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Renewable Shulker Boxes

Shulker boxes are a feature that has been widely used since their introduction in Minecraft 1.12. Even though the world is nearly 60,000,000 blocks wide, shulker shells are hard to come by, due to the rarity of End Cities; even if there are a large amount of them, players aren't usually willing to travel that far.

That is why I think the feature that allows the Ender Dragon to be re-summoned should be put to more use: whenever you re-summon (and successfully kill) the Ender Dragon, all End Cities should spawn ten shulkers, which may be more or less than they originally had.

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    I like this idea.  Although I assume it would be already explored end cities so that ones that haven't been loaded yet don't get an explosion of shulkers when they're first generated?

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    Very handy, I will say. But I like it! Also I think shulker boxes are added in 1.11.

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    Very true. This needs to be a feature, but I aggree with @ClayGoddessSari

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    There was a great suggestion to this problem on Reddit once upon a time... maybe it was you that suggested it!

    It was to have all or a portion of the shulkers in End Citys respawn when ever the Dragon is killed. This would preserve the valuable/rarity of shulker boxes, but would also promote exploration of the end. It would also promote repeat battles with the Dragon. For players on a local single play world, shulker quantity isn't really an issue, but on a multiplayer realm/server it has become an almost instant issue. This would be the most elegant way to resolve this problem without creating a "farm-able" shulker.

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    I think it'd be more in the realm of minecraft that when you kill the dragon, the crystal pedestals would each have a low chance at spawning a shulker on top of it, that way you wouldn't have to worry about loading all the end cities, checking which ones have been cleared, and it'd still be difficult to get renewable boxes

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    Shulker boxes should definitely be renewable, not only are they hard to come by in singleplayer but the situations even worse in multiplayer. Also if the skulkers / shells get destroyed or fall into the void, that's them lost forever.

    I saw an implementation of this in a mod where endermites would behave like silverfish and burro into Purpur blocks, turning that block into a Shulker.

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    I have made it where when the dragon is defeated in my mod, it spawns 8-16 shulkers around the exit portal.

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    Am late to the party? I'm 5 years late, wow. Your request has been granted! Shulker boxes can now duplicate. Shulker farms are now available in all versions of minecraft. Shulker duplication was added in java in 1.17 and in bedrock 1.19. Shulker boxes now have a chance to duplicate if hitten by another shulker. I will now leave, bye!