VanillaSkills Casino

An add-on for VanillaSkills that puts a casino on the skill screen. Bet your Quest Shards on slots, blackjack or video poker.

Fully server-side — every screen is drawn and translated by the server, so vanilla clients can play with nothing installed, and the card and chip artwork is pushed to them automatically on join.

Requirements

Minecraft 26.2 or 26.1.2, Fabric with Fabric API
VanillaSkills 1.7.6 or newer (same Minecraft version)

Getting in

Open the skill tree and click the Casino button above your stats head, or run /casino.

The games

Slots

Three weighted reels. Three of a kind pays big, two of a kind pays small, no match loses the stake. Symbols run from common Coal up to a rare Diamond jackpot, and the reels spin and stop one at a time.

The machine’s payout rate is a single number in the config, and the paytable is scaled automatically to hit it — so retuning which symbols are rare changes how wins feel without changing what the machine pays out overall.

Blackjack

Beat the dealer without going over 21. The dealer stands on 17 and blackjack pays 3:2 by default.

Double Down on any two-card hand for exactly one more card
Split two cards of equal value into two hands, each with its own stake
Split Aces get one card each; a 21 made after splitting is a normal 21, not a blackjack
You are never forced to stand — only a bust ends your hand

Close the screen mid-hand and it picks up exactly where you left off.

Video Poker

Five-card draw against a paytable, not against other players. Hold the cards you like, draw replacements for the rest, and get paid on the final hand. A pair of Jacks or better pays; a royal flush pays 250x.

Chips

There are no chip items. Everything is wagered directly in Quest Shards, read from and written back to VanillaSkills — so there is nothing to lose on a crash, nothing to dupe, and nothing to drop. Your balance is always the single source of truth.

Luck pays off

Your luck attribute — which VanillaSkills’ Fortune Finder lane raises — improves your return at the tables. A fully invested lane is worth about +2% on winnings. It is a nudge rather than a strategy, and it is applied to payouts rather than to the odds, so it can never push a game past break-even.

How to play

Every game has a How to play book with a clickable contents page — the rules, the payouts, and for video poker a full explanation of every hand type. All of it is translatable.

Configuration

Per-world, at <world>/vscasino/casino.json. Reload it live with /casino reload.

Bet limits, a net-winnings cap, per-game on/off switches, the slots payout rate and per-symbol reel odds, the entire video poker paytable, the dealer’s stand-on total, whether double and split are offered, bet step sizes, every sound effect, and the reel animation speed are all configurable.

A note on the economy

Quest Shards convert into Skill Shards, which buy the skill tree — so a casino that pays out too generously inflates VanillaSkills’ whole progression. The defaults are deliberately house-favoured, and the slots payout rate is clamped below 100% so the machine can never be made to print shards.

Commands

/casino — open the lobby
/casino reload — reload config and language files (operators)
/casino resetcaps — clear everyone’s winnings cap (operators)
/casino cards — preview the card artwork (operators)

Translations

Every string, including the playing cards and all the rules books, lives in the language file. See TRANSLATING.md.