Jimbo's Moon Vacation! - A Vanilla+ Content Expansion Mod | Balatro | Page 1

inner pagoda May 28, 2025, 8:47 PM

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Wanted to take a crack at modding for Balatro. Enjoy!
This is a modest vanilla-like content expansion aimed at building on Balatro's core mechanics and adding new strategic wrinkles without straying too far from the balance of the base game.

FEATURES

Lunar Cards! A new consumable type acting as an analogue to Planet Cards, allowing you to upgrade the base value of individual card ranks.
Reverse Tarot Cards! Rare & powerful twists on the original Tarot Cards, with stronger and more unwieldy effects. Upgrade your card enhancements too!
New Seals, Vouchers, Tags, and more to supplement both new consumable types.
16 new Jokers!
17 new Blinds!
Configurable! Prefer a different Reverse Tarot mod? Shop pool getting too diluted? Finding the Blinds disagreeable? Keep what you like and turn off what you don't—play your way in true modded fashion!

Check it out here
https://github.com/heavyParsnip/JimbosMoonVacation

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GitHub

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dreamy silo May 28, 2025, 8:50 PM

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wow, nice work! this looks really well done

inner pagoda May 28, 2025, 8:57 PM

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thanks!! that means a lot coming from you :) lovely was a godsend while working on it

dreamy silo May 28, 2025, 9:00 PM

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awww glad it helped. I'm always amazed at how consistently high quality this community's work is. it's a really rare thing

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so be proud of yourself 💪

quasi ermine May 28, 2025, 9:50 PM

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this is peak

sly kraken May 29, 2025, 4:05 PM

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bleak fossil May 30, 2025, 5:17 AM

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this is a really great mod, i've been enjoying it :]

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i did want to ask though

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is it intended that reverse judgment can make legendaries?

inner pagoda May 30, 2025, 5:28 AM

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Thanks a bunch!

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it is intended, but i have been strongly considering making it target a random joker rather than a selected one. i’d love to hear your thoughts

long sundial May 30, 2025, 5:37 AM

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moon upgrades don't seem to be working for me? playing upgraded ranks doesn't seem to score the extra chips and mult from moon cards. i wonder if this is a mod conflict or smth, has anyone else reported this?

night dawn May 30, 2025, 5:38 AM

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inner pagoda Wanted to take a crack at modding for Balatro. Enjoy! This is a modest vanilla-l...

Whoa, moon cards again!

inner pagoda May 30, 2025, 5:42 AM

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long sundial moon upgrades don't seem to be working for me? playing upgraded ranks doesn't se...

shoot me your mod list when you get the chance, I haven’t compatibility tested JMV at all so i wouldnt be surprised if it conflicted with something

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the code to calculate lunar bonuses during scoring is patched in so it’s probably fussier

long sundial May 30, 2025, 5:43 AM

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wait, the chips are adding. if i look closely it's only the extra mult that's not added

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i have a looot of mods lol hang on

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yeah

inner pagoda May 30, 2025, 5:44 AM

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also just for good measure: is it on any particular rank or is it across the board?

long sundial May 30, 2025, 5:45 AM

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it seems to always add the right amount of chips but the ranks i've tried haven't added the extra mult. i'll try messing with my mod list a bit

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i should really not have this many at once lol

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love the new jokers btw

inner pagoda May 30, 2025, 5:46 AM

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i did previously have issues with it working on 10s and then fixing that caused issues with face cards so who knows! ima take a look tomorrow though cause if it’s something i can fix on my end then I should

inner pagoda May 30, 2025, 5:47 AM

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long sundial love the new jokers btw

ty <3 i’d like to add more soon

long sundial May 30, 2025, 5:48 AM

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thanks for the response. i'll have to keep up with this mod, i always like it when mods add something independent from jokers that encourange you to seek certain ranks since it has some emergent synergy potential. that's what i really liked about bettma spells

long sundial May 30, 2025, 5:49 AM

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inner pagoda i did previously have issues with it working on 10s and then fixing that caused ...

yeah this seems consistent on my end with both numbers and face cards. i get the chips bonus but the extra mult doesn't register. hmm

inner pagoda May 30, 2025, 5:55 AM

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can I get your lovely dump file as well? there’s usually notifications in the console during startup if patches aren’t making it in

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figure i should check that first before i start checking individual mods

long sundial May 30, 2025, 5:58 AM

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how do i send you my lovely dump file? srry

inner pagoda May 30, 2025, 6:02 AM

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no prob, it should be the most recent txt file in AppData/Roaming/Balatro/Mods/lovely/log

long sundial May 30, 2025, 6:03 AM

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📎 lovely-2025.02.25-17.22.14.log

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thanks

bleak fossil May 30, 2025, 7:09 AM

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inner pagoda it is intended, but i have been strongly considering making it target a random j...

I feel like that makes it a lot less desirable as a card honestly, if my current build is very much dependent on a mix of jokers from several rarities it’s hard to give one up at random for a joker I might not even use

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if I have one that’s lacking in my build that’s an uncommon it’s a great choice because I know it’ll hit the uncommon and turn it into something that’ll be better that I might be able to use

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I think it would be better if it just maxed out at rare, since legendaries are supposed to be very hard to find

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hence giving them that kind of mystical feel to them

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having an alternative route to get to them besides the soul makes it feel a lot less magical to get one, especially one that’s fairly easy to get to

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of course though, this is all just my own take, and what I think ultimately isn’t as important as your own vision for the mod!

inner pagoda May 30, 2025, 8:24 PM

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bleak fossil of course though, this is all just my own take, and what I think ultimately isn’...

nah i appreciate the feedback a lot, the balance is important to me. i was hoping the rarity of having a rare you can part with + pulling a reverse judgment would be enough to not make it too busted, but i think the fact that someone mentioned it only 2 days after releasing the mod speaks for itself; it is probably too good and not in line with what I want

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when i was initially programming it i didn't want to have a caveat in how the effect worked bc it felt sloppy from a design standpoint, which is why i started considering having it target randomly

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but u make a very good point, i would probably never take it if i was risking any more than a single joker essential to my current build

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i think capping it at rare is the lesser of those two evils. It could just reroll a rare into another rare which would have much more viable use cases

bleak fossil May 30, 2025, 8:36 PM

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exactly yeah

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even if a card is rare that doesn't mean it fits for what i'm doing with the build

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so i could pick it up anyway and reroll it into a different joker

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or if i have one that was useful but not anymore

long sundial Jun 1, 2025, 4:00 AM

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ignore that report i made yesterday, i'm noticing the same issue without the mod installed (flat mult added to playing cards isn't registering) so i know now that something else is causing it

inner pagoda Jun 1, 2025, 4:14 AM

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🫡 thank you for the update

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i was going to report back that i had not been able to reproduce it yet

sly kraken Jun 14, 2025, 5:53 AM

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i dont think canvas is supposed to retrigger twist of fate

inner pagoda Jun 14, 2025, 7:20 PM

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oh my

#Jimbo's Moon Vacation! - A Vanilla+ Content Expansion Mod