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Ghast Should Become Neutral and Happy When Taken To The Overworld

If you look at the text of the achievement An Uneasy Alliance, it says the following:

Rescue a Ghast from the Nether, bring it safely home to the Overworld... and then kill it.

The critical words here are rescue and home. This implies that a ghast is trapped in the Nether, and by bringing it back to the overworld, you return it to it's natural home. Not only that, you're saving it from the Nether.

Therefore, when you bring a ghast to the overworld, it should become neutral towards you (to express gratitude). It would still be hostile toward other players, so ghast cannons wouldn't break.

Additionally, there is an unused sound for the ghast called affectionate_scream. Once in the overworld, the ghast could make a happy face and emit an affectionate_scream every now and then - signifying it's relief at being returned home. In addition, if you got close and fed the ghast nether wart it would also emit a affectionate_scream.

Finally, bringing a Ghast into the overworld would afford you the effect Ghastly Respect for an hour or so. While under this effect, all ghasts are neutral towards you (useful for exploring the Soul Sand valley). Once this effect expires, all other ghasts become hostile towards you, but the Ghast you brought into the overworld remains neutral. 

This would be a cute feature that would add a bit more personality to the Ghast.

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    I think that feeding and breeding tortured souls from the underworld with fungi is al little too much, and maybe that's in the overworld are neutral, but become aggressive when near a nether portal. IF they breed, they could have some sort of unique pseudo-breeding mechanism by freeing other ghasts from soul soil (in a rather destructive way)

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    I don't think they should be able to be bred but I think that it is a great idea that they would stop crying ad get a happy texture. If you killed it I'm not sure  if it would drop a ghast tear, so maybe it could have a unique drop or no drop at all.

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    This would be an amazing addition to the game. I have always liked the Ghasts and I think it would help give them more personality.

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    You are definitely not gonna believe this dude! but its finally added 

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    AFTER ALL THIS TIME MUHAHAHAHAHA

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    With the new announcement made for the future drop featuring happy ghasts, I think the idea of being able to tame grumpy ghasts as well is a really cool idea. Given that dried ghasts are turned into ghastlings by soaking them with a bucket of water, I would like to venture an addition to your idea. Instead of being able to tame a grumpy ghast just by taking it to the overworld, the player should also need to hydrate it. Right clicking on the ghast with a water bucket (the water would evaporate immediately upon being used on the ghast) would turn it into a mix of the grumpy and happy ghasts. The ghast would have a tired, but relieved expression, still in pain but thankful for the brief reprieve (if you want to make it really sad, using a bucket on it could have a small chance of dropping a ghast tear). As you specified in the original post, this new version of the ghast would now only target other players. It can be tempted to the player, not by snowballs but by a bucket of water. You can continue to use buckets of water on the ghast, which it will appreciate. Unlike the happy ghast, this new variation would still be immune to fire and lava damage. 

    All versions of the ghast should definitely be updated to allow the player to stand on them. Whether or not it can be ridden is up for debate. Personally, yes please. However, I think an argument can be made that it would be too OP. If it is rideable it would need a different saddle texture to warn other players to not get too close