The player's speed is slow enough to allow them time to do other things during a long flight, like sort out their inventory. The critical, damaging angle is about 50° with the collision surface, and the calculation for damage seems to be as if the player had fallen from their maximum potential glide height to the height of the struck surface.Ī safe and simple cruise with the highest travel distance can be achieved by aiming directly at the horizon while at the glide's altitude limit. The player does not take fall damage from colliding at a shallow angle or a low enough speed.

When a player dies in this way, they receive the death message ' experienced kinetic energy'. Additionally, speed is quickly lost from sharp changes in direction.ĭirectly hitting any surface while gliding too fast causes damage to the player and their armor proportional to flight speed (although this may be calculated from another factor). Firework rockets can be used to increase speed. Losing altitude increases speed, and gaining altitude decreases speed.

The player can aim their view around to turn or adjust their pitch. To fly, the player must press the jump key while falling, and the elytra spread apart like a beetle's elytra. They maintain their in-world texture design even when they're broken or enchanted. They are gray in color by default, but they adopt the design of any cape the player is wearing. Unenchanted elytra cannot be used on the grindstone alone.Įlytra are equipped in the chestplate slot, either by placing the item directly in the slot, by pressing use item while held in hand, or by firing a point-blank dispenser at a target. However, the prior work penalty can be reset to 0 for an enchanted elytra pair when it is disenchanted on a grindstone.

Each repair on the anvil, however, also increases the prior work penalty for the Elytra, making every subsequent repair increasingly expensive and eventually reaching an upper limit where repairs are no longer allowed because they are 'too expensive' (even if the player has many xp levels to spare).

Minecraft minigame lobby elytra