This article is about the Ender Dragon's egg. For other eggs, see Egg (disambiguation).
A dragon egg is a block that spawns on top of the bedrock portal created by the defeat of the Ender Dragon in The End. When the player clicks the egg, it will teleport several blocks away (in Creative mode, it will break instead). They currently have no explicit purpose, but are tricky to collect. The preferred way to pick up the egg is to use a piston to push it off of the bedrock pillar atop the portal, causing it to drop as an item that can be placed in the player's inventory. The portal underneath should be covered with blocks, however, before the piston is powered or else the egg will fall into the portal. The player can also fill a large area around the portal with torches and hit the egg. When the egg teleports, it will fall on top of a torch, break, and drop as an item.
They currently have no purpose, other than as a trophy or decoration.
On March 13th, 2014, Dinnerbone tweeted about that he might add a Dragon Egg feature in his "Ultimate Plan", but he hasn't discussed this with the Mojang team yet.[1]
Behavior
Clicking on the egg in survival or adventure mode causes it to teleport to a place nearby (up to seven blocks vertically and fifteen blocks horizontally), creating the same particles as Endermen, Nether Portals, Ender Pearls, and Ender Chests. It may teleport into the air and subsequently fall to the ground. You may want to bring a piston with you to collect the egg as an entity or item in your inventory. Or you could click the egg once to make it teleport to an end stone underground, then place a torch one block below the egg and then simply remove the block above the torch which will make the egg fall on the torch and drop as a resource.
However, the egg does not teleport if there aren't any air blocks available for it to teleport to. This allows for the egg to be mined directly.[2]
Like Sand, Gravel, and Anvils, Dragon Eggs fall when unsupported (due to the fact that they are affected by gravity), and if they land on a non-solid block, (such as a Torch, Slab or Tall Grass) they will drop as a resource. They cannot suffocate the player by falling onto them.
To obtain the dragon egg, the player may push it with a piston or place any non-solid block (like a torch) under the block the egg rests on and then destroy that block so the egg falls onto it. It is possible for the player to hit one while it is still moving to the point it breaks, however this is difficult. You may also use a sword while blocking to break the egg and get it that way, or, start to mine a block next to it with a pickaxe, and, while swinging the pickaxe (holding down the mouse button) aim for the egg, and it will start to mine it. It is also possible to obtain a dragon egg by using this command: /give @p minecraft:dragon_egg. You can also get it with TNT or some other explosion, but it won't always drop the egg.
The dragon egg will not burn in lava upon teleportation or falling.
Video
Dragon Egg/video
History
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 26, 2011 | The dragon egg is first mentioned by Notch, supposedly before there was the feature freeze,[3][4] though it seems to have been worked on during it. | ||||
1.0.0{{Extension DPL}}<ul><li>[[Minecart with Furnace|Minecart with Furnace]]<br/>{{ItemEntity
|image=Minecart with Furnace.png
|renewable=Yes
|stackable=No
|size=Height: 0.7 Blocks<br>Width: 0.98 Blocks
|networkid=10
|drops= 1 {{ItemLink|Minecart with Furnace}}
|health={{Hp|6}}
}}
A '''minecart with furnace''' is a [[furnace]] inside a [[minecart]]. It can be powered with [[coal]] or [[charcoal]] to propel it across a [[rail]] line for a limited time, which can be used to move other minecarts.
==Obtaining==
Minecarts with furnace can be retrieved by attacking them, and by doing so it drops as an [[item]].
===Crafting===
{{Crafting
|Output= Minecart with Furnace
|type= Transportation
|Furnace|Minecart}}
==Usage==
Minecarts with furnaces are placed in the same way as other minecarts. It does not have a graphical user interface, unlike a [[furnace]].
Minecarts with furnaces can be powered, done by feeding fuel ([[coal]] or [[charcoal]]) into the furnace minecart with the {{Control|use}} button. The fuel is consumed immediately and it starts to move in the same direction the player clicked toward. Pressing {{Control|use}} always turns it to that direction, even when not holding coal.
Any piece of fuel, added at any time, increases the total range by an additional 3600 ticks (equal to 180 seconds or 3 minutes). The upper limit is 32767 ticks, approximately 27 minutes.
When powered, minecarts with furnaces cover 240m per minute (about 4 m/s, slightly slower than walking speed) or 720m per piece of coal. They do not accelerate beyond this speed when going downhill or on active [[powered rail]]s, and as long as they remain powered, they do not slow down when going uphill, on inactive powered rails, or when pushing or pulling other minecarts.
If a powered furnace minecart is derailed and then pushed back onto a rail, it starts moving again in the direction it came from, so they are not easily turned around in this state unless a player is nearby to redirect it with {{Control|use}}.
Minecarts with furnaces can climb up steep inclines while pushing other minecarts as long as they have fuel. If a minecart with furnace reaches a slope while pulling another minecart, the pulled minecart is switched to the forward position so that it can be pushed along the slope instead of pulled.
When a minecart with furnace bumps into another minecart or multiple minecarts, the other minecarts are pushed forward with great speed. The furnace minecart continues on with its own speed. Because of this speed difference, some of the minecarts may end up inside unloaded chunks on straight tracks.
===Train mechanics===
{{Schematic
|caption=weakly-shunted 1-cart train, one cart was used only to push the train together and is left behind
|AB|mc-$ew|mc-$ew|mc/Fu-$ew|-
|AB|ra-$wu|ra-$ew|ra-$ew|ra-$ew|ellipsis-ew
}}
{{Schematic
|caption=Creating a strongly-shunted 1-cart train. The sloped rail must be replaced with a horizontal rail before powering.
|AB|mc-$ew||mc/Fu-$ew|-
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}}
[[File:FurnaceMinecartTrain.png|thumb|right|A Minecart train powered by furnace [[Minecart|minecarts.]]|alt=]]
A furnace minecart can be made to pull up to four other minecarts. All minecarts in this train move at the constant speed of the furnace minecart. Trains are formed when a minecart is pushed into the back of a powered furnace minecart or a short-enough train. These shunts are fragile at best and easily come undone, but some methods are stronger than others. For example, pushing a minecart into a furnace minecart and then powering the furnace gives a weaker shunt than pushing the furnace minecart into the other minecart against a wall, and then powering the furnace in the other direction.
A high-speed minecart running into the back of a furnace minecart going in the same direction automatically creates a weak shunt with it, pulling it along.
Pulling a minecart with TNT causes it to explode.
{| class="wikitable"
|+Pulled minecart/Shunt behavior
!Condition
!Result
|-
|Furnace loses power/speed||Shunt comes undone
|-
|Entity bumping besides those part of the train||Jettisoned forward
|-
|Upward sloped track||Jettisoned forward
|-
|Downward sloped track||Jettisoned forward (strong shunt) or shunt comes undone (weak shunt)
|-
|90° turn in track||Jettisoned backward
|-
|Turn toward north/south or east/west that is not the direction the train was shunted in||Train derails
|}
When a train comes to a turn, the shunt comes undone with the pulled minecart jettisoned backward. The correct way to make such a turn is having the shunt undone before a turn, and then make the two rejoin on a straight rail later by having the pulled cart catch up with the minecart with furnace.<ref name=mango/>
Since the train runs slower on a fully powered track than a normal minecart (~5 m/s compared to 8m/s), a train pulled by an unpowered furnace minecart is ideal for AFK farms involving breaking or placing blocks like [[nether wart]].<ref name=mango>{{YouTubeLink|1=pRLiAQfhTG8|2=Why The Furnace Minecart Isn't As Useless As You Think|3=ilmango}}</ref>
==Properties==
The coal is not stored as an item in the entity, but in the object data in the fuel property as a time in ticks. ''Fuel'' is a short value, i.e. a maximum of 32767 ticks, which is about 27 minutes. However, {{cmd|/summon furnace_minecart ~ ~ ~ {Fuel:32000} }} alone doesn't make it go since it doesn't have a direction. It can be right-clicked on a track to give it a direction, or it can be summoned with the properties ''PushX'' and ''PushZ'' set, which are responsible for the direction. The <code>Motion</code> property of every entity allows for movement of the minecart, but it does not direct the minecart to move on its own.
==Sounds==
{{Edition|Java}}:<br>
Minecarts with furnaces use the Friendly Creatures sound category for entity-dependent sound events.<ref group=sound name=rollsource>{{bug|MC-42132}}</ref>
{{Sound table
|sound=Minecart rolling.ogg
|subtitle=Minecart rolls
|source=Friendly Creatures <ref group=sound name=rollsource/>
|overridesource=1
|description=While a minecart with furnace is moving
|id=entity.minecart.riding
|translationkey=subtitles.entity.minecart.riding
|volume=0.0-0.35 <ref group=sound>Relates linearly with horizontal velocity (max 0.5)</ref>
|pitch=0.0-1.0 <ref group=sound>Will increase by 0.0025 per tick if the minecart's horizontal velocity is more than 0.01</ref>
|distance=16
|foot=1}}
{{Edition|Bedrock}}:
{{Sound table
|type=bedrock
|sound=Minecart rolling.ogg
|source=neutral
|description=While a minecart with furnace is moving
|id=minecart.base
|foot=1}}
==Data values==
===ID===
{{ID table
|edition=java
|firstcolumnname=Item
|showforms=y
|generatetranslationkeys=y
|displayname=Minecart with Furnace
|spritetype=item
|nameid=furnace_minecart
|form=item
|foot=1}}
{{ID table
|edition=java
|firstcolumnname=Entity
|generatetranslationkeys=y
|displayname=Minecart with Furnace
|spritetype=entity
|nameid=furnace_minecart
|foot=1}}
===Entity data===
Minecarts with furnace have entity data associated with them that contain various properties of the entity.
{{el|java}}:
{{main|Entity format}}
{{/ED}}
{{el|bedrock}}:
: See [[Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format]].
==History==
{{History|java alpha}}
{{History||v1.0.14|[[File:Minecart with Furnace JE1.png|32px]] [[File:Minecart with Furnace (item) JE1.png|32px]] Minecarts with furnace were added.
|Since no in-game name was indicated, they were referred to by names such as "powered minecart" or "furnace minecart".
|No matter how much fuel was added to the minecart, it would never move for more than 3 minutes after the last fuel.}}
{{History|java beta}}
{{History||1.0|When tooltips were added to items in inventory, this was named "Minecart with Furnace".}}
{{History||1.2|[[File:Minecart with Furnace JE2.png|32px]] The texture of the minecart with furnace has been changed.}}
{{History|java}}
{{History||1.0.0|snap=?|Each piece of [[coal]] now powers a [[minecart]] with furnace for {{convert|3|minutes|ticks}}, so that adding another piece of coal at any time increases the total range by another 3 minutes. A full stack of 64 coal now powers it for {{convert|192|minutes|ticks}}.
|Minecarts with furnace on a level track cover 204 meters per minute.}}
{{History||1.8|snap=14w11a|Minecarts with furnace now give a much greater boost to other minecarts.
|When powered, minecarts with furnace now move on non-powered rails without decelerating.}}
{{History|||snap=14w17a|Minecarts with furnace's behavior has been reverted, so that no change was released in [[Java Edition 1.8]].}}
{{History||1.11|snap=16w32a|The entity ID of the minecart with furnace has been changed from <code>MinecartFurnace</code> to <code>furnace_minecart</code>.}}
{{History||1.13|snap=17w47a|Prior to [[1.13/Flattening|''The Flattening'']], this [[item]]'s numeral ID was 343.}}
{{History||1.14|snap=18w43a|[[File:Minecart with Furnace JE3.png|32px]] [[File:Minecart with Furnace (item) JE2.png|32px]] The texture of the minecart with furnace has been changed.}}
{{History||1.15|snap=19w38a|[[File:Minecart with Furnace 19w38a.png|32px]] The furnace now appears dark, like suffocating mobs.}}
{{History|||snap=19w39a|The furnace texture is now colored correctly.}}
{{History||1.15.2|snap=Pre-Release 1|Furnace minecarts can now navigate around any corner.}}
{{History||1.19|snap=22w13a|The crafting recipe for a minecart with furnace is now shapeless.
|Breaking a minecart with furnace will now drop the item instead of the minecart and furnace separately.<ref>{{bug|MC-249493|||Fixed}}</ref>}}
{{History|console}}
{{History||xbox=TU1|xbone=CU1|ps=1.0|wiiu=Patch 1|switch=1.0.1|[[File:Minecart with Furnace JE2.png|32px]] [[File:Minecart with Furnace (item) JE1.png|32px]] Added minecart with furnace.}}
{{History|Ps4}}
{{History||1.90|[[File:Minecart with Furnace JE3.png|32px]] [[File:Minecart with Furnace (item) JE2.png|32px]] The texture of the minecart with furnace has been changed.}}
{{History|foot}}
==Issues==
{{issue list}}
==Trivia==
*The minecart with furnace is excluded from {{els|be|3ds}} on purpose. In a tweet, [[Jeb]] considered removing it from {{el|je}}.<ref>{{tweet|jeb|699241247391772672|I think we will phase out the furnace minecraft ''(sic)''|15 Feb 2016}}</ref>
**When converting a [[Legacy Console Edition]] world to a [[Bedrock Edition]] world, any present minecarts with furnaces are converted into a normal minecart.
**Despite the above-described poor standing of the minecart, it was most recently briefly featured in an animation in the [[Minecraft Live 2022]], where one was depicted as moving a train of about 20 minecarts at a higher than normal speed.
==Gallery==
<gallery>
Running Powered Minecart.png|A powered minecart in action.
</gallery>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{Items}}
{{Entities}}
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[[fr:Wagonnet motorisé]]
[[hu:Gőzmeghajtású csille]]
[[ja:かまど付きのトロッコ]]
[[ko:화로가 실린 광산 수레]]
[[nl:Mijnkar met oven]]
[[pl:Wagonik z piecem]]
[[ru:Вагонетка с печью]]
[[uk:Вагонетка з піччю]]
[[zh:动力矿车]]</li><li>[[Honeycomb|Honeycomb]]<br/>{{distinguish|Honeycomb Block}}
{{Item
| image = Honeycomb.png
| renewable = Yes
| stackable = Yes (64)
}}
'''Honeycombs''' are [[item]]s obtained from [[bee nest]]s and beehives.
== Obtaining ==
{{See also|Tutorials/Honey farming}}
When a bee nest or beehive at {{cd|honey_level}} 5 is [[shear]]ed, it drops 3 honeycombs and angers any [[bee]]s inside, causing them to attack. Having a lit [[campfire]] or lighting a [[fire]] underneath the nest or hive prevents the bees from becoming hostile.
A [[dispenser]] with [[shears]] inside can be used to shear the nest or hive without angering the bees. A honeycomb item drops out after using the shears.
== Usage ==
=== Signs ===
{{Control|Using}} a honeycomb on a [[sign]] or a hanging sign prevents the sign from being edited.
=== Waxing ===
{{Control|Using}} a honeycomb on a [[block of copper]] changes the block into its waxed variant, preventing oxidation of the copper.
=== Crafting ingredient ===
{{crafting usage}}
== Sounds ==
{{edition|java}}:
{{Sound table
|sound=Beehive shear.ogg
|subtitle=Shears scrape
|source=neutral
|description=When honeycombs are collected from a beehive
|id=block.beehive.shear
|translationkey=subtitles.block.beehive.shear
|volume=0.8
|pitch=1.0/0.9/0.8
|distance=16}}
{{Sound table
|sound=Wax on1.ogg
|sound2=Wax on2.ogg
|sound3=Wax on3.ogg
|subtitle=Wax on
|source=block
|description=When a honeycomb waxes something
|id=item.honeycomb.wax_on
|translationkey=subtitles.item.honeycomb.wax_on
|volume=1.0
|pitch=1.0/0.9/1.1
|distance=16
|foot=1}}
{{edition|bedrock}}:
{{Sound table
|type=bedrock
|sound=Beehive shear.ogg
|source=block
|description=When honeycombs are collected from a beehive
|id=block.beehive.shear
|volume=0.8
|pitch=0.8-1.0}}
{{Sound table
|sound=Wax on1.ogg
|sound2=Wax on2.ogg
|sound3=Wax on3.ogg
|source=neutral
|description=When a honeycomb waxes something
|id=copper.wax.on
|volume=1.0
|pitch=0.8-1.2
|foot=1}}
== Data values ==
=== ID ===
{{edition|java}}:
{{ID table
|edition=java
|showforms=y
|generatetranslationkeys=y
|displayname=Honeycomb
|spritetype=item
|nameid=honeycomb
|form=item
|foot=1}}
{{edition|bedrock}}:
{{ID table
|edition=bedrock
|shownumericids=y
|showforms=y
|notshowbeitemforms=y
|generatetranslationkeys=y
|displayname=Honeycomb
|spritetype=item
|nameid=honeycomb
|id=591
|form=item
|foot=1}}
== Advancements ==
{{load advancements|Wax on;Wax off}}
== History ==
{{History|java}}
{{History||1.15|snap=19w34a|[[File:Honeycomb JE1.png|32px]] Added honeycombs.
|Honeycombs can be used to craft [[beehive]]s.}}
{{History|||snap=19w41a|Honeycombs can now be used to craft [[honeycomb block]]s.}}
{{History|||snap=Pre-release 3|[[File:Honeycomb texture change 1.15pre2 to 1.15pre3.gif|32px]] The texture file of honeycombs has been slightly changed. The color channel of transparent pixels are now filled to black. The in-game texture has not been changed.}}
{{History||1.17|snap=20w45a|Honeycomb can now be used to craft [[candle]]s and [[waxed copper]].}}
{{History|||snap=21w11a|Honeycomb can now be used to wax copper blocks by right clicking or dispensing honeycomb onto the block.}}
{{History|||snap=21w14a|Honeycomb can now be used to wax oxidized copper blocks.}}
{{History|||snap=21w19a|Honeycomb can no longer used to craft candles.}}
{{History|||snap=Pre-release 1|Honeycomb can once again used to craft candles.}}
{{History||1.20|snap=23w12a|[[Sign]]s and hanging signs can now be waxed with honeycomb to prevent them from being edited.}}
{{History|bedrock}}
{{History||1.14.0|snap=beta 1.14.0.1|[[File:Honeycomb BE1.png|32px]] Added honeycombs.}}
{{History|||snap=beta 1.14.0.4|[[File:Honeycomb BE2.png|32px]] The texture of honeycombs has been changed to match {{el|je}}'s.}}
{{History||Caves & Cliffs (experimental)|link=Bedrock Edition 1.17.0|snap=beta 1.16.210.57|Honeycomb can now be used to craft [[waxed copper]].
|Honeycomb can now be used to wax copper blocks by right clicking or dispensing honeycomb onto the block.}}
{{History||1.17.0|snap=beta 1.16.230.52|Honeycomb can now be used to wax oxidized copper blocks.}}
{{History||1.17.10|snap=beta 1.17.10.22|Honeycomb can now be used to craft [[candle]]s.}}
{{History||Next Major Update<br>(Experimental)|link=Bedrock Edition 1.19.80|snap=beta 1.19.80.22|[[Sign]]s and hanging signs can now be waxed with honeycomb to prevent them from being edited.}}
{{History|foot}}
== Issues ==
{{issue list}}
{{items}}
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[[de:Honigwabe]]
[[es:Panal]]
[[fr:Rayon de miel]]
[[ja:ハニカム]]
[[ko:벌집 조각]]
[[pl:Plaster miodu]]
[[pt:Favo de mel]]
[[ru:Пчелиные соты]]
[[zh:蜜脾]]
[[Category:Renewable resources]]</li></ul> | Beta 1.9-pre6 | Added dragon eggs. | |||
Issues
Issues relating to "Dragon Egg" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
Trivia
- Ender Dragons destroy Dragon Eggs when passing through them.
- The writer of the Minecraft comic WonderCraft, Samcube, was requested by Mojang to create official Minecraft posters. In 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.
- The achievement The End. features a Dragon Egg as its icon. Its icon used to be a Monster Spawner block in the 1.9 pre-releases 3/4/5, due to the lack of Dragon Eggs at this time.
- When hit with Flint and Steel, a Dragon Egg might break with one hit or teleport and appear in a new position, but still broken.
- The dragon egg can be considered the rarest block obtainable in survival due to the fact that it only spawns once per world.
- The dragon egg will fall into the Void if it teleports to a space where there are only air blocks between it and the Void.
- The dragon egg's side sticks out into adjacent blocks, so if it falls into a one block space, the sides will clip through the blocks.
- When a Dragon Egg is duplicated, the entity it drops will glitch and usually jump up to 3 blocks away.
- If a Dragon Egg goes through the End's End portal, it will appear at the original spawn coordinates in the Overworld. If it goes through the Overworld's End portal, it will appear on the obsidian platform.
- The Dragon Egg uses a slightly altered Crying Obsidian texture (purple stripes instead of blue).
Gallery
Samcube's Minecraft poster showing the Dragon egg.
- 2011-11-11 10.32.50.png
The Dragon egg.
The teleporting distance of a Dragon egg.
- 2011-11-12 15.23.58.png
An example of using a piston and lever to obtain the Dragon egg.
- 2012-03-20 05.40.59.png
A Dragon egg that landed on top of another Dragon egg after teleporting.
A Dragon egg stuck atop a snow layer.
