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{{About|a Minecraft Education feature|the [[Minecraft:add-on]] items|15 Year Party Supplies#Additions}}
{{Education feature}}
{{Infobox item entity
| group1 = White
| 1-1 = White Balloon.png
| invimage1 = White Balloon
| group2 = Silver
| 2-1 = Silver Balloon.png
| invimage2 = Silver Balloon
| group3 = Gray
| 3-1 = Gray Balloon.png
| invimage3 = Gray Balloon
| group4 = Black
| 4-1 = Black Balloon.png
| invimage4 = Black Balloon
| group5 = Brown
| 5-1 = Brown Balloon.png
| invimage5 = Brown Balloon
| group6 = Red
| 6-1 = Red Balloon.png
| invimage6 = Red Balloon
| group7 = Orange
| 7-1 = Orange Balloon.png
| invimage7 = Orange Balloon
| group8 = Yellow
| 8-1 = Yellow Balloon.png
| invimage8 = Yellow Balloon
| group9 = Lime
| 9-1 = Lime Balloon.png
| invimage9 = Lime Balloon
| group10 = Green
| 10-1 = Green Balloon.png
| invimage10 = Green Balloon
| group11 = Cyan
| 11-1 = Cyan Balloon.png
| invimage11 = Cyan Balloon
| group12 = Light Blue
| 12-1 = Light Blue Balloon.png
| invimage12 = Light Blue Balloon
| group13 = Blue
| 13-1 = Blue Balloon.png
| invimage13 = Blue Balloon
| group14 = Purple
| 14-1 = Purple Balloon.png
| invimage14 = Purple Balloon
| group15 = Magenta
| 15-1 = Magenta Balloon.png
| invimage15 = Magenta Balloon
| group16 = Pink
| 16-1 = Pink Balloon.png
| invimage16 = Pink Balloon
| renewable = No
| stackable = Yes
| size = Height: 0.4 Blocks<br>Width: 0.4 Blocks
}}
'''Balloons''' are [[Minecraft:entities]] that float upward when placed.

== Obtaining ==
=== Crafting ===
{{Crafting
|showdescription=1
|A1= Latex
|B1= Matching Dye
|C1= Latex
|A2= Latex
|B2= Helium
|C2= Latex
|A3= Latex
|B3= Lead
|C3= Latex
|Output= Matching Balloon
|description={{only|bedrock|education}}
|type= Miscellaneous
|head=1
}}
{{Crafting
|A1= Latex
|B1= Bone Meal; Lapis Lazuli; Cocoa Beans; Ink Sac
|C1= Latex
|A2= Latex
|B2= Helium
|C2= Latex
|A3= Latex
|B3= Lead
|C3= Latex
|Output= White Balloon; Blue Balloon; Brown Balloon; Black Balloon
|description={{only|bedrock|education}}
|type= Miscellaneous
|foot=1
}}

== Usage ==
When {{control|used}} on a [[Minecraft:mob]], a [[Minecraft:fence]], or a [[Minecraft:wall]], balloons attach to the mob or block, similar to a [[Minecraft: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 [[Minecraft:arrow]], [[Minecraft:Wind Charge|wind charge]], or a [[Minecraft:trident]], or floats into a solid block, it pops, summons [[Minecraft: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 [[Minecraft:mob]] whose mass is less than or equal to 1, the balloon floats away and carries the [[Minecraft: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 [[Minecraft:iron golem]]. A balloon cannot be attached to a [[Minecraft: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 [[Minecraft:lead]] can attach to, except for [[Minecraft:axolotl]]s, [[Minecraft:frog]]s, [[Minecraft:nautilus]]es and [[Minecraft:zombie nautilus]]es. Balloons can also attach to [[Minecraft:panda]]s, 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.

{| class="wikitable collapsible" style="text-align: left;"
|+ Balloon-attachable mobs/entities
! Mob/Entity
! Mass
|-
| {{EntityLink|Allay}}
| 0.5
|-
| {{EntityLink|Armadillo}}
| 1.0
|-
| {{EntityLink|Bee}}
| 0.5
|-
| {{EntityLink|Boat}} 
| 1.0
|-
| {{EntityLink|Boat with Chest}} 
| 1.0
|-
| {{EntityLink|Camel}}
| 1.0
|-
| {{EntityLink|Camel Husk}}
| 1.0
|-
| {{EntityLink|Cat}} 
| 0.6
|-
| {{EntityLink|Chicken}} 
| 0.6
|-
| {{EntityLink|Cow}} 
| 1.0
|-
| {{EntityLink|Copper Golem}}
| 1.0
|-
| {{EntityLink|Dolphin}} (in water only)
| 1.0
|-
| {{EntityLink|Donkey}} 
| 1.0
|-
| {{EntityLink|Fox}}
| 0.6
|-
| {{EntityLink|Glow Squid}}
| 0.5
|-
| {{EntityLink|Goat}}
| 1.0
|-
| {{EntityLink|Hoglin}}
| 1.0
|-
| {{EntityLink|Horse}} 
| 1.0
|-
| {{EntityLink|Iron Golem}} 
| 2.0
|-
| {{EntityLink|Llama}}
| 1.0
|-
| {{EntityLink|Mule}} 
| 1.0
|-
| {{EntityLink|Mooshroom}}
| 1.0
|-
| {{EntityLink|Ocelot}}
| 0.7
|-
| {{EntityLink|Panda}}
| 1.0
|-
| {{EntityLink|Parrot}}
| 1.0
|-
| {{EntityLink|Pig}}
| 0.75
|-
| {{EntityLink|Polar Bear}}
| 1.0
|-
| {{EntityLink|Rabbit}}
| 0.4
|-
| {{EntityLink|Sheep}}
| 0.75
|-
| {{EntityLink|Skeleton Horse}}
| 0.6
|-
| {{EntityLink|Sniffer}}
| 1.0
|-
| {{EntityLink|Snow Golem}}
| 1.0
|-
| {{EntityLink|Squid}}
| 0.5
|-
| {{EntityLink|Strider}}
| 1.0
|-
| {{EntityLink|Trader Llama}}<ref group="note">If one or both trader llamas are lifted by balloons, the wandering trader attached to them by leads remains on the ground.</ref>
| 1.0
|-
| {{EntityLink|Wolf}}
| 0.8
|-
| {{EntityLink|Zoglin}}
| 1.0
|-
| {{EntityLink|Zombie Horse}}
| 1.0
|}
{{reflist|group="note"}}

== Sounds ==

{{SoundTable
| type = bedrock
| {{SoundLine
| sound =Balloon pop1.ogg
|sound2=Balloon pop2.ogg
|source=neutral
|description=When a balloon collides with a block from above
|id=balloon.pop
|volume=10.0
| pitch = 1.75/2.0
}}
|{{SoundLine
|sound=Lead Knot place1.ogg
|sound2=Lead Knot place2.ogg
|sound3=Lead Knot place3.ogg
|source=neutral
|description=When a balloon is attached on a fence or a mob
|id=balloon.place
|volume=1.0
| pitch = 1.0
}}
|{{SoundLine
|sound =Lead Knot break1.ogg
|sound2=Lead Knot break2.ogg
|sound3=Lead Knot break3.ogg
|subtitle=Leash Knot broken
|source=neutral
|description=When a balloon is deattached
|id=balloon.break
|translationkey=balloon.break
|volume=1.0
|pitch=1.0
|distance=16}}
}}

== Data values ==
=== ID ===
{{ID table
|edition=bedrock
|shownumericids=y
|showforms=y
|notshowbeitemforms=y
|generatetranslationkeys=y
|displayname=Balloon
|spritename=balloons
|spritetype=item
|nameid=balloon
|id=598
|form=item
|translationkey=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
|foot=1}} 
{{ID table
|edition=bedrock
|firstcolumnname=Balloon
|shownumericids=y
|generatetranslationkeys=y
|displayname=Entity
|spritename=balloons
|spritetype=entity
|nameid=balloon
|id=107
|foot=1}}

=== Metadata ===
In ''[[Minecraft:Bedrock Edition]]'', balloon items use the following data values:

{{dvt|spritetype=item|sprite=white-balloon|dv=0|White}}
{{dvt|spritetype=item|sprite=orange-balloon|dv=1|Orange}}
{{dvt|spritetype=item|sprite=magenta-balloon|dv=2|Magenta}}
{{dvt|spritetype=item|sprite=light-blue-balloon|dv=3|Light blue}}
{{dvt|spritetype=item|sprite=yellow-balloon|dv=4|Yellow}}
{{dvt|spritetype=item|sprite=lime-balloon|dv=5|Lime}}
{{dvt|spritetype=item|sprite=pink-balloon|dv=6|Pink}}
{{dvt|spritetype=item|sprite=gray-balloon|dv=7|Gray}}
{{dvt|spritetype=item|sprite=silver-balloon|dv=8|Silver}}
{{dvt|spritetype=item|sprite=cyan-balloon|dv=9|Cyan}}
{{dvt|spritetype=item|sprite=purple-balloon|dv=10|Purple}}
{{dvt|spritetype=item|sprite=blue-balloon|dv=11|Blue}}
{{dvt|spritetype=item|sprite=brown-balloon|dv=12|Brown}}
{{dvt|spritetype=item|sprite=green-balloon|dv=13|Green}}
{{dvt|spritetype=item|sprite=red-balloon|dv=14|Red}}
{{dvt|spritetype=item|sprite=black-balloon|dv=15|Black}}
{{dvt|spritetype=item|sprite=purple-balloon|dv=unused|Purple|foot=1}}

== History ==
=== ''Bedrock Edition'' ===
{{HistoryTable
|{{HistoryLine|bedrock}}
|{{HistoryLine||1.4.0|dev=beta 1.2.20.1|[[File:White Balloon BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Light Gray Balloon BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Gray Balloon BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Black Balloon BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Brown Balloon BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Red Balloon BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Orange Balloon BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Yellow Balloon BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Lime Balloon BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Green Balloon BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Cyan Balloon BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Light Blue Balloon BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Blue Balloon BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Purple Balloon BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Magenta Balloon BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Pink Balloon BE1.png|32px]] <br> [[File:White Balloon (item) BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Light Gray Balloon (item) BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Gray Balloon (item) BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Black Balloon (item) BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Brown Balloon (item) BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Red Balloon (item) BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Orange Balloon (item) BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Yellow Balloon (item) BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Lime Balloon (item) BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Green Balloon (item) BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Cyan Balloon (item) BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Light Blue Balloon (item) BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Blue Balloon (item) BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Purple Balloon (item) BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Magenta Balloon (item) BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Pink Balloon (item) BE1.png|32px]] Added balloons.}}
|{{HistoryLine||1.18.10|dev=beta 1.18.10.24|[[Minecraft:Bee]]s, [[Minecraft:boat]]s, tamed [[Minecraft:cat]]s, [[Minecraft:dolphin]]s, [[Minecraft:glow squid]], [[Minecraft:goat]]s, [[Minecraft:hoglin]]s, [[Minecraft:ocelot]]s, [[Minecraft:panda]]s, [[Minecraft:parrot]]s, [[Minecraft:polar bear]]s, [[Minecraft:squid]], [[Minecraft:strider]]s, tamed [[Minecraft:Wolf|wolves]], and [[Minecraft:zoglin]]s can now be [[Minecraft:Lead|leash]]ed.}}
|{{HistoryLine||1.18.30|dev=beta 1.18.30.28|Added [[Minecraft:Boat with Chest|boats with chest]]s, which can be leashed.}}
|{{HistoryLine||1.21.0|dev=Preview 1.21.0.21|Balloons now appear in the [[Minecraft:Creative inventory]] when the Education edition toggle is on.}}
|{{HistoryLine||1.21.100|dev=Preview 1.21.100.23|Added [[Minecraft:copper golem]]s, which can be leashed.}}
}}

=== ''Minecraft Education'' ===
{{HistoryTable
|{{HistoryLine|education}}
|{{HistoryLine||1.0.27|[[File:White Balloon BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Light Gray Balloon BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Gray Balloon BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Black Balloon BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Brown Balloon BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Red Balloon BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Orange Balloon BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Yellow Balloon BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Lime Balloon BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Green Balloon BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Cyan Balloon BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Light Blue Balloon BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Blue Balloon BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Purple Balloon BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Magenta Balloon BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Pink Balloon BE1.png|32px]] <br> [[File:White Balloon (item) BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Light Gray Balloon (item) BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Gray Balloon (item) BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Black Balloon (item) BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Brown Balloon (item) BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Red Balloon (item) BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Orange Balloon (item) BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Yellow Balloon (item) BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Lime Balloon (item) BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Green Balloon (item) BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Cyan Balloon (item) BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Light Blue Balloon (item) BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Blue Balloon (item) BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Purple Balloon (item) BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Magenta Balloon (item) BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Pink Balloon (item) BE1.png|32px]] Added balloons.}}
|{{HistoryLine||1.18.32|dev=1.18.10.04|[[Minecraft:Bee]]s, [[Minecraft:boat]]s, tamed [[Minecraft:cat]]s, [[Minecraft:dolphin]]s, [[Minecraft:glow squid]], [[Minecraft:goat]]s, [[Minecraft:hoglin]]s, [[Minecraft:ocelot]]s, [[Minecraft:panda]]s, [[Minecraft:parrot]]s, [[Minecraft:polar bear]]s, [[Minecraft:squid]], [[Minecraft:strider]]s, tamed [[Minecraft:Wolf|wolves]], and [[Minecraft:zoglin]]s can now be [[Minecraft:Lead|leash]]ed.}}
|{{HistoryLine||1.21.03|dev=Preview 1.21.01.0|Balloons now appear in the [[Minecraft:Creative inventory]].}}
}}

== Issues ==
{{Issue list|projects=mcpe}}

== Gallery ==
=== In other media ===
<gallery>
File:Legends Balloon.png|Differently designed balloons featured in the ''[[Minecraft:Minecraft Legends Live Event]]''.
File:Sniffer Balloon (Trails and Tales Summer Event) Render.png|A [[Minecraft:Sniffer]] balloon, featured in the [[Minecraft:Trails & Tales Event]].
File:Camel Balloon (Trails and Tales Summer Event) Render.png|A balloon of a [[Minecraft:Camel]], featured in the Trails & Tales Event.
File:Balloon Bundle (Trails and Tales Summer Event) Render.png|Bundle of balloons from the Trails & Tales Event.
File:15 Year Balloon.png|The 15 Year Balloon icon from [[Minecraft:15 Year Party Supplies]]
File:Creeper Balloon.png|The Creeper Balloon icon from 15 Year Party Supplies
File:Minigames Balloon Item.png|A Balloon seen in the Console Minigames that predates the Education feature
</gallery>

== Navigation ==
{{Navbox entities|Other}}
{{Navbox Education|exclusive}}
{{Navbox dyed block}}{{Navbox items|Utilities}}

[[Category:Minecraft Education entities]]
[[Category:Minecraft Education items]]

[[Minecraft:de:Ballon]]
[[Minecraft:es:Globo]]
[[Minecraft:fr:Ballon]]
[[Minecraft:it:Palloncino]]
[[Minecraft:ja:風船]]
[[Minecraft:ko:풍선]]
[[Minecraft:pl:Balon]]
[[Minecraft:pt:Balão]]
[[Minecraft:ru:Воздушный шар]]
[[Minecraft:uk:Куля]]
[[Minecraft:zh:气球]]