BetterCards — Vampire Crawlers mod

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

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 (still useful info if you want a duplicate, evolved tier, etc.).
• 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.

Deck viewer — COMPOSITION panel

When you open the draw pile or discard pile modal during combat, a COMPOSITION panel appears showing the mana cost distribution of your full deck (draw pile + hand + discard pile combined).

Each mana cost is shown as a colored orb with a count badge. The panel adapts to your deck size:

• Small deck (≤10 cards visible) — panel appears horizontally below the card list
• Large deck (11+ cards) — panel moves to the right side of the modal as a vertical list

Companion cards are excluded from the count. The panel refreshes automatically when you evolve cards at altars or pick up wild cards.

Multilingual support

The COMPOSITION panel is translated into all 12 languages the game ships with: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese. Switch language mid-session and the panel rebuilds instantly.

Screenshots

EVO and NEW badges

EVO bis badge (combo already covered by deck)

×N badge (owned card count)

COMPOSITION panel — horizontal (small deck)

COMPOSITION panel — vertical (large deck)

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, otherwise the mod will not load.

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).

Author

TovaK

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

Source code: github.com/TovaK66/BetterCards

License

Free to use and redistribute. Credit appreciated.