davidjjung
commented
4 months ago Hey mate, just wanted to let you know that balloons are already dyeable. Craft a balloon with dye (like leather armor) or interact with the balloon with dye in your hand, and it should work :] As for banners, I have a vague idea of how that'd work but no promises for the next few months at least, from myself anyway.
Suggestion 2 is actually not as simple as one would hope, code-wise. In-game, only entities in the Mob class are leashable (it's already weird enough that Balloons are technically LivingEntities), so it'd have to come with some other stipulations.
Either way, thanks for your suggestions! Will take them into consideration
captainphineas
Coda1552
Suggestion #1: Customizable Balloon Appearance This one is pretty simple, and I have two ideas as to how it would be done. Either have the balloon be dyeable and have a different texture for each of the 16 vanilla colors, or add the ability to apply banners to balloons, allowing much more customizability. If this is implemented, the crafting recipe would also be changed to remove the necessity of orange wool.
Suggestion #2: Tethered Balloons This one is also very simple, just allow the balloons to be leashed with a lead so they can be tied to a fence post on the ground. This would not only anchor them for easy storage, but also allow the creation of tethered observation balloons, for example.