Minecraft's upcoming Summer Drop 2025 is all about happy ghasts, a new variant of the classic fireball-shooting, nether-floating mob. A couple of associated recipes have also been added, namely the dried ghast block and harness.
The former is used in the creation of happy ghasts, and the latter is used to ride the tamed creatures. Although soaring through the skies is the intended use for happy ghasts, players are already finding more creative and demeaning uses for the friendly nether creatures.
As shown in a TikTok by Vivilllyyy, happy ghasts behave similarly to blocks, which float atop water. This means by using a water column and trapdoors, you can turn happy ghasts into elevators. By pressing a button and opening the trapdoor, the ghast will float to the top of the water column; closing the trapdoor will reverse the process. As the ghast's body is quite large, you can stand on the outside of its hitbox to travel up and down a so-called ghast elevator.
There are plenty of complex methods of making elevators using pistons, redstone and so on, but the use of happy ghasts may now be the most elegant and simple way of creating...
