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 **Eternal Youth Charm** 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 - **Ownership** - First player to interact becomes the owner - **Sit/Follow** - 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 **heal** 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* !(https://cdn.modrinth.com/data/cached_images/adc6d12ecd84831daa03ca5890e9aae2849a9373.png) ### Growth Essence *Allows your ghastling to grow up* !(https://cdn.modrinth.com/data/cached_images/486b2c5c1e53fe58022f7f91917d72618f905521.png) --- ## 💻 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. **Download** `Ghastling-1.0.0.jar` 2. **Place** in your `plugins/` folder 3. **Restart** your server 4. **Configure** in `plugins/Ghastling/config.yml` (optional) **Requirements:** - 📋 Paper 1.21.6 or higher - ☕ Java 21+ --- ## 🎮 How to Get a Ghastling 1. Find a **Dried Ghast** block in Nether Fossil structures (Soul Sand Valley) 2. Place it and keep it **waterlogged** for ~20 minutes 3. A **Ghastling** will hatch! 🐣 4. **Right-click** to claim ownership 5. Use an **Eternal Youth Charm** to keep it forever young! --- ## 💬 Support Having issues or suggestions? Feel free to: - Leave a comment on this page - Report bugs in the discussion section --- ## ❤️ Credits ItzTha