18.06.2025

Minecraft 1.21.6 Java Edition Download

Minecraft 1.21.6 version is included in a game drop Chase the Skies, which was released on June 17, 2025! Here, you can see such mobs as Happy Ghast and Ghastling, as well as an opportunity to use different types of relays and many other changes.

Contents:

1 Innovations

2 Changes

3 Download links

Innovations

Withered Ghast

Withered Ghast – is a Minecraft block that is generated in the Nether. It’ll mainly appear in such biomes as the Soul Sand valleys. You’ll need it to summon a Happy Ghast.

You can also get it when trading with a Piglin with about 2% probability. If you have 8 Ghast Tears and a block of Soul Sand, you can craft this kind of block. But creating such blocks in manual mode is a very expensive procedure!

To get a Happy Ghast, you need to moisten this block for about 20 minutes. It’ll complete 3 stages before a full-fledged mob appears in the game. If the player stops the moistening procedure at any stage, it will start to turn back into a regular block.

Ghastling

Before the release, the mob got its name Ghastling. It’s a full-fledged creature that transforms from a block of Withered Ghast. It looks almost similar to a regular Ghast in the vanilla game version.

As soon as the creature appears, it tries to follow the player. By default, it scans for users within 16 blocks, but it aimlessly flies within 32 blocks if none has been found. It can also follow neutral or friendly mobs in the game if they are within its range. You can also summon it with special commands in the chat.

Happy Ghast

Happy Ghast – that very version of the mob that you can ride! A full-fledged riding mob in Minecraft, which laid the basis for the entire 1.21.6 update. To do this, you’ll need a harness (we’ll talk about it further).

The creature is friendly to any player and is used to move around the game both in the Lower World and in all other dimensions. It differs from other mobs of this type by its glasses. If the mob is saddled, its glasses will be lowered, and they will be raised if it’s free.

You can attract it with a snowball, but if it takes damage from other types of projectiles, it won’t panic like other creatures in the game world. If the mob has been hit, it can restore (regenerate) health in rainy weather, snowfall, as well as when flying high in the clouds. The player can summon this mob using an egg.

Harness

You can use harness to control Happy Ghasts. Up to 4 players can simultaneously sit on one mob, including one driver and three passengers. It can be of 16 different colors, equal to the number of dyes in the game.

To craft it, you’ll need 3 pieces of leather, 2 glasses, and 1 block of wool. To put this item on the mob, you need to right-click holding it in your hands. If you want to take the harness off, you’ll need scissors (there should be no one riding Happy Ghast).

Players’ position finder

A players’ position finder – another crucial update in Minecraft, which has been tested by developers for a long time. It’s a new HUD element in the user interface, which is available in multiplayer mode only. It displays all the players close to you.

The position finder displays a kind of small dots, flash lights that show where the players are in relation to you. This is not a map, but a position finder. It doesn’t display a clear position of the player, but just a direction. Each user will have their own marker color, which is randomly assigned by the system.

If you don’t want to be seen by the position finder, you just need to squat holding Shift. Besides, only those users who are in the same mode will be visible in monitoring mode. You can hide not only by «squatting», but also by using mob heads, pumpkins, and «Invisibility» potions.

Plates

The Tears Plate has appeared in the new version of the game. You can get it only if a Ghast is killed by a fireball. It drops out as loot.

Achievements

Developers have added new achievements related to the Creaking Heart and Withered Ghast.

Other updates:

· 5 new tracks have been added, which you can hear in some biomes (cherry grove, lush caves and other places);

· New ways to display dialogs have been added. Mod and extension developers are the ones who mainly need this option, but in general there are a lot of changes here;

· Using the locatorBar game rule on your server, you can enable and disable the position finder (a convenient option for project owners who don’t want to use this function on the server);

· A new point «Cloud Range» has been added in the game settings, which enables you to select a visibility range for clouds in the game. The values may range from 2 to 128 chunks. Another extra point for detailed graphics settings;

· Added a new button combination F3 + V, which you can use to display the client-side information about the game.

Changes

After a new version of the game was released, a lot of different game mechanics and options have been changed in Minecraft 1.21.6:

· You can hide yourself from the position finder by wearing a carved pumpkin or any other mobs’ or players’ head as a headdress;

· The firefly bushes size has been increased, so they look even better now;

· Now, you can find leather in many treasuries and temples, up to about 5 pieces per chest;

· Skulk sensors can detect Withered Ghasts and respond to equipment-related actions;

· Scissors are used to take off armor, saddles, carpets, and harnesses from various creatures;

· The player can hide from the position detector, using the invisibility potion (another way that allows you to quickly hide even on a multiplayer server);

· The crafting of the lead has been changed, and now you won’t need slime for it. With this tool, you can bind two mobs. Convenient mechanics that will save you a lot of time;

· The lead has got a lot of new game mechanics, so this item now works more correctly (binding mobs, behavior of creatures on the lead, its length, and so on);

· You can feed carrots to mobs such as mules, donkeys, and horses;

· Changed the mechanics of using explosive potions. Their power depends on how close the bottle fell to the creature. For example, if a potion explodes a few blocks away from the player, then he won’t get the entire 100% of the effect, but only a part of it;

· The «Interface» section has appeared in the game settings, where you can control some sounds;

· Changed the Realms section and added a lot of new tabs;

· Reworked the texture of clouds in the game;

· Updated the main panorama window in Minecraft;

· Corrected 90 mistakes.