PeglinOrbOrder

Your sack is weighted towards the orbs that set the battle up, not the ones that just hit things.

Peglin shuffles your whole deck once per battle and then draws from the top. PeglinOrbOrder re-sorts that stack with a weighted roll, so support orbs come up earlier more often than plain damage.

Features

• Support orbs are weighted higher. Spinfection, Blind, slimes, peg conversion and shields tend to be drawn earlier than plain damage.
• Pebballs and plain damage orbs are all equal. They share the baseline weight of 50, so the mod never favours one attack orb over another.
• Late-game payoffs can sit below the baseline. Memorb, Snowball, Bullyball and heals tend to arrive once they are worth it.
• Every battle is a fresh roll. The same deck can open differently from one fight to the next.
• All 110 orbs carry a weight. Change any of them in BepInEx/config/PeglinOrbOrder.weights.json.
• Weight numbers on queued orbs. Each orb waiting in the plunger shows its weight, colour-coded by band.
• Only the battle sack is reordered. Shop stock, post-battle orb rewards and event orbs come from the game's own seeded pools and stay uniform.

How it works

The game builds the whole draw order at the start of a battle and whenever the sack is reloaded. PeglinOrbOrder takes that finished stack and re-sorts it with weighted random sampling: every orb gets one independent random roll, weighted by its number, and the heaviest rolls are drawn first. A heavy orb rolls high more often, never always. A weight of 0 means the orb is never first and always comes last; no shipped orb uses it, it is only there if you want to force an orb to the back.

Ordering happens after the game has already done everything else — Mirrorb copies, persistent-orb charges, attack setup and deck stats — so the mod only changes when an orb appears, never what it does.

The shuffle uses the game's own saved deck-order random state, so saving and reloading a run reproduces the same draw order.

Weights

There are 110 orbs, weighted by what they do:

Only the ratios matter. Raising a support orb from 50 to 80 makes it 1.6× as heavy, so against a single Pebball it takes about 62% of opening draws instead of 50%. The exponent setting sharpens or flattens every weight at once: 0 gives every weighted orb equal odds, 1 uses the numbers as written, 2 counts each point twice as much. Orbs set to 0 still come last.

Orb weights file

BepInEx/config/PeglinOrbOrder.weights.json is created on first launch with all 110 orbs, and read every time the game starts — restart after editing it. Each entry is "orb key": weight:

{
  "readme": "how the file works; ignored by the mod",
  "defaultWeight": 50,
  "exponent": 1.0,
  "orbs": {
    "instigatorb": 100,
    "poison_orb": 95,
    "stone": 50,
    "memorb": 40
  }
}

• orbs — the weight of each orb, 0-100. An orb the file leaves out keeps its shipped weight; defaultWeight only covers orb keys the mod doesn't know, such as one a game update adds. The mod names unknown keys in the log so typos are easy to spot.
• defaultWeight — weight for an orb key the mod doesn't know.
• exponent — 0-4. 1 uses the weights as written, 0 gives every weighted orb equal odds, higher values make the bias stronger. Orbs set to 0 still come last.
• readme — a description of the format; it is ignored by the mod.

If the file can't be read, the mod leaves it untouched, plays with the built-in weights and writes the reason to BepInEx/LogOutput.log.

Orb keys are the game's own (for example stone is the Pebball, multiball is Matryorbshka, poison_orb is Spinfectious Sting, self_damage_boost is Bullyball), so a weight applies at every orb level.

Installation

With a mod manager (recommended):

1. Install r2modman or the Thunderstore Mod Manager.
2. Search for PeglinOrbOrder and install it. BepInEx is installed for you.
3. Launch Peglin.

Manually:

1. Install BepInExPack_Peglin.
2. Put PeglinOrbOrder.dll in Peglin/BepInEx/plugins/.
3. Start the game once to create the config file.

Settings

Change these in BepInEx/config/PeglinOrbOrder.cfg (start the game once to create it). Restart the game after changing them.

Compatibility

• Built for Peglin v2.0.12. On other versions the mod writes a warning to the log, as some features may not work.
• Requires BepInExPack_Peglin.

Good to know

• The game shuffles once per battle, so weights shape the order of the whole sack rather than a fresh roll before every shot. With enough orbs in the deck the difference between adjacent weights is small; raise exponent to make the bias more pronounced.
• Relics that refresh the board work as they did before. A relic that reshuffles the deck gives a fresh weighted order rather than the game's own shuffle.
• Shop stock, post-battle orb rewards, peg minigame rewards, event orbs and Haglin's Satchel come from the game's own seeded orb pools, so their contents are unchanged.
• The weight numbers show the value from the file, before exponent is applied.
• Single-player only, and it changes draw order alone: no orb stats, no enemy stats, no rewards.

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