Using Happy Ghasts to play Basketball

Using Happy Ghasts to play Basketball

I invented another Minecraft miniame. This one I call Gasket Ball. Ever since the happy gas was first announced 108 days ago, I’ve been excitedly waiting for the giant marshmallow to rear its cute head. Because unlike the creaking, which I’ve surprisingly found very little use for, the happy ghast I’m practically overflowing with miniame ideas I want to subject it to and I will subject it to. The first starts now. So, my goal for this video was simple. I really wanted to make a new miniame which involve the happy ghast in some major way. You know, cuz the happy ghast is like the new mob and I want to use it for something cuz if I can’t, that means it’s only good for beating and nothing else. My original idea was to do something like my old miniame Hungry Hungry Hooks. For those who don’t remember, this is simply based on like hungry hippos where you have to use fishing rods to sort of fish in pigs and villagers into your bucket where pigs are worth one point and villagers are worth two. And obviously with the happy gas being a ridable mob, the answers seem pretty simple, right? The players are each on a happy gas. They have to position it strategically and then get off, equip a fishing rod, and then they have to try and like look below and fish pigs into various areas to score points or something. But the issue with this is for starters, the happy gas is excruciatingly slow to move. It is just awful. Secondly, looking down is a bit awkward because you might accidentally clip the side of the happy gas. You see that like rod is just like not really going where I wanted to. It’s much easier to grab stuff from above than below. It It just didn’t really work as a fun game. And if our games aren’t fun, why bother? So, because I was so determined to use the happy gas for like anything, I started thinking what other functionality it could be used for. And one thing I remember is if you have a larger mob such as a sniffer and you attach a lead to them and then attach it to a happy ghast, it actually gets this whole lead system going on with like four different points like it’s being suspended in the air. If I take a sniffer and I attach it to the happy ghast, we can imagine we’re players trying to lead this up somewhere. And over here I have a hoop. And then using the shears, they can detach the lead and drop the sniffer through the hoop, hopefully scoring a point, right? And when you’re putting objects through hoops, it’s like basketball. And then it hit me. A genius idea. Gas. Basketball. G basketball. Boom. So what I have here is a 15x 28 m court which is the actual like specific real life size of basketball courts. And compared to a happy gas, what I initially found is this is way too small. So what I did was I quadrupled the length in all directions. So this is four times the size and decorated it so it looks like a nice basketball court. And compared to a gas now, this seems about the appropriate size. Right. So, the next thing I had from here was obviously a big giant glass box to keep these damn gas from escaping and keep any thoughts of freedom out of their fluffy white minds. You are a ball and nothing else. But then when I started thinking about this idea for a miniame more, I realized it makes no godamn sense. I I I mean, just think about it, right? This is meant to be a one v one game and in basketball there’s only one ball on the court. Let’s say I currently have the ball and I just like raise this gas in the air. Imagine you’re on the ground right now in the opposite team. How could you stop me? How could you prevent me from just dunking this sniffer in? Like there is no way from the ground to detach a sniffer from the lead. Like there’s none. So I came up with a new idea. And this is arguably more basketball like. We actually remove the harness on the Happy Ghast. We then get a new sniffer. We reattach him and now the players are always going to be stuck on the ground. But this time we give them punch two bows with healing arrows. And the idea of this is on the ground they can hit the happy ghast to move him about. Look at that. Wa. So when the players have eventually positioned the happy ghast above the net, what they would then do on the ground is using wind charges. They would then run up, use a wind charge, and then use shears to slam dunk the sniffer into the net, right? And I thought, “That’s really cool. That’s like basketball.” But I’ve had to use MBT data to get rid of the ghast AI for this one because getting a guest to stay above a net long enough to effectively do that is all but impossible. Like look, okay, I’m going to try and get him above the net, right? He’s he’s above the net there. Okay. And then I’ll try to But he’s already moved. He’s already moved off. It is impossible to do that in practice. So, moving on to the next version of this happy gas ball miniame. I changed quite a bit. This time, we’re getting rid of the sniffer component entirely. As much as I really tried to keep it, it just wasn’t working. But now, we just have a simple happy ghast and we’re keeping the bow idea where we use healing arrows to knock him about on both sides. One thing I notice with knockback bows is they only like change the horizontal movement of an entity. So for example, if I hit this gas like from below, he only moves to the side. He doesn’t get like downwards. If I hit from below, he doesn’t gain any height. He just gets knocked like left and right. So what I did is I added water streams across the arena because even though he’s a flying mob, when a happy gas goes into a water stream, you’ll see that he tries to swim upwards. This means the players can deliberately knock a happy gas into water streams to make him gain height. So, I added a water stream in this net area and players will have to like shoot arrows at the happy ghast eventually try and knock him into this water stream where he’ll slowly swim up and if he goes all the way through that counts as a point, right? And this miniame actually kind of sort of worked. So, now that it’s all done, I can finally go and decorate it and make the true version of gasket ball. I’ve obviously decorated it with like a wooden frame and all this copper, and it looks really nice. And on the inside, I’ve actually hooked up each net with an observer back here. The observer is looking at a piece of string which will then make a signal which goes through here places the wood which signal transforms through leaves that goes through redstone all the way down here blah blah blah goes through some simple redstone circuitry and out through an LED score counter here it is first of three. So first person to get three points wins the game. So, here I am back on Miniame Bay and I have added basketball over here just across a bridge and on its own little special sports ball island. Woo! The only thing left to do now is to well, you know, play it. See if it’s any fun. Right down here, we have basketball. It’s like basketball but with gas. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Do Do you get it? Yeah, I get it. Yeah. I don’t I don’t think you do. It’s like basketball. No, I get it. I get it. I don’t think you get it. You’re not laughing. It’s like basketball but with gas. I don’t think you’re getting it. I really You’re not laughing. Do you want Do you want to know my answer? Do you want to know what my honest thoughts on that joke are? What? I don’t think he got it. So, over here we have a barrel each side. And if you look in it, we have various equipment. You should have a punch two bow. Uh some healing arrows. I’d recommend taking a couple of those. You can have a fishing rod called the yanker. Some carrots to keep you fueled and snowballs. Now, the snowballs can be used to lure the gas. So, you might be able to use that strategically. Are you ready? How ready are How exciting. Come on. Give me that. Yeah. Oh, right. It’s off. It’s off. I have to ask, what’s your opinions on the happy gas? Do you have any moral? Uh, like Mojang is a lazy pile of Yes. Come on. Come on. Come on. Ameilia’s close. No. Get out of there. Come on. Come on. Come on. A you piece of Hey. You just got skilled on immediately. Ow. All right. Oh, we’re off. We’re off. Oh, you’re not going to let me win immediately, are you, Mado? Uh, I don’t think he’s coming down. So, Oh, damn. No, no, no. Hang on. Oh, I missed it. I missed it. Can you use the fishing rod? How did that not attach? It’s bone crap. You know why? It’s cuz you spawned him in. He’s like your friend. Look, he’s he’s trying to like fly away from the hoop. Yeah. Sort of infamy. Oh, come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Slam dunk. Slam dunk. Come on. No. No. No. You shoot me in the head. That’s what it looks like. I can tell you want to win this. You’ve gone silent. Yeah. I’m not as the kids say. I’m not letting I’m not letting you go two up on me. I’m not. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. No. No. No. Two nil. Two nil. That’s rude. Sore loser. Come on. Are you really going to let yourself like lose 3-0? I It might happen. Embarrassing. Come on, Misado. We got to make it entertaining for the YouTube audience. We need that like 22 final one. You’re not going to let me win 3-0. Everyone loves a good blowout, especially your mother. Look at this. Start losing and you’ve resorted to name calling. See, I’m I’m very sportsmanlike. Oh, look at that. He’s too high. Mado, you’re not going to get him in. He’s too high. He’s just standing there taunting me. Go on. Oh, do do you have a fishing rod in your face? Oh, do you have a fishing rod in your face? In basketball, do they do this thing at like halftime where they switch sides? Honestly, I don’t watch enough basketball to know. All my basketball knowledge comes from Space Jam. Hey, I don’t know anything about it. You’re allowed a gun on the court, aren’t you? Just like a thing. Yeah. Yeah. I just want you to know that I am pointing a finger gun at you right now in Minecraft. And I will pull this trigger. I have a finger gun pointed at you right now. Hold on, Greg. I’m going to I need to I need to send a picture to you. One moment. Okay, let’s open this. That’s so funny. What’s so funny? I feel threatened. Is there a referee? What’s so funny, Greg? You know what? Your back’s turned. I’m going. I’m going. I’m doing it. Come on. Straight in. Straight in. Come on. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. No. No. No. No. 3-1. Woo. That’s practically 3-0. I finally win one of my mini games in my own goddamn video. It took you how many years of doing this? Uh, two. After two years, you finally won one of your mini games, meaning you are finally good enough to get traded for the merchant of death. Yeah, that’s pretty good. [Music]

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In this video Gerg does what he does best… Abusing Minecraft mobs and making Minigames!

Turns out the SAME DAY I came up with the idea AND NAME Ghastketball Cubfan from Hermitcraft uploaded a video where he plans on making a game with the EXACT SAME NAME!!!!! I have no idea how he’s is played but damn was I upset when I found out lol.

Hopefully this world is big enough for two minigames.
After all Balls come best in pairs!

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