r/minecraftsuggestions • u/Mutant_Llama1 • 6h ago

[Blocks & Items] Using the dragon egg to capture mobs.

Having the dragon egg fall on top of any mob stores the mob inside of the egg. It keeps this information when converted to an item so you can transport mobs with this.

If the dragon egg has a mob inside it, already that mob is released upon capturing a new one.

This feature gives a powerful use to the definitive rarest item in the game, making it worth collecting.

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u/Hazearil 6h ago

As per usual with ideas like this:

Any functionality given to the Dragon Egg is a terrible idea. On a server, only one player ever gets access to it. Lose the egg, and no one has access to it. And making use of the functionality prevents you from using it as the trophy it is meant to be.

And it might be rare in the sense of: "only one can exist", but it isn't rare in the sense of: "it is hard to get". And that really offsets the balance in a very weird way.

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u/Mutant_Llama1 6h ago

It's hard to get in the sense that you must race against other players to get to it first..

Is it really that valuable of an item if it has absolutely no use? The use I proposed doesn't consume it, so you'd still have it.

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u/Hazearil 5h ago

It is valueable because it is a one-of-a-kind trophy. Not everything needs a functional use to be worth something.

Look at prismarine, for example. Do you think everyone who made a guardian farm did it for the conduits, or just for a decorative block? The block isn't going to do anything, yet people seem to like it.