#⚙・modding-general
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this is the worst build imaginable
i kept getting ankhs go i decided to clone a polychrome skelton 4 times
more progress
oooooh
so i didn't realize pk love gamma AND omega don't have anything changed in the second half
the first half however does have a change
ripped straight from the source /j
i had to redraw these a bit
and also most recent smods update added animated jokers so 🎉
more progress (i don't have enough mods installed to showcase this properly lmao)
number of rows and columns are adjustable
do i have to center the jokerdisplay icon
up to you ig
also holy crap i'm kinda new to this server and didn't realize you're the jokerdisplay guy - huge fan
super useful
Pthere has to be something which replaces nl colors with white or something like that
Creates a Tarot Card when discarded
Cannot be manually discarded
the hook:
I rarely get that
debugplus goes hard here
I’m not using debug plus to do stuff
I only use it to force smth to test it, that was me trying to beat a run on brass stake
why do you think i mentioned it
Shits and giggles, I don’t really know sorry 😭
pretty much
more specifically that its only viable if you can spawn blinds lmfao
Yeh
Apart from that a locked card with a purple seal is rubbing salt in a freshly made wound
The wound was made from seeing such a tragedy
im boutta make a obelisk token which forces you to use obelisk to get your joker back
Would it be possible to make a joker trigger when a playing card is modified? The closest I can find is when a consumable card is used, but that wouldn't apply when, for example, midas mask or vampire modify a card
Oh, thank you
aight two questions -
- how do we feel about the look of this text box?
- does this control scheme make sense?
Looks good
opposite
to what it is
with perhaps the ability to hold shift and click
to enable/disable
though then again lmao
aight that's two for switch the buttons
(I also lowkey might just make it a toggle and render the question moot lol)
well i mean
shift+click toggle doesn't fall in that
(the reason is that i'm on a trackpad)
(and will suffer if i have to spam right clicks)
oh same, also on trackpad over here
I mostly made this feature on request from someone who clearly isn't but yeah switching it is easy enough
161 diamonds is really worth a lot
does anyone have a link to the unstable mod
If first card is debuffed, then possible negative score hmm
lol
that's totally an ace
Is this the unstable mod?
wdym
that is the mod itself?
yes
Oh oof 7 months ago
What's the odds it's going to break when I try to use it with other mods
are there 11, 12, and 13 cards?
no
when the photo is a chad
hmm unstable rank
Triggering both Todd and Steven is pretty dope
Is there a limit or is it completely dynamic
.... Why those numbers though
ive also seen pi
Lol
it is not dynamic, here's all the ranks it defines
https://balatromods.miraheze.org/wiki/UnStable/Ranks
and root 2 of spades
tom nook??
make π cards get a new suit: apple, lemon meringue, pumpkin, blueberry...
get out of my head tiny voice
Please tell me there's a custom hand if you score 0, 0.5, √2, θ, and π in one hand
Warp Zone - Loan
+200 Chips on first played card, -40 Chips for every card played in hand (including the first played card)
how WOULD you do this without Talisman? Because it currently doesn't work anymore with my current setup
What font is "joker" on the jokers written in?
Ah thank you
i posted in modding support and no one has responded
Can I just take and use this? Do I need to credit the specific person or just like "used community balatro modding assets"?
well it's not a response guaranteed channel
it's the correct channel
got it
there are no response guaranteed channels
difficult question, you can mention person it if you want
If no one's responding just try asking again later, not everyone who's online will know the answer to your problem
Fair enough lol
Stopping for now in the interest of not going insane, but at least they look pretty
last achievement is sus
Jerk it to get the achievement for free
You've made your own achievements menu? Or can you edit the default achievements menu to make it look different?
Both
If a mod doesn't require my API then it uses the original one
Interesting
I mainly did it because I was annoyed at achievement names and description localizing in separate tables and not supporting text formatting
So now they do
Viola
With the credits, config, palette editor, and the achievements menu, I've done far more UI than I have ever wanted or needed
thank you for your service
Maybe I could try to push some of this stuff to SMODS b/c it's all stuff devs could make use of but my ability or willingness to advertise my API is lacking
bruh
that's pretty fun actually!
Can anyone teach me how to
Play
what
Can u teach me how to play im new
Does the name of the altas .png have to be unique?
well the first question is what device do you have balatro installed
PlayStation
Feel free to chat with folks in #🕹・game-discussion if you have questions about the game. If you want to watch educational gameplay, hit up the Balatro University Youtube channel, especially his Balatro 101 playlist
no
well you cant have multiple pngs of the same name in a folder
you can use subfolders if thats what you want
I mean game-wide
Do I have to use the mod prefix in the names or is just jokers.png fine
latter
what if i made joker, that allows pigs fly
you won't believe this
achievement must be added where you get negative on one of your mods cards
negative nancy
that would be the premise of the mod :3
"negative nancy" just barely doesn't fit on the badge though
and idk how to make it bigger
recreating the piggy trough in balatro just to get x1.5 chips
pig firing
@plush hound hey how was your day
haaaaaiiii!! ^^
i just woke up
hbuuuu
end of my day
🥱
didnt sleep much last night but somehow felt fine today
tried my first red bull! infinite energy! i feel the wings budding on my back and a blossoming new addiction
i hope your day goes well 😆
🫂
dont get too addicted ^^
you toooo :3
aha ahhahahaha ahahahahahaha AHAHA ahahaha….
okay bro
LMAOOOOOOO
some king of deltarune brainrot
what do you mean i can contanimate the shrimp with radiation like what happened at walmart
THAT WAS A REFERENCE TO SOMETHING??
pink yellow and green
try strontim
try scrotum
hater
needle of doom and despair
I wonder how far you can get with no mult giving items, no planet cards, and no plasma deck
wing gaster appears and all of his sprites are rotoscoped
Just pure chipmaxxing
animations for literally everything and it looks so weird
What do you guys think of the updated Minos baseplate
Left
nice
I say less is more
easier to look at less than to look at more
Comparison
this doesn't really look good tbh but what do you guys think
You could get mileage out of the borders matching the gradient
New gradient tech?
"Ungradienting"
all my runs keep getting stopped before they take off
do not pull another needle if you have pk love omega
Why does having trueprint and chad crash my Balatro (Yahimod and Cryptid)
https://ko-fi.com/drspectred
https://www.twitch.tv/drspectred
High Score and High Ante Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdNGt-ihEAcHn_YPgKEQbqTbW5q7CL8JP
Challenges Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdNGt-ihEAcGbGTnKy5nVq4R4QTOfWUNp
Gold Stake, Chips only on a non-Plasma Deck (No Planets, no Lucky Cards, etc). The...
Its possible win 8 ante with wee
i just got a 1 frame wix ad before this played 😭
What if Queen from Deltarune was a grandiose joker and all she did was spawn a negative cavendish every round and selling one would give her ^1 Mult?
tf is Mult?
murder
the banana particle acellerator must be built
what can i do to make this thing not just a reusable seltzer...
it works 🎉
it's really strong wtf
X200 mult with ALPHA
beta is x0.5,
gamma is x1
and omega is x2 😭
is the theme radiation
OH FUCK
no it's related to the mother series
they have psi power scaling use greek letterings
also pk love is already bugged
(it deleted its own stored chips and mult before finishing)
huh, the first three are all types of radiation
how interesting
like damn
gawd damn
the four stones would be the suit rocks i think
mayhaps
or literally just stone card
Idk what Trade means
but in that case it would probably be 5
yeah uhh
you're gonna have to figure that one out
lmao
LOL
we don't even know what mod you're talking about lmao
It's Lost Edition
do you want someone to look it up or nah
ctrl + 2 on the card
because speculation is fun
nah i'm trying to figure this one out
just wondering if anyone had ideas on what to try
what if there was another damn consumable type
the booster pack is literally just a pc
you're tearing the tower open
me trying to explain to my mom why im stealing all of the speakers in the house (it's good for my balatro run)
did somebody say... horse
oh my god BRAH
baltro
drawing it
I've been trying to find this one mod that shows you stats for your jokers during runs, such as how many tarot cards 8-ball or vagabond have generated for you, or how many times you've cashed in mail-in rebate, etc. I know Balatro University uses the mod but I cannot remember the name of it, does anyone know what it is?
these mfs nerfed rigged???
Quite a few updates ago
Which I find... Why?????
why the fuck is marvel rivals just an option
"Games I like" "Games in rotation" and then just
Marvel Rivals
does this actually work like at all
idk
guess who just finished the shortened mod menu
WHAT IS HE DOING HERE
Complete the Marathon challenge. Then once you obtain this familiar fellow, play all non-secret hands with this Joker and...
what about those who are slow
i have made beauty
Low-key need this one
i mean hey you know where to find it, it's in my user handle lol
So for those who have played my mod, they know about the GHOST and Pals pack. I'm thinking about doing something similar with the K-Pop Demon Hunters IP, but I wanna do a 3rd one for a whole new pack. What series should be the 3rd one?
why doesnt balatro have a steam workshop?
I forget the exact reasoning but iirc it's because it would require Thunk to endorse a third-party modding library which he does not want to do
I think you're correct, I remember a statement from LocalThunk about something like that
how do we feel about this one
It's basically a Get Out Of Jail Free card when you need to use it
well no because you can still try the blind
and bail out if you fuck up
though honestly it wouldn't be a big deal imo if this was extended to bosses
I guess, but now you're left in a shop with no money and a harder blind lined up next
bold of you to assume i have econ
How did you buy the joker...
So I'll let the Blind pay out and allow the Joker to work on Boss Blinds
with the interest i keep spending
Interest is still econ. Just not very much
Would blue seals and gold cards still work?
...tested animated icons?
I haven't tested animated icons (did not know those were a thing) but the icons are drawn the same way as they are in the regular mod menu
I don't exactly know how to disallow that from happening, so we'll say yes for the time
Well, they work, but are shrunk, despite having same hitbox.
My turtle bean, red seal gold card, mime, last-result normopathy, blueprint/brainstorm, and reroll surplus strategy is ready to go. This is a reasonable thing to set up in 8 antes.
i think going out of your way to obliterate ALL forms of money and money making for the blind is too much yap when just deleting your money gets 90% of the way there
and can be played against
As long as this joker isn't a common, you won't really be able to repeatedly use it to skip blinds
yeah
It'll be exclusive to a Booster Pack along with like 10 other Jokers where you can only pull 1 per pack.
Surely that cannot backfire.
-# flashbacks to Murphy's stream where he got 2 Manipulative Distortionists
Do you have a spider on the wall
No, but I bought soil from Lowes
-# GHOST AND PALS FAN FOUND
Been a while since I listened to their stuff, but for a few years they were a staple in the music mix
they got me through COVID
now to figure out how tf to code this Joker
It's just luchador with a wraith inside
I only started looking into modding yesterday night, I'm assuming it isn't actually that easy
But I have so far been conceptualizing the jokers I want to make in terms of squashing other jokers together
Mult hiker on suit change and wild midas mask in trading card's castle
hi
it's aikoyori shenanigan
What if I made Ace’s Vivre card into a deck that contains only Aces
why so serious
this joker gains x0.5 Chips if played hand contains a Four of a Kind and doesn’t contain a Three of a Kind
kojima particles tomorrow
legalize nuclear bombs 🤣
hideogame my beloved
i don't think that's how it works
itd have to be like {1e10}2 mult
but thats way way way too strong
like even if you think your mod is like Super Broken or whatever
its like some King of Aurafrauding...
{1e10}1.1 mult
try writing 2{10¹⁰}1.1 out
this is just actually not a good idea
in number
i dont care if your mod is Broken or Busted or Whatever
yeah
what? it shatters as soon as you click?
that's a dummy ability
hyperaccelerated bong cloud
HOW
Skill
?
i have a dumb plan
cass is the only one i know who can make shaders
besides lily and kierkat
make the edition copy the total score after its been played, and then explodes the moment it can contribute to chips the next hand its played in.
as chips.
I'm right here
i don't have the money
what
what
i've made one shader
i'm sorry
i've been obsessed with the idea that
i have to do everything myself
otherwise everybody will think you don't deserve anything
because none of the efforts belong to you
i do not accept this message simply because even my mod has got some help along the way
and i intended for it to be solo
this is so silly considering programming at all
inherently not solo
even mfs who be typing in binary are not solo
they are standing on the backs of the hardware
pnageaa
pangrea
i wonder how they thought hotpot was ever made in the first place...
pancreas
those who Stock
that's a collaboration mod though
Busted Buffoons is literally all me
do you think the organizer deserves anything though
you are allowed to have people help you
On one hand I totally relate to the feeling. On the other hand, basically every creative work nowadays is made industrially in large groups, and the idea of being a lone auteur kinda sucks tbh. So don't worry too much about getting help if you need it, esp since basically every programmer worth their salt steals from other programmer
then again i stole from vanillaremade
Who hasn't stolen from VanillaRemade?
like as long as you credit them correctly nobody will care
i don't think that even counts as stealing
But again, VanillaRemade was made for that purpose so people can learn how to mod Balatro.
i am so fucked
ok well, if you all say that i deserve to ask for help, i guess i can ask somebody to make the atomic shader.
consequence of 0 jank
straight up blinding it and by it lets just say... side
but then again, i need to pay.
What in the HELL is going on here
When it comes to shaders especially, the actual skill required to do shaders is a bit niche (good math visualization). I wish there were easier debugging tools for shaders here but alas
i exausted all the joker pools
except uncommon because i didnt want showman
not because of anything perculiar
i would've asked but i can't just ask my guardian for money and lend it.
i can't pay for your services.
"If a five-card poker hand contains a scored King, convert all other scored cards into a copy of the King, except instead with the rank 2, and destroy the King"
weird ass wording
there's no amount of negotiation that can get me out of this.
been lurking for the past hour
im the looker lurker
ok no i havent been lurking i lied
👀
hi
hi
if i spoke up more about asking people for their services, i would basically be begging so i should just delete all my messages relating to this matter.
is it fun
why though
i love it when they beg
pointless type shit
i love it when people love me begging
begmaxxing ig
its a trade relationship, win win on all sides!!
you so real gang 🔥
its cinema
i'm so fucking tired of life.

nice
shadertoy isn't
great for testing balala shaders
mostly because they got so much shit happening
other than the shader code you write
though you might be able to translate it?
not sure
its probably easier to just debugplus watch
what
no, coding isn't my strongest suit
i barely know how to use lua
i can't translate it to balatro
i know early that im AVOIDING SHADERS AT ALL COSTS
EVEN COMPREHENDING THE MONSTROSITY OF JAVA IS MORE PLAUSIBLE THAN THIS
congrats you made my head want to kill itself
“Algebra”
The mere mention of algebra shakes me to the core
mathematics
that did NOTHING to help.
Wait, expression manipulation? So it’s all variables and coefficients?
not even algebra cant help me comprehend this
What programming languages are better than Java?
Also what’s linear algebra- NO
all of them
every single one
its true
Linear algebra is really easy 
You have x and you can’t square or cube it
those who root
Or add anything to it
that's linear equation
The catch is you are multiplying vectors and matrices with each other instead of simple integers
which is part of linear algebra and calculus
It’s uni stuff
this is true
i wont be able to remember it
ooo matrices lovely
it's stuff you learn in uni
Like I said, I never learned this
as in if you go the math and comsci route
I took up Entertainment and Multimedia Computing with specialization in digital animation technology
I wanna be a cartoonist.
So yeah I think I’m royally fucked.
I never should’ve been a cartoonist gng
i don't think you'll ever see these
even if i wanted to spend time, i genuinely cannot
i might have a workaround just to avoid creating shaders for another day.
aka. i dont end up with a higher risk of stroke... if thats even how it works..
Aneurysm?
So what now?
This is a whole new ballpark
Sounds similar to my degree in that it's a fake sounding name that could easily have just been "creative practice"
There’s also one for game development
It kept crashing because it was looking for edition, which is not listed at all.
Use self.config next time.
i'm gonna study every single edition in cryptid and see if i learned shit
I ended up going to school for game design specifically because I wanted to do design work rather than hard math and programming, except I ended up becoming a programmer anyway, so now I'm like if a CS major was woefully underprepared about memory management and backend architecture
AANND theres no info on the sprite manips
what are you looking for
how im meant to use set_sprites, load, or even draw
i might have a epiphany
What
if possible, a extra layer might be able to substitute for a shader
therefore allowing for usng a atlas animation.
though i might just be stupid.
I get a lot of my direction for shaders from the godot shaders website
some day ill use these

im just gonna log off before i end up smacking myself to the point of blood clots
i feel lightheaded
if i end up dying over trying to use drawsteps,i dont have to worry cause i havve nothing of intrest

btw is there any mod i can try
i wana be a mod tester?
I just released a giant update with a bunch of new content and an ocean of new bugs to find, if you wanna try that out 😋 #1340334060597285025
lets go
this one?
alr ama try it
idk if the bmm version would be updated
It should be, unless bmm no longer updates properly
But I always try and make sure the latest release and the main branch are identical
tbh this mod is also a memory trip to my fav movies when i was young, and the 2nd pic its my Build but i forgot i had a normal joker
i give it
9/10
this is still not good enough to beat The Marathon
Jeez
I needed like one blueprint/brainstorm probably
Ante 15
try peakshitmod
or reddit bonazza
Ok, so brass stake with bunco and paperback
I want to win ONE game with my own difficulty
ok so the locked stickers just arent appearing
its paperback doing that
well fuck you paperback /j
@mint spindle why are you not in clams
blue seal
pie
dude. gameboy joker that plays actual gameboy roms.
I know Winter had jokers that made you play the original Donkey Kong, haha
@exotic tree the donkey Kong thing was for a JoJo's mod, right? Is that available anywhere already?
oh
Now I'm intreuaged?
did you download it and if so is your pc okay?
I've got mega drive games off of itch and my pc is still kickin
Wowie
Im joking :P
must have room for the card description too, it seems
Not sure yet if I'd want it to discard back to hand size when it resets, as that'd cause potentially strange behaviour with things like the Serpent, but Kino R&D has developed new game tech for drawing cards, and I think I can mess around with this
ooh
Gang look at the name
I think blue on green is VERY hard to read
I don’t get it
Is there a catch?
no
Or is it actually just blueprint but common?
I think on a smaller screen that's very true, yeah. I'll grab another colour. It's pretty readable for me, but I, of course, have a perfect amount of colour cones and 20/20 vision, so I shouldn't trust my own judgement and make assumptions for those with weaker eyes
Such as myself, with 5/20 vision and an astigmatism
Yellow and green would definitely be worse, though. I'm gonna try red, but Green's a colour that makes a lot of things blend in, I suspect
Type of idea you'd actively wanna hide that you thought of 💔
well look at the rank and suit buttons, if not use white maybe?
ok i give up im just checking the mods jokers
White is very readable, but the reason its coloured is to separate it from the existing text
theres like 7 fucking rarities
seems bout right to me
Red is more readable than this colour blue, for sure, but I think there's no perfect colour for a green background, without a text outline
What do you expect from itch io
theres literally a rarity thats just rare but the color is slightly tuned down
even cryptid balanced some stuff by making op things a higher rarity 😭
What is the name of the mod that gives you the poker hand named Junk??
I think its Phanta (https://discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1328116950227746948)
It's because I want to add it to my own mod
i cant fix the operator bug since i use a different function
ill inadvertly cause more jank if i use the same function
until i actually try to do something about it
balatro dash is best played by itself (no other content mods)
Phanta
also play my mod
play my mod
"must have room"
look inside
creates negatives
🥺🥺🥺🥺
Mfw 6/5 jokers slots
obviously it requires the Room joker
forcing lose without playing any hands does that
what is the name of the mod that calculates score before playing
i fold!
https://github.com/notmario/MrBones
add it to your modpacks crabus
@autumn cedar what kind of modding are you trying to achieve?
can someone join a call with me and i can screen share to make sure that i have my downloads right and in the right place
That would be clever for a troll mod/joker
thx
I'm kinda excited to learn how to code just to mod Balatro
Then I wish you luck in your journey.
do you guys can recommend me good mod for calculating score?
anyone got a clue where the cat's from?:
the cat is smods' icon
cool beans
i have an idea for a new sticker but idk what to call it
the idea is that when you purchase a joker with that sticker, it counts as 2 joker slots rather than 1
what do i call the sticker?
oversized was my initial idea but i dont rly like it
don't have it
wdym
?????
toga
alr ama try that
Toga rules
Toga rules, for sure
Oh, hey, didn't see your ping
i want to either do
A. change the look of the standard playing cards
or
B. make my own collection of jokers
I'm tempted to make Mega Man a legendary joker in one of my mods ideas
And have it be that he gains xmult per defeated boss blind.
Mega mind deck that gains benefits based on the blinds you've defeated
I'm sorry but even i don't know what's coming next
i mean there's a few things that i want to add but it's not set in stone
play my mod
bruh
give it to me
ama play that after am done with Mr bone mod
play tangents
you should try joyousspring
Yeah, been out for a few months: https://discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1431063228833599518
i like markdown files but ive seen most people use docs yeah
That said, in order to ensure I wasn't going to run into legal trouble, I removed the roms from the repo directly, and have just given them to people who ask (or I suppose they could be obtained by grabbing them from an earlier commit)
So Cabinet Man also functions without any games as a normal joker
Am I allowed to keep
Some of the Jokers from the original game
For my mod idea
They could, I suppose. I've seen that a couple times
I see
Does anyone know a mod that removes base jokers and focuses entirely on the mod content? Aside from Ortalab
joyousspring, pokermon
#1340334060597285025 allows you to toggle off vanilla content as well
Thanks <3
yeah it doesnt make sense unless you already have 150 jokers and even the bigger mods usually dont reach that
I haven't really made any ideas yet
Kino was crashy for me when I tried to play months ago, will give it a go again perhaps
the mod is crashing no i will not give crash log
I'd hope it wouldn't anymore, as I've been changing a lot and fixing bugs for those months, but if it crashes, send me the log and I'll try and fix it!
no hes just a big fan
I was planning to keep Regular Joker, Odd Todd, Even Steven, Fibonacci, and a bunch others for the mod
I would keep all vanilla jokers. The game works because the jokers makes builds together, and to have a balanced and playable experience, you're gonna need to add a lot of jokers. No need to consider disabling base game jokers until you've added 100+ jokers, I'd say
I made JoyousSpring, actually
Ohhh okay
You can still get the Jokers that you made right?
I'm actually the creator of Kino, not that you care 💅
yes
Oh I see, hello!
(This is a bit. I'm lying to you)
i would actually recommend playing some mods before you start mod making, just to get a feel of what modded can do
Alright then
Kino would be sick as hell if Winter made it, though
not a bad mod bc i think it only add the fold
title card each time you picked it up
oh you actually played it
ye
Vanilla jokers work really well together, I think they are awesome as is and no joker feels obsolete or overpowered on their own. I think the coolest thing to me in Balatro is when you see a Blueprint in the shop - the most cracked joker of them all - but need to pass on it because your build relies on everything you've got
evil
It's also why I want to see attempts at a completely new joker roster from the ground up, since most mods add to what already exist
i have to do a mod from rebo then you agin bc ig he is waiting
I was trying not to over sell it, haha, but yeah, the reason vanilla Balatro is such a good game is how well-designed it is as a draft environment. Part of what makes modding it kinda difficult, because it's hard to get a sense of what type of jokers need to exist at which frequency
Okay one issue how do I even
Download and use mods?
I already did the whole love injection/folder thing
making a modded cube could be an interesting project
Really one of the only benefits of removing vanilla jokers like that is it allows you to replace simpler concepts that already exist, but I tend to view some of the simpler concepts from vanilla jokers as useful tools to design around rather than in place of
For Kino, I know I'm running into the issue of having too many gimmick or mechanically heavy jokers, which makes dying in the early game a way bigger risk. I've been slowly trying to alleviate that and make the draft environment better
but yeah vanilla is a really compelling core set if you will
nvm ama do the 45 degree mod
bc that mod from revo is kinda big ig
True, but it also gives room for an entirely new base experience when jokers have a different kind of reliance on one another
The reason you remove existing jokers is so you can play in that common design space with whatever your mod's gimmick is, like each joker being part of a ygo archetype, or it being a pokémon, or having a genre and associated actors for synergy reasons
Oh wait Ice I'm curious have you seen the palette editor
Wait i have to have a gimmick?
You don't. There aren't many rules for what a mod can and can't have, or must and mustn't have, besides not stealing other people's stuff, haha
what's a draft environment
the rule is have fun and dont use talisman
Correct
ice is going to make a cube
please don't use Talisman
a term from magic the gathering
basically its how a set of cards plays when you draft it (or in this case just play with it)
Yeah then I might as well just have vanilla Jokers because I don't really think
I can make my own set of jokers that are as balanced as what we already have
I kind of wanna see a micro Balatro environment where the numbers are really small and so is ante scaling, maybe even linear
Part of the reason why the pool of jokers that provide simple effects at common rarity in Kino is kinda underbaked is because I never committed to it needing you to disable or enable vanilla content. Though I've got enough mechanics now that I can add twists on common effects now
Balatro jr
A - 5
i mean i see no reason as to why you couldnt try that
The only reason I carry the talisman is Magic The Jokering.
I will likely dabble in Balatro modding in the near future
learning lua
is going to be the
hardest part for me
does that use talisman
Yea
I'm a big fan of board games that involve drafting, so my take on it is always based on that. Things like Wingspan or 7 Wonders, games like that. Mtg draft fascinates me but I barely get to do it, haha
It doesn't like it if talisman is MIA
Programming can be a lot but you e got a lot of people here you can ask
vro that made is hard tho i cant do it its hard
also good to know
but it is dif from the anothers
Also, I haven't finished it yet, but for your Cube pitch, triangle, or mini-sets, I'm still working on Playsets, so that should be finished sooner rather than later
i should go to a lorwyn prerelease
As the only hurdle for that still is me fixing the UI
i give it 3/10
Okay so what's if my
Mods gimmick was that it was my various characters I have created
and like
math or something
and there's hanafuda cards for whatever reason
If you want to use Talisman, anything it does can be accomplished with Amulet. But also you should never balance your game around numbers that high anyway, it typically becomes boring and predictable and you always know you're going to win and get to endless
So just dont
That's my rec
Oh yeah, does anyone have a mod that makes the game harder? Strictly speaking not through stake types but for example nerfing base jokers or replacing them with weaker ones
i havent seen one like that
#1214097296317227028 has stakes and im pretty sure you can turn off all the other features
ama do that later bc i only do 2 mods or 3 mods a day
I wish somebody made a High Quality Rip of the Sonic 2's multiplayer results screen that swaps the melody out for Balatro's Main Theme.
Don't rely on amulet if you're wanting to make a mod because you like game design. Do use it if you think high numbers are just fun to mess with. Once you go beyond naninf potential, you're not really in a realm of balance that makes sense for balatro's loop anymore
Most of endless doesn't even make sense for balatro's loop anyway given how quickly it cuts down the viable builds to like
2
I think someone was working on this, but I haven't seen anything about it yet
oh my goodness
you have color cards
?
yeah, endless is the issue itself already. I know LocalThunk would agree, haha
Color cards are fun.
I don't even bother thinking about endless most of the time
ive had them for almost 2 years at this point
When I win a run, I win a run, quit and next run
this
Same here. Though I do nerf jokers if they're too strong and trivialize endless runs, but that's because that means they also are at risk of trivializing non-endless runs 😛
Though I want to make the ugliest color in the world a color card that's meant to mess with the player.
pantone 48C or something
yellow
Yellow isn't ugly
Yep yep, same deal
Palette editor..... it's done.... it's almost here......
Hmmm this could also be an idea
Yep
is this done using a shader?
thats better than yellow
The main color changes, no
oh yeah, forgot to reply to it. I saw you were working on it but I don't know anything about it! What is it for?
Ooh what's this?
I'm really impressed regardless, the UI looks so good
Can i also perhaps create jokers that are colors?
you can do whatever you want i dont own colours
I basically made it as partly a programming challenge, partly because Cardsauce originally had a bunch of combinatorial atlases for playing cards of different palettes and I figured I could achieve it programmatically rather than having to manually create sprites each time
Basically, it's a tool to replace all simple palette swap additions
Very high effort for almost a niche usecase, but it's sick work. I'm really curious as to how you managed it, code-wise
I do really need to bother Eremel soon to figure out how I can make this Playsets Galdur menu work. Then I could have triangle make cube draft environments, haha
i dont think theyd be any good
the mod could probably have some glue jokers itself to tie the archetypes together
maybe i just do one with all the "canon" modded joker types, like 7 synergies and debt
Ooh, ooh, I got like two or three or four cool ideas
i have six or seven ideas
wrong paste
That's how I'm using it myself, honestly. I've been dividing up Kino's jokers and Vanilla's jokers into a bunch of buckets or build-around concepts. It's a lot more work than I want it to be, though 😛
thats cool looking
Basic rundown is that
- each palette has a three-value color code corresponding to the byte RGB of a pixel color in the vanilla atlas. These are essentially your palette colors
- on load, the mod iterates through all valid atlases for the palette editor, and caches the pixel indices of all pixels of a given color for easy access
- 2000 lines of UI code and screaming
- when a palette is changed or a color is applied, it just loops through the table of indices and uses a C data pointer to change the pixel colors at the atlas level. This can replace with flat colors, or you can apply gradients
- individual cards can either inherit the default color for the palette slot or you can override them individually to get more custom control
Also hope I'll be able to make a system that actually manages to automatically make fun 'cubes'. I'm sure that once I get the first version for that working, I'll learn that just fully randomizing it might not create fun environments
ive been doing similar stuff
i could also pick some underused vanilla cards and make them archetypes
like flowerpot maybe
Flowerpot has Vivid, right?
the booster packs also show up in the shop, right?
What actually matters more than anything is that it's pretty performant for what it does too. 2x atlases are done programmatically so they don't cache extra data or much extra time to change palettes, pre caching in general means palette swaps are fast. Really the only issue is that I haven't tested what it would be like at scale with some of the people who use like.... 60 mods or whatever, but it's also why I made it opt in. Ideally you combine your atlases by palette type as best as possible to reduce space and prevent more table accesses and iterations
It makes a lot more sense for how narrow your archetypes are, for sure
there's a guaranteed booster pack each shop that has 3 of the "secret packs" inside but im still working on the balance
ive been considering making a rework for cryptid's m archetype, maybe i could put it in the cube
God, that's impressive Winter. I'd fully have expected it to use shaders, but it makes sense you're working around those
m jokers are perfect for a cube because then they actually can be a focus, rather than something annoying that shows up every run, haha
itd be mostly the same but with a Jolly keyword that adds a ($10?) jolly joker slot to the shop
and Motebook is Dead
No yeah no shaders primarily so that its fully compatible with all existing shaders in the pipeline
(same for my Batman jokers, honestly)
If I were to replace the default dissolve shader for example, any further shaders or custom effects would still be referencing the old pixel colors
I'm too used to unity's shader set up where they can pretty easily be chained into each other. I keep making bad assumptions about Balatro shaders
double-sided is broken as all hell
if you flip a double-sided card without a backside, you can play a null card that crashes the game
Yeah unfortunately true, all shaders by default in love2D dont have more than one pixel effect afaik, and most of the vanilla edition shaders draw opaque pixels over anything below them, so no fun node combining stuff
id probably also want to pick a few mod's basic jokers just to fill it out
(which is also terrible for performance, overdraw galore)
I've got code that Meta graciously wrote for me in Kino that makes calls to the canvas to get around issues with shaders. I should learn more about it, honestly, because I truly barely understand any of it, haha
i think it just draws a canvas and then draws that canvas using a shader
like internally a canvas just has a sprite
Yeah, but I'm still not sure what the limits and costs of canvases are, for example. I get what it's doing, but only enough to explain it to someone who truly doesn't know anything about it, haha
does edition calcs have to be long or can it be short?
depends on what it does
i see two different versions of it scoring
Uhh clarify the question? The size of a calculation would reasonably depend on its purpose
the first one looks like this```lua
if
(
context.edition -- for when on jonklers
and context.cardarea == G.jokers -- checks if should trigger
and card.config.trigger -- fixes double trigger
) or (
context.main_scoring -- for when on playing cards
and context.cardarea == G.play
)
then
return { x_chips = self.config.x_chips } -- updated value
end
if context.joker_main then
card.config.trigger = true -- context.edition triggers twice, this makes it only trigger once (only for jonklers)
end
if context.after then
card.config.trigger = nil
end
end,```
Has Meta shown off her dice cards? She made a UISprite object that lets you draw ui elements onto an object and have those be affected by shaders. I use it to display numbers on cards and counters, so that they move with the card, though Meta's own code is a bit more robust now, due to it also dealing with fonts and such
and the other looks like thislua calculate = function(self, card, context) if context.post_joker or (context.main_scoring and context.cardarea == G.play) then return { x_mult = card.edition.x_mult }
I've used canvases a couple times, for the emulator in my other mod and for Tetris in Cardsauce
just look at what vanillaremade does
which one is the right one?
Oh yeah!!! I remember seeing that's in like a PR to SMODS
theyre basically the same thing one just has a ton of comments and a slightly different trigger
i'll stick with the shorter one
It sounds like a cool system but as it is now I've not had any specific circumstances I couldn't just get away with swapping an atlas sprite
id consider using a canvassprite for the planeswalker api but using the image font basically makes it do nothing
also do you write hypercalcs like this?```lua
hypermult = {self.config.hyper, self.config.mult}
Hypercalcs...?
It's a game changer for if you wanna make more visually complex stuff, honestly. Saved me from having to make a bunch of sprite sheets.
hyperchips and hypermult
Yeah, if the numbers stay low, it's all pretty reasonable to just swap out sprites
this seems right
most people here dont use talisman (or at least not hypermult/chips)
No yeah my palette editor was basically the same kind of deal on that front. Esp because I saw things like Pokermon hitching hard at loading as many atlases as they do
It's why my original countesr only went up to 9. But now I can have them go up to 99 and I don't have to reposition things carefully to make the kerning work
i wonder if you could use it for a hikerdisplay kind of mod
That said I am also only begrudgingly an artist so I'm not actively seeking to make visually impressive stuff, just that I can make things other artists make more visually impressive
can you export the swapped image?
i guess at that point you could just use aseprite or something similar
Sad, sad winter hates making art, it makes her want to affect the trout population
For sure you could. I've not got it pushed live, but I have a separate branch for Kino that has basically just that, haha
thatd be quite useful in a qol modpack with things like jokerdisplay probably
i will add joker display below playing cards
It's part of my ongoing quest to litter jokers and cards with more and more reminders and notifiers until the card itself disappears
of course
do you have any in the middle yet? that seems like the last place one would go
i like the main menu ace that autumn kept adding stuff to
Not yet, but I did consider making a system that would dynamically move indicators if there were too many, so that the middle of the card could finally get their own
oh interesting
Because currently I just stuff them all in the top-left and are forced to not make a joker design that uses multiple mechanics that have indicators
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this is probably good practice anyways, like how the new lorwyn doesnt have +1/+1 counters
Nah, overcomplexity my beloved 😛
Yeah, for sure. I won't allow myself to combine timed jokers with any other complicated mechanic
i wonder how you could port the behold mechanic to balatro and more importantly if it would be interesting
Ok i did it
I made 4 ideas
I'm not sure it's different enough from existing mechanics. It'd basically be 'if you play or have a X in hand', right?
yeah true
i really like the "behold and exile" cycle from the new lorwyn its a cool way of porting the old champion mechanic
+8 chips? huh
+3.14 mult +31.4 chips for uncommon?
what about +3.14 mult +15.9 chips
3.14159
8
the next digit is 2
darn -_-
i had a similar idea to extraordinary but it was only one slot and just the default joker
That could work
quick question
i might try something like
Jolly Joker Fan Club - Rare
Jolly Jokers give X2 Mult,
-1 Shop Slot
Jolly (Adds a $10 Jolly Joker slot to the Shop if you own a joker with this keyword)
x3.14 if playing hand contain 3, ace and 4 ///(just bad idea)
just change the volume in the smods.sound
wait chat is active rn
vol doesn't work
hold on i have a question
i have an idea for a new sticker but idk what to call it
the idea is that when you purchase a joker with that sticker, it counts as 2 joker slots rather than 1
what do i call the sticker?
oversized was my initial idea but i dont rly like it
my question ^
bulky ?
is this a bloons referendum
volume = #?
burdened?
bulky sticker?
yeah
burdened sticker sounds fun
Fat
fat sticker
weighted sticker :o
It's slightly smaller than the others
yeah
chud joker with the fat sticker call that a fat fucking chud
heavy sticker
🥹
the default is 0.6 though
morefluff has this (-1 discard selection limit)
hm
Am i allowed to reference other
franchises/stuff without getting copyrighted
ok animusic jokers next
:]
Lightweight joker: +1 discard selection
send the code
rn its a toss between Bulky, Burdened and Weighted sticker
maybe you could make this apply to playing cards too so when you draw it you get -1 hand size
would probably be way jankier
SMODS.Sound{
key = "Atomic1",
path = "Atomic1.ogg",
volume = 0.1
}```
I feel like playing cards should play well with extra_slots_used already
Decisions Decisions


