Dragon Egg

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.

This block first appears in Beta 1.9 Pre-release 6, and appears on top of the Bedrock portal back to the Overworld created in The End after the defeat of the Enderdragon. Left or Right-clicking it seems to cause it to teleport to a place nearby (left-clicking in creative mode will DESTROY it without any way to get it back), but it is still unknown what else it can be used for, and seems to have no other current purposes.

Trivia

 * In Beta 1.9 Pre-release 5, Enderdragons dropped a single block of Obsidian. Considering that The End had an abundance of Obsidian and therefore a single block of it would be useless to the player, this drop was speculated to be a placeholder for another item. Though the Dragon Egg should fill this void, Enderdragons do not seem to drop anything upon death as of Pre-release 6, and instead the egg is a block created seperately from it.
 * Its teleportation behavior is limited to the five elevation levels above it, the five elevation levels below it, and the 31x31 area around it, giving it a 31x31x11 volume of space where it can teleport to.
 * The egg may teleport into open air, causing it to fall to the ground.
 * Failed attempts have been made to incubate the egg by placing it in a furnace, submerging it in lava, placing it on farmland, submerging it underwater, leaving it in darkness, surrounding it with fire, keeping it well-lit, charging it with redstone, using various tools on it, and placing it in open sky on various blocks.
 * Redstone currents cannot pass through an egg block.
 * Attempting to push it with a piston causes it to revert into item form.
 * Destroying its accompanying Overworld Portal with water or lava will also cause it to turn into an item.
 * When hit whilst in survival and holding no tool, the egg will appear to teleport a short distance, similar to an Enderman. When hit with a pick, the egg will be destroyed.
 * It can be picked up in a similar way to sand or gravel, by letting it fall onto a torch. This works with all non-solid blocks.
 * It remains to be seen if the egg will have a purpose of its own or if it will serve as some kind of ingredient.
 * The writer of the Minecraft comic WonderCraft, Samcube, was submitted by Mojang to create official Minecraft posters for possible purchase. In part of these works, one can see an area with an Enderdragon and a chicken. In the same scene is a purple, egg shaped block like entity near the chicken. It is possible that this could be the Dragon Egg, yet it is unknown why notch would give SamCube details on the egg before anybody else.