Putting On Elytra And Climbing A Ladder

What is the difference between “put on” and “wear”?

English uses two words for clothes. Put on is the action: you take a jacket and move it onto your body. Wear or be wearing describes the result: the jacket is now on you. So you put on your shoes in the morning, and then you wear them all day. The opposite of put on is take off.

The player does both in a few seconds. First he says “I need to put them on,” and then, when it is done: “Now I’m wearing the elytra.” The same pair works for glasses, hats, watches and even perfume. Note that “put on” is a phrasal verb: with a pronoun the pronoun goes in the middle (put them on, not put on them).