How do i get dragon scales in tinkers construct?
The description says “blasted off an ender dragon” do i have to kill it with an explosion? I cant find any results searching aynwhere else
Posted Feb 25, 2022, 1:40 AM UTC
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Dropped when the dragon is damaged by any explosion caused by a player. End crystal is the easiest way (and honestly the intended way), but you can use TNT on the exit portal as well
Note that beds will not work as they are not a "player caused explosion" internally.
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Damaged? So it doesnt have to be killed with an explosion?
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No, killing it with an explosion would suck. As I mentioned, easiest explosion source is end crystals, and its really hard to have one of those around when the dragon is about to die. Every time its damaged by an explosion, a small number of scales pop up in classic dragon fantasy style.
That said, in testing this feature, discovered end crystals are actually a pretty good long range weapon against the dragon. Place one, it starts healing a bit, and then you can quickly break it for damage. Would be interested in a comparison between that and bows, big advantage is its basically seeker.
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A cleaver can probably do it
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It doesnt show up under the jei thing for severing so i dont think thats it
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Based on other comments I assume it may be a similar vein to pneumaticcraft's compressed iron, where any explosion will do. Notably, this means that if you have a source of explosions that specifically doesn't break blocks, like, say, Supplementaries' Bombs that are thrown and explode on impact, that may be a very VERY easy method. I don't know what all you have available though - you could always try the beds-explode-in-the-end trick speedrunners often use to kill the dragon, just slower to focus on getting the scales.
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Im playing on cuboid outpost, notably the dragon is a lot harder and perches less so i may need exploding arrows but supplementaries bombs are a great idea ill check if the pack has it later
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I by accident found some in my inventory when I hit the ender dragon with an exploded end crystal. So it's pretty literally blasting it off an alive ender dragon. If it has to be an end crystal or just any explosion I can't say, because I didn't tested it further