[Gameplay/Unlocks] Faster stakes unlock

[high meadow]

Easy stakes make you bored but you want to try different decks? Reduce the grind with this mod. If you have a win with a stake on any deck, the stake 2 levels below will be available for all decks.

Example in the pictures: I have a win with the Black stake on Ghost deck (First picture). Now the Red stake is available for all decks (Second picture).

Note that the squares for the stakes only become colored when you actually get a win. The game colors all previous stakes too.

This mod does not touch your save file at all, it calculates available stakes on the fly, so you can remove it any time and it will be back to normal. (Though if you've earned a win on a later stake, that will stay on your save file and it will stay unlocked.)

You can modify the NB_RANKS_BELOW_WIN_TO_UNLOCK = 2 line at the top to customize. If you just want stake unlocks to be shared by all decks, set it to -1.

Download:
https://github.com/Wiwiweb/BalatroMods/blob/main/FasterStakesUnlock.lua

[dreamy barn]

it lists all the previous stakes as completed if you beat one of them

that might be hard to fix though

[high meadow]

Oops you're right.
I saw that the square only colored when you had a win at that actual stake level.
But I missed that when you get a win at a stake, every previous stake also get marked as won.

function set_deck_win()
  [...]
      for i = 1, G.GAME.stake do
        G.PROFILES[G.SETTINGS.profile].deck_usage[deck_key].wins[i] = (G.PROFILES[G.SETTINGS.profile].deck_usage[deck_key].wins[i] or 1)
      end
  [...]

Since this is also what happens in Vanilla when you use "Unlock all" to get early access to later stakes, I won't consider this a bug, but I'll update the description.

[dreamy barn]

could you fix it?

[high meadow]

Here's a mod just for you, I didn't test it though.

[dreamy barn]

cool

ill test it

[dreamy barn]

it works

[devout sand]

This mod worked perfectly, allowing me to skip playing intermediate stakes for ~12 decks and instead play each deck on gold stake directly. Thanks for making this!

[tidal kindle]

Bug: with Steamodded 1.0, higher (modded) stakes will not be selectable