A horror mod inspired by Junji Ito's manga "Hanging Balloons" (人頭氣球).
A giant human-head balloon drifts through the sky, its face ripped from a random online player's skin. It moves with an eerie, unpredictable trajectory — not walking, not flying, but floating like a real lighter-than-air object. When it gets close, it lassoes you with a rope and drags you skyward, strangling you every second. You can't escape alone. If a teammate shoots the balloon down, the explosion blows your head off too, dropping your player head as a trophy.
Only one balloon exists at a time. Kill it or outrun it, and a new one spawns within seconds. You can never truly escape.
| Mechanic | Detail |
|---|---|
| Spawning | Overworld, any light level, day or night |
| Limit | 1 balloon per world |
| Movement | Custom impulse-based physics — not vanilla AI |
| Capture | Triggered at ≤ 3.5 blocks; spring-force drag with velocity inheritance |
| Damage | 2 HP/sec strangling while captured; instant kill on balloon death (head explodes) |
| Drops | Player head with UUID and player name on every victim death |
| Invulnerability | Immune to fire, lava, mobs, arrows — only players can damage it |
| Version | |
|---|---|
| Minecraft | 1.20.1 |
| Mod Loader | Forge |
| Forge | 47.4.20+ |
The mod is open-source (MIT). Source code, issue tracker, and build instructions are on GitHub.
| English | ✓ Built-in |
| 简体中文 | ✓ 内置 |
/summon balloonhead:balloon_head ~ ~5 ~
