And boy do I regret not getting it earlier.
I defeated the Ender dragon ages ago, and I had everything I needed to go and explore the outer End, but I decided to do a bunch of other stuff first, since I thought that the elytra wouldn’t be that big of an improvement. I was wrong, I’ve had this thing for like 10 minutes and I already rely on it, it’s so useful being able to fly and travel about 3x as fast as on foot.
My new #1 priority is now to build a bigger sugarcane farm to make rockets. I already have one, which I thought would be enough, but I’m burning through rockets way faster than I’d expected.
Yep, I actually got 3 in my trip to the End. The first one took me I’d guess about 40 minutes, then the next two took me no more than 10 minutes.
To be fair though most of that first 40 minutes was spent just walking to the first end city, after that I found 2 more end cities right next to the first one. Also all 3 end cities had ships, which I think is pretty lucky?