Ghosts are hostile to any nearby players. They have 1M❤ and move slowly. They have a periodic AoE attack of a 4 block radius that deals more damage the closer they are to players. They deal 1000❁ Damage along with 100✷ True Damage; if the player gets within 1 block of them, the damage is doubled. They also do not take knockback.
Ghosts can take damage only from melee attacks. Magic abilities, bows (including Bonemerang Bonemerangs), and damage over time effects (like the Phoenix Pet's Fourth Flare and the Wither Skeleton Pet's Death Touch) do not affect Ghosts. This does not include enchantments such as Fire Aspect and Venomous. Additionally, this restriction does not apply on the ☀ Stranded game mode.
Their name tags and health bars do not show.
As they are Creepers, Cubism can be used to increase the damage dealt to them.
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The Lonesome Miner Heart of the Mountain perk and the LEGENDARY or higher Mithril Golem Pet's Subterranean Battler ability significantly increase damage dealt to mobs on mining islands, including Ghosts.
If the Ghost drops 1,000,000 coins, the following message will appear in chat: The ghost's death materialized1,000,000 coinsfrom the mists!
Ghosts used to drop Bag of Cash which could have been sold to NPCs for 1,000,000 coins and unlike the cash itself they drop now, was affected by ✯ Magic Find
Ghosts was the first mob to use loot sharing feature.
Ghosts were often used as a method of killing off people AFKing Goblins for coins/dust as well as trolling players by leaving a Ghost at the Dwarven Mines spawn point, killing players as they joined the lobby, many times causing huge losses of coins and potion effects. This was patched on April 25, 2022, when Ghosts were made to despawn past a certain Y coordinate, making it impossible to fish them out of the Mist.
Ghosts recover 10% of player's ❤ Health when killed, making them the only mob to recover ❤ Health on defeat without an ability causing them to do so.