#mc ghastlings

[aestheticallynotdeerlightful]

The new ghast are INCREDIBLY cute. And I can’t help thinking about them from a lore standpoint now. These new variants bring into question a lot of things about how ghasts work and grow.

to make the happy ghast your essentially domesticating a wild baby you found right, acting as an outside force, bringing it to the overworld and taking care of it with water and snowballs. But how does it work without player intervention?

Are dried ghasts an exception where fate just ended up leaving the poor thing there? Or do all baby ghasts dry up like that as a part of their life cycle? And water can’t really exist in the nether so do they hydrate using lava instead? And they can’t eat snowballs there either so do they eat like- Magma cubes or something?

it’s also interesting to note how the baby happy ghast has those like red gills? You know how if you look behind fish’s gills you see the red underside. Is it like that with the ghastlings? You can see it on the babies but once they grow it’s gone, but not really? Maybe they just close their gills more so they don’t inhale all that excess air while flying or something? Or not to inhale that hot air and smoke in the nether?? And babies float low to the ground so they don’t really need to close their “gills”. If that’s even what they are (Although that brings up the case of the harness, because it almost seems to cover the gills so if they were actually gills that might inhibit their breathing)

OR

Do you think they’re just stripe patterns? red ones to help them blend a little better with their environment as babies because they’re bright white and easily visible amongst the red environment of nether. And as they grow they lose the stripes because they’re big enough to not worry about predators.

Or or or

Were ghasts originally overworld mobs but were banished there (or maybe introduced to that ecosystem and the overworld varient went extinct) and that’s why they’re so miserable because they’re really not built for that environment but essentially adapted to living there anyways??

It’s so interesting because it’s essentially adding lore to a mob we already know about! Some mobs don’t have variants that bring into questioning why they’re like that, Atleast not into the case as we see here.

And nothing happens to them besides their well-being genuinely getting better when they come to the overworld. They don’t get all rotten and zombie like, like the piglins and hoglins do (I mean I’m sure they could but not by being exposed to the overworld) and I know that applies to a lot of other nether mobs as well how they’re just not affected by the dimensional traversal.

[samhainian]

i fucking love thrunt, plsplsplsplspls PLEASE draw him in situations

[wizardslime]

my dessicated sons they have every disease 🩷

[let-them-fight]

to be loved is to be changed

[alliddeart]

I need one immediately.

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[mansa1212]

Happy Ghasts!

[literallymichaelafton]

feeding his new best friend a snack

[ramunnae]

everyone and their mother has cried over them already but I love the ghastlings so much omfg they make me so sad I love the environmental story telling in MC

[nikipacifist]

speaking of ghastling, i made a 2d mapart for my bday party at blossom💗

@billstar08846 i use your Larr meme thing, also i add ghastling and smol me at their head🥰

at 19 april, i hosting bday party at tulip, i hope you join hehe

[sm-baby]

Soooo wdyt of the ghastling and happy that from the recent MC drop?

[journeysfable]

I finally got around to watching the happy ghast on mc live with my uncle and he said something that made me think...

(I don't remember what he said and neither does he but its not important)

I've always seen ghast as a type of jellyfish. They float around and have tentacles and eject flaming stuff to kill you.

[The ghastling seems to have gills like immature amphibians but remember mc is a fantasy game. Perhaps ghasts are like some weird fusion of amphibian and cniderian]

What really confused me about the dried ghast was how small it was and that it was a dried ghast not dried ghastling. And its not just a shell of some kind because its expression changes. It is the ghastling.

Theres a species of jellyfish, Turritopsis dohrnii, that, when badly injured or stressed, will revert back to the begining of it's life cycle.

What if thats what the dried ghast is?

[wackywibrart]

Wanted to show off my little guy I made back when ghastlings were on the rave: Blanc!

It's just a lil' dude that was picked up by my other two older MC ocs that I've shown around here before, Pink and Finn!

Here's some doodles I did of the little guy / with the other two nerds as well <3

[vxmpy-pawz]

I haven’t spoken to you in so long T T

I can tell you love the new bebe ghastling, it’s so cute ><

it is i cant wait to have one :3 i also just love mc sm >:D

[crows-of-buckets]

IDC how mid or small the update is or how underwhelming MC live was I need 50 of those little ghastlings flying around my base right now