ivory harbor Oct 18, 2025, 12:24 PM

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optimization & some bit of utility.
you'll want this with large mods, where patching and loading duration can take much worse.
also includes:

async scoring: run scoring animation while also calculating on background
faster animation with ev2
https://codeberg.org/frostice482/balatro-utils

1.4.4: https://codeberg.org/frostice482/balatro-utils/releases/tag/1.4.4

Codeberg.org

balatro-utils

Balatro optimization & util mod

versed rover Oct 18, 2025, 12:46 PM

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ooh peak

ivory harbor Oct 29, 2025, 10:22 PM

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frost's utils

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i'll put more in this thread & repo, generally optimizations and some bit of utils, since i'll be moving unrelated feature from cdataman to here

ivory harbor Nov 4, 2025, 10:28 AM

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1.0.0 https://codeberg.org/frostice482/balatro-utils/releases

fair nimbus Nov 4, 2025, 12:04 PM

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it crashes on start

📎 message.txt

ivory harbor Nov 4, 2025, 12:09 PM

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does it crash without the mod installed?

fair nimbus Nov 4, 2025, 12:11 PM

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doesnt crash without the mod

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maybe a mod conflict ?

ivory harbor Nov 4, 2025, 12:11 PM

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unlikely

fair nimbus Nov 4, 2025, 12:17 PM

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K i found the conflict mod, Its Bunco for some reasons

celest jay Nov 4, 2025, 3:19 PM

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ivory harbor ## 1.0.0 <https://codeberg.org/frostice482/balatro-utils/releases>

Is there any new thing in v1.0.0 compare to direct download?

ivory harbor Nov 4, 2025, 4:00 PM

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nothing

celest jay Nov 5, 2025, 5:04 AM

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ivory harbor nothing

Bruh xd

ivory harbor Nov 13, 2025, 10:47 PM

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testing out async scoring, letting the animation run while also scoring in some timeframe.
it doesn't fill event queue, and doesn't calculate everything at once.
~~talisman incompat~~ (compat is added)

nocturne minnow Nov 13, 2025, 10:54 PM

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very cool

ivory harbor Nov 14, 2025, 12:53 AM

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ui thing

graceful leaf Nov 14, 2025, 1:27 AM

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ivory harbor ui thing

What is this, brand new talisman?

ivory harbor Nov 14, 2025, 1:27 AM

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no, different

graceful leaf Nov 14, 2025, 1:28 AM

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ivory harbor no, different

Do I have to remove talisman to use it?

ivory harbor Nov 14, 2025, 1:29 AM

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ive added talisman compat so no need

graceful leaf Nov 14, 2025, 1:29 AM

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And will it replace the calc thing talisman has?

ivory harbor Nov 14, 2025, 1:29 AM

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if you enable it yes

graceful leaf Nov 14, 2025, 1:31 AM

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What’s the drawback?

ivory harbor Nov 14, 2025, 1:31 AM

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idk if there's any, but it may be potentially buggy

graceful leaf Nov 14, 2025, 1:32 AM

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Are you still developing this technology

ivory harbor Nov 14, 2025, 1:32 AM

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yeah

graceful leaf Nov 14, 2025, 1:33 AM

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I will wait until this new alternative to talisman is complete

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Or whatever you call it.

ivory harbor Nov 14, 2025, 1:38 AM

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this and talisman are two different things. talisman is meant for increasing score limit (and the calculating screen), meanwhile this is some random stuff i add

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you can use the latest commit, it's already there

dusky vortex Nov 14, 2025, 1:39 AM

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but for this it's kind of a nopeus alternative right?

ivory harbor Nov 14, 2025, 1:39 AM

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yeah

dusky vortex Nov 14, 2025, 1:40 AM

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very awesome, I def gotta try it out cuz I'm sure it's way better than nopeus in a lot of specific ways

ivory harbor Nov 14, 2025, 4:39 AM

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1.1.0 https://codeberg.org/frostice482/balatro-utils/releases/tag/1.1.0

dusky vortex Nov 16, 2025, 12:02 AM

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I'm sure there's probably something I'm missing in the config but is there a way to turn the logging of all the atlases and whatnot

ivory harbor Nov 16, 2025, 12:03 AM

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not for rn

dusky vortex Nov 16, 2025, 12:05 AM

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would be nice to have sometime later in development just as an option to turn off

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really like how the mod performs so far

ivory harbor Nov 16, 2025, 12:06 AM

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i've just made a push to disable logging, you can try using it

dusky vortex Nov 16, 2025, 12:06 AM

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yeah that should work as a temporary solution

winged prairie Nov 16, 2025, 12:12 AM

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How new updates?

ivory harbor Nov 16, 2025, 12:13 AM

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?

winged prairie Nov 16, 2025, 12:20 AM

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Sorry not familiar with codeberg

dusky vortex Nov 16, 2025, 12:25 AM

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are you just asking how to download or if there are new updates

honest birch Nov 16, 2025, 1:36 PM

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Is it normal to freeze for 15 secs after playing hand? I was stress testing with retriggers (200 retriggeres per card, 10 cards in hand) or is that too much testing

ivory harbor Nov 16, 2025, 1:51 PM

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freeze as in balatro isnt responding at all or you can open settings but animation doesn't run anymore?

honest birch Nov 16, 2025, 3:01 PM

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not responding, but after 15 secs it runs fine. I assumed it was calculating some stuff before it plays the animation, but that's just what I think

ivory harbor Nov 16, 2025, 3:03 PM

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i think that's whats happening

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it should pause at max every 16-33ms to let balatro run again but it cant pause everything

ivory harbor Nov 16, 2025, 6:40 PM

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looking at this back i think what happened is there's no animation to run after pause so it resumes the calculation until there's one

winged prairie Nov 16, 2025, 6:40 PM

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dusky vortex are you just asking how to download or if there are new updates

Both

dusky vortex Nov 16, 2025, 6:41 PM

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just works exactly like github, there should be 3 dots next to the link to the repo (pretty sure) that brings up a dropdown

just click "download ZIP" and that should work as downloading from code

ivory harbor Nov 16, 2025, 6:42 PM

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winged prairie Both

for updates it's just crash fixes

winged prairie Nov 17, 2025, 1:52 AM

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Thanks guys

ivory harbor Nov 20, 2025, 3:20 AM

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framerate optimization stuff

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might still need to figure out the random lag after everything is enabled

graceful leaf Nov 20, 2025, 3:50 AM

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OMG

ivory harbor Nov 20, 2025, 7:38 PM

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1.2.0 https://codeberg.org/frostice482/balatro-utils/releases/tag/1.2.0

graceful leaf Nov 21, 2025, 1:27 AM

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ivory harbor ## 1.2.0 <https://codeberg.org/frostice482/balatro-utils/releases/tag/1.2.0>

This has the fps optim?

ivory harbor Nov 21, 2025, 1:28 AM

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kinda

marsh talon Nov 30, 2025, 2:46 PM

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how do you even use this

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and how does it work

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what settings do i do for the best performance

void orchid Dec 7, 2025, 10:40 AM

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Blueprint (mod) incompatibility
Instantly crashes when Blueprint (joker) copies a compatible joker
I know i have 36 mods but Blueprint (mod) works fine while this is disabled

📎 message.txt

ivory harbor Dec 7, 2025, 10:44 AM

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fixed

void orchid Dec 7, 2025, 10:46 AM

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Well that was quick

ivory harbor Dec 14, 2025, 5:32 AM

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https://codeberg.org/frostice482/balatro-utils/src/branch/master/futil/patch_cacher.lua
added cache patching & multithreaded patching, ~~requires upcoming lovely 0.9~~ now works with 0.8

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my balatro can crash faster now

ivory harbor Dec 14, 2025, 6:06 AM

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should work with 0.8 now

ivory harbor Dec 14, 2025, 6:30 PM

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1.2.2 https://codeberg.org/frostice482/balatro-utils/releases/tag/1.2.2

haughty forum Dec 15, 2025, 4:44 AM

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What is (Custom) GC?

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Also in Config, "Async Scoring" and "End Round Scoring" share tooltips, is that intentional?

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and what is Jit Mode in Extras?

ivory harbor Dec 15, 2025, 5:15 AM

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haughty forum What is (Custom) GC?

gc is garbage collector. balatro has a customized gc but it has a limit 300MB before it lags. this mod changes it so it doesn't have that limit. you can tweak how fast the gc runs

ivory harbor Dec 15, 2025, 5:15 AM

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haughty forum Also in Config, "Async Scoring" and "End Round Scoring" share tooltips, is that ...

yes, you can enable async scoring for end of round too

ivory harbor Dec 15, 2025, 5:16 AM

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haughty forum and what is Jit Mode in Extras?

just-in-time compiler, part of luajit. turning it on can increase/decrease performance. the impact varies but i disabled it personally because of random lag spikes

haughty forum Dec 15, 2025, 5:29 AM

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I see, thank you

graceful leaf Dec 15, 2025, 6:55 AM

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ivory harbor gc is garbage collector. balatro has a customized gc but it has a limit 300MB be...

would this make the game run faster

ivory harbor Dec 15, 2025, 8:22 AM

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the effect is only noticable when with large modpacks where memory usage is higher

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or mostly during calculations

graceful leaf Dec 15, 2025, 10:08 AM

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ivory harbor the effect is only noticable when with large modpacks where memory usage is high...

is it faster when higher

ivory harbor Dec 15, 2025, 10:09 AM

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no

versed rover Dec 18, 2025, 6:38 AM

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eak

ivory harbor Dec 19, 2025, 12:22 PM

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just pushed a commit to make the quickpatch load earlier

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saving the loading bench here incase if anyone's interested

without quickpatch          : 1819.6ms (CPU:  91.1%)
quickpatch, cache miss      :  637.4ms (CPU: 314.6%, wait 77.0ms)
quickpatch, cache hit       :  551.7ms (CPU:  75.2%, wait  0.7ms)
quickpatch 1.2.2, cache miss:  958.0ms (CPU: 200.7%)
quickpatch 1.2.2, cache hit :  553.9ms (CPU:  73.5%)

ivory harbor Dec 19, 2025, 4:12 PM

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1.2.3 https://codeberg.org/frostice482/balatro-utils/releases/tag/1.2.3

more loading time reduction & fixed incompats

graceful leaf Dec 20, 2025, 9:22 AM

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📎 message.txt

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Oops! The game crashed:
main.lua:884: attempt to call global 'futil_' (a nil value)

A bad lovely patch has resulted in this crash.

Additional Context:
Balatro Version: 1.0.1o-FULL (best guess)
Modded Version: 1.0.0~BETA-1016c-STEAMODDED
LÖVE Version: 11.5.0
Lovely Version: 0.8.0
Platform: Windows

Stack Traceback

(3) main chunk of file 'main.lua' at line 884
(4) global C function 'require'
(5) LÖVE function at file 'boot.lua:323' (best guess)
Local variables:
c = table: 0x0490a130 {identity:false, version:11.5, accelerometerjoystick:true, modules:table: 0x04905fd8, gammacorrect:false, title:Balatro, externalstorage:false (more...)}
openedconsole = boolean: false
confok = boolean: true
conferr = nil
(6) global C function 'xpcall'
(7) LÖVE function at file 'boot.lua:362' (best guess)
Local variables:
result = boolean: true
(8) global C function 'xpcall'
(9) LÖVE function at file 'boot.lua:377' (best guess)
Local variables:
func = Lua function '(LÖVE Function)' (defined at line 355 of chunk [love "boot.lua"])
inerror = boolean: true
deferErrhand = Lua function '(LÖVE Function)' (defined at line 348 of chunk [love "boot.lua"])
earlyinit = Lua function '(LÖVE Function)' (defined at line 355 of chunk [love "boot.lua"])

ivory harbor Dec 20, 2025, 9:26 AM

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duplicate frost's utils

graceful leaf Dec 20, 2025, 9:32 AM

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what the fuck

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where would that be?

ivory harbor Dec 20, 2025, 9:34 AM

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🤷‍♂️

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its not meant to run twice

graceful leaf Dec 20, 2025, 9:35 AM

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safesst bet, delete any other copy and then pull out a fresh one

ivory harbor Dec 20, 2025, 9:36 AM

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yeah

ivory harbor Dec 27, 2025, 11:02 AM

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1.3.0 https://codeberg.org/frostice482/balatro-utils/releases/tag/1.3.0

ivory harbor Jan 3, 2026, 1:13 AM

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1.4.0 https://codeberg.org/frostice482/balatro-utils/releases/tag/1.4.0

unborn aspen Jan 7, 2026, 3:05 AM

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Incompatibility with Lobotomy Corporation:

📎 message.txt

glacial stone Jan 9, 2026, 2:35 AM

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getting this error when opening the mods tab

📎 message.txt

ivory harbor Jan 13, 2026, 10:44 AM

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1.4.1 https://codeberg.org/frostice482/balatro-utils/releases/tag/1.4.1

ivory harbor Jan 22, 2026, 4:14 PM

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2.0.1 https://codeberg.org/frostice482/balatro-utils/releases/tag/2.0.1

⚠️ lovely 0.9.0 is required

...though there's not much change from 0.8.0 aside from bugfixes

Codeberg.org

2.0.1 - frostice482/balatro-utils

⚠️YOU WILL NEED LOVELY 0.9.0. ⚠️

Fixed crash with SMODS

dusky vortex Jan 28, 2026, 8:54 PM

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opening mods menu pulls this up

📎 message.txt

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the menu itself I mean

ivory harbor Jan 28, 2026, 9:44 PM

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🤔

mellow hollow Jan 28, 2026, 9:51 PM

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nvm my error from before, I removed smod while trying to isolate the issue, here's the log from a fresh install with only lovely, frostutils and smod

📎 message.txt

ivory harbor Jan 29, 2026, 4:37 AM

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oh i forgot to include assets in zip 😭

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1.4.2 https://codeberg.org/frostice482/balatro-utils/releases/tag/1.4.2

i might still maintain 1.x version but i might also drop it in the duture

bleak plume Feb 12, 2026, 2:41 AM

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is anyone else getting an "index field image" crash on bootup
tried 2.x and 1.4.x

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@ivory harbor

📎 message.txt

ivory harbor Feb 12, 2026, 3:16 AM

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pull from code

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1.x.x

bleak plume Feb 12, 2026, 3:21 AM

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works on the 1.x branch
should i leave settings default?

ivory harbor Feb 12, 2026, 3:32 AM

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yes

ivory harbor Feb 23, 2026, 4:16 AM

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nopeus crash with async scoring will be fixed soon

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idk why it overrides the whole event.init

ivory harbor Feb 23, 2026, 2:04 PM

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1.4.3 https://codeberg.org/frostice482/balatro-utils/releases/tag/1.4.3

soft star Mar 4, 2026, 11:08 PM

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I'm having trouble accessing your site...is it down? Do you have a github you release to?

robust wren Mar 15, 2026, 1:53 PM

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dude thanks, this is helping me run the 72 mods i have installed at the same time (wayyy less laggy now)

ivory harbor Mar 15, 2026, 2:04 PM

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yw

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also i forgot theres already existing mirror release, thunderstore

robust wren Mar 15, 2026, 2:09 PM

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oh nice

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well ive gotta redownload it cuz i enabled and disabled unblind and it was still there unless i disabled frost utils

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nice it worked

ivory harbor Mar 15, 2026, 2:19 PM

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i might need to fix patch cache issue

robust wren Mar 15, 2026, 2:19 PM

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lol

robust wren Mar 16, 2026, 5:03 PM

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i got this crash when starting the game after enablind this mod

📎 message.txt

ivory harbor Mar 16, 2026, 5:08 PM

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patch caching issue again

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go do %appdata%\balatro and delete futil_lovelycache

robust wren Mar 16, 2026, 5:16 PM

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ok

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thx

ivory harbor Mar 17, 2026, 4:55 AM

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oh right smods use blacklists now

#frost's utils

1.4.4: https://codeberg.org/frostice482/balatro-utils/releases/tag/1.4.4

1.0.0 https://codeberg.org/frostice482/balatro-utils/releases

1.1.0 https://codeberg.org/frostice482/balatro-utils/releases/tag/1.1.0

1.2.0 https://codeberg.org/frostice482/balatro-utils/releases/tag/1.2.0

1.2.2 https://codeberg.org/frostice482/balatro-utils/releases/tag/1.2.2

1.2.3 https://codeberg.org/frostice482/balatro-utils/releases/tag/1.2.3

Stack Traceback

1.3.0 https://codeberg.org/frostice482/balatro-utils/releases/tag/1.3.0

1.4.0 https://codeberg.org/frostice482/balatro-utils/releases/tag/1.4.0

1.4.1 https://codeberg.org/frostice482/balatro-utils/releases/tag/1.4.1

2.0.1 https://codeberg.org/frostice482/balatro-utils/releases/tag/2.0.1

⚠️ lovely 0.9.0 is required

⚠️YOU WILL NEED LOVELY 0.9.0. ⚠️

1.4.2 https://codeberg.org/frostice482/balatro-utils/releases/tag/1.4.2

1.4.3 https://codeberg.org/frostice482/balatro-utils/releases/tag/1.4.3