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Ghast

Mobs & entity

The Ghast is a hostile mob that spawns naturally in three biomes: Basalt Deltas, Nether Wastes, and Soul Sand Valley. A spawn egg for it also exists.

Players defeat Ghasts to collect the items they drop, which are Ghast Tears, Gunpowder, and a Music Disc.

Contents (9)
  1. Animations
  2. Gallery
  3. Sounds
  4. Stats
  5. Advancements
  6. History
  7. Registry entry
  8. Related items
  9. See also

Animations

3 of these were recorded inside the running game, so the movement is the animation Mojang shipped rather than an imitation of it. Transparent background, free to download.

Ghast, walking
WalkingDownload
Ghast, running
RunningDownload
Ghast, idle
IdleDownload
Ghast, death
DeathDownload

1 variant of this mob, each animated. Rendered here from the game’s own model and textures.

Ghast, shooting
Shooting

Sounds

6 sound events for this mob, 16 files in all. Where an event lists more than one file the game picks one at random.

EventSoundClosed captionIdentifierTranslation key
ambientGhast criesentity.ghast.ambientsubtitles.entity.ghast.ambient
deathGhast diesentity.ghast.deathsubtitles.entity.ghast.death
hurtGhast hurtsentity.ghast.hurtsubtitles.entity.ghast.hurt
scream—entity.ghast.scream—
shootGhast shootsentity.ghast.shootsubtitles.entity.ghast.shoot
warnGhast shootsentity.ghast.warnsubtitles.entity.ghast.shoot

Stats

Mojang publishes these numbers in the Bedrock behaviour pack (bedrock-samples); the Java edition keeps them in code, not in any data file. Most values match across editions, but not all — treat them as the Bedrock figures.

Health points10
Movement speed0.03
Hitbox size4.02 blocks wide, 4 blocks tall
Mob typeghast, monster, mob
Immune to fireYes

Advancements

Advancements whose own criteria name this entry. Recipe-unlock entries are left out — they never appear on the player’s Advancements screen.

History

Worked out by reading the registry of every Minecraft build Mojang has published, in release order.

VersionDateWhat the files show
before 18w50a—Already in the game when Mojang’s data generator first shipped, in 18w50a (12 December 2018). The files do not say which earlier version added it.

Registry entry

Identifierminecraft:ghast
Registryminecraft:entity_type

See also