Campfire Cards

A roguelike card mod for PEAK. On the beach, and every time your group lights a campfire, each climber is offered three cards and keeps one. Cards last for the whole run and change how you climb, eat, fall, heal and recover. About half of the cards have a catch. The deck has 64 cards in five rarities.

Every offer is random, rolled from the rarity odds — nothing you do changes which cards you are shown. By default everyone chooses at the same time, so nobody waits for three other players. Arrival order at the fire only breaks ties: when two climbers would be offered the same Mythic, the last one to reach the fire gets it, and that order is what the name list at the top of the screen shows. With PickMode = Turns players choose one at a time in that order and the others see "X is picking a card" while they choose.

You need

• PEAK with BepInEx 5 (BepInExPack PEAK).

Install

Copy the plugins/CampfireCards folder from the release zip into PEAK/BepInEx/plugins/, then start PEAK.

How cards work

• Each player has their own collection, and you never own the same card twice.
• An offer is three cards; pick one. Each offered card first rolls a rarity:

Rarity	Colour	Weight
Common	gray	50.0
Uncommon	green	30.0
Rare	blue	16.5
Legendary	purple	3.0
Mythic	gold	0.5

• There are two Mythics. They have no drawback, can go past the normal limits, and each can be owned by only one player per run.
• Percentage effects stack by multiplying. Flat maximum-stamina changes add up.
• Since the 0.7.1 rebalance the cards play at full strength on every difficulty (all four tiers default to 100%). The tiers remain in the design sheets (cards.json difficultyStrength, the card sheet's Difficulty tab): below 100% weakens benefits, above amplifies them, and the card text shows the number in play. Drawbacks and Mythics never scale. When a card's numbers multiply into one benefit (amount x cooldown), the strength is shared between them.
• Stamina-cost discounts from normal cards have a soft cap at 60%: past it, extra discounts still help but at reduced strength (a stack worth 80% off gives about 72%). Normal cards cannot pull maximum stamina below 50.
• Team cards (marked "team" below) only appear when you play with others.
• Cards survive being revived. Everything resets when the run ends.
• Fine Print is the explicit exception to permanent ownership: it can sacrifice an earlier non-Mythic card. Sacrifice does not refresh that card's run/biome charges or cooldowns, or erase Clown's permanent penalties.
• Offers remain random by rarity. Earlier card choices do not introduce compatibility exclusions; counteracting modifiers, conditional effects and balance-breaking Mythics are intentional parts of stacking.
• Ghosts are not dealt cards. Campfire eligibility is captured when the fire is lit, so being revived afterward does not grant a card from that same fire. A living scout who dies before choosing is skipped without receiving an automatic card; the other scouts can finish their choices.
• Card-draw cards (Clown Luggage Special, Scout's Dishonor) give their bonus cards right away. Bonus cards are never card-draw cards.
• BingBong Parachute judges a fall by all the Injury it will cost, including the part Piton Payment Plan bills later, and cancels all of it.
• Each pick offers OfferCount cards (3 by default, up to 10); the picker wraps them into rows and scales to fit.
• The host can turn drawbacks off (Drawbacks = false): drawback stats stop applying, cards add no Curse, Drowsy, Poison or Injury costs, Fartberry Fitness amplifies no poison hits, and the cards show only their benefit. The host's setting applies to everyone: guests adopt the host's Drawbacks and AllowDuplicates values when they join.
• Lighter-load cards scale only positive item weight; a Balloon Bunch's lift is never reduced.
• PEAK changes statuses in whole 2.5-point steps. When a card changes an amount, the leftover is kept for the next change, so small percentages (a 5-point fall x1.15, 1 Curse per fire) hold on average.
• A card's own penalty (Bugle Injury, a failed Pandora roll, Curse, Drowsy) always lands: Milk or mushroom invincibility doesn't block it and a skeleton doesn't take it x8.
• Baggage Claim Escapee treats anything worn in the backpack slot (backpack, fannypack, jetpack, rocketpack) as a backpack.
• Version 0.6.3 fixes interaction and ability-state handling without changing card numbers or rarity weights. See the interaction fixes and playtest checks.

Controls

The picker labels Benefit and Drawback. Numbers without a percent sign use points on the normal 100-point bar; yellow stamina is temporary extra stamina. Wording and playtest notes explain the status terms and the supplied log.

Key	What it does
V	Nic of Time: recover 30 stamina (five-minute cooldown)
K	Discount Cure-All: remove 25 from the highest Poison, Spores or Drowsy at 25+ (once per biome)
B	Bootleg Scoutmaster Bugle: gain a full bar of yellow stamina for 15 Injury (once per biome)
N	Budget Checkpoint Flag: place your anchor on flat ground (once per biome)
Y / U / I	TSA (hold): mark food / unopened luggage / all other items on screen, through terrain, while the key is held
F8	Host only: everyone gets their cards from the saved run back after a crash, a rejoin or a relaunch
F9	Report a problem: pick what went wrong, write a line, optionally attach the mod log (usernames and player names are scrubbed out first), and send it straight to the mod author
J	Your deck: your cards fan out as real card faces with ALL CARDS ADDED UP (the combined result: sprint speed, jump height, stamina costs, regeneration, maximum stamina, Injury, item weight and more) beneath them. Click a card to pull it out and see everything it does — benefit, drawback, which conditional effects are active right now, charges and cooldowns — and flip through the deck with < and >. Press J again for TEAM DECKS: every teammate as a pile of card backs — click a deck (or its name) to look through their cards and their combined stats. A third press closes, and Esc always backs out one step without opening the pause menu. Clicking the pile in the corner opens it too

With a controller, move between offered cards with the D-pad or stick and confirm to take one. The ability keys and the deck key also get a controller button: by default the first of D-pad up, down, left, right, View/Select or a stick click that PEAK itself does not use. The ability bar and the hints name the button while you play on a controller, and the log says which buttons were chosen. Set them yourself under Keys (BuildScreenGamepad and so on, for example <Gamepad>/dpad/left, or none). The three TSA reveal keys are keyboard-only by default — give them controller buttons via ScavengerFoodGamepad and friends if you play on a pad — and the F8 restore is keyboard-only.

After you take a card, it stays raised and the others dim until the host confirms the pick. If no answer comes within 5 seconds, you can choose again.

Your cards also live on the HUD as a little pile of card backs in the bottom-left corner — newest pick on top, a count chip, and the deck key named underneath. The combined effects moved into the deck screen (J), where there is room to show every line instead of a slice.

Screen size. The card UI fits any resolution and aspect ratio, from a Steam Deck to 32:9. General.UiScale sets its size: 0 (default) is automatic and a little larger on screens 900 pixels tall or less; 0.75 to 1.5 sets it yourself (1 = the size at 1080p).

All keys can be changed in the config. Cards with charges or cooldowns show their state at the bottom right. On the deck screen, a value that depends on a condition or a teammate's aura is marked "on now" or "off now": it shows what applies now and, next to it, the value that always applies.

Your own card art

In 0.6.1, save a PNG as art/cards/<Key>.png beside CampfireCards.dll, then restart PEAK. Example: art/cards/GeckoGrip.png changes Piton Fingers. Use the stable Key, not the display name. All 64 filenames and image instructions are included. Recommended: 1024 × 576; maximum: 2048 pixels per dimension and 8 MiB per PNG. Missing or rejected images use the original animated art. Images are local cosmetics.

The cards

The deck includes the reviewed mechanics and the clearer 0.6.1 descriptions. Card review explains new mechanics and the pending ROOTS Survivor replacement.

Climbing

Card	Rarity	Benefit	Drawback
Piton Fingers	Common	Climbing uses 18% less stamina.	Sprinting uses 10% more stamina.
Mini Scout Cannon	Common	Jump 30% higher.	Take 5% more fall Injury.
To The Bone	Common	Cold builds 30% slower, and another 50% slower while climbing blue ice.	No drawback
Pitonless Pit Stop	Legendary	Hang still on a wall to recover 7.5 stamina per second.	Climb 10% slower.
Bing Double Boing	Rare	Jump again in mid-air for a double jump. Cooldown: 15s.	No drawback
Energy Drink Overdose	Uncommon	Climb 30% faster.	Climbing uses 10% more stamina.
Tendiefoot	Common	Take 25% less fall Injury.	Dynamite deals 50% more Injury.
Daddy Long Arms	Uncommon	Grab walls from 40% farther away.	All stamina costs are 5% higher.

Environment

Card	Rarity	Benefit	Drawback
Cool, Calm, and Collected.	Common	Heat builds 70% slower, and you get drowsy 30% slower.	Cold builds 10% faster.
Just hot.	Common	Cold builds 70% slower, and huddling warms you 30% more.	Heat builds 10% faster.
Antidote Enthusiast	Uncommon	Poison builds 70% slower and wears off 50% faster.	Heat and Cold build 10% faster.
ROOTS Survivor	Uncommon	Spores build 80% slower, and Poison 45% slower.	No drawback
Almost Climbable Cactus	Common	Thorns hurt 80% less, and can be removed 50% faster.	No drawback
Aloe	Common	Heat wears off 150% faster.	Heat builds 5% faster.
Heat Pack	Common	Cold wears off 150% faster.	Cold builds 5% faster.
Fartberry Fitness	Uncommon	Poison that builds up over time (gas, venom, vile food) doesn't affect you.	Instant poison hits hurt 20% more.

Inventory

Card	Rarity	Benefit	Drawback
Bing Bong's Baggage	Rare	All carried weight is 60% lighter, including backpacks and scouts.	Your third pocket cannot hold new items.
Carry-On Only	Common	Held items weigh 45% less.	Backpack contents weigh 5% more.
Super Idol Hands	Uncommon	Held items weigh 65% less.	No drawback
Cook It, Keep It	Uncommon	Cooked food fills you up 40% more, and once per biome your first cooked meal is not consumed.	Uncooked food removes 15% less Hunger.
Cooked	Uncommon	Cooked food removes 60% more Hunger.	Eating uncooked food adds 5 Poison.
Balright	Rare	Get a mythic item (of your choice) at the next campfire. Once per run.	No drawback
Scoutmaster's Care Package	Uncommon	Get a bandage, random food item, and a random item at each new campfire after picking this card.	No drawback
Clown Luggage Special	Legendary	Immediately gain 2 random bonus cards right now.	No drawback

Mutation

Card	Rarity	Benefit	Drawback
Scout Cannon Legs	Rare	Sprint 35% faster and jump 25% higher.	Take 25% more fall Injury.
Crown of Bad Decisions	Common	Gain a full bar of yellow stamina now, then again at each later campfire.	Gain 3 Curse now, then 1 at each later campfire, up to 5 total.
Pandora's HotPocket	Uncommon	Inventory items weigh 25% less, and you gain 37.5 yellow stamina at each new biome.	No drawback
Bootleg Scoutmaster Bugle	Rare	Press {key} to gain a full bar of yellow stamina. Once per biome.	Each use adds 15 Injury.
Big Lollipop Crash	Common	Sprint for 2s to move 30% faster until you stop.	No drawback
Piton Payment Plan	Uncommon	Take 25% of a fall's Injury now and 60% after 20s: 15% less in total.	No drawback
Glass Scout Cannon	Rare	Gain 40 maximum stamina.	Take 25% more Injury.
Baggage Claim Escapee	Uncommon	Without a backpack: sprint 30% faster and jump 20% higher.	No drawback

Mythic

Card	Rarity	Benefit	Drawback
Scoutmaster	Mythic	Climbing costs no stamina and falls cause no Injury. Sprint 25% faster.	No drawback
The Eternal Campfire	Mythic	You and scouts within 15 m: maximum stamina +35; Injury and status buildup -60%. Share 1 auto-revive on death per biome.	No drawback

Stamina

Card	Rarity	Benefit	Drawback
Cookie Addiction	Rare	Gain 30 maximum stamina.	Hunger builds 15% faster.
Nic of Time	Common	Press {key} to recover 30 stamina. Cooldown: 5 min.	No drawback
Leg Day Skip	Common	Sprinting uses 30% less stamina.	You get hungry 10% faster.
HOOOOLLLD	Common	Hanging still on a wall costs almost no stamina, and you slip and slide 40% less.	No drawback
Meditation	Uncommon	Crouch and stay still for 3s to gain a full bar of yellow stamina. Once per biome.	No drawback
I'm getting Scoutmastered	Uncommon	Sprint 35% faster.	No drawback
Endurance Badge	Uncommon	Climb for 2s straight: climbing uses 40% less stamina for the next 3.5s.	No drawback
Campfire++	Common	Each new campfire clears your Hunger.	No drawback

Survival

Card	Rarity	Benefit	Drawback
Bing Boing	Common	Every 5 min alive: a random 20s burst of Infinite Stamina, Invincibility or Low Gravity.	No drawback
TechTara	Uncommon	Reduces fall damage by 20% and every bandage in your inventory reduces it by 20% more. (Limit 3)	No drawback
Walk It Off	Rare	At 20+ Injury, climbing and sprinting use 35% less stamina.	Take 5% more Injury.
Discount Cure-All	Common	Press {key} at 25+ Poison, Spores or Drowsy to remove 25 from the highest. Once per biome.	No drawback
BingBong Parachute	Rare	Once per run, cancel a fatal fall and return to safe ground.	No drawback
Perma-Cooking	Common	Food removes 25% more Hunger.	No drawback
Book of Broken Bones	Uncommon	You receive a Book of Bones right now.	No drawback
Mini Tenacity	Rare	Medical and food items also remove a random amount from your highest other negative status.	No drawback

Team

Card	Rarity	Benefit	Drawback
Rule Zero	Rare	You and teammates within 8 m use 20% less climbing stamina.	With no teammate within 8 m, climbing uses 5% more stamina.
First Aid Badge	Uncommon	Healing items used on teammates and yourself remove 100% more Injury.	No drawback
Carry-On Scout	Common	Carried scouts weigh 75% less, and you pull teammates up from 20% farther away.	No drawback
Ascent 5+	Common	Huddling warms you 75% more, from farther away, and you get cold 20% slower.	No drawback
Otto-Matic Clutch	Uncommon	First teammate revive by feeding or statue each biome: both gain a full bar of yellow stamina.	No drawback
You're alright, you're alright	Common	Pull teammates up from 40% farther away.	Starting a pull costs a base 5 stamina, once per continuous reach.
Take One for the Troop	Rare	Teammates within 8 m take 50% less Injury.	You take a tiny amount of the prevented Injury, up to 5 per hit.
Friendship Bugles	Uncommon	You and teammates within 8 m gain 10 maximum stamina.	No drawback

Wildcard

Card	Rarity	Benefit	Drawback
Scout's Dishonor	Rare	Immediately gain 2 random bonus cards, Common to Rare.	Gain 5 Curse. Your next campfire offers only 2 cards.
TSA	Legendary	Hold {key} to mark food / luggage / other items within 56 m, even through terrain.	No drawback
Medicinal Munchies	Common	At 20+ Injury, eating food heals 7.5 health.	No drawback
Budget Checkpoint Flag	Legendary	Press {key} on flat ground: your next pass-out revives you here. Once per biome.	No drawback
Petrify Procrastination	Common	Petrification builds 50% slower.	No drawback
Fine Print	Rare	Sacrifice one of your cards to gain 35 (MORE) maximum stamina.	Gain 5 Curse when the sacrifice is made.

Playing together

Co-op for up to 4, exactly like PEAK: host a game and invite friends through Steam. Every player needs the same version of the mod with the same card settings. When they differ, both sides get a warning that names what differs (for example "offer count" or "cards: Piton Fingers"). Sound, key and debug settings are your own and never count.

The host is in charge:

• It deals the offers and checks every pick: a card must come from your own offer, in the current session, once.
• It approves Eternal Campfire revives.
• It places campfire items next to the real fire; Balright is once per run, Supply Scout is once per fire.

A campfire lit while a pick is still running gets its own pick right after it. Late joiners receive everyone's cards.

The mod also remembers the run on disk: everyone's cards are saved by player name as they change (BepInEx/config/notnic.campfirecards.run.txt, with the previous run kept beside it). After a crash, a rejoin or a relaunch, the host presses F8 (Keys.RestoreRun) and every scout in the room gets their saved cards back — without re-paying any pick-time costs. Restore promptly: the memory holds the current run and the one before it.

Config

BepInEx/config/notnic.campfirecards.cfg:

• General:
  • Sounds.
  • CustomFont: show all Campfire Cards text in the bundled Darumadrop One font (default on); off uses the game's own font. Takes effect on the next launch.
  • PickTimeoutSeconds: 60 seconds by default, with the host's value applying to everyone. A positive value gives you that long to choose before the host takes a random card of your offer (minimum 5 seconds). Set it to 0 for unlimited time: no countdown, automatic pick or reading-time cutoff. In Turns mode, everyone waits until the current scout chooses; in Simultaneous mode, each scout can choose independently. Sacrifice choices follow the same host timer.
  • PickMode: Simultaneous (default) or Turns. The host's choice applies to everyone.
• Keys: SecondWind (V), EmergencyPurge (K), BloodBattery (B), SafetyNet (N), BuildScreen (J), ScavengerFood (Y), ScavengerLuggage (U), ScavengerMisc (I) — held, not pressed, and only with TSA — BugReport (F9), and RestoreRun (F8, host only).
• Reporting: Endpoint (where F9 reports go; empty uses the build's default server, local saves them to plugins/CampfireCards/reports/ instead) and InstallId (a random id that groups one install's reports — it carries no account, name or system information). Before a report leaves your machine, the attached log is scrubbed: user-folder paths, your OS user name, every player name in the room, Steam ids, IP addresses and e-mail addresses are replaced with placeholders. The report server stores no addresses either.
• Cards: OfferCount (3; 1 to 10 cards per pick), Drawbacks (false = cards keep only their benefits), AllowDuplicates, MythicsEnabled, and DisabledCards (cards that are never offered, comma separated, by the name on the card; for the three names that themselves contain a comma, use the card key from design/editable/card-editing.csv instead, e.g. LuckyLunch for Cook It, Keep It). That is the whole card config on purpose: card numbers, rarity weights and the balance internals are not configurable — they come from the design sheets compiled into the mod, so every player on the same version plays the same, intended cards. Settings written by versions before 0.7.4 (the 64 per-card sections, Rarity Weights, the balance knobs) are removed from the file once on launch.
• Debug: VerboseLog (log every card event).

Known limitations

• ROOTS Survivor retains its spores resistance; your proposed Mandrake/Zombie immunity and next-biome zombie spawn need verification against 2.6.b assets. See the review.
• BingBong's native Low Gravity power floats; it does not provide unrestricted flight.
• Bing Bong's Baggage blocks new items in your third pocket while keeping existing items retrievable. Since 0.7.4 a card is only ever off while it is listed in DisabledCards.
• New source-specific hooks and native buff behavior still need a multiplayer playtest on PEAK 2.6.b.
• Cook It, Keep It keeps the food in hand. Food that leaves a peel spawns no peel that time.
• TechTara counts the Bandages in your own pockets when the fall lands (up to 3); bandages in a backpack don't count.
• First Aid Badge scales healing items you use on teammates and on yourself. The blowgun dart clears every status and isn't scaled.
• Mini Tenacity triggers on medical items used on you (bandages, first aid kit, antidote, cure-all, medicinal root, aloe, heat pack, the Healing Amulet) and on any food you eat; the bonus removal amount is random each time.
• Fartberry Fitness treats any poison that arrives as a steady drip (gas clouds, poison-over-time from stings or vile food) as gas and ignores it; discrete hits (the bite itself, blast vines, eating something vile) land 20% harder.
• Balright's mythic choice lists only items this game version can spawn; if an item ever vanishes from PEAK, it simply leaves the list.
• BingBong Baggage Scanner marks items with labels drawn over the screen rather than outlines.
• Other players see your card speed boosts with a small delay (their copy of your scout is corrected by the game).
• Continuing a quicksaved run starts with no cards.
• Revives from the Book of Bones and the Scout Effigy do not count for Otto-Matic Clutch.
• Almost Climbable Cactus cuts thorns as they stick to you; thorns already in you when you get the card, or when you leave the Eternal Campfire's aura, keep their value. PEAK counts Thorns in steps of one thorn, so the result is rounded to the nearest whole thorn: one thorn alone stays one thorn, two become one.
• If the host leaves during a run, the new host does not know which Eternal Campfire revives were already used this biome (waiting campfire picks carry over to the new host).
• An ordinary state sync preserves existing local ability state. A fresh client reconnect does not yet restore instance-held charges, cooldowns, anchors or queued Injury from the earlier client session.

Building from source

Requirements: .NET SDK 8 or newer, Python 3, and PEAK with BepInEx installed (the project references PEAK's own assemblies from its install folder; set PEAK_DIR=<folder> if PEAK is not in the default Steam location).

tools/build.sh            # regenerate code from the design sheets, preflight, compile, package
tools/build.sh --install  # same, then copy the plugin into your local PEAK
dotnet test tests/CampfireCards.Tests   # card logic unit tests

The output is build/CampfireCards-<version>.zip.

How the project is organised

• design/ holds the JSON design sheets: cards, stat channels, conditions, art motifs, sounds, game hooks, network events, UI and systems. They are the source of truth; design/README.md explains how to add a card.
• tools/gen.py turns the sheets into src/CampfireCards/Generated/*.cs; tools/preflight.py checks that every cell is filled and every cross-reference resolves before a build.
• src/CampfireCards/Core/ is the Unity-free card logic (settings, offers, modifier stacking, timers), covered by the tests in tests/.
• src/CampfireCards/ is the BepInEx plugin: Harmony hooks into PEAK, the deck, effects, abilities, pick sessions, Photon sync, the card UI, the animated card art and the synthesised sounds.

Editing the deck

Open the card sheet and edit the blue cells. The Cards tab has each card's name, rarity, benefit, drawback and flavor exactly as shown in game; the Numbers tab has every number in plain units (+40 = 40% more, seconds, stamina points). Keep the # column as it is, then send the saved workbook back.

python tools/card_sheet.py export                      # regenerate the sheet from design/cards.json
python tools/card_sheet.py apply edited.xlsx --check   # show what an edited sheet would change
python tools/card_sheet.py apply edited.xlsx           # write it into design/cards.json, then tools/build.sh

Applying validates every value first, warns when a card's text still shows a number that was changed, and raises the card balance version when a number changes. Effect feasibility explains what is supported beyond tweaks. Run python -m unittest discover -s tests -p 'test_*.py' to check the sheet round trip.

Credits

Design and code: NotNic. PEAK is by Aggro Crab and Landcrab; this is a fan mod and is not affiliated with them.

Font: Darumadrop One, copyright 2020 The Darumadrop One Project Authors, used under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 (DarumadropOne-OFL.txt).

License

MIT, see LICENSE. The bundled font keeps its own license, the SIL Open Font License 1.1.