Dragons of Every Element

Seven kinds of dragon live in the world now - Fire, Frost, Lightning, Tide, Venom, Shadow and the rare Infinity Dragon. Find an egg, hatch it, raise your dragon and fly it. Hunt the giant elders to their lairs of gold. And with a Dragon Heart, become a dragon yourself.

The six elemental dragons

Every kind has its own horns, tail, colours and breath, and lives in its own lands:

• Fire Dragon - deserts, badlands and savannas. Breathes fire.
• Frost Dragon - snowy plains, ice spikes and frozen peaks. Breath that freezes water and slows everything.
• Lightning Dragon - windswept hills and stony peaks. Breath that calls down lightning.
• Tide Dragon - oceans and beaches. A water jet that knocks back and puts out fires.
• Venom Dragon - swamps and jungles. Poison breath that leaves clouds behind.
• Shadow Dragon - dark forests. Breath of darkness that blinds.

Long bodies, a row of thorn spikes from head to tail, and great bat wings that fold along the flanks when they land. Wild dragons are rare.

Raise your own

• Put a dragon egg on the ground. It hatches in about three minutes - twice as fast somewhere its kind feels at home (a fire egg next to lava, an ice egg on snow, a sea egg in water...).
• The hatchling is yours. It follows you, grows up over about fifteen minutes (faster if you feed it meat), and gets stronger and bigger as it grows.
• Shift + right-click: stay / follow.
• Once it is half grown, put a saddle on it and climb up. Jump takes off and climbs, look where you want to go, hold ] to breathe, shift to get off.

The elders

Rare lairs are sunk into the ground: a pit lined with the stone of the dragon's element, a mound of gold, two chests of treasure (always an egg and a saddle) - and a giant elder dragon sleeping on the hoard. Elders are huge, have 500 health and fly to fight. Beat one for its Dragon Heart.

The Infinity Dragon

The god of dragons. There is exactly one in every world, in a nest on an island floating in the sky a few hundred blocks from spawn: black as the night sky, covered in stars, a crown of gold horns and eyes that run through every colour of the rainbow.

• Nothing can hurt it, and one bite kills anything.
• It fires a rainbow atomic laser that kills whatever it hits, at anyone who comes too close and at every monster.
• Hold its gaze for two seconds and it looks back. Every dragon has its own chance: 5% it chooses you and you become its egg; otherwise you become the egg of one of the other six (16% each, 15% Shadow) and are thrown to the nearest lair of that kind.
• Its own egg and child are never attacked. It brings you food when you are hungry, and sets you fifteen tasks - from 10 cows up to an Elder Dragon. Its child has eight powers: the rainbow laser, six more, and the Big Bang. Every finished task makes you a little bigger, every second one wakes another power, and at the end the Big Bang is yours (H fires the seventh power, G the ultimate).

Become a dragon

Right-click a Dragon Heart and choose a kind. You start as that dragon's egg: for thirty seconds you cannot move while it cracks, and then you hatch. You hatch small, with only your breath: fifteen tasks - from 10 cows up to an Elder Dragon - make you a little bigger each time, and every second one wakes another power, until the ultimate is yours. You look like that dragon, fly (double-tap jump), and get its strengths:

• Seven powers for every kind - its breath, five powers of its own, and one ultimate. The powers show as icons down the left of the screen, each with the key that fires it (Z X C B N M, and G for the ultimate). [ opens the list, ] uses the picked one.
• Every breath and spit comes out of the dragon's mouth.
• Each kind has its own passives, is immune to its own element, and its bite carries its element.
• Wild dragons treat you as one of them.

The ultimates can be used once every ten minutes, and they really change the world around you:

• Fire - Meteor Strike: a giant burning meteor and four smaller ones fall where you look.
• Frost - Ice Age: everything around you freezes, and mountains of ice burst out of the ground.
• Lightning - Wrath of the Storm: lightning rains down on your enemies and blasts the ground apart.
• Tide - Tsunami: a huge wave rolls forward, smashing everything in its path.
• Venom - Plague: a poison fog that kills plants and sickens everything.
• Shadow - Black Hole: a black hole that pulls everything in and swallows the ground.
• Infinity - Big Bang: a star explodes around you and the sky falls in stars.

Commands

/dragons summon <kind> baby|young|adult|elder, /dragons lair <kind>, /dragons become <kind>, /dragons human (operators only).

Good to know

• Wild dragons only break blocks when the mobGriefing rule is on. The ultimates of a player who is a dragon destroy terrain regardless - use them away from your base.
• Forge 1.20.1.