OK, I know this may be controversial but hear me out. If someone with zero knowledge of Minecraft saw these 2 items, what will this person think is the trophy? The head of a dragon, or a wierd black and purple blob that teleports around and falls to the ground? Honestly, the dragon head represents the victory a lot more and should take over the role the egg currently has.
Eggs are usually depicted as an item that predators obtain without provoking the parent. We don't kill the chicken to get the eggs. Snakes usually hunt for bird eggs when the parents are out of their nests and hunting. Even in games and fantasy novels, dragon eggs are often depicted as quest items that, if incubated poorly, will anger the living parent dragon.
On the other hand, heads are generally used as trophies in games, fantasy novels, and even in ancient tribe traditions. Think of the Twilight forest mod. Each boss drops a head which is a trophy that you have to obtain to enter certain areas. The Maory people, the aboriginal people of New Zealand, had a tradition of collecting heads of their defeated enemies as trophies. By this evidence, the fact that a ship is literally using the head of the owner of the dimension they're in is really odd. The black doesn't even match with the ship's overall palatte, which is yellow and purple.
So how will this role shift affect the game? As for the case of the dragon head, it'll simply spawn after the death of the first dragon. You'll never get a second one ever. You don't really register a warrenty fund for your trophy, right? The fact that the head looks more like a trophy will probably discourage people to have a second one or dupe them infinitely.
As for the dragon egg however, it'll now spawn in the end ship, just like how the head used to be, but instead of spawning in front of the ship, it will spawn inside. Below the deck of the end ship, the dragon egg will sit on top of a chorus plant(or maybe a special nest block), and when the player touches it, it will either teleport, or spawn a baby dragon that will attack you immediately. When you kill it, it'll drop the elytra. I've always wondered how the leather and wood that makes the item frame and chest came from, and I think the elytra being a mob drop makes more sense.
This is all I want to say in regards to this idea. I hope this change will make these items more viable in game and satisfy as many players as possible. Let me know what you think.
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