Otherwise, you might find yourself with a dead body and lots of destruction.Ī wild lightning dragon cannot be tamed, and a tamed dragon can only be achieved through hatching an egg. Please note: Lightning dragons will attack fire dragons and ice dragons, so do not put a lightning dragon with your other dragons on wander. Aerial Tackle: If in the air, the dragon will swoop on its target with outstretched talons before smacking them down.If in the air, it flies overhead of its target while performing this attack. Lightning Bomb: The dragon spews a large lightning bomb that explodes on impact, leaving a crackled crater.Lightning Breath: The dragon breathes a branching stream of lightning at its target, electrifying blocks in the area.Wing Beat: If on the ground, the dragon rears up and violently flaps its wings, creating a powerful gust of wind that knocks back its target.Tail Whip: If on the ground, the dragon swings its tail sideways in order to smack a target, dealing knockback.Grab-and-Shake: If on the ground, the dragon seizes its target with its jaws before shaking them to death.Bite: If on the ground, the dragon simply bites its target.Stage 4+ dragons can inflict Weakness II for 14 seconds with their roars this effect can be nullified by wearing earplugs. Super Roar: Rarely upon spotting the player, the dragon rears on its hind legs, spreads its wings, and emits an even louder and more powerful roar.Stage 4+ dragons can inflict Weakness for 14 seconds with their roars this effect can be nullified by wearing earplugs. Roar: Upon spotting the player, the dragon emits a loud, piercing roar.Dragons have nine natural attacks, which include the following: Along with this, they are unfazed by unavoidable obstacles, and will simply break through them in order to get to their target. As well as this, they have the ability to electrocute players with their lightning breath, killing them in mere seconds. Like other dragons, lightning dragons have the ability to fly very quickly, making melee combat extremely difficult when fighting them. Dragons will rarely eat meat items that are dropped on the floor. Wild dragons can be seen frequenting small roosts adorned with large piles of copper and many chests unlike other dragons, they will sleep there during the day, but can be woken up if a player breaks a copper pile or opens a nearby chest, or if a thunderstorm starts. Dragons using lightning attacks will electrify all blocks in the area (turning them into Crackled Blocks). When they spawn naturally, they are usually very hungry, and will search for farm animals to eat they are capable of spotting prey from 64 blocks away. Lightning dragons are hostile, and will attack almost every mob that comes nearby, including players. Newly-hatched dragons evaporate upon death, falling as a skeleton after day 5 and only falling as a corpse after day 10.įully grown dragons drop about 46 bones, and either 12 vials of blood or 58 scales. Make sure to click in the dragon's hitbox this is usually located near the middle of the dragon's body. Obtaining dragon blood will prevent you from obtaining scales, flesh, or a heart. To obtain dragon blood, right-click the corpse with an empty bottle. To loot the dragon corpse, right-click on it repeatedly with an empty hand: items will drop off of it until it turns into a skeleton and, finally, disappears altogether. Instead of evaporating like normal Minecraft mobs, a dragon will fall to the ground as a corpse when it dies. Stage 5 female dragons may occasionally drop 2-3 Dragon Eggs. The most important loot a dragon corpse can produce are Dragon Eggs, which can only drop from a female Stage 4-5 dragon. A Dragon Skull and Dragon Bones are always dropped. All dragons drop either Dragon Scales, a Dragon Heart, and Dragon Flesh or, with a glass bottle, Dragon Blood. Loot from a lightning dragon generally depends on the stage of a dragon. Younger dragons are found on small roosts on the surface (Stages 1-3), whereas older ones (Stage 4 and rarely Stage 5) lurk in caverns beneath the ground. Lightning dragons can spawn in Jungle, Savanna, and Badlands biomes. Dragons grow from 2 blocks long at 0 days old to 50 blocks long when fully grown. Lightning dragons come in 4 colors: Amethyst Purple, Dark Black, Copper Brown, and Electric Blue. Male lightning dragons differ from females by having darker-edged wings, while females differ from males by having curvier horns. However, they have 3 pairs of backwards-facing horns instead of 2, the spikes on their back are longer and stand taller, and their tails are tipped in 3 pairs of long spikes. Like fire dragons and ice dragons, lightning dragons are quadrupedal reptiles with massive wings, long tails, spike-laden backs, and massive jaws.