agreed MPI patch would be nice

you should release a planet info patch

Yes, but you can find similar buildings as lone structures in certain biomes.

So I assume the structures in the screenshots were created by you then?

Technically no, but they can still be encountered in the wild. The mod's description tells you what biomes they spawn in.

Does your mod have Towns/Villages?

tier 0 0 0 dart apex VS Bloonoid

neat!

wheres the item ids?

Probably not, because I want them to be rare small encounters that only appear in certain biomes.

Personally I wouldn't mind there being space dungeons involving them, but I'm lacking the motivation and time to spend on that stuff.

are you gonna add balloon villages or nah?

@Evils: The Evil Clone of Elvis Abandoned buildings can spawn monsters, and have traps.

Populated ones are mostly harmless, but the treasure rooms can still contain traps.

The wire tool is recommended for spotting them.

are the micro dungeons hostile

@Pixus You actually make a good point. I'll see if I can give them something more fitting.

What do you think it should look like? I could make the sprite something other than a flag.

I did know that they were related to humans but in the end, it's your choice. I thought it'd be worth asking since I wasn't sure if they wanted to be reminded of their former selves in-universe (and because I don't think them crafting human flags makes too much sense).

@Pixus Initially when making the Balloonoids, I thought it would be fine to keep the human flag, as a reference to their original selves before the balloonification.

But I'm not too sure about it, now.

Quick question but have you thought about adding Balloonoid flags?

@Neddy Thank you!

Amazing, love it. Beautiful.

@Oмεяυıп The Balloonoids would be immune to fall damage/fall slow, but are otherwise very fragile.

Their diet is basically the same as humans, except they can also eat alien fruit, as it's a component of their famous gumballs!

Balloonoids are basically humans, if they were transformed into synthetic, rubber balloon creatures.

That's about all the relevant info I can think of, do with it what you will.

Heya!
Someone requested to have your race supported for my Race Traits mod! I wanted to ask you if you want to give your race specific stats and bonuses?
You can check out the public stat Google sheet and comment there! Race Traits - Stats Sheet [docs.google.com]
There is also the user-friendly form you can submit as well. (This option is easier to understand and navigate.) Race Traits - Race Support Application [forms.gle]
I'd love to have your official support! I'd prefer if we can talk on Discord and not on Steam, if necessary.

yo is tis a Terraria refrence

I don't use discord or anything really. The comments work well enough.

After I'm done with adding microdungeons, this may be the final significant update, as I feel pretty satisfied with what I've done, and don't wish to over-inflate it - ha, ha, ha.

If someone more motivated than me wants to make add-on content for this mod, they got my permission, so long as it doesn't contradict the codex lore, or break steam rules.

you got a discord or something so people can suggest ideas? or a forum?

I love the visuals of this mod, great job!

Also I was thinking of making Balloonoid structures be rare spawns that can be found in colorful desert/oasis biomes.

It seems like the kind of place you would probably find them, that or the ocean, but so many species have called dibs on that one...

Plus I just think it would be funny to see a Balloonoid get murked by those cactus enemies.

@Orifan1 You know, most villagers don't seem to mind players looting their chests.

Balloonoid npcs however, might not like their privacy being invaded, they might even have their storage armed with booby traps!

they dont need to be outwardly hostile for there to be dungeons. dungeons could exist as a "stay the fuck out of our helium deposits" and not a " WE ARE THE BORG BALLOONOIDS, RESISTANCE IS FUTILE "

@Folio Balloonoids are not outwardly hostile, so there won't be any dungeons.

I'll think about the structures. I like the idea of Balloonoids living in rare sky islands, with relevant treasures, of course.

Personally, though, I don't mind making colonies, because it gives me an excuse to build something fancy.

On an unrelated note, The Armol mod's tenants give relatively good items.

If they spawned in structures it'd earnestly be really fun. The tenant system is barely utilized as-is (at least in my playthroughs, feels like that says more about me), and I'd be down to either see dungeons involving them or neutral structures. Or both.

We have like, the balloon borg here. It's awesome and I wanna see more of them when I'm exploring

@Orifan1 I initially thought about adding floating island structures on the sky layer of planets.

But decided against it, because I didn't want the mod to be too intrusive.

Just optional content that the player has control over, ya' know?

how many steam awards for you to add structures?

@Folio No, they can only spawn in as Tenants, the structures you see in the screenshots are player-made.

Are there any specific planets that their structures/npcs generate on? I've yet to see any of 'em sadly

oh cool

@the generic seal It's worth mentioning that Balloonoids are not made from ordinary rubber, but living tissue that has been converted into a rubber-like material.

There is a codex entry named "Balloonoid Anatomy" that goes into little more detail about what they're made of.

now that i think about it its more like a skin prison

@the generic seal Well I mean you can already make houses/furniture out of living flesh in the base game. So who's the real crazy one, here?

so like does a balloon house double as a flesh prison

@Morbid Curiosity Jones town?

I think it was called flavor-aid or something like that.

I can never remember the names and location off the top of my head, but basically a cult became convinced the world was about to end and committed mass oof with rat poison mixed into offbrand kool-aid.

@Morbid Curiosity I will update it tomorrow. I sorta fell off of the game while I was at tier 5.

What event was this juice mod referencing anyway?

I tried looking it up, but couldn't find anything specific.

Hey, I was playtesting something unrelated and noticed in the log that your tier 6 armor recipes mistakenly call for Armol armor pieces instead of Baloonoid; just a heads up.

Also, in response to previous comments - yes, the workshop is moderated (just poorly). A poison fruit juice mod was taken down for referencing real events.

That is really cool that thy r a spinoff of the Borg xD
Very interesting concept indeed.

@TheNiteFox The Balloonoids are kind of like the Borg from Star Trek.

When someone gets turned into a Balloonoid, they develop an urge to convert more hosts.
Some Balloonoids can resist, but the thought never goes away.

As far as most Balloonoids are concerned, the galaxy would be a better place if it were made of balloons.

Oooh gotcha. Thanks for the explanation. I figured they were secretly evil cause some of them have an evil smile haha xD

@TheNiteFox The idea behind the animation is that instead of respawning like the other races,
the Balloonoids just turn some random humans that they captured into a clone of the one that died.

Balloonoids do indeed have a dark side, if you look deep enough into their lore and objects.

To be honest I just came back to this game May 23rd and ur Race mods were some of the first race mods I saw. Then I saw they had no FU support so I was like fine I will try a modded playthru without FU. Have so not been regretting it! Pandoras Box is my new all time favorite mod haha xD

So I just checked out the respawn animation cause u mentioned it. Hilarious& Confusing at the same time. I didnt check out the one for the Armol yet o_o going to have to now xD

Absolutely Love all your new mods <3 Your work is amazing, super creative & totally unique!

I'm surprised nobody's brought up the respawn animation yet.

@thebigdaddyking4536 I was curious about trying it out for myself, but if you want to upload it there, then that's fine.

And yes, you have my permission.

Hope everyone enjoys it *Squeak*.