Give your Happy Ghast a little motivation!

Similar to a carrot or a warped fungus on a stick, you can use the snowball on a stick to give your ghast a speed boost. Simply right-click it while riding your ghast. If you need to go slower again, just use the item again. Make sure you've brought enough snowballs though - you'll eventually need to replace the one on the rod!

The speed boost also runs out after a certain time (default: 40 seconds). This can be configured via the #boost_time scoreboard value:

scoreboard players set #boost_time snowball_on_a_stick 400

The example above would set the boost to run out after 400 ticks, meaning 20 seconds.

You can also set #boost_time to -1 to make the cooldown last forever:

scoreboard players set #boost_time snowball_on_a_stick -1

Resource pack

To download the required resource pack, head to the Versions tab, click on the pack version you need, then download the resource pack from the Files section.

Crafting

!Screenshot of a crafting table in which a fishing rod and a snowball are being combined into a snowball on a stick

Particle Cloud

While the speed boost is active, your ghasts gets it's own little snow cloud!

!A player sitting on a happy ghast, which has a little snow particle cloud above it, indicating that the speed bost is active

Inspiration

While I did come up with this concept by myself, it is very simple and straightforward, and thus, it seems like it has been done before by Sapphipenug in the form of the data pack with the same name. However, since a) she has not updated the pack in almost a year and b) I think my version is different enough from hers, I decided to upload it anyways.