Dragon Egg

A dragon egg is a block that spawns on top of the bedrock portal created by the defeat of the Ender Dragon in The End. They currently have no explicit purpose, but are tricky to collect. One of the ways to collect them is to make them teleport out of the bedrock it spawn on, dig the block underneath the block the egg is on top of, place a torch in that place and break the block underneath the egg; it will drop as an item.

They currently serve no purpose, other than as a trophy or decoration.

Behavior
Clicking on the egg in survival causes it to teleport to a place nearby (up to seven blocks vertically and fifteen blocks horizontally), creating the same particles as Endermen, Nether Portals, and Ender Chests. It may teleport into the air and subsequently fall to ground.

Like Sand and Gravel, Dragon Eggs fall when unsupported, and if they land on a non-solid block, (such as a Torch, Slab or Tall Grass) they will drop as a resource. They cannot suffocate the player by falling onto them.

To obtain the dragon egg, the player may push it with a piston, detonate it with TNT, or place any non-solid block (like a torch) under the block the egg rests on and then destroy that block so the egg falls onto it. It is possible for the player to hit one while it is still moving to the point it breaks, however this is difficult.

You can get a dragon egg in creative by clicking on it with the pick block key. This will add it to your inventory without breaking it. Keep in mind this is only for creative mode OR by the /give command in SMP

History
The Dragon Egg is an item first mentioned by Notch on the 27th of October, 2011 on which Notch was supposedly working before the feature freeze, though it seems to have been worked on during it.

The Dragon Egg was first introduced in Beta 1.9 Pre-release 6 (November 11th 2011).

Bugs

 * Dragon Eggs in SMP are extremely buggy. They may lag the server until the server is required to shut down.

Trivia

 * Destroying the egg accompanying Overworld Portal with water or lava will also cause it to drop as a resource.
 * Ironically, Ender Dragons destroy Dragon Eggs when passing through them.
 * The writer of the Minecraft comic WonderCraft, Samcube, was requested by Mojang to create official Minecraft posters. In part of these works, one can see an area with an Ender Dragon and a chicken on top of a Huge Mushroom. In the same scene the dragon egg is visible near the chicken.
 * The achievement The End. features a Dragon Egg as its icon. Its icon used to be a Monster Spawner block in the 1.9 pre-releases 3/4/5, due to the lack of Dragon Eggs at this time.
 * When hit with Flint and Steel, a Dragon Egg might break with one hit or teleport and appear in a new position, but still broken.
 * In Creative mode, if you obtain an egg as a resource, it is treated as an unlimited block like everything else in your inventory. You can then place Dragon Eggs infinitely.
 * Dragon eggs emit dark purple particles every so often.
 * Dragon eggs are the only mob drop that does not count as a renewable resource. This is because the Ender Dragon is currently the only mob that spawns only once per game.
 * The dragon egg can be considered the rarest block due to the fact that it only spawns once per world.