Cloud Storage - Storage in the Clouds

Forget about complex computer systems and servers! The Cloud Storage mod offers a completely different concept of cloud storage - simply tie a chest or barrel to a balloon and send it into the sky. Now you can access the contents of this container from anywhere without resorting to complex networks of meteorite crystals or giant chests.

Main Features

This mod solves the item storage problem in a simple and elegant way. Instead of hiding endless storage systems behind complex technological mechanisms or content for advanced players, most elements can be easily crafted from new materials that drop from monsters. These creatures don't pose much difficulty for most players. Although storage is the main reason to install this mod, there is also additional content: new food items, pets, blocks, mechanics, music discs, and much more. All elements are carefully crafted and fit perfectly with the style of both the mod itself and Minecraft.

Getting Started

If you get confused by such a simple mod or don't want to keep this description open constantly, we recommend creating an in-game guide book:

This book is written by the developer himself and will be a better helper than this description. But if you insist...

The first important addition of Cloud Storage is two new mobs that drop the main materials for creating balloons, cloud chests, and other items. Meet the Badloon and the Bloviator.

Badloons are angry but fragile balloon monsters that try to hit you with their single glove, hoping to knock you off from height. However, they are easily popped by any projectile and are deadly afraid of cacti. When killed, Badloons drop 0-2 balloon pieces.

Bloviators are hostile cloud spirits that try to blast you with gusts of wind to push you away - although the wind itself doesn't deal damage, it's quite annoying. But if the weather changes from clear to rainy, the bloviator transforms into its charged thundercloud form and strikes you with lightning. When killed, large bloviators split into smaller ones, like slimes. The smallest ones have a chance to drop a Cloud Block, and the thunderous ones can drop a Static Cloud Block.

Both of these monsters spawn only at y-level 196 and above (spawning is configurable), so you'll have to climb high into the sky to find them. Once you have enough of the respective dropped items, you'll need to create at least two balloons and one cloud chest:

Then simply dye the balloons any color of your choice (or don't, I'm a mod developer, not a police officer) and tie one to a regular chest under the open sky to send it to the cloud. Once the chest reaches the maximum world height and is uploaded to the cloud, you'll be able to access all its 27 slots by placing a balloon of the same color inside the cloud chest. Note that this only works if the cloud chest has sky access! When you need more space, simply tie another balloon of the same color to a chest and send it upward. By default, cloud chests can hold up to 4096 slots (configurable, of course) - that's a lot of items.

Cloud chests can be scrolled, sorted, and searched to find any item you need.

Cloud chests themselves are personal storage - like an ender chest, they are exclusive to you and cannot be opened by other players or accessed by hoppers. Fortunately, if you need something like that, there's the static cloud chest, made the same way as the cloud chest but with static cloud blocks. These can be accessed by hoppers, pipes, other players, etc., as they are static and the same for everyone. To upload to the static inventory, you'll need a statically charged balloon, which you can get by rubbing a balloon against a static cloud.

Since static cloud chests can be accessed from anywhere via hoppers, they can be used for instant item transport between two distant points, such as two separate bases or a sky mob farm.

Balloons have other uses too, such as slowing fall speed and reducing fall damage, and can be tied to fences and stands for decoration. Cloud blocks can also be used to reduce fall height.

Additional Entertainment Content

An additional new mob has been added - the Balloon Buddy, which can be crafted and will be your best friend forever. They have 8 possible personalities that determine their behavior, combat abilities, etc.

In villages, you can find the Balloon Salesman, who can trade you various cloud storage-related items, as well as his own propeller hat. Sometimes they can offer a map to a temple in the sky or a big balloon, which has a unique loot chest and mob spawner (1.18.2 only)

Cotton candy is a new food source that can be crafted from sugar and cloud blocks. It's fun to eat, but I don't like the taste.

You can use some of the bottled clouds to create a new tool called the Cloud Blower. But I don't understand how you could have fun with these oversized hair dryers...

If a Badloon is popped by a skeleton, it can drop a unique new music disc.