Balloon

This article is about a Minecraft Education feature. For the add-on items, see 15 Year Party Supplies § Additions.

This page describes an education-related feature.

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

Balloon

Rarity tier	Common
Renewable	No
Stackable	Yes (64), same color only
Size	Height: 0.4 Blocks Width: 0.4 Blocks

Balloons are entities that float upward when placed.

Obtaining

Crafting

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Notes
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]

Usage

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 balloon 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 as an item falls normally and takes normal fall damage. Players cannot be attached to a balloon however.

Attachable mobs and entities

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, frogs, happy ghasts, nautiluses, sulfur cubes, and zombie nautiluses. Balloons can also attach to pandas and turtles, 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	Mass
Rabbit	0.4
Allay Bee Glow Squid Squid	0.5
Cat Chicken Fox Skeleton Horse	0.6
Ocelot	0.7
Pig Sheep	0.75
Wolf	0.8
Turtle	0.9
Armadillo Boat Boat with Chest Camel Camel Husk Copper Golem Cow Dolphin (in water only) Donkey Goat Hoglin Horse Llama Mooshroom Mule Panda Parrot Polar Bear Sniffer Snow Golem Strider Trader Llama[note 1] Zoglin Zombie Horse	1.0
Iron Golem	2.0

Sounds

Data values

ID

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	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	Translation key
Entity	balloon	107	entity.balloon.name

Metadata

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

	DV	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

Bedrock Edition

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 squid, goats, hoglins, ocelots, pandas, parrots, polar bears, squid, 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.
1.21.100			Preview 1.21.100.23				Added copper golems, which can be leashed.
26.40			Preview 26.40.20				Turtles can now be leashed.

Minecraft Education

Minecraft Education
1.0.27							Added balloons.
1.18.32			1.18.10.04				Bees, boats, tamed cats, dolphins, glow squid, goats, hoglins, ocelots, pandas, parrots, polar bears, squid, striders, tamed wolves, and zoglins can now be leashed.
1.21.03			Preview 1.21.01.0				Balloons now appear in the Creative inventory.
1.21.132			Preview 1.21.110.1				Added copper golems, which can be leashed.

Issues

Issues relating to "Balloon" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Gallery

In other media

• 
  Differently designed balloons featured in the Minecraft Legends Live Event.
• 
  A Sniffer balloon, featured in the Trails & Tales Event.
• 
  A balloon of a Camel, featured in the Trails & Tales Event.
• 
  Bundle of balloons from the Trails & Tales Event.
• 
  The 15 Year Balloon icon from 15 Year Party Supplies icon from the inventory
• 
  The Creeper Balloon icon from 15 Year Party Supplies
• 
  A Balloon seen in the Console Minigames that predates the Education feature

Notes