🧛 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.
- 🌈 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 the game treats the card as unaffordable: clicking, dragging, pressing space/enter, or any other play attempt produces the natural "can't afford" shake + sound feedback instead of playing the card.
- 🎯 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.
Screenshots
EVO and NEW badges
EVO bis badge
×N badge
Card Lock
Requirements
Vampire Crawlers is an IL2CPP game. Make sure you use the CoreCLR / IL2CPP build of BepInEx 6, not the Mono one.
Installation
Steam:
- Install BepInEx 6 (IL2CPP) in your Vampire Crawlers folder.
- Drop
BetterCards.dll into Vampire Crawlers/BepInEx/plugins/.
- 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.
