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Quick answer
- Get a Dried ghast block from soul sand valleys, or craft one.
- Place it in water. About 20 minutes later it becomes a ghastling.
- Grow it up, put a harness on it and fly with up to 4 players.
The happy ghast was added in Java 1.21.6 and Bedrock 1.21.90. It's a friendly ghast you can ride, and the best mount for building in the sky.
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Getting a dried ghast
- Find one next to Nether fossils in soul sand valleys.
- Craft one from 8 Ghast tear items and 1 soul sand.
- Piglins can also barter one, rarely.
Hydrating it
- Place the dried ghast in water so it's waterlogged.
- Wait. It goes through a few stages of hydration.
- After about 20 minutes it turns into a baby ghastling.
Keep it wetIf you remove the water, it slowly dries out again.
Growing it up
A ghastling takes about 20 minutes to become an adult. Feed it Snowball items to speed it up.
Flying
- Put a harness on an adult happy ghast to ride it.
- It flies the way you look. Press jump to go straight up.
- Up to 4 players can ride at once.
4riders
~3.6blocks per second
Heal at cloud levelHappy ghasts heal much faster near cloud height or in rain and snow.
Cheat sheet
- Dried ghast: soul sand valleys or 8 ghast tears + soul sand
- Waterlog it, wait about 20 minutes
- Snowballs speed up growing
- Harness to ride, 4 players
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