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Dried Ghast in Minecraft, shown for the Stay Hydrated! advancement (Husbandry tab)
Dried Ghast in Minecraft, shown here for Stay Hydrated! in the Husbandry tab. Image: 00-00-36 Shape Your World A Minecraft Story.png from minecraft.wiki, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0.
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Stay Hydrated! advancement icon in Minecraft, Dried Ghast in medium difficulty

Stay Hydrated!

Place a Dried Ghast block into water

Requirements: A dried ghast is a block you find in the soul sand valley.

Stay Hydrated! advancement icon in MinecraftAdvancement Made!Stay Hydrated!

Overview

Stay Hydrated! is a task advancement in the Husbandry tab of Minecraft's advancement system, carrying the in-game description "Place a Dried Ghast block into water." It branches directly off Husbandry, so that earlier advancement is its prerequisite and must be earned first. The Husbandry tab covers advancements related to farming, animal breeding, food, and the natural world. Stay Hydrated! was added in Minecraft 1.21.6 and is still in the 26.2 advancement set.

It is rated Medium difficulty on this site: requires some preparation or specific resources. Part of normal gameplay progression. It uses the standard task frame, meaning it is a normal step in the tree rather than a goal or challenge milestone. Nothing else in the tree depends on it, so it is a leaf at the tip of its branch.

In tree terms, Stay Hydrated! sits first along its line: the full path from the Husbandry root reads Husbandry -> Stay Hydrated!. That means 1 advancement must be completed before this one becomes available, and Stay Hydrated! is one of 31 total advancements in the Husbandry tab. It shares its parent with 12 sibling advancements (Bee Our Guest, The Parrots and the Bats, Best Friends Forever, A Seedy Place, Fishy Business, Glow and Behold!, Whatever Floats Your Goat!, Total Beelocation, Bukkit Bukkit, Smells Interesting, You've Got a Friend in Me, and Uh Oh), all of which open from the same point in the tree.

How to Complete Stay Hydrated!

Earning Stay Hydrated! comes down to the following, performed in order:

  1. A dried ghast is a block you find in the soul sand valley.
  2. Put it in water, or pour water over it where it stands, and it slowly comes back to life; three stages later a happy ghast climbs out.
  3. The advancement fires at the moment you place it.

Tips & Fastest Route

  • Fastest route: a dried ghast is a block you find in the soul sand valley. The remaining steps follow from there.
  • Make sure Husbandry is already ticked off before you start, otherwise Stay Hydrated! will not be tracked even if you perform the steps correctly.
  • At Medium difficulty, Stay Hydrated! is a routine step once you have the prerequisites in hand; no special grinding is usually needed beyond the items the steps call for.

Common Mistakes

  • Remember that Stay Hydrated! will not appear as available until Husbandry is done, since the game only tracks an advancement once its parent has been unlocked.

Reward & What It Unlocks

Stay Hydrated! grants no experience directly; its value is progression rather than a point payout.

It is a leaf advancement, so nothing further unlocks from it; it stands as a completed tip of its branch.

Details

Advancement ID
minecraft:husbandry/place_dried_ghast_in_water
Icon Item
Dried Ghast
Category
Husbandry
Difficulty
Medium
XP Reward
None
Version Added
1.21.6

Advancement Tree

Child Advancements

Leaf advancement (no children)