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+title: "FickleFox Balatro Mod!"
+date: "2025-12-12"
+redirect_from: /2025-12-12-ficklefox-balatro-mod
+coverImage: \assets\images\2025\FickleFox.webp
+categories:
+  - "programming"
+  - "tools"
+  - "testing"
+tags:
+  - "nUnit"
+  - "Testing"
+  - "XML"
+  - "SPA"
+  - "DevOps"
+excerpt: "I forgot to post about my Balatro Mod here on my Blog!"
+fileName: '2025-10-27-new-tool-released-nUnit-viewer.md'
+---
+
+![](../assets\images\2025\FickleFox.webp)
+
+Hi folks!  I know that you mostly know me from my consulting days, or my blog posts about PowerShell and making tools or building services.  But I also am a gamer, and more recently, a modder, and I wanted to share about my Balatro Mod, Fickle Fox, here!  
+
+# Fickle Fox
+
+An animal themed, vanilla friendly, configurable Balatro mod!
+
+[![Discord](https://img.shields.io/badge/Discord-%235865F2.svg?style=for-the-badge&logo=discord&logoColor=white)](https://discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1343279563563597854)
+
+*Report issues or suggest ideas in the Discord!  Or file an issue on the repo!*
+
+What's the purpose of this mod
+====================
+The themes and goals here are cute art and fun new options for all phases of the game, *especially late game / naninf*.  
+
+I felt that it would be fun if there were more long term options available for late / end-game, and especially if these new jokers were fun or changed the way you play the game!
+
+What's in this mod
+====================
+This mod contains a lot of fun stuff, including 40+ fun and original Joker ideas, all of which have lovingly handcrafted art and deep interactions with each other as well as the full set of original Jokers from the base game!  
+
+### 40+ new jokers!
+### 5+ new boosters
+### New Editions, Vouchers, Decks and more!
+
+![](../assets\images\2025\jokerSample.webp)
+*Just a sampling of the Joker's you will discover!*
+<details>
+    <summary><b>Mod Spoilers</b></summary>    
+
+    * Golden Repeater - a golden retriever!  Has a chance to repeat gold cards and sometimes make a copy of them!
+    * Lucky Repeater - an irish setter,  Has a chance to repeat lucky cards and sometimes make a copy of them!
+    * Pear Pair - a pair of birds.  gains in strength when you play multiple cards at a time, like pairs, two pairs or more
+    * Fickle Fox - a fox with a stolen bag of money - fickley applies gold seals to your cards
+    * Benevolance - a fox deity (love this design) - applies additional boons to your Gold Sealed cards when they are held in hand
+    * A Kuma - a loveable bear with a strange connection to the number 10
+    * ?????? - goes even further beyond
+    * Hachiko - a dog on the subway - interacts with played 8's and 5's, like Walkie Talkie
+    * Sun and Moon - a Hemmingway's Cat and Ninetailed Fox - interacts with played 9's and 6's, like Hachiko
+    * Felicette - the first cat in space! Try it for yourself
+    * Sonar Bat - helps you discover information about unplayed cards in your deck
+    * Bandit Loach - a cute little loach fish - steals your money but sometimes upgrades your played hand
+    * Holowing Owl - a holographic owl - is always enhanced and interacts nicely with enhanced cards
+    * Death of Rats - every x hands, will 'kill' a played High Card.  Gains in power when allowed to trim the deck.  Resets if other than a high card is played
+    * Tacocat - a cat taco - rewards played palindromes
+
+</details><br>
+
+## To do
+<details>
+    <summary><b>What's coming</b></summary>
+    * Fix incompatibility with the newest Steammodded version
+
+</details><br>
+
+## Changelog
+<details>
+    <summary><b>v 0.5.0 - Half Moon Release</b></summary>    
+    * Fixes boot loop issue * 
+    * Add progression - unlock system!  Make a new profile to see these unlocks!
+    * * Adds new decks with progressive unlock
+    * * Adds loads of new fun joker unlocks as well
+    * Cleans up card logic
+    * Fixes 'Again' messages firing for wrong cards
+    * Fixes numerous 'Repeat' or 'Retrigger' cards not working as expected
+    * Buffs the Grass Card to make it more viable
+    * Buffs Benevolence's Gold Seal interaction
+    * Fixes wrong description for FickleFox Joker: Thanks to Discord user [Seals on Everything](https://discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1355819401198178455)
+    * Adds more configuration
+    * * Can now disable Mod specific boosters, the Negatvie booster, and many other things
+    * * Adds 'more Mystery' mode which preserves the previous sort of insane behavior of Cam and the funny description of Mochi Cat
+    * Fixes the logic for Caffinated and Mochi cat to work!
+    * Adds beautiful new shaders to special edition decks!
+    * Adds beautiful new version of secretRare shader
+    * Adjusted Card Doubling rates for Lucky and Golden Retriever, from 1 ~ 8 to 1 ~ 10 
+    * Adjusted card and booster spawn rates
+
+</details><br>
+
+## Special Thanks
+
+* Thanks to **OhPahn** for some programming tips especially around custom sounds, and for contributing an adorable doggo joker!  You can learn more about him here, [be sure to check out his music](https://linktr.ee/ohpahn) and also his own Balatro mod [OhPahndora's Box, with plenty of original tunes!](https://github.com/ohpahn/opandoras-box) 
+
+* Special thanks to **MarioFan597** for his very helpful artistic advice and guidance, and deep knowledge of the Balatro art style and for contributing two jokers and offering advice on countless others.  You can read more from them here, and be sure to check out their very cool Cryptid Friendly mod: [MarioFan's Ascensio Mod - Github](https://github.com/MarioFan597/Ascensio)
+
+* Special thanks to my real life best friend **Akravator** for contributing one of the Secret Jokers in this mod!
+
+## Extra Special Thanks
+
+And my deepest thanks to my wife, Linzra for brainstorming and creating 95% of all of the art in this mod!!! You can read more about her here
+
+Installation Instructions for Windows
+==========================
+
+[Setup Lovely and Steammodded following this guide on Steam](https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3400691352)
+
+Download the newest release from <x>
+
+Navigate to this path (using the Run Command box or paste into explorer)
+
+* %AppData%/Balatro
+* If you're not familiar with app variables you can also navigate here
+* * C:\Users\<YourUserName>AppData\Roaming\Balatro
+
+Create a new folder at this path if it does not exist yet:
+ Mods
+
+Unzip the release, it should look like this when done
+
+![](../assets\images\2025\sampleDir.png)
+
+## Installation Instructions for Steamdeck
+
+The steps are surprisingly similar to the Windows release, thanks to the way the Steamdeck's Proton layer enapsulates a Windows like folder and file structure. 
+
+You can follow this guide to get started, [How to mod Balatro on Steam Deck](https://steamdeckhq.com/tips-and-guides/how-to-mod-balatro-on-steam-deck/)
+
+* tested on Steammodded Version [1.0.0-beta-0509c](https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/releases/tag/1.0.0-beta-0509c)