Ghast

Obtaining

Ghasts are hostile flying monsters of the Nether. The Nether Wastes and Soul Sand Valley use a weight-50 spawn entry with groups of four, while Basalt Deltas use weight 40 and a group size of one. A spawn egg is the controlled alternative when a naturally generated encounter is not wanted.

The mob's spawn rule rejects Peaceful difficulty, and its per-attempt cluster size is one even when a biome entry permits a larger group. This distinction explains why a group can be selected by the biome while each spawn attempt still creates one ghast.

• Nether WastesBiome
• Soul Sand ValleyBiome
• Basalt DeltasBiome
• Ghast Spawn EggItem

Drops

The entity loot table rolls one ghast tear pool and one gunpowder pool. Each pool starts with a uniform zero-to-one or zero-to-two count and adds a uniform looting increase. A third pool adds the Tears music disc only when the ghast is killed by a player with a projectile damage source whose direct entity is a fireball.

• Ghast TearItem
• GunpowderItem
• Music DiscItem

Sounds

The entity exposes separate ambient, hurt, death, scream, warning, and shoot events. Warning is emitted before a shot; shoot is emitted when the large fireball is launched, so the two events can be used to follow the charge in a recording.

Behavior

A ghast is a fire-immune flying monster that keeps its distance and attacks with large fireballs. Its target selector accepts a player within 100 blocks and limits the vertical difference to four blocks; the shooting goal then requires line of sight and a 64-block distance check.

The charge is deliberately telegraphed. The warning event is sent at 10 ticks, the large fireball is created at 20 ticks from a point four blocks in front of the ghast, and the charge timer resets to -40 after firing. A reflected fireball can damage the ghast and satisfies the special music-disc condition.

• Fire ChargeItem
• NetherrackBlock

Data values

The registry identifier is `minecraft:ghast`. It belongs to the monster category, tracks clients at range 10, is fire immune, and is marked as unavailable in Peaceful difficulty. Its default loot table is `minecraft:entities/ghast`.

History

The current page describes the Java 26.2 behavior represented by the local source snapshot. The public article keeps implementation details next to the user-facing behavior so spawn, combat, and loot changes can be reviewed together when a later snapshot is imported.

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See also

• Mob catalogue
• Minecraft Wiki overview
• Nether WastesBiome
• Soul Sand ValleyBiome
• Basalt DeltasBiome
• Ghast TearItem
• Ghast Spawn EggItem
• Fire ChargeItem
• Music DiscItem
• NetherrackBlock

References

Data: References

Local source	Ghastghast
Entity implementation	net/minecraft/world/entity/monster/Ghast.java
Loot table	data/minecraft/loot_table/entities/ghast.json
Nether Wastes spawns	data/minecraft/worldgen/biome/nether_wastes.json
Soul Sand Valley spawns	data/minecraft/worldgen/biome/soul_sand_valley.json
Basalt Deltas spawns	data/minecraft/worldgen/biome/basalt_deltas.json
Sound registry	net/minecraft/sounds/SoundEvents.java

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