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A discussion about dragon colors (was: More dragons)

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We understand our community likes dragons. A lot. Let's get our first (of undoubtedly many) dragon related threads going with a compilation of popular requested colors:

  • red
  • blue
  • yellow 
  • green

What order would you put these in? What would you add?

Please note that while we started this thread, the suggestions provided here are drawn from popular posts from the previous version of feedback.minecraft.net and do not represent endorsements, promises, guarantees, hints or announcements of features from the Minecraft team.

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    I think their should be 4 different Tamable variants of dragons for after you defeated Jean. The best ones would the the following elemental Dragon classes from Teutonic and Medieval Legends and  Mythology.

    • Fire Drake (Also nicknamed Royal Crimson)
    • Frost Dragon (most commonly knows as an Ice Dragon)
    • Stone Guardians (Not Golems but are sometimes called Gargoil Dragons and have no relation to Gargoils) (Also called Stone Dragons)
    • Hurricane husk (also known as Desert Husk or a Dust Devil)

    Each could come with their own colors and textures specific to the variant for both their bodies and scales.

    • FIRE: Red, Sandy Yellow, White, Dark Gray, and Black.
    • WATER: Blue, Cyan, White, Indigo, and Purple.
    • EARTH: Green, Lime Green, Light Grey, Brown, and Orange.
    • AIR: Sandy Yellow, White, Light Blue, Yellow, and Pink.

    Each variants could have their own attacks and power attacks according to their elements.

    • FIRE: It would get so hot that it would explode as lightning.
    • WATER: It would get so cold that it would freeze into Ice.
    • EARTH: It would get so hard that it would compress into Steel
    • AIR: It would get so powerful that it would swirl as a Tornado.
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    A couple of ideas (essentially, 1 dragon per dimension): 

    A Blue dragon that spawns in a lair high up in the sky (~Y=230). The lair is located within 5K blocks of 0,0 and strongholds contain a map, or hints to find the lair. Dragon drops items that are used for building portals for traveling, including to other dimensions. 1 portal (both ends) can be built each time the dragon is killed.

    A Red dragon that spawns in a lair in nether. The lair is located within 3K blocks of 0,0 (of nether) and nether fortresses contain hints to locate the lair. The dragon drops a dragon heart block, which, when powered with red stone level 15, causes an explosion, but does not get destroyed itself. It can be used to repeatedly cause explosions. The heart block must be placed touching lava, and must keep contact to lava at all times, otherwise it creates one large explosion immediately and is destroyed (similar to coral blocks dying without water).

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    I think we should have dragons that we can tame and ride (if this commit is considered please make them similar to horses in the sense that we can put saddles on them) having a drain you can ride and use in PvP combat would be cool to. I think this dragon Idea could be very useful for more than just boss fights. I think that it would actually draw in a bit more of a fanbase in fact. This is mainly from my almost 200 xbox friends some of them played Minecraft then stoped because they weren't happy about the lack of number of of bosses. So I think adding boss dragons and pet dragons would be beneficial to everyone. and I agree with the dragon for each dimension but like I stated earlier there should also be dragons for us to use, for the RED DRAGONS I would say fire would be the most suitable element for them. BLUE DRAGONS should be a wind based dragon. YELLOW DRAGONS would make sense to be abele to summon lightning. GREEN DRAGONS are the only dragons that I think should not be able to fly they should be an earth dragon. Those are my opinions on the mater. But I still think even adding 1 new dragon would be very beneficial to the game.

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    Maybe they could be tameable too? I mean that would be awesome...

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    I love the idea of more dragons, and would be supportive of any implementation.

     

    I think dragons are best in this game tied to some sort of structure.  The End Dragon is a boss fight surrounded by pillars.  I would imagine any other dragon being the same.  Some sort of temple or structure(s) to anchor it, and only accessible from a cartographer's map.  Colors obviously match the dragon's element, and so should it match its home.  The End is a mysterious place, perfect for the Black Dragon.

    The Red Dragon is a being of Fire.  It's home location could be one of two places: The Nether or a newly implemented Volcano biome.

    The Blue Dragon is a being of Water.  It's starting point could be a new water-themed dimension, or spawned in at an Ocean Temple by some mechanic (throw four conduits into the center of the gazebo on top of the temple for example).

    The Green Dragon is a being of the Earth.  So I'd imagine its location being in the Forest, Mountains, or Underground at some extremely rare structure.

    Yellow Dragon would be for Air and Light.  So the best place would be in a rare structure spawned in the sky, at the site of a large desert temple, or in a separate Sky dimension.

     

    Here's some crazy ideas for less requested colors:

    White Dragon:  Snow dragon found in a rare snow temple on the overworld, or in a snow based dimension.

    Orange Dragon:  Perhaps the Red Dragon is the dragon of the Nether, and the Orange Dragon the dragon of the Volcano.

    Violet Dragon:  If you create a Nether Portal at its MAX size, and then implement some other trigger mechanism, it spawns a Violet Dragon in the Overworld or in the Nether.  Alternatively you could make the Violet Dragon a space dragon, fought in a space/moon based dimension.

    Indigo Dragon:  Can't forget ROY G BIV if we're making dragons of every color.  Indigo dragons are either the Swamp Dragon or the Space Dragon.

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    You should also note that Sea/Water Serpents/Wyrems and Wyverns are not actually dragons. And Drakes are not Wyverns (By definition, drakes, they are naturally highly armored dragons).

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    I think it would be cool if there were 'types' of dragons that had colorations similar to current tropical fish (in fact, I think that this would be a cool feature to implement to wolves, cats, parrots, etc, but I'm getting ahead of myself).  For example, for a certain 'type' of dragon (let's pretend that this is one that breathes fire and/or has fire abilities), there could be a color pool that involved warmer colors like red, orange, yellow, etc. but had enough variation so that each one appeared unique.

    Edit: Spelling

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    I personally like the idea of them being the full range of colors, and maybe even some rarer alternatives like gold or silver. If not I think it would make the most sense to have them matched with different elemental types, i.e. blue or white for ice/water, red for fire, green for earth, etc.

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    You could give them all seprit cool disins like the
    earth dragon being bulky with smaller wings
    water dragon with webed feet and wings beter for swimming then flying and a less scaly body
    fire dagon being spiky and scaly
    Air dragon with giant wings
    Thay could also have the abily to alow you to attack mods using them by pressing one of tow buttons on them scratch and an raged attack which could be
    Earth dragon soots giant boulders out of its mouth win not hitting smthing sets down a peace of cobble stone
    Water dragon shoots a high powerd steam of water same as earth but with water
    Fire dragon ovesly fire breath that setts thangs ablaze
    Air dragon soots out an orb that wher it hits lightning strikes
    Srach, Earth thy cand move for a 3 seconds and git a gray pigment (like thay turned to stone). Water gives drowning effect. Fire sets them ablaze. Air gives them levitation

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    Take notes from how to train your dragon

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    Red Dragon :

    Special attack -> Can use fire to attack the player

                               |_ effect : the player is on fire

    Could live at the top of the mountains in high temperature biomes.

    Blue Dragon :

    special attack -> Can use ice to attack the player

                               |_ effect : slowness and frosted effect is applied to the player (frosted effect cause damage to the player)

    Could live in ice caves near the surface in the ice biomes.

    Green Dragon :

    Special attack -> Can use gaz to attack the player

                               |_ effect : poison is applied to the player

    Could live at the top of the mountains in temperate biomes as the jungles.

    Yellow Dragon :

    Special attack -> Can charge the player

                               |_ effect : more damage than the normal attack and weakness is applied to the player

    Could live in caves near the surface and rocks in dry biomes.

    I had created a texture for the red dragon and his egg a long time ago based on the textures of the ender dragon :

    The texture of the Red Dragon :

    The texture of this egg :

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    Too many dragons and they loose what value they had to them. If dragons are to be added, they shouldn't make the game easy nor should dragons loose that touch of rarity we all love them for.

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    I think that if dragons are added, they’re should definitely be different kinds. Each species should be the same color but with maybe small differences. Basically: red dragon would be fire resistant, spit fire, have majestic, pointy horns, and be medium sized. Brown dragon would be camouflaged in forests, would appear to have green vines growing on it’s body, have curled, ramlike horns, and be medium sized. Blue/water dragons Could breathe underwater, spit boiling water, and be large sized. I think that color should vary by the dragons home biome/dimension and be specific kinds like the examples I gave. I don’t really think that any of them should be bigger than the ender dragon just because of what the ender dragon represents. I also don’t think that we need any more dragon bosses just because there’s already a dragon boss and there’s plenty of other creatures to pick from. I am, on the other hand, fully in support of the idea of smaller dragons that can be tamed and ridden as long as they’re not too overpowered. That problem could be resolved by making the tamable dragons extremely hard to find.

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    This is an older thread, but I thought I'd comment with some new insight. I think a red dragon boss would suit the nether with it's current update. Found at some crazy location, maybe a structure generated behind a wall of lava like a giant cave feeding into a nether fortress. It would be similar to the enderdragon but not the same. I think the gold theme in the nether fits really well with the idea of a boss dragon, like it hoards piles of gold and riches and gets a good deal of power from it. Alternatively, it could be surrounded by nether spires. The dragon doesn't fly that much, it's really big but old and it's wings are a little ragged. It stomps around and attempts to kill you in this cave, but once you deal enough damage it takes flight and leaves the cave, circling above it and drawing power from the now powered nether spires.
    It's lair is part of a huge nether fortress, maybe this is the reason piglins dislike wither skeletons so much. The dragon used to raid piglin tribes and pilage them for gold, aided by the skeletons and zombified piglins from the fortress.
    I like the idea of it sleeping in pools of lava, only provoked when you attack, waking it from it's long slumber. Maybe it dives into the lava to heal or get away once it's health is low, jumping back out to attack before diving back in. Even with the update, though I know it is in development still, the nether to me lacks enough natural bosses. I feel the opportunity to pillage the dragon's nest and aquire huge amounts of gold or possibly one or two pieces of damaged netherite armor or weapons from prior fallen challengers.

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    I love the idea of more dragons being in the game.
    If there are new dragons added, they should have some incentive to them, Dragon Scales, Boss Fights, and cool new Eggs.

    The Red Dragon - boss - found very rarely in the overworld at a “Dragon Alter”. This Alter would be 4 very large pillars of stone and stone variants that would look similar to the obsidian obelisks in the End. The red dragon would be asleep in the middle of the alter and he will only awake if you come into the proximity of the alter or hit him on the head. This will start the boss fight.
    The Ice Dragon, counterpart to The Red Dragon this one will be a ice white/blue variant that is only found in snow/tundra type biomes or at the bottom of frozen oceans.
    If you beat either of these dragons, they will dragon Red Dragon Scale or Ice Dragon Scale and Red Dragon Egg or Ice Dragon Egg respectively. They should also drop a decent amount of XP. These can be used to craft Dragon Shields. The ice dragon shield will freeze the first 3 mobs in front of the player in ice. The Red Dragon Shield will shield set them on fire. These shields will resemble Link’s Hylian Shield but red or blue respectively.
    Both the Ice and Red dragon will look similar to the enderdragon but will have different details.

    The Sky Dragon will be fundamentally different, resembling the dragons from Avatar The Last airbender. It will Be green
    fly higher than clouds
    It’s not a boss fight.
    If hit it will drop 1 scale and fly away into the sky.

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    tameable dragons. difficult yet possible if your lucky?

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    You should be able to bring the ender dragon’s egg home and hatch it into a certain dragon depending on which condishons it is hatched in. 

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    Green, blue, red, yellow.  Please add ice dragons!

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    See The Red Dragon, for an amazing dragon idea, I love the idea of more dragons, especially the red dragon

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    If another dragon were to be added, the purpose of defeating the dragon would have to be saving the overworld, how about 2 new bosses (Ice and Overworld)(We have the Ender Dragon and the Wither so it will be 4 bosses in total. And also not dragons but another form please) that drop items that are used to activate something to save enderman from their suffering in The End dimension or another type of species that are unheard of and need a hero to save them from their slaver (boss).

    If I were to add 2 new bosses (another form of boss) I would let them drop items like one different star shard to activate a device to save the enderman that escape The End. Its just imagination and I did not make sense at the last part but its something to give a new story line. I mean we could even change the way we activate the End portal by using shards imstead of simply using enderpearls in a simple sense, just to give the game a new adventurous way of finding items to activate something.

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    I'd like to see some kind of greyish blueish dragon that is found in underground lakes (As part of a CAVE UPDATE!!)

    They would have the ability to go semi invisible, similar to spiders, their bluish highlights would glow. They could swim, and their nest would be at the very bottom of the lake, in a mini water cave. Leaving the water means they can't regenerate health, so they have to stay in their sump.

    As a neutral mob, this dragon would only attack if threatened, or goes too close. After a boss battle, it would drop some 'Ancient scales'; used to brew potions of sight of the unseen' - when drunk allows player to see invisible entities and players. could also be used to craft armour that gives the player aquatic abilities. 

    Once killed, it's egg in it's nest begins to hatch a new, more deadly version of it's mother.

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    Black and red dragons could breath fire. Black dragon being larger than the red one

    white dragon breathing an iced fire

    blue dragon breathing water breath 

    green dragon breathing an earthy or wind like breath would be cool

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    I would love to see one that is the color of bark and it’s scale color changes to the tree color of the biome that it goes into.

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    Well, in my opinion, they should add dragons for people who are less fortunate and can't afford the dragon pack in the shop. However, to tame a huge dragon? I think they should be like dogs. They fly with you wherever you go and help defeat mobs. They can only grow to be as big as a dog and the babies are the size of an adult cat. They should eat mutton and (hopefully not) breathe fire, (I don't suggest it considering it might be a bit overpowered.) it should be hard to tame, (since they are dragons, of course.) And you can be able to have the babies on your shoulder, like a parrot. The babies (probably) can't help with combat.   (I also prefer 1 type of dragon instead of 4, since dragons are rare and all.) This is a suggestion, but you can find them in the nether or in caves and can tame them with raw mutton, (or any raw meat).

     

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    I like the idea but add more colors than that

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    I like the idea but add more colors than that

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    I think it would be cool to have overworld dragons that raided villages. Bad omen could be edited to either bring a raid to a village or bring a dragon. I was inspired by this... https://feedback.minecraft.net/hc/en-us/community/posts/360013742052-Overworld-dragons

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    Make it so you get a Dragon Egg, Then put it under a campfire, like with the bees. Then get a prompt for what color.

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    https://feedback.minecraft.net/hc/en-us/community/posts/360009548511-Pet-Dragons- like that?

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    yea