Joking Around (+52 Jokers, +1 Deck, New Consumable Type) | Balatro | Page 1

split iris Jun 9, 2025, 1:02 PM

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https://github.com/josephbalatrokerry/JokingAround

A mod that adds 33 (it's as many as 16.5 * 2) new Jokers smiley_face
Includes:
Static XMult Joker
XMult scaling Jokers,
+Mult scaling Joker,
~~XChips scaling Joker~~
+Chip scaling Joker
Sell price utility Joker,
Retrigger Jokers
Consumable-spawning Jokers
Enhancement-based Joker
And other Jokers!

mental frost Jun 9, 2025, 1:06 PM

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this looks peak

split iris Jun 9, 2025, 1:09 PM

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mental frost this looks peak

thanks

split iris Jun 9, 2025, 4:11 PM

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Update: added description of all added Jokers on GitHub

alpine merlin Jun 9, 2025, 7:25 PM

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@split iris it is time for: RATE THAT MYSTERY ARTWORK (i have not seen it yet here goes)

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and...

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fafahop YOU DID IT!

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VANILLA ART!

split iris Jun 11, 2025, 11:46 AM

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Update: 1.1.0
-Added 2 new Jokers (Pinata and Aristocracy)
-Made little adjustments to Consolidation and Dystopia's art
-Made several Jokers incompatible with certain stickers

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meet my awesome balala OC, his name is Pinatti "Pinata" Chaos
everyone confuses him for a pinata because of his costume and beats him up with a bat and he's a relative of Chaos the Clown

split iris Jun 12, 2025, 1:52 PM

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Update: 1.2.0
-Added 1 new Joker (Ransom Joker)
-Fixed an error in Shopaholism's description

split iris Jun 13, 2025, 8:44 AM

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Update: 1.3.0

Bad news: Alloy was shot dead in a Las Vegas casino: attacker states "unoriginality" as the reason
Good news: Alloy's corpse (the gold part) was re-purposed and made into Four-leaf Mirror, a new Joker!

-Added 2 new Jokers (Four-leaf Mirror and Love Letter)
-Removed a stray pixel on Ransom Joker
-Removed Alloy

A little announcement for my mod's audience consisting of 1.5 people, a cardboard cutout of Jimbo and my neighbour's cat: I plan on finishing a single page of Jokers and then maybe expanding Joking Around into an "a little bit of everything" type of mod (I have a fully working deck coded btw, will probably implement it later). So, yeah, I'll add just one more joker in 1.4.0 and then we'll see what happens

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split iris Jun 13, 2025, 11:50 AM

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Update: 1.4.0
-Adjusted Pinata's description
-Added 1 new Joker (Comeback)

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Joking Around (+15 Jokers)

brisk iron Jun 15, 2025, 10:38 PM

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i think this joker is maybe a tad overtuned

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wee joker can reach this kind of number if you base your whole build around it and get like, blueprint and hanging chad but the difference is wee joker is a rare and also getting this to work took 3 stone cards

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even without stone cards its about twice as strong a square joker if you play just face cards and im not saying all chips jokers should be compared to square joker because square joker is comically bad but for a common that scales on its own its pretty crazy

split iris Jun 16, 2025, 5:48 PM

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brisk iron wee joker can reach this kind of number if you base your whole build around it a...

Thanks for feedback and playing Joking Around!

I thought that Bonus Cards will have a decently strong synergy with Ransom but completely forgot about Stone Cards lol

Good point about Square Joker too, Ransom Joker scales better than it in almost all cases and doesn't even have a condition (it's funny how I took R for the text from Square Joker's art without realising that the Joker I was making art for overshadows it in every way)

I'll probably just halve it's scaling (rounded up). So, it'll be at most +6 chips per hand and still have decent potential (+25/+20 chips per hand if you play a hand consisting of exclusively stone/bonus cards still sounds pretty nice for a common)

It'll still be on the upper side of commons (hello Runner) but at least it won't be stronger than damn WEE JOKER

Also, I'll nerf Bonus Joker's chip gain because I realized that it, a Common gives +30 chips for each Bonus Card while Stone Joker, an Uncommon gives +25 chips for each Stone Card (not only you can't make hands with stone cards, Tower can convert only 1 card to stone while Hierophant can convert 2 card to Bonus)

If I had a nickel for each time I accidentally made a busted Common +Chip Joker...

P.S About Pinata - idk how to edit sell values of consumables that were added yet but I'll research it and make the gained consumables be worth only 1$

brisk iron Jun 16, 2025, 5:51 PM

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Hmmm having it be half could be cool

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Could also have it always act as if you're playing 5 cards or something? So to get the full chips you'd need 5 stone cards but maybe that's a bit far lol

split iris Jun 17, 2025, 7:02 AM

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Update: 1.5.0

-Fixed Comeback's weird head shape
-Nerfed Ransom Joker by halving it's scaling
-Nerfed Bonus Joker (+30 chips for each Bonus Card - +15 Chips for each Bonus Card)
-Nerfed Pinata (1 in 5 chance for creating a Spectral Card - 1 in 6 chance for creating a Spectral Card)
-Added 1 new Legendary Joker (Pied Piper)

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Joking Around (+16 Jokers)

split iris Jun 19, 2025, 8:26 AM

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Update: 1.6.0
-Aristocracy is now compatible with Blueprint!
-Snowballing Joker now returns message stating how many hands were subtracted when selecting the blind
-Aristocracy now has properly colored message
-Added 1 new Uncommon Joker (Conspiracy)

split iris Jun 29, 2025, 2:24 PM

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A little sneak peek of two jokers from the 1.7.0 update (it'll have 5 jokers in total):
Whetstone (gives X1.5 Mult if a rank was already scored this round) and Traveller (turns all played cards Bonus or Mult)

split iris Jun 29, 2025, 4:03 PM

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Update: 1.7.0
-Nerfed Aim (4 retriggers - 3 retriggers)
-Changed Ransom Joker (add halved arithmetic mean - scaling capped at 25 chips per hand)
-Added 5 new Jokers (Gamblers Anonymous, Washing Machine, Revolution, Whetstone, Traveller)
-Added Smiley Face Jr (he doesn't do anything and just omniously stares at you from the collection and from the mod's icon)
-Added Everchanging Deck

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Joking Around (+22 Jokers)

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Joking Around (+22 Jokers, +1 Deck)

split iris Jun 30, 2025, 11:57 AM

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Update: 1.8.0
-Added 2 new Jokers (Mustached Joker, Dollar Bill)

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Joking Around (+25 Jokers, +1 Deck)

split iris Jun 30, 2025, 9:47 PM

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Update: 1.9.0
-Added 1 new Joker (Long Necktie)
-Fixed a mistake in Dollar Bill's art

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A scaling +Mult Joker, now Income Report has someone to add mult with together

split iris Jul 1, 2025, 1:25 PM

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Patch: 1.9.1
-Fixed a bug with Long Necktie's scaling (it scaled weirdly if you assembled straights in different order before scoring and probably didn't work with Four Fingers)

split iris Jul 3, 2025, 10:50 AM

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Update: 2.0.0
-Added 4 new Jokers (Earthquake, Prayer Card, Roll the Credits, Dead End)
-Suddenly remembered that stickers exist and made Necktie incompatible with perishable sticker

split iris Jul 14, 2025, 5:23 PM

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Update: 2.1.0
-Added 1 new Joker (Pareidcolia)
-Changed the wording of Whetstone (played - scored)
-Fixed a bug with Shopaholism scaling if you buy it in the shop
-Earthquake can now only appear if you have a Stone Card in your deck

split iris Jul 15, 2025, 5:29 AM

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Patch: 2.1.1
-Accidentally stopped Shopaholism from scaling while fixing a bug, fixed now (also it doesn't reset now when Shopaholism itself is sold)

proper gorge Jul 15, 2025, 6:15 AM

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📎 message.txt

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random ' , ' left in the code

split iris Jul 15, 2025, 6:28 AM

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lemme see

split iris Jul 15, 2025, 6:35 AM

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proper gorge

works now (it crashed because I accidentally deleted all the unlocks = true while editing the code in GitHub btw)

split iris Aug 4, 2025, 10:55 AM

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Update: 2.2.0 (I'm back)
-Buffed Mustached Joker (8$-12$. Now you essentially get an Investment tag if you skip both blinds)
-Fixed a typo in Mustached Joker's description
-Dead End should actually work now (whoops I left it in a broken state for 2 weeks)
-Added 1 new Joker (By the Book)
-Capitalized Uncommon in Pareidcolia's description
-Income Report renamed to Income Statement

warped plover Aug 4, 2025, 6:08 PM

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hi, I was playing with the four leaf clover and my game lags so much when drawing cards that it even crashes

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I think it's because the calculate function for the joker runs every time a card is drawn and that lags so much

split iris Aug 5, 2025, 8:21 AM

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warped plover I think it's because the calculate function for the joker runs every time a card...

(Calculate function runs when you do pretty much anything so it's not the problem)

Quantum Enhacements are an experimental feature so I can't do anything about it I guess (I looked at Extra Credit's Alloy code to write Four-leaf Mirror's code). I don't have this problem personally so try to talk about it with Steamodded's creators (link to Steamodded's Discord is on the linked page)
https://github.com/Steamodded/smods?tab=readme-ov-file.

Also, try to temporarily uninstall other mods, maybe my mod's Quantum Enhancements conflict with other mod's Quantum Enhacements.

GitHub

GitHub - Steamodded/smods: A Balatro Modding Framework

A Balatro Modding Framework. Contribute to Steamodded/smods development by creating an account on GitHub.

split iris Aug 6, 2025, 7:15 PM

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Update: 2.3.0
-Added 1 new Joker (Communist)
-Changed mod badge's color to yellow. I might like purple but I have to be consistent with Smiley Face being the mod's mascot smiley_face
-Made minor art fixes to several Jokers (more exact:
Made font on Income Statement and By the Book consistent
Changed the cola and mouth shading in Pareidcolia
Patched holes in Pied Piper and Prayer Card
Fixed weird shade on Conspiracy)
-Moved By the Book so Pied Piper and Smiley Face Jr. show up the last

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Joking Around (+33 Jokers, +1 Deck)

split iris Aug 6, 2025, 7:32 PM

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Only now realized I have 11 people (excluding me) following this mod since it released 2 months ago

Thanks everyone and have this drawing of Smilington Facezergald Sr. (ft. MS Paint)

smiley_face

split iris Aug 7, 2025, 6:53 PM

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Update: 2.4.0
-Added 1 new Joker (Scrap Metal)
-Now By the Book is actually incompatible with perishability
-A little change in Aristocracy's sprite
-Pinata doesn't spawn negative consumables anymore

simple comet Aug 10, 2025, 11:52 PM

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should Revolution have eternal compatibility? I feel like it should get the same exception as Luchador

split iris Aug 13, 2025, 7:28 PM

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simple comet should Revolution have eternal compatibility? I feel like it should get the same...

fixed, thanks for noticing (man I always forget to set sticker compatibilities)

simple comet Aug 13, 2025, 7:42 PM

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👍

split iris Aug 14, 2025, 4:33 PM

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Update: 2.5.0
-Added 1 new Joker (Split Identity)
-Shortcut is broken for... reasons, I'll fix it soon I promise

simple comet Aug 16, 2025, 2:19 AM

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submitted a pull request to fix Shortcut

split iris Aug 16, 2025, 10:15 PM

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Update: 2.6.0
-Rebalanced Ransom Joker for the third time (now it has no cap but scaling is halved again)
-Added 2 new Jokers (Glass Bones, Punch Card)
-Shortcut finally works (thanks Rat Circus)

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Joking Around (+36 Jokers, +1 Deck)

split iris Aug 22, 2025, 1:48 PM

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Update: 2.7.0
-Added 4 new Jokers
-Fixed a bug with Dead End where it counted Stone cards as having a rank
-Made little art adjustments to Punch Card, Communist, Glass Bones and Pied Piper
-Glass Bones tells you what glass cards are in case you don't know
-Reworked Prayer Card

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Joking Around (+40 Jokers, +1 Deck)

split iris Aug 24, 2025, 6:43 AM

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Update: 2.8.0
-Added 2 new Jokers

split iris Sep 21, 2025, 3:19 PM

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-Big Update: 2.9.0
-New consumable type, Chess Cards!
-8 new Jokers and Smiley Face Jr. has an effect and talks now
-Fixed a bug where Dollar Bill wasn't synergizing with Smeared Joker

split iris Sep 21, 2025, 3:52 PM

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Joking Around (+52 Jokers, +1 Deck, New Consumable Type)

split iris Sep 21, 2025, 4:34 PM

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There are some bugs here and there (visual bugs) but I'll fix them tomorrow because preparing for release was stressful enough

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smiley_face

split iris Oct 12, 2025, 7:46 AM

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-Update: 3.0.0
-Added 3 new Jokers

split iris Nov 5, 2025, 5:09 PM

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-Update: 3.1.0
-Added 4 new Jokers (Joe King, Bullet Speed, Double Think, Cauldron)

sharp dock Nov 5, 2025, 5:33 PM

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Oh hi Mark!
This looks like a fun mod

split iris Nov 5, 2025, 5:33 PM

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Oh my Smiley Face there's someone here

split iris Nov 5, 2025, 5:37 PM

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sharp dock Oh hi Mark! This looks like a fun mod

Hello! Smiley Face smiley_face lineage thanks you for choosing their mod. Don't expect anything really special, it's just a Joker mod for now (I am planning to add unique mechanics in the future but I'm a bit demotivated and busy right now). Also some text stuff is a bit broken. Thanks again!

sharp dock Nov 5, 2025, 5:41 PM

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split iris Hello! Smiley Face <:smiley_face:1380036229843783731> lineage thanks you for ch...

Hey my dude that already a lot, as a none mod creator and only enjoying it, I can't push or demand things from folks who do this for free like you

sharp dock Nov 6, 2025, 6:35 AM

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Question, as downloaded this mod it requires to have cryptic and everything else on to be use, is there way to toggle that off?

split iris Nov 6, 2025, 6:08 PM

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sharp dock Question, as downloaded this mod it requires to have cryptic and everything else...

(cryptic as in cryptid I assume?)

I don't quite get the issue, are you facing an error that doesn't let you launch the game? Send a screenshot please

sharp dock Nov 6, 2025, 6:51 PM

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Sure, when get home. But my error is that can't load this mod, in singular format it request that both cryptid be on

split iris Nov 6, 2025, 7:04 PM

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Huh, weird. For me, everything works fine (could be because of the mod using quantum enhancements and retriggering jokers? they're labelled as experimental features)

sharp dock Nov 7, 2025, 1:00 AM

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I will take screen shot of it

#Joking Around (+52 Jokers, +1 Deck, New Consumable Type)