Summary
- Minecraft’s upcoming update adds a new mob variant, happy ghasts.
- Strangely, these creatures behave like blocks and float atop water.
- Players are now using them as elevators.
Minecraft’s upcoming Summer Drop 2025 is all about happy ghasts, a new variant of the classic fireball-shooting, nether-floating mob. A couple of associated recipes have also been added, namely the dried ghast block and harness.
The former is used in the creation of happy ghasts, and the latter is used to ride the tamed creatures. Although soaring through the skies is the intended use for happy ghasts, players are already finding more creative and demeaning uses for the friendly nether creatures.
Up & Down
As shown in a TikTok by Vivilllyyy, happy ghasts behave similarly to blocks, which float atop water. This means by using a water column and trapdoors, you can turn happy ghasts into elevators. By pressing a button and opening the trapdoor, the ghast will float to the top of the water column; closing the trapdoor will reverse the process. As the ghast’s body is quite large, you can stand on the outside of its hitbox to travel up and down a so-called ghast elevator.
There are plenty of complex methods of making elevators using pistons, redstone and so on, but the use of happy ghasts may now be the most elegant and simple way of creating an elevator.
The Summer Drop has yet to officially release, so there’s every possibility that happy ghasts floating on water is an unintended interaction that will be fixed before the final release. However, for now, happy ghasts are a prime resource for all your elevator needs.
There are, of course, the negative moral implications of reviving a dying creature only to turn around and trap it for menial uses. This conondrum was summed up by ImpressiveQuality363, who wrote “Imagine being stuck in the nether and being dried out, only to be revived, finally feel happiness and someone makes your head into the floor of an elevator.”
Minecraft players have never shied away from inhumane treatment of mobs, however. As we’ve seen from one-by-one block chicken farms with hundreds of chickens and so on. The happy ghast elevator is the next line in an unfortunate series of crimes against the fauna of Minecraft.
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Markus Persson