This is a mod that allows you to hatch previously useless dragon eggs. Once fostered and tamed, they'll be your faithful companion in all situations and, of course, can be used for a ride!
Dragon Mounts is a mod that allows to hatch eight different dragons and ride them, when they are grown up. The player needs a Dragon Egg to get started and later on Raw Fish and a Saddle to ride it. The Dragon Egg can be obtained after killing the Ender Dragon or can be found in dungeon chests (however, this is disabled by default).
Meanwhile, there is a sequel of the mod called Dragon Mounts 2. Go Check it out!
Quick Guide
To hatch a dragon egg, you'll need to find a good place for it first. If you found one, place the egg block and simply right click it. The egg will then start to hatch, which will take a while.
Once grown up, you can tame the dragon with raw fish. It will then follow and protect you like other pets.
You can command tamed dragons to lay down or stand up with the bone item.
To ride a tamed dragon, use a saddle on it, then right click it without holding an action item.
To heal injured dragons, feed it with raw fish, chicken, beef or porkchop (four hearts) or with rotten flesh (two hearts).
You can control the dragon with the Carrot On A Stick while riding it.
Cheats
The Dragon Mounts mod offers two cheats, the player can use when cheats are enabled:
/dragon state <State>: This will set the dragon the player is looking at to a different state. "egg", "hatchling", "juvenile" or "adult" can be used on the dragon the player is looking at.
/dragon tame: This will claim the dragon the player is looking at to tame it.
Mod Configuration
You can enable chest spawning in the DragonMounts.cfg file. Open it with a text editor and change "B:eggsInChests=false" to "B:eggsInChests=true".