Balatro Rebalanced

Giving some love to unpopular Jokers, Consumables, Vouchers, and Mechanics while relieving some frustration points around certain Decks and Stakes.

Overview

This mod rebalances a wide range of Jokers, Consumables, Vouchers, Decks, Stakes, and poker hands. The focus is on buffing underused or underwhelming content (like Loyalty Card, Ouija, and Magic Trick) rather than nerfing the game into the ground, while also smoothing out a few notoriously frustrating mechanics (like Black Deck and Blue Seal). The Skipping mechanic has also been revamped as a whole, on top of changes made to many of the Skip Tags.

If you've ever picked up a Joker and thought "why would anyone ever use this," this mod is probably for you.

Requirements

• Steamodded
• Lovely

Installation

1. Download the mod's latest release.
2. Type %appdata% into your Windows search bar and open the Balatro folder inside.
3. If you don't already have a Mods folder there, create one.
4. Place the mod's folder inside Mods.

Alternatively:

• If you have Thunderstore installed, you can directly download the mod from its page here

• You can also install it from the in-game mod manager (IMM) without leaving Balatro.

What's Changed

If you are looking to see the differences between this mod and Vanilla Balatro click here

Feedback

Want to share feedback, suggest changes, or talk balance? I have a thread for the mod on the Balatro Discord server: Balatro Rebalanced thread.

For bugs and crashes, please open an issue on GitHub instead, so they're easier to track.

Credits

Big thanks to the creators of the Vanilla Remade project, which served as a great reference for many of the changes in this mod.

License

This project is licensed under the GPL-3.0 License.

Changelog

[0.2.2]

Changed

• Fortune Teller now only counts Tarot cards used after you obtained it
• Flower Pot now needs 20 cards of the same suit in a row instead of 25
• Hearts Flower Pot now makes your probability effects (Lucky Cards, Bloodstone, 8 Ball, etc.) trigger 2 extra times instead of giving +4 hand size
• Clubs Flower Pot now creates a Spectral card after scoring 10 Clubs instead of copying the Joker to its right
• Diamonds Flower Pot now gives $2 more every time you earn money instead of retriggering Enhancements, Seals and Editions
• Hiker now gives +7 Chips instead of +5, and the bonus also scores immediately
• Hologram now gains X0.2 Mult per card added instead of X0.25
• Juggle Tag now gives +4 hand size, then you lose 1 bonus hand size at the end of each round
• Uncommon Tag now adds a Rental sticker to the next Uncommon Joker you buy and duplicates it
• Rare Tag now gives a free Rare Buffoon Pack which contains 3 Rare Jokers
• Meteor Tag now gives $1 per Planet card used this run
• Charm Tag now gives a Mega Arcana Pack with an extra pre-announced Tarot card
• Buffoon Tag now gives a Mega Buffoon Pack with an extra pre-announced Uncommon or Rare Joker
• Standard Tag now gives a Mega Standard Pack with an extra card with a pre-announced random Seal
• Handy Tag now gives +3 hands when you run out of hands without beating the blind
• Hone now makes Uncommon Jokers X1.5 as likely to appear instead of X2
• Adjusted several poker hand level-up values:
  • Full House: +3 Mult / +25 Chips per level
  • Four of a Kind: +4 Mult / +30 Chips per level
  • Straight Flush: +5 Mult / +50 Chips per level
  • Five of a Kind: +4 Mult / +40 Chips per level
  • Straight and Flush Five are back to their vanilla level-up values
• Shoot the Moon is now an Uncommon Joker
• Glass Joker now gains 0.75X mult per Glass card you've destroyed this run
• D6 Tag now makes your next 3 rerolls cost $0
• Tarot Tycoon now gives a chance for your Tarots cards to be empowered (Empowered Tarots cards are more powerful versions of the original)
• The Order was reverted to X3 mult

[0.2.1]

Changed

• Erosion now only appears when you have at least one Stone Card in the deck
• Shortcut is now an Uncommon Joker again
• Neptune now gives +5 Mult / +60 Chips instead of +8 Mult / +80 Chips
• Bull now gains +3 Chips every time you earn money instead of +2
• Loyalty card can no longer spawn with an Eternal Sticker
• Familiar now only converts 2 cards to face cards down from 3
• Bootstraps now resets if you don't have more money than when selecting the previous blind
• Satelite now gives 2$ per hand level, and always starts on your most played hand
• Skip Tag now displays how much money it's going to give
• Flash Card now gains +3 Mult instead of +2
• Planet Merchant and Planet Tycoon's effects were swapped
• Planet Merchant now refills a shop slot whenever you buy a Planet card
• Splash now retriggers cards that wouldn't have scored in the original hand
• Hex now makes your right-most Joker Perishable instead of Eternal
• Steel Joker description now clarifies you need to have a Steel card in deck to draw one
• Changed Merry Andy and Wee Joker unlock conditions to require skipping the shop instead
• Grim now adds 2 Aces and creates 1 random Negative Tarot card
• Wraith now sets your money to 5 instead of 10
• 8 Ball now has a 1 in 3 chance instead of 1 in 2

Fixed

• Fixed a bug where resuming the game on the skip selection screen would cause a softlock
• Fixed a bug where opening a Booster Pack with an active Booster Pack tag would crash the game

[0.2.0]

Changed

• Reworked skipping mechanic entirely
• Reworked several skip tags. Check the patch notes to see changes
• Bull and Bootstraps effect has been reworked. Check the patch notes to see changes

Fixed

• Marble Joker crashing the game when played with Stone Cards

[0.1.1]

Added

• Support for JokerDisplay mod
• Highlighted shader now has sparkles
• Custom Sprite for each Flower Pot variant

Fixed

• Satelite not having the "Reworked" tag and not being correctly highlighted
• Fortune Teller still giving 1 mult per Tarot card used
• Removed Hone and Glow Up debug message
• Fixed ERROR in black hole message

Changed

• Card Sharp nerfed from X3 Mult to X2 Mult
• Fortune Teller nerfed from giving +3 mult for each Tarot card used to +2 mult
• Ghost Deck starts with a Hex card again instead of a Ouija card
• Loyalty card now activates after 4 hands instead of 6
• Loyalty card now has a shaking animation when ready
• Flower Pot variants now appear in the collection after obtaining them in a run

[0.1.0]

Added

• Initial release