Hi, some people like to set personal challenges in minecraft such as getting a full unbroken set of chainmail armour, or in this case, collecting 64 ghast tears. Others reading this might just want a lot of regen potions since they are good for wither fights and such. To some people this many tears sound difficult to obtain, but I have found a pretty easy way to farm them up. You may know about ghast farms in the nether using iron golems above the nether and a lot of rail and some hopper minecarts, but the way I got 64 tears of just passive farming in a couple hours of just passively exploring the nether is this:
Looting III sword - Optional but really helpful. Should be diamond
Enderpearls - You need a lot of them, a simple farm is right here:
Feather Falling IV boots - Pretty much necessary
To kill the ghasts, enderpearl at them and then quickly switch to your diamond sword or equivalent damage dealing iron sword, and whack the ghast. You will fall and get about 3-4 tears almost every time with looting III.
It may not be automatic, and it does require some enchantments, but if you don't want to build an afk farm above the nether for some quick pearls, I recommend this method.
I'm pretty sure that you can shoot an arrow at a ghast and switch to a sword of looting before the arrow hits to still get the looting benefits when it dies.
I'm pretty sure that you can shoot an arrow at a ghast and switch to a sword of looting before the arrow hits to still get the looting benefits when it dies.
Yeah that's cool wow, if that stays true perhaps in etho's enderman farm where he uses tnt to blow them all up, it counts as a player kill and switching to looting might boost the pearl drops if mojang hasn't fixed that
I've got close to a full stack of Ghast tears, and I haven't tried your method, but I hunt a large, relatively flat area with no pools of lava and just kill them with a bow. The biggest problem with Ghast tears is they usually fall in lava and get lost. I'll have to try the "bow and switch" method to see if that works to increase the yield.
I'm pretty sure that you can shoot an arrow at a ghast and switch to a sword of looting before the arrow hits to still get the looting benefits when it dies.
Yup... I call it a Bow-Switch. Works like a charm, once you get good at it
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Yes, the looting effect works when a mob dies (killed by you) while you are holding the enchanted sword. So you don't necessarily have to have hit them with the sword for it to work. But you do have to be holding the enchanted sword at the moment the mob dies by your hand and be really quick.
People, in 1.9 and above you can now hold a sword with looting in your offhand and use a bow in your main hand to shoot at a ghast to get more tears.
Cool. I forgot about that glitch. I remember hearing that when watching survival series on YouTube. I will use that if I ever need an excess of ghast tears.
"The Wellerman/WellerMen" is a good song. But thats true. But in my opinion the best way to find ghasts is to make a farm on the nether roof, or use a crossbow (Or a bow if your lazy or don't know how to use a crossbow) and arrows to shoot ghasts down.
"The Wellerman/WellerMen" is a good song. But thats true. But in my opinion the best way to find ghasts is to make a farm on the nether roof, or use a crossbow (Or a bow if your lazy or don't know how to use a crossbow) and arrows to shoot ghasts down.
I would hesitate spending arrows on ghasts high in the sky, hard to aim, move fast, drops hard to reach.
I would hesitate spending arrows on ghasts high in the sky, hard to aim, move fast, drops hard to reach.
I don't even care that much about ghasts unless either they are bugging me or I really need ghast tears (which is really rare). But yeah, most of the time ghast drops are super hard to reach. You have to travel the entire length of your massive mansion just to get there for the drops. And sometimes it dOeSn'T eVeN dRoP.
Looting III sword - Optional but really helpful. Should be diamond
Enderpearls - You need a lot of them, a simple farm is right here:
Feather Falling IV boots - Pretty much necessary
To kill the ghasts, enderpearl at them and then quickly switch to your diamond sword or equivalent damage dealing iron sword, and whack the ghast. You will fall and get about 3-4 tears almost every time with looting III.
It may not be automatic, and it does require some enchantments, but if you don't want to build an afk farm above the nether for some quick pearls, I recommend this method.
Really? I wasn't aware you could do this, lol.
Yup... I call it a Bow-Switch. Works like a charm, once you get good at it
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I think the reason that it's easy to kill Ghasts is that they're really big and in a simple shape, unlike players or other mobs.
WHAT? How come I've never heard of this!!
People, in 1.9 and above you can now hold a sword with looting in your offhand and use a bow in your main hand to shoot at a ghast to get more tears.
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Cool. I forgot about that glitch. I remember hearing that when watching survival series on YouTube. I will use that if I ever need an excess of ghast tears.
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I wouldn't really call it a glitch, I think it's more of a feature than glitch.
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I guess you could say that.
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I would just say 'go mine in medium size caves instead of big ones, and focus on soul sand valleys'.
Yea but thats kinda slow. No offence but I like your pfp bc it reminds me of "The WellerMan/WellerMen".
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No idea who that is.
Also, it's slow but safe for early stage or low cost players. I don't bring expensive stuff to the nether.
Same argument for why mining in big caves is not something I do.
If you want to speed it up, just find a medium size soul valley, ig.
"The Wellerman/WellerMen" is a good song. But thats true. But in my opinion the best way to find ghasts is to make a farm on the nether roof, or use a crossbow (Or a bow if your lazy or don't know how to use a crossbow) and arrows to shoot ghasts down.
baaa baaa medows
I would hesitate spending arrows on ghasts high in the sky, hard to aim, move fast, drops hard to reach.
I don't even care that much about ghasts unless either they are bugging me or I really need ghast tears (which is really rare). But yeah, most of the time ghast drops are super hard to reach. You have to travel the entire length of your massive mansion just to get there for the drops. And sometimes it dOeSn'T eVeN dRoP.
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