Here be dragons...
Many years ago, when Endermites were added, the developers said they were meant to be used in an "Ultimate Plan" which involved the Dragon Egg...
It's still 2020 and Endermites are pretty useless (except for farms)...
So, what does this mod do? Well, it gives an use to both Endermites and Dragon Eggs, making you... HATCH DRAGONS!!!
Here's a little guide:
To tame your own Baby Dragon, you'll have to defeat the normal Enderdragon first.
Then, you can craft some Fertilized Endstone by surrounding Endstone with Popped Chorus in a Crafting Table.
You can now plant some regular Seeds on Fertilized Endstone to get a new kind of plant.
After they are fully grown (it takes a lot of time), the crops should look like this:
You can harvest them to get some Ender Fiber (or Enderwheat in older versions). Then, you can use 9 Ender Fiber to make a Block of Ender Fiber. Combine 3 of these and the Dragon Egg to make a Dragon Nest.
Now, place the Dragon Nest and wait. It should take a bit to hatch the egg, but you should notice it slowly changes texture. Before it hatches, you can destroy the Dragon Nest to get the both the Dragon Egg and the Blocks of Ender Fiber back in any moment.
When the egg hatches, a flying Baby Enderdragon will be born.
Now, things get different based on which version of the mod you are playing:
<1.2 (Minecraft 1.12.2/1.14.4)
You can't ride the dragon (yet) but it still is a useful pet: in fact it attacks (on melee) and easily kills these mobs:
- Zombies
- Husks
- Skeletons
- Strays
- Wither Skeletons
- Vindicators
- Evokers
- Illusioners
- Blazes
- Spiders
- Cave Spiders
- Silverfish
- Slimes
- Magma Cubes
- Drowneds (1.14.4+)
- Pillagers (1.14.4+)
- Ravagers (1.14.4+)
- Phantoms (1.14.4+)
The mobs it attacks are optimized for its specific style of combat. The Baby Enderdragon does fast and powerful attacks; it can also automatically recover some health and gain some positive status effects when in danger. It even has some armor and is immune to fire, cactus, lightnings, drowing and (obviously) fall damage.
This means it's almost impossible for the Baby Enderdragon to die and that it's safe to always carry it with you even if you don't have any splash potions of healing. It will always be there hunting the annoying zombies for you.
Its only weakness can be a large group of mobs. So be careful when you see an army of zombies attacking your dragon pet :(
>=1.2 (Minecraft 1.14.4/1.15.2)
You can now tame the Baby Enderdragon using some Ender Fiber. After being tamed, it will follow you around and protect you from mobs that attack you or attack the ones you hit, similarly to a vanilla wolf.
You can make the dragon sit (so it can't move) by right-clicking it. Right-clicking it again will make it follow you again.
The Baby Enderdragon is quite strong at combat, since, besides flying, it is also able to auto-heal and gain positive effects.
Now you might be asking what happens if the dragon dies. Would you have lost the egg and its dragon forever?
Not really.
Remember the Dragon Nest (I hope you didn't throw it in the lava)? After it hatched, only a few fragments are remaining from the original egg. However, you can make a new egg.
And that's where the Endermite comes in. If an Endermite collides with the egg, it will infect it and create a new Dragon Nest. You can wait to have another Baby Enderdragon, or you can break the nest to get the egg back!
To tame your own Baby Dragon, you'll have to defeat the normal Enderdragon first.
Then, you can craft some Fertilized Endstone by surrounding Endstone with Popped Chorus in a Crafting Table.
You can now plant some regular Seeds on Fertilized Endstone to get a new kind of plant.
After they are fully grown (it takes a lot of time), the crops should look like this:
You can harvest them to get some Ender Fiber (or Enderwheat in older versions). Then, you can use 9 Ender Fiber to make a Block of Ender Fiber. Combine 3 of these and the Dragon Egg to make a Dragon Nest.
Now, place the Dragon Nest and wait. It should take a bit to hatch the egg, but you should notice it slowly changes texture. Before it hatches, you can destroy the Dragon Nest to get the both the Dragon Egg and the Blocks of Ender Fiber back in any moment.
When the egg hatches, a flying Baby Enderdragon will be born.
Now, things get different based on which version of the mod you are playing:
<1.2 (Minecraft 1.12.2/1.14.4)
You can't ride the dragon (yet) but it still is a useful pet: in fact it attacks (on melee) and easily kills these mobs:
- Zombies
- Husks
- Skeletons
- Strays
- Wither Skeletons
- Vindicators
- Evokers
- Illusioners
- Blazes
- Spiders
- Cave Spiders
- Silverfish
- Slimes
- Magma Cubes
- Drowneds (1.14.4+)
- Pillagers (1.14.4+)
- Ravagers (1.14.4+)
- Phantoms (1.14.4+)
The mobs it attacks are optimized for its specific style of combat. The Baby Enderdragon does fast and powerful attacks; it can also automatically recover some health and gain some positive status effects when in danger. It even has some armor and is immune to fire, cactus, lightnings, drowing and (obviously) fall damage.
This means it's almost impossible for the Baby Enderdragon to die and that it's safe to always carry it with you even if you don't have any splash potions of healing. It will always be there hunting the annoying zombies for you.
Its only weakness can be a large group of mobs. So be careful when you see an army of zombies attacking your dragon pet :(
>=1.2 (Minecraft 1.14.4/1.15.2)
You can now tame the Baby Enderdragon using some Ender Fiber. After being tamed, it will follow you around and protect you from mobs that attack you or attack the ones you hit, similarly to a vanilla wolf.
You can make the dragon sit (so it can't move) by right-clicking it. Right-clicking it again will make it follow you again.
The Baby Enderdragon is quite strong at combat, since, besides flying, it is also able to auto-heal and gain positive effects.
Now you might be asking what happens if the dragon dies. Would you have lost the egg and its dragon forever?
Not really.
Remember the Dragon Nest (I hope you didn't throw it in the lava)? After it hatched, only a few fragments are remaining from the original egg. However, you can make a new egg.
And that's where the Endermite comes in. If an Endermite collides with the egg, it will infect it and create a new Dragon Nest. You can wait to have another Baby Enderdragon, or you can break the nest to get the egg back!
More images can be found in the images tab
This mod was made using MCreator, a free software for making mods without programming knowdlegde. It can be downloaded here: mcreator.net.
The fact it was made using MCreator doesn't mean the mod is bad or bugged, crashes with other mods or more recent Forge versions. While I must admit that many mods made using MCreator are kinda bad, there also are many well done mods, where the authors put a lot of effort into. MCreator itself improved a lot recently, and it no longer is just "pressing buttons".