# Balatro 1.0.1f - Patch notes - Product: Balatro (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/balatro) - Vendor: LocalThunk - Date: 2024-05-01 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2379780/view/4208127528883891675 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/balatro/releases/2024-05-01-1.0.1f-patch-notes What's New is an index, not a publisher: every entry below links to the vendor's own release notes, which are the authoritative source. Entries are labelled where they are hand-curated sample data, pre-releases, or drawn from a secondary source such as a developer blog. Reuse: the summaries, labels and curation here are © What's New. Quote freely with attribution and a link back; wholesale republication of the corpus is not permitted — terms: https://whatsnew.fyi/terms. The vendors' own release notes remain their publishers'. --- - **fixed** — Updated version of Love2D engine to fix an issue on Windows and Steam Deck causing poor/stuttery performance for some players - **added** — Added toggle for 'Reduced Motion', removing the swirly background, gyrating card motion, and much of the 'juice' in the game - **changed** — Changed default fallback tarot from Fool to Strength when all tarots are on screen - **changed** — Banned top-up tag and Antimatter on Jokerless Challenge - **changed** — Changed Gold Stake random seeds to ensure the first Legendary Joker on that seed is a Joker that you have not won with on Gold Stake - **changed** — Changed ante scaling in white stake: Ante 3 from 2800 to 2000, Ante 4 from 6000 to 5000 - **changed** — Changed ante scaling in green stake: multiple values adjusted across Ante 2 through Ante 8 - **changed** — Changed ante scaling in purple stake: multiple values adjusted across Ante 2 through Ante 8 - **changed** — Changed Orange Stake to add new 'Perishable' mechanic where Jokers have a 30% chance to have a sticker that disables them after 5 rounds - **changed** — Changed Gold Stake to add new 'Rental' mechanic where Jokers have a 30% chance to have a sticker that costs $1 up front and $3 every round - **changed** — Changed eternal to apply to Jokers in Buffoon packs - **changed** — Changed Eternal/Rental/Perishable sticker location to be in the top left corner - **changed** — Made non-retroactive scaling Jokers incompatible with 'Perishable' sticker - **changed** — Changed the first shop in every run to always include a normal Buffoon pack as one of the pack options - **added** — Upcoming blinds and tags can now be seen in the shop immediately after defeating a boss blind or cashing out - **changed** — Banned Crimson Heart, Verdant Leaf, and Amber Acorn on 'Jokerless' challenge - **changed** — Banned Verdant Leaf on 'Typecast' and 'Non-Perishable' challenges - **changed** — Banned The Plant on 'Mad World' challenge - **changed** — Changed uncommon and rare tags to make their respective jokers free Hey everyone! I'm super happy to announce that the first meaty balance patch for Balatro is now live for everyone! Thank you so much to everyone in the community that gave feedback during the public experimental beta. If you have been a beta tester, this version is functionally identical to 1.0.1e - but here are all the changes made to the game since 1.0.0n: `- Updated version of Love2D (the engine) - this fixes an issue on Windows and Steam Deck causing poor/stuttery performance for some players - Added VC++ 2022 redistributable as an installation requirement - General performance improvements - Added toggle for 'Reduced Motion', removing the swirly background, gyrating card motion, much of the 'juice' in the game - Changed default fallback tarot from Fool to Strength (when all tarots are on screen) - Banned top-up tag and Antimatter on Jokerless Challenge - Changed Gold Stake random seeds - now ensures that the first Legendary Joker on that seed is a Joker that you have not won with on Gold Stake (For Completionist++ hunting) - Changed ante scaling in white stake: - Ante 3: 2800 -> 2000 - Ante 4: 6000 -> 5000 - Changed ante scaling in green stake: - Ante 2: 1000 -> 900 - Ante 3: 3200 -> 2600 - Ante 4: 9000 -> 8000 - Ante 5: 18000 -> 20000 - Ante 6: 32000 -> 36000 - Ante 7: 56000 -> 60000 - Ante 8: 90000 -> 100000 - Changed ante scaling in purple stake: - Ante 2: 1200 -> 1000 - Ante 3: 3600 -> 3200 - Ante 4: 10000 -> 9000 - Ante 6: 50000 -> 60000 - Ante 7: 90000 -> 110000 - Ante 8: 180000 -> 200000 - Changed Orange Stake - Scrapped increasing pack cost - Added new 'Perishable' mechanic, Jokers have a 30% chance to have a 'Perishable' sticker, disabling them after 5 rounds - Changed Gold Stake - Scrapped -1 hand size - Added new 'Rental' mechanic, Jokers have a 30% chance to have a 'Rental' sticker (stacks with eternal/perishable), making them cost $1 up front and $3 every round - Changed eternal to apply to Jokers in Buffoon packs - Changed Eternal/Rental/Perishable sticker location to be in the top left corner - Made some non-retroactive scaling Jokers incompatible with 'Perishable' (Ceremonial Dagger, Glass Joker, Hologram, Ride the Bus, runner, constellation, green joker, red card, madness, square joker, vampire, rocket, obelisk, lucky cat, flash card, spare trousers, castle, wee) - Changed the first shop in every run to always include a normal Buffoon pack as one of the pack options - Upcoming blinds/tags can now be seen in the shop immediately after defeating a boss blind/cashing out - Some Blinds are now be banned on challenge runs - banned Crimson Heart, Verdant Leaf and Amber Acorn on 'Jokerless' - banned Verdant Leaf on 'Typecast' - banned Verdant Leaf on 'Non-Perishable' - banned The Plant on 'Mad World' - Buffed Saturn - Now gives +3 mult instead of +2 mult for Straights - Buffed Neptune - Now gives +4 mult instead of +3 mult for Straight Flush - Buffed Eris - Now gives +50 chips instead of +40 chips for Flush Five - Buffed Ceres - Now gives +4 mult instead of +3 mult for Flush House - Square Joker now has a square sprite - Blue Joker sprite was fixed (2 out of place blue pixels) - Changed Uncommon tag - Now makes the uncommon joker free - Changed Rare tag - Now makes the rare joker free - Negative, Polychrome, Holo, Foil tags all make their respective joker free - Changed Investment to give $25 instead of $15 - Changed 8 Ball - scrapped old effect, new effect -> 1 in 4 chance to spawn a tarot when any played 8 is scored - Changed Blue Seal - now creates the planet card of the final poker hand played during the round - Changed both Mad and Clever Joker - scrapped 'contains 4 of a kind' effect, now applies instead to any hand that contains a 'Two Pair' - Changed Yorick - scrapped old effect, new effect -> gains X1 mult every 23 cards discarded (starts at X1) - Changed Magician Tarot - now appl _[Truncated at 4000 characters — full notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2379780/view/4208127528883891675]_