⚙・modding-general

[wet river]

Is there an indicator if the client is modded?

[near ridge]

I now get this error, but it seems to be improving!

[tacit mountain]

Yep, you can see a "Mods" button

[jovial escarp]

this is very annoying

it was working yesterday

[tacit mountain]

let me take a look

[jovial escarp]

oh yeah

i think what's going on is you're directing people to the latest nightly build on github

[wet river]

Even if no mods are loaded @tacit mountain ?

[tacit mountain]

Yep

[near ridge]

there are some issues with the modloader rn I think

[jovial escarp]

yeah that release didn't work

[tacit mountain]

I know why hold on

[jovial escarp]

once i get the modloader installed im sharing my texture pack

nice.

[jaunty lion]

here's the files if you want em

[tacit mountain]

@jovial escarp @near ridge Can you try again ?

[forest creek]

i have the same issue , when i drag and drop into the .exe a cmd open and shut down after that , i dont have time to read and when i lunch balatro , i dont habe the button mods

[jovial escarp]

oh does it grab stuff live from a repo

ok

[forest creek]

with the 0.6.2 ?

[near ridge]

nope

[jaunty lion]

my priority with the colors is making sure there's enough contrast between spades/clubs and hearts/diamonds

[tacit mountain]

Yep 0.6.2

[jovial escarp]

i tried 0.6.2 and nah still getting the same error

[tacit mountain]

0.7.0 is still a Pre Release better not use it unless you need it

[jovial escarp]

there isnt enough between the spades and clubs

maybe try making the spades more purple

[tacit mountain]

Can you share me the error again ?

[jovial escarp]

same thing unfortunately

i am running this in a Wine bottle because the linux instructions need a lot of changes due to me using OpenSUSE Tumbleweed

[forest creek]

i have the same error

[wet river]

On latest.

[jovial escarp]

the child ran away on execution day

xd

[tacit mountain]

Can you try again ?

[jovial escarp]

same thing

[near ridge]

yup

[jovial escarp]

sorry if you got your hopes up

[tacit mountain]

And now ?

[jovial escarp]

unfortunately the issue persists

[near ridge]

nope

[jovial escarp]

what file is it not finding i wonder

[hexed surge]

i broke the game again naneinf

[jovial escarp]

not a number to the infinity power

[jaunty lion]

WHAT DID YOU DO

[tacit mountain]

Well, let me get home and I will generate a new executable

[jovial escarp]

take your time

[hexed surge]

i broke the game

[molten igloo]

its even crazier that people have gotten naneinf without cheating

[hexed surge]

yep

its crazy to get naneinf without mods

[magic sandal]

while yes naneinf is nice you only actually need like 17 jokers to get naneinf if youre excluding steel cards

[jaunty lion]

i wonder if there's a video anywhere of someone reaching naneinf

[jovial escarp]

i think it would be funny if the game had a hidden (non steam) achievement for getting naneinf

[molten igloo]

https://discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1203578282709094491

its somewhere in there

[magic sandal]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnBltHXVaOo

[hexed surge]

lol

bro just copy the steel king with cryptid

thats epic

[zinc saddle]

i was thinking about something simmilar using the snake blind i completely missed this lol

[woeful finch]

serpent?

[woven sonnet]

There has been no greater lie in history

[tacit mountain]

@jovial escarp Is it still happening ? Everything is working on my side

[jovial escarp]

it worked

thank you for being so quick

[jaunty lion]

this is so fucked

[tacit mountain]

Ok it was probably cache lol

[rigid jewel]

I dream of this every time that I open this game and play gold stake on ghost deck.

LET BARON COOK

[jovial escarp]

awesome

[near ridge]

Yee it worked!!

[tacit mountain]

It was github jank

Sorry about that

The cache was messing it up

[magic sandal]

Technically it has been balanced, the game just can't handle the value

I think someone did the math and it came out to e4665 or something

[woeful finch]

e4665???

[jovial escarp]

idk why my mod isn't being detected

[woven sonnet]

It has been balanced. but it's not Balanced

[woeful finch]

that’s way more than e308 lmao

[jovial escarp]

--- MOD_NAME: RGBP Card Colors Pack
--- MOD_ID: RGBP_Cards
--- MOD_AUTHOR: za0za_0
--- MOD_DESCRIPTION: This mod changes the standard card colors to make Hearts red, Diamonds green, Clubs blue and Spades purple.

----------------------------------------------
------------MOD CODE -------------------------

function SMODS.INIT.RGBP_Cards()
    sendDebugMessage("Launching RGBP Card Colors Pack!")

    local rgbp_mod = SMODS.findModByID("RGBP_Cards")
    local sprite_card = SMODS.Sprite:new("cards_1", rgbp_mod.path, "RGBPDeck.png", 71, 95, "asset_atli")
    
    sprite_card:register()
end

----------------------------------------------
------------MOD CODE END----------------------```

could anyone take a look

[magic sandal]

@white scarab it was e4665 right?

[jovial escarp]

the folder is named RGBP_Cards

the lua file as well

i don't know what i'm doing wrong

I see now

the mod author HAS to be in brackets

texture mod has been posted

please juice it up

[pastel wolf]

Yep

[white scarab]

Yeah, that or a lil higher since I didn’t account for the polychrome jokers

[twin river]

do yall use any specific programs to help make sprites for custom joker cards or is it just good ol ms paint

[spiral dune]

I like https://krita.org/en/ for raster art, but haven't actually made Joker sprites.

[carmine flare]

I've been using paint dot net. But idk what I'm doing when it comes to art

[spiral dune]

... I guess I made this wee joker sprite as a replacement for non-mod purposes (in Krita).

[sand thicket]

Aseprite the top dog
It's free if you compile it yourself, or 20$ one time
It's pretty great and has support for plugins if you want to add more to it

[rare hill]

https://libresprite.github.io
gonna call this out

[hardy brook]

Paint.net works. No ms paint

[lean dune]

who even uses ms paint these days

[simple rampart]

are balatro mods available to be downloaded via thunderstore?

[lean dune]

pdn is just better

[lean dune]

i don't think any are on there, most of us just share the files in #1209506514763522108 or use a github repo

[simple rampart]

so it's all manual for now?

[lean dune]

depends on what you call manual

we have #1209564621644505158 as our loader

pretty much all mods on here work with it

so you really just have to unzip something into your mods folder... if you wanna call that manual, go ahead

[pastel wolf]

I use aseprite

[molten igloo]

aseprite is the goat for pixel art

if ur just doing texture changes tho, paint.net is decent

[pastel wolf]

Aseprite is great making new stuff cuz i have access to the whole palette of the game

@carmine flare did you write the uibox override function?

[jovial escarp]

aseprite is probably the best pixel art editor

but i use gimp

i know gimp so i use it

[little wharf]

+1 Gimp

[carmine flare]

I don't think so. I do override the uibox ability function for my mod. Where do I find this function.

[pastel wolf]

I meant the one in your mod, cuz i grabbed that one for the description of mine, i was gonna check if that was allgood

[carmine flare]

I did write it. It works fine as far as my testing can prove that

[pastel wolf]

It works yeah, it works great, am i okay to use it in mine though?

[jovial escarp]

i think it would be funny if someone made a texture pack that textures the cards all wrong

all kings become 3s of a different suit

[carmine flare]

Yeah, of course

[pastel wolf]

Also i tried to add colours to the suit variable in the description, but it has an issue with {V:1}{}

Have you got any clue how i'd add the colour of the suit to the description too? Would i need to find a way to add that into the code?

[little wharf]

the only way you can tell what hand you play is selecting 5 cards to see what they do 😆

start to decode which cards are which at some point

[rare hill]

technically ms paint has layers now, but yeah

it's just a default program, nothing great

[pastel wolf]

Cuz i tried to use {V:1} like idol, but it hates it

[jovial escarp]

this but paired with an automatic randomizer for the textures

pure hell

[little wharf]

😆

[heady marten]

Wow! is this a sort of Asesprite equivalwent?

[rare hill]

yeah, forked off of the last fully open source version of aseprite I believe

[heady marten]

Oh, cool! well, I guess I have something to share too then, maybe it will be useful to somebody. There's a modification to GIMP called PhotoGIMP that I think is great

It's basically a bunch of settings and plugins you add to GIMP to make the interface more familiar to photoshop users

It's been useful to me at least

[hardy brook]

What's up all?

[heady marten]

Hi there

[hardy brook]

I'm trying to figure out what to work on first

on one hand, Hanafuda.

On the other hand, Bunch of random cards

[heady marten]

You know...

Wouldn't it be crazy if we could tell Balatro to use different rulesets?

[hardy brook]

so challenges?

[woven sonnet]

Wee Joker would be awesome if it had a unique sprite like this instead of just being normal joker scaled down

[heady marten]

You said Hanafuda cards, so in this instance, imagine having to actually make the hands, like five lights and such

Five Lights is the only one I remember... LOL

[little wharf]

short deck poker?

[hardy brook]

Hanafuda means Flower cards, I kept calling "Flower Card Cards"

lol

I'm just having both the stuff together with hanafuda as a suit and the Hanafuda suit/Score as the rank

[heady marten]

Yes, I realize it's redundant

But maybe I like flowers doubly

[spiral dune]

Here's the raw asset I made, if you (or someone) wants to try and do something with it.

[hardy brook]

So yeah, I'm planning to do that or cards from K6T

I feel like the Hanafuda stuff is gonna mess up with the original game, but I'll figure out ways to balance it for both

[woven sonnet]

I'll make a Request post in #1209506514763522108

[heady marten]

You adding this to balatro will force me to actually learn Hanafuda proper

Curses haha

[hardy brook]

lol, semi-learn Hanafuda and KoiKoi

[hardy brook]

The Point value for Hanafuda are the chip value it gives (so it's either 1, 5, 10, or 20 depending on card), and the Koi Koi score will be the Mult (with an equal multiplier, as you can see with the possible hands)

[heady marten]

Hm.. it sounds like a smart rule adaptation

[hardy brook]

The K6T mod would be just adding ranks

[heady marten]

Riichi Mahjong next

[jovial escarp]

people are modding rules into balatro already

i'll hedge a bet and say somebody is going to work on a mod the scope of antibirth on tboi for this game

people that have way more knowledge about game design have the upper hand

im just a sprite switcher

[hardy brook]

anti what on what?

[jovial escarp]

antibirth mod

the binding of isaac

the mod that, uh,

made it into the game,

because the mod dev just offered to work together on it

[hardy brook]

oh

[heady marten]

Unpopular opinion but I don't like BoA

[jovial escarp]

i dont play it

watching albino play it is exhilarating though

seriously some of the most funny edited stream content on yt

[hardy brook]

Decided to work on K6T for now

[empty brook]

hey folks! took a break for a couple days, but now trying to get this deck mod working again

i'm trying to make a deck which has a similar mechanic to Anaglyph, except instead of the Double Tag, it gives the Negative Tag

so far, i've been able to get the deck to be there, but selecting it immediately crashes the game. i can see that it's citing line 31 as a problem, but i'm not really sure how to fix it

[carmine flare]

There's no variable named args in that block. Did you mean arg_56_0?

[rich star]

oh lor

a deck card that connects any straight...

[empty brook]

that's how the code was for anaglyph, at least!
changing the "args.context" to "arg_56_0.context" did, at least, fix the crash, which is an improvement! thank you!

however, it's not giving the negative tag

[carmine flare]

Args is probably defined somewhere in the apply_to_run function and you'll need to figure out where and try and port it into your override

I'm not at home or I would take a quick look but essentially any local vars within back.apply_to_run aren't going to be defined in your override

[pastel wolf]

I'm having a lotta fun coding tbh

Spose that'll change when i actually start coding more abilities rather than just localization

[empty brook]

oh yeah, i think that changing code for things like textures and text is much easier

i have a mod for lose quotes right now as well, but i'm only planning on finishing it once i've got this deck done

[pastel wolf]

But it felt so rewarding when i got the effect of watercolour working properly

[heady marten]

Modding disables achievements doesn't it? I hope mods get separated into visual and mechanical going forward, and visual ones don't disable achievements at least.

[pastel wolf]

I think there's a mod that reenables them

[white scarab]

There’s a mod to reenable achievements, so if you’re purely using visual and QoL there will probably be a configuration for that eventually

[heady marten]

Oh, thank you

I only intend to use visuals for the most part

[white scarab]

The mod options system is still being developed but I’m sure there could be a config where you specify if a mod should disable achievements or not

[heady marten]

Does changing file directly into the exe also have the effect of disabling achievements? because for now I just want to use teeny-tiny visual change

[hardy brook]

So there's 3 face ranks in K6T's deck. Looking at the suit order in, the new order is 0, 1/2, 1-24, Jack, Cav, Bishop, Tower, Queen, King, Ace, Infinity

This is a little different from their order with Infinity between the numbers and face cards

[heady marten]

Are you making a deck with tarot playing cards? that's pretty cool

I always thought Knght was a much cooler rank than Jack

[hardy brook]

I'm recreating the K6T deck alongside hanafuda

[heady marten]

Sorry, I don''t know it

[hardy brook]

https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/k6t-infinity

[heady marten]

Ah, sorry, I was thinking something different entirely, don't mind me

[hardy brook]

It's cool

[heady marten]

I was thinking something akin these lines https://i.etsystatic.com/15543398/r/il/c9ee35/1237427216/il_1140xN.1237427216_8yi4.jpg

Of course, it could cause confusion with Arcana so it's not a good route to take haha

[hardy brook]

I could add them too

The lower arcana versions

I mean I'm planning to do some big COMPOSITE of all my mods

And some mods are gonna be new suits

[heady marten]

I'm always up for the cards themselves looking cool and fresh

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/yhx_lk_epi8/maxresdefault.jpg

Those are probably too detailed to translate to pixel art, but just showing the gist

[hardy brook]

I do Have to make face cards for Cavalier, Bishop, and Tower

[empty brook]

this has been very helpful advice--i've been looking around a lot, and i do feel like i know what i have to actually do. at least, more than before lmao

however i have not actually got the mechanics to work just yet. i'll either try again later tonight, or if someone else looks at the code (or you--no pressure though, would understand if you're too busy or otherwise don't want to for someone random's mod!)

[carmine flare]

the anaglyph deck code seems to be in Back:trigger_effect which gets passed an args parameter, is there a reason you're adding your deck effect in Back:apply_to_run ?

overriding Back:trigger_effect looks pretty simple to override, no local variables to fiddle with

function Back.trigger_effect(self, args)
  local calc_ref = Backtrigger_effectref(self, args)

  if self.name == 'Pact Deck' and args.context == 'eval' and G.GAME.last_blind and G.GAME.last_blind.boss then
    G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({
      func = (function()
        add_tag(Tag('tag_negative'))
        play_sound('generic1', 0.9 + math.random()*0.1, 0.8)
        play_sound('holo1', 1.2 + math.random()*0.1, 0.4)
        return true
      end)
    }))
  end
  
  return calc_ref
end```

that's how i would write it

[empty brook]

IT WORKED!!! thank you so much!!!!!

i believe the reason i was doing it like that was because the example deck given in... the modloader i think? the Absolute Deck, did it like that, so i figured that was how it had to be done

[carmine flare]

yeah those look like modifiers to the decks themselves before the run starts. i haven't messed with adding decks yet so im not too familiar

i would check that you don't break anaglyph deck or plasma deck with that Back.trigger_effect override. it shouldn't but it's worth testing to be sure

[empty brook]

yeah, i believe you're correct there--and thus, the reason it wasn't doing anything (but wasn't crashing) is because you can't defeat a boss the moment you start the run

or i guess beforehand really lol

i will go check anaglyph and plasma!

okay, Anaglyph works perfectly fine

Plasma does not

Plasma does the cool visual effects and is like "yo it's 40 x 40!!!" and then it just gives the actual normal number for the hand before that balancing number change thing

actually wait no, it actually is even worse lol

it changes the chip value but not the mult value

so if i play a 15 x 1 high card, it becomes 8 x 8
except actually it just becomes 8 x 1

[carmine flare]

probably has something to do with the return statement in the plasma code returning 2 numbers

you could try something like this

function Back.trigger_effect(self, args)
  if self.name == 'Pact Deck' and args.context == 'eval' and G.GAME.last_blind and G.GAME.last_blind.boss then
    G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({
      func = (function()
        add_tag(Tag('tag_negative'))
        play_sound('generic1', 0.9 + math.random()*0.1, 0.8)
        play_sound('holo1', 1.2 + math.random()*0.1, 0.4)
        return true
      end)
    }))
  end
  
  return Backtrigger_effectref(self, args)
end```

perhaps assigning the return to a variable instead of just directly returning it is the issue

[hardy brook]

Alright, think that's good for the Bishop card art

Based it somewhat off the K6T version with a bit of custom

[empty brook]

yep, this fixed it! Anaglyph, Plasma, and the modded deck all work with this code

thank you so much!!!!

[carmine flare]

is it possible to enforce mod load order? if, say, i made a utilities mod and then needed to reference a function in that mod from another mod could i make sure the utility is loaded first?

[left ivy]

Ok but just here me out here #1212580187716329532 message

[rigid jewel]

Gave my WIld Face Joker a texture and a name

Not the best but still ok

[rotund atlas]

lmao

[pastel wolf]

Cool art

[rotund atlas]

i guess you can use some blank font with https://discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1210101577550008390

[pastel wolf]

I probably wouldve done something like this but that's just as good

If not better

[rotund atlas]

looks sick, can you show it without crt filter?

[rigid jewel]

Give me one moment

[hushed furnace]

i tried downscaling an illustration from yoshitaka amano's tarot deck to balatro size

http://static.minitokyo.net/downloads/48/39/219498.jpg

[rigid jewel]

Here's the sprites I made for it

[livid yacht]

swag as hell

[bronze fern]

Might I suggest a Joker card to add?

Mechanic Joker
Destroyed Jokers and Playing Cards
are immediately fixed.
(Probably a Rare seeing you could now take Glass cards and Spectral cards without fear of losing stuff)

[rotund atlas]

ceremonial knight will be broken with this

#🙋・frequently-asked message [e-mail]

[bronze fern]

<@&1133519078540185692> We might have a bot

[rigid jewel]

This is a bot

[bronze fern]

thought so

seemed far too formal

[grave panther]

I timed them out on the off chance is not and I’ll take it to the mod channel on the off chance it’s real

Thanks for the ping

[bronze fern]

which one was that again?

[rotund atlas]

destroys a card to the left, adds sell value to the mult

[static vale]

thanks @grave panther

[tired mirage]

anyone with real business wouldn't spam the same message in multiple channels they would just look at the contact info in faq

[bronze fern]

Card change then
Mechanic Joker
Other Jokers and Playing Cards
cannot be destroyed.

[rotund atlas]

might be just some poor guy from bilibili who is not sure if hes allowed to make video about the game

[grave panther]

You know what. I agree.

[tired mirage]

maybe

[rotund atlas]

isn't there already something like this

besides eternal jokers

[rigid jewel]

Also this person's account is 1 day old

xdd

[bronze fern]

Haven't found one like it yet

Eternal Jokers are the only thing that are close

but in that sense you can't sell them

Mechanic one can still

[rotund galleon]

@ember kite The exe for balatro is a self unpacking executable, so you just run 7z unzip on the file and all of the code, resources, and textures will be there

can't talk about it anywhere but here though

[ember kite]

oh thanks!! i didnt realize this channel existed before so i didnt know lmao

[rotund galleon]

👍

[hardy brook]

Almost done

And that's one suit

[pastel wolf]

That is so many cards

[hardy brook]

Yup. That's from K6T

0, 1/2, 1-24, Jack, Cavalier, Bishop, Tower, Queen, King, Ace, Infinity

[strong swift]

does infinity just auto win

[hardy brook]

I decided Infinity for balacing sake just gives you 100 chips

I'll explain more in my #1210976027036352582

[twin river]

Is there a way to easily switch between vanilla balatro and the steamodded version?

[pastel wolf]

I'm a bit confused, the order section doesnt work

this is the order of them in the game, not following the coded order?

[rigid jewel]

I'm not sure either

I kinda just ignored the order since I don't currently plan on adding multiple themed jokers

Also what do they all do?

I know watercolored but I haven't seen the rest

Just the art

[carmine flare]

order gets overridden when they get added to the joker table.

[pastel wolf]

ah okay

[pastel wolf]

ah a few of them have effects, some dont yet

[patent spruce]

THEY LOOK SO GOOD

[pastel wolf]

thank you :)

[patent spruce]

Are you doing the mod all by yourself?

[pastel wolf]

Well, with the help of the more experienced people in here

[patent spruce]

Most wonderful

[carmine flare]

i decided to add a bit of code to my mod pack that can fix this issue, https://github.com/lusciousdev/LushMod/blob/main/LushUtil.lua

just sorting the list of mod jokers by order before adding them to the main game lists

[pastel wolf]

Cool

[carmine flare]

if you add that code to your mod you have to change the for loop that puts the jokers in the center pools. instead of for k, v in pairs(jokers) do you put for k, v in pairsByOrder(jokers) do. in my mod it looks like this

    v.key = k
    v.order = table_length(G.P_CENTER_POOLS['Joker']) + v.order
    G.P_CENTERS[k] = v
    table.insert(G.P_CENTER_POOLS['Joker'], v)
    if v.rarity and v.set == 'Joker' and not v.demo then
        table.insert(G.P_JOKER_RARITY_POOLS[v.rarity], v)
    end
end```

[last fern]

How did you trick it into working? I can't figure it out.

[pastel wolf]

Anyone have an idea on how to input the cost of jokers into a variable?

[supple cypress]

Look at how swashbuckler scores

[pastel wolf]

Good idea, thanks

i keep getting this error

but i've specified self.abilty.extra.chips in the ability table

[grand geode]

testing out the new joker api

(from #1211483433235382312)

[pastel wolf]

i can't work this out at the moment and i need to sleep. it has an issue with like 198 and i've already specified the loc_vars

if anyone else has insight to what i'm doing wrong please enlighten me

[grand geode]

is the chips in extra

because if so it should be outside, or change it to ability.extra.chips

[forest creek]

does the achievement and progression gonna be affected if i install the steamodded ?

[grand geode]

progression is unchanged

achievements will be locked unless you use the achievements enabler mod

[pastel wolf]

It is in extra

[forest creek]

ok ok i download it and put it in the mods docs

and ill find it if i lunch the game ?

right ?

[pastel wolf]

Wait i swear it was self.ability.extra.chips already

Dammit

[pastel wolf]

Also this is just the section for upgrading the joker, no?

You need another one under context.gamearea to trigger it after a hand?

[grand geode]

yeah

see Campfire

[pastel wolf]

Yeah i was referencing campfire and castle

I wrote one out but never got to see if it worked cuz 198 was broken

I'll get that working and then try to plug in base.cost into the chip mod

Which i think i have to make a G.game thing for

But idk how to do that

[grand geode]

@livid yacht what the heck

[livid yacht]

I’m Campfire! You can see me! :)

[pastel wolf]

[grand geode]

can't believe LocalThunk added you to the game

[pastel wolf]

https://tenor.com/view/spongebob-patrick-squidward-bon-fire-gif-13420040

Apparently swashbuckler works on sell_cost or something

[solar nova]

what are the mods available rn?

[pastel wolf]

#1209506514763522108

I just need to work out what the opposite of that is

Chip_mod needs to = the purchase cost of jokers

[grand geode]

opposite?

[pastel wolf]

Buy cost not sell cost

[grand geode]

i think it's just cost

[pastel wolf]

Probably

I'll see tomorrow

Wish i didn't have to work and could just code all day

[grand geode]

also idk if selling cards passes a other_card argument

[pastel wolf]

What do you mean

[grand geode]

you would need the other card to check its cost wouldn't you

[pastel wolf]

Hmmm

True

I guess we find out

Idk how to write the part that grabs the cost anyway so i'll cross that bridge when i get out of my wheelchair

[foggy crag]

My Warp Zone Joker collection just got a new face!

[foggy crag]

Clown Pennywise
If first hand of the round scores 2, 3, 4 or 5, destroy them and gain +2 Mult for each. (Currently +0 Mult)

[grand geode]

CLEANSE UP YOUR BODY, CLEANSE UP YOUR SOUL
ALL YOU NEED IS TWIN ISLANDS' MILK!

[tacit mountain]

Minecraft Milk Bucket POV

[rotund atlas]

im trying to modify main menu a bit and can't understand this part

which creates options and quit buttons

i never touched lua before, but im assuming how it works is that if G.F_QUIT_BUTTON is nil it will return nil instead of button object but i have no idea what G.F_QUIT_BUTTON is and why is it there

also second line seems to be just blank separator, but G.F_QUIT_BUTTON also there

am i missing something?

oh nvm it's just boolean var for consoles got it

[hardy brook]

Minecraft milk bucket

[hidden tapir]

getting an object parser together for string building for bots/APIs

[wet river]

Anyone have a way to listen for a variable change?

I'm looking for when scoring is completed, but I'm not seeing the method for that atm

Maybe update_hand_played

[white scarab]

There might be a Lua debug thing for that, but not sure if you can check for variable changes
I think it’s possible to use it for function calls though

[hexed surge]

OMG PENNYWISE

[solar comet]

I love this

[wet river]

I'm not completely sure I understand how to send the reference back for this:

function G.update_hand_played()
    contents = updateHandPlayedRef()
    io.open("test.txt", "w"):write("test"):close()
    return contents
end
    ```

Anyone able to help me out?

This is the error I'm getting:

Which to me sounds like I'm not doing the passthrough part of this correctly.

I figured it out. ChatGPT for the win.

[pastel wolf]

Lmao

[pastel wolf]

Its been helping me too

[heady marten]

I get this when trying to set the modding environment

[woven rock]

is there no step where you have to install requirements?

Make sure you have python3, pip3, MPocate/PLocate, 7zip-full, and the python requests library.

[heady marten]

nothing pops up about requirements, no. I'm using a nightly

[hardy brook]

Welp, this is gonna be nuts

Just think, this isn't even the final form of this for the big composite mod

Once I get these working and the hanafuda cards done, I'll just have to combine and reorganize the cards/textures

[jovial escarp]

this nuts

[spring ridge]

is a thermodinamical miracle

milkracle

[spring ridge]

same

[queen vector]

Anyone thought of doing the inverted tarot as a mod?

[hardy brook]

Trust me, this is NOTHING

[pastel wolf]

does this need context.cardarea == G.jokers?

cuz its not upgrading when a joker is sold

[hardy brook]

Got a lot of progress

[pastel wolf]

wait

it is upgrading

it just doesn't play the animation for upgrading

[carmine flare]

looking at the campfire code it doesn't return but instead adds an event. id try to replicate that

[hardy brook]

Need to do 2 more suits as well as coding it in

[pastel wolf]

i'll have a look

okay the upgrade and the adding chips works

i'm confused tho cuz castle is written like this

cuz thats where i got it from

okay, used the one from campfire and now it works

now i need to figure out how to augment the cost of cards into the chip mod

is the cost of a card technically sell_value*2?

[tulip tulip]

was the whole game made with love2d ?

[rotund galleon]

yes

[pastel wolf]

@carmine flare does your uibox override include the "dictionary?" i'd like to tap into these, but i'm not sure if it would work or if i need to write in my own somehow

[carmine flare]

shouldn't. but i haven't tested.

[pastel wolf]

cuz i've got them in mine and it seems to have an issue

            loc_vars = {self.ability.extra.trigger+1, self.ability.extra.every + 1, localize{type = 'variable', key = (self.ability.sundial_remaining == 0 and 'loyalty_active' or 'loyalty_inactive'), vars = {self.ability.sundial_remaining}}}
            customJoker = true

i dont think i used the right box

[carmine flare]

pretty sure localize should use parenthesis not brackets, no?

i haven't really used localize in anything i made so idk how it works but my code shouldn't touch it

[pastel wolf]

that's how loyalty card is written

this is the error message

334 if the line that involves loyalty_active and loyalty_inactive

[little wharf]

you're passing a nil value, so something on that line is not existing at the time it tries to combine the strings for the localization

[pastel wolf]

except if i change it to sundial_active and inactive, which dont exist, my card descript just says ERROR hands remaining

but if its loyalty_active when i try to hover it just crashes

loyalty_active and inactive are in the game code cuz they're used by loyalty card.

maybe they get overridden by the override

[little wharf]

look at the loyalty card code and see how it checks which one to send?

[pastel wolf]

mine is written just how loyal's is

with the self.abilty.extras changed ofc

[pastel wolf]

this image shows how it specifies which variable to put in the description

[little wharf]

you have sundial_remaining defined in abilities?

[pastel wolf]

yeah

the whole ticking down thing works

it just won't show hands remaining in

the descriptrio

hang on

[little wharf]

if customjoker=true is proper and everything else is functional I can only see self.ability.extra.trigger and self.ability.sundial_remaining are the only other two variables that could be nil at that point

[pastel wolf]

sundial remaining seems to work as after 7 hands the card does the effect

but it only crashes when those two vars are loyalty_active

/inactve

if i change them to anything else it does this instead

[little wharf]

where is self.ability.extra.trigger defined

[little wharf]

oh lua

can you show the whole part 😆

that shows self.ability.sundial_remaining defined and extra trigger after it

[pastel wolf]

i can send you the code if you want to have a dig?

[little wharf]

I'm just about to eat dinner, but if you haven't figured it out by the time I'm finished up, I can check it out

[pastel wolf]

Cool, thanks

i'll probably try work on another joker for a bit

maybe see if i can get receipt working as intended

[hardy brook]

Thinking of how I can do Arcana cards without really having the arcana cards to use

I do have a few ideas:

Using the ones found in Persona. That in turn made me find the Visconti-Sforza deck, which has a few others that I don't really see (or are named different) in other decks including the Juggler, Popess, and Time.

Another idea were to reference a similar kind of deck (excluding some that could be taken a bit negatively) called "La Loteria", which is some kind of bingo-esque game.

[pastel wolf]

i'm not sure how to write this part of library card

15 mult per consumable card held

[white scarab]

model it after Abstract Joker
+15 mult for each Consumable card (held)

[pastel wolf]

yeah i'm just looking at abstract now

not sure how to grab the number of consumables tho

probably look at the observatory effect

[jovial escarp]

with a deck as huge as this the default hand size would also have to be huge

[hardy brook]

nah

[pastel wolf]

welllll

you wouldn't find much bigger than a pair or a flush right

[hardy brook]

I'm sorry. I'm doing research on playing cards for mods

The playing card was the reason the sandwich exists!?

[pastel wolf]

im sorry what

[hardy brook]

The earl of sandwich was obsessed with playing cards that he requested his food to be made into what would become the sandwich

Sandwich Joker when

[pastel wolf]

wild

[hardy brook]

Could do an Escape map joker to reference the hidden maps on bicycle cards

[pastel wolf]

i was gonna do a bicycle joker at some stage

[hardy brook]

Should do some other famous jokers

[pastel wolf]

with the 'wheel' hand

[hardy brook]

But yeah, if you think K6T in Balatro is gonna be rough

Just wait for the composite deck

[pastel wolf]

I'm so lost on how to write this

[pastel wolf]

not sure how to tell how many consumables are in the slots

[hidden tapir]

i don't really wanna bother the dev, for those of you that are making custom cards and are getting familiar with the shared responsibility of the localization files and the game.lua file, have you determined the logic that's going into the variable replacement? Sometimes it seems like it's just reading config or config.extra left to right but there are some that have a #3# like odds-based ones where it seems like it's being calculated elsewhere

[pastel wolf]

i think someone did

like this you mean

#1#

[hidden tapir]

yeah

[pastel wolf]

its the first variable defined in this part

[hidden tapir]

oh heck what file is that

that's probably what i'm missing

[pastel wolf]

theres one for every card in card.lua

[hidden tapir]

i was looking for things by the shortcode rather than the name

that'd be why

cool, thanks

[pastel wolf]

gotta override the ui table to do that

luscious did that, i'm using his section of code

[hidden tapir]

i'm not modding the game directly, trying to write an API for card lookups

would like to use the game logic so it's update-friendly when possible

[pastel wolf]

this is myy... fifth? day modding

[hidden tapir]

some like misprint are gonna need extra attention but the more i can minimize that the better

[pastel wolf]

so i can't really help too much i'm sorry

[hidden tapir]

no you're fine, you pointed me in the right direction!

[pastel wolf]

:P

[hidden tapir]

using your example screenshot i was looking for j_receipt instead of Crinkled Receipt and getting nothing back but the initial definition and the localization

[pastel wolf]

ah yeah

[hidden tapir]

and going "what wizardry goes on here??"

[pastel wolf]

j_receipt is just the slug

the full name is used in the ability and in the ui table

[hidden tapir]

thankfully i don't need to get too into the weeds of parsing since i just need to get to human-readability

[pastel wolf]

any of you very smart coder people know what variable the amount of consumable cards is?

[pastel wolf]

Round of applause

Library card now works as intended

[hushed furnace]

nice

[pastel wolf]

ALTHOUGH

if i look at the description in the main menu the game crashes

orrr

if i look at it in general it crashes hmm

it didn't before but now it does

i'm confused

why does

okay worksagain

fkin watercolour doesnt work properly

[pastel wolf]

yes it does

i think i was just confused

[hardy brook]

I'm surprised nobody's tried to do a mod that brings back cut content

at the moment that'd be only 5 of the decks

oh well, ig

I might add it to my big list

[jade saffron]

would someone be ever so kind to tell a bloke where the tutorial for changing joker icons/custom skins would be

[pastel wolf]

you'll need to go into the balatro.exe archive, then under resources is all the 1x and 2x files

open the 1x file of the sprite table you wish to edit

then when exporting, export a 1x and a 2x and replace the existing pngs with your new ones

[jade saffron]

fire thank you sm

[carmine flare]

why does my this card crash the game when i hover over it only in the jokers area in a game. in collection it works fine

[pastel wolf]

not sure

just some issue in the uibox

[carmine flare]

o wait

it's cause i was resuming a run from before i changed the extra value in the card definition

starting a new run and giving myself the card it works fine

[pastel wolf]

sweet :)

if i'm trying to discard a card after a hand is played, do i need to create an event?

[carmine flare]

probably, the hook code does

[grand geode]

how do you do the uibox junk

oug

[pastel wolf]

yeah thats what i'm lookin at now

[carmine flare]

it aint pretty but it's at the end of my mod code https://github.com/lusciousdev/LushMod/blob/v0.2.0/LushMod.lua

[grand geode]

well that works

thanksies

[pastel wolf]

luscious my hero

hook code is complex

[carmine flare]

essentially it just creates a list of cards in hand, highlights 2, discards all highlighted cards

[pastel wolf]

I'm trying to combine raised fist and hook

to discard the lowest card in the hand

[pastel wolf]

i cannot figure this out

[carmine flare]

what's not working

[pastel wolf]

Give me a bit, i'll answer that in a sec, it discards, but it discards 2 randomly, so i need to trim it to 1 and make it discard a specific card

[pastel wolf]

okay idunno, its messy as fuck atm

the money effect works fine

but thats the easy part

[grand geode]

mfw after hand played effects trigger before chips are added into the total

[pastel wolf]

agh

i can't get this

[carmine flare]

the for loop is why you're discarding 2 cards

local raised_card = nil
for i=1, #G.hand.cards do
    if temp_ID >= G.hand.cards[i].base.id and G.hand.cards[i].ability.effect ~= 'Stone Card' then temp_Mult = G.hand.cards[i].base.nominal; temp_ID = G.hand.cards[i].base.id; raised_card = G.hand.cards[i] end
end
if raised_card == context.other_card then
  G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({ func = function()
      G.hand:add_to_highlighted(raised_card, true)
      G.FUNCS.discard_cards_from_highlighted(nil, true)
  return true end })) 
  delay(0.7)
  return true
end```

something like that in the context.individual block of the calculate_jokers when context.cardarea == G.hand

where raised fist is essentially

[pastel wolf]

So do i need two blocks? one in context.individial and one in context.cardarea?

[carmine flare]

no

  if context.cardarea == G.hand then```

[pastel wolf]

Hmmn

that one doesnt run

but i probably put it under the wrong context

[carmine flare]

tbh i didn't test that code i just kinda wrote it as an example

there might be some syntax issues

[pastel wolf]

fair enough, it'd be a better starting point anywayu

there doesnt seem to be a discard after playing at all

where does the temp_id 15 come into play?

[carmine flare]

the if statement i took from raised fist

[pastel wolf]

yeah

[carmine flare]

the return true at the end of the code i gave you is gonna cause some issues

  if context.cardarea == G.hand then
    if self.ability.name == "Daifugo" then
      local temp_Mult, temp_ID = 15, 15
      local raised_card = nil
      for i=1, #G.hand.cards do
          if temp_ID >= G.hand.cards[i].base.id and G.hand.cards[i].ability.effect ~= 'Stone Card' then temp_Mult = G.hand.cards[i].base.nominal; temp_ID = G.hand.cards[i].base.id; raised_card = G.hand.cards[i] end
      end
      if raised_card == context.other_card then
        G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({ func = function()
            G.hand:add_to_highlighted(raised_card, true)
            G.FUNCS.discard_cards_from_highlighted(nil, true)
        return true end })) 
        delay(0.7)
        return {}
      end
    end
  end```

i just tested this and it seemed to work. it doesn't add money but i think you had that working

just replace the return {} with the bit that adds money

[pastel wolf]

ah nice

thanks man

moving it to context.individual moves the money effect to the card being discarded

[carmine flare]

True. You could move just that bit to the final else block

[grand geode]

woe
jokers be upon ye
https://github.com/Mysthaps/BalatroMods/blob/main/MystJokers/Jokers.md

[past tendon]

Nice. Maybe it would be better if the shaking effect happened after the joker goes active ?

[grand geode]

i made the shaking before active to be in line with DNA, Trading Card, etc.

well not Trading Card
Sixth Sense, i think?

[pastel wolf]

sixth sense doesnt wiggle

[grand geode]

never used that

lma

[pastel wolf]

trading card wiggles

[grand geode]

yeah but it's on Discard ain't it

[pastel wolf]

ya

theres an odd bug happenening between one of my jokers and trading card

[grand geode]

i'll change the jiggle to after active then

[pastel wolf]

uhh

[grand geode]

wack

[pastel wolf]

yeah

it seems to do one when the round is over too

Daifugo i mean

[past tendon]

It reminds me more of loyalty card. Also card sharp but that one doesn't wiggle if I remember correctly 🤔

[rigid jewel]

...what

[pastel wolf]

iok why trading card and daifugo both proc at the end of the round

[rigid jewel]

I'm wondering why you're getting two negative popcorns

[pastel wolf]

if you press space with the debug tool it gives you negative popcorn

[rigid jewel]

I never knew of that

[grand geode]

oh i coulda used that instead of manually summoning cavendishes

[past tendon]

same

[left arch]

Anyone else get virus detected when trying to download the latest steammodded?

[pastel wolf]

Always

Its just windows detecting rhe injector

Its fine

[mystic yew]

Hi not really modding but I have a question is there a way to only view the background in the game the spinning circle is just so hypnotizing i love looking at it would love to have it as wallpaper

[rich star]

is the balatro steamodded loader trustworthy? just sense checking

[hexed root]

Yeah, I downloaded it and used it yesterday, it's legit

Windows complains that it's a virus, but you can allow it

it modifies other executables so that's why it looks sus to windows

[hexed root]

someone could probably remove all of the UI elements and take a screenshot of the background, but technically maybe localthunk wouldn't like that, since it's exporting assets from the game in some way. Maybe you should ask him 🤔

[rich star]

cool...

[zealous wave]

localthunk should release the background shader on wallpaper engine

[hexed root]

I had a couple question for modders:
I'm a backend webdev but I've never done gamedev before. Learning Lua and everything.

1. How can I run the game on Mac? It's not supported from Steam but Steamodded has instructions for modifying the .exe on MacOS.
2. What's the best workflow/tools that you use to make changes and quickly see how they work?
3. How are tests created/run?

[mystic yew]

Frrrrr I would literally watch it for hours its so mesmerizing

[mystic yew]

I see, is there a way to contact him ?

[hexed root]

Well he's in this server, but I don't know if he responds to pings. I just joined recently myself
If you look in the Credits menu in the game, I think there's an email for his publisher that you could probably send a mail to

[hexed root]

If you do get a positive response, come back here and let me know, I'll see if I can get a screenshot of the background for you, that should be a simple enough task

[mystic yew]

Thank you so much for the info and the help really appreciate it

I will try both hopefully something works out

So I tried to ping him and got this lmao

If any mod is viewing this can you please tell us what content is exactly blocked from this message ?

Hope this gets his attention somehow 🤞

[quaint aspen]

Not sure about #1, but for #2 I am personally using IntelliJ with EmmyLua plugin. Seems to work well and gives reasonable autocomplete + navigation. To test changes you just have to place the updated Lua scripts into your mods folder and then rerun the game (no hot reload here)

[hexed root]

Ok cool, yeah I've familiar with Intellij thankfully
When I start the game, it's always through Steam, but I'm worried about accidentally unlocking achievements by having some unlockables available from the start in my mod. Is there a way to disable the steam integration? Actually, is there a concern about getting VAC banned from cheating??

[zealous wave]

VAC is only on like
Major games from valve

[quaint aspen]

I just created a profile 2 in game and hit unlock all so it wouldn't impact my main save or give me achievements

Steamodded also disables achievements I believe

[hexed root]

Ohh ok cool, good to know

[hexed root]

Actually, can you share how you did that? I'm trying to make all Jokers available from the start, BUT undiscovered.
Just the name of the method that you modified, or some of the boilerplate around the method injection, I still haven't quite figured that out yet...

[quaint aspen]

No it's a feature in the game

[hexed root]

wait what?

[quaint aspen]

There's literally just an unlock all button in the profile menu

[hexed root]

Oh lmaooo

can you tell I'm an engineer, I was about to spend a week trying to implement it

[quaint aspen]

Lol yea no need for this fortunately

[hexed root]

Oh one more thing, I don't want to bug you more, but I don't understand the arg_455_0 arguments that I see in the Steamodded mods. What do those do? Do I just make up a number that isn't taken by other mods?

[quaint aspen]

I'm not sure why the code is like that either, maybe Steamo can weigh in. Personally I am using normal variable names for parameters lol. You can take a look at my Deck Creator mod code for some alternative examples if it's helpful

[hexed root]

Is that mod in the Steamodded examples?

[quaint aspen]

No you can find it in the other modding channel though

[hexed root]

Ok cool, thx for the help!

[grand geode]

i think it's like that because those mods are made before release

so external tools were required

[hexed root]

ohhh, so they're no longer necessary at all?

[grand geode]

nah, it means you should use the actual argument names now

[tacit mountain]

It was code made during the Demo lol, the code was compiled and obfuscated

[hexed root]

Ahh got it

[hexed root]

Hey, since I've got you here, how do you run/debug Balatro on Mac? 🤔

[hidden tapir]

pretty sure we're not supposed to be doing that, see pinned post

[runic dagger]

Hello fellow modders, may I ask for some kind of a guide on how to edit the localization strings for Balatro?

[hidden tapir]

it's reasonably straightforward, what are you looking to do?

[runic dagger]

Are you asking me? I'd like to fix the localization issues with Russian strings

[hidden tapir]

yeah, your file will be in localization/ru.lua

[runic dagger]

okay, that's what I was wondering, it's stored somewhere outside the Steam directory?

[hidden tapir]

yeah, download and install 7zip if you don't have it, right click the Balatro application, then 7zip -> Extract to Balatro\

[runic dagger]

oh so that's how it works with Love2D engine, interesting, thanks

[hidden tapir]

yeah i was pleasantly surprised myself

[runic dagger]

reminds me of a modding for java's Slay the Spire

[runic dagger]

Do I need to compile it afterwards or just replace the lua inside the archive?

Or use Steammodded or whatever that was

[hidden tapir]

so, what i've been doing has been related to building an API so i haven't been concerned with compiling, but there is a thread in #1209506514763522108 for Steamodded that I believe will pack your changes yeah

[runic dagger]

yeah okay

browser keep marking steamodded .exe as infected

[hidden tapir]

yeah i believe the dev is aware of that, it's a false positive

getting unsigned executables to download in Win10/11 is a little harder every day lol

[runic dagger]

do I need to keep .exe after injecting?

[hidden tapir]

no idea sorry

haven't used

[grand geode]

nope no need

[tacit mountain]

Can't help you on that sorry, as much as I can offer possible solutions on the Git, I can't discuss them in this discord

[hexed root]

Oh I see the pinned rules now, got it 👌
Sorry localthunk, no harm intended! 🙏

[hidden tapir]

i suspect he'll port to Mac at some point anyway, it's supposedly very straightforward from Love2D

[hexed root]

I'm just talking about for devving mods, I've never done dev work on Windows, it's always a pain in the ass imho 😅

[hidden tapir]

lmao yeah i'm there with you

i keep Win+Tabbing between apps

[white scarab]

It’s planned

I think localthunk just wants the Mac port to be as good as possible

[hidden tapir]

yeah that makes sense, also just getting the launch and initial bug reports out of the way

i'd do it the same way

[hexed root]

and hopefully taking a well-earned vacation lol 😎 🏖️

[hidden tapir]

it's been a good launch, hopefully once the money starts clearing from Steam he takes a badass vacation to somewhere cool

[lunar fable]

what dose the five of a flush mod do?

whats this mean?

[rich star]

same issue

[runic dagger]

Well, I temp. turned off Windows Defender sec. and browser's Protect for that

[white scarab]

That was a mod I made during the demo to add Five of a Flush before it existed. It’s still in the examples list but won’t work with 1.0

[lunar fable]

ah

[rich star]

lmao

[runic dagger]

what) that's basically the way with .exe when they aren't archived

[hidden tapir]

long term better off adding an exception to the Balatro folder and saving it straight there

but i don't know crap about windows antivirus at this point on how to do that

[runic dagger]

well, temporary solution is the most maintained one, rught?

[hidden tapir]

oh it's actually pretty fast

[hidden tapir]

yeah, nothing so permanent as a temporary fix is something i tell my coworkers

but in this case the turning everything off would be the temporary fix and adding the exclusion would be the permanent one

at least until the signing or what else is triggering the false positive is figured out

[runic dagger]

already tested a few fixed strings with simply replacing .lua file with 7-zip, haven't tried making it into mod yet, need to thoroughly check how to

[rich star]

I've got the steamodded downloaded, but dragging Balatro onto it doesn't seem to be doing anything?

[runic dagger]

are you dragging .exe or a shortcut?

Got a bug too where I can't switch back to any language than English 🤔

[rocky vapor]

im following the steps to install the mod loader but it doesn't seem to be working, i can only assume the update today broke it?

[jovial escarp]

what are you running it on

oh win10

I kinda wish the injector releases would eliminate online dependencies

other than like 7zip

but licensing and bundling is messy

[rocky vapor]

ohhh is 7zip necessary for it to run properly?

i use winrar so I just assumed it'd be fine

[jaunty lion]

i wonder how easy it actually is to make custom decks and stuff like that

[carmine flare]

hardest part (for me) is making art lol. the code isn't too complicated

[jaunty lion]

i got an idea for one called the Double Deck
it's just a standard deck except you have two of every card, meaning 104 cards in total

big boy deck

but you have -1 hand size so it's not easy to exploit all the dupes

[pastel wolf]

Its the opposite for me haha

But i have no prior experience coding

[hidden tapir]

Lol the Mac port literally dropped a few hours ago

my productivity is so screwed

[hexed root]

[runic dagger]

winrar says the archive is corrupt when modifying, 7-zip doesn't

[heady marten]

Is there a way to use the mod loader without having to install 7-zip fully? I'd rather not have more than one compressed file manager on the system

[little wharf]

it might be for that loader specifically, but it isn't generally

[wispy cape]

fr

once the steam cloud support drops i'm toast

[jovial escarp]

so the balatro exe is an SFX archive which only 7zip is capable of modifying without breaking stuff
the injector downloads a portable CLI version of 7zip to extract the archive
the injector then makes the changes to the files
and uses 7zip to zip it back up

you can do simple asset swaps yourself this way

its also not hard to whip up a mod for steamodded that does the same thing

requires a little bit more digging though

[fossil hazel]

mods are already happening??

[pastel wolf]

mods have been happening since release day

[fossil hazel]

oh okay 🥲

[gilded hornet]

is there a preview score mod?

[lunar fable]

what mod dose this?

[fossil hazel]

Am confused on how to get any of it to work, i did the download stuff but just loads normally when i try to open it still

[pastel wolf]

did you do this

[wild thunder]

cool deck idea: start with your most used joker

can someone mod it in that would be cool

[pastel wolf]

Has anyone worked out how to add an end of round gold bonus?

[round ore]

uses seeded run that gives Soul on ante 1 500 times

[wild thunder]

seeded runs don't count

[white scarab]

resets for unseeded runs that give Soul on ante 1 500,000 times

[empty brook]

i can get why that might be neat, but personally i find that mechanics which care about previous runs are usually pretty unfun in roguelikes--at least, when it's something like that

unlocking stuff is cool, ofc, but ideally the only way you think about your next run is in the sense of "oh, it'd be cool to do this next run", or "i'll try this deck/strategy/etc next run", rather than "oh i should take this joker which sucks for this run because that way i can get it next run"

at least imo

i think that there would be merit in a deck which begins with a joker though

personally though, i think if you wanna do something like that, it would work best if it's one of these:

1. a specific joker (like some kind of deck-specific scaling joker)
2. something random (i'd personally prefer if it's from a pool)
3. just picking one from your collection (a deck whose ability is like, -2 joker slots or some other big downside, but you get to start with ANY joker, AT ALL, sounds pretty neat)

[pastel wolf]

back in the first demo there was silver deck which gave you a random joker to start with

that was scrapped obviously

[empty brook]

yeah i think someone is working on a mod to bring it back iirc

i've seen the scrapped deck list and i'm glad all of them got scrapped

but i also think having mods to bring them back sounds alright, for people who liked them

unrelated to this topic: anyone know how one could change jimbo's win/lose quotes through a mod? i've been banging my head against it for the past like hour or two, and i literally don't even have code that works for it even remotely (Outside of the localization file; i've written the new quote stuff already)

i figured i would understand how to make a mod which calls forth new localization text, and apparently i was wrong lol

[dapper helm]

i'd personally enjoy a deck that starts with 1-2 cryptids and a random joker that mentions specific ranks, like "walkie talkie" "scholar" or "hit the road jack" for example. i'd also like starting with green joker 0 discards and 1-3 extra hands, would be fun for scaling and fairly easy to tweak balance wise (lowering/removing gold gained from remaining hands for example)

[pastel wolf]

ah

i'm not understanding how to make this i think

[dapper helm]

make what?

[pastel wolf]

its just throwing me

trying to make a joker that has an end of round gold calculation

like Golden joker or cloud 9

its proving a pain haha

[dapper helm]

i can't help with anything modding i'm just nosy lol

[grand geode]

i have ideas i want to do while waiting for joker api to be finalized but i cant do them until monday

pensive

[vocal beacon]

i have no idea what ive done wrong

[pastel wolf]

well upi

[quaint aspen]

Looks like you're still running Steamodded 0.6.2, I think you need to compile 0.7.0 yourself to use this API for now

[grand geode]

0.7.0 is available as a pre-release

though it doesn't have custom atlas support i believe

[quaint aspen]

I'm not sure but I think you want to switch the colon and period for the first two lines like

local calculate_dollar_bonusref = Card.calculate_dollar_bonus
function Card:calculate_dollar_bonus(self, context)

Period access is a static reference, then you are replacing the instance level function with the colon access. At least that's my understanding. ChatGPT taught me everything I know about Lua over the last week so take it with a grain of salt

[sweet adder]

i'd like to make a simple texture pack, i've seen an example of a mod that shows how to replace the regular cards, but i want to replace the planet cards
how are you guys looking at the source code?

[pulsar parcel]

how do I uninstall the mod loader?

[sweet adder]

uninstall and reinstall from steam i assume

[pastel wolf]

you can just verify game files

[marble roost]

Someone please make a mod that replaces the texture of the Wee Joker. It just looks... weird.

[pastel wolf]

hows it weird, its just jimbo but small

[marble roost]

Looks weird next to all the other jokers on the panel. Maybe it's just my OCD talking, but that definitely looks weird to me.

[pulsar parcel]

aight thx

[round ore]

Wait till you see photograph and half joker

[spiral dune]

https://discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1212515123370008576

[hardy brook]

I'm in progress with clubs

[dapper helm]

what are all the faces called?

[marble roost]

Amazing, thanks!

[hardy brook]

Jack, Cavalier, Bishop, Tower, Queen, King

[wanton rapids]

so just the chess pieces

[dapper helm]

sick

i'd love to make a cavalier deck

[torpid lava]

Nope there is no tower jack or cavalier in chess

[soft canopy]

got the same bug, have you managed to fix it ?

[runic dagger]

Verify game files on Steam

[wanton sage]

How do I hide this?

[rocky vapor]

so this means that I shouldn't need to download 7zip separately to get it set up properly right?

[jovial escarp]

yeah it just downloads 7zip cli to a temp folder for the duration of the patching process

[rocky vapor]

i see i see

not having 7zip wouldn't be the reason for the error i had up above then?

[jovial escarp]

just try again idk

[rocky vapor]

alright then

[jovial escarp]

if steamo is online i think he could help

[rocky vapor]

thanks

[jovial escarp]

it sounds like its trying to load a dependency from the internet but not finding it there

and throwing its hands up

[white scarab]

It’s part of the DebugMode mod

[wanton sage]

no way to hide it?

[white scarab]

idts

If you take a peek at the code that shows the FPS there might be a way, or you could modify the mod to disable that

[vocal beacon]

what do io need to make it work then

[hardy brook]

I got uno Hearts, Might add that to my big line of crazy mods

[dreamy vault]

I want this game to run at single FPS, damnit

[hardy brook]

Alright, I should probably start making ranks and such

just try to get anything implemented

[gritty tartan]

i feel like i could have some fun modding balatro

the game's grand

[clever rampart]

i want to figure out how to make my own deck

[clever rampart]

my deck in question, having specifically spades and hearts be 2s and glass cards

so basically the checkered deck but all glass and 2s

[exotic dagger]

So just ez wins?

[clever rampart]

yeah, well, just wanna make my dumb ideas come to life

my main idea was if having a deck with less than 52 cards at the start is possible?

[exotic dagger]

Abandoned deck.

[clever rampart]

oh, right but making one that has way less, talking like, 13 cards at start

[exotic dagger]

I don’t see why it wouldn’t be possible

[clever rampart]

well I don't understand how to make such a thing even when reading some of the guides

[clever rampart]

But I suppose this is something I'll figure out another day

[hardy brook]

Still need to make 0, 1, 1/2 for Clubs and Diamonds

[robust lily]

Welp. I have a set of Shovel Knight cards I want to mod into the game now.

[wanton rapids]

rook, pawn, and knight

[hardy brook]

They're called Knight and Rook in other versions

so... technically yes they are

[torpid lava]

Ah ok

[hardy brook]

I got another set of cards as an idea to add

and it's gonna be the dumbest thing

https://tenor.com/view/got-you-gif-27623152

How the heck the special cards are gonna work? I dunno

[rocky vapor]

got this to work in the end by downloading the source code and dragging the balatro file directly onto the "steamodded_injector.py" file

no idea why the exe file doesn't work but the python file does but oh well at least it's done now

[grand geode]

odd

id assume the py script obly works if you have the deps installed?

[rocky vapor]

i do yes, but with all of them installed the exe didn't work anyway

actually no i didn't have luajit-decompiler but i had the others

the exe should automatically download luajit though so i guess the python file does the same

[wintry comet]

is there a getting started thing that helps me build my first mod?

ive already installed the mod patcher

what a mod should even look like tho is the issue

[gilded gale]

https://github.com/Steamopollys/Steamodded/tree/main/example_mods

You can refer to examples

[wintry comet]

sweet

ty

[clever rampart]

how would i go about modifying the other stats, like how green deck gives extra money from hands, or like how the black deck adds a joker slot, how would i do that?

[gilded gale]

Modify game configuration

[clever rampart]

i meant like for my own decks, should've mentioned that

[quaint aspen]

@clever rampart check out the mod I posted in the other channel called Deck Creator. It will let you change these options and save a new deck with the settings

[clever rampart]

oh, will it allow me to choose what cards the deck initally has, (refering to my 2s deck that im making)

[quaint aspen]

not yet, I am almost done with the update to allow this though

[wintry comet]

so, ive never implemented my own mod before. I am modifying a UI element to do some math and show a probability for draw chance of a card type (ace face number, card type and specific card

im guessing its going to be more complicated than just uploading a modified UI_definition.lua file

[rare hill]

are you adding stuff at the beginning/end of a function or the middle?

because adding at the beginning/end means you can be sneaky and wrap the function

middle is annoying because you either have to get clever or fully replace the function, which isn't good for mod compat

[wintry comet]

I can add it at the end but its really bad for my mental parsing

[rare hill]

if you've already modified the lua file it's easy to convert btw

[wintry comet]

this is where I am roughly, im adding that stuff there at the bottom to get variables to work with

[rare hill]

Here's this as an example - you set a reference variable to the function you want to change, then call the reference somewhere in the replacement you're doing to call the original function

if you really want to you can just copy and paste the function into your mod and do modifications to just replace it though

[wintry comet]

i do want mod compatability

at least somewhat

[rare hill]

note that the only compatibility you break is if someone else wants to change That Function Specifically

so it'd be incompatible with other mods changing that part of the UI, which may be fine

[wintry comet]

I see, so long as nobody adds something that modifies the UI for card tallies

it would be roughly ok

[rare hill]

yeah

I wonder if extra suits need to modify that UI,,,
I haven't looked at it at all

[wintry comet]

they might need to.

but they might be just out of the way of what im working on

becasuse theyd be adding to suit_tallies, where im just checking that

not making it from scratch

prety sure theyd be just using an appended bit, and this doesnt particularly need a specific suit to work

[wintry comet]

k my head done working for the night, hope to get some ground on this later

[night relic]

How difficult is modding if it's just to add cards, for example some Jokers?

[wintry comet]

from what i see theres not alot of documentation, so youll have to digest examples

game too new

[raven ocean]

i know this isn't modding specific, but since y'all might know about the game code... how does wheel of fortune pick a joker to modify? I understand how the 1 in 4 with different chances for each enhancement works, but i've heard varying answers on picking a joker.

[strong swift]

i think it's just random unenhanced

also dependent on seed

[tidal cliff]

has anyone developed a tool that lets you search for a seed with specific metrics

[alpine elk]

I want to edit debuffs about different stakes. I have found related codes, but I don't know how to change them with a MOD file.

[tidal cliff]

asking cuz I want to try a run with something but I know that it requires such extreme luck that it's pointless looking for it manually, considering that what I need needs to happen in a specific order and pretty early on too for it to work

[alpine elk]

https://github.com/MathIsFun0/Immolate Do you need this?

[tidal cliff]

does this say how far away a specific joker/consumable is

[alpine elk]

I don't know the usage, sorry...

[tidal cliff]

and does it work with looking for Eternal

[alpine elk]

I just saw it yestoday.

[tidal cliff]

oh wait that says 1.0.0b

I'm on 1.0.0l

how do I downgrade

[alpine elk]

Can a MOD rewrite some codes in "game.lua"? I really don't understand the running order of the game file, so I can't make the code take effect after the new run starts.

[strong swift]

custom filters arent available yet btw

[tidal cliff]

ah

so it doesn't matter

I could always figure out how to save edit to give myself the cards required (and take away the money that they would cost) but I want a seed that can be shared

[gritty tartan]

can't wait to get my hands on modding 👀

[lean dune]

they do indeed, and it's destructive - i can probably get sneaky with it, but I haven't bothered looking into that further yet

[robust lily]

Thoughts?

[torpid lava]

I like it, but you should either color the edging as well or color the background

Also, is there any tutorial on how to install mods?

[robust lily]

if you're on Windows, get Balamod. decrypt the game first using "./balamod -d" in powershell

https://github.com/UwUDev/balamod

[torpid lava]

Ty

So… I’m not really familiar with github and I can’t really see where the folder I need to install is.

I see a list of a ton of folders, but I’m not sure which one I’m supposed to do or anything like that

Or am I supposed to do all of them?

[robust lily]

You've downloaded Balamod and are wondering where to put it?

[grand geode]

first time i've heard of balamod

[torpid lava]

Where do I see the full mod? Am I supposed to be on like a different tab or scroll down or something? I will send a pic of what I mean

Am I supposed to download it all and if so, then where do I put it?

[robust lily]

just to the right of the image

under about, there's a releases section

[torpid lava]

Ohhhhhhh sry

[robust lily]

also, win+shift+s will let you take screenshots of your desktop and so you can paste them

[torpid lava]

Ok

Where do I put the file?

[robust lily]

I put it in its own folder in the game directory

[torpid lava]

Really? Shouldn’t it be in the balatro folder?

[robust lily]

I run it in steamapps\common\balatro\balamod and it runs fine

You'll want to separate it from the game to keep it organized

It'll find the game exe on its own when you run it

[torpid lava]

Ok are you sure this is like trusted or something? Because my computer really doesn’t like it

[robust lily]

I also ran into that. It's a false positive, but if you're uncomfortable with that, you should stop now.

I would not be surprised if official mod support is added to the game soon.

[torpid lava]

I’m sorry but this does seem a little uncomfortable for me. Is there any other mod loaders that I could use?

[grand geode]

the only other option is to compile it yourself

[robust lily]

You could try steamodded, though I'm pretty sure it works in the same way.

[grand geode]

steamodded uses an .exe too yeah

but just the .py script works

[robust lily]

https://github.com/Steamopollys/Steamodded

[grand geode]

most if not all mods currently use steamodded so uh yea

[robust lily]

https://github.com/jie65535/awesome-balatro/blob/main/README.md

This is the resource I've been following. There's a lot of mods posted there, and information and tools for making mods.

[cerulean herald]

So glad mods are finally here for Balatro and being widely worked on and talked about 😭

Thank you @tacit mountain @stable crag and all the other Mod devs for all your hard work! The community appreciates you guys a ton

[stable crag]

Ty

I just realized there's now a modding channel

[cerulean herald]

There is! I should also mention MANY others in the community want to thank you all for your awesome work too 😉

https://www.reddit.com/r/balatro/comments/1b4kraw/balatro_mods_are_out_babyyyyy/

This place is only gonna keep getting bigger and bigger, with more attention coming to the game and the mods/modloaders I'd bet >:D

[robust lily]

I'd love to see Workshop integration

[exotic dagger]

that would be nice

[fast hatch]

Same.

[cerulean herald]

Oh yeah! That'd be great and an easy way for tons of users to be able to use mods, even if they don't know how to install mods themselves as easily!

Maybe the devs could talk with the modloader/mod makers and figure out a way to integrate workshop support for the game? I don't imagine it would be too hard after an easy way to install the modloaders is added through workshop! Maybe the devs could even package the modloaders into the game themselves in a future update? 🤔

It'd also be a lot easier to manage mods and install/uninstall them too, would be a very nice feature!

[jaunty lion]

does balatro have steam workshop support yet

oh wait someone just asked about that i can't read

[opal vector]

I want to testing mods but i really don't know how it works, can you explain quickly what i need pls ?

[opal vector]

why windows tell me "steamodded_injector.exe" is a virus ?

[unique escarp]

did you download it from the github?

[jovial escarp]

windows is afraid of any newly made binary

false alarm

[unique escarp]

(also since the app injects code into an app, that's seen as dangerous)

[jovial escarp]

it's probably getting triggered because it downloads dependencies from the internet and makes changes to an executable

if you trust windows defender over common sense i'm afraid you shouldnt be using computers

[unique escarp]

half true

[jovial escarp]

sorry that was mean

[unique escarp]

Its basically the whole thing saying, "Oh this app is untrusted and we can't verify if it'll brick your system or not, tread with extreme caution unless you know what you're doing."

[jovial escarp]

it's kinda like a liability waiver

if you trust the person writing the code and understand what the injector does you can safely ignore the warning

[unique escarp]

Its built to help you be more aware and be able to better protect your system.

[jovial escarp]

just like if your keygen for your pirated software gets flagged

if you trust the person that made the keygen and understand what it's doing to the system you can safely ignore the warning

[unique escarp]

keygen?

I've never heard of anything like that in the pirating community.