Dragon Egg

Rarity color	Epic
Renewable	No
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool	None
Blast resistance	9
Hardness	3
Luminant	Yes (1)
Transparent	Yes
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No

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

Obtaining

In Java Edition, the dragon egg is available in the Creative inventory. Across both Java and Bedrock editions, it can be obtained with pick block or the /give command, or placed in the world with commands such as /setblock and /fill.

Breaking

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] 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 her.^[2]

Block	Dragon Egg
Hardness	3
Breaking time (secs)
Default	4.5

Usage

Heatmap of where a dragon egg lands after trying to mine it.

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.

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

Dragon eggs emit a light level of 1.

Teleporting

To cause the egg to teleport, press attack while in Survival or Adventure mode (press use in Creative). It teleports to an air block nearby (up to seven blocks vertically and fifteen blocks horizontally), creating the same particles as endermen. It may teleport into the air and subsequently fall to the ground since they forcefully obey gravity. If all available air blocks are filled, it is possible to break the block.

Dragon egg teleportation lacks teleportation sounds.^[3]

The Void

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

Sounds

Java Edition:

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
None^{[sound 1]}	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	`block.stone.fall`	None^{[sound 1]}	0.5	0.75	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
Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	`block.stone.place`	`subtitles.block.generic.place`	1.0	0.8	16
Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	`block.stone.step`	`subtitles.block.generic.footsteps`	0.15	1.0	16

↑ ^a ^b MC-177082

Bedrock Edition:

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

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`

↑ ID of block's direct item form, which is used in savegame files and addons.
↑ Available with /give command.
↑ The block's direct item form has the same id with the block.

Falling block entity

Falling Dragon Egg

Hitbox size	Height: 0.98 Blocks Width: 0.98 Blocks

Dynamic block entity data
- - Tags common to all entities
- BlockState: The falling block represented by this entity.
  - Name: The resource location of the block.
  - Properties: Optional. The block states of the block.
    - Name: The block state name and its value.
- DropItem: 1 or 0 (true/false) – true if the block should drop as an item when it breaks. Any block that does not have an item form with the same ID as the block does not drop even if this is set.
- FallHurtAmount: Multiplied by the FallDistance to calculate the amount of damage to inflict. By default this value is always 2.
- FallHurtMax: The maximum hit points of damage to inflict on entities that intersect this falling block. For vanilla falling blocks, always 40 × 20.
- HurtEntities: 1 or 0 (true/false) – true if the block should hurt entities it falls on.
- TileEntityData: Optional. The tags of the block entity for this block.
- Time: The number of ticks the entity has existed. When Time goes above 600, or above 100 while the block is below Y=1 or is outside building height, the entity is deleted.

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Resource location
	The Next Generation	Hold the Dragon Egg	Free the End	Have a dragon egg in your inventory.	`end/dragon_egg`

History

Java Edition
October 26, 2011					The dragon egg is first mentioned by Notch, supposedly before there was the feature freeze,^[4]^[5] though it seems to have been worked on during it.
1.0.0		Beta 1.9 Prerelease 6			Added dragon eggs.
1.3.1		12w17a			Pick Block no longer works on dragon eggs.
		12w18a			As a result of singleplayer being changed to an internal server, dragon eggs no longer produce 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.^[6]
1.4.4		1.4.3			Dragon eggs once again produce particles; however, they do not actually point to the location it teleports to as they did previously.^[7]
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. This error continues into the present day.^[8]
1.9		15w49a			Pick Block now works on dragon eggs again.^[9]
1.12		17w17a			Obtaining the Dragon Egg now unlocks The Next Generation advancement.
1.13		17w47a			Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 122.
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.^[10]
Pocket Edition
1.0.0		alpha 0.17.0.1			Added dragon eggs.
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.^[11]
Legacy Console Edition
TU9	CU1	1.00	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added dragon eggs.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
1.7.10					Added dragon eggs.

Issues

Issues relating to "Dragon Egg" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia

The writer of the Minecraft comic WonderCraft, Samcube, was requested by Mojang 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

Samcube's Minecraft poster showing the dragon egg.
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.

References

↑ ^a ^b ^c MCPE-51345
↑ MC-165218
↑ MC-166291
↑ " There isn't a lot of interesting minecraft news these days because of the feature freeze, so I will just say one thing: egg." – @notch (Markus Persson) on Twitter, October 27, 2011
↑ " I was talking about ender dragon eggs." – @notch (Markus Persson) on Twitter, October 27, 2011
↑ MC-1688
↑ MC-2157
↑ MC-120417
↑ MC-76975
↑ MC-55718 – resolved as "Fixed"
↑ MCPE-52632

Entities

[bugMC-177082-4] MC-177082

[bedrock-item-id-5] ID of block's direct item form, which is used in savegame files and addons.

[bedrock-give-available-6] Available with /give command.

[bedrock-item-form-7] The block's direct item form has the same id with the block.

[TwoEggs-1] MCPE-51345

[2] MC-165218

[3] MC-166291

[8] " There isn't a lot of interesting minecraft news these days because of the feature freeze, so I will just say one thing: egg." – @notch (Markus Persson) on Twitter, October 27, 2011

[9] " I was talking about ender dragon eggs." – @notch (Markus Persson) on Twitter, October 27, 2011

[10] MC-1688

[11] MC-2157

[12] MC-120417

[13] MC-76975

[14] MC-55718 – resolved as "Fixed"

[15] MCPE-52632

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