Minecraft:Dried Ghast

Template:Infobox block A dried ghast is an immobile, shriveled, harmless Minecraft:ghast in the form of a Minecraft:block. It can be found near Minecraft:Nether fossils, obtained through Minecraft:bartering, or crafted. Placing it in Minecraft:water causes it to hydrate over time until it becomes a Minecraft:ghastling.

Obtaining

Breaking

A dried ghast can be instantly mined with any tool or by hand, and it always drops itself when mined. If mined while waterlogged, it reverts to its "dry" state regardless of which state it has reached while waterlogged. Template:Breaking row

Natural generation

Dried ghasts naturally generate in Minecraft:soul sand valleys as part of Minecraft:Nether fossils and have a Template:Fraction (~33.3%) chance of spawning next to one.

Bartering

Minecraft:Piglins have a Template:Frac (~2.13%) chance to Minecraft:barter a dried ghast when given a Minecraft:gold ingot.

Usage

When a dried ghast is Minecraft:waterlogged, it initiates a rehydration process: green particles appear, and the ghast gradually develops a smiling expression and becomes brighter in color. These visual changes appear in stages, becoming noticeable after about 5 minutes (partially hydrated), more pronounced after about 10 minutes (mostly hydrated), and visually complete (hydrated) after about 15 minutes. After about 20 minutes, it transforms into a Minecraft:ghastling, which matures over time into a Minecraft:happy ghast.

If the water is removed during the process, the ghast slowly reverts to the original, dried state at the same rate as it hydrates. Breaking a dried ghast instantly reverts it to the dried state.

The exact timings are somewhat randomized: To reach the next stage of hydration or dehydration, a 250 second delay (5000 Minecraft:ticks) must run out, but that delay does not start automatically. Instead, it begins when the dried ghast receives a Minecraft:random tick, i.e. on average after about 68 seconds, for a total of about 5.3 minutes on average.

Ambient sounds

A non-waterlogged dried ghast emits cracking ambient sounds when it is placed on Minecraft:soul sand or Minecraft:soul soil.

Sounds

Unique

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Data values

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Block states

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History

Trivia

• In a Minecraft:happy ghast centric Minecraft:Mob Menagerie article, dried ghasts are "either the shrivelled up remains of an old ghast or some kind of ghast egg or something else entirely."<ref>Template:Mcnet</ref>

Gallery

• A dried ghast block in a Minecraft:Nether fossil
  A dried ghast block in a Minecraft:Nether fossil
• A closer look of the dried ghast in the Nether fossil
  A closer look of the dried ghast in the Nether fossil
• The player finding and obtaining the dried ghast
  The player finding and obtaining the dried ghast
• The player attempting to rehydrate the dried ghast using the Minecraft:water bucket
  The player attempting to rehydrate the dried ghast using the Minecraft:water bucket
• A partially hydrated dried ghast
  A partially hydrated dried ghast
• A mostly hydrated dried ghast
  A mostly hydrated dried ghast
• A video showing a player hydrating a dried ghast and receiving the Stay Hydrated! achievement
  A video showing a player hydrating a dried ghast and receiving the Stay Hydrated! achievement

Mojang screenshots

• Minecraft:Sunny, Minecraft:Kai, and Minecraft:Noor watering dried ghasts
  Minecraft:Sunny, Minecraft:Kai, and Minecraft:Noor watering dried ghasts
• Each stage of hydration
  Each stage of hydration

In other media

• Dried ghasts on the Minecraft:Capture the Flag server
  Dried ghasts on the Minecraft:Capture the Flag server
• Dried ghast with “not getting invited” text next to ghastling with “getting invited and not going” text
  Dried ghast and ghastling
• A dried ghast in Minecraft:Shape Your World: A Minecraft Story
  A dried ghast in Minecraft:Shape Your World: A Minecraft Story
• File:Loving the dried ghast.jpeg