Java Edition guides/Chase the Skies

• Does not spawn naturally.
• Spawned by hydrated dried ghasts.

• Baby happy ghasts are called "ghastlings".
• Can be ridden on using a harness.

• Texture resolution has been doubled to match the happy ghast.

• Now have their legs mirrored.

• The dried ghast is now available from bartering, and the chance for other barters has been reduced slightly.

• Can now be fed carrots to heal, grow, and improve their temper, with the same effect as apples.

• Projectiles now have a target tolerance margin that changes. For the first two ticks after the arrow is shot, there is no target tolerance margin. For every tick after that, the margin increases by 0.05 blocks until maxing out at 0.3 blocks.

• Found in nether fossils in the soul sand valley. It can also be crafted and acquired from bartering with piglins.

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Ghast Tear + Soul Sand

• Place in water for about 20 minutes for it to hydrate into a ghastling.

• Now produces larger, and more constant, amounts of particles.

• Shearing carpets from llamas now emits a vibration frequency of 6, while unequipping it emits a vibration frequency of 4 from the sculk shrieker.

• Can be used on a happy ghast to equip it. Up to 4 players can ride a single happy ghast at once.
• Using shears on a happy ghast wearing a harness removes the harness from the ghast.

• Obtained from the Creative inventory.

• Spawns happy ghast.

• Dropped by ghasts when killed with a fireball deflected by a player.

• Plays the track "Tears".

• Dropped by killing a chicken jockey.

• Plays the track "Lava Chicken"

• Randomly obtained when placing paintings.

• Decorate the environment.

• Blaze and breeze egg size changed from "large" to "medium".

• Can now let a leashed mob leash another mob.

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
String	2

• Added a new sound for when a lead snaps.

• While gliding, using a firework will only be used as a boost even if placed on a block.
• Using a firework will snap any leashes attached to the player.

• Splash potions distance to affected entities now depends on the closest distance between the entity hitbox and the splash potion hitbox where it landed.

• Can now be found in monster room, ancient city, desert temple, jungle temple and stronghold altar chests in quantities 1-5.

• Can be removed from mobs wearing them by using shears on the mob.

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Leather + Iron Ingot

• Shearing saddles now emits a vibration frequency of 6, along with the unequip frequency of 4 from the sculk shrieker.

• Can now remove saddles, horse armor, harnesses and carpets from mobs.
• Saddles cannot be removed from ravagers.
• Dispensers with shears cannot remove saddles, horse armor, harnesses and carpets equipped on mobs.
• The following sounds have been added for shearing Saddles, Horse Armor, and Carpets from Llamas

mob/horse/armor_unequip

mob/horse/saddle_unequip

mob/llama/unequip

• Shearing horse armor now emits a vibration frequency of 6, with an underlying Unequip frequency of 4.

• The room "1x1_b5.nbt" generates again.

• Can show the position of other players in multiplayer as colored indicators.
• If the target is on a significantly different Y-level, an arrow pointing to the target vertically appears over the indicator.
• Locator Bar changes based on the player's distance to its location. The further away the player to the waypoint, the smaller the icon shown on the locator bar.
• Players can prevent their positions from being shown in the locator bar; they can sneak, wear a mob head or carved pumpkin, or be under the Invisibility effect.

• Rules for when ambient desert blocks sounds play have been tweaked.
• The sound event block.dried_ghast.hit has been removed.
• The following sounds have been renamed:

entity/leashknot/break1 -> entity/leashknot/unleash1

entity/leashknot/break2 -> entity/leashknot/unleash2

entity/leashknot/break3 -> entity/leashknot/unleash3

entity/leashknot/place1 -> entity/leashknot/leash1

entity/leashknot/place2 -> entity/leashknot/leash2

entity/leashknot/place3 -> entity/leashknot/leash3

• The following sound categories have been renamed:

Friendly Creatures -> Friendly Mobs

Hostile Creatures -> Hostile Mobs

• Spectators will now teleport together with, but stop spectating, entities that move to other dimensions.

• The clouds texture no longer supports colored pixels.
• Clouds now exist all the way to the horizon (128 chunks, the max and default cloud render distance).
• Clouds rendering distance can now be configured independently of world/chunk render distance.
• The pattern of clouds has been changed.

• Fog is now applied to 3d HUD elements such as first person player hands and items in hands.
• It now becomes foggier when it rains.
• Fog was tweaked for improved atmospheric perspective.