Minecraft players are about to meet the Happy Ghast – an adorable airborne mob that doesn’t just float around but lets you soar across the skies on its back, turning every journey into pure adventure.
It all begins with a Dried Ghast. Shaped like a grumpy little blob, these new Minecraft Mobs lie behind the bone structures in the Soul Sand Valleys of the Nether Dimension. While these small creatures might seem difficult to please, all you need to do is take them home. Once you do, place these little blobs somewhere and water them. Now, all we need to do is wait.
Once it gets enough water and patience, it turns into a Ghastling. These adorable little teenage blobs get big enough and start floating around. And while you would think they need grass, you actually feed them snowballs! And that’s when happiness transforms into euphoria.
These precious Ghastlings now become the Happy Ghasts. Besides being humongous and, well, floating, these mobs can be ridden! That’s right, all you need to do is attach a harness to it and get on it! Once you get on it, you’ll see the Happy Ghast put on their trusty goggles, signifying they’re ready to take flight.
Now you’re free to fly around all Minecraft Biomes and explore away. And how do you know your Happy Ghast is free? Their goggles will be up, of course. With the Happy Ghasts, you can roam around the whole world freely as if you are playing the game in Creative mode, even when you have selected Survival during world creation.
How do you tame a Ghastling into a Happy Ghast
Taming Process
To tame a Ghastling into a Happy Ghast, first obtain a Dried Ghast block from Soul Sand Valley fossils in the Nether or craft it with soul sand and ghast tears. Submerge the block in water (preferably in the Overworld) for about 20 minutes; it cycles through textures from frowning to smiling before spawning a Ghastling.
Feeding Steps
Feed the Ghastling snowballs-each one reduces growth time by around 10% or builds taming progress until heart particles appear, indicating it’s tamed. It naturally matures into a full Happy Ghast over another 20 minutes, or instantly after 10 snowballs in some cases.
Additional Tips
Ghastlings follow players holding snowballs and can’t be harnessed until fully grown. The Happy Ghast then becomes rideable with a crafted harness made from leather, glass, and wool.
What materials craft a Ghast harness and its color options
Crafting Materials
Craft a Ghast harness using 3 leather, 2 glass panes, and 1 wool block of any color in a crafting table. Arrange the 3 leather across the top row, place the glass panes on the sides of the middle row, and put the wool in the center.
Color Options
The wool determines the harness’s initial color, with 16 standard Minecraft dye colors available (white, orange, magenta, light blue, yellow, lime, pink, gray, light gray, cyan, purple, blue, brown, green, red, black). Dye an existing harness with any dye in the crafting table to change its color later.
