Dragon Egg - Minecraft Block Guide | Properties, Recipe & Uses (2025)

What is Dragon Egg in Minecraft?

The dragon egg is the ultimate trophy block in Minecraft. It is a unique, shimmering black and purple egg that is awarded to the player after they defeat the Ender Dragon for the very first time. There is only one dragon egg per world, making it the rarest item in the game. Its main purpose is to be a decorative block that proves you have beaten the final boss. It has a special property: if you try to hit it or mine it, it will teleport to a nearby location. This makes it a fun challenge to collect. It is a symbol of a player's greatest achievement in their survival world.

How to get Dragon Egg in Minecraft

The only way to get the dragon egg is to defeat the Ender Dragon. After you have delivered the final blow to the dragon in the End dimension, an exit portal will appear on the main island with the dragon egg sitting on top of it. Collecting it is the tricky part. If you try to mine it, it will just teleport away. If you punch it, it will also teleport. The easiest way to collect it is to make it fall onto a non solid block. To do this, dig two blocks down directly under the egg. Remove the block that is right under the egg, and place a torch or a pressure plate in the hole at the bottom. Then, break the block that the egg is sitting on. The egg will fall onto the torch, break, and drop as an item that you can pick up. You can also push it with a piston.

How to use Dragon Egg in Minecraft

The main use for the dragon egg is as a decorative trophy. You can place it in your base on a special pedestal to show off your victory over the Ender Dragon. It is the ultimate status symbol. The dragon egg also has one other very important, but repeatable, use. You can use it to resummon the Ender Dragon. To do this, you must place four end crystals around the edges of the exit portal in the End. This will cause the crystals to respawn on top of the obsidian pillars and will bring the Ender Dragon back to life, allowing you to fight it again to get more experience and access to another End gateway. The dragon egg itself is consumed in this process, but a new one will appear after you defeat the dragon again.

How to craft Dragon Egg in Minecraft

No recipes for this block.

What can Dragon Egg make in Minecraft

No items can be crafted.

My Story

How This All Started

So basically, I was playing Minecraft one night after a long day doing deliveries, and I was trying to remember what drops what and how to craft certain things. Every website I went to was either dead slow, missing loads of stuff, or just looked terrible. I thought "bloody hell, surely I can do better than this?"

By the way, this My Story section is something new I've only just started adding things here! Most of the site was actually built before I ever wrote this part. Now that the website is live, I'm running into problems galore! So if things look a bit rough or unfinished, bear with me I'm updating and adding as I go.

That was probably a mistake.

A half finished story, oh well. I'll keep adding more as I go!

Learning the Hard Way

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Look, I'm not gonna lie this has been a right pain sometimes. I work full time doing deliveries, so most of this gets done late at night when I should probably be sleeping. I've had way too many energy drinks and definitely not enough sleep.

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Why I Keep Going

Honestly? Because every time someone uses this site or gives me feedback, it reminds me why I started. I love Minecraft, I love building things (both in game and apparently websites), and I love the community.

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