Jimbo's Big Naturals (a Balatro mod)... now on 2.0!

Jimbo's Big Naturals is a simple edit of Balatro's existing assets to give the jokers boobs. It is not intended to be a "gender swap" mod, though you may view it as making the jokers ladies if that pleases you. It is just the existing jokers, but now they have boobs. I made it myself using Aseprite.

It covers 122 of the 150 Jokers in Balatro. Other places where Joker imagery appears (such as wax seals, booster packs, and the Wraith spectral card) are also affected.

Why?

I don't know. Sorry.

This mod is SFW?! (for streaming purposes and whatnot)

That's right. No nipples are onscreen. The closest thing to anything scandalous is that Half Joker has a bare chest, but it's torn too badly so that it obscures anything of note. If you'd like to double check, you can open the various PNGs within the mod folder.

Installation

This mod does not require any modloaders or anything - installing it is very simple. It's just a zip, some folders, and some PNG files (images). Balatro is built on a simple platform, and so you can open its EXE file like a ZIP file to view its internal files... and replace them too! That's how the mod is installed.

You will need 7zip, or a program with similar capability to open non-zip files as zips. Download 7zip here. Fortunately, 7zip is free open source zip software.

Windows/Steam

1. Download BigNaturalsMod.zip from the latest releases here.
2. Navigate to your Balatro installation folder. This is probably something like C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Balatro.
3. Extract BigNaturalsMod.zip. You should have a folder in your Balatro directory now.
4. Right click on Balatro.exe in your Balatro installation folder. A reminder you'll need 7zip or similar for this. You may need to click "Show more options" on later versions of Windows. Under the options it should say 7zip. Hover over it to reveal some options.

5. Under 7zip click Open archive.
6. Go into the BigNaturalsMod folder. Grab the resources folder and drag it over into your 7zip window, as shown below.

That's it! If you'd like to uninstall the mod, the "original files backup" folder in BigNaturalsMod has a resources folder with the original jokers. Just repeat steps 4 through 6 with that folder instead.

Linux/Steam Deck

(credit to danvolchek for writing these, thank you so much!)

1. Download BigNaturalsMod.zip from the latest releases here.
2. There isn't a 7zip GUI for Linux, but this script does the same thing as the Windows steps. Edit the variables and run the following (you'll need the command line version of 7zip from your distro's package manager, e.g. sudo pacman -S 7zip for Arch):

   #!/bin/bash
   BIG_NATURALS_PATH=~/Downloads/BigNaturalsMod.zip # Or wherever you downloaded the release to
   BALATRO_PATH=~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Balatro # Or wherever you have Balatro installed
   INSTALL=true # Or false, if you want to uninstall the mod
   
   
   rm -rf /tmp/big-naturals
   7z x -o/tmp/big-naturals $BIG_NATURALS_PATH && 7z a $BALATRO_PATH/Balatro.exe "/tmp/big-naturals/BigNaturalsMod$(if test \"$INSTALL\" != \"true\"; then echo '/original files backup'; fi)/resources"
   rm -rf /tmp/big-naturals

For Steam Deck, bdjeffyp gave the following advice: "For those looking to do the install on the Steam Deck without Windows, the new install instructions for Linux should work well. I’d recommend copy/pasting the script into the terminal and updating the paths if needed."

Mac

(credit to sonololo for writing these, thank you!!!)

1. First, install Homebrew if you haven't already: https://docs.brew.sh/Installation
2. Then install p7zip through Homebrew: brew install p7zip
3. Save and run the following script (make sure to do a chmod +x SCRIPTNAME.sh on it to make it executable):

   #!/bin/bash
   BIG_NATURALS_PATH=~/Downloads/BigNaturalsMod.zip # Or wherever you downloaded the release to
   BALATRO_PATH="${HOME}/Library/Application Support/Steam/steamapps/common/Balatro/Balatro.app/Contents/Resources/Balatro.love"
   INSTALL=true # Or false, if you want to uninstall the mod
   
   rm -rf /tmp/big-naturals
   7z x -o/tmp/big-naturals "$BIG_NATURALS_PATH" && 7z a "${BALATRO_PATH}" "/tmp/big-naturals/BigNaturalsMod$(if test \"$INSTALL\" != \"true\"; then echo '/original files backup'; fi)/resources"
   rm -rf /tmp/big-naturals
   

If you have trouble getting it to work e.g. on older Mac versions, try opening bash and copy pasting the script in or running it one line one at a time. This information was contributed by stovepiperat! Thank you!

Steamodder/Malverk

For experienced Balatro modders, someone is currently working on a Big Naturals pack for Malverk (a texture pack manager for Steamodder). Stay tuned!

I want to look at the boobie jokers without downloading the mod. Can you put the art here?

Sure can! Spoilers for Balatro, though - it's all the jokers in the game!

Click this to view spoiler

As of 2.0, there are also some additional touches. The wax seals, for instance, which feature jokers, have big naturals as well.

That's it! Thanks for checking this out! If you have any questions, comments, concerns, bug reports or bug facts, hit me up on Bluesky.