Does anybody actually know if the Dragons will be ridable? I think that would be SO cool if they can be ridden!
Good gods I hope not. They're monsters, not pretty ponies.
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hmm. Well while my preferred method of travel in the ender would probably be ender pearls, as long as dragons stay in the ender riding them doesn't seem like a bad idea.
my thoughts on the topic (EMPHASIS ON MY) are that if dragons in multiplayer are going to be over powered, the have them as an option like a white-list. Also, in SP once the boss is defeated, they start spawning in the real world, but are VERY rare, and you can fight them with your dragon to like lvl it up to become more powerful or something. There are probably infinite possibilities to dragons, but this is the one i like.
I think they should be ridable, but you have to raise it from the enderdragon egg. You would make a nest with some hay and after a bit, it would hatch in the world it hatched in (you can't take it to other worlds). You would then have to feed it a lot of meat to become big enough to ride. When it is big enough to breathe fire (a fire ball), it would have to wait a certain amount of time before it could shoot again and the fire ball could only catch things on fire, not destroy them directly. They also can't be to fast but not too slow (maybe as fast as sprinting?)
That is my opinion as what the dragons should be.
I hope notch will add dragon riding to 1.9, along with all the other epic stuff.
1.9 Beta has come and gone, 1.0.0 (Full release) is out.
The only way I would agree that the ability to ride dragons should be in the game is for Notch and Jeb to devise new circumstances that are so demanding that you probably need to ride a dragon just to hope to succeed. I doubt that's gonna happen though. Enderdragon seems like he's meant to be the biggest, baddest guy.
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I'd LOVE it if you could hatch the dragon egg and raise a dragon and ride it eventually. It can be done rather well actually. Just combine the AI of the Enderdragon, the AI of animals following wheat, the AI of Ghasts mixed in with the AI of wolves, and you have a rideable dragon =D
And it would be entirely useless but incredibly fun. The dragon might be able to shoot fireballs at things but you're not going to be able to do anything well even if you can let the dragon idle about while you shoot things.
But if you could ride a dragon it'd definitely be there for the cool points and for fast transportation.
Because who wouldn't love being able to fly over an enemy's base in SMP on a dragon mount? XD
or maybe Notch could make the Ender Dragon egg hatch and it wont be able to destroy blocks like the one in the End so it'll just be a way of getting around faster! :biggrin.gif:
Good gods I hope not. They're monsters, not pretty ponies.
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I agree, but the break everything in it's path thing needs to stop.
That is my opinion as what the dragons should be.
1.9 Beta has come and gone, 1.0.0 (Full release) is out.
And it would be entirely useless but incredibly fun. The dragon might be able to shoot fireballs at things but you're not going to be able to do anything well even if you can let the dragon idle about while you shoot things.
But if you could ride a dragon it'd definitely be there for the cool points and for fast transportation.
Because who wouldn't love being able to fly over an enemy's base in SMP on a dragon mount? XD