While riding your Happy Ghast, hold up a Ghast Tear and your little companion will unleash its full power.

Fast Ghast is a server-side VanillaBackport addon for NeoForge 1.21.1.

Feature

When the driver of a Happy Ghast holds a Ghast Tear in either hand, the FLYING_SPEED attribute receives a transient +100% modifier.

• Approximate normal movement speed: 3.6 blocks per second.
• Approximate boosted movement speed: 14.4 blocks per second.
• Only the driver can activate the boost; other passengers are ignored.
• The boost is removed immediately when the driver puts the item away or dismounts.
• The Ghast Tear is not consumed.
• The behavior is handled entirely by the server.

Requirements

• Minecraft 1.21.1
• NeoForge 21.1.222 or newer within the 21.1 branch
• VanillaBackport 1.1.6.3 or newer
• Platform 1.2.11.4 or newer

Installation

Place in the server's mods directory. VanillaBackport and its Platform dependency must also be installed as required by your modpack.

Acknowledgements:

All credit for the mod goes to the Vanilla Backport team, who do an excellent job bringing all the latest features to older versions. This project was created out of the need to add these features to my personal server. I’m sharing it in the hope that it may be useful to someone else, which would make me very happy.

Author and license

Copyright (c) 2026 Carlos FR - VEC SMP - Project developed with Codex.

FastGhast is distributed under the MIT License. You may use, copy, modify and redistribute it, including in modpacks, provided that the copyright and license notice are retained.