Jimbo needs to be adjusted.

[psylis]

Since the chances of winning has been adjusted, this was my first big win.  I've spent up to 20days in a game doing nothing but gambling and getting nothing but bananas, twigs, stone, rope, and a chance to fight monsters. I think the pointspread needs to be adjusted. Previous version of Jimbo was pretty broken. I'll admit, but this current version is not worth  the time.  Even if gems were removed and odds were increased, it would be a better game to play.  RIght now it's just a novelty that happens to be a time sink.

600-1399 is nothing but gold.  A complete waste for anyone who knows that you can trade eggs to pk in a fraction of the the time it will take to get a decent hand on jimbo. How about something else like thulucite fragments? 2 for the 600-999 range and 4 for the 1000 - 1399 range. Cut stone is kind of meh as well. How about something like lightbulbs that ground stack? Easy rot. Easy lightbulbs.  Nothing gamebreaking, but saves a trip to the caves for some people, and makes farming a little easier. They cleanup themselves over time when it rains, and you still get the effect of winnings shiny things. I'm just spitballing ideas, but you get the picture.  Maybe the loot/score range needs to be adjusted.  In it's current state, other than music, and free light, jimbo offers nothing. 

[Well-met]

have the cards erode away eventually first

[SapoLover]

I like the lightbulbs idea, could replace the lower rewards since it's just a minute trip to the cave, but for caveless worlds would be pretty good. The rewards could actually be thulecite equipment for how rare it is to get a hand and joker that gives you 1k+ points. Or maybe I just suck at balatro, idk.

Edited July 29, 2025 by SapoLover
Gambling addiction for the win

[psylis]

1 hour ago, SapoLover said:

how rare it is to get a hand and joker that gives you 1k+ points. Or maybe I just suck at balatro, idk.

It's pretty rare. I've played it once for 2 hours straight to see see if i could get the mats for an alch. When i stopped playing, It was winter, and i still didn't have any gold.   I was punching spiders, hounds, and bees while cooking everything in crock pot. Dumbest Winona run i've ever played. I ran it back (with a hambat this time) and still pretty much the same results. By the time you "win", mind you, if you win, it's not even worth it.

 

2 hours ago, Well-met said:

have the cards erode away eventually first

ALL OF THIS. I can't tell you how much time i've wasted putting cards together. 

[Ridley]

I think JIMBO needs an option to delete nearby cards instead of some expiration thing. I have a big ol' pile of sorted cards that I enjoy adding to, so I don't want cards just vanishing. 

[Johnny_Waffles]

1 hour ago, Ridley said:

I think JIMBO needs an option to delete nearby cards instead of some expiration thing. I have a big ol' pile of sorted cards that I enjoy adding to, so I don't want cards just vanishing. 

an easy thing to do is make them burnable

[POOH_LY]

I thought it was supposed to be like a fun mini game, like the ones from Chinese New Year events. It doesn't cost anything to play as well. So, pretty much free food and light at night.

[RexySeven]

4 hours ago, Johnny_Waffles said:

an easy thing to do is make them burnable

I can't believe they aren't burnable to begin with. 

[psylis]

18 hours ago, POOH_LY said:

I thought it was supposed to be like a fun mini game, like the ones from Chinese New Year events. It doesn't cost anything to play as well. So, pretty much free food and light at night. Jimbo is from Balatro and all it makes people think is 'welp, i'm not going to try that game out'. 

No, it's a crossover event, like the terraria eye bosses. You fight them for halfway decent loot and supposed think to yourself, 'maybe i'll dust off, or try terraria out'.  Jimbo just makes you suffer. 

17 hours ago, RexySeven said:

I can't believe they aren't burnable to begin with. 

As a willow main, I approve this message. 

[Wawchik]

21 hours ago, psylis said:

No, it's a crossover event, like the terraria eye bosses. You fight them for halfway decent loot and supposed think to yourself, 'maybe i'll dust off, or try terraria out'.  Jimbo just makes you suffer. 

It is just a fun minigame, it's not that deep

[Cheggf]

On 7/29/2025 at 5:22 PM, psylis said:

RIght now it's just a novelty that happens to be a time sink.

Good. You should play the weird side minigame because you want to play the weird side minigame, not because it's stronger than actually playing the actual game. 

[fpx007]

On 7/30/2025 at 9:03 AM, Ridley said:

I think JIMBO needs an option to delete nearby cards instead of some expiration thing. I have a big ol' pile of sorted cards that I enjoy adding to, so I don't want cards just vanishing. 

 

On 7/30/2025 at 10:44 AM, Johnny_Waffles said:

an easy thing to do is make them burnable

The scale furnace already burns everything except some irreplacable objects.

[BeeClops]

10 hours ago, fpx007 said:

 

The scale furnace already burns everything except some irreplacable objects.

and those god damn eternal fruitcakes 

[gaymime]

28 minutes ago, BeeClops said:

and those god damn eternal fruitcakes 

pigs sort those out just fine

[BeeClops]

1 hour ago, gaymime said:

pigs sort those out just fine

sure they do, but I don't want to have pigs everywhere, while furnaces are great to have everywhere

[JJ0264]

1. why can't we play in the menu and not just in-game

2. why can't we learn a JIMBO recipe to move him to a better location (idk 3k points for a chance of getting it) 4 boards, 1 dummy, 1 yellow gem, 2 red feathers

[psylis]

On 7/31/2025 at 8:48 PM, Cheggf said:

Good. You should play the weird side minigame because you want to play the weird side minigame, not because it's stronger than actually playing the actual game. 

I called for a healthy adjustment in the loot table. Not making it stronger than playing the actual game.  Please read my post again. The biggest payouts I mentioned aren't going to break the game, and it's still going to be more time wasted than going to the ruins or mining in the caves. I average about 2hrs before I get a top tier hand that was able to give max payout, and anyone could fully clear ruins and have all of those items in that time and more. 

 

22 hours ago, JJ0264 said:

1. why can't we play in the menu and not just in-game

2. why can't we learn a JIMBO recipe to move him to a better location (idk 3k points for a chance of getting it) 4 boards, 1 dummy, 1 yellow gem, 2 red feathers

This deserves a post on it's own. Jimbo should at least be scannable by Winona.  I'd like to add to the list of mats. Something like 7 cards any suit. 

[JJ0264]

2 hours ago, psylis said:

I called for a healthy adjustment in the loot table. Not making it stronger than playing the actual game.  Please read my post again. The biggest payouts I mentioned aren't going to break the game, and it's still going to be more time wasted than going to the ruins or mining in the caves. I average about 2hrs before I get a top tier hand that was able to give max payout, and anyone could fully clear ruins and have all of those items in that time and more. 

 

This deserves a post on it's own. Jimbo should at least be scannable by Winona.  I'd like to add to the list of mats. Something like 7 cards any suit. 

I wanna play joker jailbreak or solitaire btw if there was a more suit it be (diamond, spades, clubs, hearts) (crescent moon, axes, magic, brains)

[Cheggf]

8 hours ago, psylis said:

I called for a healthy adjustment in the loot table. Not making it stronger than playing the actual game.

And then in the same paragraph you instantly compare it to playing the actual game and call the time "wasted".

8 hours ago, psylis said:

it's still going to be more time wasted than going to the ruins or mining in the caves

You need to read my post again: the minigame is supposed to be played if you want to play the minigame. The intent is not to get rewarded for it, or else the rewards would be better and you wouldn't be here suggesting that they get better. If anything should be changed it should be removing the non-card rewards entirely so people like you stop getting confused and thinking that this is how you're supposed to get things. 

[Prinha]

I agree with the op and I like the lightbulb suggestion aswell. 

In its current state it's a pure lategame past time. But by the time I'm in lategame I'm not all that interested in its drops. The cards might be usable for some decorative purposes so don't make them decay by themselves. But making them burnable seems like a natural thing to do. 

Shiwprecked's Slotmachine was good enough to visit without overtaking the game. Adjust Jimbo in a similar manner imo. 

Or give the cards/decks more uses.

[Hungry French]

Jimbo is good just the way he is. It doesn't give you a huge advantage, but it does give you fun and small bonuses. Especially if you have bad luck.

[loopuleasa]

I like current jimbo because it teaches people that gambling is bad for you.

I wish it costed 20 sanity to initiate play so that degenerate gamblers in my pubs will naturally select themselves out.