Happy Ghasts are basically going to be hot air balloons for servers now. But one thing I haven’t seen anyone experiment with is how do you WRANGLE the Happy Ghasts?
Mojang has thought about this. When a Happy Ghast is spawned it creates a “home base” that it will fly around. They also prioritize going down towards the ground, other players, or are attracted by snowballs in your hands. This way a Happy Ghasts won’t just fly away and never come back like a lot of Bees tend to do. It’ll stay in the radius of its “home base.”
But if you dismount off a Happy Ghast onto a platform in the sky, and then walk away… what does the Happy Ghast do? It just roams around and flies aimlessly until it gets bored and heads back to its spawn area. Which is not very helpful if you’ve got a base in the sky.
You can attach them with leads, but they’ll still fly up and away the second you dismount, making getting them to come to you a real hassle.
So I’ve come up with this:
This “docking station” is about 5x5 blocks deep. There’s a fence post where you dismount for a lead, and a lever that (when activated) will push blocks around the Ghast and lock it in place.
I’ve done testing and if you just attach the Ghast with a lead, all it will do is fly up and away anyway. Granted It won’t be able to go very far, but it’s still chaotic and frustrating to get the Ghast back down.
With the locking mechanism in place the Ghast won’t go anywhere and will remain comfortably in its little hole. You can dismount, walk away, come back, and unlock the mechanism without the Ghast trying to fly away even without a lead!
Obviously right now it’s not the best looking solution. I’m sure there’s a more elegant way to create this…. But come on, if we’re going to have hot air balloons we NEED a way to keep them from flying away when we’re not using them!
Think of this as a sky stable for the Happy Ghast!
Heck, maybe you can even put a second platform underneath where a boat could sit, allowing you to transport mobs more easily with this setup!
