MortemChipX

A Balatro mod that adds 9 new Jokers that multiply your Chips.

Jokers

Joker	Rarity	Cost	Effect
Double Dip	Common	$5	X2 Chips if the played hand contains exactly 2 scoring cards.
Compound Interest	Uncommon	$6	Starts at X1 Chips. Gains X0.15 each time a round is won without using a discard.
Wood Chipper	Rare	$8	Starts at X1 Chips. When a Boss Blind is defeated, destroys a random card held in hand and gains X0.25.
Stack Overflow	Uncommon	$7	X3 Chips if the hand has at least 500 Chips when this Joker triggers.
Cracked Piggy Bank	Common	$5	X4 Chips, loses X0.5 per hand played. Destroyed at X1.
Bargaining Chip	Rare	$8	X3 Chips, -2 hand size.
Domino Effect	Uncommon	$6	Each scoring card gives X1.15 Chips if its rank is exactly one higher than the scoring card to its left.
All In	Rare	$9	X5 Chips on the final hand of the round, X0.75 Chips otherwise.
Pascal's Wager	Legendary	$20	Each Ace held in hand gives X2 Chips.

Installation

Requires Steamodded (which brings in Lovely).

• Mod manager: install MortemChipX from Thunderstore with r2modman or Gale; dependencies are installed for you.
• Manual: download the zip from Releases and extract it into a folder inside your Balatro Mods directory.

Development

MortemChipX.lua        entry point: atlas + list of Jokers to load
MortemChipX.json       Steamodded metadata
thunderstore.toml      Thunderstore package definition
icon.png               Thunderstore icon (256x256)
src/jokers/            one file per Joker
localization/en-us.lua Joker names and descriptions
assets/1x, assets/2x   Joker sheet, 4x3 cells of 71x95 (2x: 142x190)
tests/test_jokers.lua  Joker rule tests against a stubbed game API
scripts/stage.sh       gathers the shipped files into dist/

To add a Joker: add a file in src/jokers/, list it in MortemChipX.lua, add its text under j_mcx_<key> in localization/en-us.lua, and draw it into a cell of both sheets.

Run the rule tests with luajit tests/test_jokers.lua. To test in game, symlink the repo into the Balatro Mods folder.

Releasing

1. Set the same version in thunderstore.toml (versionNumber) and MortemChipX.json (version), and add a ## <version> section to CHANGELOG.md.
2. Tag and push: git tag v0.1.0 && git push origin v0.1.0.
3. The Release workflow builds the package with tcli, attaches the zip to a GitHub release, and publishes it to Thunderstore.

Publishing to Thunderstore needs a THUNDERSTORE_TOKEN repository secret holding a service account token for the MortemDevelopment team. Without it the workflow still makes the GitHub release, and the zip can be uploaded by hand. Tags with a suffix, such as v0.2.0-rc1, are never sent to Thunderstore.

License

MIT