Create Balloon

Create Balloon

This mod is completely completed by AI.
The version on Modrinth is no longer available due to platform AI policy changes, please download the latest version from CurseForge.

Hot air balloons for Create × Create: Aeronautics.

Add craftable, flyable balloon blocks that provide lift, stabilization, and movement to your Sable physics structures. Pilot them with WASD controls, automate them with CC:Tweaked, or integrate them into redstone & Drive-By-Wire automation.

Features

Hot Air Balloon Block

• 16 dyeable colors — right-click with dye to recolor. Triple-click dyes a 17×17×17 radius.
• Produces physics-based lift via Sable — scales with altitude (exponential decay above Y=62).
• PD-controller gyroscope keeps structures upright during flight (adapted from Aeroworks).
• Multi-balloon support — place many balloons on one structure, they share the load. First balloon acts as primary for physics calculations.
• 97 crafting recipes: envelope conversion, dye crafting, Create pressing/washing/deploying.
• Supports hot air balloons as the original aeronautics.

Balloon Controller

• Right-click to take control. Space = ascend, V = descend, WASD = move and turn, Shift = exit.
• Auto-land detection — stops control when all balloons settle on the ground for 1 second.
• Redstone input support via block left/right sides.
• Optional Drive-By-Wire signal integration.

CC:Tweaked Integration (optional)

• Both peripheral and native API approaches supported.(Check the changelog for 1.0.7p2 and p3 for specific example code)
• Native: balloon.ascend() works from any computer on the structure — no wrapping needed.
• 11 Lua functions: ascend, descend, hover, forward, back, turnLeft, turnRight, stop, count, isActive, getHeight.

Getting Started

1. Craft a Balloon Controller (White Sail + Shaft + Brass Sheet on a Crafting Table).
2. Obtain balloons — craft Aeronautics envelopes into balloon blocks, then dye them with any dye.
3. Build a structure — place balloons on a Sable physics structure (use Create: Aeronautics to assemble).
4. Place the Controller anywhere on the same structure.
5. Right-click the Controller to take control.
6. Fly — Space to ascend, V to descend, WASD to move, Shift to exit.
7. Optional — place a CC:Tweaked computer on the structure and run a Lua script for automation.

CC:Tweaked API

Native global API (recommended):

balloon.ascend()
balloon.descend()
balloon.hover()
balloon.forward()
balloon.back()
balloon.turnLeft()
balloon.turnRight()
balloon.stop()
balloon.count()
balloon.isActive()
balloon.getHeight()

Legacy peripheral API (backward compatible):

local b = peripheral.find("balloon")
b.ascend()
b.descend()
b.hover()
b.forward()
b.back()
b.turnLeft()
b.turnRight()
b.stop()
b.count()
b.isActive()

Dependencies

License

MIT