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Air Balloons (Sky Vehicle)

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Minecraft 1.16
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Minecraft 1.17
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    Baroque Obama
    Lvl 67High Grandmaster Architect
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    This pack may be one of the smallest, simplest packs ever but it adds something awesome... Air Balloons!

    Rarely in Sunflower Plains biomes, you'll find an Air Balloon waiting for you on the ground. This is a vehicle that you can enter and fly wherever you like! There are 4 varieties of balloon (appearance-wise), and they all function the same way.

    Don't forget the resource pack!



    Controlling your Air Balloon is extremely simple - just move it the same way you would if you were walking on the ground. The only difference is that you'll also need to specify whether the balloon should be ascending or descending, and this is simple too.

    When you board an Air Balloon, you'll be given a Lufter (a new item that looks like a hot air balloon); when it's your main-hand item, you'll ascend, and when it isn't, you'll descend. When you touch down on the ground again, moving as normal will simply exit the balloon (and take away your Lufter); just board again to fly somewhere else!



    It's literally just that simple. A nice tip is that the Air Balloons technically count as Villages, and so some combination of /locatebiome (for Sunflower Plains) and /locate (for Village) might help you find an Air Balloon more quickly.

    I suppose the best tip is to make sure that the first open slot in your hotbar is selected when you board. This ensures that you transition from walking directly into moving the balloon when you enter it, with no further effort required.

    Enjoy!

    1 Update Logs

    Update #1 : by Baroque Obama 02/19/2021 4:04:49 pmFebruary 19, 2021 @ 9:04 pm UTC

    •Added three new balloon models, allowing for variety with 4 balloon types

    •Updated data pack & resource pack downloads

    •Updated project pics

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    RedDia_
    08/23/2021 8:23 pm
    Level 5 : Apprentice System
    It's seems to be extremely cool, but when I load it into a brand new world, literally everything just becomes a sunflower field. Bruh.
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    Baroque Obama
    08/24/2021 10:12 am
    Level 67 : High Grandmaster Architect
    One other user had this bug too (discussed in comments below), but I still haven't been able to reproduce it.
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    Jazdazkurwami
    08/13/2021 7:22 am
    He/Him • Level 1 : New Crafter
    Really nice datapack, but
    First problem, when I joined game a giant sunflower field generated next to my base and cut ocean in half.
    Second problem, when I land and get off the air ballon, the levitation effect is not dissapearing.
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    Baroque Obama
    08/13/2021 10:25 am
    Level 67 : High Grandmaster Architect
    As to the first problem: When you load your existing world with a data pack that implements additional world generation, you run the risk of existing blocks being replaced with new ones.

    As to the second, there is not enough information here to determine the cause. That being said, the pack was only tested with vanilla, and with no mods and no other data packs. If trying the pack under these conditions doesn't yield the expected results, I'd recommend uninstalling Minecraft and re-installing it.
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    JoeltCola734
    04/07/2021 10:48 pm
    Level 1 : New Miner
    So now I'm running into a weird glitch where I'm only spawning in sunflower biomes. It's just one giant biome lmao. Is it this datapack, or is it something else like one of my mods or something?
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    Baroque Obama
    04/07/2021 10:52 pm
    Level 67 : High Grandmaster Architect
    I'd imagine that's the mods there. The pack modifies the Sunflower Plains biome by making the balloons generate there, but it doesn't modify any other piece of world generation - meaning they should occur just as frequently as they do in vanilla.
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    JoeltCola734
    04/07/2021 11:16 pm
    Level 1 : New Miner
    Hmm.. disabled all mods and datapacks, still only spawning sunflower plains biome. Very strange.
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    Baroque Obama
    04/07/2021 11:21 pm
    Level 67 : High Grandmaster Architect
    Yeah that's odd. There is no dimension folder in the minecraft part (this would be needed for the datapack to make that happen), so it really shouldn't be possible. Could be a bug!
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    JoeltCola734
    04/07/2021 11:19 pm
    Level 1 : New Miner
    Maybe if I add it in after I create world?
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    JoeltCola734
    04/07/2021 9:53 pm
    Level 1 : New Miner
    Not working in 1.16.5? Searched sunflower plains for an hour, didn't see a single one. Restarted a new world several times. Only used that datapack by itself, couldn't find anything. Searched for Lufter in creative, wouldn't come up. Am I missing something?
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