Give It The Beans!
This datapack allows you to give Happy Ghasts a much needed speed boost by "feeding" them snowballs
How to Use
Download the latest release and save it to your world's "datapacks" folder.
Once installed, grab a few stacks of snowballs, and hop on a Happy Ghast. Every five seconds, the datapack will check if you're holding a snowball. If you are, then one snowball will be deducted from your hand and "fed" to the happy ghast, applying a speed bost for the next five seconds.
For reference, flying level,
- the Happy Ghast's base speed taps out at about 3.6 m/s
- with the speed boost applied, the Happy Ghast will accelerate to 14.4 m/s
- with two speed boosts applied (taking one snowball from each hand), the Happy Ghast will be capable of reaching 32.5 m/s
Compare this to elytra speeds, where a rocket accelerates the player to ~35 m/s in level flight and where horizontal speeds in excess of 45 m/s are possible during a dive
Uninstalling
To uninstall the datapack, simply remove it from your world.
To be extra safe, you can also run the command:
/function gitb:reset
from the ground / without any snowballs in your hand to make extra special sure you've reset the Happy Bois' speed attributes.
Compatibility
This datapack has been tested on versions:
- 1.21.6
Contributing
Find a bug? Have a suggestion or a question? Want to contribute a new feature or enhancement? Open an issue!
License
All code and assets in this project are licensed by me (@OpenBagTwo) under the GNU Affero General Public License and, broadly speaking, may be used, modified and re-distributed freely, on servers, in modpacks or in any other derivative works, so long as:
- You credit the authors of this project (@OpenBagTwo and any other contributors)
- You make the full source code of this project (including any modifications) available to everyone using the datapack (including players on servers where this pack is installed)
- Any redistributions of this project or distributions of any modified works retain this license.
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.21.6, 1.21.7, 1.21.8
- How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
- Where to get it: Opens on Modrinth — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — see the MC Java Mods guides for the full walkthrough.
- Downloads as Give It The Beans v25.09.25.zip
- Download size: 32 KB
- Download link checked 9 Sept 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.