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.

Protecting the egg is a massive undertaking, as it is basically a server-wide game of capture the flag.

Power of the Egg

The egg must be protected at all costs, as many players seek to lay claim to it's power.

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.

Note that it may take some time (up to several days) for the egg to "activate" after being placed upon the shrine.

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
Diamond	Buffs to Damage Resistance
Emerald
Glowstone
Gold	Buffs to Haste (Mining Speed & Attack Speed)
Iron
Lapis Lazuli
Netherite	Buffs to Strength
Quartz	Buffs to Movement Speed
Redstone
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.
• Randomize the origin point of the signal 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 the egg itself possesses unique abilities.

• The egg may grant you protection and the ability to levitate into the air when held.
  
• The egg may teleport randomly within a short distance if placed and interacted with.
• When placed upon a shrine and activated by the dragon aspects, the egg may grant unique buffs to your team.
• When activated, the egg will summon a force field around itself with a large amount of Shield HP.
  
  • The amount of Shield HP scales with various factors, such as the quality of the shrine, upgrades, and other bonuses.
  • Breaking the force field will allow the egg to be taken, and the process begins anew.
  • The shield can be repaired using mana.
• If the shrine is powerful enough, the egg may be able to defend itself with various magical abilities.
  • The abilities can changed based on the materials the shrine is constructed from.
  • The most common defense is a short-ranged point defense system that fires hit-scan beams.
  • Typically only targets mobs, however it is possible for some abilities to target players.
  • Mobs can attack the dragon egg, however it is unlikely for mobs alone to break the shield.

Egg Hatching

Once the egg has been sitting on a shrine and protected for a certain amount of time without interruption or relocation, the egg may hatch and grant you or your team a Permanent Boon.

Possible Permanent Boons to choose from are as following: (NOT FINAL)

Boon	Duration	Effect
Boon of Essence	Current Cycle	- Grants you and your team +3 Draconic Essence.
Boon of Power	Current Cycle	- Your shrine buffs become permanent with no range limit.
Boon of Reality	Current Cycle	- Grants you one use of the Wish spell. - Allows direct intervention from the Dragon Aspects at their discretion. - One of the Rules of Reality may be altered for the rest of the cycle.
Boon of Forging	Permanent	- Grants you and your team one Tier III or lower item from the Dragon Forge. - Item will also be unlocked in the Spirit Forge.
Boon of Ascension	Permanent	- Allows you to perform one Paragon Ascension on yourself or another player.
Ritual of Ending	Permanent	- Allows you to begin performing the Ritual of Ending. - If successful, this cycle will be the Final Cycle. - See more information below.

• +3 Draconic Essence for you and your team, lasts until end of cycle.
• One Tier III or lower item created from the Dragon Forge for you and your team at no cost. Includes Spirit Forge unlock.
• The buffs granted by the shrine become permanent and no longer location restricted. Lasts until end of cycle.
• One use of the Wish spell, allowing direct intervention from the Dragon Aspects at their discretion.
• Ability to perform one Paragon Ascension.
• Ability to perform a Ritual of Ending, thus making the current cycle the Final Cycle.
  • This causes the suppression field around the egg to fail, and continuously emit a signal.

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