
Options
Haste	001 1JEBE

Legend

• incorrect tool, drops nothing
• correct tool, drops nothing or something other than the block itself
• correct tool, drops the block itself
• italicized can be instant mined

Post-generation

In Java Edition, a single dragon egg is generated on top of the exit portal when the first ender dragon is defeated. In Bedrock Edition, two dragon eggs generate on top of the exit portal; one generates when the first ender dragon is defeated, while the other generates when the second ender dragon is defeated.^[1]

Usage

The dragon egg, if there is no block below it, falls until it lands on the next available block. When it is being affected by gravity and falling, it exhibits a smooth falling animation.

It does not suffocate mobs or players when it falls and covers them, nor does it squash mobs or players like anvils and stalactites do.

The dragon egg can be placed on a non-solid block without falling.

Like other falling blocks, when the dragon egg is floating, it has black particles falling from it.

Light source

The dragon egg emits a light level of 1.

Teleporting

To cause the egg to teleport, press attack or use while in Survival or Adventure mode (or only use in Creative). It teleports to an air block nearby (up to seven blocks vertically and fifteen blocks horizontally), creating the same particles as an enderman. It may teleport into the air and subsequently fall to the ground since it forcefully obeys gravity.

When the egg teleports, it creates a particle trail that is supposed to lead from its prior location to where it has teleported to; due to a bug^[3], the particles do not correctly point to where the egg teleports to.

If all available air blocks are filled, it is possible to break the block.

Dragon egg teleportation lacks teleportation sounds.^[4]

The void

In the case that egg teleportation finds an invalid location (such as below the world), it makes an additional attempt to find a valid location, centered on the invalid location rather than the original position.

Sounds

Java Edition:

v t e stone sound type
Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.stone.break	subtitles.block.generic.break​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.stone.place	subtitles.block.generic.place​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.stone.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit​	0.25	0.5	16
	​Something falls on a block	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.stone.fall	subtitles.block.generic.fall​	0.5	0.75	16
	​Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	block.stone.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.15	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

v t e stone sound type
Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Blocks	Once the block has broken	dig.stone	1.0	0.8-1.0
	Blocks	When the block is placed	dig.stone	1.0	0.8-1.0
	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	hit.stone	0.37	0.5
	Players	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.stone	0.4	1.0
	Players	Walking on the block	step.stone	0.3	1.0
	Blocks	Jumping from the block	jump.stone	0.12	1.0
	Blocks	Falling on the block without fall damage	land.stone	0.22	1.0

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Translation key
Dragon Egg	dragon_egg	Block & Item	block.minecraft.dragon_egg

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID[i 1]	Translation key
Dragon Egg	dragon_egg	122	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3]	tile.dragon_egg.name

Falling block entity

Falling Dragon Egg

Hitbox size	Height: 0.98 Blocks Width: 0.98 Blocks

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Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	The Next Generation	Hold the Dragon Egg	Have a dragon egg in the inventory.

History

Java Edition
October 26, 2011							The dragon egg is first mentioned by Notch, supposedly before there was the feature freeze,[5][6] though it seems to have been worked on during it.
1.0.0			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 6				Added the dragon egg.
							Dragon eggs cannot be obtained within the Creative inventory.
1.3.1			12w17a				Pick Block no longer works on the dragon egg.
			12w18a				As a result of singleplayer being changed to an internal server, the dragon egg no longer produces particles when teleporting, alongside many other features this version broke.
			12w30c				The dragon egg renders as lava with the cube model when falling.
			12w30e				The dragon egg uses its own model again when falling.
1.4.4			1.4.3				The dragon egg uses cube model when falling.[7]
							The dragon egg once again produces particles; however, it does not actually point to the location it teleports to as it did previously. This error continues into the present day.[3]
1.4.6							The dragon egg uses its own model when falling, once again.
1.8			14w07a				The dragon egg is among the earliest of many blocks to be converted to custom block models, deprecating hardcoded block rendering. The conversion, however, is flawed, as the third "tier" from the top is the same size as the second, resulting in an incorrectly shaped model as well as inconsistently sized pixels.[8]
1.9			15w49a				Pick Block now works on the dragon egg again.[9]
1.12			17w17a				The advancement The Next Generation has been added, which is unlocked from obtaining a dragon egg.
1.13			17w47a				Floating dragon eggs now make falling dust particles.[10]
			18w21a				The rarity of dragon eggs has been changed from "Common" to "Epic".
1.17			21w11a				Changed lighting.
1.18			21w39a				The default brightness has been changed from "Moody" to 50.
1.19.3			22w43a				The dragon egg is now available in the Creative inventory.[11]
1.21.2			24w33a				The model and UV mapping of the dragon egg have been updated[12]
Pocket Edition
1.0.0			alpha 0.17.0.1				Added the dragon egg.
							Dragon eggs are available in the Creative inventory.
Bedrock Edition
?							Two dragon eggs now spawn, only when the first and second dragons are defeated.[1]
1.16.200			beta 1.16.200.56				The dragon egg now always drops as an item when it's destroyed by an explosion.[13]
1.20.30			Preview 1.20.20.21				Increased the blast resistance of dragon eggs from 3 to 9.
1.21.30			Preview 1.21.30.21				The rarity of dragon eggs has been changed from "Common" to "Epic" to match Java Edition.
1.21.50			Preview 1.21.50.20				Dragon eggs no longer require a pickaxe to mine, and are equally quick to mine with any tool.
Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU9	CU1	1.00	1.00	1.00	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added the dragon egg.
							Dragon eggs cannot be obtained within the Creative inventory.
TU46	CU36	1.38	1.38	1.38	Patch 15		An option to reset the End has been added, making dragon eggs renewable.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
1.7.10							Added the dragon egg.
							Dragon eggs are available in the Creative inventory.

Data history

Issues

Issues relating to "Dragon Egg" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Trivia

• The writer of the Minecraft comic WonderCraft, Samcube, was requested by Mojang Studios to create official Minecraft posters. In a part of these works, one can see an area with an ender dragon and a chicken on top of a huge mushroom. In the same scene, the dragon egg is visible near the chicken.
• If the dragon egg teleports and falls into the portal, it spawns in the Overworld at the world spawn.

Gallery

Screenshots

• 
  The teleporting distance of a dragon egg.
• 
  An example of using a piston and a lever to obtain the dragon egg.
• 
  A dragon egg on a snow layer.

In other media

• 
  Samcube's Minecraft poster showing the dragon egg.
• 
  A developer concept for a remodeled dragon egg.
• 
  Dragon egg in A Minecraft Movie McDonald's commercial.

See also

• The End
• Ender Dragon

References

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