Ender Dragon Crossbow

Quickstart

1. Craft the Ender Dragon Crossbow using dragon breath, ender eyes, obsidian, a crossbow, and sticks (see recipe below).
2. Hold the crossbow and use it — it behaves like a bound weapon that only you can wield effectively.
3. Attack mobs in melee or shoot arrows to rack up kills. Every 15 kills, it becomes ready to evolve.
4. Craft a Dragon Soul and have it in your inventory when your 15th kill lands — the crossbow will transform into the Ender Dragon Lance.
5. Try sneaking and using the weapon for Dragon Breath, and a normal charged use for Volley (crossbow form) or Rift (lance form).

Overview

The Ender Dragon Crossbow is a soul-bound magic weapon that grows in power the more you fight with it. It starts as a fiery, arrow-shooting crossbow and, after enough combat kills and a rare crafting component, transforms permanently into the Ender Dragon Lance — a heavier melee weapon that tears open rifts in reality.

The weapon remembers who it belongs to. If another player picks it up, it senses the theft and reverts to a fresh, unleveled crossbow for its new owner.

What It Adds

Crafting And Obtaining

Ender Dragon Crossbow

Crafted at a crafting table from dragon breath, ender eyes, obsidian, a vanilla crossbow, and sticks:

Dragon Soul

Crafted from dragon breath, an ender eye, an echo shard, and a ghast tear:

Keep at least one Dragon Soul in your inventory before your crossbow reaches its 15th kill — it is consumed automatically the moment the weapon evolves.

How To Use

• Melee attack: Swing the weapon like a sword. The crossbow form deals solid bonus damage; the lance form hits even harder.
• Sneak + Use: Unleashes Dragon Breath — launches a dragon fireball in the direction you're looking. Works in both forms.
• Use without sneaking, held briefly then released:
  • As a crossbow, quick taps fire a fast single arrow (Rapid Shot) with a very short cooldown.
  • Holding and releasing the use button (without sneaking) triggers Volley as a crossbow, or Rift once evolved into the lance.
• Arrows fired by the weapon set targets on fire, and can trigger nearby creepers to explode or detonate nearby TNT on impact.
• An on-screen action bar tracks your kill progress toward evolution, and shows cooldowns for your abilities while the weapon is held.

Abilities And Mechanics

All arrows fired by the weapon ignite what they hit. Getting a kill with any of these methods — melee or a tagged arrow — advances your progress toward evolution.

Progression And Strategy

• The weapon tracks your kills while in crossbow form. Once you reach 15 kills, it's ready to evolve.
• If you have a Dragon Soul in your inventory at that moment, it's automatically consumed and the crossbow transforms into the Ender Dragon Lance — a new item with its own stronger melee damage, higher durability, and access to the Rift ability instead of Volley.
• If you hit 15 kills without a Dragon Soul on hand, the weapon waits at "ready to awaken" until you obtain one.
• Both forms can be repaired using dragon breath, ender pearls, or obsidian, and can be enchanted like normal weapons.
• The weapon is soul-bound: giving it to or having it taken by another player causes it to reset to a fresh, zero-kill crossbow for its new wielder, so the evolved lance form cannot simply be handed off.