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Happy Ghast

Mobs

Happy Ghast — mob.

Obtaining

A happy ghast begins as a baby when a dried ghast reaches hydration level 3. Waterlogging the block advances its hydration, and the completed transition removes the block and spawns the baby mob. A spawn egg is available for controlled testing.

Data: Obtaining
Source blockDried ghast
Hydration levels0–3
TriggerWaterlogged dried ghast at level 3
Spawn resultBaby happy ghast

Breeding

Snowballs are the item listed by the happy-ghast food tag. Two compatible adults can produce a baby happy ghast through the normal ageable-mob breeding path.

Data: Breeding
FoodSnowball
OffspringBaby happy ghast
Love modeSupported for adults

Riding

Equip a harness to ride and guide an adult happy ghast. Harnesses belong to the equipment layer, while snowballs are the validated food item used by the happy-ghast food tag.

Data: Riding
EquipmentHarness
Passenger capacity4
Food taghappy_ghast_food
Food itemSnowball

Sounds

Adults and babies use separate ambient, hurt and death sound events. An adult also uses a larger neutral sound volume, and its ambient interval is extended while it carries a rider.

Data: Sounds
Adult ambiententity.happy_ghast.ambient
Baby ambiententity.ghastling.ambient
Adult hurtentity.happy_ghast.hurt
Baby hurtentity.ghastling.hurt
Adult deathentity.happy_ghast.death

Behavior

The happy ghast is a friendly flying creature. Adults can wear a harness and carry passengers; babies use their own smaller flying dimensions and follow the adult family behavior instead of attacking targets.

Data: Behavior
Categorypassive
Max health20
Width4
Height4
SummonableYes
Fire immuneNo
Health20
Size4 × 4 blocks
Flying speed0.05
Follow range16 blocks
Maximum passengers4
Mob categoryCreature

Data values

The mob uses the stable `minecraft:happy_ghast` identifier and is included in the harness-compatible and fall-damage-immune entity tags. Its empty entity loot table does not add ordinary item drops.

Data: Data values
Identifierminecraft:happy_ghast
VersionMinecraft 26.2
Entity IDminecraft:happy_ghast
Entity size4.0 × 4.0 blocks
Baby scale0.2375
Entity tagscan_equip_harness, fall_damage_immune
Loot tableminecraft:entities/happy_ghast
Happy Ghast mob image — Adult
Adult · Local asset
Happy Ghast mob image — Ghastling
Ghastling · Local asset
Happy Ghast mob image — With ropes
With ropes · Local asset
White harness
Riding equipment · Local Minecraft asset
Snowball
Food item · Local Minecraft asset
Dried ghast
Obtaining block · Local Minecraft asset

References

Data: References
Local sourceHappy Ghasthappy_ghast
Entity registrationnet/minecraft/world/entity/EntityTypes.java
Entity behaviornet/minecraft/world/entity/animal/happyghast/HappyGhast.java
Brain and goalsnet/minecraft/world/entity/animal/happyghast/HappyGhastAi.java
Hydration transitionnet/minecraft/world/level/block/DriedGhastBlock.java
Entity lootdata/minecraft/loot_table/entities/happy_ghast.json
Harness tagdata/minecraft/tags/entity_type/can_equip_harness.json

Navigation

Data and provenance

minecraft:happy_ghast

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Facts

Categorypassive
Max health20
Width4
Height4
SummonableYes
Fire immuneNo
Data sourcebe50babd698b8c30b247f73debc15c3102ee8c8df189eb8d218d77c55e1eeb83

Provenance and publication

Readiness
Pending
Snapshot
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Source set
918feb41c87c05a6f3e94e327fb01a82543180a2376b65610c6f0521456532a5
Entity identifier
minecraft:happy_ghast
Digest
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Missing locales
ru, en