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Respawning the end dragon

Watching people play minecraft blind (with no outside help, ie: about_oliver) I noticed how weird the current method is to summon the dragon. I have a few different ideas which I will post as indepent comments to be individually voted on.
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    4 crystals anywhere on the main island.

    Instead of the 4 crystals being on the fountain in specific spots, they can be anwhere within the end island. The area should include the pillars, so a 43 block radius?

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    4 crystals + the egg.

    The crystals' healing beams would fire towards the egg upon resummoning, and the new dragon comes from the egg. This would mean the dragon egg has a function now, it is required to resummon the dragon.
    This now gives a hint to the player that they are on the right track to resummoning when they put down one crystal.

    This also gives a specific coordinate for the dragon to fly around and nest in, possibly allowing the pathfinding ai to work in locations other than the main island or even the end (inatead of circling at 0,0 it would circle at where its summoning egg was.

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    4 crystals + head

    Similar to the other comment about requiring the egg, but this time you need the head of a dragon.
    This makes exploring the outer islands a requirement for repeated fights, and gives the heads a function.

    Pair this with the common idea of making each resummoned dragon give a new dragon egg, and we now have a way of getting more eggs while keeping the rarity special.

    Thematically this makes the ritual feel like summoning a dead dragon rather than summoning one from nowhere.