Ghast
| Health | 10 |
|---|---|
| Entity ID | 56 |
A ghast is a large floating hostile mob of the Nether that shoots fireballs at players.
Spawning
Ghasts spawn only in the Nether, at any light level. A spawn attempt succeeds one time in twenty, and a chunk spawns one ghast at a time.
A ghast is 4 blocks wide and 4 tall. It spawns only where the 5 × 5 blocks around its spawn point, for 4 blocks up, hold no liquid and nothing it would collide with.
On Peaceful no ghast spawns, and any in the world is removed.
A ghast despawns only when it is more than 128 blocks from every player. The chance of despawning beyond 32 blocks never applies to it.
Drops
A ghast drops 0–2 gunpowder when it dies.
Behaviour
A ghast flies. It drifts towards a random point up to 16 blocks away on each axis, and picks a new point when it arrives or when a block lies on the straight line to it.
It targets the nearest player within 100 blocks, and looks again every 21 ticks.
While that player is within 64 blocks and in sight, it shoots a fireball every 60 ticks, the first 20 ticks after it sees them. A charging sound plays, and its face changes, 9 ticks before each shot.
Fire, lava and lightning do it no damage.
Its sounds carry 160 blocks, ten times as far as other mobs'.
Fireballs
A fireball explodes on the first block or entity it hits, and a player can hit it back towards the ghast.
Gallery
- Idle
Shooting
Data values
- Entity network ID:
56