How to Protect the Dragon Egg
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What is the Dragon Egg?
The Dragon Egg is a very powerful and unique item, as one one can ever exist at a time in each cycle.
Power of the Egg
The Dragon Egg must be protected at all costs, as many players seek to lay claim to the egg.
When placed in a suitable shrine, if the Dragon Aspects are appeased, the Dragon Egg will grant you and your allies powerful buffs in a large area surrounding the shrine. It is like a more powerful version of a beacon.
Be warned however, the great power contained withing the egg may periodically emit a global pulse which can be sensed by others in the form of an auditory signal. These sound signals are directional, and those who pay close attention may be able to triangulate the location of the egg. There are ways to muffle or disrupt these signals to make them more difficult to track, however the structure requires a constant supply of mana and resources to keep the suppression field active.
Building a Shrine
Constructing a suitable shrine to care for the egg and appease the Dragon Aspects is no easy task. You must choose your materials and design carefully, as you will be judged by those who fly above.
Caretakers from past cycles have documented their findings, however are always new things to discover.
Materials and their Effects
The following is a list of documented materials used in shrine construction and what effects they were observed to provide.
Note that you can use multiple materials in the construction of a shrine to receive multiple buffs, however focusing on just one or two materials may make the individual buffs more powerful.
Different forms of the same material may yield better or worse results, depending on it's difficulty to obtain.
For example, let's consider gold ore blocks:
- Raw Gold Blocks seem to hold more value than Gold Ore.
- Gold Ore seems to hold more value than refined Gold Blocks.
- Blocks made from ingots (like Gold Blocks) seem to hold the least value due to the ability to farm gold nuggets and gold ingots.
Dragon Aspects seem to prefer raw ores because it shows that actual work was put into obtaining them.
| Material | Observed Effects |
| Amethyst |
Unknown Buffs (Amethyst Clusters seem to be more valuable than Amethyst Blocks) |
| Copper |
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| Diamond |
Buffs to Damage Resistance |
| Emerald |
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| Glowstone |
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| Gold |
Buffs to Haste (Mining Speed & Attack Speed) |
| Iron |
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| Lapis Lazuli |
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| Netherite |
Buffs to Strength |
| Quartz |
Buffs to Movement Speed |
| Redstone |
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| Wood / Nature Blocks |
Suppression Field
You will need to construct a Suppression Field if you wish to protect the Dragon Egg for the long term. This grants you an array of tools to suppress, distract, or confuse other beings who are attempting to seek out the location of the Dragon Egg.
Some possible things a Suppression Field can do are as follows:
- Reduce the volume of the signal.
- Increase the cooldown between signals.
- Widen the area the signal can originate from to increase difficulty of triangulation.
- Limit the maximum range of the signal to 10000 blocks instead of global (very expensive)
- In an emergency, temporarily suppress the signal entirely at the cost of a massive amount of mana and resources.
- Ability to send false/decoy signals from another location.
Special Abilities
Rumors foretell that when held, this item will grant you protection and the ability to levitate into the air.