Balloon
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Balloon
Rarity tier	Common
Renewable	No
Stackable	Yes
Size	Height: 0.4 Blocks; Width: 0.4 Blocks

This feature is exclusive to Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education.

This page describes an education-related feature.

This feature is available only in Minecraft Education or when enabling the "Education" option in Bedrock Edition.

Balloons are entities that float upward when placed.

Obtaining[edit | edit source]

Crafting[edit | edit source]

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe	[hide]Description
Balloon	Latex + Matching Dye + Helium + Lead		‌^{[Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education only]}
White Balloon or Blue Balloon or Brown Balloon or Black Balloon	Latex + Bone Meal or Lapis Lazuli or Cocoa Beans or Ink Sac + Helium + Lead		‌^{[Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education only]}

When used on a mob, a fence, or a wall, balloons attach to the mob or block, similar to a lead. A balloon remains grounded if tied to a fence or a wall. When untied by right-clicking on it, a balloon rises into the air quickly.

When a balloon is shot by an arrow, wind charge, or a trident, or floats into a solid block, it pops, summons particles, and is destroyed. It drops nothing. A balloon tied to a fence post bursts when a player strikes it from any direction.

A balloon attached to a mob can lift up the mob, more slowly than the ballon rises on its own. If tied to a mob whose mass is less than or equal to 1, the balloon floats away and carries the mob high into the air, before both eventually disappear. Destroying or detaching the balloon from its suspended mob causes the mob to fall and take fall damage. When attached to a mob whose mass is above 1, the balloon floats up to the limit of its tether, briefly yanking the mob upward by a fraction of a block, but otherwise the mob remains on the ground.

A heavier mob with mass above 1 falls slowly while attached to a balloon. The balloon despawns when the mob falls more than 16 blocks. Currently, the only heavy mob that can have a balloon attached is the iron golem. A balloon cannot be attached to a ravager.

A player holding a balloon falls normally and takes normal fall damage.^{[more information needed]}

Attachable mobs and entities[edit | edit source]

Generally, non-hostile terrestrial mobs can be attached to a balloon. A balloon can attach to almost any entity that a lead can attach to, except for axolotls and frogs. Balloons can also attach to pandas, which leads cannot. A mob can have both a lead and balloon attached at the same time if the lead is attached before the balloon.

Balloon-attachable mobs/entities
Mob/Entity	[hide]Mass
Allay	0.5
Armadillo	1.0
Bee	0.5
Boat	1.0
Boat with Chest	1.0
Camel	1.0
Cat	0.6
Chicken	0.6
Cow	1.0
Dolphin (in water only)	1.0
Donkey	1.0
Fox	0.6
Glow Squid	0.5
Goat	1.0
Hoglin	1.0
Horse	1.0
Iron Golem	2.0
Llama	1.0
Mule	1.0
Mooshroom	1.0
Ocelot	0.7
Panda	1.0
Parrot	1.0
Pig	0.75
Polar Bear	1.0
Rabbit	0.4
Sheep	0.75
Skeleton Horse	0.6
Sniffer	1.0
Snow Golem	1.0
Squid	0.5
Strider	1.0
Trader Llama^{[note 1]}	1.0
Wolf	0.8
Zoglin	1.0
Zombie Horse	1.0

↑ If one or both trader llamas are lifted by balloons, the wandering trader attached to them by leads remains on the ground.

Sounds[edit | edit source]

[hide]Sounds
Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Friendly Creatures	When a balloon collides with a block from above	`balloon.pop`	10.0	1.75/2.0
	Friendly Creatures	When a balloon is attached on a fence or a mob	`balloon.place`	1.0	1.0
	Friendly Creatures	When a balloon is deattached	`balloon.break`	1.0	1.0

Data values[edit | edit source]

ID[edit | edit source]

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	[hide]Translation key
Balloon	`balloon`	`598`	Item	`item.balloon.black.name` `item.balloon.red.name` `item.balloon.green.name` `item.balloon.brown.name` `item.balloon.blue.name` `item.balloon.purple.name` `item.balloon.cyan.name` `item.balloon.silver.name` `item.balloon.gray.name` `item.balloon.pink.name` `item.balloon.lime.name` `item.balloon.yellow.name` `item.balloon.lightBlue.name` `item.balloon.magenta.name` `item.balloon.orange.name` `item.balloon.white.name`

Balloon	Identifier	Numeric ID	[hide]Translation key
Entity	`balloon`	`107`	`entity.balloon.name`

Metadata[edit | edit source]

In Bedrock Edition, balloon items use the following data values:

	DV	[hide]Description
	0	White
	1	Orange
	2	Magenta
	3	Light blue
	4	Yellow
	5	Lime
	6	Pink
	7	Gray
	8	Silver
	9	Cyan
	10	Purple
	11	Blue
	12	Brown
	13	Green
	14	Red
	15	Black
	unused	Purple

History[edit | edit source]

[hide]Bedrock Edition
1.4.0	beta 1.2.20.1	Added balloons.
1.18.10	beta 1.18.10.24	Bees, boats, tamed cats, dolphins, glow squids, goats, hoglins, ocelots, pandas, parrots, polar bears, squids, striders, tamed wolves, and zoglins can now be leashed.
1.18.30	beta 1.18.30.28	Added boats with chests, which can be leashed.
1.21.0	Preview 1.21.0.21	Balloons now appear in the Creative inventory when the Education edition toggle is on.
[hide]Minecraft Education
1.0.27		Added balloons.
1.18.32	1.18.10.04	Bees, boats, tamed cats, dolphins, glow squids, goats, hoglins, ocelots, pandas, parrots, polar bears, squids, striders, tamed wolves, and zoglins can now be leashed.
1.21.03	Preview 1.21.01.0	Balloons now appear in the Creative inventory.