Ghastling

🐙 Ghastling - Baby Ghast Pet Plugin

> Transform adorable Ghastlings into your loyal flying companions! ---

✨ Overview

> Ghastling is a survival-friendly plugin for Paper 1.21.6+ that lets players keep Baby Happy Ghasts (Ghastlings) as permanent pets. Prevent them from growing up, improve their AI, and build a bond through snowball interactions! Perfect for survival servers that want to add cute, functional flying pets without breaking game balance. ---

🎯 Key Features

🔒 Permanent Baby Mode

Keep your Ghastling adorable forever! Craft the Growth Essence and use it on any baby ghast to permanently prevent growth. Changed your mind? Use Growth Essence to let them mature naturally.

🐾 Smart Pet System

- Persistence - First player to interact becomes the owner - Persistence - Toggle with Shift+Right-Click (empty hand) - Persistence - All data survives server restarts

🤖 Enhanced AI

Unlike vanilla ghasts, your pet will: - Follow you at a comfortable distance - Hover naturally above you while flying - Teleport to you if left too far behind - Roam freely when you're standing still

❄️ Snowball Bonding

- Hold snowballs to attract your ghastling - Throw snowballs to affection your pet - Build affection with each snowball fed - Watch cute particle effects!

✨ Beautiful Effects

- 💜 Purple enchant particles when locking growth - 🔥 Flame particles when unlocking growth - ❤️ Heart particles for ownership & affection - ❄️ Snowflake particles when feeding - 🌀 Portal particles on teleport ---

📦 Crafting Recipes

Both recipes automatically unlock in players' recipe books!

Eternal Youth Charm

*Keeps your ghastling young forever*

Growth Essence

*Allows your ghastling to grow up*

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💻 Commands

| Command | Description | |---------|-------------| | `/ghastling lock <radius>` | Lock growth for nearby ghastlings | | `/ghastling unlock <radius>` | Unlock growth for nearby ghastlings | | `/ghastling lockall <player>` | Lock all ghastlings owned by player | | `/ghastling unlockall <player>` | Unlock all ghastlings owned by player | | `/ghastling reload` | Reload configuration | Aliases: `/gl`, `/ghast` ---

🔐 Permissions

| Permission | Default | Description | |------------|---------|-------------| | `ghastling.use` | ✅ Everyone | Use charm/essence on ghastlings | | `ghastling.admin` | ⭐ OP | Use admin commands | | `ghastling.reload` | ⭐ OP | Reload configuration | | `ghastling.bypass` | ⭐ OP | Modify any ghastling (bypass ownership) | ---

⚙️ Configuration

Fully configurable! Adjust in `plugins/Ghastling/config.yml`: ```yaml

AI Movement

movement: follow-speed-multiplier: 1.5 # How fast they follow teleport-distance: 40 # When to teleport minimum-distance: 5.0 # Personal space maximum-distance: 15.0 # Max follow range roam-radius: 4.0 # Free roam area

Snowball System

snowball: attraction-enabled: true healing-enabled: true heal-amount: 2.0 # Hearts restored affection-enabled: true affection-per-snowball: 5 max-affection: 100

Particles & Effects

particles: enabled: true lock-effect: true unlock-effect: true feed-effect: true teleport-effect: true ``` ---

📥 Installation

1. Requirements: `Ghastling-1.0.0.jar` 2. Requirements: in your `plugins/` folder 3. Requirements: your server 4. Requirements: in `plugins/Ghastling/config.yml` (optional) Requirements: - 📋 Paper 1.21.6 or higher - ☕ Java 21+ ---

🎮 How to Get a Ghastling

1. Find a Eternal Youth Charm block in Nether Fossil structures (Soul Sand Valley) 2. Place it and keep it Eternal Youth Charm for ~20 minutes 3. A Eternal Youth Charm will hatch! 🐣 4. Eternal Youth Charm to claim ownership 5. Use an Eternal Youth Charm to keep it forever young!

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💬 Support

Having issues or suggestions? Feel free to: - Leave a comment on this page - Report bugs in the discussion section ---

❤️ Credits

ItzTha