Malverk

v1.1.5·Updated 2026-10-07

Malverk is an all-in-one texture manager. With an inbuilt API for AltTextures and TexturePacks, Malverk integrates a simple UI to customise which textures are applied to your game whenever you wish.

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Malverk - Manage Your Texture Packs

What is Malverk?

Malverk is a mod designed to make managing your texture packs quick and easy. Using our intuitive texture selector page, you can select which of your texture packs to apply in an instant, and reorganise their priority by dragging the cards left and right. This makes it easy to combine partial texture packs to your preference.

Malverk supports full and partial retextures to each object type in the game. Malverk supports the following objects: Joker, Tarot, Spectral, Planet, Voucher, Booster, Enhanced, Seal, Tag, Stake, Blind, Sticker, plus modded ConsumableTypes.

You can access Malverk through the in game option menu. Press the Textures button and you will be greeted with the Malverk UI.

Using Malverk

Malverk is a Texture Pack manager - it does not come packaged with any textures of it's own. If other retextures choose to support Malverk, their textures will appear in the Malverk UI. From here, simply select the texture packs you would like to apply, and they will appear in the priority changer at the top of the screen. Texture Packs are applied from left to right, so the furthest right will overwrite any previous changes. This allows you to combine texture packs as you wish, even changing individual cards.

The Malverk API

Malverk comes packaged with an API for AltTexture and TexturePack objects. An AltTexture object links a new spritesheet to a set of game objects, which can be customised. A TexturePack object is a bundle of AltTextures.

Defining an AltTexture

Once you have added Malverk as a dependency for your mod, you can define a new AltTexture object. Using the following skeleton will create a standard AltTexture. There are optional arguments explained below the skeleton.

AltTexture({

key = 'example_texture', -- the key of the texture

set = 'Joker', -- define the object type that you are retexturing

path = 'example_texture.png', -- the filename of your spritesheet, saved in assets/1x AND assets/2x

loc_txt = { -- [NYI] Localization text for tooltips displayed in the texture selection screen - can be added to a localization file under [descriptions][alt_texture]

name = 'Example Texture',

}

})

This example replaces the texture for every Joker object.

Optional Arguments

  • keys, used to provide a table of keys of objects that should be changed. Used when creating a texture that changes only some of the object, or when using a sprite sheet where the objects are in a different order to vanilla
  • original_sheet, set to true when using a sprite sheet that matches positioning of vanilla sprite sheets
  • display_pos, set to the key of the item you want to use as the sprite displayed in the Malverk UI
  • localization, set to true when using a localization file, alternatively a table of alternate localizations for your new textures:

{

key = {

name = 'new name',

text = {'new desc text 1', 'new desc text 2'},

badge = 'badge_string'

}

}

Note: to use badges, you will need to add a function to the Malverk.badges table, example:

Malverk.badges.badge_string = function(self, card, badges)

badges[#badges + 1] = create_badge(badge_label, get_type_colour(self or card.config, card), nil, 1.2)

end

  • frames, used for animated objects, set to the number of frames in your sprite sheet
  • soul, used for Spectral objects, set as the path of the sprite sheet with the soul sprite
  • soul_keys, used to provide a table of keys of objects that should have a floating sprite. Floating sprites should be the next sprite along in your sprite sheet. (Must be used in conjunction with keys)
  • stickers, used for Stake objects, set to true if you have a sprite sheet for stickers (sprite sheet should have the same name as your stake sheet with _stickers appended)
  • px/py, used for non-standard dimensions in your atlas
  • sticker_px/sticker_py, used for non-standard dimensions in your stake sticker atlas

Defining a TexturePack

Once you have defined your AltTexture objects, you need to bundle them

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:

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File & checksum

Filename
Malverk-1.1.5.zip
File size
111.5 KiB