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Happy ghasts and Vibrant Visuals come to beta/preview testing

 
April Fool’s is officially over – and we’re back to our regularly-scheduled programming of exciting testing releases for our game drops. I don’t know about you, but I’m still recovering from all the excitement of Minecraft LIVE! If you watched our broadcast on March 22, then you’ll know we have a smorgasbord of exciting new features coming your way. What you might not know is that some of them are available for testing TODAY! 

Test features from our second game drop of 2025

Are you ready to soar through the Overworld skies in a brand-new way? Your ticket to flight lies in the happy ghast! Leap into the latest Bedrock beta and preview today and try out all the features revealed at Minecraft LIVE, including the happy ghast, ghastling, dried ghast block, and ghast harness! These features are coming soon to Java snapshot testing, too. 

Your journey to the skies begins not by booking tickets or packing suitcases, but by venturing into the Nether to find a new block – the dried ghast block – which you can also craft from ghast tears and bone block! 

Once you’ve secured the dried ghast block, you need to bring it to life! Waterlogging the dried ghast block will breathe new life into it, and soon enough you’ll have your very own ghastling! The ghastling is a smaller version of the happy ghast with adorable gills. They love to follow players around, and if you feed your ghastling enough of its favorite food (snowballs!) it’ll eventually grow into a very big and very jolly happy ghast!  

Unlike its relative, the ghast (which is found in the Nether and thrives on chaos) the happy ghast thrives in the Overworld, and can be ridden by up to four players at once. To fly with your happy ghast, you’ll first need to craft yourself a ghast harness using leather, glass, and wool – and your choice of dye, if you want to customize it! I’m no fashion expert, but I reckon the ghast harness will be the must-have travel accessory for 2025. Equip it to your ghast, and you and up to three friends will be able to explore, build, and even fight from the skies!* 

You can try out the multiplayer functionality by testing these features on your Realm! Any player who has an active Realms subscription is eligible to create a free testing Realm, so you can try out the new features with friends. Find more information how to enable betas/previews on Bedrock Edition Realms*! Testing versions can corrupt your world, so please backup and/or run them in a different save folder from your main worlds.  

Read the full article at, https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/take-a-vibrant-test-flight