Hot Potato

v1.1.5·Updated 2026-09-20

Mod Developer Chaos

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Developer Chaos

Hot Potato is a Balatro Mod Developer Event where teams were created and given a week on their own to contribute to a mod. Cross-team communication was not allowed outside of major bugfixing efforts. The ordeal took 2 months, and this mod is the culmination of this work.

These are your teams:

Perkeocoin - Week 1

  • Opal
  • dottykitty
  • CampfireCollective
  • stupid
  • Omegaflowey18
  • ProdByProto

Sillyposting - Week 2

  • Jaydchw
  • Eris
  • UnusedParadox
  • PokerThePoker
  • Supernova
  • Victin

Jtem - Week 3

  • aikoyori
  • Haya
  • SleepyG11
  • squidguset
  • missingnumber

Team Name - Week 4

  • Corobo
  • Revo
  • GoldenLeaf
  • GhostSalt
  • Jogla
  • Violet

Team:) - Week 5

  • notmario
  • PokeRen
  • RGBeet
  • basil_squared

The four horsechicots of the potatolypse - Week 6

  • lord.ruby
  • nxkoo
  • Lily Felli
  • cg223
  • pangaea47
  • baccon4

Oops! All Programmers - Week 7

  • theAstra
  • Mysthaps
  • th30ne
  • trif
  • Liafeon
  • SadCube
  • factwixard

pissdrawer - Week 8

  • N'
  • Eremel
  • deadbeet
  • SDM_0
  • BepisFever
  • Fey
  • tacashumi

Teamless contributors (bug fixes)

  • WilsontheWolf

Note:

Hot Potato was not designed with cross-content mod compatibility in mind. It is recommended to not play Hot Potato with other mods installed. If you forego this warning, expect things to break!!

If you are experiencing a crash on startup, please be sure that your folders are not nested. If your Mod's folder looks like Balatro/Mods/Hot-Potato/Hot-Potato, cut and paste the mod files from the second folder to the first, so that the mod's files are only one "layer" deep. The Mod's folder should look like this: Balatro/Mods/Hot-Potato.

If your mod folder looks correct and you are still experiencing crashes of any kind, please create an issue on this repository, or send a crash log in the mod's thread in the Balatro Discord.

Install & use Install: follow the bundled instructions

  1. Unzip the archive from playbuff and read the bundled readme / instructions first.
  2. Most mods rely on the game's mod loader — the usual route is a community mod manager (such as r2modman): pick this game, install, and it handles the loader and dependencies.
  3. For a manual install, put the mod files into the matching Mod / plugins folder inside the game directory.
  4. Launch the game to confirm it loaded; mods with listed dependencies need those installed as well.

Install locations vary a lot between mods — the bundled readme is the most reliable guide. These mods need a community loader first — the bundled readme usually points to its download.

Dependencies

Install these first, or the mod will not work:

Steamodded-SteamoddedThePotatoPatch-Potato_Patch_Utils

File & checksum

Filename
Hot_Potato-1.1.5.zip
File size
93.0 MiB