u/BenMH02

if this is the wrong sub, i apologise. but i feel like this forgotten game mechanic is the sort of thing you guys would really enjoy learning about :p

tldr: in older versions of the game, you could mine the egg without it teleporting away. just mine it instead of punch it (it really is that simple) xD

to do this, punch something else first, then with the left mouse button held down, look at the egg. i tried it in 1.0.0. i don't know in what version this was removed / patched out.

long-winded explanation (i don't think anybody is gonna read this lol)

I started playing minecraft back in beta 1.8. Survival was never my strong suit back then. I always played in peaceful because young me was scared of the mobs. Anyway, I did play around with cheated dragon eggs, as you do. And I would simply mine it. I've not played minecraft in a few years but when I came back, i was surprised to find you could no longer mine the egg. I was always aware that people use pistons or torches for some reason i didn't really understand back then. Well, it would seem the way I always mined the dragon egg was a bug that got patched out at some point.

Thing is, I found no documentation online about the method i always used. But i was 100% sure this is how I always mined the egg. One day, I decided to test it. I loaded up release 1.0.0 and defeated the dragon. Lo and behold, my method worked exactly as i remembered it.

So how does it work? Well, are you familiar with the super mario 64 a-button challenge? you might have heard of "half a-presses". it's basically the same concept with punching vs mining.

punch the egg (press down the left mouse button) and it teleports away. mine the egg (hold down the left mouse button) and it stays put until it breaks. the key is to punch another block or air first before you look at the egg with the left mouse button already pressed down. it's really as easy as that.

I used a pickaxe in the video but it breaks just as quickly if you mine it by hand. the item drops regardless.

Thank you for coming to my ted talk :p

ps: i wasn't sure what flair to use. since it's the ENDer dragon egg, i almost went with "endpost" but i decided to go with "breaking minecraft" instead.