#⚙・modding-general
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what the fuck am i doing
It's strange that Greedy Joker and Gluttonous Joker have completely different descriptions in wiki (https://balatrowiki.org/w/Greedy_Joker https://balatrowiki.org/w/Gluttonous_Joker)
Greedy Joker is a Joker that provides conditional Additive Mult to played hands. One of the four 'sinful' Jokers made to support specific Card Suits, it gives +3 Mult each time a Diamonds card is scored. If the played card is retriggered, either by a Joker effect or by its own Red Seal, Greedy Joker's effect will activate again.
As Diamonds hav...
"[name] is being brainwashed by the gay"
my brother says
because I dont hate gay people
I did one final pass on the ordering of the sections as prescribed in the style guide, but that's a small thing
counterbrainwash him
I dont think im gay
you don't need to be gay to perform brainwashing
holy shit ur brother's homophobic 😭
well, can murder be an alternative?
possibly
bit late noticing 😭 /lh
i just opened the channel ,,
paint my nails
Thanks!
someone cared enough to write a completely new introduction for greedy, while gluttonous is still the original introduction from a year ago 🤷
people have painted my nails but ive never done it myself 😭
my nails are like short as fuck
nice
I feel like this is relatively common? It's true for me anyway
jesus
me if I were a pokemon
just like pour liquid metal on my hands or something idk
jesus
And no I dont mean gallium
i guess so
methinks that would hurt
I dont thinks
again what?
usjes
wha? 😭
If it's not difficult, how do I make {{enhancement|Wild}} in miraheze?
yes
I don't think the modded wiki has them?
it's also relatively new on the vanilla wiki so
I'll double it and give it to the next guy
a bag of hot potato chips
we want peggle 3
@magic brook whelp, here is what I've done
sorry for the not great quality
Its alright
Better than any deck ive ever made
2x scale
thats what im sayin
pea
SNOW PEA
Imma make a sleeve of this
is no pea
I can do it
Sleeves are easy enough
I can see that
but If you insist
Teserex
Asked me
To ask you
If you could make an enhancement sprite
That i asked him to
Yk nevermind
y
ah
He couldnt actually
Wait alil
k
do you like my jokers
Love em
woah whats this
A deck I made for someone
yes
yes
Omg don chan
rhythm gaming
aikoshen stays
I think I like linkin park
what
I'm so lazy to make a mod (not balatro), but I need to do it because its related to Christmas
time
look at the time
who is time
@rеality
or I guess you could say...
look @ time
wa
what app is that, who is time
santa mod where you get to sit on santas lap
santa mod: every joker is jolly
@lavish pike
this guy turns playing cards to divine cards
Also @lament sleet made this
<@&1133519078540185692>
FIRST
free money glitch
thx mods
free steam card with 100$
❌
yes
yes
you are better than me 100x and it can be with everyone in this chat
a butterfly will never see the beauty of its own wings
your art?
my arts bad
hmm
Im very harsh on myself
i mean i not artist and it like +-1 years (started with some resprite isaac)
compare with olds arts i good
yeah well my art is bad
beat that (dont)
yuh huh
it is
damn
sprites when i started
wait
wai
this is when i started
5/20/2024
please
😭
gay deck,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
i gotchu bro
are you
am i gay deck?
perhaps,,,,,,
this one looks good
Ima make pride decks cuz I fucking hate my brother
what does that have to do with your brother lol
what if you try cartomancer looking deck? (i tried and it looks)
how are you guys doing these pixel gradients so fast
wait you have more than 2 colours
i didnt even know this was how you do pixel gradients
i just copy cartomancer blank joker
seeing them up close opened my mind
yeah ok
a
just look them up bruh lmao
i have super cool idea maybe
trying to follow this but am getting an error
#1430922647339929771
dooreck
This looks like an internal lovely crash? I'm assuming Cappy will know, but otherwise ask one of the lovely devs
lets address the elephant in the room
thats amazing thanks for showing it to me ❤️
i assume you installed love from the ubuntu-maintained
use this one sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bartbes/love-stable
dont forget t orun sudo apt update
and reinstall love sudo apt remove love && sudo apt install love
Omg i love colorful stage
hey guys for ppl that make mods do you like publishing content as soon as its made or do you like to wait for major updates
waiting to publish content is dumb in my very very humble opinion
assuming your mod is already out i personally think it just makes you a less transparent developer and makes you more open to bugs when you do release if you don’t extensively test things
i do the major update thing because my mod is MASSIVE, and we make content rlly fast so i just don't like having updates every few days that people need to download
and plus there's a dev version that's easily downloadable
which we do bugfixing on
basically that yeah
i like doing bigish releases but i won’t push anything if i think its bugged so whenever i make the repo public pulling from main should hopefully just work
100% scrapped bdash concept (revisited for visual purposes)
-# beat the entire ante in X time!
I know that person on those cards
what are some good super vanilla+ mods?
paperback, bunco
not bunco or paperback or anything like that, looking for something super simple, just some neat jokers/blinds
you're mostly out of luck
next bro is gonna say cryptid + entropy
oh fr?
adequate aikoshen is the only thing i can really say
LOL
tbf
most vanilla+ mods have lots of content
you cant really get the good ones
vanilla+ mods are still bad in some department, paperback is not safe either
yeah, like what about them
maybe in the sense that they try to be too expansive
It's a lot easier to bugfix if there isn't a new release every few days. Releasing content in batches also means you have less designs that don't have the other content they rely on present yet
honestly I want my mod to have lots of content
right now i barely has anything
but If you want not much content
my mod right now has very little
I accidentally at 3 angel cores
and is in working condition
anti radiation
Lots of content isnt always bad, its mostly SUPER new stuff i dislike, new card types and shit
I dont even know my blind size
My mod adds 14 ranks

and 1 challenge
which has most of them
But yeah this is all my mod adds
the negative ranks take chips
i dont hate new things lol, i just like easing into new things
so its in a challenge
uh
neat, but why?
My friend installed the launcher and multiplayer mod for Balatro. Everything works fine for me, but my friend is getting an error message. What could be causing this?
chedda cheese 
becuase it makes the game harder
for a challenge
multiplayer moment
"what's that block called"
my brother says
uninstall the mod and change it to english
cool concept icl, i like it
😭
i updated crotchet card
apparently he was talking about the heavy core
can you try it, Id love feedback
this worked, thx
How does one crotchet cards
100%, DM me the mod and ill give it a shot tomorrow
Message
Nuh uh
accept friend request so we can dm
pls
I technically played it but i shoved it into a mega cryptid modpack out of boredom which means i experienced it in the objectively worst way
cool mod
Only if you try my mod (afrer it updates)
i did TINY adjustment for these sprites
It's better than some other art I've seen for jokers
Peggle
tell your friend to switch language to english or download from https://github.com/Balatro-Multiplayer/BalatroMultiplayer/archive/refs/heads/main.zip
Btw thought I'd share this: Using the Friends of Jimbo laytout, I made this
me when fake Eternal
For people who want to fix up their enhancements
datafixerupper
Next update i gotta add 60 jokers and 30 fusions
that's neat
My mod too small
Do you have fusions
I don't think you are legally obligated to do that but ok
Just to show my joker update, the last 5 are inverted to show I'm not working on those slots
please add compat for this
I still have all the tarots and planets for now
Compat for what
What the fluff
Fusion duh
I'm gonna remove all blinds and just have "Larger" and "Even Larger" blinds as placeholders
looks great :-)
Wait your fusions are crossmod?
Yes
also katsu chan is flipped now
My mod works with fusion
Is that joker forge?
what joker forge
I think 32 jokers is a bit overkill for crossmod with a mod that was abandoned like 8 months ago
Oh thank god
oh what
It website for jokers making
Someone made an updated version
oh that one
I know
mcCreator balatro
ok so
But still
i would like to come clean
Loaded Deck
Start with 26 extra cards of the Light and Dark suits.
Aikoyori i swear to god
...
I made my entire family in joker forger
please forgive me
Id rather maunally code it
I made all of my real life playing cards in jokerforge
Visual studio
Dude
😭
i made this deck and i am proud of it even with the limitations
Cool
Are we deadass
The official Mayhem OST excluding old tracks is 3 hours and 19 minutes long
The non-Mayhem tracks which are also included are 33 minutes and the old tracks are probably like 3 more hours
Am i gonna overload the audio thread
Ok...
Ill see
programming is intimidating
Yeah ik
anyway average freedom deck ante
I remember when i played coonies mod collection
It overloaded my brain so much that i avoided balatro for a year
Anyways
the trying to redeem a voucher off the shop exception

tanku :3
I loved that gaem
ok somehow my brain refused to learn how to write code
How the heck did you even make the freedom deck
i slammed my head against my keyboard
my head now has an imprint of qwerty keyboard
Made it so playing cards in joker slots acted like jokers
Interesting
Les goo
please do not celebrate as this is a pivotal moment 😔
I haven't made anything mod related... since I was actually like been doing this in blender:
(nothing balatro related but... thought of experimenting)
is this anything?
😭
you making voucher-themed jokers?
no I just had that idea
So how much do you recommend thunderstore mod manager?
I had it installed for ror2 when i was playing it with my sis. and im wondering if its any good
not really
Ah. alright. i mean i do have to go about unlocking everything anyway before i thinnk about modding. i just wanted to ask if it was well any good
if it counts the one next to it is sort of similar to hieroglyph
is this UTSC thing that is made into a balatro mod?
the what
it's called time paradox and the art is undertale time paradox because I thought it was funny
sans undertale
yes!
At arts or concepts
My mod is ass cause its made by me
No exponents
Never exponents
I got an idea for joker
Somehow
oh. I see.
temporal deck that spawns a negative eternal time paradox
my mid mod is mid because it has exponents
It stores 10% of your hand score
When you sell it, it creates a joker based of how much score it absorbed
or it just transfers that score to your next few hands or something idk
😭😭😭
what am I looking at...
Whats bumpscosity
it does nothing (its a stanley parable reference)
tho it IS a silicon joker
which does help bump the numbers
gold stake didnt really seem like a problem
🥱
looks inside
its crustulum again
isn't that just seltzer
Yup
is this a lobotomy corp reskin or is it an actual mod?
Project Moon mod
So it's just good for the Abstract or Dagger.
Combination retexture, new cards, and new music
add bongbong
Which Bing Bong?
@upbeat kayak you going to add in Bongbong?
lobcorp meme
since it counts as a Silicon joker, it helps buff the other Silicon jokers that candy is making just by existing
i know about them from just existing around lobcorp fans
When I'm caught up on Cantos I'll add stuff from other works, including Leviathan and Distortion Detective, so maybe
Bongbong's not...exactly canon
Just some 4Chan nugget whom stumbled across a R Corp Rifle and kept it
I'm not against optional meme stuff, just not the focus rn
fair enough
who's bong bong
ok so
bong bong was a person on 4chan that got a shared save file of lobotomy corp and got popular
I was searching for anything related to Voice calls in the Balatro server and I found this, are these like private servers? cause I see no VC over here
Probably, yeah. Cryptid VC is presumably the VC on the cryptid server
that's just sexy
huh? 😭
Negative Lovers for every heart
+3 Mult for every Spade
+10 Chip/+4 Mult for every scored 10/4s
NEGATIVE SPECTRAL/SOULS
I am a wild deck
What on earth
So anyway how yall playing modded babatro?
tetoris…
i mod it then launch balatro
.>
Well that's insightful.
pretty good run :D
this is so fire
idea. Animation themed expansion for Kino
I mean obviously it'd be it's own add on. But I'd also have shit like Family Guy which would be a joke inclusion with the flavor text simply reading "They should've taken the hint after the first cancelation." As it does literally nothing but waste a joker slot.
no i mean you can just
make it not depend on kino
i'm making a cryptid "addon" but i have already pre-planned it so there are no direct dependencies for the majority of content
added the obligatory "Start with X thing" deck
I feel like I'm going to regret this
wait mizuki is the roating knight?
i forgor
"#$!%ing Taco Time!!!" - Beat a blind using only debuffed cards
Ive been trying to play Pokermon but I keep getting this error on start up
I even went to the config file and tried turning off the custom startup screen and its still doing this
hi so I know that editions are applied via shaders however I need them as transparent layers that I can overlay on top of other images, I know the wiki uses them but they are already merged with the base joker sprite, I was told to ask here about it
can you not just take a picture with the shader on something then use that?
no because I need to apply the shader effect to something else
but I can't just use the actual shader
I need a mask of sorts
im a watermelon
eat me
someone eat me
slice me
eat me
im so fulll
full of watermelon meat
im a bloated water melon
a melon full of water if you will
eat me someone eat me im a watermelon
🍉
are you drunk
no...? im a watermelon
eat me
can watermelon be drunk
no?
so im just a watermelon
i mean if its a thing in the mod you want to shade you can apply it via
draw = function(self, card, layer)
card.children.center:draw_shader('modprefix_shader', nil, card.ARGS.send_to_shader)
end,
no it's not related to balatro modding at all
I was just told to ask here instead of #🕹・game-discussion
i honestly have no idea how they do that on the wiki i just took photos with my old terrible editions on jimbo and edited the backgrounds out
the way the wiki recommends to do it is to use a program called GIPS with a modified version of the shader to apply it directly to an image
there's no way to get a transparent png of just the shader
what if I just... apply the shader to a black image then color to alpha it out?
don't know how to modifiy the shader tho
i could probably make a mod for hiding everything but one joker (and preventing it from rotating or casting shadow)
and the background would just be a set colour
so it could be keyed out
now i say "i" but i do not feel up for a side quest rn
but this is very possible
my shaders already dont work for some people and i have to modify them again for another program?!
seriously though reoccurring issue i've had with like 3 different shaders now i'll make a shader and it works as intended for me yet the moment other people have it they'll crash trying to run it
i'll never understand this shader shit
if i do something wrong with coding other stuff the game will explode and tell me that but if i code a shader wrong it still works for me? but tells other people it doesn't exist?? like????
hell yeah
i have a suspicion that the other people just aren't installing it right lmao
Commander Keen Joker that makes you play through one of the Commander Keen games and the more score you gain in the game you gain chips
nah i still have the code to one of these shaders if you want to try importing it to something yourself
if something tries to use this shader for some people it claims it does not exist (i personally can't get this error)
for me it works as intended and looks pretty cool
replacing the shader with this much worse one works for them tho
deck squash
yall my pc is crashing when i oppen a celest pack and its oppening whenever i boot up my mach 😭 its a amazing mach
12 ante 12 rounds
your PC is crashing or your game?
God damn what were the skip tags on the first ante
like a doubble and food
it was peper and smth alse but pepper went crazy
what should i do?
end run
11/45 jokers are done with code 18/45 jokers are done with art
my mod
This here
ortalabbed balatro would be cool
would like to see someone do that
idk what that is
-# /j
this is what hapens when i lode up my mach
i literally just sent you the thread
what is overstock
Did you crash again?
3 cards to start
67
67
i jus tryed to get ortalab
see that's your first problem
you're using Balatro Mod Manager
Most people don't use BMM
why
oh
its easy enough without and bmm can cause issues
at least most that i know
if you ask for help with bmm you are less likely to get help too
im new to moding so i jus wached a vid made buy someone caled bean
since nobody but the people using it know how it works
download it manually
does anyone know whats the instant run restart mod drspectred uses in some of his videos?
Didn't watch him in a while but I assume you're talking about brainstorm
oh yeah it is brainstorm thanks
cool
I'm the roaring knight
HOLY SHIT
Balatro clock at the top right 👀
truth nuke
I got two questions
left is from cryptid, Seal The Deal (add a random seal to each card scored on final hand of round)
I bet it plays like TMTrainer.
No why is it smaller
Seal the deal
drag your feet across a cheese grater
Freaky

Freaky 👍
that is actually true
grok : "yeah, it is true. i am mecha hitler and elon is the peak of man"
Oh shit
this is true
I’m the roaring knight
RaaaaaaaAaaa
Because of a self imposed challenge, I now have to add 3 new things to parallel update that I wasn't planning before
no it's papyrus
I am papyrus
🥱
also not true
Time to see what i have to add
If I’m the roaring knight I’m also papyrus
papyrus likes spaghetti is brothers with sans
but you're not the roaring knight
I am
Yuh huh
papyrus
george the rat im going to you
What
you cant spell man slaughter without man's laughter
shinku let me ask one thing
yes
christmas guys, in just a week
i feel like you're a bit
Scattered?
Overwhelemed?
I dunno
are you yes or no rn
I'm not creative enough ig?

im obsessed with the concept of cuddling with kittens
or
still thinking about this
hates balatro 🤔 opposite balatro is good
hmm
I don't hate balatro
that's the realist thing you've said
you should buy it., its ON sale
thanks Rice Shower
bitcoin
the slim shady pack....
i literally was just playing Vanilla
np twin
i literally flipped when i heard they added.... him.... to hitman
"im not racist, i have black friends!"
What?
When did i say I hate Balatro though?
i just came back to this chat what are we on about gang
im j 
hello j
Oh, that statement is commonly used by racists as a way to circumvent any allegations of being racist
I thought your statement was of a similar structure to that
Oh.
well if you like opposite balatro so much
only logical conclusion
balatro must be a heavy dislike
of course
except yk, balala
haiii lily :3
Hello
apparently you can only like 1 thing ever, more at 5
i find it quite sad that a mod of mine has obligated people to add compat to it
being CardPronouns
incomprehensible sentence
i see
it was meant to extend the race metaphor
but i made it more generic
Joker that gives you X5 mult if you play the rest of the run with kinnect controls
But yeah, Why do I like AU/Beta stuff?
Beta stuff is because i love looking through unused and old content. (It's why I watch stuff like Beta64)
AU? I'm probably just grasping onto Ortalab and wanting it to succeed but so concerned it's not to people's expectations. Mods like Cryptid and Yahimod really ruined what is considered a "Successful Mod"
Uh... I founded the mod so i guess?
true
i think no matter your opinion on cryptids bad design saying that it ruined whats considered a good or successful mod is a bit blegh
oh i didn't even know that 😭
Huh?
you're famous 🔥
i mean it sort of did because it introduced the bignum mods which did change the general perception of what constitutes a "good mod" somewhat
It's not the design, it's just that it seems to be EVERYWHERE and what everyone's talking about even long after the mod came out
My mod is GOOD. it adds ONE joker that has NO original art and is ABSOLUTELY overpowered and it adds ONE deck that gives you a NEGATIVE ETERNAL of the SAME JOKER and it uses XCHIP
(tw: gross mid modslop warning)
I am? Doesn't feel like it lol
xchips is ok
i like blue
use if thematic
Cavemen figuring out Balatro mods
ah yes, john mantle
i mean my point is less that it did it and more the fact that someone was going to make a mod like it eventually
big numbers are prevalent in 1 million games and it was inevitable someone was going to make a mod that broke the naneinf cap at some point and then it would be inevitable that someone would take advantage of lua's ease of variable editing to go beyond e308
horse does not approve
✅
i'm happy we got cryptid as the main form of slop because it's honestly better than the worst it couldve been
so true
cryptid is cool
blunder emoji
nah it is cool but like
cryptids cool but its also not balanced in the slightest, and 90% of the gameplay is just "haha big funny number go brrr"
by all definition, it is gamblerslop
It's coded SO GOOD in fact that if it activates more than NINE times you will get PERMANENT X0 CHIP making the run UNWINNABLE
yk
watch big number go up
and THEN you get X-0.1 CHIP
true
no gambling, all winning
what you need to do is play pvp balatro and make both players contribute to a pot
and whoever wins gets the results
true balatro gambling
yeah like chances are the average cryptid run quits to title before they lose to a blind
i had a run that got to like ante -50
-50 is crazy
I feel like my typing is like a metronome between theatrical monologues to mentally inept
i got to -naneinf with entropy once
what in tarnations
the multiplicative ante joker got infed
because of some ill-advised lamps
and various other shenanigans
and i got to see god
the evil and intimidating lamp....
big nubmer hehehehe
say that again
⭕ ⬅️
other what
Miles Teller appears
what is overscoring
score way too much and i split your body in half
honestly i do not care about if a mod is numberslop or not the real thing is that it is very easy to start working a 9-5 while playing cryptid
and then i start thinking i could be doing something else
now of course this is easier to accomplish with big number
but it can be avoided
since it is boredom not ease that causes this
my new mod will contain a mechanic where if you score higher than the blind amount then the blind size curve will go up very very slightly
h
the next vallkarri
aquillarri tomorrow
hi chat
hellooooo
how yall
please
wow
ts so peak 💔
i need this mod now
honestly
i should make this loading screen thing into an smods pr
since it would be very easy to expand it to any mod rather than just mine
the balala brainrot has gotten to me 💔 https://youtu.be/UIeT1zxsus0?si=-RxFhE3n_MER4gUQ
Practice more problem-solving at https://brilliant.org/TedEd
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Hundreds of years ago, your ancestor stole a magical tarot deck from Fate herself— and it came with a terrible cost. Once every 23 years, one member of your family must face Fate in a duel with rules only known to your opponent. And every time, generation after generation, the o...
Thinking of doing a subset for Parallel on currency
Not so much a new currency but maybe a small update based on actual money
or perhaps Gaff cards?
what
what
I was thinking of playing with adding a new scoring mechanic for a deck in parallel but i just can't think of what it should be
(Btw my comments on overwhelmed and scattered are true. I do feel like that)
I don't feel like i need a break though
I mean who really wants a blank version of balatro tbh?
lol
eheheh
Really?
Okay guess I'm not putting that one on hold
true
but I should at least put Re:Latro on hold
I mean the point is from memory, I just played vanilla
makes sense
Blanklatro is probably gonna be the most barebones for 1.0 in terms of blank
aikoshen has been in 0.2 for 9 months
version numbers are a scam made up by the government
Like you'll have to remove effects and all that yourself for the most part, you'll keep editions and stickers for blanklatro
You'll keep booster packs too
yall release your mods????
respect my boundaries please
ily nxkoo
ily2
nxkoo im sorry but is your entire games section in your bio ragebait 
which mod is better, the banner mod or the item remover mod
both of them bans things so they dont appear in shops and such
has anyone used them before?
i know what you are
banner by far
okay
it's okay i do it too
😭
:3
im taking that as a yes 
deck where you can sell playing cards but can't sell jokers
Dpes anyone perhaps know which mod is conflicting with the banner mod
or the general issue
I have no idea how to read this error :c
first line states the mod starts with a D
My D mod is DX taror master and debugplus
can someone remind me the purpose of rule 4 (modding) again because im getting someone complaining about my mod because it has a bunch of bugs on mobile and i wanna explain to them that like, yeah nobody mods balatro with mobile in mind
a bunch of legal issues regarding modding on mobile platforms
basically
they can't be caught supporting it
Bro, theres no way DX Taror Master conflicts with banner
brooo
is it because DX Tarot master doesnt show any of the delux versions in the collection?
omg joker deck...
true
feel like we all thought of ts at some point tho lmao
do they activate in hand or when played tho
in deck and held
but if you discard them nada
the unlock condition for this is jokerless lmao
OH FUCK NO
well yes I don’t expect people to actually grind the unlocks
what
another deck is locked behind a sinful lmfao
so you could try to see when the blinds outscale those
since card modifiers can’t really scale
slide github link
planets are the most relevant
ain’t releasing it yet hah
looks like jerma
true
-# (i don't get this one actually i need a reference)
banishment
I'm making sure my mod feels fresh
green penguino
"DELETED" jokers are emplaced in an offscreen card area that scores all cards within
i love
how sealable
wtf do these seal do again
because
lets ravage some blinds
IT'S ME!
yeh
I'm still mad that achievements aren't ordered
true
is this good
opposite of the code card that puts playing cards in joker slots
you can card a joker
if only i can spend like 1 more RP then it could be something funny
um
its funny because these jokers technically have rank and suit
but the suit can't show up in the suit picker
you mean 1 less
yes 1 less
that being said Missing Deck's unlock is literally [DELETED]
like having it
the wormhole deck eq is more balanced then the og
so that doesn't help too much
jokerless is too
since you uhh
don't have joker slots lmao
yeah i don't care but its not because its more/less thematic its just because you don't like it haha
i'll change it no biggie
i saw what you posted
ok so basically I'm adding another mechanic to my mod
the j has to be detonated
who is j?
ts not funny bruh

this guy stinks
one thing i need to consider about my mod is that the mechanics should be introduced gradually
so it doesn't overwhelm the player
i'm naming it rootkit even though entropy has that lmao
I'm trying to avoid the hot pot situation
where the shop tabs are all introduced at once
"the hot potato situation is crazy"
honestly playing hot pot felt like a fever dream
as in i was incredibly lost
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https://youtu.be/gHkoBcejhlw nvm i got a better one
awnser
it's like very overwhelming
and i don't want my mod to be overwhelming
i think i killed em
that's another thing
training is hard and adds new consumables when you dont need
is it that hard


