Happy Ghast

Happy Ghast

• Default
• Harnessed
• Ghastling

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Health points	20HP × 10
Behavior	Passive
Hitbox size	Happy Ghast: Height: 4.0 blocks Width: 4.0 blocks Ghastling: Height: 0.95 blocks Width: 0.95 blocks
Speed	0.7
Spawn	Ghastling: When a dried ghast is rehydrated in water. Happy Ghast: When a Ghastling grows up.
Usable items	Ghastling: Snowball Lead Happy Ghast: Harness Shears Lead

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A happy ghast is a passive variant of ghasts which can be harnessed and ridden by up to four players at once as a flying mount. It can only be encountered if a ghastling grows into a happy ghast.

A ghastling is a younger version of happy ghasts. It can only be encountered by submerging a dried ghast in water and waiting for it to grow. It cannot be harnessed or ridden, and will grow into a happy ghast over time. Feeding it snowballs will accelerate its growth.

These mobs were revealed at Minecraft LIVE – March 2025, and are planned to be added to the game with the Summer Drop 2025 in June 2025.

Drops

Happy ghasts and ghastlings do not drop any items or experience upon death, aside from their equipped harness.

Spawning

Neither happy ghasts nor ghastlings spawn naturally.

A ghastling spawns when a dried ghast is waterlogged for 20 minutes. A happy ghast spawns when a ghastling matures.

Behavior

Ghastling

Ghastlings roam close to players or other mobs until they get "bored". They approach and examine non-aquatic passive mobs and some neutral mobs (mainly animals).

Specifically, after being hydrated/spawned from a dried ghast they will detect the player closest to it and "imprint" on the player, specifically following that player and occasionally taking breaks to randomly investigate their surroundings. This is essentially the way to "tame" a ghastling.

Ghastlings do not drown under water.

A ghastling eventually turns into a happy ghast after 24000 ticks (20 minutes). This process can be sped up with snowballs. It takes 10 snowballs for a newly-spawned ghastling to become fully-grown.

Ghastlings do not have a separate spawn egg, as they are the juvenile version of the happy ghast, but they can be spawned using commands.

Happy Ghast

Happy ghasts fly around aimlessly and are passive to players and other mobs. Unlike most passive mobs, they do not panic when damaged.

They follow players holding snowballs. They also follow players holding a harness, if they don't have one already equipped. They can also be leashed.

When not at full health, happy ghasts slowly regenerate health over time. Elsewhere, they regenerate at the same rate as horses. If the happy ghast flies to Y level 195 (where clouds are located) or if it is raining or snowing, it regenerates health at a faster rate (half a heart per second).

Unlike regular ghasts, they are not immune to fire damage, and cannot shoot fireballs. Also unlike regular ghasts, they are attacked by withers.

Happy ghasts are somewhat unaffected by speed potions.

Riding

A happy ghast being ridden

Happy ghasts can be ridden by up to four players at once when equipped with a harness. The harness can be taken off using shears to retrieve the item.

The first player that mounts the happy ghast controls it, sitting in the front just above its face. Players that mount after the piloting player sit in a spot on the remaining sides, starting clockwise from the first player. This allows four players in total to ride one happy ghast.

When riding, the player can fly both horizontally and vertically, allowing for more precise movement in the air. While the happy ghast is being ridden, its goggles lower to cover its eyes.

Players can stand on top of a happy ghast (both harnessed and unharnessed) in the air as if it were a solid block. It remains still while players are standing on it, making it easier to mount and dismount and to build structures high above the ground. Other entities (such as other mobs and items) also sit on top the stationary happy ghast. Mobs make no attempt to pathfind when on it. When a player is no longer standing on the ghast, any entities left on it will be flung out and can indirectly cause mobs to fall to their death.

Sounds

Happy Ghast

Java Edition

[hide]Sounds
Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Happy Ghast croons	Friendly Creatures	Randomly	entity.happy_ghast.ambient	subtitles.entity.happy_ghast.ambient​	?	?	?

Bedrock Edition:

[hide]Sounds
Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Friendly Creatures	Randomly	mob.happy_ghast.ambient	1.0	1.0
	Friendly Creatures	When a happy ghast dies	mob.happy_ghast.death	1.0	1.0
	Friendly Creatures	When a happy ghast is damaged	mob.happy_ghast.hurt	1.0	1.0
	Friendly Creatures	While riding a happy ghast	mob.happy_ghast.ride	1.0	1.0
	Friendly Creatures	When mounting a happy ghast	mob.happy_ghast.goggles_down	1.0	1.0
	Friendly Creatures	When dismounting a happy ghast	mob.happy_ghast.goggles_up	1.0	1.0
	Friendly Creatures	When equipping a harness on a happy ghast	mob.happy_ghast.harness_equip	1.0	1.0
	Friendly Creatures	When unequipping a harness on a happy ghast	mob.happy_ghast.harness_unequip	1.0	1.0

Ghastling

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition:

[hide]Sounds
Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Friendly Creatures	Randomly	mob.ghastling.ambient	1.0	0.5
	Friendly Creatures	When a ghastling dies	mob.ghastling.death	1.0	0.5
	Friendly Creatures	When a ghastling is damaged	mob.ghastling.hurt	1.0	0.5
	Friendly Creatures	When a ghastling spawns	mob.ghastling.spawn	1.0	0.5

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Entity tags	[hide]Translation key
Happy Ghast	happy_ghast	fall_damage_immune dismounts_underwater can_equip_harness	entity.minecraft.happy_ghast

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	[hide]Translation key
Happy Ghast	happy_ghast	147	entity.happy_ghast.name

History

2020s							Concept art is created for a rideable ghast mount intended for implementation in Minecraft Legends.​
March 22, 2025							Ghastlings and happy ghasts are revealed at Minecraft LIVE – March 2025.
[hide]Upcoming Java Edition
1.21.6			25w15a				Added ghastlings and happy ghasts.
[hide]Upcoming Bedrock Edition
1.21.80 Experiment Drop 2 2025			Preview 1.21.80.25				Added ghastlings and happy ghasts.
			Preview 1.21.80.27				Health reduced from 40HP × 20 to 20HP × 10.

Issues

Issues relating to "Happy Ghast" or "Ghastling" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Trivia

• The first concepts of the happy ghast came from Minecraft Legends concept art of a flying ghast mount.
  • A similar concept would be used in A Minecraft Movie, where some piglins rode ghasts in a more abusive manner.
• Happy ghast appears to have a more defined texture compared to the normal ghast. However, it's still not consistent with the core texel size (16/m), using half density as the compromise between two textures.
• During Minecraft LIVE, Agnes Larsson advised the community to construct designated "ghaststations" at their high-altitude builds, to allow for safe boarding of happy ghasts.
• In the alt text of an image on a Minecraft.net article, the collective noun for a group of happy ghasts is "a chuckle of happy ghasts".
• In Java Edition, if a happy ghast has a harness and is turned back into a ghastling (by editing NBT data using /data), the harness will still be visible and even shrink to fit the ghastling.

Gallery

Renders

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Screenshots

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  A ghastling in a beach.

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  Player feeding a ghastling a snowball in the frozen ocean biome.

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Mojang screenshots

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  Noor standing on top of a happy ghast.

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  Dried ghast, ghastling and happy ghast with blue harness.

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  Multiple happy ghasts and players with Vibrant Visuals shaders enabled.

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  Steve next to a happy ghast with a harness in a badlands.

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  A happy ghast flying over Steve in a frozen ocean.

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  Steve riding a happy ghast with a harness in a badlands.

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  Steve riding a happy ghast with a harness in a forest.

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  Agnes, Felix, and Snifferish riding a happy ghast wearing a red harness, and happy ghasts wearing green, blue, and lime harnesses

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  "A chuckle of happy ghasts floating through the air in the sunset".

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  Ari riding a happy ghast.

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  Ghastlings following Efe.

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  Zuri and Kai riding a happy ghast.

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  Ghastlings following a warm pig.

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  Zuri riding a happy ghast.

Textures

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  Happy Ghast texture

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  Ghastling texture

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  Black happy ghast harness texture file.

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  Blue happy ghast harness texture file.

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  Brown happy ghast harness texture file.

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  Cyan happy ghast harness texture file.

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  Gray happy ghast harness texture file.

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  Green happy ghast harness texture file.

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  Light blue happy ghast harness texture file.

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  Light gray happy ghast harness texture file.

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  Lime happy ghast harness texture file.

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  Magenta happy ghast harness texture file.

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  Orange happy ghast harness texture file.

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  Pink happy ghast harness texture file.

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  Purple happy ghast harness texture file.

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  Red happy ghast harness texture file.

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  White happy ghast harness texture file.

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  Yellow happy ghast harness texture file.

Official artwork

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  Ghastling artwork

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  Happy ghast artwork

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  Happy ghast artwork cutout