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Dragons and Lures
Find five wild dragon variants, survive their hazards, and call a chosen dragon with a lure pyre.
Wild dragon encounters
Wild dragons are persistent hostile monsters that spawn one at a time. They target players, villagers, and iron golems, and each variant also hunts a matching animal. Natural spawns are blocked in claimed chunks and all dragons disappear after one second on Peaceful difficulty. A defeated dragon drops 1-3 Boss Loot Boxes and awards 160 normal XP.
Normal biome encounters apply an additional 1-in-12 rarity check. Inside the Valyria encounter zone, all five variants can spawn and use a 1-in-2 rarity check instead. Valyria is centered on the waypoint at -367383, 64, 592383 and extends 5,000 blocks from it on both X and Z. See Map, Waypoints, and World.
Dragon variants
| Dragon | Health | Flight speed | Armor | Breath damage | Cooldown | Main hazards |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black Dread | 300 | 0.18 | 12 | 18 | 72 ticks | Fire breath, seven-second ignition, fire trails |
| Stormwing | 170 | 0.34 | 6 | 11 | 46 ticks | Glowing, knockback, lightning, After Shock |
| Ashfang | 220 | 0.24 | 6 | 13 | 58 ticks | Breath projectile, four-second ignition, Wildfire |
| Verdant Wyrm | 190 | 0.27 | 6 | 10 | 54 ticks | Poison and shrinking Poison/Weakness clouds |
| Frostscale | 210 | 0.23 | 9 | 10 | 58 ticks | Stacking Frostbite, freezing, Frost Patches and ice |
All variants can attack with breath beams or projectiles, damaging flyovers, landing impacts, and a close swipe that applies Bleeding for nine seconds. Stormwing also creates ambient lightning nearby. Frostscale cannot freeze itself.
Habitats, prey, and food
| Dragon | Normal natural habitats | Hunted animal | Loved dropped food |
|---|---|---|---|
| Black Dread | Mountains, badlands, plains, sunflower plains | Pig | Raw or cooked porkchop |
| Stormwing | Anywhere in the Overworld | Sheep | Raw or cooked mutton |
| Ashfang | Badlands, stony peaks, windswept hills and savanna | Goat | Raw or cooked mutton |
| Verdant Wyrm | Forests and jungles | Rabbit | Raw or cooked rabbit |
| Frostscale | Snowy plains/taiga, ice spikes, groves and frozen/jagged peaks | Polar bear | Raw or cooked cod or salmon |
A dragon searches up to 72 blocks for its loved food as a dropped item. Eating one item heals it by 6 HP; food distracts and heals a dragon but does not tame it.
Dragon Lure Pyre recipe
The Pyre is a shaped recipe. Any log from #minecraft:logs works in the three log positions.
ironthrone:dragon_lure_pyreDragon lure recipes
Each lure is shapeless and combines one Dragon Lure Component with the exact food shown below.
ironthrone:black_dread_lure
ironthrone:stormwing_lure
ironthrone:ashfang_lure
ironthrone:verdant_wyrm_lure
ironthrone:frostscale_lureDragon Lure Components can roll from Vote Loot Boxes at 4.72%, Common Loot Boxes at 2.73%, and Rare Loot Boxes at 5.15%. See Lootboxes and Voting for the complete reward tables.
Calling a dragon
Use a matching lure on an inactive Pyre. The lure is consumed unless the player has instabuild, the Pyre becomes active, and the call completes after 30 seconds. An active Pyre rejects additional lures.
The Pyre makes up to 24 attempts to find supported terrain 80-140 blocks away. A successful call creates the selected persistent dragon 18 blocks above the surface and sends it toward the Pyre. If no safe, collision-free point inside the world border is found, the Pyre resets and warns players within 64 blocks without refunding the lure.
The same recipes are also listed in Items and Recipes.