⚙・modding-general

[gray cove]

And fucking delete that shit and waste 1 hour of your life

[full edge]

Yeah, I've felt that with every one of the 201 jokers I've made so far

[fossil palm]

i haven't played any mods actually

[gilded vortex]

Yeah I mostly stick to playtesting my own mod

[vale oak]

Quite the collection.

[fossil palm]

i Probably should at some point

[gilded vortex]

I haven’t either

[haughty gyro]

based

[gray cove]

Yall are insane

[haughty gyro]

literally the only modded content I've touched is the stuff I'm making

[fossil palm]

same

[gray cove]

The stuff i’m making is shit

[haughty gyro]

I earned Completionist++ and then jumped straight to modding

[gray cove]

I don’t call it mods ong

[fossil palm]

for me it's just so i don't get polluted with unoriginal ideas

[gray cove]

I wanna learn how to do custom ui 😭

[gilded vortex]

Skill issue

/j

[gray cove]

But the wiki is outdated

[fossil palm]

I beat the game once on white stake and started modding

[distant badge]

one of my test challenges from my mod is secretly just for me to play when i get bored

[gilded vortex]

I think Eremel and someone23832 are good at it

[gray cove]

I’ll ask bepis he did one with his mod

[full edge]

I'm thinking I should commit to at least getting a white stake sticker on every joker I've made, just so I playtest them properly haha, but that'd take aaages

[haughty gyro]

you are stronger than me

[gilded vortex]

Me too, although I played for almost 100 hours the demo

[gray cove]

Guys i’m like

Pretty dogshit at coding

If you have any resources or ideas that can help

Pls let me know

PLEASE

[gilded vortex]

That’s what the masses are for

[full edge]

It helps that SMODS makes it so easy

[gilded vortex]

Maybe try a basic coding course

[wheat egret]

Good hand

[gray cove]

No i’m good at coding i’m just not good at lua coding

I don’t have the knowledge

[distant badge]

stack overflow is pretty good, sometimes if im stumped with something i'll type a generic prompt in to find it

[full edge]

Look I'm 75% of the messages in the #1340334060597285025 channel, I don't have masses playtesting for me 😋

[gilded vortex]

The maxim is that the computer is stupid so you have to tell it very very VERY carefully what you want

Else it does something else

[gilded vortex]

I’m like 90% of mine

[haughty gyro]

I had never touched lua before I started on this project

[gray cove]

Damn

Same

Btw

[gilded vortex]

Me neither

[gray cove]

How did you learned

[gilded vortex]

I learned modding Balatro

[formal orchid]

me neither

[gray cove]

Yeah like

[gilded vortex]

That’s how

[gray cove]

How did you guys learn thi

[haughty gyro]

if you know another language it's literally just learning new syntax and you're good

[distant badge]

one of my friends went "we should make a balatro mod", then we started by looking at the example mods from steamodded

[gray cove]

There’s no tutorials and the wiki didn’t help or im just stupid

[full edge]

I just kept doing it. The skill you need is more so reading code to see how it works than specifically LUA knowledge

[formal orchid]

i knew a bit of C++

[gilded vortex]

First I made a mod that added a single Joker. Then I made Fish. Then I made a mod that added 10 Jokers. Then I started making a big mod

[gray cove]

Hmmmm

[full edge]

Do you have art for the jar of teeth planned, btw?

[haughty gyro]

yeah literally take it one step at a time

[gray cove]

Maybe i should code more

Thanks guys

[distant badge]

the first joker i made gave +1 mult and had the incredible price of $1

[haughty gyro]

and don't be afraid to ask how other people coded something you think looks interesting

[gilded vortex]

@full edge I’m gonna redraw this

Huh it’s almost a year old lol

[gray cove]

Okiiii

[full edge]

I started making big mod immediately but I was fine with things crashing and bashing my head. Lua's pretty readable, and there's people to suggest things and ask things to, luckily

[gray cove]

Maybe i should try other mods and look in their code aswell

For inspiration

[gilded vortex]

My advice is to start with smaller, more manageable projects, that teach you building blocks you’re gonna need

Also know what mods exist to reference other people’s code

[full edge]

Would it be alright if I gave it a shot if I have some time?

[distant badge]

looking at bunco helped me a LOT when i was starting out

[gray cove]

Good idea

[gilded vortex]

Sure! :0

[full edge]

My goal is to have my filthy little digits mark every Balatro mod out there

It's like how I was with Pokemon fan games back in the day ❤️ though mostly my stuff is on fangame wikis as 'these assets existed half finished in the file and we don't know why this content wasn't finished', and the truth is I had a test and forgot about it

[distant badge]

omniprescence across all of balatro

[gilded vortex]

I’d just request to have The Tooth symbol somewhere in the art, even if hidden. Maybe it can be flexible—for Champion’s Belt, I added a floating sprite with the Joker text, for example.

-# well and have Joker written somewhere too ^^’

[haughty gyro]

Genuinely, the majority of my modded content has been "there's an effect already in the game that I can modify slightly to do the new thing I want, let me look up how the base game did it"

[gray cove]

Like enhancements and stuff

[haughty gyro]

enhancements, consumeables, blind effects

joker effects

[full edge]

I should see if there's still art to add to Cryptid, that mod is entirely un-Ice, and we can't have that ofc

[haughty gyro]

all of it

[distant badge]

another dawn joker touches the deck

[gray cove]

Yeah i’m in the first steps LOL

[gilded vortex]

Also regarding Jar of Teeth, today’s spoiler for my mod, I’ll just say that tomorrow’s spoiler is named ||Broken Arm||

[distant badge]

-# dawn isn't actually that bad to try and program because it helps with repetition

[full edge]

Do DM me this so I don't have to look for this tomorrow, haha

[gilded vortex]

Well that name could change in the future, but it’s going into the alpha

[full edge]

Also, I'd never forget to add joker to the art, it's literally the only thing I do for Kino's joker art, hahaha

[gilded vortex]

Fair. Some people play loose with the rules

Me too, but I do keep the Joker text

Except for Legendaries I guess

Even if they aren’t clowns

-# unless I’m secretly making a statement by implying they’re clowns
-# victin goes kino

[full edge]

I tried to jesterify them in the art, for the legendaries but I hated how it looked also how the hell am I going to jimbofy a rat or a video doorbell?

[gilded vortex]

I struggled a bit with the one Legendary art I have so far

I didn’t go with the look I wanted first because the beard was too hard

What I ended up with

[full edge]

I've given up on trying to draw ratatouille from ratatouille multiple times now, so I might just commit to drawing a sillhouette in a chef's hat

[full edge]

oooh, that does look real sick!

[gray cove]

Punchline

[gilded vortex]

That might look cooler tho

also I’m reminded of something I saw today

[haughty gyro]

what did the line do to you?

[gilded vortex]

Thank you 🥺

[full edge]

Maybe I should just commit to that. Have the guy's hair and the chef's hat as the image, instead of the actual rat, haha

[gilded vortex]

Also now I have the tech to make the halo float separately from the body 🤔

But it’d be a bit of a pain to finish the halo

[full edge]

ooh, you're going exotic double soul, huh

[gray cove]

The idea is grape

But I didn’t quite like the art

[gilded vortex]

I mean I have two

I’m too lazy to fetch the other one right now

Especially because it wasn’t very noticeable

[gray cove]

How’s it animated

[full edge]

I do also still need a background for ratatouille. I guess I've committed to on-theme backgrounds now, with this look for HAL

[gilded vortex]

Like soul sprites but it’s a second one

[gray cove]

Thats cool

[gilded vortex]

I referenced Cryptid and MathIsFun helped me fix a bug they had also had

I might generalize this like Cryptid did for their Exotics

If I keep doing more of these

[gray cove]

I texted my friend

My joker texture

And he sent me thi

This

[wise yoke]

Might i ask what mod is this?

[gilded vortex]

If you want the code, DM me and I’ll send it to you in uhhh idk 20 hours?

[full edge]

Ooh I might dive into your code and steal some of it, i wanna see how that all works

[gray cove]

Done

[gilded vortex]

Victin’s Collection but that Joker is unreleased

[gilded vortex]

Remind me too

Again I just reference Cryptid

Ahh ok I can send it now

[wise yoke]

Oh okie tysm

[fossil palm]

this is gonna be fun to implement, isn't it

[lucid acorn]

so uhh

how does one mod balatro

[haughty gyro]

https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki

[lucid acorn]

My King

Thank you

Is there by chance a place to find the downloads for mods

Or do I just search github

[haughty gyro]

uhhh good question

probably just search github, although there are a bunch of mods over in #1209506514763522108 too

[lucid acorn]

Oh slay

Didn't know that existed

🫡

I'm off

[junior rock]

theres also a bunch of mod indexes

[lucid acorn]

idk what that means

[junior rock]

https://github.com/skyline69/balatro-mod-index

[lucid acorn]

I uhhh

I'm ngl

I have no clue what to do with that

(idk how to use github)

I have acquired pokermon

it seems to work

thanks guys

[fossil palm]

i'm BASHING MY HEAD IN why do you trouble me so windows

[vapid jetty]

If it's possible, I'd love some help on how to change the text/wording of my Balatro game.
Example: Text that Jimbo says, Game Over text, etc

I'm new to coding so I'm not really sure where to start & don't want to break anything

[limpid sandal]

Yo why does the Saturn mod crash my game when I enter the shop every time? Happens without jokers too

[distant badge]

DUDE I SUCK AT THIS MY LINK WAS WRONG TWICE

[wheat egret]

Does anyone here play balatro and speaks portuguese

[gray cove]

Bonana

[distant badge]

im not built for github i had to send 2 PRs because i couldnt format my link correctly

[haughty gyro]

bana

[fossil palm]

Fuuuuck it's done

that was "great!"

Bigger warning now that it actually works

[golden marsh]

How do I download mods

[plush hound]

what mod is this

[golden marsh]

Someone pls help

[fossil palm]

my own, currently unreleased one

[dusky heart]

In fairness, you also had to send 2 more PRs because skyline didn't double-check the original PR...

[gray cove]

[golden marsh]

Anyone know

[dusky heart]

Try Balatro Mod Manager

[golden marsh]

Ok

[distant badge]

more of a me issue though, im very unfamiliar with github lol

[fossil palm]

What do we think about the UI theme so far

[gray cove]

I’m at my grandmas

[fossil palm]

anything I should change

[gray cove]

K want my pc

I need to code

[golden marsh]

Do I need computer

[fossil palm]

Yeah

[gray cove]

Looks cute

[plush hound]

odd fonts

[gray cove]

Cute tho

[dusky heart]

I don't understand how you can read that font, but the colours are fun. That dark blue-purple might be a little too dark for the text colour

[plush hound]

i was about to say that

[fossil palm]

either im superhuman or yall just blind 😭

ok but yeah

ill look into a different font

It's just hard to straddle the line in-between Fun and Readable with bitmap fonts

[distant badge]

i like the font personally but it doesn't read too well

[plush hound]

your font looks like those dyslexia fonts from accessibility settings on some webs

[fossil palm]

you would've hated the older font i was using

[dusky heart]

Especially challenging for low-res pixel fonts, where there's really not a lot of room for details

[dusky heart]

It looks neat, but it does take effort to read

[fossil palm]

i mean. this is "fine"

but it's missing the sense of whimsy i want

[distant badge]

maybe have a config to turn on a blockier font instead of the whimsical font

[fossil palm]

Good idea, actually

Hold on

[plush hound]

geeked up vs tweaking

[wanton sleet]

anyone have tips for yellow stake on cryptid

[dusky heart]

Bad keming, no whimsy, and also not that readable, 3/10 font

[dusky heart]

Good keming, very whimsy, good for headings but hard to read as a block of text, 5/10 font

[dusky heart]

Fine keming, middle whimsy, easier to read than above, 7/10 font

[winter yoke]

bro cryptid mod is just not working with the latest balatro version

[dusky heart]

Latest cryptid requires the cutting-edge dev version of Steamodded, which your error message also shows. Try deleting your current smods folder and installing this one: https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/archive/refs/heads/main.zip

Lovely Mods:
    1: Cryptid
        Has Steamodded mod that failed to load.
        Missing Dependencies:
            1. Steamodded (>=1.0.0~BETA-0314c)

[winter yoke]

ok

wait 0314 exist?

didn't see on github

ty🙏

it works

[fossil palm]

Ok I figured out how to change NEW instances of the font... now I just need to do the same thing to the old ones

It requires me refreshing the languages

Awesome!!!

[tranquil vessel]

you're just posting the cardsleeve art here?

[wanton sleet]

?

[wheat egret]

Wrong server sorry

[tranquil vessel]

what server did you mean to post it in???

[wheat egret]

A server of a brazilian YouTuber

[tranquil vessel]

oh okay

if you're trying to advertise the png in the readme might work better

[dusky heart]

v1.7.1
CardSleeves 🤝 SystemClock

🙄
v0.7.1
Lovely

[tranquil vessel]

I shall never update my version number again

[dusky heart]

All the best mods require exactly 7 minor updates and 1 bugfix, confirmed

[tranquil vessel]

so true

[dusky heart]

And thus the era of v1.7.1~1517a~1~final~FINAL was born

[tranquil vessel]

Just you wait till I release v1.7.1~1.7.1

[normal hollow]

got ability transfers working I just had to make my own version of all the center functions

[gray cove]

Hello

[haughty gyro]

Balatro The Gathering

[cold orchid]

so i'm trying to get started w modding, but everything keeps saying i need a smods-main file that just doesn't exist in the smods folder

[hoary niche]

If I use Balatro Mobile Maker to make an .apk file using my steam saves, how do I move my mobile progress back to Steam?

[gray cove]

Balatro is now an art gallery of mods that contains everything

[wintry ferry]

am i gonna be here for the rest of my life

[cold orchid]

yes

[wintry ferry]

I love cryptid

How do I make balatro use 100% of my cpu /j

[fossil palm]

whaaaabam. also new blocky choice i'm trying out

[cold orchid]

actually krilling myself if this is as simple as downloading the dev version instead of latest release

appdata>roaming>balatro right?

[wanton sleet]

am i the only one who likes the original font

tbh tho i fuck with the one in that video

really???

[sterile hornet]

of Balatro? i think of people do

[lucid acorn]

Wait this is peak

[wanton sleet]

of people do?

[lucid acorn]

Are you making Yugioh Balatro

[junior rock]

I like the mario font

[sterile hornet]

there hasnt been a single custom font that looks good to me, other than the mario font

all thems are ugly

[wanton sleet]

i really fuck with the blocky mario font

[normal hollow]

i made balatro yugioh https://discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1338302514616995892

[fossil palm]

i like it a lot, but a font can also really easily distinguish visual identity

hence why i changed it

[white scarab]

generally with the way Trance renders the fonts they all look kinda awkward sometimes

[wanton sleet]

valid

i just find the whole idea weird (again the font u have looks fire tho nonetheless)

[sterile hornet]

i dont really mean how it renders it, just the font themselves don't look appropriate

[wanton sleet]

personal gripe ig

[white scarab]

yeah I find that most fonts don't work well either, when I've tried it

there's this one someone on the Cryptid Discord made tho that I really like and have been using recently

[wanton sleet]

i think it favors blocky looking fonts

[fossil palm]

i actually had a cursory glance at trance and I thiiink that's just balatro's res and love2D itself fuckin with it

[wanton sleet]

i think what makes fonts look bad is if they are very smooth

oveer blocky

[lucid acorn]

That’s actually peak

I might have to try that

[cold orchid]

nope, still giving my modloaderhelper not found

[gray cove]

G

[lucid acorn]

(I started playing modded today and am currently playing pokermon)

[white scarab]

yeah things like this look really blursed

[solar basin]

RELEASE ME

https://i.imgur.com/CcUhxaO.jpeg

[lucid acorn]

I hate it

[wanton sleet]

oh god

[solar basin]

balatro if it was sold to a corporation

[wanton sleet]

i swear on my life the cake joker fucks you just because it makes you do this

[lucid acorn]

Are you okay brother

[solar basin]

860s and counting

[fossil palm]

This is why I elected to not use vector-based stuff

[sage finch]

indie devlog ahh font

[solar basin]

97 cards still havent scored

[wanton sleet]

the cake joker makes you spent an hour in shop perfecting the build until u go to next blind and the game cant do it

[lucid acorn]

I believe in you

[fossil palm]

it just looks weird with the entire rest of the game

[lucid acorn]

It’s teaching patience

[solar basin]

see what makes it worse is

im on equilibrium

[wanton sleet]

i know

[solar basin]

and i got the voucher that makes everythign a dollar

so like.

[wanton sleet]

equilibrium + cake + voucher dollar is game over

[solar basin]

i dug this hole

this is in fact my fault

[wanton sleet]

nah bro

we all dig that whole when we play equilibrium

[solar basin]

True...

[wanton sleet]

hole*

[deft harbor]

balala ahhhh font

[gray cove]

WHERE’S MY GODDAMN MONEY

did anyone made a moon knight joker ?

Revo probably

[solar basin]

1000 seconds. 97 cards.
28 million calculations.

[fossil palm]

balala has one of those really round fonts like comic sans i think

[white scarab]

please don't make me put comic sans as my game font 😭

[solar basin]

it's been 20 minutes

[deft harbor]

Even worse

[solar basin]

https://i.imgur.com/z8b81l9.jpeg

i have to kill it atp

[cold orchid]

nah, let it run

[solar basin]

cryptid becoming more optimized was a blessing and a curse

[silent bane]

anyone know how to speed this up

for some reason playing the hand is like 1x speed but cashing the gold cards is 4x like normal

[solar basin]

i killed it

[twilit jetty]

Hey, does anyone know where the term "CCD" comes from? I know what it means (a playing card with a consumable as an enhancement), but what do the letters stand for?

[tranquil vessel]

#1203578282709094491 message

also known as: https://discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1212937474737963078

[fossil palm]

These are actually significantly harder to implement

[gray cove]

Aka also known as also known as

[fossil palm]

This is because they are conditionals, not restrictions

so i basically have to tell the game to say No! You didn't win

[mossy ledge]

is there any mods that allow multiple enhancement/version/seals on a single card/joker?

[desert crystal]

anyone up, trying to get something working over in #💻・modding-dev

[dusky heart]

Where are you seeing this error? Are you using Dim's Modpack Manager?

[cold orchid]

i was just using steammodded and loves, no mod manager (till right this second, i found the balatro mod manager here)

[dusky heart]

BMM should be able to set up and handle everything for you. It sounds like you might have placed the mods in the wrong folder

[surreal lantern]

trying to do a basic texture pack anyone know what might be wrong with this code of if I need to do something.

this happens on start

[cold orchid]

bmm seems good so far, for mods not available from bmm i just need to drop them in the mod folder right

[dusky heart]

That's right. Extract them into their own folders inside %AppData%/Balatro/Mods, making sure they're not accidentally nested within multiple unnecessary layers of folders

[wheat egret]

Just a little bit of tags

[hard plank]

hello ava

[fossil palm]

They become real and then jimbo comes out of the screen and tells you to play frisbee with him using them

[fossil palm]

haiiii

[gray cove]

How do i submit myself for charity

[fossil palm]

elaborate

[haughty gyro]

chat, what did they mean by this? 🤨

[gray cove]

The world needs more sugar

[haughty gyro]

I agree

[gray cove]

Man

It’s

[haughty gyro]

it makes food sweet and taste good

[gray cove]

3:52 am

[haughty gyro]

time zone moment

[gray cove]

Whats your time ?

[haughty gyro]

it's 10:53 pm for me

[gray cove]

Dang😭

7 hour is crazy

Wait

[haughty gyro]

ye

5 hours

[gray cove]

Am i right

Yeah 5

[fossil palm]

Figured this one out

[haughty gyro]

that uhhh sure is a choice of words

[gray cove]

Good job

[fossil palm]

blame the original unused line

I'll probably change that wording

[haughty gyro]

what do you mean?

[fossil palm]

there's an unused challenge descriptor for a set seed

so i just decided to roll with that instead of making my own

had to make the functionality myself though

[haughty gyro]

so that word was already in the base game code?

[fossil palm]

oh MINCE?

no that's from #🧩・challenges

[haughty gyro]

OH

that's a C

I could not tell with the font

[fossil palm]

I have no idea what you think it'd say

[haughty gyro]

please disregard

[fossil palm]

anyways since i realize Heeeey september seeds aren't going to do the same thing

[gray cove]

Yeah

Are you stupid

[fossil palm]

i'm just gonna cheat a little and add equivalents

[haughty gyro]

no just blind, apparently

[gray cove]

😭😭give me one letter that looks like c

What did you thought it was tho

I’m curious

[fossil palm]

Always having the Dagger will be replaced with an Eternal Dagger, for example

[haughty gyro]

anyways, sprite design is coming along well, but slowly

[tranquil vessel]

G

[plush hound]

it looks like C

yall seen the human font?

[subtle helm]

i think its a bit of levels

[fossil palm]

🥳

i can now say i've beaten a challenge that was intended to be beaten over a year ago

[haughty gyro]

two zodiacs to go...

[raw kite]

Anyone know how I can my .png and .Lua files into Balatro.exe on steam deck? I tried to use peazip but that kept giving me errors when trying to add them in the archive

[dusky heart]

That should work, although it's not a recommended way to install mods. Make sure Balatro isn't running while you do it

[raw kite]

That's the way I ended up doing it on windows. Is there a reason why it isn't recommended?

[dusky heart]

Replacing .lua files means it's only possible to install 1 mod without risking conflicts. If multiple mods want to make changes to the same .lua file, you're out of luck. It'll also break whenever Balatro is updated

Lovely handles all the code and asset injection automatically, so mods can play nicely with each other and modify only the minimum amount of code they need to run

https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki

For a guide on installing Lovely and Steamodded

[raw kite]

Oh nice! I'm only really changing the card look and name of cards, but I'm guessing that can still break?

[dusky heart]

If you just want to make your own tweaks and not install any other mods, it's probably the easiest method, but it will all get deleted the next time Balatro updates, which might be in 5 minutes or 6 months time

Steamodded is large and complex to learn, but Lovely patches are pretty simple to get a grasp of - they're basically just "Find this code in this file, replace with this code"

Also means you can share your mods with the world, if that's something that interests you

[haughty gyro]

one more...

[raw kite]

Nah this mod is just for me and my mom lol

[raw kite]

So do you recommend both for what I'm doing

Or just lovely

[dusky heart]

If it's working for you already, it's probaly not worth the effort. Just keep backups of the files you've changed for when Balatro updates and you'll be set.
The "right way" would be to use Lovely for code edits, and Steamodded along with something like Malverk for texture replacements

[raw kite]

Aw man that sounds like a lot of work to do on 2 steamdecks

But ig the right way is best

[uneven shard]

Looking to replace joker icons on MacOS Monterey. How do I access the file path that leads me to the icon image? Barely anything online for it.

[dusky heart]

For sure it's a lot more work, and probably a lot of learning. If it's just for you two, keep doing what you're doing, it's all good

[hard plank]

icons?

[uneven shard]

The textures of the jokers

On windows it's as easy as unzipping the .exe file and replacing the images but I have no idea how to do it on mac

[hard plank]

have you tried checking inside the .app file

[fossil palm]

ive dealt with the updating problem in other games by just running a winmerge on the base files and seeing what changed

that way it's almost a manual update

[uneven shard]

Not sure what that is

this?

[hard plank]

yeah

[uneven shard]

Yeah it's all shit I can't open

[hard plank]

show screenshot actually

like what's in it

[fossil palm]

resources folder

i believe

[hard plank]

check inside Balatro.love

[fossil palm]

oh rigggght

[uneven shard]

I can't open it

[fossil palm]

LOVE files are just ZIPs i think

let me check

[uneven shard]

Ah let me try and extract

perfect!

it's in there

thank you

both of y'all

[dusky heart]

That works. For Noita I keep a private git repo and auto-commit all updates to have a full diff histor, but that's because that game is packed full of secrets and changes to code and assets have historically led to interesting new discoveries

[fossil palm]

yup

[uneven shard]

so weird lmao

[fossil palm]

There are

a LOT of formats which are just renames of others lmao

[uneven shard]

why don't we just stick with the same shit 💔

[hard plank]

i have a Mac i know

[fossil palm]

speaking of fuck the .app format

because it's not even a format

it's just a folder

[dusky heart]

Don't reinvent the wheel, just call it a SuperVVeel and call it a day

[uneven shard]

When I update the texture, will I have to compress it again? or can I just leave it. If I leave it, will I remove the old love file?\

[fossil palm]

that your mac graciously treats as an application

[echo flint]

Applications/Balatro.app/.../Balatro.love

rename to Balatro.zip and rename

[raw kite]

Gotchya, the only problem is that I don't want her to run into anything when there's an update yk?

[fossil palm]

You'll need to compress it again and replace I think? Always keep a backup of the original

[hard plank]

omg htrowii

[echo flint]

omg aiko

hewwo

[uneven shard]

booooo I will just reinstall if it gets corrupted or lost

[echo flint]

.ipa files are just fancy zips

literally just Payload/...app renamed to a .zip

[hard plank]

we have tooling for skin mods 😭

[echo flint]

meow

[fossil palm]

dont reinvent the wheel but likeeee come on guys

Really

[dusky heart]

Even with the Lovely + Steamodded approach, there's no guarantee that updates won't break things. If Thunk changes the code you're patching it'll stop working and need to be fixed anyway. Disabling auto-update for Balatro (if that's possible on Steam Deck?) would be the easiest solution

[hard plank]

true

[fossil palm]

hmm

let me see

[uneven shard]

auto updating is a cancer for the storage on all of my devices

I wish it was off by default

[raw kite]

I see what you mean

[fossil palm]

mmm

it can be done in Desktop Mode

but even so

not specifically for Balatro

[raw kite]

Man I hate Linux

[echo flint]

linux slays

until it blows up

[raw kite]

Which is in T-50 seconds

Why can't I just have my 7zip and be done

[hard plank]

i don't use Linux

I'm a normie

[echo flint]

exactly

im a macos scrub

[raw kite]

The UI is the only good thing

[lilac atlas]

are there any good mods that act like game ‘extensions’? Like
tons of extra jokers and decks while still feeling vanilla-ish ((aka not cryptid))

[haughty gyro]

13 sprites later

[echo flint]

yeah and it doesn't blow up instantly

[hard plank]

😒

[raw kite]

Very true

[hard plank]

good thing i didn't actually use zodiac signs

how will you deal with Maximus Zodiac slot

[haughty gyro]

I don't know what that means

[hard plank]

#1329150573479596032

they have zodiac sign consumable slot

[haughty gyro]

consumable slot?

[hard plank]

mine

they added a whole new card area

[haughty gyro]

like separate from the normal consumable inventory

ah

these go in the normal consumable cardarea

[lilac atlas]

you drive a hard bargain

[echo flint]

trolling

[hard plank]

my mod doesn't have ^mult

trust

[lilac atlas]

hm

[hard plank]

-# ...yet

[lilac atlas]

surely nothing could go wrong!!!

[haughty gyro]

is there smods compatibility for ^mult and ^chips?

[lilac atlas]

add

immediately

[echo flint]

how does ^mult work

?

[lilac atlas]

mult
gets ^

exponential increase

[hard plank]

detroit 3

don't play it

[echo flint]

that little boy joker on reddit looked interesting

[echo flint]

so multiply itself

[haughty gyro]

Just wait until I invent Mult! and Chip!. Who'll be laughing then?

[lilac atlas]

GAMBLING

[hard plank]

2^Mult gaming where

[lilac atlas]

when are we getting mult^^3

[haughty gyro]

shoutout to tetration

[lilac atlas]

🔥

[lilac atlas]

mult^^^chips when

[haughty gyro]

this is how we fry our pcs

[lilac atlas]

would this just be naninf

[hard plank]

no

this is value with talisman

if no talisman it's just ^3

[haughty gyro]

what is a talisman

[lilac atlas]

ohhh

[hard plank]

the fucking mod required by Cryptid

[fossil palm]

the you win card: mult set to math.huge + 1

[haughty gyro]

gotcha! that's why I don't know, because I haven't played those mods

anyways, now I need to invent a 13th hand type, because I have 13 Zodiac cards. And my Reverse Fool needs to be able to turn one into the other

could I have avoided this by not including Ophiuchus? Sure. But where's the fun in that?

[lucid acorn]

Doesn’t it like

Unlock the scoring limit

And some other stuff

[hard plank]

development tomorrow

[lucid acorn]

5 stone cards

[hard plank]

literally Cryptid

[lucid acorn]

Indeed

[lilac atlas]

I saw this and choked on my water

HOW DOES THIS WORK

[hard plank]

LMAO

[lilac atlas]

ohhh I make words

that’s really cool tho

[hard plank]

i might or might not have turned balatro into a completely different game

[lilac atlas]

I finished the first blind and the game crashed

[hard plank]

what is the crash

i will fix it later

please send

[lilac atlas]

something about calling a number and it coming up as nil
I exited already I’ll see if I can replicate it

[hard plank]

hmmmm

[lilac atlas]

yup

[hard plank]

ohhh

ok

[lilac atlas]

I got the free shop tag if that has any reason to do with it

[haughty gyro]

yeah this is literally from cryptid

hmmm

what else could I do

I want to make it at least reasonably achievable on an average run

[hard plank]

ok can you download the newest version

i fixed it

sorry for the delay

[lilac atlas]

ah oki

is alr

[lucid acorn]

Dang

Speed

[lucid acorn]

Hmmm

Could do like

All odds/all evens

[lilac atlas]

where IS the newest version- there's a lotta messages-

[lucid acorn]

Idk

[hard plank]

you redownload from github

the green code button

[raw kite]

Hey sorry to bring this up again, but where does my PNG and .Lua files come into play once Lovely and SteamSteamodded are installed

[haughty gyro]

this thought crossed my mind, it's effectively like a flush on checkered, but face cards get in the way

[lilac atlas]

ohh thats what you meant- thought you meant another link mb

[lucid acorn]

Oh, true

I mean, you could make royal flush its own hand

Since it already has a name in game

Its just not scored any differently

[vapid jetty]

IT CRASHED IN THE MIDDLE OF MY BEST RUN

[haughty gyro]

this is true I could just do that

I kinda like the evens/odds though

[lucid acorn]

Yea

It could just exclude face cards

But that might be lame

[hard plank]

me taking yet another L

[haughty gyro]

I would definitely exclude them

[lucid acorn]

Then yea, I like odds/evens

I was thinking it could be called mod2 or something, but that doesn’t really fit the theme afaik

(Idk what the theme is)

[hard plank]

huh

[haughty gyro]

I'd just need to calculate the probability of drawing the hand in a default game of poker to figure out how hard it is to play, for scoring and scaling purposes

[lilac atlas]

might be because i loaded a previous run

i'll make a new run and try

[hard plank]

this comes up again

what happened

[lucid acorn]

Would it be a even/odd straight

Or just 5 evens/odds

I think it’d be easier to pull off than a two pair

[haughty gyro]

probably just evens/odds. Because if they're all different rank that makes it as hard to play as a royal straight

[lucid acorn]

True

[hard plank]

what did you do before it crashes actually

[lucid acorn]

Based off of my gut, I’d say it should scale between 1 and 2 pair

But idk the actual odds

[haughty gyro]

I was literally typing this out as you sent it lmao

[lilac atlas]

i mightve messed up here
i've heard that mods don't work if the file is more than 1 deep so
the folder lead to one folder which contained the mod so i eliminated the extra step and am trying again

[lucid acorn]

Great minds think alike

Idk what this egg portrays as a reaction

[lilac atlas]

IT DID NOT CRASH
@hard plank i think we aight

[lucid acorn]

I just keep throwing it around

[hard plank]

hopefully

[haughty gyro]

in this context, our heads. our brains

[lucid acorn]

Indeed

[hard plank]

im adding more to the letter system

later

[vapid jetty]

Is there a way to pull a file to reupload and continue the run? Idk what to do and I'm scared to touch this because I really don't want to lose this one if I can help it

[hard plank]

remove saturn lol

[haughty gyro]

no more straights 🙏

[hard plank]

yuri

most likely

[haughty gyro]

balatro is a yuri game after all

[vapid jetty]

Done. 🫡

is the file lost? can I somehow get the save to revive the game?

besides restarting, I just got Perkeo for the first time 😩

[lilac atlas]

i was wondering how the base jokers interact with the letters

[hard plank]

letters in letter deck has no suit

so it does not get debuffed by those

or buffed

by the suits

[lilac atlas]

i see
and are there jokers that do buff/affect letters?

[hard plank]

or rank

[lilac atlas]

excluding mult multipliers and stuff

[hard plank]

only have one rn and that's maxwell's notebook

where you get what you spell

[lilac atlas]

ohh

fun!!!

it seems really interesting and i will experiment more later

[wraith seal]

hi aiko

[hard plank]

who is aiki

[wraith seal]

im sorry

:(

[hard plank]

you haven't even beaten the stupidly difficult challenge of detroit 3

[wraith seal]

-# i just got back from school

-# im gonna attempt to download your mod on [REDACTED] so i can try beating it without needing to go to home

:3

[fossil palm]

Balatro but to use a Joker's ability, you must win its associated microgame

[hard plank]

BalatroWare

[fossil palm]

see i may do this just to see how far i can push the cutscene system

[hard plank]

you'll have to make a new state

[echo flint]

meow

[echo flint]

wait John Balatro

beat the game to gain x5 mult on it, but every blind starts a new game

[fossil palm]

Yeahhhh I could do that

(potentially lying out of her ass)

[echo flint]

totally

[fossil palm]

I may actually try to see if such a thing is possible

problem is i need to look at nesting limits in tables

[hard plank]

i could do that

[echo flint]

i could NOT do that

keepin it eral

real*

[fossil palm]

i mean it's sorta simple if you think about it

have the gamestate contain a gamestate

[echo flint]

it's just how do you keep track of the past game state

[hard plank]

adding this as a hardcore challenge

[fossil palm]

Fuuuuck i was going to make it a bullshit one

💔

[hard plank]

you can make a bullshit version of it

[echo flint]

bullshit?

[hard plank]

I'm gonna make a non bullshit version

[fossil palm]

Part of the collection of such classics as "Every single card, Joker, Consumable, and Booster Pack is debuffed/face down"

[echo flint]

you made it? :o

[fossil palm]

yeahhh hold on let me forward some video footage ive sent of it

[hard plank]

bullshit challenges

it is truly bullshit

faced down booster pack is crazy

[fossil palm]

it also now has the September Demo challenges as a bonus

[hard plank]

that's the easy part

ok chat what if instead of hardcore it's daily challenge

[fossil palm]

here's the debuff one

[echo flint]

so like

why

D:

[hard plank]

pain and suffering

[echo flint]

True

[fossil palm]

flipped booster

it's funny how it hasn't been a full day and already mountains of this is outdated

[echo flint]

you're a fast dev

[fossil palm]

because fuck your somewhat balanced roguelike keep it up to chance

[fossil palm]

when i'm motivated, anyways

I can very easily neglect things

[hard plank]

me fr

[fossil palm]

once i'm done with the basic outline for the (at least) 10 Bullshit challenges i'll ask somebody i know to playtest it

to see if it's literally impossible or too easy

i want it to be to the point you can blame the game but also know you could've slightly steered the course yourself

(except for face down. That one's just funny)

[hard plank]

i don't think you'll be able to slightly steer the course

[fossil palm]

i mean for stuff like Boss Rush and All Debuffs?

There are things you could do

[echo flint]

i have not gotten my bot to play the game

D:

[fossil palm]

you have 52 hands/discards to work with

face down is just entirely bullshit though i admit thst

it's the one intentionally rotten apple in the barrel of bad ones

[alpine bluff]

corruption mod's gonna have some crossover content with cryptid in the first playable alpha (which is also when i'll make an actual mod thread)

[plush hound]

hitting this with Talisman on is crazy

[vestal valve]

did you beat the small blind though

[alpine bluff]

something glitched and set your score to nan

[plush hound]

almost

[fossil palm]

boriiing. instead it should say Really Big Amount Wow Dude

[hard plank]

it should just say yes

[uneven zinc]

Any info on mobile modding?

When/if it will be a thing

[hard plank]

no

[plush hound]

nah

[plush hound]

i figure

it fails me immediately

[fossil wedge]

guyssss

what does "type mult" and "type chips" mean in the cryptid mod

[hard plank]

i was gonna reply to this like wow

[alpine bluff]

jolly and sly

and others akin to em

[hard plank]

might be making my own version of the funny suit planets

[fossil wedge]

does lusty joker count

nvm

got it

thank you hexa

[latent dragon]

can anyone help with this report

[alpine bluff]

is it gud

[hard plank]

mmmm yes

[echo flint]

should be doable on iOS

since lovely works there already, but needs to be jailbroken

[hard plank]

me when rule 4

[echo flint]

thats personal info

am i trippin

[hard plank]

modding rule 4

[echo flint]

o

oops

[echo flint]

vencord spotted

what do people use for making pixel art

[vestal valve]

aseprite/libresprite

[hard plank]

I'm on phone

[echo flint]

cool:o

[hard plank]

most people use Aseprite

or Libresprite

[echo flint]

how did you learn pixel art?

[hard plank]

i just watch a bunch of YouTube tutorials n shit

and then i just do it

[fossil palm]

the correct way to do pixel art is to grab your alto recorder and play a song to your pixels to lull them to sleep in perfect positions

[hard plank]

i just pray

[dusky heart]

something something magnetised needle and a steady hand something something

[hard plank]

what is that

[dusky heart]

https://xkcd.com/378/

xkcd: Real Programmers

Real programmers set the universal constants at the start such that the universe evolves to contain the disk with the data they want.

[hard plank]

(i thought you meant drawing tablets)

[fossil palm]

real programmers don't program and instead send completely random inputs through their USB port

[hard plank]

the monkey problem

[fossil palm]

this random usb will eventually write Cryptid

[hard plank]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem

the modern equivalent

[raw junco]

Hey guys. Anyone know of a reliable steam deck modding tutorial? It’s my only platform I have to play atm that can be used to mod Balatro. Thanks 🙂

[wraith seal]

doesnt steam deck run a pc version of balatro

[hard plank]

i actually don't know how to do it for Linux

[hard plank]

yes

[wraith seal]

-# but if you are talking about coding - can you even do that??

[hard plank]

you can

[wraith seal]

like, i thought steam deck runs steam only

[hard plank]

just connect keyboard

[wraith seal]

oh

[hard plank]

and go to desktop mode

[wraith seal]

if thats the case, probably identical to the modding guide for pc

[hard plank]

literally just Linux PC

[wraith seal]

i see

[hard plank]

i think you can use the same thing as Linux guide

[raw junco]

So look up the Linux guide? And put my deck in desktop mode?

[wraith seal]

ye

[dusky heart]

These instructions are pretty comprehensive
https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki

Paying special attention to:

[hard plank]

my mod has the null card now

[haughty gyro]

new hand just dropped

[hard plank]

BACRYPTIDARO

[wraith seal]

yipee

[wraith seal]

what the hell is that anomaly of a poker hand

[hard plank]

damn i love working with ui

[haughty gyro]

perhaps I should add a line that mentions the exclusion of face cards

[hard plank]

...

@wraith seal time to actually add fire

[wraith seal]

:3

[hard plank]

:3

[wraith seal]

good luck

probably isnt that hard, but just to be sure

wheres the legendere joker skin for malverk

💔

cant seem to find it except for the one on nexus mods

[lucid acorn]

So if I wanted to play crytpid, do I have to uninstall steammodded?

[dusky heart]

The opposite. Cryptid needs Steamodded

Just make sure to use the latest dev version as currently Cryptid 0.5.5 requires a newer version than the released version of Steamodded.

Latest Steamodded release version 0312b
Cryptid 0.5.5 requires 0314c or newer
Latest Steamodded dev version 0315b

It's also included in the Cryptid zip if you download Cryptid 0.5.5 from releases

[lucid acorn]

I'm asking if I have to uninstall the version I downloaded earlier

from github

and use the cryptid version

[haughty gyro]

anybody know any mods that use smods and add custom planet cards?

[lucid acorn]

Also if so, will this prevent me from playing with other mods?

[dusky heart]

The version Cryptid needs is just a slightly newer (by 2 days) version of Steamodded, almost everything else should work with that newer version too

The only big exception to this that I can think of is Jen's Almanac, but there are already big warnings about that in the Cryptid server where you can get it from

[lucid acorn]

gotcha

now time to figure out how to open my mods folder

Is the mods folder supposed to show up under my balatro local files? Because it is not

[wraith seal]

the mods folder is always supposed to be here

in %appdata% -> Balatro

[lucid acorn]

Mmmmh

I have found it

thanks

I literally did this a few hours ago and forgot how to instantly

[wraith seal]

lmfao

[lucid acorn]

Peak

[noble sonnet]

Just got back to playing balatro, but struggling to find out if my versions of lovely and steammodded are outdated

[signal wave]

laughs in Smash player

[lucid acorn]

You could always just replace them anyways

[noble sonnet]

Ah.

[signal wave]

Lovely should be 0.7.1
Steamodded you'd best just update it from the github page if it's been a while.

[lethal reef]

I've just been keeping them up to date with balatro mod manager, is neatto even if still alpha/beta(I forget which)

[signal wave]

btw, I need rarity advice for Shulk. He cycles Monado (listed effects) every 3 Hands played

[dusky heart]

If in doubt:

1. Verify file integrity in Steam
2. Delete dwmapi.dll in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Balatro IF it is there
3. Install Lovely 0.7.1 version.dll to that same folder
4. Install Steamodded into %AppData%/Balatro/Mods

[signal wave]

I'm thinking Rare, tbh

[signal wave]

Thoughts?

[hidden marlin]

I know I downloaed a TON of mods but I have been struggling with crash messages, Can anyone say what went wrong? (I was going to the shop before the game crashed btw):

[vocal flicker]

bro
I get that I modded it wrong on accident
but they have got to change that color 😭

I thoguht I got a blue screen

[hidden marlin]

also maybe important note: I am also using the balatro mod manager

[hard plank]

meo

[hard plank]

update your mods and steamodded

also where is MY mod

[hidden marlin]

aha oki

[dusky heart]

This is the special kind of "HEY YOU 🫵 YOU BROKE SOMETHING" crash screen, most of them are a much less exciting gray colour

[hard plank]

🫵

[vocal flicker]

still scary 😭

[hard plank]

HEY YOU

🫵

YOU BROKE SOMETHING

[plush hound]

you got the bright dark blue

you got the gray

AND

you got

whatever the hell is this

[hard plank]

the "it's too early"

[tired flare]

I have no idea what I'm looking at lmao
think someone can dumb it down for me?

[hard plank]

update cryptid 🗣️

[tired flare]

Thanks so much
I was going to stare at this for hours and have no idea what I was supposed to do

[hard plank]

yeahhh

[blissful stag]

big block of text

oh wait this is modding chat

[dusky heart]

Update Cryptid AND Steamodded, since Cryptid 0.5.5 requires a newer version than Steamodded 0314c

https://github.com/MathIsFun0/Cryptid/releases/tag/v0.5.5

And also copy the Steamodded folder from inside that zip

[dusky heart]

Oh, and also update Lovely, since Steamodded isn't compatible with Lovely 0.6.0:
https://github.com/ethangreen-dev/lovely-injector/releases/tag/v0.7.1

[tired flare]

managed to get everything working smoothly
Who know trying to update my steamodded would turn into such a hassle?
Thanks again you guys

[tired flare]

Well, I thought things were going smoothly, then Perkeo decided to crash me on a test run.
[SMODS _ "src/utils.lua"]:1351: attempt to index local 'edition' [a nil value]
Legit all that happened was Perkeo activated.

it's late, I'm getting some sleep, I'll try more troubleshooting in the morning.

[stoic bolt]

its so over

its SO over

[hard plank]

😭

what the negative repeater doin

[stoic bolt]

like

X1M

• blueprint

[hard plank]

wtf

[stoic bolt]

THATS ENOUGH CARDS

[signal wave]

THAT'S ENOUGH SLICES

[hard plank]

did you do the for the love of god thin your deck

i originally had that number at 50x 52

but it immediately crashes my game when i try to play

[distant badge]

what happens when you click about 3 random buttons during cryptid runs

[stoic bolt]

yes

1040 cardzx

[hard plank]

i want to see this challenge deck getting thin

[hard plank]

i guess I'm making a 5x deck challenge where the goal is to thin your deck to be 0

[signal wave]

EZ GG just play with LobCorp

[hard plank]

basically uno

[hard plank]

true

banning lob corp joker that one in specific

[signal wave]

So does For The Love Of God Thin Your Deck require you to have a certain deck size or smaller to win?

[hard plank]

no you just ante 8 win normal

[signal wave]

Interesting.

[hard plank]

goes hard with hibana btw

[stoic bolt]

mountain of smiling bodies?

[hard plank]

yes

[stoic bolt]

the mod is literally so unstable that when i click others in options it crashes

[hard plank]

lobcorp?

[stoic bolt]

yep

[CENSORED] is literally broken

the mod is in hiatus

[hard plank]

but hey they have Jen's Almanac unofficial new calc port now so i can test my blinds against that

[signal wave]

... it... works for me...

for the most part...

like yeah it's a little sketchy sometimes but it still works enough for me to have more abnormalities unlocked than not... without having used unlock all

[stoic bolt]

[CENSORED] is the biggest problem

literally crashes the game

[golden remnant]

What's the name of this mod. I may need lt

[hard plank]

wtf calamity mod wiki

[signal wave]

I mean... Censored works fine for me...

[hard plank]

#1248249207526002698

[golden remnant]

Thanks!

[signal wave]

yeah... that... I'm just slow

[hard plank]

try my mod

[golden remnant]

That's me

[full edge]

#1326135270759993364

[signal wave]

I'm not sure why it would crash the game. It works just fine for me, does exactly what's intended.

[fallow bramble]

you should get Cartomancer to avoid this

[hard plank]

probably also my fault for putting that many cards

[compact hinge]

i've got three es in my round score. i have the world at my fingertips. what next

[ripe summit]

Alright so I have very little idea what I'm reading.
Any help?

[hard plank]

try my mod

[compact hinge]

what does your mod do

does it add a guy

i love a mod that adds a guy!

[hard plank]

yes

[compact hinge]

then thats wonderful :3

but how does it help me with my suffering from success

the banality of three e

[hard plank]

it makes you suffer

instead of success

[compact hinge]

i mean, getting there was some of the fun

[latent crescent]

[hard plank]

meet guy

[hard plank]

wtf

real

[stoic bolt]

you should make the evil versions of plants and spectrals as well

[wanton rapids]

maybe later but cant be bothered

[hard plank]

also hello notmario

[wanton rapids]

hello

[hard plank]

how are you feeling today

[wanton rapids]

alright

current rotated tarot list

[hard plank]

i might be going insane soon

[stoic bolt]

hermit is goated

[hard plank]

Cult Monus

[prisma latch]

random joker concept i might add to my mod idk:
The Mimic
If played hand is 1 card away from a Straight, Flush, or Straight Flush, create the missing card and add it to hand.

[full edge]

fun idea, though there's definitely the vanilla jokers and wildcards that are going to make this a bigger challenge than you're prepared for 😛

[polar oyster]

Four finger but better?

[wanton rapids]

not necessarily

since this doesn't get you the funny straight flushes

[prisma latch]

wha? which jokers would make this harder? if you're talking shortcut and four finger that shouldnt be too hard to take into consideration

[hard plank]

couldn't you just check for straight length - 1

[wanton rapids]

that wouldn't hit 2 3 5 6 i think

[hard plank]

hmmm

[prisma latch]

i can just sort the hand, loop through it, check if the card is 1 bigger than the previous, or two bigger with shortcut

[hard plank]

actually

how would you deal with flush and straight in the same hand

[prisma latch]

lemme mock up some pseudocode for how i'd do it rq

max_gap = 2 if has_shortcut else 1
sorted_hand= scored_hand.sort()
flush = true
straight = true
for i = 2, #sorted_hand do
  if sorted_hand[i].rank - sorted_hand[i-1].rank > max_gap then
    straight = false
  end
  if sorted_hand[i].suit ~= sorted_hand[i-1].suit do
    flush = false
  end
end

there's a bit more nuance obv but thats a good start

[latent crescent]

max_gap = 2 if has_shortcut else 1
Is this valid syntax?

[prisma latch]

no! it's pseudocode :)

[dusky heart]

It is in Python!

[latent crescent]

max_gap = 1 + #SMODS.find_card('j_shortcut')

[prisma latch]

thx

ok so i have a concept for mimic joker now i just need david and edwin
my name is jimbo i made the mimic

[latent crescent]

Looks like more shortcuts = bigger gap was unnotices

[prisma latch]

i did not realise shortcuts stacked