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How Do You Fly in Minecraft Survival Mode Pocket Edition

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Powerful Minecraft players can acquire a pair of wings after they defeat the Ender Dragon (and go on a lengthy treasure hunt). If that seems too far off, you can fly in Creative Mode, either by starting a new world or by enabling cheats. Cheats are not yet available for console edition.

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    Defeat the Ender Dragon . The only way to fly in Survival Mode without cheats is to use a pair of wings called "elytra." You'll need plenty of equipment and resources to find these wings, as they are only available in the End, the final zone of the game. Read this guide for instructions and advice on how to find and defeat the Ender Dragon.

    • Elytra were added in Computer Edition official release 1.9, Pocket Edition official release 1.0, and Console Edition in the December 2016 update. If you are playing on an old Console world, select More Options from the world select menu and choose Reset End to get the new version with Elytra.[1]

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    Look for the gateway portal. Defeating the Ender Dragon activates two portals. The one in the center, with a dragon's egg on top, is the end portal. Walking through it will give you an achievement and return you to the overworld. To explore the rest of the End zone, look for the other portal. This one is near the edge of the island, too small to walk through, and usually floating high in the air.[2]

    • If you walk through the end portal, you can return to the End Zone using the same portal you used the first time.

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    Throw an ender pearl through the gateway portal. Since the gateway is too small to walk through, you'll need an Ender Pearl to teleport through to the other side. This will take you to one of the other islands in the End Zone.

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    Find an End City. End Cities are tall towers or groups of towers made from yellow and purple blocks. You may need to explore the End zone for a fairly long time before you find one.[3]

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    Explore an End Ship. Each End City has a small chance to include an End Ship floating nearby. Walk into the cabin of the ship and defeat the shulker guarding the treasure.[4]

    • Throwing another ender pearl is the fastest way to reach the ship. Some ships have a nearby walkway where you can stand to throw the pearl.
    • The End City itself has treasure, but never an elytra.

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    Take the elytra from the item frame. Break the item frame behind the treasure chest, and a pair of "elytra" (beetle wing cases) will drop onto the floor. Pick these up and equip them to your chest slot.

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    Jump in mid air to glide. With the elytra equipped, you can press the jump button in mid-air to start gliding. You will fall very slowly, and move forward as you do.

    • You can press up to rise higher, but if you do this too sharply, you will stall and start to fall faster.[5]
    • You can still take falling damage if you are moving too fast when you hit the ground.

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    Enable the cheat console. If you didn't allow cheats when you created a single-player world, you can still enable them inside the world:

    • Computer Edition: Hit Esc to open the menu. Select Open to LAN . Click Allow Cheats , then Start LAN World . This will enable cheats until you return to the main menu.
    • Pocket Edition: Go to Settings → Game → Cheats: On .[6]
    • Note: On a multiplayer server, only administrators and operators have access to the console.[7] Ask one to put you in spectator mode, where you can fly but cannot interact with anything.

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    Enter Creative Mode. Open chat and type in /gamemode c to enter Creative Mode. (On devices with a keyboard, chat should open automatically when you hit / ). This automatically enables flying.

    • Creative Mode also makes you immune to damage and give you an unlimited inventory.

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    Double tap jump to fly. This can be finicky, so try it a couple times if it doesn't work.

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    Move up with the jump button. Once you've started flying, holding down the jump button will lift you into the air.

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    Sink with the sneak button. Hold down the sneak button (Left ⇧ Shift on a computer) to sink down to the ground. If you touch the ground, you will stop flying.

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    Return to Survival Mode. When you'd like to return to normal Survival Mode, type /gamemode s. Be careful: if you are flying, you will fall to the ground.

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    Choose a Creative Mode world. Flying is enabled by default in Creative Mode.

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    Tap the jump button twice. This causes you to start flying, though you may not notice it yet. If it doesn't work right away, try tapping a little faster.

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    Hold jump to rise in the air. You will continue to rise as long as you hold the jump button, or until you hit the maximum height. You can also move around with the usual controls.

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    Hold sneak to sink back down. The default sneak controls are Left ⇧ Shift on PC, R on Xbox, pressing down on the right joystick on Playstation, and D-pad down on PS Vita.[8]

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    Hit the ground to stop flying. If your feet touch the floor, you will stop flying. You can also turn off flying by double-tapping the jump button again.

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    Choose a Creative Mode world. You can only fly in Creative Mode. You choose the game mode when you create the world, and there is no built-in way to change it.

    • You can search your app store for a mod that allows you to change game modes. However, most of these do not work for Minecraft PE versions 0.9 and later.[9] If you do download a mod, be aware that it is not officially supported and could cause issues with your game.

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    Tap the jump button twice. If you are in Creative Mode, you should start flying. On some versions, the jump symbol will change to a pair of wings.[10]

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    Swipe up or down from the jump button. Hold the jump button and swipe your finger up to fly higher, or down to sink lower. You can also move using the usual controls.

    • You can also drop down by double-tapping the center jump button.[11]
    • If you are playing on the Xperia Play gamepad, hold jump while pressing up or down.[12]

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  • Question

    How do I fly on an iPad on a server in Minecraft?

    Community Answer

    Tap the middle control button twice quickly. If this doesn't work, the server probably isn't creative and flying isn't an option.

  • Question

    How do I fly? It does not make sense.

    Community Answer

    Tap the jump thing twice and on pocket edition 0.15.0 there should be arrows on the other side and Tao those to go up/down and on personal computers/ Mac just use space bar twice and use arrow keys to move forward and space to go up and shift = down and on play station use X twice and the joysticks to move around and arrow keys for up and down.

  • Question

    How do I get rocket-propelled elytra?

    Leonid Brezzhnev

    Leonid Brezzhnev

    Community Answer

    You need to hold firework rockets when you glide using an elytra. Click on the firework rocket and you will elevate up.

  • Question

    What's a gateway portal, end ship and end city?

    Gerbillover

    Gerbillover

    Community Answer

    These are new features added to the End in Minecraft 1.9. When the ender dragon is defeated, a gateway portal appears around the edge of the End. If this is entered with an ender pearl, you will enter End City. In it, you can find end ships which contain Shulkers (a new mob) and valuable loot.

  • Question

    How do I fly with Elytra wings on an iPad?

    Community Answer

    It should act the same way as it does in the pocket edition. For the iPad, the screen is just enlarged.

  • Question

    How do I download that version of Minecraft?

    Nolan Salzman

    Nolan Salzman

    Community Answer

    Go to the launcher (PC) and click the version select 1.9 or higher. On your phone, you go to the Google Play Store or the App Store depending on which phone you use. Go to the Minecraft area. If there is no update and if the uninstall button is there instead. If there is an uninstalled button, you have the latest version of Minecraft.

  • Question

    I heard you need a firework to fly. Am I correct?

    GlideBurst433

    GlideBurst433

    Community Answer

    In creative, you do not need a firework to fly, you just double jump quickly. To fly with Elytra you have multiple options. You can jump off a high elevation and jump again mid-air, use a redstone TNT launcher, or use fireworks while gliding.

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  • Gliding was introduced in Minecraft 1.9, released on February 29, 2016.[13] Update from an older version by connecting your computer to the internet before launching the game.

  • Elytra wear down as you use them. Craft them with phantom membranes in an anvil to repair them.[14]

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  • You cannot use the cheat console in Minecraft for consoles or Pocket Edition.[15] This makes it impossible to fly in a Survival world without downloading a third-party mod.

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Things You'll Need

  • A computer
  • Minecraft of Minecraft PE download
  • Account on Minecraft.net ( if using Minecraft desktop version )

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1. Defeat the Ender Dragon.
2. Throw an Ender Pearl through the gateway portal.
3. Go to an End City.
4. Defeat the Shulker in the End Ship.
5. Take the Elytra.
6. Jump into midair to glide.

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