Gemstones - A new Card Modifier

[junior dust]

https://tenor.com/qrCs8dUG1cD.gif

[warm dragon]

small question about the cross mod content Gemstones has with Card Sleeves

[hidden pilot]

go ahead

[warm dragon]

whats the special effect with the respective sleeve for whatever the gem slot deck is named

[hidden pilot]

basic sleeve applies an empty gem slot to playing cards in your deck, stacked sleeve applies an empty gem slot to all card that appear in the run

[warm dragon]

coolio

might try that when I get home

[junior dust]

Pushed this yesterday btw, so the mod compat should be working perfectly again

[hidden pilot]

i need to work on art for jokers & spectrals

this will be the bane of my existence

[elfin otter]

does someone know what that means?

I have both mods and it keeps showing this

[hidden pilot]

you're missing talisman (or have a lower version)

download talisman directly from the repo

[elfin otter]

I went to the link provided

it says the lastest version is 2.0.2

[hidden pilot]

did you download gemstones from the latest release or directly from the repo

[elfin otter]

mmm

good question

I'm going to check

from this zip

[elfin otter]

I'm trying the first "here" link and it says page not found

file* not found

[novel surge]

this mod seems super cool, but definitely needs a few things ironed out...

this also retriggers once for each card discarded

doesn't effect gameplay aside from looking strange and the brief animation tho

[hidden pilot]

ah, go to releases and download v0.8.0

its the latest official release

[elfin otter]

oh

ok thanks

[elfin otter]

it worked, thank you

[hidden pilot]

awesome

i'll update the link in a bit

[elfin otter]

great

[novel surge]

is it just me or does the "chance to level up hand when scored" gem not work

i even tested it with a bunch of Oops All 6s to make the probability guaranteed

[indigo lance]

You mean Amber?

[novel surge]

yea

Adamite also doesn't seem to be doing anything

[hidden pilot]

everything should work

[winter tendon]

Question, is this mod still OldCalc, or has it already been updated to BetterCalc? And if so, what was the last update before that?

[novel surge]

i may be misinterpreting what retriggering a joker entails but this doesn't seem right

[indigo lance]

Hang on... Something's missing here... It didn't even retrigger

[novel surge]

Yea

[indigo lance]

It would have brought the Mult up to 9, because it'd be +4 twice

[novel surge]

And it's not an issue with odds because emerald works fine

well... not entirely fine

seems to apply to every card discarded, even if only 1 is an emerald

and heck, might as well post a clip of amber too

only other mods i have are Jen's Library (modding support), Nopeus (more speeds), Incantation (stack negative consumables), Debug mode, and gamblecore (aw, dangit)

Hope this is helpful in identifying the issue, because I love this mod's concept and all of these gems would be super cool if I could get them to work

[indigo lance]

Hang on... That Emerald triggered once for each card discarded!

[novel surge]

turning off all other mods except talisman and debug mode (to test with) doesn't seem to change these

sorry if im being too overwhelming with reporting these

don't mean to be overly negative

[hidden pilot]

what mods do you have installed & what is your steamodded version?

[hidden pilot]

it should be on better calc now

[novel surge]

^ these are my other enabled mods

version is 0.9.8

[hidden pilot]

you're using steamodded 0.9.8?

@novel surge ^

[novel surge]

yup

newest installation as of like

2 days ago

as far as i am aware

[hidden pilot]

and not the work-in-progress alpha versions

on the menu screen in the top right corner, what does steamodded say the version is

[novel surge]

oh... huh

that's very strange bc i looked at a file within the steamodded folder and it says this

[hidden pilot]

the actual version is storred in a different folder

[hidden pilot]

also this version is 3 months old

[novel surge]

?? weird

i had to update it for a mod i got 4 days ago

idk how that happened

sorry for all the bug reports that ended up being caused by me installing the mod wrong lol

[hidden pilot]

its fine lol

happy you're able to play my mod!

[novel surge]

ok welp. hang on

i went to steammodded and the newest release says to not use it

linking instead to the version i downloaded that is apparently months old

with no clear way to get to a newer version

i tried the newest release anyway and the game doesn't even start up

where are you getting the real newest release?

even completely removed my mods folder and created a new one with only a freshly downloaded copy of steamodded, talisman, and gemstones

all the issues persist to the best of my knowledge, though it's harder to test without debug console

[junior dust]

this is latest latest (new-calc) https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/archive/refs/heads/main.zip

it sounds like the versions you found were
0.9.8 (latest release version, but basically a year old at this point)
old-calc (about a month old, and doesn't work with gemstones afaik)

[novel surge]

ok whats going on with this then

im very confused about this

[junior dust]

this file you were looking at is for mod stores (e.g. thunderstore)

and smods hasn't been updated on mod stores in months now, which is why that one still says 0.9.8

[novel surge]

ok well the version you linked has the same thing in the top right and the same issues

in fact my computer recognized it as a duplicate download

from the previous time i tried downloading smods

ok yeah that link is from the page ive been redirected to repeatedly

[junior dust]

the version I linked does in fact not have that same number in the top right

try deleting your old/current version of steamodded, and replace it with the smods (2) or whatever it's called in your downloads?

[novel surge]

ah

[junior dust]

that looks like the right version 👍

[novel surge]

i didn't read past "alpha" since i assumed the last few digits were insignificant

my bad

but the gems are still not working correctly

[junior dust]

I beg smods for a proper release version

no worries lol

[novel surge]

yeah honestly lol

[hidden pilot]

when are we getting 1.0.0

[novel surge]

also shoutout to the guide for saying "no up-to-date releases exist. click here for the up-to-date release"

idk if this is some technicality and it means something to people who are more versed in this than i am, but to my normie brain this sentence doesn't make sense

[junior dust]

still the same issues as the clips you posted above?

[novel surge]

correct

i tested emerald and amber and those are still broken

[junior dust]

Halo would know more about that 😬

[novel surge]

i put debug back into my mods folder as well for testing but that's the only extra mod

actually you know what let me send you my mods folder in its entirety

uh idk if i should send a file from my computer on a public server

shit also discord doesn't let you send anything without paying them

i will not be doing that

i don't know how to troubleshoot further :/

[hidden pilot]

i'll look at those when i get the chance

ik emerald is funky but not sure about amber

[novel surge]

im sure it's weird testing something with odds since it's always possible that you're just getting unlucky lol

though as unlucky as i am, i feel like i wouldn't whiff on a 8 in 3 chance so many times in a row

in conclusion: idk good luck o7

[crystal anvil]

it does yes
that link goes to the latest commit, which is essentially a WIP draft version of the code
it hasn't been packaged into a Formal, Here-Is-A-Complete-Product Release since 0.9.8
which was a bad decision imo (at the very least they should've done a release once they ironed out the bugs in bettercalc) but it sure is one they made

github even has a "mark as prerelease" button if they wanted to be clear that it's Not Done Yet

[vivid mountain]

why is gem gauntlet triggering while discarding cards

[fair scarab]

new calc incompatibility

happens with other mods

https://streamable.com/98mdde

[vivid mountain]

ah

what about citrine not raising probability and giving ERROR?

[vivid mountain]

also just found this, the amber on to the moon was able to trigger despite being debuffed

aaand just crashed when trying to play the following hand

pretty sure the turquoise caused it

[fair scarab]

pretty sure this is a mod issue and not smods

you would need to wait for a patch if they make one

[hidden pilot]

it does, just doesn't show on the ui

[vivid mountain]

ah

[vivid mountain]

i broke something again

while using that voucher i got the biggest gemstone pack, used only infusion, then skipped, and then crash

also not sure if related or not but trying to redeem the gemstone voucher now just straight up closes the game without even a crash log

[plucky siren]

Hello, question for op. If you don't mind telling, how did you go about adding a new card modifier to the game?

[hidden pilot]

stickers

[plucky siren]

Thank you!

[hidden pilot]

idk when i'm updating lol

[blazing bone]

Can someone link me to these version of talisman and lovely? Cant seem to find it

[crystal anvil]

https://github.com/MathIsFun0/Talisman
https://github.com/ethangreen-dev/lovely-injector

[blazing bone]

Do i install the latest version of them all?

Still cant seem to work, ive installed the latest version of both

[crystal anvil]

did you click the release labeled "2.0.2" on talisman, perchance

[blazing bone]

Yeah i installed that one

since it was the latest one i see

being 2 weeks ago

[crystal anvil]

2.0.2 is less than 2.1.0

use the code button to get the latest commit

[blazing bone]

ok

Erm, so i installed the version of talisman

Could it be lovely?

[crystal anvil]

did you click the 0.7.1 release on lovely? because this time that's correct, 0.7.1 is not less than 0.7.1

[blazing bone]

Yeah, I installed that one

[crystal anvil]

and you put the version.dll in your balatro folder next to balatro.exe, right?

[blazing bone]

Uh, how do i do that?

I just put it in the mods folder

for %AppData%\Balatro

[crystal anvil]

that's not where lovely goes. you did this once already

right click balatro in steam and go to "browse local files"

[blazing bone]

ok

I se the version.dll in my balatro folder

from steam

Do i put this into my balatro local files?

or the modded folder

@crystal anvil

[crystal anvil]

that's version.dll, yes
you put it next to balatro.exe, yes

[blazing bone]

Welp, Lovely side worked

but talisman doesnt

[fluid pivot]

just tried this mod and it crashed when "create_card_for_shop"

[hidden pilot]

crash log?

[fluid pivot]

how do i find that? cant seem to copy paste from the crash screen

[hidden pilot]

a screenshot works as well

there should be a keybind to copy the crash log but i forgot it

[fluid pivot]

ya was right at the bottom

oh wait, does it need card sleeves or is it just compatible with it?

[hidden pilot]

just compatable

[paper burrow]

I tried to load up the game and got this error

[paper burrow]

Never mind, got it loading, it seems for some reason removing cartomancer got the game to load

[white cape]

Hey so

I put my quartz gem on a card and it simply does not activate

no trigger, no sound, no +10 chips perm or even not perm

[white cape]

ok so either talisman or the mod is stopping both itself and other mods from adding chips from certain sources

[hidden pilot]

smods version?

[crystal anvil]

i think I've seen the same issue in the newest version
or it was the newest at the time anyway. it's been a few days

[rancid steeple]

@hidden pilot hello, how did you make a sticker that retriggers playing cards?

i'm trying to do a similar thing in my mod

[crystal anvil]

Gemstones.GemSlot = SMODS.Sticker:extend{
    rate = 0.0,
    order = 100,
    should_apply = false,
    prefix_config = { key = false },
    joker_compat = true,
    card_compat = true,

    draw = function(self, card) --don't draw shine
        G.shared_stickers[self.key].role.draw_major = card
        G.shared_stickers[self.key]:draw_shader("dissolve", nil, nil, nil, card.children.center)
    end,
    added = function(self, card) end,
    removed = function(self, card) end,
}

Gemstones.GemSlot{
    key = "gemslot_diamond",
    badge_colour = HEX("abd8ff"),
    atlas = "slot",
    pos = { x = 1, y = 1 },
    config = { retriggers = 1 },
    joker_compat = false,
    card_compat = true,

    loc_vars = function(self, info_queue, card)
        return { vars = { self.config.retriggers } }
    end,
    calculate = function(self, card, context)
        if context.repetition then
            return {
                message = localize('k_again_ex'),
                repetitions = self.config.retriggers,
                card = card
            }
        end
    end
}

it's actually surprisingly simple
(you don't need to make a new class if you just have the one sticker in mind and not a whole new category; this is what that looked like)

the important part is the calculate function

[hidden pilot]

what monty said above

if you asked me before bettercalc then it would've taken 10-15 patches

[crystal anvil]

better calc makes a lot of things easier

[rancid steeple]

thank youuu

[white cape]

just grabbed it using the code tab but it's recently been updated again

[blazing bone]

it crashes whenever i choose a blind

[hidden pilot]

FOR REAL?!???

[dusk veldt]

yes

[hidden pilot]

MY GOAT

https://tenor.com/view/jalen-hurts-jalen-hurts-meek-mill-i-used-to-pray-for-times-like-this-gif-13709870523385828441

[dusk veldt]

yea they had a poll to see what the people wanted

[hidden pilot]

i can finally remove talisman as a dependency

[dusk veldt]

even if they didnt, when i got around to Xchips stuff, i would have made it so it would only be there if talisman was enabled

as that is how im doing cross mod stuff without dependencies

[hidden pilot]

hmm

i'll prob still remove it but make the mod compatable

[cunning oriole]

is this suppose to trigger when other cards are discarded?

[hidden pilot]

no

i need to fix it

[cunning oriole]

Zamn

would be funny if that was its own joker gem or smth

[rancid steeple]

hello, still trying to make that retrigger sticker

it doesn't seem to work at all

calculate = function(self, card, context)
        if
            -- Joker (doesn't work)
            (context.retrigger_joker_check and not context.retrigger_joker and context.other_card == card)
            -- Playing Card
            or ((card.ability.set == "Default" or card.ability.set == "Enhanced") and context.repetition)
        then
            return {
                message = localize("k_again_ex"),
                repetitions = 1,
                card = card,
            }
        end
    end

i don't know what i'm doing wrong but it just doesn't work for jokers

(it works fine with playing cards)

[wooden heron]

Exited shop to enter a new ante and crashed, hadn't even gotten any gemstones or slots that run yet

Not the first time, previously I had thought it was a conflict with JoyousSpring but ig not

Actually, reloading the run to test, it's when I try to hover over the small blind's tag

[wooden heron]

Also got it on the empty and citrine tags :/

[crystal anvil]

i think halo is sort of not here lately but i keep thinking about the painful not-quite unwinnable situation that can come up with epidote+juggler and time crystals, where you have a ton of hands left, no chance of beating the score, and everything left in your deck has time crystals
admittedly i don't know how long it takes to get juggler that high, i was playing jen's almanac at the time so maybe this is implausible under one mod conditions

[hidden pilot]

should i revive the mod

i only stopped updating because i lacked motivation and smods kept changing so i had to keep it up-to-date frequently

[crystal anvil]

i vote yes to this

i think now that smods has done an official 1.0 beta release, it will do a lot less of changing existing things
it's still in active development but it'll at least be more focused on adding features

[hidden pilot]

1.0 BETA??

thank god

[hidden pilot]

i'll have an update out hopefully by the end of the week that'll update the mod to current SMODS version

[hidden pilot]

i might've forgotten

[boreal flame]

thats okay

[cunning oriole]

.

[hidden pilot]

ok i'll actually do it this time

[sand mulch]

is it just me or does adamite not work

[vernal nova]

so gem gauntlet seems to be triggering not properly to say the least. pretty sure its not supposed to increase my score a bunch when i slot a gem into a card. or every single time i click on one

also gems seem to take up only half a consumable slot? dont know if thats intended

happy early birthday btw :o congrats!

[crystal anvil]

gems only taking half a consumable slot is intentional

[vernal nova]

oh neat

[vernal nova]

maybe one day it wont all seem so gemstover

[karmic zephyr]

So I've discovered this mod and I like it (haven't played yet)

I've been known for good art so can I help for the mod?

For the art

I've seen how quartz and the othes look like and I knew this mod needed art a lot

[hidden pilot]

you're more than welcome to

[hidden pilot]

spectral card version for..?

[karmic zephyr]

Gemstones

[hidden pilot]

i'm pretty sure there are spectral cards from this mod, not spectral type gemstones

[upper pasture]

is it an Intentional Feature™ that the emerald gemstone seems to apply to every card in your deck, even though it's only applied to a single card? i have one king of diamonds with an emerald gemstone on it, but every single card discarded is triggering its effect

[crystal anvil]

i don't think it's intentional, but the mod hasn't been updated in a long while

[cunning oriole]

pretty sure it's on a long haitus unless someone wants to fork and update themselves (with permission)

[hidden pilot]

i have came to the realization i'm never going to get around to updating the mod to modern versions so i give permission to re-make the mod for the latest smods

only requirement is to credit me in the mod (only if the concept is the same/the repo is forked) & send me a message when its up so i can check it out

[crystal anvil]

i'll probably fork it just for maintenance purposes, then
fixing the emerald thing and updating to new probability. and uh. what else needs doing. probably just that, idk i don't rember

[vernal nova]

i mean this was happening

[crystal anvil]

well it's forked now so file an issue if i missed anything

[crystal anvil]

a one-line change, lmao

[crystal anvil]

also a one-line fix

[crystal anvil]

halo, was the random chance of a gem slot in standard packs supposed to be affected by and the like?

[crystal anvil]

localization update, the entire class of gem slots now uses a single shared label instead of having to copy and paste the same label every time one gets added

[crystal anvil]

so i've done a bunch of fixes and updates but before i make a release i want to give y'all a chance to try it out and make sure i didn't accidentally break anything https://github.com/wingedcatgirl/Gemstones/archive/2ab267cc75a12454f15d7bce440dce285ecb4e26.zip

changelog, if you want to use that to zone in on what might need looked at: https://github.com/0fficialHalo/Gemstones/compare/a6ab52f...2ab267c

[crystal anvil]

well while streaming today i found another bug (aventurine was also applying its effect when any card discarded instead of only attached card)
so that's fixed now

[hidden pilot]

p sure its meant to be a flat rate or slightly higher than the odds of an edition applying

its been a while since i've played balatro so idk if cards from standard packs being given editions is always at X percent or not

[crystal anvil]

the way you programmed it used G.GAME.probabilities.normal
I'll double check but i don't think editions do that

[boreal flame]

standard packs get more likely to give you better cards later in the run

i believe that includes enhancements and seals too

[hidden pilot]

ahh ok

so ig make it exponential % chance to spawn with a gem slot based on the current ante

[crystal anvil]

is that so? do you know where the code is for that?

[uncut fiber]

Hovering over this tag seems to crash the game

[uncut fiber]

Also playing this hand is giving me this error

[crystal anvil]

does it do it in the collection also? (use another profile and unlock all)

[crystal anvil]

i am not experiencing this error, can you make sure you have the most up-to-date version of the mod?

[hidden pilot]

tbh i should've just changed "Gem Slots" -> "Gemstone Slots"

[boreal flame]

no

[lethal mason]

Dude just downloaded this mod and it fan favorite, like it goes hard. You talking about, I can have an addition in both my card and in the Joker.

Like this shit and any other mod slap too hard. 10/10 and not even sure how could make better

[clever yarrow]

https://github.com/wingedcatgirl/Gemstones/issues/5

not sure if this bug is from this mod or not

[lethal mason]

I would love to see this mod active again

[clever yarrow]

I use it. Maybe someone else can remake it?

[lethal mason]

I contacted the original creator because like you I enjoy a lot, he said he would like into it, but been so long

[clever yarrow]

Why not remake it yourself? I mean.. I... hope you can...

[lethal mason]

Because, I just learning the rope on codding. I yet to be able to have full running mod, but you can bet all you have if I could I would

[clever yarrow]

fair

[lethal mason]

But if I could would gladly do it

[crystal anvil]

1, update the mod, it's up to 0.8.1 now
2, when did this happen, can you make it reliably happen in this context

i don't know if 0.8.1 fixes this bug but i would like to know

[crystal anvil]

2: Gemstones by Halo / OfficialHalo [ID: Gemstone, Priority: -50, Version: 0.8.0, Uses Lovely]

i see you still haven't updated

i see you also aren't mentioning such things as when this crash is happening

[clever yarrow]

there's an updatge?

look, when I see that, uh.. yea.

[crystal anvil]

I'm somewhat confused how you got 0.8.0 with no releases

also, like, why are you repeatedly sending the same crash if you have no reason to believe there has been any attempt to address it?

[clever yarrow]

for some reason, https://github.com/wingedcatgirl/Gemstones/archive/refs/heads/main.zip works

god i wish i had a stiff drink. can't drink. i take medicine to help with emotional stuff.

[clever yarrow]

Ok. If this works. This will be batshit insane. Amazingly batshit insane

[clever yarrow]

YES

YESSSSS

I PUT A EPIDOTE

ON EPIDOTE

[crystal anvil]

Do not report the loc_vars crash if your version number, as reported in the crash log, is 0.8.0. At least CHECK whether the crash still happens on the latest commit.

[crystal anvil]

https://github.com/wingedcatgirl/Gemstones/releases/tag/v0.8.1

[clever yarrow]

y'know I use BMM for updates usually, right?

[crystal anvil]

skill issue

if you don't know how to download the latest commit and someone tells you "try the latest commit and see if the bug is still there", either figure it out or wait patiently

[stray whale]

(Yeah, BMM doesn't update their versions often.)

[crystal anvil]

never mind what bmm does. i don't care what bmm does, that's the whole point

[stray whale]

... Okay, yeah. I don't use BMM myself, but yeah.

[hidden pilot]

lowkey need to update this already

[crystal anvil]

i did push an update that fixes the loc vars crash
(or should, it was inconsistent even when it was happening)

oh wait i already mentioned that

[hidden pilot]

gonna take a look at that

[crystal anvil]

I'm pretty sure the cause was just that some gems didn't have that method but the tag assumed otherwise

it could have also been fixed by giving them a default loc vars method that just returns a token table

but that seemed silly

[hidden pilot]

ehhh should be fine lol

also gotta remove the talisman stuff since xchips is in base smods

[crystal anvil]

yep

i think i already did that

also might be relevant to switch to the canonical apply function instead of using the custom added and removed functions

[hidden pilot]

oh yeah i did do that

[crystal anvil]

I've been rotating that one in my mind since i invented dekaja and had to put in a patch for that

[hidden pilot]

ahh

i need to refresh my mind on smods its been too long lol

@crystal anvil you're fine with me bringing your changes to the mod right

[crystal anvil]

yeah

[hidden pilot]

with proper credit ofc

[crystal anvil]

oh yeah i think smods now has a canonical way to redirect discards

sort of
you can do it in context.stay_flipped

[hidden pilot]

ah sweet

i went ahead and pushed what i had, its mostly just changes transferred from your fork

[lethal mason]

Do you think of adding more stuff into it too?

[hidden pilot]

not really sure what to add at this point, maybe new jokers but i don't have art for the current ones

[lethal mason]

Oh ya you do need art for them, you got concept? Of what you want the art to look like?

There few gems that I think you still needed

[hidden pilot]

https://github.com/0fficialHalo/Gemstones/releases/tag/v0.8.1-pre1

first release since jan 2025 😭

[hidden pilot]

i'm just now realizing that gemstone consumables are not taking up half a slot so thats neat..

[lethal mason]

No way and update!!!

[tulip pollen]

😭

but i feel ya

[crystal anvil]

yeah i wasn't pleased with that guy

especially after pinging me in a second thread just to drop the same damn bare crash log again

[lethal mason]

I was swesting bullet for a minute I taught was me. Cuss pass I did message you 😅

[hidden pilot]

i've got no clue if this works on the latest smods btw