elytra

But in vanilla minecraft, beating the ender dragon is just something you do because you want elytra wings.

When he was little younger he had trouble with navigation when flying Elytra between our distant bases.

Some people can't play Minecraft until they rush the elytra, some end up abandoning a world shortly after they get it.

Or at least it was before the Elytra was added, now that's the actual end.

It's kinda worth it to get access to elytra and shulker boxes but they do tend to make you a bit OP.

Then I realised how OP elytra are and now it's an early game goal to grab a pair.

Someone might be flying around their base with an elytra, at very fast speed.

The real problem occurs when people are generating new terrain while flying on an elytra, sometimes causing the server to crash altogether.

You can basically hover by combining elytra with a Slow Falling potion.

Maybe if you had an elytra and some rockets you could go sabotage, even then there's this big worldeater hole just 16 chunks away.

Would you understand what Elytra do, or what Shulker boxes do?

My son can kill it in under 20 minutes and loves showing me the elytra, but I've never gotten myself one.

Later I'm like "Ooh, End City, these are new", I find the boat, I see the Elytra and it's just flight again, nothing cool?

But either way, reaching that end goal usually prompts people to ask themselves: "what now?" Once you have an Elytra, you've basically unlocked creative flight in survival, and that's pretty much where survival itself ends, now you're just playing creative except you still have to grind for building materials.

Both of those elements (Elytra and Shulker Boxes) are so fundamental to how the game is actually played that it's a different game without them.

One of the first objectives was always getting something like an Elytra, since it makes the game more pleasant imo.

Larger render distance Minecraft servers, Bandwidth cost is un-predictable (Player movement based ex: Elytra, portals, joining) and scales squared!