Tarot Card Booster Packs

Tarot Card Booster Packs

An add-on for shiroroku's Tarot Cards mod adding booster packs straight outta Balatro to complete one's tarot deck!

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About this Mod

This mod adds Tarot Card "Arcana Packs" that, when opened, let players pick a card or two from the 3 or 5 that appear:

  • Arcana Packs (regular) let a player pick 1 of 3 cards,
  • Jumbo Arcana Packs from 1 of 5,
  • and Mega Arcana Packs 2 of 5 cards.

These may be given out by a server host or, naturally - the only way to obtain them in Survival - by trading with a Wandering Trader who occasionally sells them 2 packs at a time.

  • Arcana Packs cost 5 Emeralds,
  • Jumbo Arcana Packs cost 7,
  • and Mega Arcanas cost 10.

You can also "sell" a Tarot Card you already own for 3 Emeralds by placing it in a 2x2 or 3x3 crafting GUI input (and Emeralds will be locked from being uncrafted in Twilight Forests' Uncrafting Table to prevent an exploit where you can otherwise potentially get any Tarot Card for 3 Emeralds so don't try it), giving at least some use to all the extras you get, especially if playing on a solo world.

If your booster pack contains a Soul Card, however, nab it instead! Right-clicking it will replace itself with a VERY rare item! Just like Balatro's Tarot Card booster packs, Soul Cards have a 0.3% chance to show up in place of another card.

Right-clicking a Booster Pack replaces the entire stack with a standard piece of paper, the booster pack's "wrapping." Booster Packs of any of the 3 types are not supposed to stack unless using cheats or commands, and a stack of booster packs right-clicked will still only yield 1 pack opening because of the method used to display the GUI and turn the itemstack into a single stack of paper.

To make it even more difficult and/or "balanced" to get a whole set of Tarot Cards this way you may also choose to enable the gamerule tarotShowman which makes each Arcana Pack act like the Showman Joker from Balatro is in play; that is to say, duplicate tarot cards may appear multiple times in a single opened pack.

Finally, the Wandering Trader may also sell a single Music Disc with Jimbo's handsomely-devilish mug on it as an Easter Egg of sorts for 4 Emeralds; playing it gives a nice Balatro remix made by Lucas Pucas on YouTube (check it out here) while swinging it in any form or fashion causes him to directly drop some of his beloved dialogue straight from the game to you as if he used /msg!

TECHNICAL STUFF:

The mod works by storing all the registry IDs of each tarot card as item variables with the appropriate NBT datatags within the world itself upon loading it for the very first time, building a library of all possible cards to pull from in the process. When cards for a booster pack are pulled from this library, it will include any of those 22 cards, but not the Soul Card; the check for whether a Soul Card appears or not is always performed after the cards have been chosen for the pack, and will overwrite the card in the chosen space. All the rest of the cards disappear from the GUI after the appropriate amount of cards have been taken from each slot (1 for normal and Jumbo packs, 2 from Mega packs), while pressing [Esc] while still in the GUI counts as "skipping" the pack (as one can normally do in Balatro). The "Jimbo Music Disc" giving "+4 Mult" "While in main-hand" basically translates to the Music Disc dealing 4 (extra) points (♥♥) of unblockable damage to anything hit by it.

This mod, like my other 2 mods, was made in MCreator.

Available Versions

Tarot Card Booster Packs 1.1.4release
MC 1.20.1forge
May 23, 2026
Tarot Card Booster Packs 1.1.3release
MC 1.20.1forge
May 22, 2026
Tarot Card Booster Packs 1.1.2release
MC 1.20.1forge
May 20, 2026
Tarot Card Booster Packs 1.1.1release
MC 1.20.1forge
May 16, 2026
Tarot Card Booster Packs 1.1release
MC 1.20.1forge
May 15, 2026

How to Install Tarot Card Booster Packs on Your Server

1

Order Server

Order a Minecraft Java server with at least 3 GB RAM (4 GB recommended).

2

Set forge Loader

In the panel under "Egg", select the forge loader and matching Minecraft version (1.20.1).

3

Install Mod

Open the mod browser in the dashboard and search for "Tarot Card Booster Packs". Click "Install" – done! Alternatively, upload the .jar via SFTP to the /mods folder.

Compatibility

Mod Loaders

forge

Minecraft Versions

1.20.1

Server-side

Required

Recommended RAM

4 GB(min. 3 GB)

Frequently Asked Questions

Tarot Card Booster Packs server crashes on startup – what to do?

Most common cause: wrong forge version or insufficient RAM. Check the server log (latest.log) for "OutOfMemoryError" or "Mixin" errors. With Mado Hosting: ensure at least 3 GB RAM is allocated and the loader matches the mod version (1.20.1). You can switch loaders with one click in the panel.

Is Tarot Card Booster Packs compatible with forge?

Tarot Card Booster Packs officially supports forge for Minecraft 1.20.1. The Mado dashboard automatically detects incompatible loader combinations.

Server lagging with Tarot Card Booster Packs – how to optimize performance?

Recommended RAM: 4 GB (per 8 players). Use /spark profiler to check if Tarot Card Booster Packs consumes the most tick time. Common fixes: reduce server view-distance to 8-10, install "performant" or "starlight" as supplementary mods on Forge. With Mado Hosting, your server runs on NVMe SSDs with dedicated CPU cores for minimal latency.

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Supported Versions

1.20.1