⚙・modding-general

[upper granite]

Oo that's good

[empty brook]

oh yeah, that's a good pick too

[wispy agate]

OH I think I figured out one of the problems

[upper granite]

I was thinking destroying a card to buff another card

[wispy agate]

multiple mods mess with the jokers.png thing

each with their own variants

[empty brook]

yep, that'd do it

[rare shell]

quick question

[wispy agate]

so I think they're overriding each other

[upper granite]

Something like-
"If the first hand has only 2 cards played, destroy the left card, add its rank and enhancements to the right card"

[wispy agate]

is there a way to fix that?

[rare shell]

how would i format my extra field in my jokers to direct to a specific hand

[empty brook]

didn't we go over this a while ago for one of your high card jokers?

or is this a different kind of thing?

[upper granite]

I have NO idea how scoring works after lmao

[rare shell]

OH

you know i forgot i coded that

[wispy agate]

Both the Lush mod and Jelly's mod mess with the jokers.png thing

[rare shell]

well

thats not formatted to pull from the extra field

[empty brook]

oh, okay. one sec

[rare shell]

id like to format it properly instead of just inline

[empty brook]

extra = {retriggers = 1, poker_hand = 'Pair'},

[rare shell]

okay thats what i thought

[spice spear]

thinking about Vince Joker again and how dumb the card art for it is

[rare shell]

thanks bestie

[empty brook]

this but obviously without the retriggers

and replacing pair with

Whatever lol

[wispy agate]

Wait, so, is there a way to fix my issue, or do I just have to get rid of one?

[rare shell]

jelly mod is very deep in the code of the game

[empty brook]

i'm not sure if there'd be a way to fix that outside of ask one of the modders to do so

also yeah jelly's mod is very...

destructive???? i don't know how you'd describe it lmao

It Really Changes That Code

[wispy agate]

damn

[rare shell]

dont expect much compatibility with it

[empty brook]

yeah

[spice spear]

steamodded requires destructive editing, balamod allows injection

[rare shell]

aye

[empty brook]

sometimes i wonder if i should start moving my mods to balamod....

[rare shell]

unfortunately dank i am like a duckling and i imprint myself on the first modloader i see

[wispy agate]

Do the Steamodded mods work with balamod?

[rare shell]

theres no guarantee

[spice spear]

It's case-by-case

[empty brook]

i'm like that, but that's mostly because i'm very stupid and learning programming stuff is quite slow for me
so restarting that progress Agitates Me

[wispy agate]

hmmmm

interesting

[spice spear]

some mods have been ported (like ShamPack) leaving behind an unsupported Steamodded version

[empty brook]

you'd probably be better off having one Balatro.exe for Steamodded and another for Balamod

i keep a lot of backups myself, and it's pretty easy to just replace your balatro.exe with one to swap

...man seeing mean jimbo here reminds me that i gotta figure out how to change the lose quotes....

[rare shell]

i got ternary system up and working

time to push the update

🫡

we're up to 15 jonklers

[empty brook]

you know, i haven't actually played with your jokers after the Highlander Shenanigans. i should probably do that....

[rare shell]

highlander still might be bugged tbh

[spice spear]

not since THE INCIDENT

[rare shell]

i think it should be fixed but i make no promises

[empty brook]

the INCIDENT....

[rare shell]

and also dont use two copies of jace

[empty brook]

shudders, remembering having an 111 chip ace on ante 1

[spice spear]

a what

[rare shell]

[empty brook]

so highlander joker adds 20 chips permanently when you play a high card

but it was bugged and, if you used Splash or Stone cards, it would just re-apply those 20 chips to the same card multiple times, instead of spreading it out (as it should)

so i played a 5-card splash high card hand, and instead of putting +20 chips on all 5 cards

[rare shell]

jonkler in question

[empty brook]

it put +20 chips, 5 times, on the same card

[upper granite]

Joke tier god

[spice spear]

gonkler

[rare shell]

you should aerialate extreme speed yourself NOW

[spice spear]

JFC

[rare shell]

jimbo would never say that,,,

[upper granite]

Random question uh-
Ik how to extract files with winrar... how do I inject new files into something? 😅

[empty brook]

one of these days, i'll finally crack the code of how to make a localization mod...

[rare shell]

what are you trying to do?

[empty brook]

and Mean Jimbo can be released to the public....

[rare shell]

jimbo but he says Hell

[empty brook]

he says a lot of mean things

[upper granite]

Thinking it might be funny to just texture swap the Joker with the fucked up lil Jonkler I made

[rare shell]

i think texture swaps are a bit more involved

[spice spear]

make an entire texture pack for it

[empty brook]

i mean, i guess it depends?

[spice spear]

resprite all jokers into jonklers

[upper granite]

Lmao

[empty brook]

if you're fine with just replacing jokers.png (and thus it wouldn't be compatible with other mods that change jokers.png) it'd be pretty easy actually

[upper granite]

At that point I might as well make, like, an actual texture pack

[empty brook]

but yeah it's probably a bit more involved if you want to change One Specific Joker (And Keep It Compatible With Everything)

[upper granite]

Yea that's all I'm really thinking of doing for rn 😅

[empty brook]

texture mods which replace textures are pretty easy for the most part, in that case

[upper granite]

It's Jokers.png, but the base Joker is a Jonkler

[empty brook]

the baba decks mod i posted earlier today, for instance--this is literally the entire mod's code

[spice spear]

thinking about this idea that got shot down

woulda been REALLY funny to make this joker

[empty brook]

and even then it's plausible that i'm a fool and including an extra line i don't need

[empty brook]

the emoji joker....

[spice spear]

YEAH

j_emoker is dead, long live j_emoker

[empty brook]

to be entirely honest, i am glad that there was some kind of merciful, almighty force imbued in Balatro

one that could stop this wretchedness

if there were no limiters in place then you would surely destroy us all

[spice spear]

I mean, I already want to put booster packs in the consumable slots

[empty brook]

THIS IS WHAT I MEAN!!!!!

THAT'S A TERRIFYING SENTENCE!!!

[spice spear]

you should NOT read our ideas for ShamPack then

do NOT click this link #1212105650151100458 message

[empty brook]

i feel like my copy of the Necronomicon is less hazardous to my health

[spice spear]

LMAO

I swear that I have good, rational, and non insane ideas sometimes

it's just that my good ones also tend to be insane

[rare shell]

not mario is still a god for makin that template

[empty brook]

oh don't get me wrong--i love the madness

[spice spear]

ShamPack is an exercise in how far we can push the game before it begs us to stop

[empty brook]

i have yet to use ShamPack even once yet, but i will probably change that tonight

[spice spear]

j_emoker was an idea I had in the shower

I nearly fell over from laughing at it

[rare shell]

pizzatower-esque joker (I have no idea where do I put the word "joker")

[empty brook]

JUMPSCARE

[spice spear]

keep in mind that ShamPack is very content-light currently

[empty brook]

i'm glad that we have true equal forces side-by-side: a nuclear explosion, and pizza tower

[spice spear]

most of that list isn't even implemented

it has four jokers currently and only two of them actually interact with our added mechanics

[rare shell]

also thought about making it pizza tower purple tv thing instead of a card

but it kinda doesn't makes a lot of sense

i should try doing jimbo in my style

[spice spear]

I also did some thonklage about Sarmenti: what if he had four different pieces of art?

(Mental Break, Normal, ???, Resolute)

[oak jolt]

anybody has this edited with the card shape to make it easy to place an image within the margins?

[spice spear]

the cards are 71 x 95

so if you can turn on some sort of grid to make it show those boundaries, it would be good to do that

I would recommend using Aseprite if you plan to edit cards

[oak jolt]

What's that?

a software?

[spice spear]

yep

it's like $14.99 on steam but you can compile it for free iirc

[empty brook]

i feel like i could feasibly see that tying into him bowing, like he does for his Finale? ((don't know if he does that in dd2 though lol))

either way, that's really cool!

yeah Aseprite is pretty cool. you don't have to use it for pixel art but it seems much better than a lot of other alternatives

[rare shell]

didnt someone say that you can have a single joker be an atlas so it could be an animated sprite in theory

[empty brook]

i didn't actually know you could compile it for free...

i might finally escape from photopea for pixel art....

[spice spear]

Aseprite has paid for itself hundredfold for me

several hundredfold, in fact

[rare shell]

meh

aseprite is kind of mid

[spice spear]

yes, it can!

[rare shell]

[spice spear]

you're one of those people who leaves it open 24/7 aren't you

[empty brook]

see if i compile it for free then i don't have to see how many hours i spend on it!!!!

[rare shell]

yes

[empty brook]

which frankly might be less than photopea, considering photopea is uh

not very good for pixel art

so it takes me way too long to do anything lmao

[spice spear]

could be worse, you could be using piskel

[rare shell]

nah memes aside aseprite is fantastic

[empty brook]

oh boy, piskel?! i'll look this up right now!!!!

[spice spear]

don't

[empty brook]

....OH.

OH IT'S THIS THING.

yeah i used this once before

this is hell

[spice spear]

...i used it for years

it's what I used before I bought aseprite

[empty brook]

i used to use pixlr and then moved to photopea, mostly since my graphic stuff has been primarily non-pixel-art, with the occasional blip of pixelated graphics every now and then

[spice spear]

I was a much simpler person back then (in more than one way!)

[rare shell]

blows my mind seein the next generation of pixel artists come by and theyre like

showing off pixel art done in the most god awful jank ipad pixel app

and the arts good!! im just like, how???

[empty brook]

i think the nice thing with pixel art is that you can, theoretically, do exceptional stuff in the worst goddamn program you'll ever see

due to the precision pixel stuff can have

i've seen some people do pixel art on graph paper

[rare shell]

i aint knockin the way people get it done i just question their sanity

[empty brook]

they just use the grid for it

[rare shell]

i was those people

[empty brook]

for me i've pretty much always been a #ForevaGal with photoshop-equivalents, since i think uh

the only free, online pixel art thing i could find for a while was piskel

and it convinced me to just stick with photopea lmao

[spice spear]

paint.net is right there and you could use that

[empty brook]

plus i use photopea for other graphic design business anyways--it might not be a square hole for this square peg, but maybe i could just jam the square into the circle hole and be fine

[spice spear]

that's right! it goes in the circle hole!

[empty brook]

used that program for years; don't like it anymore, and have no interest in going back to it at this point lol

it's probably better for pixel art--but i might as well start using aseprite if i'm looking for a program specifically to do pixel stuff with

i'll likely do that free compile-it-yourself thing sometime this week....

finally, the world will get to see more Blackbando pixel art! you'll all be able to gasp and be amazed at my inability to draw shapes and shading correctly

[rare shell]

god i remember trying to animate on my dads copy of photoshop when i was little

still one of the most goofiest ways of exporting gifs

[golden rain]

how do i make it so that i can unlock stuff and use mods

[rare shell]

theres a achievement enabler mod

[hardy brook]

Where?

[rare shell]

I have a feeling that this doesn't work at all lol

in terms of style or transparency?

both

transparency it should work

style wise only thing id really change would be maybe desaturate the colors a bit

cross reference from jokers.png

yeah I got these colors straight out of pt

one sec

yeah I don't know

think you can keep the exagerated lines but maybe antialias the hell out of everything

i do agree it might need tweaking but i like the concept

there's not a lot of antialiasing in both of games

yeah fair enough

[rare shell]

might revisit it sometime later then

when fresh idea comes

[past tendon]

A pizza tower joker 👀 I'm all for it

[golden rain]

my steamodded injector just crashes

[rare shell]

do you drag the exe into it?

[golden rain]

it doesnt get that far

[rare shell]

I mean aren't you supposed to put balatro.exe on the injector itself

without launching it directly

[golden rain]

oh that makes more sense

yea that worked oops

i thought it was like u open the injector and then drag and drop

[rare shell]

yeah that's a bit unintuitive I agree

I think I ended up using powershell injector

[spice spear]

it looks fine to me, but I haven't played pizza tower

[rare shell]

basically this

[spice spear]

ultrakill jokers...

ULTRAJOKER

(yes I know that someone made the style meter)

[rare shell]

BALULTRO

[spice spear]

I was thinking of making jokers of the prime souls but IDK what they'd do

my initial idea was ORDERLY Joker for Minos, but then it fell flat when it came time for Sisyphus

[rare shell]

surprised no one made cassette/mixtape joker

gonna do it rn

[heavy flax]

carnivorous plant

[exotic shadow]

Tools or smth might be nice for stuff like the mod loaders, injectors, save editors, calcualtors, etc.

[spice spear]

(it would also be awesome of you to go through and pin the first message of each thread that way people can jump to the top quickly-- I do realize that would be a lot of work, though)

[exotic shadow]

idk why discord doesnt' do this

someone should make a bot for this

[spice spear]

threads/forums are difficult for bots to get into and it ends up encountering a lot of issues

[exotic shadow]

well its not that bad

they can auto join on thread creation

lots of automod bots do this

[oak jolt]

The green rectangle is 71x95

i think the frame is bigger

[spice spear]

I think you're looking at the 2x sprites instead of the 1x sprites

use the 1x sprites

[oak jolt]

why?

[spice spear]

it's easier and everything is based on those

[oak jolt]

ah ok

[past tendon]

that's the actual resolution, 2x sprites are just upscaled

[cosmic shell]

the 2x sprites are just the 1x sprites nearest neighbour scaled up for the smooth pixel scaling

[oak jolt]

okey then

[grave panther]

added!

[golden rain]

got this while playing

[rare shell]

behold the lyman jonkler

[exotic shadow]

one of your mods caused this

[golden rain]

any way to tell which?

[exotic shadow]

uhhh don't think so

at least easily

[golden rain]

thats a shame

[exotic shadow]

its at least 1317 lines long

[golden rain]

oh thats wonderful

ill keep that in mind yk

[rare shell]

real!

[candid cloud]

What are the chances for each rarity to appear in the shop? I don't know how to access files.

[rare shell]

love that casette joker

[heavy flax]

wrecking ball

[empty brook]

this is the scariest thing i have ever seen in the context of this game

[candid cloud]

nvm found the info

[supple cypress]

these look soo good

[hardy brook]

.

I MISSED THE AMA

SON OF A-

[icy summit]

Is custom challenges a thing, and if so can someone link me to the right place?

You are the worst kind of person

[rare shell]

??

[strong falcon]

If you're having the same problem as me, I fixed it by pressing the unlock all button in the profile menu 😎

[icy summit]

Thank you for fixing your mistake. People search stuff for answers and the last thing they want is someone saying "I fixed it", without explaining how ._.

Imagine you get a computer error, and you google it, and there is 1 reddit thread and the person is asking for the same help you are, and you scroll down to the 1st comment and its "NVM, I fixed it".

[rare shell]

jesus christ

[spice spear]

there was no need for unprompted hostility there

[rare shell]

dont flame the person asking the question, thank them for giving you the answer

[icy summit]

I'm sorry you are right. I hope the next time you have an issue you can't get it resolved.

You kids relate better with memes?

[oak jolt]

any easy way to convert this into pixel art?

or it has to be done one by one drawing pixel by pixel?

[rare shell]

gotta pixel it yourself

[spice spear]

if you wanted to do it properly yeah, you'd be pixelling it yourself

[oak jolt]

damn, i have 0 artistic habilities 😂

i spend 3 hours doing only the layouts

[rancid flume]

Hi so I had a funny idea for a modded challenge.

so you know how everyone makes fun of "Nope!"?
well what if there was a challenge where every action has a 1/4 chance to just go "nope!" and not happen. Play a hand? Nope! Joker gets activated? nope! Buy a card? nope! discard a hand? Nope!

I feel like this could be a funny challenge that would keep players constantly trying over and over.

[spice spear]

Oops! All 6s should make it into a 2 in 4

[rancid flume]

god that would be evil.

[tawdry glade]

hey im having some trubble with putting the mods in to my game like the custom deck builder idk what im doing rong as its not popping up in game

[autumn breach]

Start with an "all 6s" and a bloodstone

[spice spear]

https://discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1211716871267688488

[exotic shadow]

👀

[rare shell]

it would be more helpful if you told us what lead to this crash

[sturdy parrot]

is there a guide for how to use the seed searcher somewhere?

trying to figure out how to edit search.cl

[spice spear]

that's what's at the top, it was an intentional crash.

[rare shell]

fair enough

i am tired today

[exotic shadow]

compared to the default

[spice spear]

this is much more helpful, are you going to be submitting it as a PR to steamodded or balamod?

[exotic shadow]

right now its a standalone steamodded mod

I could see about merging it into the core steamodded loader

[strong falcon]

Is there an easy way to generate the 2x sprites?

Or do I need to do all of them manually

[rare shell]

i am very dumb i understand what is going on

[spice spear]

what modloader are you using

[strong falcon]

steamodded

[rigid jewel]

Awesome

[exotic shadow]

looks like it doesn't work too well for extrally required files, that don't have the steammodded header, but since those are loaded by a mod, that mod should be in the list eventually

well

[rigid jewel]

Although the bugs I find in mods are more of the annoying ones

[exotic shadow]

Like here it doesn't know where the crash came from, but it was originally loaded in my mod

[rigid jewel]

Like modded jokers that interact with G.hand retrigger at end of round

[spice spear]

I think you need to do it manually then, with balamod I don't think you would have to

[strong falcon]

😔

Thanks for the help!

[rigid jewel]

This specifically.
Here's the joker code for reference

Adds 0.3X mult per card held in hand per rounds, resets after hand is played

[exotic shadow]

Oh I just realized stack traces aren't shown without the debug mode mod

let me fix that

[grand geode]

okay thoughts
-4 Hand Size, +1 after every hand played on a showdown instead of a boss blind

[empty brook]

don't bring stuntman and merry andy to this showdown on gold stake..... worst mistake of my life.....

i could definitely see that! -4 is enough that if you are in that scenario you would Instantly Lose And Die, but that's probably not super likely

what would you call this thing anyways?

Silver Claws?

[minor topaz]

I have a question, and sorry if this is obv or there's a better way to find this in the other channel, but is there a mod that allows you to just start with certain items? Not like, making new decks necessarily, but just adding an item to the beginning of your runs

[empty brook]

item as in like. joker? consumable? either? both?

[minor topaz]

I'm very new, just started researching mods last night, and I really would just like to still be able to play the game and get all the Unlocks on my own for the most part, but I feel like the game would be significantly more fun/better if I started with the Director's Cut voucher

Or at least always had the option to buy it in 100% of runs

[empty brook]

oh, you wanna start with that voucher

i know there's a mod which lets you essentially make a new deck in balatro itself, giving it benefits and stuff, it might let you start with a voucher--though if you wanna start with a voucher and play other decks, might not be what you want really

[grand geode]

that's a question for another day

[empty brook]

what, are you saying you DON'T immediately conceptualize 1000 visual options before even the first line of code has been written?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

[minor topaz]

Shidd, okay thank you. yeah I've just had a few too many runs just be tanked by a hard counter and its a lil discouraging at this point. Love the game either way its fucking awesome, but when I compare it to smth like Slay the Spire the counters feel reeeaaally oppressive, specifically when your essential cards get debuffed

[empty brook]

that's the smart choice to make lmao

[empty brook]

oh yeah, i'm also from the StS scene, so i definitely get what you mean there

[grand geode]

me staring at the the joker art i made without an effect

[empty brook]

#1211808102999924746 message here's the mod i mentioned

[spice spear]

I think the fact that you can get totally obliterated by the game at any given moment is actually an important factor in the game design, it makes the victories that much more sweeter when you finally triumph over the game's BS

[empty brook]

if you'd prefer a mod that's just "every run you start with director's cut, regardless of deck" (either for free or in the first shop) though, i don't have much for you

[empty brook]

oh i 100% agree with this

[spice spear]

I do think more runs should be able to get off of the ground, but after that I think it should be fair game

[minor topaz]

Thank you, I appreciate it

[empty brook]

i think Balatro is also pretty good about letting you pivot, provided you've got some solid econ and such

but at the same time, i also think it's fair to want to mod a game to enjoy it more how you wanna

[grand geode]

Thunk did mention making changes to Gold Stake in the AMA

[spice spear]

honestly I would say instead of doing director's cut, just give yourself the normie Joker at first to see if that improves things somewhat

going directly for a voucher seems like the nuclear option

[grand geode]

honestly excited for the Neow mod someone is making

[empty brook]

i feel like that wouldn't change much? it doesn't sound like their problem here is the earlygame lol

[empty brook]

oh yeah, i'm super excited for this too

i might actually enjoy playing Gold Stake when this comes out

plus it's always nice to see the whale

i've been murdering her too often in StS: Downfall

[grand geode]

WHAT

how dare you

[empty brook]

LOOK

SHE'S MEAN!!!!!!!!

[minor topaz]

I totally get you, and it definitely follows the philosophy of Poker and "the house always wins" and whatnot which I really appreciate - it's cool. And I know going into a game that is literally poker-made-roguelike, theres obv gonna be a lot of rng. Truthfully tho, when I feel like I have a crazy hearts deck or some crazy Perkeo stuff or Oops All 6s and I see potential for greatness, and I get hard shutdown by the counter Boss without even a chance to buy Director's Cut, it feels reaaaaally bad. It's not like Hades or Isaac where you can just deal with the bad luck and be good. There's no surmounting that with only two shops to potentially pivot your entire strategy.

[empty brook]

I NEED TO GET AUTOMATON TO ASCENSION 20 SOMEHOW

[minor topaz]

Sorry I've thought about it some lol I really didnt wanna make the game easier on myself but oh well

[empty brook]

yeah, sometimes you don't have the resources to pivot--it really depends on the situation, on your amount of money, etc.

[spice spear]

it's like solitaire

not all games are DESIGNED to be winnable

[empty brook]

i DO agree that it's an important part of learning about the game; however, again, i think that when modding a game, it's also fine to like

Do Whatever You Would Find More Fun lol

[spice spear]

some of it is user error, some of it is the game's DNA

but yea, modding trumps all, do what you want

[astral zodiac]

This is why I prefer Freecell

[minor topaz]

I agree - but the thing is that I'm not attaching my pride to winning. I don't care about winning or losing, I wanna see numbers go up

[grand geode]

freecell roguelike

[astral zodiac]

Every game is technically winnable, but you get random debuffs

[minor topaz]

yeah this the vibe haha I'm not too prideful, I did enough internal debate about the "integrity" of making the game easier or whatever, and at the end of the day I just wanna see the megabig run happen. I still wanna play and be good and feel accomplished - I've beaten orange and at least red on every deck, but in the moment the visceral feeling of being hard-countered and knowing the game is over as soon as I see the Boss Blind it's like idk, why feel that frustration?

[empty brook]

totally get that

[minor topaz]

Very zen feel. If it were a comp game I'd def feel WAY differently about it

[empty brook]

anyways! i don't have an answer on anything for "start every run with director's cut voucher, regardless of deck"; someone here might have one for that

i could definitely code up a simple deck that has that as its benefit but

that'd be the limits of my abilities

[grand geode]

mmm maybe make Reroll Boss permanent that costs like $30

[minor topaz]

All good thank you I appreciate it!

[minor topaz]

yeah if there were ANY mechanic - honestly even if it were just as simple as the Director's Cut ALWAYS being available

I just hate feeling helpless as soon as I see the boss. I know there are decisions beforehand in constructing the run, I get that

but my closest comparison being Slay the Spire where it's like to have a significant enough amount of time to prepare OR just simply be strong enough despite the counter

[empty brook]

i love balatro and sts, but i do definitely feel that sts has a much better difficulty curve rn

[minor topaz]

sorry I'm done haha my autism over

[empty brook]

which i'd say isn't much of a hot take when you consider balatro has been out for maybe 2 seconds and slay the spire was invented during the roman empire

give or take a little on those numbers

[spice spear]

certifiable Cold Take

[minor topaz]

yeah definitely I don't hold it against the Thunkman

its a new game and he has a ton of time to consider feedback

[empty brook]

and he really has! watching older versions of the demo is like

night and day compared to now

[minor topaz]

yeah I didn't play the one months ago but I played the one right before the release and yeah

[empty brook]

stuff like "next shop has a 1 in 3 chance of having a polychrome joker" as a skip bonus is insane to think about compard to now

where it's just guaranteed

(it might've been holo or foil or rare, i forget which one had the 1 in 3 lol)

[astral zodiac]

Oof, chance of no bonus at all?

[minor topaz]

hoooooli thats crazy

[grand geode]

all of them did

[astral zodiac]

The risk is in the joker being crud

[empty brook]

i think some of them were 1 in 2

[grand geode]

i think

[astral zodiac]

At least with negative it doesn't really matter

[minor topaz]

thats so bad considering even now you can get stuff that just totally doesnt fit your fun 70% of the time

[empty brook]

yeah absolutely

[minor topaz]

and I know, I'm an Anaglyph main

[empty brook]

this game has improved a lot!

[spice spear]

someone should make a mod that plays a toilet noise whenever you play a flush

[empty brook]

GREETINGS, FELLOW ANAGLYPH MAIN

I TOO ENJOY *ENTIRE HALF OF MY SCREEN IS COVERED IN TAGS*

[minor topaz]

BASEDBASEDBASEDBASEDBASED

I unlocked all the decks so fast so I could get it haha

[empty brook]

glyph being in the demo and also being one of the last decks you unlock was cruelty to me

CRUELTY, i say!

[minor topaz]

Localthunk took it away from me, he knew what he was doing

[empty brook]

but also it definitely surged me towards beating higher stakes sooner

[minor topaz]

100%

[empty brook]

because i'm unoriginal i also made Pact Deck ( #1212584088968368208 message ) which is essentially anaglyph but negative tags specifically

[astral zodiac]

I'm only up to Zodiac but I feel like each new deck makes it easier to beat higher stakes. Maybe that's the point

[empty brook]

hmm. i don't know if i agree with that actually

[spice spear]

I got tired of the normal decks after I finished red Deck so now I'm doing Erratic Deck

[empty brook]

some of the last unlockable ones definitely are quite good, but i think a lot of the basic decks are very strong

[astral zodiac]

Maybe it's just that I'm getting a little better so I end up with higher scoring runs each time.

[empty brook]

Zodiac i would also not agree with being stronger than most

[astral zodiac]

I lost soooo many times with Yellow and people seem to love it

[minor topaz]

yoooooo lets go in the next week I'm gonna go on a modding spree and add a bunch of stuff, thanks that looks really fun

[empty brook]

Yellow is really good at higher stakes, since at higher stakes you die at early antes so easily

and yellow goes "what if you didn't. what if early ante was okay actually"

but if you're playing at lower stakes, it's benefits don't matter as much, yeah

[astral zodiac]

I get it now 🙂

[empty brook]

the absolute best deck right now

is erratic if your luck is insane

BUT in actuality it's more up for debate lmao

i'm of the opinion it's probably Plasma

[white scarab]

Checkered imo

might be the best

For consistency

[empty brook]

checkered is also really good yeah

[spice spear]

plasma is probably the statistically best due to the way numbers work

[white scarab]

For high score definitely Plasma, and for fun likely erratic for me too

[empty brook]

plasma really will go "i have a single chip joker! i can now beat ante 4"

[minor topaz]

I think purely for high scores Plasma is best, but not easiest imo bc of the scaling and the intuitive change in thinking in order to maximize it's potential

[rigid jewel]

Erratic and Ghost deck are by far the most fun decks to play

[minor topaz]

Erratic and Checkered are the easiest to build runs around I think. Erratic is better if you're a bit lucky

Imoooooo

[empty brook]

Ghost was my first win on gold; i appreciate the immediate polychrome

i used to play a lot of Abandoned, but man

one too many times of skipping for a polychrome/holographic/rare joker and getting something based on face cards made me too pissed

[minor topaz]

(this was pre-made) my personal tier-list

[empty brook]

Painted is actually so much better than i gave it credit for originally

lower stakes? kinda mid

higher stakes? Oh My God I Get To Play The Game

[undone dawn]

painted is fun

[empty brook]

meanwhile black deck is the opposite

when i was a white stake only player: "i love this deck"

[undone dawn]

blackdeck is fine

but i hate early game

[empty brook]

now, me, the high stake player: 😢

[minor topaz]

black is probably bottom-tier

[empty brook]

yeah the early game is like. the hardest part of high stakes lmao

especially gold stake

[undone dawn]

late game black deck runs are fine

but the econ loss early game is digusting

[empty brook]

i'm of the opinion black deck is one of the worst options for gold stake, just because you don't often NEED the help late game as much anyways

[minor topaz]

they can be if you're lucky, but so can any deck

[empty brook]

so many runs are lost in the early antes on gold stake

[minor topaz]

every deck can beat gold

[empty brook]

oh yeah, absolutely

[minor topaz]

but black probably not the greatest

[empty brook]

i think black deck just looks at the challenges with gold and makes them both more extreme

you will die like 90 times in ante 1, and then you'll get to ante 5 one time and win that run

which sounds great--but there's this crazy thing: when i open up Balatro, i want to play Balatro

black deck on gold stake is me going on random.org like 50 times and when it hits 50 i finally start playing balatro

[minor topaz]

yeah I feel that haha

[empty brook]

yellow and painted both let me play the game, so i appreciate them a lot

[undone dawn]

yellow is fun

painted is interesting

[minor topaz]

I mostly stay away from gold stake in general for that reason. I will probably eventually test myself to beat it with every deck but man it's so tough

[empty brook]

i disliked Painted up until i started playing higher stakes

[empty brook]

genuinely i think the fact completionist++ exists in this game is crazy

completionist+ (beat gold stake with every deck) is already a lot

[undone dawn]

increased hand size is really undervalued tbh

[minor topaz]

what's that?

[undone dawn]

being able to more consistantly draw minimzes rng so much

[empty brook]

oh--beat gold stake with every single Joker

not simultaneously, but

[undone dawn]

you get a gold sticker when you beat gold stake with a joker

[empty brook]

i think like. 5 people have the achievement at this point?

[undone dawn]

and you have to collect all of them

[minor topaz]

BEST voucher aside from Merchant Sale imo

and directors cut sometimes

[empty brook]

it's both high difficulty and high rng

i can't wait to finally get it in the year 2045

[undone dawn]

directors cut saves runs, but so does the paintbrush

[minor topaz]

yeah the paintbrush is my top 1 voucher lol

its so good

[empty brook]

Paintbrush is great, absolutely

i really like overstock too

[minor topaz]

sorry, except for maybe the shop sale on a flush run

[empty brook]

one thing i enjoy about overstock is that it refreshes the shop when you buy it

[undone dawn]

imagine completionist+++, which is completionist++ but needing base edition for the jokers

[minor topaz]

overstock also baller

[empty brook]

so if you have 2 things in shop, buy both, then buy overstock

you get 3 new options

so you can get a bit of a reroll in there

[empty brook]

i'm now imagining it, thanks!

that's an awful image!!

[undone dawn]

yeah exactly

[empty brook]

anyways--one thing i'm trying to do more and more with Balatro is study how the game is, and what avenues of play are oftentimes underrepresented, for one reason or another

[undone dawn]

so much more RNG because no negatives

[empty brook]

and that's how i try to design jokers and decks

my Dice Deck i made because lucky cards are really hard to use in a lot of builds--so i wanted a deck that COULD use them better. not forced to use them as their main strategy, but they're more reliable

and also because i never take oops! and i wanted a deck to finally make me take it

[spice spear]

the content process for ShamPack is literally "that'd be cool, let's make it!" and then it gets made (eventually)

[empty brook]

i'm still searching out more concepts i'd be fine making decks for, but it's something i care about a lot--so i don't make many decks, even though i have like 20+ ideas running through my head

[minor topaz]

my first thoughts are kinda straights, but moreso pair and three of a kind builds

[empty brook]

pairs, you say...

why, i might just have a joker in development that tickles that fancy....

[spice spear]

<--- hasn't played shampack in weeks

[minor topaz]

Pair builds seem unsupported lol

[empty brook]

i should probably play shampack soon....

[minor topaz]

pretty much entirely

[empty brook]

Pairs are pretty good, but they're definitely not the Big High Score Run

[spice spear]

people look at Mild Cards in ShamPack and are immediately like "what the fuck? those suck. why would you use them?"

[empty brook]

i wonder if i have the screenshot of The Ol' One-Two lying around....

[spice spear]

and then you actually use Mild Cards and are like "damn, these are surprisingly helpful"

[minor topaz]

I feel like maybe green joker supernova run with some silly red mult would make it work but it still doesnt feel awesome

[empty brook]

i showed them to my girlfriend's girlfriend and she immediately asked me if i could mod a deck to be just 52 of them lmao

[minor topaz]

what are these?

[spice spear]

cards with no suit

[minor topaz]

ahhhh for straights?

[spice spear]

they're generated by certain effects in the mod, and they're simply just another enhancement

[minor topaz]

so you dont get flushes?

[spice spear]

so anything that creates cards with an enhancement can create them

[minor topaz]

in general

[undone dawn]

they do seem pretty useless

[spice spear]

bingo

[spice spear]

sometimes you want a 5oak instead of a flush five

[empty brook]

holy shit

Dank you've sold me on them.

[minor topaz]

yeah that makes sense. thats why I said straights feel a lil weak too, bc they often naturally become straight flushes in the end game

[undone dawn]

oh true

[empty brook]

i'm downloading the mod pack right now.

[minor topaz]

in my experience

[spice spear]

and you're not even required to interface with them in any way which is what a lot of people get hung up on

[empty brook]

this isn't a joke, i genuinely hate playing five-of-a-kind builds because at some point the game forces me into having Flush Five because i keep Deathing my good cards

[spice spear]

you're not REQUIRED to use them

[empty brook]

but if i can simply remove the suit....

[spice spear]

now keep in mind that it takes up the enhance slot

so don't fill your ENTIRE deck with them

[undone dawn]

but then you're missing out on an enchanment

which is a lot

[spice spear]

but if you no longer want to see a certain suit...

[minor topaz]

I will now fill my ENTIRE deck with them

[undone dawn]

especially in glass decks

[empty brook]

I can pay that price.

[minor topaz]

this is the perfect card

[empty brook]

A small price to pay for victory.

and also play five-of instead of four-of

[minor topaz]

There should be a playing card-only Edition that makes the card a Wild Rank

[spice spear]

you would only need one of them to be Mild for it to not be a flush!

so the other 4 can continue to be enhanced and sauced up

[empty brook]

wild rank is an incredibly cursed sentence

[minor topaz]

:))))))))

[spice spear]

and plus, Vampire slurps the Mild Enhancement off the card

[undone dawn]

that's still a lot in glass decks

its like x8 mult

[spice spear]

AND YOU ALWAYS (not always) GET FIVE OF THEM AT A TIME!

[empty brook]

what if i don't WANT glass. what if i want my cards to remain Great and Pure and Not Broken To Sharp Bits Which Hurt My Hands

[undone dawn]

glass is a fun build though

[empty brook]

have you ever held a glass card, flop? they're not crisp.

[spice spear]

so then just don't play them in those decks!

[undone dawn]

only issue is that it needs dna

[undone dawn]

thats fair

[spice spear]

you're not required to interact with it!

[minor topaz]

Blasphemous-ass sentence

[undone dawn]

this is coming from the guy who used Wild and Rank in the same sentance

[spice spear]

hell, we're eventually going to be decoupling Mild Cards from ShamPack just in case people want to make MORE content for Mild Cards to be used in!

[empty brook]

a true good samaritan...

[minor topaz]

Balatro-ass sentence

[empty brook]

had to reinstall my old bad not-ready mod, which required debugging to not crash

BUT BEHOLD. PAIR SUPPORT!!!

[minor topaz]

https://tenor.com/view/escribar-blasphemous-gif-5088752602748014619

[spice spear]

is that testicles

[empty brook]

they are boxing gloves

[minor topaz]

that do be lookin like testicles

or boxing gloves

or both

[empty brook]

it's placeholders!!!!

[spice spear]

testicular torsion joker

[minor topaz]

^one of these mfs (also if you know what this is you're based and cute)

[heavy flax]

Those are some sexy testicles

[spice spear]

I wish you had said that not as a reply

[empty brook]

i need to make Mean Jimbo work so i can curse this world with him.

y'all need him.

does anyone here know how to make a localization-changing mod

this has genuinely been my White Whale, somehow being more difficult a nut for me to crack than actual gameplay mechanics

[heavy flax]

No but one time i printed Hello World in C# so im sure i can figure it out

[empty brook]

i agree, that sounds like it's about the same level of expertise required

[heavy flax]

Tbf the only knowledge you need for coding is CTRL+C CTRL+V

I mean what

[empty brook]

LOOK. I READ THE KOREAN TRANSLATION MOD.

I TRIED.

I TRIED!!!!

nothing worked......

i genuinely think i have put more hours into trying to make a stupid silly mod which changes the quotes Jimbo says after you lose
than any other mod i've done stuff for lmao

[heavy flax]

But jimbo is already so mean to me ):

[empty brook]

genuinely the Mean Jimbo mod makes me less tilted, despite the fact it has Jimbo say even meaner things

becuase it's really fucking funny

((to clarify: the way i "got it working" initially is by just changing the actual localization files in the game's directory. this is not how you make a mod, but it was nice for testing))

[spice spear]

ty mods for taking care of that

[empty brook]

did i miss tomfoolery

[spice spear]

porn bots

[empty brook]

alas! even in balatro we cannot escape them...

[wanton rapids]

ok the gros michel deck back looks amazing

[rigid jewel]

Joker and voucher based backs always look good

Still personally proud of this deck back (based on Glow Up)

[astral glade]

very normal deck

[wanton rapids]

winning run with gros michel deck

[empty brook]

oh hell yeah, NOW this is Gros Michel

i'm very glad i bullied you suggested it lmao

[heavy flax]

whoever made lush jokers i would like to thank you for the code that i will be stealing to learn how to make a mod

[pastel wolf]

Mood

[rigid jewel]

Made a working freezer joker (although the implementation is a little scuffed for Seltzer)

[pastel wolf]

Sweet, allow me to steal the code

Lmao i kid

Idk if i'll make hibachi have an effect like that yet

[rigid jewel]

Not that difficult funny enough

[heavy flax]

you should change it to Preservative Joker

[rigid jewel]

Oh yeah

[heavy flax]

he even looks like ronald mcdonald so its fitting

[rigid jewel]

That's just the default joker skin from Balatro Reshuffled mod xdd

[heavy flax]

all the more reason to change it to a happy meal

i feel so validated rn

theres a random error that i have no idea how happened

its like im a real coder

oml

[rigid jewel]

Welcome to modding

[heavy flax]

it gave me an error for missing a curly bracket when i was missing a quote and a comma

T~T

whats the C: thingy for the default color

[wanton rapids]

{} empty

[rigid jewel]

No need

Default is well, default

oh

If you mean set it to default then yea

{}

[heavy flax]

well

apparently C:black also works unless its just defaulting from an error 🤷‍♀️

oh nvm it is just defaulting from error

well fun fact

you can put hidden messages in the color tags

the more you know

any advice on how i can make this description more concise?

[heavy flax]

what do you use to edit the lua files

ive been using notepad T~T

[ocean torrent]

whats that sad paridolia?

[hardy brook]

What did jimbo become?

This peaked my curiosity

[heavy flax]

i am nova it is me

jimbo became trans T~T

[hardy brook]

Ah

So why the “T~T”?

[heavy flax]

thats like

ironic crying

like 😭 but emoticon

[empty brook]

Objectification, a Joker that i will probably not program for a long while, because the effect is very ambitious and really hard to code properly

Objectification
Uncommon
All cards count as every
numbered card.
(Ace, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)

it was meant to be a simple idea, essentially taking how Pareidolia lets non-face cards get face benefits, and do that, but for number stuff

so you can play a king and a 7, and they get Walkie Talkie's benefits and are retriggered by Hack

but, unfortunately, numbers aren't tags, unlike how face is

[pastel wolf]

plays a bunch of random cards and gets a straight

[empty brook]

nah--same as pareidolia, it just counts for the purposes of effects

so it's relevant for jokers and p much nothing else; again, same as parei

[pastel wolf]

Every card works with scholar

[empty brook]

yep!

[pastel wolf]

Uh boy

Sock and buskin, hack

[empty brook]

i did a headcount of the number of jokers it affects, and face cards i think had just 1 more, iirc

or maybe numbered had one more

[pastel wolf]

Wait no s&b doesnt count

Thats faces

[empty brook]

there's a surprisingly even distribution between "works for specific numbers" and "works for face cards" in jokers

what you should ACTUALLY be pointing out is the fact it breaks one specific joker

[pastel wolf]

Oh does it

I can't tell off the top of my head

[empty brook]

this one

[pastel wolf]

Oh of course

52g a turn

[empty brook]

cloud 9 is the biggest balance issue with the concept

but it's irrelevant anyways if i can't code the joker to work properly anyways

[pastel wolf]

Well cloud 9 is a post round joker

So you could make it only in the gamearea

[empty brook]

personally my favorite possible synergy is with sixth sense though

[pastel wolf]

Free thinning is nice

[empty brook]

i think it sounds really fun to use sixth sense every single round, constantly burning different cards and getting a bunch of spectrals

8 ball is also an exceptional one

[pastel wolf]

Ive got plenty of jokers that i haven't got ideas for yet

I'm coming up on 2 collection pages worth of art lmao

[empty brook]

Objectification, if i make it, might be stronger synergy-wise, so it may end up becoming a rare joker instead of uncommon

buuuut it's hard to say

and again, either way, doesn't matter if i can't code it in the first place
it's been kind of hell to try and get it working

[pastel wolf]

A lot of them do have effect ideas

Ive only coded a couple to work

Ive just been on another big art inspiration spree

[empty brook]

the only solution i've found so far is to make it so the mod adds in a new tag or some kind of joker override (like how pareidolia does) and then rewrites every single official number-using joker to use that when the mod is on

[rigid jewel]

Making an effect like this would require you to pseudo-override every joker that specifically interacts with numbered cards

[empty brook]

yeah exactly lmao

[pastel wolf]

Thats rough

[rigid jewel]

Not super hard on the technical side but so many jokers

[empty brook]

oh there's only like

10

the number of them isn't a huge issue--really it's more so the fact that rewriting code for pre-existing stuff is genuinely a bit harder than just adding new things

and the fact it wouldn't be compatible with any modded jokers

((Outside of any i'd make alongside this one for the mod, ofc))

[pastel wolf]

I was gonna have a joker that gained xmult for every joker that had a name on the card, like business card

But that wouldve been weird

And not that good

[empty brook]

i do think niche synergy jokers are fun

anyways, to conclude the Objectification joker stuff: it's not a joker i'm fully giving up on yet

but it has been moved to my "Handle This Much Later" projects list lol

[pastel wolf]

So i changed it up, but not sure if its final yet

[empty brook]

hmmm

that seems pretty strong

[ocean torrent]

ace isnt a numbered card

[pastel wolf]

It counts as 1

[ocean torrent]

yeah but

[empty brook]

fibonacci counts it as 1 for the fibonacci sequence

and so does odd todd

[pastel wolf]

Yup

[heavy flax]

what does this mean

[empty brook]

also the real answer: if i didn't include aces, it means the only joker in the entire roster which counts for ranks and would have a way to cheat them out

[pastel wolf]

You're missing an end i think

[empty brook]

would be scholar and nothing else

[heavy flax]

idk how to end a function T~T

[empty brook]

because everything else that includes aces counts something else too

[ocean torrent]

this never spawns an ace

[pastel wolf]

You just add an end to the end of it

[empty brook]

hmm.

[ocean torrent]

ykwim tho

[empty brook]

yeah i don't have a counter argument for that

lol

[pastel wolf]

Probably because grim exists

[heavy flax]

youre my hero

[empty brook]

i guess i can just exclude scholar specifically

[ocean torrent]

rip schollar

[pastel wolf]

If it added aces too grim wouldn't need to exist

[empty brook]

he gets to go to the corner!!!!

[pastel wolf]

I get it tho

[ocean torrent]

what cards have synergy for numbered cards other than ride the buss?

[empty brook]

ride the bus doesn't actually; it has anti-face synergy, which is different

[golden rain]

does anyone know if any of these are non compatible

[ocean torrent]

what is infinite score?

[golden rain]

allows above e308

[pastel wolf]

What software do you use to code?

[ocean torrent]

no way

[golden rain]

eys

yes

[ocean torrent]

send link 🙏

[golden rain]

gotchu twin

[ocean torrent]

bro what

[heavy flax]

i was using notepad until 10 minutes ago

[golden rain]

MY BAD

[ocean torrent]

xDD

no wayy

lmaooo

[empty brook]

numbered jokers include:
Hack (2, 3, 4, 5)
Fibonacci (2, 3, 5, 8)
8 Ball (8s)
Sixth Sense (6)
Walkie Talkie (4, 10)
Cloud 9 (9, and also a problem lmao)
Odd Todd (odds)
Even Steven (evens)
some others i don't recall off the top of my head and i don't wanna open balatro again to check

[heavy flax]

im using visual studio code now T~T

[ocean torrent]

those are spesific numberes tho

[pastel wolf]

Visual studio has a plugin you can get that will red underline unended functions / extra ends

[empty brook]

yeah

correct

[pastel wolf]

As well as {} errors and such

[ocean torrent]

it has to say "numbered cards"

[golden rain]

https://github.com/jamesthejellyfish/InfiniteScoreMod

[ocean torrent]

triboulet dousnt work with paridolia

cuz it doesnt say face cards

[empty brook]

yes because face is a tag in the game

[ocean torrent]

same with hit the road

[golden rain]

its also giving me errors so be aware

[heavy flax]

how do i make the jokers appear on the collection screen

[golden rain]

wrong reply but right person

[pastel wolf]

Face is a tag, but k q and j are also things

[ocean torrent]

this was genuinly wild bro

[golden rain]

MY BAD

free me

[ocean torrent]

not the first time its good

its fine

its just funny

[golden rain]

am i wrong

[pastel wolf]

[empty brook]

when i do eventually code objectification, i will have to debate on if cloud 9 should be an exception (makes no sense but balance-wise works) or if i should just let it rock (it IS one specific joker, and while money is very important, it's not like money alone wins runs)

but for now, i will code Other Things

[pastel wolf]

I reckon it shouldn't work

Cuz its post round calc

[heavy flax]

im legitimately so dumb

[pastel wolf]

But idk how you'd make it an exception

[empty brook]

code-wise that'd be easy lmao

i can just. not rewrite cloud 9

but i think it's very unintuitive to say it excludes cloud 9

[pastel wolf]

Why

[heavy flax]

i forgot to actually update the png name when i changed it in the .lua T~T

[pastel wolf]

Ah lol

[empty brook]

oh i get that man....

genuinely every time i make a new mod i get a crash because i forget to set a variable lmao

[pastel wolf]

Ive got about

More than 15 jokers with no effects coded yet

Its been art hours

[heavy flax]

wut

also sorry localthunk for the useless crash reports T~T

[pastel wolf]

Lol ive also sent him about 1590

I dont know how to turn it off

[heavy flax]

its in the settings menu T~T

[pastel wolf]

I couldn't see it

Maybe i need stronger glasses

[heavy flax]

i couldve sworn it was there

maybe im on crack

mightve accidentally smoked some oopsies

my dumb ass REMOVED LUSHUTILS WHEN IT WAS NECESSARY FOR THE CODE IM NOT STEALING

[foggy rapids]

man i wish i knew how to mod

i would love to add some stuff to the game

[heavy flax]

i have no idea how to mod

[foggy rapids]

coding is hard lol

and artwork

im terribad at even pixel art

[heavy flax]

pixel art is just art for people with math brains

[foggy rapids]

what language is the game coded in?

i kinda wanted to try to start learning C#

[heavy flax]

Lua? (I dont even know im just learning how to use it as i go)

[foggy rapids]

is that an engine or coding language?

i have no idea lol

[heavy flax]

Why are you asking me 😭

[weak egret]

lua

[foggy rapids]

interesting

[pastel wolf]

It is in lua

Lua is quite easy

Considering i also had no prior experience to coding and picked it up quite fast

[rare shell]

had a jumpscare just now with my pc's cooling fans grinding like hell

thought balatro finally had ruined my pc

[pastel wolf]

And pixel art is just.. art with frustratingly less detail

[golden rain]

does anyone know what mod adds this

[pastel wolf]

Wood lookin ahh card

[rare shell]

jellymod

[golden rain]

what does it do?

[rare shell]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[golden rain]

hell yea

[rare shell]

look at the mod page

havent played it much myself

[grand geode]

Steamodded disables it

[hardy brook]

A-Are you modding with the Re;Shuffled mod on?

Madman

[rigid jewel]

YES I AM

(although there's a 50/50 chance that my mom overrides reshuffle cause I haven't messed with the textures yet and they're still loaded xdd)

[hardy brook]

I have the most cursed Balatro mod idea because of your username

Your name reminded me of all 6s doubling

So i thought “What if All Ones existed and halved”

[strong swift]

that exists in jellymod lmao

[hardy brook]

So i then thought… “What if every Jokerhad a negative”

[hardy brook]

Don’t care

Lol

[strong swift]

fair, just kinda funny

[hardy brook]

Yeah

[white scarab]

A small chance for buffed jokers to spawn would also be a cool mod

[hardy brook]

It is

[white scarab]

Like they get better versions of their abilities

[hardy brook]

Instead of “Ride the Bus”, it’s “Kicked off the Bus” or something and it forces you to only face cards

[rigid jewel]

"Popcorn Bag"
Common
+0 Mult. Gains +4 Mult after round starts. Explodes at +20

Wait you're cooking

[hardy brook]

Exactly

[strong swift]

imagine if negative reversed abilities

instead of adding slots

[hardy brook]

Pyrite Joker: steals $4 and adds to mult

Because I want these to still be good

[rigid jewel]

Hmm

What could Showman be?

[white scarab]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1168219372003790850/1182398131976019979/image.png?ex=65fc8592&is=65ea1092&hm=e3c21c2d53cd918a217327c9b06010f91910c65ef65519df5bc992dfc84f7e2e&
Things like this (some rough concept I made during the demo)

[minor topaz]

it could just be a modifier to the number and the modifier is different depending on if it's blue, red, or red mult

[white scarab]

All packs let you choose one extra item

That might be busted

Or, “cards in shops and packs will not be repeated during each ante”

[strong swift]

duplicate jokers cant spawn

[hardy brook]

Rodeo Clown: playing cards appear 2x as likely

Basically the voucher on a joker

[stray olive]

This might be best called a modding question--are save files easy to edit? My purpose at the moment is copying over some unlocks I've done on my Switch file since I've been splitting time between Switch and Steam

[white scarab]

Playing on that a bit: Playing cards in shops may have editions and seals

Since the vouchers can’t do that

[hardy brook]

Balatro? Nah this is Ortalab

[rigid jewel]

Huh, I thought the upgraded voucher of magic trick could

[white scarab]

Just enhancements

[rigid jewel]

"Short Sell" (Inverse of To The Moon)

• Uncommon
• Gives 0$ at end of round. Gains 1$ per 5$ spent in the previous shop.
  Not fully sure on effect but definitely like the core idea of basing the inverse of To The Moon off of short selling stocks

[grand geode]

okayyyy new effect

[rare shell]

90%

[grand geode]

this cannot change the +X Mult of jokers though

it works for playing cards and editions but not jokers

[rigid jewel]

Makes sense

[grand geode]

ah the text

effect still works on jokers, just the text cannot be changed

[rigid jewel]

Oh yeah

Only altering self.ability or the joker config will

[grand geode]

feeling extra evil so bumping it to 80%

[rigid jewel]

Cook

[grand geode]

since it's *0.8, technically it can also bring Xmult below 1

MalkWheezing

[rigid jewel]

This would murder any Baseball Card or Baron spam build

[grand geode]

yeah they get fucking CRIPPLED

but they're too powerful anyways it's only fair

[rigid jewel]

I wonder if it is possible to alter the joker text to reflect how much mult they're actually giving

[grand geode]

it doesn't feel worth it for me to change it

actually-

ugh regex

[grand geode]

okay it's genuinely not worth it to change

[rigid jewel]

I thought that maybe whatever function gets called for displaying it might work but...

Half the jokers don't use it

And I have no idea how tf it works

xdd

[grand geode]

yknow maybe i can tamper the localize function itself

[rigid jewel]

huh

I wonder

If loc_target = G.localization.misc.v_dictionary_parsed[args.key] should always return as either an int or a float

If so this can get reduced by 80% if this is the present blind

[grand geode]

string

[rigid jewel]

nooo

[grand geode]

everything in G.localization is a string

[rigid jewel]

ok not there

[grand geode]

YES

[rigid jewel]

HAHAA

[grand geode]

IT'S SO FUCKING CURSED

BUT IT WORKS

[rigid jewel]

On a scale of 1 to 10, how scuffed is the implementation?

[grand geode]

4

ah. it also affects playing cards if i do it like this

and there's no way to differentiate between jokers and playing cards 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[proven wing]

any of you modding wizards able to decipher what each of the editions are doing? im staring at the FS file for the negative shader
i wanna be able to replicate the effects

[grand geode]

nope - never touched shaders

[proven wing]

in like drawing form i kinda just want to spit the texture out into an image

damn

[ruby thorn]

is there a mod that tells you the total points you will have if you press play the hand

[proven wing]

doesnt seem like it from a quick skim

if your able to do the maths you might be able to do it manually

[rigid jewel]

No but there's a Balatro calculator

[spiral dune]

While I do love the Balatro calculator I've made, I believe one of the jokers here does that if you want a mod:
https://discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1216754656617693255

[lapis jay]

Is there a mod that I could get the link to that disables crap tags on ante one

[wanton rapids]

rock and stone joker
stone cards give $3 when played

[winter hearth]

uum, can someone explain why this exists?

[past tendon]

guess thunk created that function just in case he would need to modify the mult someday

[winter hearth]

yea, maybe

[past tendon]

Checking the code made me realize how complex games can be. Balatro isn't even a big game but I feel like I know nothing about how the code works

And I haven't even checked GUI related code chunks lmao

[fervent owl]

should probably be capped tbh, like stencil

[grand geode]

yeaaa prolly will cap it at X1

[wheat wolf]

how do you guys mod the game? my device always think the mod injector as virus

[empty brook]

yeah that happens

[tacit mountain]

I did not even knew Steamodded was shared on Steam lol

[grand geode]

i love the linux guide

3. run

[peak oak]

Hello can someone help me where I can find the base joker card no background and only the 2 joker word?

[strong swift]

the default joker is pinned in #🎨・fan-art

[peak oak]

Okay thanks

[strong swift]

np

[peak oak]

Cant find i wanna find this only but highquality

[grand geode]

there's no high quality

[grand geode]

just scale the image up

[peak oak]

Do you know how to scale the image?

[grand geode]

use any image editing tool (NOT PAINT)

[peak oak]

How about like that?

Even not high quality

But the joker word

No background just 2 joker word and border

[grand geode]

here's a blank joker card i have in my mod files

this is the highest the game will register

[peak oak]

Do you have a blank but no white background?

[peak oak]

Thank you verymuch

[peak oak]

Thorned Tribute

Effects: +2 Mult For Every Club Discard

Uncommon

[rare shell]

that art is fantastic but unfortunately its sized wrong

the joker template that was provided is 2x and the art here is 1x

[burnt gale]

Is there a place where I can start to learn about how to mod Balatro? I'm a software engineer and have some experience in Lua, but not a whole lot, but if there's a guide to get started somewhere, I'd appreciate getting pointed towards it

[tacit mountain]

#1209564621644505158 and #1213838204491399218

[burnt gale]

Thank you, will be reading those!

[tacit mountain]

Also, thanks everyone for the 11K Download on Steamodded 🥳 ! The project have gone way more popular than expected. I know it's still messy and it will need big improvements but it will come over the time. For now, I need to focus a little bit more on my pro and personal life so new updates will take a little bit of time to come. Btw, the project is still searching for new Maintainers so feel free to DM me.

[hardy brook]

Didn't know we had so many emotes

[strong swift]

it also has the outdated gold seal

[hardy brook]

Alright so gameplan

Gonna try and get some people together to help me build Balatro Archived and Ortalab

[wild thunder]

invisible jonkler

[rare shell]

the heck is ortalab