Make Balloons Good Again - Balloon & Crate Overhaul

Balloons in OR have practically useless items. They contain low-tier crops, low-tier seeds, occasionally tomes of renewal & reversal, also not very often saddles, name tags, and seasonal food items. Red Balloons, if I am not wrong, might still drop rocket boots and capture nets. Red Balloons are really the only type of balloon which had any real value, and even then, the items valued from them are so rare, it’s almost not worth popping them.

Balloons have obviously been nerfed since the crate update. Even with a small balance between Red Balloons and Purple Balloons in patch 1.16.3, it sort of nerfed Red Balloons as well.

So I propose three things:
1. A small buff to Red Balloons (bringing back Wither Skeleton Skulls to them, perhaps add a few more slightly valuable items to them)
2. Add Gold Balloons. They’d appear a quarter as often as non-event non-premium crates appear in Marauder loot tables. I don’t know the exact statistics, but if a non-event non-premium crate has a 10% chance of appearing in Marauder loot tables, then Golden Balloons would replace 2.5% (1/40) (means they’d appear an average of once every 10-15 in-game days) of balloon spawns.
3. Bring back Seasonal Balloons. These’d appear in the place of 50% of Golden Balloon spawns during their respective event, and would drop event non-premium crates.

As well as several fixes/mechanics:
1. Preventing balloon crates from taking fall damage. Some blocks deal fall damage to crates, killing them.
2. Preventing balloon crates from being affected by knockback enchantments.
3. Crates dropped from Gold Balloons/Seasonal Balloons CANNOT be rerolled.

Other than that, I have nothing else to say, apart from “please make balloons good again.”
The giant projects people work on, which takes hours upon hours, always becomes a bit better when a balloon drops by, gives them a couple of items they’ve wanted from this season or some other crate, and lights up their day a bit more.

Balloons were with OR since the beginning. It’s sad to see them slowly flying away as the new crate mechanics take over.

Please consider this.

Have a great day!

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About 1 year ago

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QuestMaster6454

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