Balatrones - A barebones modpack manager.

[junior apex]

Balatrones; plural of balatro

Source Code: https://github.com/bconlon1/Balatrones-Modpack-Manager

Balatrones is a modpack manager in the same vein as have been developed for other games, like Prism Launcher for Minecraft or Thunderstore for Lethal Company. I made this after being surprised by the lack of tools like this for Balatro.

I created this over less than the past 24 hours; it's an incredibly barebones program since my coding knowledge doesn't really relate to UI development. If this interests anyone enough to clean up into something more professional-looking, contributions are welcome; I just wanted to publish something functional in case others may also find it useful to use.

To use the program:

• Download and run the latest jar from https://github.com/bconlon1/Balatrones-Modpack-Manager/releases. If you're skeptical of a random executable jar (as you probably should be in most scenarios usually), the building is done through Gradle and run by GitHub Actions so the process is fairly transparent https://github.com/bconlon1/Balatrones-Modpack-Manager/actions.
• Locate the directory of your Balatro executable from Steam and input it at the text field in the bottom.
• In the top text field, write a name for the instance and press Create New Instance; it'll be added to the middle list.
• Click Edit for the instance entry to open up the Mods folder where you can drag your mods into.
• Press Play, and Balatro should load!

Notes:

• This is Windows only at the moment for the initial release, but I'll probably look into other OS support soon.
• I did not implement a delete button for instances in the UI to be safe since as mentioned this kind of thing isn't my area of expertise and file deletion can be destructive if done wrong; if you want to delete an instance you can just get to the folder with the Edit button and delete it using your file explorer.
• Because this was created in such a short timespan, let me know if there are any issues you run into.

oh yeah other important notes:

• you still have to install lovely injector (https://github.com/ethangreen-dev/lovely-injector) into the Balatro executable directory as you normally would
• the folder for the modpack manager where all instances are stored is in %appdata%/Balatrones Modpack Manager
• instances each store both separate mod data and save data

[ocean light]

swing

can we have prism launcher in balatro

[junior apex]

sorry i can only make minecraft mods not minecraft launchers

[ocean light]

close enough

[junior apex]

gonna try to create a video that showcases this in action as well, i just need to edit it so file explorer doesnt doxx me lol

[junior apex]

i might work on mac and linux support tomorrow since at the minimum i think the only thing that needs to be changed is what directory to point to for the save locations, based on what LOVE 2d seems to limit them to between OSes, i just need to set up a virtual machine to test with.

[steady solar]

i might use this

[wicked trout]

I tried running the jar file but I would always get this error. I'm not too familiar with running jar files so some help would appreciated.

[junior apex]

hmm what version of java do you have

[steady solar]

tried to run Jen's Almanac

[junior apex]

interesting they might be patching conf.lua it sounds like, maybe theres some kind of conflict

[steady solar]

is it fixable?

[livid topaz]

Finally we have multimc for balatro

[mild bridge]

im getting the same thing

[tacit dawn]

Having the same issue. Java version 8u451 (x64)

[hollow dune]

hi why is the jar file not opening

i right click the file. click open. nothing happens

[hollow dune]

okay now it just does this instead