FickleFox a Vanilla friendly animal themed Balatro mod!

[grim axle]

Hi folks, I am looking for artists who'd like to show off their chops and help me complete a fun, animal themed mod to open up more end-game options for high score runs.

The jokers involved all interact well with vanillla and have fun synergies. I made placeholder art for cards using help from tools but would love to let any interested artists flex their skills for full credit in the mod, and on the blog post / github and site for it.

Edit: add list of coded jokers
Edit 2 : fixed list link, this version includes all placeholder art. please don't blast me, I tried very hard on the placeholders https://www.foxdeploy.com/jokers/

List of jokers, etc. I have placeholder art if an artist is interested and would like to see what I did so far

https://www.foxdeploy.com/pawlatro/

[kind cypress]

Looks like a very well-documented set, hope you can find some good artists!

It looks like there might be a Pawlatro floating around out there already
https://x.com/Kachayet/status/1882185202036023666
but i don't use Twitter so can't find out more

Kachayet (@Kachayet) on X

I was silent for a bit but today I'm announcing Pawlatro: A furry mod for #Balatro !! It's a tiny mod that adds 7 jokers and a new poker hand, but I do plan on adding a lot more to it

X · Jan 22, 2025, 9:54 PM

Might be opportunity for a collab?

[grim axle]

Oh thank you, I had not heard of this other mod

[grim axle]

Artists wanted for animal mod!

[night anchor]

Interested, gonna leave this message here

[carmine nova]

Ah, I do want to do a collab at some point, but I'm not very good at.. living things. Apologies

[steep flicker]

I read the documentation for this mod and the jokers look so well thought out! good luck with finding an artist!

[warm oxide]

no fuckin way theres an animal called lord of gold

lookin that up

dissapointed that sounded pretty badass

[grim axle]

My sons favorite Yugioh card, I know it doesn’t match the theme

[warm oxide]

theres a monkey named after a casino it could have been real

[grim axle]

Yeah @steep flicker they all work and have placeholder art but I think it would ve great to have actual hand made art

Thanks for the kind words

[vestal forge]

animals

[grim axle]

See, they get it! My friend asked why i dont have more regular jokers, but my thought there was that the base game is filled with them, but also leaves room for some more artistic and pretty cards, like erosion, that $400 dollar one, or Ancient joker.

So the idea here is to make some fun and pretty cards that have fun gameplay mechanics

I see cards like Golden Repeater and Lord of Gold both as having some really obvious late game benefits

[grim axle]

redid the negative joker pack

Top is before which I loved but I feel that the bottom one fits more in the game

[atomic rapids]

I'll take Félicette

[grim axle]

Wow that is awesome, thank you! I am sure you can do a better job than the placeholder I made, lol

[warm oxide]

This feels like a subtle psychological trick to get artists

[atomic rapids]

Thoughts?

[warm oxide]

this is cute

[grim axle]

Oh my god, I love it!!!! So much better than her in a rocket

The background too, it's beautiful and really fits in with the game

I like the extra effort you put in to match her look, since she was a black and white cat. (She did survive the trip too!)

100% will add her, and I'll figure out how to do the side info style credit tab

[grim axle]

Okay...updated!

@atomic rapids thank you very much! She's adorable

the other cards you see there are the placeholders, I'm going to be working through them

[atomic rapids]

I think I'll also take a shot at the sonar bat. How faithful to your concepts do we have to be?

[grim axle]

My friend has asked to do Akuma , his should be pretty funny

Well you nailed it for Felicette so I trust you and appreciate you. Go crazy

[atomic rapids]

Here is my attempt at sonar bat

[grim axle]

The crowd of bats looks great!

Vvv nice!

I’m on call at work this week so it will take me a bit to update things, I can also make a GitHub project too later today

But I just wanted to thank you again!

Do you have any feedback for these packs? I tried a native looking pack earlier today

Left new , middle = original

This is for a very rare and expensive pack with guaranteed negative jokers

[atomic rapids]

I think the best approach you could do with a negative pack would be to make a pack in a similar style to a bafoon back, but with the negative filter applied afterward. I'm trying to say chose a different unfeatured on a booster pack joker

[grim axle]

I was picturing purple and white as looking awesome and obviously negative but it’s not working… inverting or making the whole pack negative is a great idea

adding the joker outline from some different joker is also a good idea

I did complete the four fingered joker too , need to update the landing page

[atomic rapids]

Also, since you have Félicette, Laika could also be a cool additon. Maybe they could be a +mult version of Félicette.

[kind cypress]

The best cosmonaut to ever live, i would never not buy Laika. Belka and Strelka are both less tragic alternatives if you wanted to keep the theming light

[grim axle]

I liked Felicette since she came back alive, did Laika make it too?

I tried adding a half negative mask to the purple negative pack, whatcha think?

[grim axle]

Added. Thank you again!

[kind cypress]

She did not, but Belka and Strelka did

[grim axle]

updated the credits

I need to overthink Golden Repeater, there is sooo much going on in this card lol

[kind cypress]

Love the concept though. I had a lab years ago who would try to pick up two balls at once and occasionally succeeded

[atomic rapids]

Definetly better, but you need to clean up that text.

[grim axle]

Inspired by dogs I’ve known ❤️

[grim axle]

Good point I will clean the letters

[grim axle]

My kids like the cat you made

[grim axle]

Ok, spent some more time cleraning up the text. Turns out paint.net will try to alias when you use the paint tool, and it was bleeding into surrounding pixels. That was a lot of manual fixing.

At least good enough to circle back later

[kind cypress]

I think you should be working at the base resolution if you want consistent pixel art, that's double the res than it should be. It's usually easiest to work at 1x scale, then just scale up (with no interpolation) to export the 2x assets

[grim axle]

I have been natively working at the 2x size. Maybe that explains some issues I've had!

ok I will try that

[grim axle]

Had a super fun idea for another joker. I'm going to draw it the right size this time

Death of Rats

Design - a spectral rat dressed like death with scythe

Effect - every four hands played, destroy card if played hand is High card

[atomic rapids]

That sounds interesting!

[grim axle]

Ok, redid the lucky Repeater card and did it in smaller resolution

I like my repeating shamrocks, I think I will just go with a nice whiteoutline on the doggo and then maybe a cream color for the bg.

I am not sure what color would look best

[grim axle]

ok, I am redoing things in a smaller scale, I think this fickle fox is much better and closer to the balatro aesthetic!

[grim axle]

introducing the new lucky Repeater, very graciously done by @thick vessel!

[night anchor]

uhm. are you even allowed to make your card art with AI? seems kinda wrong to do that.

[night anchor]

like here, where the text has its signature AI sting

[warm oxide]

Placeholder + psychological trick to get artists

[night anchor]

right

i mean, even if they're placeholders, i don't endorse the use of AI here, sorry

[warm oxide]

While i too woulnt do it in principle honestly i think i dont feel like discussing the morals of technology with a pre-2000 furry techbro whos a father of 2

[night anchor]

what's that got to do with anything? i get the techbro part, but

[warm oxide]

Its like telling a uncle at a friends birthday party that smoking is bad

[night anchor]

are you saying that because you've tried, or because you're assuming what it'd be like explaining it?

[warm oxide]

I tried

[night anchor]

right

[warm oxide]

I still get embaradement a decade later remenbering it

[night anchor]

embarassment*?

[warm oxide]

Yeah

[night anchor]

kay

[warm oxide]

But anyways i just thought of a solution

@grim axle what about making doodles in mspaint as placeholders? Gives a better idea of what you want and you slowly train your drawing :D

[grim axle]

I am not going to release the mod like that. My plan is to become good at pixel art and release something will all human art. Placeholder just shows what I was imagining

[night anchor]

aware

regardless though, i feel it's more fun and personalised if you try your hand at it, instead of relying on a tool to make it for you

[grim axle]

But it's also been really amazing that some cool artists offered to help. The cards they mde look really fantastic.

[night anchor]

like, even if it sucks, you did it

[night anchor]

mm! i saw the art people submitted

[warm oxide]

Yeah salt thats the thing i dont wanna come off as preachy cus that sometimes makes them grow resent and doubledown

[night anchor]

it's cool

[grim axle]

They also pointed out what I was doing wrong, like not using the balatro palett.

[night anchor]

(nickname is Ghost, i have a pronouns page for a reason)

[grim axle]

also not doing them small, etc etc. Like my ideas were wayyy too much detail to work at the native 1x size

[warm oxide]

Sorry force of habit

[grim axle]

you guys can call me Fox or Deploy or either

[warm oxide]

Im eric or foul or alias or pseudo

[night anchor]

habit? this is a recurring thing? have we met? :)

/hj

[warm oxide]

No just people with similar names

[grim axle]

I would always abbreviate peoples names in Wow, I understand the habit

[night anchor]

ya anyway, i've said my piece, have fun or whatev ^^

[warm oxide]

I often take the secobd half of peoples names before fully meeting them

[grim axle]

TLDR - I am not gonna release AI art. And I have learned that it's super hard to do pixel art but yeah, I'm learning it

[grim axle]

Sweet I am going to have some very awesome new art coming in today for a number of the jokers, super excited about it

We will have golden repeater , hachiko, tacocat, and death of rat all done!

Let me just say the cuteness of these doggies is basically unparalleled

[grim axle]

Check out how cute these new guys are!!!!

Todo / tile the gold coin behind the golden repeater, taco cat and the rat

[kind cypress]

One of these things is not like the others

[grim axle]

Oh wow, I did not realize you were in this room breezebuilder!

thanks for you help in the other chat!

[kind cypress]

but the dissonance of the Rat Grim Reaper is pretty funny with all the adorable animals

[kind cypress]

I've been everywhere, man

[grim axle]

He is a discworld reference!

My wife did the art for the rat there, check out my horrible attempt lol

i spent like an hour shading the gradient

[kind cypress]

I won't judge, it's a lot better than my attempt would have turned out, and better than some other fully finished jokers floating around. Art is hard

[grim axle]

I had this dream that I would be amazing once I got a pen for my tablet. Turns out...no.

Also turns out that my wife with a masters in art and years of photoshop exeperience would really enjoy it

you know what just occured to me, not sure if it's possible to do both chips + mult in a SMODs joker. Maybe that only ever worked in cryptid

[warm oxide]

Diagonal gradients are thought so fair job

[grim axle]

ty

I used a layer in paint dot net and did a gradient and changed the mode to negative, so it actually subtracted the gradients tone from the color that was there before

[warm oxide]

Tho a tip i would give eould be to keep a consistent outline

[grim axle]

I was trying to find a way to show that his robe was illuminated by the light. But actually now that I see it small you can't even see he is holding a lantern. good tip

[warm oxide]

Thats a dozzy

Personally i just reverse engineer a gradient from the game by copying the longest line of that gradient (only worked with the playing cards)

[grim axle]

Animal Themed Balatro Mod WIP!

Warning, adorable new baby incoming

It's bandit loach!!

[atomic rapids]

It's a decent attempt! If I may provide some constructive criticism, here is what I have to suggest:

1. Keep the Card Border Consistent. I recommend in a program like Photoshop or Krita to break down a normal joker into layers for the base card, the border, the joker text, and the joker itself. That way you can just copy the element from the default joker you need without worrying about getting it right each time. I can share my Kirta file if it would be of use.
2. Balatro Black. Except for the shading in Campfire, the darkest black in normal Joker cards is #4f6367.
3. Thin Outlines. Look at the outlines on my jokers and Opan's lucky repeater. There are no corners as part of the outline. Including corners can make the outline seem thicker in some places than others. There are some exceptions though!
4. Outlines Belong Outside. Whether black or white, your main outline color should only be used as an outline when it reaches out from the object in question. The middle of the robe for example shouldn't be black but rather a darker shade of purple.
5. Vertical Gradients. Most if not all background gradients in Balatro go from top to bottom. I do see what you were trying to do with the lantern though! Along with that, you don't want the icons in the background to be parallel to each other.
6. Shading. Shading is scary, and I can't say I'm the best at it either, but it can help art from looking flat. Thankfully as mentioned in the actual friend of Jimbo's post, shading is lighter in Balatro than in most pixel art so even if it is just an extra one or two-pixel border of a light or darker shade on each side, it should help the art pop.

I hope with these tips you can improve your artistic efforts! Looking forward to seeing how you grow!

[atomic rapids]

I hope you don't find it rude on my end, but I edited your joker with the mentioned techniques to demonstrate their effect.

[grim axle]

Ahh now i see what he meant! Thank you

Thanks guys

Wow thanks for the detailed breakdown, I will thoroughly review it and see how I can improve!

could you expand about you mean for point number 3, especially about corners

[atomic rapids]

Sure. Take a look at the shoulder of the rat. Your original had the corners filled in while my revision doesn't

[grim axle]

Ah, I see it now! Thank you

I have the Balatro color palette to use now so I’ll look to see where I used colors that are too dark

Finding out that the central area of the card is close in size to a gen one game boy Pokemon sprite really opened my eyes to how little room we have to work with

[grim axle]

When you’re doing this gradient technique to cross fade, are you making two separate layers of the background, then doing alternate gradients and doing a blend merge to join them?

[atomic rapids]

What I do to make a gradient is lay down a layer of one of the colors desired then apply a gradient tool spanning across the card with the other desired color.

Doing two gradients can get messy fast

[grim axle]

Ok thank you for the tip, I’ll try that on some of the new jokers!

[grim axle]

Very important, I need to share this baby with you guys

[warm oxide]

Mmmmmmmm

[grim axle]

This guy is like lucky retreiver, but he's golden repeater. it's an unreliable DNA style of card

I did something very weird in my adding new cards to the hand though, the new cards appear in the hand before the text that says 'Copied'

[warm oxide]

The colors can be fixed easility what i have trouble understanding is the shading and strange antialising

Resize streching?

[grim axle]

I had to take a screen shot to get it off of the app she is using to draw it, I think I must have messed up the resize in some way

HEres the problamatic part of my copy logic if anyone has an idea

if context.cardarea == G.play and context.other_card and context.other_card.ability 
    and context.other_card.ability.name == 'Gold Card' and not context.repetition then
    --card is golden, roll to see if we copy it
    if pseudorandom('goldretriever') < G.GAME.probabilities.normal / card.ability.odds then
        --we are copying it
        sendInfoMessage("LuckY! Copying this card", "goldenRepeater")
        --old logic, restored
        G.playing_card = (G.playing_card and G.playing_card + 1) or 1
        local _card = copy_card(context.other_card, nil, nil, G.playing_card)
        _card:add_to_deck()
        G.deck.config.card_limit = G.deck.config.card_limit + 1
        G.deck:emplace(_card)
        table.insert(G.playing_cards, _card)
        playing_card_joker_effects({ true })
        card_eval_status_text(context.blueprint_card or card, 'extra', nil, nil, nil,
            { message = localize('k_copied_ex'), colour = G.C.FILTER })

It doesn't get added to my hand, it goes into the deck. And it happens before the card is scored even!

[warm oxide]

Mmmmm check the code for certificate the answer might be there

[grim axle]

ah I found the problem

playing_card_joker_effects({ true })
card_eval_status_text(context.blueprint_card or card, 'extra', nil, nil, nil,
    { message = localize('k_copied_ex'), colour = G.C.FILTER })
_card.states.visible = nil

G.E_MANAGER:add_event(Event({
    func = function()
        _card:start_materialize()
        return true
    end
}))

I needed to use event manager for this sort of thing. Probably also the reason that my MeteorShower and Super Polymerization apply card changes before the card flips over when the tarot/spectral is consumed

[grim axle]

Do you guys have an idea for how to do the gradient or improve this joker?

I thought about tiling the skull

[atomic rapids]

The easy answer is to make the skull the background element for the gradient if you are going to include one. Also, remember the tips I suggested. I would be willing to revamp this art if you want me to.

[grim axle]

Thank you mariofan, I will give your tips a try, I was comparing and contrasting how you did the rat and I can see a few things to change

I’m also looking for feedback for the art on this one too

I was going to tile the tomatoes but it was too big and looked weird, I also couldn’t find colors that looked nice for a gradient so I think I might skip it for this one

I love the art feedback guys, thank you!

[grim axle]

@atomic rapids do you have any suggestions for this card? It's the updated Hachiko

[atomic rapids]

I love the art! Very cute! Three main things: First, the Joker text is hard to read. Maybe give it a black outline. Second, The outline on Hachiko has corners, smoothing them out might help. Third, It could do with some light shading. Despite that I love the piece! I think you did excellent with the design itself.

[grim axle]

thank you, I drew it by hand in my notebook, then gave it to my artist wife

here's my first attempt at doing pixel art for it

[atomic rapids]

Its a great first attempt then!

[grim axle]

no here is the first attempt, lol!

Here is a preview of the next joker to come. It is only in the hand sketch phase

It's a hermit crab who needs a bigger shell

[atomic rapids]

I love this idea! Great incorporation of the joker text too!

[grim axle]

it's supposed to be a little hermit crab with happy eyes looking at a soda can. But my kids say that it woudl be sad to have a crab going into a soda can so maybe it will be a soup can?

[atomic rapids]

Depends on how big the crab is I guess?

[grim axle]

I have the game logic working for him already

I definitely took to heart the idea someone said of 'even if it's bad art, if its your own then thats fine' lol

anyway I plan on starting up the github repo soon since a lot of the art and cards are coming together, hopefully folks here would not mind testing it out

[atomic rapids]

It has its charm to it!

[grim axle]

Thanks 🙂

He plays really great too, especially if you get it early on. And it kind of discourages the normal deck fixing games someone might play over and over

Mario, I know you offered to help with the rat yesterday. Would you be interested in helping to polish Hachiko? No is a totally acceptable answer too of course, no pressure here

[atomic rapids]

Sure!

I would appreciate it if you could get me an original resolution version if possible.

[rapid nacelle]

no way
wondrous!!

[atomic rapids]

Thanks!

[atomic rapids]

I tried not to cross the bounds between clean-up and revision. I also didn't want to compromise the artist's vision. For future reference, the border and text were a bit off. It may be worth figuring out why that was.

[grim axle]

Ohh I like the shading , its a nice improvement, and the letter really pop now

Thanks again @atomic rapids

She likes the changes!

[atomic rapids]

I'm glad to hear!

[warm oxide]

I really love the fella in the right
Got old comic vibe to it

[grim axle]

the dog?

[warm oxide]

Ye

[grim axle]

That is a pixel drawing of my dog that my wife made for me to use as an asset for a April Fools prank on my site. On April fools, I hid all of my normal content, which was like years of stuff for managing windows devices and automation and programming, and replaced it all with pictures of my dog

[grim axle]

New custom edition added, as a nod to Yugioh

The white area has whispy smoke while all color is replaced with reactive gold

[atomic rapids]

Interesting!

Curious how you did the shader

[atomic rapids]

Also, what do you mean earn 4?

[grim axle]

ugh, earn 4 lol! I forgot the dollar sign

I am thinking of making these like glass cards because they're powerful. Or having the dollar value deplete

[grim axle]

I started with Polychrome's shader and then found that it was based on lovely2d's shader model so I spent a lot of time messing around and looking at ShaderToy and then just iterated ~20 times or so manually tweaking values, or asking AI how to constrain color values

[atomic rapids]

Cool!

[grim axle]

My goal was a smoky white transparent look for the white area, with reactive gold shiney for the formerly colored areas. It turned out exactly as I wanted it.

So my next step will be to try and apply this affect on a booster pack to have a Rare Booster pack that contains some of these cards.

I already know how to apply editions for my custom packs, like the Maximum Negation and Maximum Hologram packs

[grim axle]

lol!

I write about making tools for managing big windows enivornments and like helpdesk folks on that site, I actually got complaints because of it, lol

[grim axle]

Here's another new card, the new art for Sun and Moon ❤️

And the finished art for Incremental Hermie

[grim axle]

I thought I was going to be done making Jokers for this mod but...had another idea

[grim axle]

It's hanging cat! It retriggers the last played card in a scoring hand

[atomic rapids]

Interesting

[grim axle]

Not sure if anyone is interested, but I am trying to come up with ideas for naming for a tarot or spectral card

The card applies a custom edition I added with a cool shader effect. The effect is a nod to yugioh called the Ghost Rare. It is basically a glass card meets a gold seal. It gives +10 mult and $2 when played but has a 1 in 6 chance to break

I'm interested in fun ideas for naming a tarot and also ideas around what to put on the tarot. It's just a placeholder now

the text for it is a mess too 😔

[atomic rapids]

For a spectral, I would call it Evocation as you are summoning a spirit. Too bad Ouija is already taken. I think a spectral makes the most sense for an edition. For a tarot, how about The Spectre?

The wording would probably be: Add Ghost Rare edition to 1 selected card in hand.

The tarot would probably randomly apply it to a joker.

[grim axle]

ohh i like that random idea

[grim axle]

another joker is done!

If anyone would like to help, these two guys are up for grabs

I would love some help doing gradients or fixes with these jokers 🙂

[atomic rapids]

As mentioned in the cryptid discord the antialiasing is throwing off the image. Just export the image directly from the program you are using. It would be much easier to edit that way.

[grim axle]

Wow you are right, I am not sure what part of my flow is adding antialiasing. Maybe it is me posting them to Discord itself 😦

Btw, I am trying to float around some names...I kind of like the idea of Animalatro, which came up in the other thread

Is this any better?

[atomic rapids]

It still has antialiasing

[kind cypress]

I don't think that's antialiasing you're seeing, i think it's .jpg compression

[kind cypress]

Try exporting as png, not jpg

[grim axle]

Ohhh ok will do

[grim axle]

I think I have a release name candidate.

I think Fickle Fox, one of my favorite jokers in this pack and that gave me the idea to start modding in the beginning.

If we go with Fickle Fox then I will make a logo using a Final Fantasy inspired font for it.

And here is the new and updated Fickle Fox and Benevolence jokers 😄

[atomic rapids]

Very cute

[grim axle]

If anyone asks, we are now counting kirby as an animal

[atomic rapids]

Kirby could use the animal transformation that appeared in squeak squad if that is a concern: https://wikirby.com/wiki/Animal

[rapid nacelle]

what would they both do

[grim axle]

These are both very fun to play as, let me get screen caps

I am going to convert my project on my pc to a github repo and start cleaning it up for release. There is still room for more jokers so if you have any fun animl ideas, let me know!

bonus points if you know which kirby he is based on

Also per your recommendations and tips @atomic rapids , cleaned up the art on a number of these animal jokers

[atomic rapids]

Nice improvements!

[kind cypress]

I think you might be exporting as .jpg again, or with a strong lossy compression turned on

[kind cypress]

Also forgot to comment on this earlier. The left one is awesome, who drew that texture?

[grim axle]

oh no, there is another vector that is compressing the images 😦

My wife did them both!

Before the issue ended up being google photos, now it looks like apple's cloud service also compresses things

I don't have any game play mechanics planned for torgal or redxiii yet. Maybe something that plays with either red or black cards? Open to ideas

[grim axle]

finished touching up the tarots!

I came up with a fun mechanic for some of the editions I made, which are pretty powerful

You have to pay a cost to activate them, like this

[atomic rapids]

That's an interesting card. The only issue I can see is that the "cost" is more of a benefit than a drawback. Consider the hanged man card, the whole purpose of which is to thin your deck. Maybe if it was actual cost like for example $20 to use, it would be a real drawback.

[grim axle]

Good point, maybe it kills one card and enchants the other

I made a booster pack that has guaranteed negative cards inside of it, and I’m playing around with pricing to feel how expensive it should be.

I have it at 20 now and rare

[grim axle]

I also need ideas for what these guys could do!

The left one is a rock Pokemon I am not familiar with, maybe something interesting around stone cards?

And the moogle is just adorable

At this point my wife is outpacing me just making cute stuff

[warm oxide]

Whats the name of the pokemon

[atomic rapids]

That's carbink

[grim axle]

I do not know that Pokemon, I would fail the 'whose that pokemon'

[warm oxide]

Carbink
Uncommon
1 in 4 chance to create a tarot for every enhanced card discarded.

[grim axle]

that's an awesome idea!

I began venturing out into hands now...

[atomic rapids]

I can't imagine what you would need to play for a Cosmo Canyon

[grim axle]

Cards that have a modulo of 13!

it is to go along with the red xiii joker

She made a moogle and a chocobo as well, I am trying to come up with ideas for them.

[atomic rapids]

Unfortunately, I don't know much about Final Fantasy aside from Chocobo races. Maybe the Chocobo could have a time mechanic of some kind? That might be a bit intense to implement though.

[grim axle]

Races have straight aways...maybe it plays with straights!

[atomic rapids]

Maybe it can gain mult with each consecutive straight, likes its getting faster in a straight away

[grim axle]

We have a bunch of cute new jokers

This is a redo of tacocat, I think it looks soo cute!

Also, for Torgal, i think the idea is he will reward a new hand that is a multiple of 16, to be a counterbalance to redxiii

[atomic rapids]

I would say that's a major improvement. Very nice job from the artist.

[grim axle]

thanks, you gave such actionable advice, it was really fantastic 🙂

[grim axle]

FickleFox a Vanilla friendly animal themed Balatro mod!

Hi guys, officially renaming the mod to FickleFox, I did a lot of dev work online and have a bunch of fun new jokers and concepts to share, will make a big update later 🙂

[prime owl]

Ooh this looks fun

[atomic rapids]

Very cool!

[grim axle]

hi @atomic rapids do you have a link for me to share? I would like to add a call out for you in the credits. I can link to your blog or deviantArt or whatever you'd like

[grim axle]

new final splash screen. We now add a copy of the Fickle Fox joker to the startscreen!

[prime owl]

Super cute :3

[grim axle]

Now this is cool, I checked and the mod is compatible with Cryptid as well!

[prime owl]

#1267720426109272135 hopefully it'll end up working in my modpack too (most mods do or I woiuldn't be able to have over 60 them)

[grim axle]

All configs are fully working. I will add a proper 'release' when I learn how this is done in Github but for now, you can also just pull down the current version from the repo, it's ready to rock!

[prime owl]

Not sure if you ever linked the gh

[prime owl]

And while I don't personally use releases (they don't work easily with making a mod pack) I make them all the time for said modpack and it's really a 1 button solution

[prime owl]

I found it through tbe website linked :3

getting a crash

[grim axle]

Can you send me your lovely_dump for that file?

[grim axle]

Getting close to releasing! Repo set up, haven't setup the release yet because of swapping some last minute things around

https://github.com/1RedOne/FickleFox

[grim axle]

Ah, I see the problem! Looks like the repro is to play a glass card and have it not break. I was pretty sure I typoed in the lovely patches file earlier

[prime owl]

thia happwna on boot tho

it might be related to things like vouchers I have that allow glass cards to not break but instead lose mult first or somthing like that

so a patch conflict or smth

but it's prolly still the typo you think it is causing it

[grim axle]

Can you try updating, I actually fixed that typo recently

Ooh I see the problem, hold please

Ok, fixed!

I removed the glass specific logic from the lovely.toml file, I actually don't need that anylonger for the stained glass jokers to work. Try and resync or pull from master again when you get a chance 🦝

[prime owl]

it's really easy to update with my modpack setup, so I already did

it boots now, but I get a different crash when I click on your mod in the mods list

[prime owl]

(it's just running git submodule update --remote --recursive --merge --init on my modpacck)

[prime owl]

and then clearing out me mods folder and copying the one from it back

[grim axle]

I see this issue too. I did a flurry of changes to get ready for release this morning. I'll ping when I get these worked out

Sorry about that!

[prime owl]

it's okay :3 Gonna get up and be away from my computer all day anyway

though I also do have winlator and termux set up to test on a tablet

because I'm strange

[grim axle]

lol! I have spent like 100+ hours making a balatro mod, we're all strange here

ok, problem fixed

and.... git push done

[prime owl]

Do you think you could add separate configuration values for each kind of booster?

[grim axle]

What would that look like or do?

[prime owl]

What I meant was turning then on and off separately not as a set

[grim axle]

Ahh I thought about this. Specifically the negative booster! Is that what you’re thinking

I also feel like the price is too cheap for some boosters, negative booster should probably be $20

[prime owl]

Tbh besides being so common, no. It's the ones with the jokers from your mod in them

[grim axle]

Oh yes I need to adjust the spawn rate for custom boosters

[prime owl]

It's not that I don't want to be exposed to your jokers ofc, I just don't want any mod too have an outsized effect on the pool of jokers I'm offered like that

If that makes sense

[grim axle]

I will add two new configs

Allow spawning FickleFox joker pack
Allow spawning negative booster

This makes me curious, what is the way that you distribute other people’s mods with configurations based into them?

Like how do most people find out about a mod pack and actually install it?

[prime owl]

Well the tool I use to distribute my own configs is a modified version of https://discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1288008679668318208

What it does is just copy the provided config files into the config folder if they don't already exist

As for how people find out about my nodpsck it's just here I think

#1267720426109272135

The releases are on github and are just zip files that contain a ready to go mods fokdsr

[grim axle]

ah, does the way that I made the config work with your system?

I was very curious how you handled setting configs

[prime owl]

I haven't tried it but I'm sure it would if you did it the standard way. I mean I can actually copy the configs anywhere so when if not

[grim axle]

Cool I have working toggles for those other things

K, Pushed!

[grim axle]

Aw yes! The last joker is done!!

[grim axle]

This is so exciting. I just pushed the first beta release!

https://github.com/1RedOne/FickleFox/releases/tag/0.2

[grim axle]

Thanks guys!! Please let me know if you find any bugs if you can give it a shot

Known Issues

• played hands with many tens, while having A Kuma or Shin A Kuma equipped play unexpected noises
• Caffinated joker is broken

[crystal oriole]

haven't played the mod a lot yet but i have to say i like the unique pixel art

way more vibrant than most jokers in my collection, idk how to describe it

[crystal oriole]

flush tailed fox in the main menu looks scuffed around the edges (see the small line at the top)

also in general the art has some pixels at the corners that shouldn't be there i think

and the kirbo joker says "kirby"

holowing owl shows the holographic info_queue item twice

benevolence has the same kind of corners issue as flush tailed

sorry for the spam but some more misalignments i found

[left tangle]

fop

[prime owl]

is this not supposed to show up? There's no entry for it in the mod additions and idk if that poker hand is implemented yet

[grim axle]

Oh you are right! I am...not sure what is causing that visual banding. Thank you for reporting it!

[grim axle]

Wow I don't even remember adding this. I wonder if this is a custom Stake from another mod.

These are great finds!

Adding them to known issues with attribution

[prime owl]

Nah it's just white stake

[grim axle]

Sorry I mean custom blind! I'm not personally familiar with how that boss blind works. There is a hand called fullMoon, but you can only play it when you have a certain joker because it changes how calculation works.

[prime owl]

Oh i see

Yeah it probably is then

The name just seemed fitting

[grim axle]

I thought that Hand based boss challenges all looked only at unlocked hands for the run. It seems this is a custom boss challenge which acts differently. Now, if you did unlock the hand for a run, I think it makes total sense! (I don't know where that is reading the hand name from though)

Do you know which mod adds that boss? At least it should display the name correctly

[prime owl]

I don't... think(?) I unlocked the hand, but I was debugolusing through the run

So there's a chance I had the joker

And unfortunately it's a bitch go figure out where blinds come from

They don't have mod badges in the collection

So you have to check each mod's additions page or like grep it

(Or open your whole mods folder when an ide and search if you don't use grep)

[grim axle]

I could also add Custom Hands as a toggle, and it would just not load the hands at all. This would implicitly disable the two Custom Hand rewarding jokers too. Not sure what the best way is to do

[grim axle]

What does FOP mean?

Known Issues

• Coonie - drop rates for custom boosters too high (agree) FIXED
• Drop rate for boosters, are all rarities correct? FIXED
• played hands with many tens, while having A Kuma or Shin A Kuma equipped play unexpected noises FIXED
• Caffinated joker is broken FIXED
• strmnn Splash Screen Joker looks weird
• strmnn Double Holo indicator for the owl FIXED
• strmnn Card banding / corner issues FIXED
• • Flush Tailed Fox FIXED
• • Benevolance FIXED
• • Pair Pair FIXED
• • Meteorain - bottom pixel missing FIXED
• • Coating (upper right) FIXED
• Coonie - a Config for Custom Hands could fix a corner case interaction between another mod's blinds
• F - not sure, FOP?
• Numerous pixel bugs in consumables FIXED
• Bug in Meteorain consumable, crash FIXED

[grim axle]

Hi folks, someone on tiktok reported an issue with using the spectrals / consumables that apply custom editions.

I would love to know if you're able to cash in those consumables without an issue if someone could pull from master and try it ! It works for me 🙂

Specifically The Bargainer or The Sword are one's I'm curious about

Fixed Issues

• Coonie - drop rates for custom boosters too high (agree) FIXED
• Drop rate for boosters, are all rarities correct? FIXED
• played hands with many tens, while having A Kuma or Shin A Kuma equipped play unexpected noises FIXED
• Caffinated joker is broken FIXED
• strmnn Double Holo indicator for the owl FIXED
• strmnn Card banding / corner issues FIXED
• • Flush Tailed Fox FIXED
• • Benevolance FIXED
• • Pair Pair FIXED
• • Meteorain - bottom pixel missing FIXED
• • Coating (upper right) FIXED
• Numerous pixel bugs in consumables FIXED
• Bug in Meteorain consumable, crash FIXED

Known Issues

• • Coonie * - is joker drop rate reasonable?
• strmnn Splash Screen Joker looks weird
• Coonie - a Config for Custom Hands could fix a corner case interaction between another mod's blinds
• Reported Issue * - Random crash when using consumable that applies a mod specific edition? Need repro (maybe fixed in master)
• F - not sure, FOP?

Updated release here, not sure if folks are using these releases - https://github.com/1RedOne/FickleFox/releases/tag/0.3

[prime owl]

well, as long as the repo is updated too, it should be fine

in regards to not sure if folks are using them

but yeah i'll see how they show up, tbh I need to actually play the damn game instead of working on my modpack all the time

they being the packs

[grim axle]

My parents came over and I installed the mod on my mom's laptop and she ran into the crash

"What the fuck is this, FoxDeploy?!"

[prime owl]

pffft, does she already play balatro?

[grim axle]

yes

Mom affecting bugs get top priority

[prime owl]

lol very fair

[left tangle]

foxes go brrr

[grim axle]

....

That quote really makes me want to make a new Joker named that

[grim axle]

Made a new release that fixes the 'all of the mod is disabled' on launch issue!

[grim axle]

https://github.com/1RedOne/FickleFox/releases/tag/0.4

New Features
Began adding progression and unlocks!

Fixed Issues
Random crash when using consumable that applies a mod specific edition? Need repro (maybe fixed in master) FIXED
Crash loop when waiting on start screen. Verified this is an issue, caused by an issue in our mod's config.lua, FIXED

Known Issues
Coonie * - is joker drop rate reasonable?
strmnn Splash Screen Joker looks weird
Coonie - a Config for Custom Hands could fix a corner case interaction between another mod's blinds
Thanks to @eremel and @WilsonTheWolf for their tips in fixing this config issue!

[grim axle]

New release coming later...fixes a lot of minor bugs and quirks, like mistimed animations, the odd rendering issue of the splash screen jokers and more

Also adds unlock conditions for the special decks and things where they make sense, and fixes hands like FullMoon and CosmoCanyon applying without their matching jokers

[left tangle]

I'm an animal 🙂

[grim axle]

A real animal would play test is and let me know if you find any bugs!

[fathom spindle]

@grim axle

there seems to be an error in your mod's script causing my game to crash

ill pull up an image

[grim axle]

Thanks for trying it! Which release are you using?

[fathom spindle]

wait i dont remember. how do i check?

[grim axle]

if you go to the balatro mods folder, you'll see a folder for FickleFox and inside will be a foxmod.json file

I'm also pushing a new release later today or tomorrow which has tons of bug fixes!

[fathom spindle]

ill wait for the release then, as this will probably be irrelevant soon

[mellow pasture]

is there a wiki for this?

[grim axle]

Hi @mellow pasture , what do you mean? Like a wiki within the mod?

[grim axle]

Hi @here, pushed a new release this morning!

https://github.com/1RedOne/FickleFox/releases/tag/v0.5

Has a shout out to @prime owl for their help and suggestions. Should include the fix for the issue you encountered @fathom spindle. To update, just delete your old FickleFox folder and replace with the new one from the relase!

v 0.5.0 - Half Moon Release

What's New!

• Add progression - unlock system! Make a new profile to see these unlocks!
• • Adds new decks with progressive unlock
• • Adds loads of new fun joker unlocks as well
• • Adds new Completionists style unlocks. Hover over any Locked card to get a hint!
• Buffs the Grass Card to make it more viable
• Buffs Benevolence's Gold Seal interaction
• Adds more configuration
• • Can now disable Mod specific boosters, the Negatvie booster, and many other things
• • Adds 'more Mystery' mode which preserves the previous sort of insane behavior of Cam and the funny description of Mochi Cat
• Adds beautiful new shaders to special edition decks!
• Adds beautiful new version of secretRare shader
• Adjusted Card Doubling rates for Lucky and Golden Retriever, from 1 ~ 8 to 1 ~ 10
• Adjusted card and booster spawn rates

Bug Fixes

• Fixes 'Again' messages firing for wrong cards
• Fixes numerous 'Repeat' or 'Retrigger' cards not working as expected
• Fixes boot loop issue *
• Cleans up card logic
• Fixes wrong description for FickleFox Joker: Thanks to Discord user Seals on Everything
• Fixes the logic for Caffinated and Mochi cat to work!

[grim axle]

@fathom spindle please give this a shot and let me know if it works, I made a brand new install of the game to try it out and I had zero crashing, and all of the unlocks worked as expected 🙂

[fathom spindle]

yes, the crash was fixed @grim axle

but there is another issue

my stakes are now one of your shaders

(card sleeves are too)

[left tangle]

welcome to foxland.

[fathom spindle]

is this intended?

[grim axle]

What the heck?

I have no idea how this could happen

wait...how do you get to that view? Maybe I do have an ide

[left tangle]

🦊

[fathom spindle]

galdur mod

[grim axle]

Thank you! It looks like I am accidentally doing this. I will check out the Galdur mod, I've never used it but I am somehow running afoul of it

Specifically Galdur has a patching mechanism to add adnimation to deck backs that I am...using...and I think I did it wrong

I will fix it for the next release, you can disable this by going to FickleFox config and disabling 'Animated Backs'

[grim axle]

Cool I was able to repro it!

Fixed, check out v.06 @fathom spindle which resolves this

[fathom spindle]

okay

[grim axle]

Bug fix today! Foudn that Flush Tailed fox wasn't reprocessing played flushes like it should
Also fixed a bug, Yugioh was resetting his mult after every shop. His art is supposed to reset, but not his mult, it should stay.

[grim axle]

Hi guys, working on the v0.777 release. This is going to add some fun Final Fantasy things.

The Cait Sith joker will now unlock a Final Fantasy 7 referencing hand
Will add a new mechanic based on the number of Lucky cards you have in your deck
Add a new planet card to support leveling this new custom hand

The idea is that there will be a x / 20 chance of reprocessing Lucky cards. X is the number of lucky cards you have

And of course, the special hand will be if you play all 7's!