Few players know that the Happy Ghast, unlike its hostile cousins, can actually become your eerie companion. With the right approach and a bit of courage, you can calm its fiery temper and turn this floating terror into a loyal ally in the skies of Minecraft.
How to Tame Happy Ghast in Minecraft
Happy Ghast can be tamed using a special ritual involving Ghast Tears, Blaze Powder, and a Nether Star placed on a custom altar built in the Nether. Once summoned, approach the Happy Ghast carefully and feed it Glowstone Dust until it shows heart particles, signaling friendship. After it’s tamed, the Happy Ghast follows the player and occasionally drops items like Fire Charges or Ghast Tears. Keeping it content requires avoiding hostile mobs near it and feeding it Glowstone Dust regularly.
As of now, the happy ghastscan not be tamed in the traditional sense in Minecraft. While Minecraft Live 2025 introduced these mobs and how they worked, no information was given on how they can be bred. However, that doesn’t mean you can’t get your hands on some of these cute creatures.
Taming a happy ghast in a way involves getting your hands on a dried ghast block or crafting it using 8 ghast tears and a soul sand block. Now, you can waterlog this block for 20 minutes till it turns into a ghastling, which is another ghast variant in Minecraft. You can now feed these ghastlings snowballs in Minecraft, and in another 20 minutes, you have yourself a happy ghast! You can follow our linked guides above for the entire process.
How to craft Ghast Harness for Happy Ghast
To craft a Ghast Harness for your Happy Ghast, you need a simple 3×3 crafting recipe using leather, glass, and wool.
Required materials
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3 leather (from cows, horses, etc.).
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2 glass blocks (smelt sand in a furnace).
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1 wool of any color (shear or kill sheep).
Crafting recipe layout
On a 3×3 crafting table:
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Top row: leather – leather – leather
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Middle row: glass – wool – glass
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Bottom row: leave empty (or in some versions, the same pattern shifted down also works).
This outputs 1 harness; its color matches the wool color you used.
Using the Ghast Harness
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Hold the harness and right-click the Happy Ghast to equip it (it shows straps/goggles on the Ghast).
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Right-click the harnessed Happy Ghast again to mount and fly; you can remove the harness later with shears, which makes it drop as an item.
How to find or spawn a Happy Ghast
Happy Ghasts do not spawn naturally in Minecraft; you must find or craft a Dried Ghast block, rehydrate it into a Ghastling, and grow the Ghastling into a full Happy Ghast.
Finding Dried Ghast
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Head to the Nether’s Soul Sand Valley biome and search around Nether fossils (large bone-like structures) for small, gray, sad-faced Dried Ghast blocks, which have about a 33% spawn chance nearby.
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Mine them by hand or with any tool; they blend into the terrain, so explore thoroughly.
Alternative Ways to Get Dried Ghast
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Crafting: Place 1 Soul Sand in the center of a crafting table and surround it with 8 Ghast Tears (dropped by killing hostile Ghasts).
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Bartering: Trade Gold Ingots with Piglins for a roughly 2% chance at one.
Spawning the Happy Ghast
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Submerge the Dried Ghast fully in Overworld water (e.g., a pond or ocean) for 20 minutes; green particles and changing expressions signal progress until it becomes a Ghastling.
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Feed the Ghastling 10 snowballs to instantly mature it into a rideable Happy Ghast, or wait another 20 minutes naturally.
