Moody Ghasts

The mod turns the Happy Ghast into a mount with emotions. A mood bar shows the current state, and a ghast can be excited, calm, upset or enraged. Excited ghasts move faster, while an enraged ghast starts crying and may turn hostile. Mood shifts with how the player interacts with the ghast, such as feeding it or riding it, so the same mob can behave very differently across a session.

While riding, the player controls the ghast and fires a range of projectiles. Fire Charges make the classic explosive fireball, Wind Charges are stronger than a thrown wind charge, Ice Charges freeze an area, Dragon Breath creates a wide area effect, and Powdered Snow fires a rapid barrage. Most projectile effects grow stronger as the ghast becomes angrier. The mod adds new craftable items, including a projectile, and two cookie variants that change mood. Feeding a ghast Chorus Fruit makes it teleport a short distance, which helps dodge incoming attacks in flight, though it can also disorient the rider.

The mod is open source under the GNU General Public License v3.0 only and is published for NeoForge only, for 1.21.8, 26.1.2, 26.2 and 26.3, with 1.2.0 for 26.3 as the latest file. Only the client and server need it, so players and servers both run it. Almost all behaviour is driven by datapacks and code, and the mood values, speeds, damage rates and textures can be tuned through datapacks.