🧛 BetterCards — Vampire Crawlers mod

A BepInEx mod for Vampire Crawlers that enhances the card UI with useful information at a glance.

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Features

✨ Level-up card selection — badges

• 🥇 EVO (animated chromatic medallion, top-right) — appears on a card when picking it would complete an evolution combo your deck doesn't yet have. The rainbow ring rotates and a light streak sweeps across it for a holographic foil effect.
• 🥈 EVO bis (smaller silver medallion with a green ✓, top-right) — appears when the offered card would complete a combo, but the combo is already covered by your current deck. Picking is redundant for that combo.
• 🌈 NEW (rainbow pill, top-left) — appears when you own zero copies of that card.
• 🔢 ×N (gold pill, top-left) — shows how many copies of that card you already own.

No more guessing whether a card completes a combo or whether you've seen it before.

🔒 Card Lock

Right-click any card in your combat hand, draw pile, or discard pile to lock it. A golden padlock replaces the mana cost orb, and any play attempt is blocked with shake + sound feedback. Locked cards remain selectable with mouse, keyboard and controller, including in very large Endless Mode hands.

• 🎯 Why it exists — for cards with Destruction that you want to keep until a combo, fusion altar, or later turn.
• 🖱️ How to lock — right-click the card, press . / Del on the numeric keypad, or press Select/Back on a controller while hovering/selecting it.
• ⏭️ Auto-skip — when every card in hand is locked or unaffordable, the turn auto-ends if the game's "End turn automatically" option is enabled.
• 💾 Persistence — locks survive game restarts via BepInEx/config/BetterCards.locks.txt.
• 📚 Modal support — the same padlock appears in the draw pile / discard pile modal. Two copies of the same card are tracked independently.

The whole feature can be disabled in BepInEx/config/com.tovak.vc.bettercards.cfg.

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Screenshots

EVO and NEW badges

EVO bis badge

×N badge

Card Lock

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Requirements

• BepInEx 6.0.0-be.755 (IL2CPP) or later

Vampire Crawlers is an IL2CPP game. Make sure you use the CoreCLR / IL2CPP build of BepInEx 6, not the Mono one.

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Installation

Steam:

1. Install BepInEx 6 (IL2CPP) in your Vampire Crawlers folder.
2. Drop BetterCards.dll into Vampire Crawlers/BepInEx/plugins/.
3. Launch the game.

Game Pass: same steps, but BepInEx goes into Vampire Crawlers/Content/ where the .exe is.

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Author

TovaK

If you enjoy the mod, you can support me on Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/tovak66

Source code: github.com/TovaK66/BetterCards

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License

Free to use and redistribute. Credit appreciated.