CardMerge | A card manipulation mod [WIP]

[winter dagger]

I'm working on a mod where you can merge two suits together into a single card. A flush lover's delight!

Very beneficial if you have jokers with opposing suit requirements. Almost deadly if you don't plan your boss blinds right...
This will have a more in-depth functionality opposed to wild cards, as there will be several new jokers that play along the fact a card can now have up to four suits bundled inside of it!

The alpha build is finally up: https://github.com/T3rragon/CardMerge
Check out the wiki here: https://balatromods.miraheze.org/wiki/CardMerge

A quick guide on how all the merging works:

A card can be merged with another card, and the new suit will represent the combination of what suits were slotted together.
12 new suits will be added to the game (included the Nones suit, where there are NO suits inside a card, and will be treated as its own seperate suit)

For readability, all new suits include:
Kites , **Suns **, **Cups **, **Crescents **, **Squids **, **Metals **,
**Waters **, **Earths **, **Fires **, **Airs **,
and Omnis !

Some gameplay examples:
(Note that all the new joker skins are a WIP!)
-# (also sorry for half of them starting on a black screen, OBS is just weird)

TODO:

• ALL THE FACE CARDS
• Polish all the joker skins [WIP]
• Some more jokers for different types (Spectral, certain combinations, maybe a new legendary?)
• Mod compatability (not support, but just so it doesn't crash, or isnt unsatisfying, if a suit is merged with a modded suit)

[brittle island]

this looks sick

[winter dagger]

before i release the alpha, are there any more features that you guys would like added? idk much about what balatro players like in a mod, so i do want to make this mechanic not feel like a waste

[winter dagger]

ik this should be the last priority but i just wanted to do this really quickly
@kindred marsh compat

[kindred marsh]

im scared

[winter dagger]

Another Tarot card done!
You can now cheese your cards into becoming other editions!

Or should this actually be a spectral?

or should this just be its own pack entirely? I wanted it to naturally appear in Tarot card/Spectral card packs, as there's only 8 planned cards and it felt like it'd be too little if it was just cycling through 8 cards

[vale crow]

This mod is so cool!

[winter dagger]

ok yea i think i have an idea
symbol packs are boosters that will have the suit changing tarots, the cmerge consumables and a few suit related spectrals

[winter dagger]

i also made bg music for it
its kiiiinda amenslop, and im not the best at producing, but it'll do for booster pack music

[winter dagger]

i definitely did something wrong with the music, but i got the pack to work!

[winter dagger]

YES

lowkey i did have to borrow the code from VallKarri's mod (specifically the deckfixing pack) in order for this to work
so cudos to them for the uh code LOL

[sudden delta]

me mentioned

[winter dagger]

new joker idea:

Wallsocket
Played facecards turn
into Queens if played hand
has a Crescent

can fuse with jestrogen to make a joker that turns ALL played cards into queens

[lean vine]

this is like. the coolest thing I've ever seen tbh

very excited to see how this mod progresses :3

[winter dagger]

i got an artist to refine all the jokers for this mod

when thats done i'll upload it to github

[dusky comet]

Hi, is this mod still being worked on or is it abandoned because it looks super interesting

[winter dagger]

i just started it 🥹

again im waiting on my artist

in the meantime im open to suggestions on what to add!

[dusky comet]

Well everything I was reading was super fun, but do you have any enchantment or seals plan?

[winter dagger]

seals are a bit tricky for this mechanic, but i could make an edition for if a card has light or dark suits

+6 Mult for every dark suit
+25 chips for every light suit

idk if i wanna add Xchips to this mod or not

if so it'd just be smth like X1.1 or something

[winter dagger]

Update: After some playthough, I will be changing this to a Rare
it is SO broken

[winter dagger]

showdown boss blind idea:
Cybernetic Feline
Debuff all cards except for Single Suit Spades

[next mirage]

Maybe you could add a spectral card that like :
Merge a random suit to every card in hand

[dusky comet]

Yet looks so fun

[winter dagger]

oh yea spectrals are already covered

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/925855860557746267/1434035116929323088/image.png?ex=6916aec6&is=69155d46&hm=e4baede365c2dd9dc571e6e5578bc0c26baba1f8fadac0a68d6d5799a55bd191&

[dusky comet]

Oh man, eager for this mod

[next mirage]

Is it possible to have a no suit card then ?

[winter dagger]

yea

its a Suit of Nones
functionally it acts like a 5th suit, meaning if you have spectral framework installed its super helpful

plus it might save you if a boss blind comes

[next mirage]

With a lot of fused suit it's sure to be usefull

[winter dagger]

WIP spectrals

all cardmerge consumables are gonna be tinted red, so they stand out a tiny bit more

[winter dagger]

future note: there will be a few more suits based around modded suit merging. just general suit amounts inside. i also need to patch generate_card_ui to add the tooltip for this
like. if a heart merges with a halberd it should just make "2 Type" with a tooltip saying its a heart and a halberd

[ornate locust]

is there a planned release date?

cant wait for this

[lean vine]

I'm really excited to see this project develop over time

[winter dagger]

probably sometime next week ngl

[dusky comet]

Yes 🎉 because, I am dying to play this

[winter dagger]

Finally got the beta for this to work!!

a bit clunky for omnis and over, but this should DEFINITELY clear up what these are for when modded merged suits are compatible

the implimentation is so simple too, i just didnt know how anything worked 😭

[hollow crane]

peak

[ornate locust]

will there be deck skins

atleast one for each suit idk

[winter dagger]

probably not right now
i cant even get myself to do the normal face cards LOL

ill just cheat for now and do a skin for how many suits are in a card
recolored for each combo

[dusky comet]

You got it working!!!

[winter dagger]

totally fair and balanced

[winter dagger]

thought of a good hard enhancement
idk the theme yet but its gonna be:
x0.25 mult for every adjacent cards' suit count if held in hand

[winter dagger]

I think I should finish all the art, and then release the alpha
I'll worry about crossmod compatibility when it comes out.

GOD i hate doing face cards

[dusky comet]

Well do get your fear with that, step 1 is just your mod standing on it on and then you iron out the issue with other mods

[next mirage]

look cool

[next mirage]

You could release the mod without all the art
So you can already have things tested while making the art

[proven sparrow]

Wait this mod is fucking sick

[winter dagger]

when i get home im gonna upload the alpha version of cardmerge

[winter dagger]

It's up! Go play it and watch it break and crash 24/7!!

https://github.com/T3rragon/CardMerge

[winter dagger]

First hotfix of the release:

• Remove an unused Mayhem-dependant function

[winter dagger]

I got vague suits implimented! Now onto testing...

[dusky comet]

So it can be play it raw form?

[winter dagger]

what do you mean "raw form"

[dusky comet]

Like it early stage

[winter dagger]

yeah

beginning game starts out completely normal

you have to get the Merge tarot card in order to begin merging cards together

really the only changes is technical, since I gave every card a suit table in its code

[dusky comet]

Ok thank you for telling me that

[winter dagger]

Should I add more basic suit manipulation consumables? Like a card that JUST adds a spade onto a card without needing to merge it?

[dusky comet]

I think you should

[sharp canopy]

yeah that would be nice
also would you be able to add rank merging at all? i feel like that could be interesting but idk how hard that would be to add considering all the different combinations there would be

[winter dagger]

i feel like if i were to do ranks it'd even out the two cards
like if you merge a 8 with a 4 it'd come out with a 6

[sharp canopy]

oh i meant like merged ranks counting as both ranks at once

[winter dagger]

if i did that there would be 13! possible combos

and i know its possible if i do it vague but like..
thats a lot LOL

which means i also have to specify a bunch of new cards for merged ranks

if i were to add it i 100% would want to impliment a way to generate cards inside of balatro
like, have an atlas of items and when the game is preloading have it all generate as an atlas texture inside the game

[sharp canopy]

and how difficult would that be?

[winter dagger]

honestly i have no idea. im just starting out lua and i have no idea if it even is possible to generate texture atlases inside of Love2D

i'll make a concept soon

[sharp canopy]

alr

well i guess for now you could just make combinations of face cards, number cards and aces instead of each individual rank

actually idk how making those in the game would actually work

[winter dagger]

something like this (face card designs in separate images)
this way its easier to like, add any more faces or ranks and not have to manually design every single card because all the logic in where the decals go on a card will be automatic

[winter dagger]

hm. now im thinking about redoing the entire mod's framework
i put too much focus on the 12 new quirky suits but now i kind of want to redo it and make unique card designs for the more general side of the mod

[winter dagger]

thinking about completely redoing cardmerge now and settling in for a different graphic when it's either a merged suit, merged rank or both

but thats gonna be a lot of effort

im kinda mad because i did this mod completely backwards and now i have to undo a LOT of setting up

eh
i'll worry about that later. maybe will make that version CardMerge2 instead

[winter dagger]

can i have feedback with the suits? are they named good? are the colors alright?

[idle crater]

imo Squids is the only name that really stands out, and Waters looks a bit too similar to High Contrast clubs, but otherwise everything looks good

[winter dagger]

i almost called waters inks, but i wanted to also utilize the 4 element suits, which is 1 suit rank below from an omni

[sharp canopy]

metals i also think could probably be renamed too
all the art is fine though

[winter dagger]

any suggestions?

[sharp canopy]

idk

also now that i think about it suns could probably be renamed to stars too

[winter dagger]

theres already a stars suit in 2 other mods

[sharp canopy]

true

[winter dagger]

shields feels too long if that makes sense

[sharp canopy]

i mean you could say that about crescents too

and diamonds

[winter dagger]

maybe irons

no not irons, if you squint your ears it sounds like diamonds

if that makes sense

[winter dagger]

I have yet to add merged suits, but when I do, I will have a lot to account for...
What should Strength tarot cards do to cards with more than 1 suit? Should it rank up every rank inside a card?
What should its nomial value be? If you merge two low-rank numbers, should it have the same value as merging two high-rank numbers?

I know the nominal amount should increase for the amount of ranks inside, but I don't know how to make it feel balanced.
Like, if you have a two-ranked card have a nominal of 10, you can just merge a 2 and a 3 together for extra points
If it's less than that face cards lose value

I could just have it be 10 for a two rank, and then have it add 5 for each new rank merged in...
Max is 13, I guess. Cards with 13 ranks max at that, and any other card merged into it will just be included backend.

Left is a 12-rank of Omnis
Right is a Deck of Omnis

I should also make the graphics less... busy, as to make space for enhancements.
I don't have any ideas for portraying how many ranks a card has in terms of simple UI

Maybe something like this?
Where the lines are the ranks, and the pills are the suits?

oh nvm i found smth way better
thanks wild cards

[winter dagger]

ok i think this is a good checkpoint designwise
odd/even rank amount is for readability compared next to each other + theres gonna be jokers that score for if a card has an odd amount vs an even amount

x2 included

[dusky comet]

I actually think the bane and design really good and fit the theme

[sharp canopy]

being able to play the entire fucking deck and a flush 52 at the same time is gonna be really funny

[winter dagger]

trueee
tho its gonna be RLY bad if you get into a boss blind that disables ANY card LOL

[sharp canopy]

well you'd probably have chicot already by the time you compress every card in your deck into one and then make a deck of decks

[winter dagger]

ohh. oh god this is going to be harder than i thought

i thought be another easy Card:is_rank()

Do i hold back on merging ranks and update the mod into 0.2.0? Or are you guys okay with waiting until I find out how numbered cards are properly scored and detected?

in the meantime I should also make example boards of exactly How I want everything to work our for this mod

[sharp canopy]

i don't mind waiting honestly

[winter dagger]

keynotes of how i think merged ranks will work

• merging a rank with another rank of the same value will do nothing
• there will not be a Flip tarot for ranks, as that's too overpowered
• using Strength on a merged rank card will increase all ranks inside a card by 1
• there will be special rank types for certain combinations of numbers (ex. A Hack of Spades will have a 2, 3, 4 & 5 merged inside)

[sharp canopy]

what if there was a rank equivalent of flip that instead like removes up to 4 ranks from a card and then adds 2 random ranks it didnt have for each rank removed

maybe thats also a bit too powerful idk

[dusky comet]

That the sort stuff you got think about all the time

[winter dagger]

thatd be funny

[winter dagger]

nevermind i know a good workaround for all the jokers

for now

actually i should wait until quantum ranks are released, it should make my life way easier in that case

[winter dagger]

FINALLY I got the wiki page up to date!
Check it out here if you don't wanna scroll: https://balatromods.miraheze.org/wiki/CardMerge

[sharp canopy]

wait what do you think of the idea of a hyper-erratic deck that can randomize cards to have merged suits and ranks instead of just the regular ones

[winter dagger]

oh definitely

but thats for the future

im kinda just. waiting for the quantum ranks update to be accepted

[sharp canopy]

alright

[winter dagger]

some doodles glossing over how the interactions between suits and ranks should play out

i'll have 3 different merge tarots

• one for suits only (biased towards a card with the most ranks)
• one for ranks only (biased towards a card with the most suits)
• one for both

also i want certain combos of numbers to greatly benefit jokers that check for numbers

A card with all faces will be a Castle of Rank
If triggered by a Midas Mask, also gain a gold seal
If retriggered by Sock n Buskin, X1.1 Chips
If triggered by Smiley Face, set it to +20 Mult
If triggered by Scary face, set it to +75 chips
If triggered by Business Card, set it to 1 in 2 chance for $8

[dusky comet]

That was actually really cool you did that, question if you a joker that trigger on heart you mix diamonds and heart together will it still trigger or the new suit not considered part of it?

[idle crater]

Do you think you'll ever do crossmod for that?

[winter dagger]

It should trigger any "new suits" that have hearts merged inside of it

[winter dagger]

oh definitely
when i do all the crossmod stuff, the only issue i'd have is for the new texure atlases
but i'm sure it'll be fine

[stark kindle]

this looks great, very impressive

[stark kindle]

maybe call the fusion of this pair the Rose

and yes, I am replying to old posts, shoot the messenger but this actually entices me

[winter dagger]

nono i love the feedback

i'll definitely focus on crossmod merged suit designs in the future, but my current milestone is setting up my mod for merged ranks and accounting for everything

[stark kindle]

I have a few unique suits myself

a set known as the rustic suits

not a mod, but you MAY find it interesting to tell you the 4 I've named for a suit pack

[winter dagger]

Ooh, I'm interested!

[stark kindle]

you should be, they're unlike any you've seen yet

heck, I'll even let you design the cards once I tell ya

Crowns, Shields, Wheels, all pre-existing, however it's the 4th you've never heard of

Souls

the first 3 are straightforward but souls, think a slight blue flame skewed to one side

let it all sink in

and maybe, just maybe you'll have the concepts of a number of fusion suits

[winter dagger]

I'll definitely think of some!
They're going to be sparse, since handling every possible combination of suits outside the main 4 will be WAY too much

I can't wait to see how your 4 suits look like, however.

[stark kindle]

not to worry, I can perhaps help with insight

and hey, this will be a suit pack after all so conception will be quite nice

[winter dagger]

Definitely

[stark kindle]

now then, some 2 suit fusions

Souls and Crowns
Souls and Shields
Souls and Wheels

1. How about Relics, and 2 can be Armors

3 can be Halos

btw, i forgot to mention their colors, silly me

Crowns are Bright Spring Green, Wheels are Forest Green, Shields are Deep Magenta and Souls are a Bright Robin's Egg Blue

sounds nice eh?

[stark kindle]

hopefully my proposed ideas help you immensely

[winter dagger]

I'll put a pin on it. Thanks for the suggestions!

[idle crater]

Imagine fusing all three Star suits together lol

[winter dagger]

Star²
Star³

[stark kindle]

sounds good

[kindred wigeon]

This Mod looks very promising... I love it!!!

[stark kindle]

agreed

[winter dagger]

oh no
i completely looked over the fact that it might now be possible for a card with 0 ranks is possible

sighh im glad i caught that early

[stark kindle]

that's a real close shave

[winter dagger]

riiiiight

anyways, im working on the functionality of merged ranks rn

super unfinished but it'll be refined when the smods update releases

[stark kindle]

how about ranks go from A, 1-20 and more face ranks

[winter dagger]

im starting off with vague ranks for functionality first

i kind of worked backwards with the suits by starting with the fun details instead

i wanna make sure the actual merging works before i even attempt to push in any fun rank combos

[winter dagger]

Merging 2 ranks together is now perfectly capable!

[stark kindle]

imagine doing that with your full hand

[winter dagger]

hm. i should fix sock n buskin

one second

[stark kindle]

that's a very silly hack animation

[winter dagger]

It's from #1249486500811378718

[stark kindle]

fairly nice

also, you didn't code 11 to 13 as face cards

[winter dagger]

yea i know

i fixed it, and decided to try out a trib in the mix

[stark kindle]

sweet

[winter dagger]

forgot to show that the menu also looks a lot nicer than it did before

[stark kindle]

now imagine If you made a deck that was only this deck of spades card

[sudden delta]

is that an uuuuuuuuuun of spades

[winter dagger]

it's a special symbol to explain how many ranks are in a card without exactly using a number

[stark kindle]

no it's the nnnnnnnnnu of spades

[sudden delta]

oh

[winter dagger]

full pattern here

idk what else to do without it taking up too much space

[sharp canopy]

is J-A displaying as 11-14 intentional?

[stark kindle]

refer to the text of Misprint

[winter dagger]

Not really
Code is using the ids of the cards, and storing those into the table instead of the actual value type

[sharp canopy]

i see

[winter dagger]

there's probably a good way to lookup a rank value using an ID for UI purposes

i just gotta find it

[stark kindle]

misprint

it gives you the ID of the next card you draw

[winter dagger]

misprint the joker?

[stark kindle]

yeah

periodically it'll flash a glimpse at the ID of your next card in your deck

[winter dagger]

okayyy, but how do i get the id and turn it into a proper name / shorthand?
(ex. 11 -> J, 12 -> Q )

I wanna do this automatically to account for modded ranks

[stark kindle]

idk actually

[sharp canopy]

wait does merging multiple ranks and suits into one card work yet?

[winter dagger]

Technically, yes. From a UI standpoint? No

[winter dagger]

ROADMAP FOR CARDMERGE:

0.2.0 - Implement Rank Merging and respective Tarot / Spectrals

0.3.0 - Crossmod craze + more consumables

0.4.0 - Implement dedicated ranks and synergies with certain Jokers

1.0.0 - When the Quantum Ranks update on Steamodded comes out and all previous milestones are finished

[sharp canopy]

also are there gonna be any rare spectrals?

[next mirage]

What are quantum Rank ?

[winter dagger]

probably? i might rework some vanilla spectrals in order to account for if you destroy a really powerful card

[winter dagger]

a card can be counted as 2 or more ranks, and the smods update considers played hand types too, which cardmerge does not

[winter dagger]

even if this is kind of unreadable, what other tarot/spectral card should i add into the mix for merged ranks/suits?

[stark kindle]

if bunco's installed, maybe ones related to the 2 unlockable suits

[winter dagger]

yea that was the plan

[winter dagger]

CardMerge | A card manipulation mod [WIP]

new tagline

[stark kindle]

nice

did ya like my suggestions for my 4 Rustic suits fusion wise?

the 4 3 suit combos and omnis stand too

[winter dagger]

i mean
if its combos of your suits, itd be nice if there a mod for it

[stark kindle]

it's more an additional suit set

think of it as a customization option for the mod in case your players wanna try mixing and matching their suits

[winter dagger]

Here it is
a card that represents 13+ ranks and 10+ suits
won't show up unless you have a multitude of suit mods

[winter dagger]

and this is a card with no suit and no rank

this sucker might save you against future boss blinds

[winter dagger]

hm. yes.

[winter dagger]

TODO: make it so that merged ranks are not accounted for in the SMODS.Ranks[] pool, or at least have there be a certain flag so it's easier for other mods to not get involved

because this is scary
a triple just spawned in with an empty chart, and since it wasnt accounted for, you are able to merge it

17 is the triple

[sharp canopy]

stone card without the chips

[winter dagger]

ill make a joker that adds mult and chips to any card no ranks or cards

[winter dagger]

im so stumped

i need a way to differenciate merged cards from normal cards

but that involves having to make new API stuff and thats awfulll

[idle crater]

just slap a sticker on it that says "MERGED"

/j

[winter dagger]

i meant technical-wise LOLLL

i gotta have merged ranks in a different table or smth

[idle crater]

ohh haha

yeah i know nothing about that

[azure badger]

Curiosity, what were you trying to do?
Cause if you wanted to prevent them from being spawned by Joker effects and stuff like Standard Packs, then having in_pool of the merged ranks and suits returning false is enough

If you throw SMODS.Ranks and SMODS.Suits table into pseudorandom_elements, SMODS does run them through respective in_pool before returning the final result (Which is how "spawn random playing card" effects are done)

[winter dagger]

i'm looking at other mod code rn
i want a way to not have the merged ranks/suits inside the default table but still count as a playing card
right now, all merged ranks are in SMODS.Ranks[], meaning without predetermined calculations choosing a merged rand prematurely is possible, and that in itself will just count as a normal rank and not a merged one

[azure badger]

There's one way I can think of to remedy this but it's gonna be quite jank

Hook set_base, and if it detect that it's a merged rank/suit with no component, change it to random rank (using pseudorandom_elements plugged SMODS.Ranks/Suits table so it follows in_pool)

That snippet of Bunco codes in particular are unfortunately weird and outdated, so they are using a different method and thus led some weird edge cases to slip by

You can also bring that up to Bunco current maintainer I think

[winter dagger]

yeah i might do this, feels like the easiest option

[winter dagger]

I did a super jank patch onto create_playing_cards, because there wasn't any sanitization there

[winter dagger]

JOKER UPDATE IN PROGRESS
thanks to @gilded frost for helping me with some of these!
(i did tweak parts of it, but i still want to give credit regardless! this wouldnt be possible without their help)

reposting here because LOL

might bump it up to X2 mult

[winter dagger]

Boss blind ideas:

• 4 that debuffs every card except a pure suit
  (ex. every card is debuffed except spades)

• Twisted Idol

• Played hand must include card containing a [Suit] and a [Rank]
  (ex. A 5 and a Heart)

• a boss blind that multiplies score requirement if any merged suit card is played

• 2 boss blinds, which are twisted Odd Todd and Even Steven
  (ex. Debuffs every even numbered card)

[stark osprey]

I love this

Instantly adding to my mods list

[stark osprey]

What if I made art for the blinds?

I'm known for making a lot of them and I feel like going back to that

[winter dagger]

sure! i'll let you know when i start develoupment on them

i'll also ping you when the rank merging update comes out

[stark osprey]

Alright

[stark osprey]

I got bored and decided to remake the sounds in this mod (and make new ones)
Lemme know what you think!

-# the suit merge super is when you merge 3 suits and the hyper is when you get the omni

[stark osprey]

Oh i forgot to make a rank merge sfx

@winter dagger I made some stuff for your lovely mod

[winter dagger]

oh hell yea!

what do you wanna be credited as?

[stark osprey]

Superb Thing

Or maybe without underscore

Yeah it's best without underscore

[winter dagger]

noted!

[stark osprey]

this game really wants me to burn that card

also the theme gives me mayhem vibes

i like that

[winter dagger]

i should redo that algorythm

[winter dagger]

yeah kinda LOL

[stark osprey]

also ive noticed all my sigils turn into clubs
im not sure if that is your mod's problem or not

[stark osprey]

-# clubs are the most common suit in the deck btw

[winter dagger]

hmm

ill look into it when i get hime

[stark osprey]

alright

[winter dagger]

but burning should produce a psudeorandom suit that it includes

[stark osprey]

i just used burn and it turned it into a club too

[winter dagger]

😭

[stark osprey]

i cant escape the clubs

[winter dagger]

Implimented!

[stark osprey]

Nice!

[winter dagger]

however i might EQ it just to tone down the bass

idk it feels a bit overpowering if that makes sense

[stark osprey]

Yeah that's fine

Makes sense

[winter dagger]

ehhhh i cant seem to fix it

i'll still use them

[winter dagger]

ok so i just need to make the new consumables and impliment the new jokers then i think 0.2.0 is ready to release

[winter dagger]

nevermind its not releasing before 2026

[winter dagger]

any other tarot card ideas before i move onto spectrals?

[winter dagger]

4 NEW TAROTS AND 4 NEW SPECTRALS FOR NEXT UPDATE:

• Gain: Select 2 cards, merge a [Suit] inside of it

• Add: Select 2 cards, merge a random numbered rank inside of it

• Promote: Select 2 cards, merge a random face rank inside of it

• Trade: Regresses 1 card into a random solo rank, gives a chosen enhancement based on removed ranks

• Release: Select 1 card with merged ranks, destroy it and create a card for every rank contained

• Gamble: Add a random rank or suit into every card in hand

• Mitosis: Create 3 copies of 1 selected card with merged ranks/suits. Copies have a chance to lose merged ranks/suits upon creation.

• Rotary: All suits in hand shift to the left, all ranks in hand shift to the right.

Plus, some variants of Merge, Slice, Scatter and Inspire for ranks!

[past sorrel]

walkie talkie synergy

[past sorrel]

joker merging lol

[winter dagger]

that sounds like a fun rare spectral

but thats for a future update

[winter dagger]

@past sorrel i have fun plans for jokers involving ranks

[winter dagger]

as cool as it is im gonna change mitosis' design

so its less eerie

[past sorrel]

rip

[winter dagger]

TAROT CARDS DONE

i am going to pull an allnighter for ts
i am going to finish spectral functions and then tidy up joker skins and then i will release the next alpha

[winter dagger]

thats it im buffing gamble

its called chance now
it will give a random suit/rank, but it might reiterate

[winter dagger]

CONSUMABLES ARE DONE

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1209506360987877408/1455827745480118407/2025-12-31_02-38-36.mp4?ex=695624be&is=6954d33e&hm=5157e70563b03f3b0d980dd04cf25b90d1b7236978e37d9f83a8b9e1c4e69db7&

[proven sparrow]

If you use Release on a card with an enhancement then do the created cards have that enhancement?

Or do they retain none of that

[past sorrel]

did scatter only create merged ranks?

[winter dagger]

it should, since its copying the card

[winter dagger]

theres a Scatter version for suits, too!

[dusky comet]

I really itching to play your mod

[winter dagger]

almost there!

[winter dagger]

VERSION 0.2.0 IS OUT!
https://github.com/T3rragon/CardMerge/releases/tag/0.2.0-ALPHA-1231a

[hollow crane]

HELL YEAH

[sharp canopy]

the game crashes whenever i hover over a card with merged ranks and i dont know whats the problem

[winter dagger]

lemme look

[winter dagger]

i feel like i have to install a bunch of mods now

because this gives off patch conflicts

[carmine laurel]

Hey I got a similar idea before finding this mod(merging playing cards), I still want to make my own version with other non-merging features. Can I use your code as a starting point?

[winter dagger]

Sure! It is open source, after all.

Keep me updated on it, I'd love to see what you're working on.

[carmine laurel]

Great, thank you. I'll be sure to update you!

[winter dagger]

im still super proud of this
feels kinda jen but i think it fits as a legendary

[sharp canopy]

the 0.1.0 version worked fine with all the mods i was using

and its only with the merged ranks, the merged suits still work fine

i could try disabling all my mods and try again

ok it still happens even with only these enabled

[winter dagger]

hm

ill look into that

so its when you hover over a merged rank?

[sharp canopy]

yeah

[winter dagger]

if so then i think i know what i did wrong

oh yeah

RankTableAsValues() is broken

i'll fix it ASAP when i get home

[sharp canopy]

alr thanks

[winter dagger]

@sharp canopy https://github.com/T3rragon/CardMerge/releases/tag/0.2.0-ALPHA-0104a

hopefully this works better for you!

[sharp canopy]

of course i ran into another problem while testing

this time with the suit gain tarots

oh its happening with the rank one too

[winter dagger]

hm

lets take a look 👀

i noticed another weird bug where Spade gain does absolutely nothing

wtf

[sharp canopy]

weird

[winter dagger]

i found the problem

its the suitTable[] = true thing
it is DIRECTLY changing the table of mergings

this is worse than i thought

[winter dagger]

So you just tried to merge a spade into just a regualr card?

I feel like I fixed the minor memory leak

but i wanna make sure you didnt merge it into anything special like a weird enhancement

[winter dagger]

also i think nows the time to clean up the backend data stuff

[sharp canopy]

i think there were a few merged ranks on it but that was it

[kindred wigeon]

Btw just wanna say, this is AMAZING cuz it’s essentially a x4^5 if you play a card with 4 suits and 5 of those cards

4^5 =1,024

That’s like.. how many triboulet

[winter dagger]

its gonna be way more broken in the future, btw! i have plans that involve merge ranks having synergies with certain jokers

[kindred wigeon]

What if merging the same rank reinforces said rank

Not sure what it would do but

[winter dagger]

I could try reinforced merging, but I feel like the way the code is set up now, it would be too complicated to set up

[kindred wigeon]

Oh yeah sorry

[winter dagger]

nono its fine! i like the idea

[kindred wigeon]

Reinforced Rank

Counts as two cards, takes up one card slot

[winter dagger]

are you able to merge reinforced ranks with a normal rank?

[sharp canopy]

@winter dagger actually from what i can tell most of the new consumables seem to be causing crashes

also the merged suits and ranks just dont seem to be listed when hovering over cards anymore

[sharp canopy]

oh i just noticed flushes also seem to not work properly when playing a card with both merged suits and ranks

[winter dagger]

i have no idea what im doing

[winter dagger]

i played some yesterday and it didnt crash at all for me

then again the implimentation is really jank

[winter dagger]

if theres a better way of implimenting the merged card mechanic let me know

[winter dagger]

Testing out compat for Cryptid
I found 1 thing I need to fix, but everything seems fine right now.

[winter dagger]

ok the bug of the card table is still being affected somehow

idk what to do

[stark kindle]

here's to hoping you find a solution

[carmine laurel]

Here is the first release of my mod https://discordapp.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1465022728183611585
I'll add rank and suit merging later but I'll make it so yours takes precedence.

[winter dagger]

peakkkk

oh yea im taking a tiny break from maintaining the mod purely for the fact that its annoying and idk how to fix any of it

[analog junco]

Hey

I'm having some issues with the mod

So far the main thing I notice is that the merged ranks don't work for pairs

I think it worked for a straight but it should have been a royal flush and wasn't (this was before I was actively checking things tho)

[winter dagger]

thats known
im waiting for Quantum Ranks to be added in order for proper hand type calculations to be implemented
yknow, i dont wanna work on something thats already being worked on

[analog junco]

Fair but feels like that should be noted somewhere

[sharp canopy]

its on the roadmap

[woven jolt]

So here is definitely a bug that isn't related to quantum ranks not being finished, for some reason the merge suit card copies the rank from left card, even though it says its supposed to copy it from right card

Anyway, I like the mod but I'll probably check it out once it is more complete