Blazin Happy Ghasts!

Adds the 1.21.6 Happy Ghasts drop into the game, among various other additions!

Happy Ghasts and Ghastlings

New Happy Ghasts and Ghastlings have been added! These happy variants of their Ghast counterparts will be joyful companions for the player!

Dried Ghasts

You can find Dried Ghast blocks naturally throughout the Soul Sand Valleys. They'll spawn next to some nether fossils.

You can also craft a Dried Ghast block using 4 ghast tiers, 4 bone blocks, and 1 ghast soul. A ghast soul can be obtained by killing Ghasts.

Ghastlings can be spawned by taking a Dried Ghast block and submerging it in water. Over time, it will become increasingly hydrated, eventually turning into a Ghastling. Ghastlings will eventually grow into Happy Ghasts, but their growth can be sped up using snowballs.

Harnesses

Happy Ghasts can be ridden using Harnesses. There are 16 colors of Harnesses to use. Craft a harness and then equip it onto a Happy Ghast.

This is the crafting recipe. Below are all 16 colors of Harnesses.

Happy Power-ups

Happy Ghasts can be equipped with Power-ups when they are wearing a Harness. To access the upgrade screen, press your inventory key when riding the Happy Ghasts or shift-click the Happy Ghast with no item equipped.

There are 5 different power-ups:

Happy Speed - Increases the movement speed of the Happy Ghast (found in End City chests!)

Happy Strength - Gives the Happy Ghast the Resistance 2 status effect permentantly. (found in Ancient City chests!)

Happy Fireballs - Allows you to shoot fireballs while riding the Happy Ghast using the shift key (found in Fortress chests!)

Happy Heart - Increases the maximum health of the Happy Ghast and gives an increased regeneration effect (found in Woodland Mansion chests!)

Happy Royalty - Given when you unlock every Happy Ghast achievement, and gives the Happy Ghast a crown accessory

the fireballs power-up is especially fun

Happy Ghast Advancements

There are now 14 new advancements to collect! They range from taking your Happy Ghast to the Nether or the End, freeing a ghast from the Nether, shooting another Ghast with a Happy Ghast's fireball, and much more! If you are skilled enough, you'll be able to get all of them and achieve Happy Royalty!

oh yeah, if you feed your Happy Ghast 10,000 snowballs, you'll get a special item that provides unlimited healing to full health, the Golden Snowball!

Happy Ghast Aging

Over time, Happy Ghasts will age. After roughly 2 in-game hours, they will age slightly, and after roughly 4 hours, they will age into an aged Happy Ghast. Take care of your elders! (this change is purely aesthetic, though.)

Ghast Conversion

If you take a regular Ghast to the overworld, after 2 minutes, it will turn into a Happy Ghast. I'm sure it'll be overjoyed that you decided to save it!

In contrast, taking a Happy Ghast to the Nether will turn it back into a regular Ghast. You monster!

Closing Remarks

Special thanks to the Fabric Discord for helping me out with a lot of the problems I encountered when making this mod. Also, special thanks to FrozenBlock and their Happier Ghasts mod GitHub, for which I used to help develop this mod. You can find their Github here - https://github.com/FrozenBlock/Happier-Ghasts