Baldi's Basics Plus news & patch notes

Hey everyone!

I'm happy to announce the Baldi's Basics Plus version 0.14.5 is now available! This is a very small update that fixes a few more bugs, including a couple of pretty big ones introduced in 0.14.4. My apologies for the issues! This version should be much more stable.

Changelog

Changes

• Added the principal whistle to the pool of items that can be dispensed by a crazy vending machine.

• Student Shuffle crowds are now culled when they are in culled chunks, which should help improve performance during the event.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue which made it impossible to use items in the Grapple Challenge

• Updated the Explorer Style description so that it no longer incorrectly states that you cannot save in the mode.

• Fixed a bug which caused Student Shuffle students to close lockdown doors after passing by them.

• Fixed a bug which caused an error to occur and be logged when quitting a level while a grappling hook entity was pulling the player towards itself.

• Fixed a couple of errors that could occur and be logged when quitting a level while the player or other entities were hidden by chalk clouds.

Known Issues

• NPCs occasionally getting stuck against walls

• NPCs can collide between solid surfaces.

• A frame perfect pause right before the next level begins loading allows the pause menu to be on-screen while the loading takes place.

• Since The Test ignores the environment time scale, it can explode even during time scale changes that should affect it, such as when the environment freezes while flipping during Gravity Chaos

• In the laboratory level type, class rooms that appear to be in one zone sometimes actually count for another zone.

• Sticker tutorial voice lines sound different from the others.

• Quickly Pausing/Unpausing can result in the game not rendering while unpaused (Also applies to the Packet-O-Matic)

• Whirlpools can teleport entities to the inside of hallway pillars

• Completing an activity in a room attached to a locked room will attempt to unlock the locked room doors.

• Placing an alarm clock in a doorway prevents the door from being clicked

• Captions are more likely to stack on top of each other and become hard to read due to the new sound propagation system.

• Mrs. Pomp's map time is oddly placed in odd shaped rooms.

• Seeds show in pre-made map elevators.

• Held sprites (Such as when holding a balloon) use the lighting of OOB when held against a wall.

• CoreGameManager sounds stack and then play all at the same time when the environment is frozen.

• Maps from saved sessions are bugged when updating from an older version with different level generation.

• PotT doesn't open/close doors while fleeing from the tape.

• Opening the advanced map while inside the locker causes visual issues.

• Invalid Portal Poster sound doesn't always play when attempting to place a Portal Poster.

• Entity lighting and visibility constantly fluctuates based on the below cells while traveling though vents.

• Using the Hourglass sticker in explorer mode causes the incorrect time limit to appear.

• Entities can occasionally be seen clipping through the walls of vents due to the way they can crisscross

• Beans will repeatedly run back and forth if he sees the player but there is an obstacle between them requiring him to move away around a corner to try and approach them

• One-way doors that fail to generate and revert to swinging doors still keep one-way icon on map

• Pressing opposite directions in advanced map causes slow movement.

• Arts and Crafters' echoes don't always match Crafters' orientation during Gravity Chaos.

• On some screen resolutions, the elevator screen has gaps that can be seen through.

• Lockdown doors near spawn can be seen snapping to the open position when game starts.

• Extra stamina is still lost while running in the playground

• MIDI player has an issue where, if music is played and then paused on the same frame, it will not play when unpaused.

• Cords holding cranes will disappear in darkness while the cranes themselves do not.

• Beans does not have a cooldown after getting hit with his own gum.

• Cloudy Copter's wind is blocked by conveyor belts moving the opposite direction

• Gum's splat sound effect can be cut off if it's removed before it's finished playing.

• If an entity gets squished while gum is stuck to it, it won't render properly.

Hey everyone!

I'm happy to announce the Baldi's Basics Plus version 0.14.4 is now available! This update fixes several bugs that were in the game, primarily bugs introduced in the last few updates. Thank you all for reporting these issues!

Changelog

Changes

• Changed the voice sample that plays when changing the volume of voices in the settings.

• Saving and quitting is now enabled while playing in explorer mode.

• When the fog event is ending, NPCs now regain their full visibility distance after the fog is totally clear, rather than the moment it begins to disappear.

• Added chalk erasers, super stretchy gloves, faculty nametags and invisibility elixirs to the pool of items that can be dispensed by a crazy vending machine.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed map marker icons not expanding when highlighted.

• Fixed an issue where Baldi's sound queue would be cleared when getting sent to detention or teleported by Arts & Crafters even if the sound made by those events was silenced

• Changed the sound of being sent to detention from being based on the player's position to the center of the principal's office. This fixes an issue where, if the principal tried sending the player to detention while unable to interact with the player (Squished, opposite orientation, etc.), Baldi would hear the sound at the player's position, rather than in the principal's office.

• Fixed an oversight with how the new AudioSourceManager system handled queuing audio of different types.

• Fixed a few minor issues with text/captions (Spelling, grammar, etc.).

• Fixed a bug where clicking the yes button to confirm quitting from the pause menu while in the field trip mode wouldn't do anything.

• Added support for Entity audio propagation overrides and audio filters to work when an entity has multiple propagated audio sources on it. This fixes issues such as First Prize's motor not being heard in vents.

• Fixed an issue where propagated audio sources would be instantiated with PlayOnAwake enabled when waking. This caused warnings to be logged in certain scenarios.

• Fixed Student Shuffle giving the player the ability to silently open doors by walking into them.

• Fixed Student Shuffle students not opening doors as they pass through them (There may currently still be some exceptions however).

• Fixed an issue where, if a Student Shuffle line was overlapping and moving in opposite directions through a cell where a portal needed to be created, it would create an endless loop of teleporting entities back and forth between the two portals.

• Fixed a bug that caused Arts and Crafters' timer that determines how long you have looked at him to count up even when not all notebooks have been collected. This could cause an issue where the value would already be built up before collecting the last notebook which would cause him to become angry at the player much more quickly than intended.

• Fixed a bug that caused the title theme to not play when changing music volume from the main menu.

• Fixed an issue where saving and quitting from the pause menu in the pit stop while in explorer mode would result in the game being saved and, when loaded, start the saved game in normal mode.

• Fixed a bug where saving and quitting through the pause menu after clearing a level in normal mode after losing a few power tubes would not refill the power tubes as intended.

• Fixed a bug where Playtime would turn around when losing sight of the player even when they have the Faculty Nametag status.

• Fixed an issue where Arts and Crafters could appear in non-hall rooms, such as even spawn rooms, under certain conditions.

• Fixed event spawner rooms not being marked off limits. This will prevent certain issues, such as whirlpools appearing inside of them, from occurring.

• Fixed a bug where clicking the packet-o-matic during a screen transition would open the sticker screen while not freezing the game, allowing the player to move with the screen open.

• Fixed a bug which caused the last elevator map icon in a level with multiple elevators to turn white instead of remaining green once all the other elevators in the levels had been reached.

• Changed the seed of the randomized elements in the tutorial as a water fountain was generating on top of a poster.

• The ceilings of cafeterias are now blocked, which should fix floating vent exits spawning in cafeterias.

• Fixed the wormhole room lockdown doors not correctly displaying their open/closed state on the map.

• Fixed a level generation error which would occur when the generator would attempt to place a power lever in a level where there is no room for one.

• Fixed the hanging light cables found in the cafeteria not being affected by fog.

• Fixed light fixtures not being culled.

• Fixed the cords holding cranes not being affected by fog.

• Fixed a bug that would sometimes cause classroom exterior signs to not generate in pre-made levels.

• Fixed a bug which would cause the camera to face a different direction for a single frame when jump rope started.

• Fixed a bug where using the teleporter item on the first frame the player can control the game would allow them to skip Baldi's countdown. To prevent this, items can no longer be used on the first frame of gameplay.

• Fixed the grappling hook's pulling speed not being affected by the environment time scale.

• Fixed a bug that allowed you to keep an extra inventory slot selected after losing it when losing a Backpack sticker in endless mode.

Known Issues

• The Grapple Challenge is completely broken. Oops. Oh no... Anyways It'll be fixed when the next update releases.

• NPCs occasionally getting stuck against walls

• NPCs can collide between solid surfaces.

• A frame perfect pause right before the next level begins loading allows the pause menu to be on-screen while the loading takes place.

• Since The Test ignores the environment time scale, it can explode even during time scale changes that should affect it, such as when the environment freezes while flipping during Gravity Chaos

• In the laboratory level type, class rooms that appear to be in one zone sometimes actually count for another zone.

• Sticker tutorial voice lines sound different from the others.

• Quickly Pausing/Unpausing can result in the game not rendering while unpaused (Also applies to the Packet-O-Matic)

• Whirlpools can teleport entities to the inside of hallway pillars

• Completing an activity in a room attached to a locked room will attempt to unlock the locked room doors.

• Placing an alarm clock in a doorway prevents the door from being clicked

• Captions are more likely to stack on top of each other and become hard to read due to the new sound propagation system.

• Mrs. Pomp's map time is oddly placed in odd shaped rooms.

• Seeds show in pre-made map elevators.

• Held sprites (Such as when holding a balloon) use the lighting of OOB when held against a wall.

• CoreGameManager sounds stack and then play all at the same time when the environment is frozen.

• Maps from saved sessions are bugged when updating from an older version with different level generation.

• PotT doesn't open/close doors while fleeing from the tape.

• Opening the advanced map while inside the locker causes visual issues.

• Invalid Portal Poster sound doesn't always play when attempting to place a Portal Poster.

• Entity lighting and visibility constantly fluctuates based on the below cells while traveling though vents.

• Using the Hourglass sticker in explorer mode causes the incorrect time limit to appear.

• Entities can occasionally be seen clipping through the walls of vents due to the way they can crisscross

• Beans will repeatedly run back and forth if he sees the player but there is an obstacle between them requiring him to move away around a corner to try and approach them

• One-way doors that fail to generate and revert to swinging doors still keep one-way icon on map

• Pressing opposite directions in advanced map causes slow movement.

• Arts and Crafters' echoes don't always match Crafters' orientation during Gravity Chaos.

• On some screen resolutions, the elevator screen has gaps that can be seen through.

• Lockdown doors near spawn can be seen snapping to the open position when game starts.

• Extra stamina is still lost while running in the playground

• MIDI player has an issue where, if music is played and then paused on the same frame, it will not play when unpaused.

• Cords holding cranes will disappear in darkness while the cranes themselves do not.

• Beans does not have a cooldown after getting hit with his own gum.

• Cloudy Copter's wind is blocked by conveyor belts moving the opposite direction

• Gum's splat sound effect can be cut off if it's removed before it's finished playing.

• If an entity gets squished while gum is stuck to it, it won't render properly.

Hey everyone!

While I've been hard at work on super secret 1.0 specific stuff, I found some time to release another small update for the early access. The focus of 0.14.3 is primarily to rework Student Shuffle as that event was problematic for numerous reasons. Aside from being way too chaotic (Which was, admittedly, pretty funny!) it was also horribly optimized and so it negatively impacted performance.

In 0.14.3, Student Shuffle now spawns one line of students instead of multiple. However this one line is really long, so it will still cover a lot of the map! In order to improve performance, I've also changed it so that each group of students is no longer an entity, except for the leader. They have been simplified as much as possible. Rather than relying on collision to determine how entities get pushed around by the students, the event now uses entity positions and checks that against the path the students are taking. Because of this, Student Shuffle is now entirely grid based. Audio is now also propagated along the path with a single audio source, rather than before when each group of students had its own audio source!

I've also made some improvements to the Techno Boots. Now, the Techno Boots will keep any forces that are pushing you in the direction you are trying to move and only ignore opposing forces (All forces will be ignored if you are not trying to move). This makes them a far more versatile item and fixes issues such as not being able to use the grappling hook while the boots are on!

Alongside those two changes are other misc. quality of life improvements. You can view the full changelog below!

Changelog

Additions

• Added special curtain doors that can be used by random events to spawn entities into levels. Now, Balders and students from Student Shuffle will enter and exit the level as needed through these instead of through the elevators. This helps prevent unfair scenarios where exiting a level is made extra difficult due to these entities so frequently being around elevators.

Changes

• Reworked Student Shuffle

  • Instead of many small lines of students spawning into the level, one big line spawns for the duration of the event.

  • There is now a leading group of students that carries a "follow me" flag. The line will follow this entity as it wanders through the level.

  • The line's pathing is entirely grid based. This allows for the pushing effect of the students to be grid based as well. This way, collision does not need to be used, which significantly improves performance during the event.

  • The crowd chatter noise is now handled by one audio source propagated through the entire line. This also helps improve performance during the event.

  • If the line wraps around back onto itself, only the students moving in the most relevant direction will be visible.

  • If the line is somehow broken (A door closing, the leader getting teleported, etc.), the students will form a portal bridging the gap. Any entities pulled into these portals will be teleported to the other side.

• Safe rooms now always use the hanging light instead of the level's default light.

• Quitting through the pause menu while in the pit stop will now save and quit your game.

• Entities now display a fast, bouncing animation when they are about to become unsquished.

• Adjusted the Techno Boots so that they only resist opposing forces. They will now maintain forces that are pushing the player in the same direction they are trying to move. They will ignore all forces if the player is not trying to move.

Fixes

• Made some major performance improvements to the new audio system introduced in the previous update.

• Fixed the pay phone not using propagated audio.

• Fixed an issue that would cause multi-posters to generate incorrectly in levels, such that portions of them were not actually generated.

Known Issues

• NPCs occasionally getting stuck against walls

• NPCs can collide between solid surfaces.

• In the laboratory level type, class rooms that appear to be in one zone sometimes actually count for another zone.

• Sticker tutorial voice lines sound different from the others.

• Quickly Pausing/Unpausing can result in the game not rendering while unpaused (Also applies to the Packet-O-Matic)

• Whirlpools can teleport entities to the inside of hallway pillars

• Vents that exit in cafeterias are floating due to the raised ceilings.

• Completing an activity in a room attached to a locked room will attempt to unlock the locked room doors.

• Placing an alarm clock in a doorway prevents the door from being clicked

• Captions are more likely to stack on top of each other and become hard to read due to the new sound propagation system.

• Mrs. Pomp's map time is oddly placed in odd shaped rooms.

• Seeds show in pre-made map elevators.

• Held sprites (Such as when holding a balloon) use the lighting of OOB when held against a wall.

• CoreGameManager sounds stack and then play all at the same time when the environment is frozen.

• Maps from saved sessions are bugged when updating from an older version with different level generation.

• PotT doesn't open/close doors while fleeing from the tape.

• Opening the advanced map while inside the locker causes visual issues.

• Invalid Portal Poster sound doesn't always play when attempting to place a Portal Poster.

• Entity lighting and visibility constantly fluctuates based on the below cells while traveling though vents.

• Using the Hourglass sticker in explorer mode causes the incorrect time limit to appear.

• Entities can occasionally be seen clipping through the walls of vents due to the way they can crisscross

• Beans will repeatedly run back and forth if he sees the player but there is an obstacle between them requiring him to move away around a corner to try and approach them

• One-way doors that fail to generate and revert to swinging doors still keep one-way icon on map

• Pressing opposite directions in advanced map causes slow movement.

• Arts and Crafters' echoes don't always match Crafters' orientation during Gravity Chaos.

• On some screen resolutions, the elevator screen has gaps that can be seen through.

• Lockdown doors near spawn can be seen snapping to the open position when game starts.

• If an entity gets squished while gum is stuck to it, it won't render properly.

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Hey everyone!

I'm happy to announce that version 0.14.2 of Baldi's Basics Plus is available now! This is another quality of life update, with the most notable change being that control maps are now saved per-save file, instead of all save files sharing one. This fix was long overdue, but I finally got around to it!

As mentioned in a post from a few days ago, these changes mean that control maps from previous versions of the game will not carry over, so please be sure to make a note of or screenshot your current controls so that you can easily reassign them to your liking after updating.

I also mentioned in that post that I had plans to change the default control settings for controllers. However, after looking over the feedback on my proposed defaults, I've decided to hold off for a bit to try and find something better. All default controls will remain the same in 0.14.2 as they were in previous versions.

Aside from that change, there are a handful of other improvements and bug fixes. Check out the full changelog below:

Changelog

Additions

• Added a grid to the advanced map. This should make it easier to explore the advanced map when viewing unexplored portions of the level.

Changes

• Cloudy Copter's wind now stretches to cover the entire navigable length of whatever the starting position is. Open areas no longer cut off the wind for example.

  • An exception to this is when that path extends into other rooms. The wind will not pass through a door into a classroom for example.

• Cloudy Copter's wind is now affected by game elements that block navigation and it is updated accordingly while active. For example, a closed lockdown door will block wind, and opening it will allow that wind through.

• Updated the school rules poster to include the "no looking in other people's lockers" rule.

• Increased the frequency at which Playtime will randomly speak while wandering.

• The quick map is now mirrored when the player is upside down. This makes it rotate with the camera as expected and should allow for easier navigation while flipped.

• Control maps are now saved per-save file instead of being shared across all files.

• Changed all asterisks (*) used in the captions to enclosing brackets (\[]) to better align with captioning standards.

• Improved the safe room assets. There is now a rug object covering the floor and the floor now uses a proper texture.

Technical

• Refactored audio playback to interface with AudioSources through an AudioSourceManager. This AudioSourceManager handles the creation and control of AudioSources for different audio categories (Sound effects, voices and music) for each AudioManager.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that caused power cables to not buzz when they default to on.

• Fixed an oversight that allowed the YTP multiplier sticker to work while in The Pit Stop or on a field trip.

• Fixed a bug that allowed power breakers to generate on the same cell as standard lights. This caused a conflict with the light color when power went out.

• Fixed an issue where Cloudy Copter's wind could appear without Cloudy Copter being present if he was unable to find a valid path to his targeted destination.

• Fixed the player being able to rotate themselves while in the locker (Allowing the player to exit the locker facing a different direction than they entered it).

• Fixed an issue with the YTP display HUD animation where it would snap into different positions if the flag determining its position was rapidly changed.

• Fixed Arts & Crafters being able to interact with the environment while spinning around the player.

• Fixed a bug that caused Playtime to not pursue the player if she spotted them while a voice clip was playing.

• Fixed a minor coding oversight which resulted in certain values for structure generation not being accurate to what was actually generated. This may result in minor level generation differences.

• Fixed a bug that caused Dr. Reflex to get his hammer even if not inside the clinic if he couldn't find a valid path to the clinic.

• Fixed an issue where, when one AudioManager attempted to play two or more sounds in different sound categories at once, the volume would change to match the last played sound. This resulted in conflicts with volume settings.

Known Issues

• NPCs occasionally getting stuck against walls

• NPCs can collide between solid surfaces.

• In the laboratory level type, class rooms that appear to be in one zone sometimes actually count for another zone.

• Sticker tutorial voice lines sound different from the others.

• Quickly Pausing/Unpausing can result in the game not rendering while unpaused (Also applies to the Packet-O-Matic)

• Whirlpools can teleport entities to the inside of hallway pillars

• Vents that exit in cafeterias are floating due to the raised ceilings.

• Completing an activity in a room attached to a locked room will attempt to unlock the locked room doors.

• There is no indication for when entities are about to become unsquished

• Placing an alarm clock in a doorway prevents the door from being clicked

• Captions are more likely to stack on top of each other and become hard to read due to the new sound propagation system.

• Mrs. Pomp's map time is oddly placed in odd shaped rooms.

• Seeds show in pre-made map elevators.

• Held sprites (Such as when holding a balloon) use the lighting of OOB when held against a wall.

• CoreGameManager sounds stack and then play all at the same time when the environment is frozen.

• Maps from saved sessions are bugged when updating from an older version with different level generation.

• PotT doesn't open/close doors while fleeing from the tape.

• Opening the advanced map while inside the locker causes visual issues.

• Invalid Portal Poster sound doesn't always play when attempting to place a Portal Poster.

• Entity lighting and visibility constantly fluctuates based on the below cells while traveling though vents.

• Using the Hourglass sticker in explorer mode causes the incorrect time limit to appear.

• Multi-poster posters can spawn in places where they are not completed or have gaps.

• Entities can occasionally be seen clipping through the walls of vents due to the way they can crisscross

• Beans will repeatedly run back and forth if he sees the player but there is an obstacle between them requiring him to move away around a corner to try and approach them

• One-way doors that fail to generate and revert to swinging doors still keep one-way icon on map

• Pressing opposite directions in advanced map causes slow movement.

• Arts and Crafters' echoes don't always match Crafters' orientation during Gravity Chaos.

• On some screen resolutions, the elevator screen has gaps that can be seen through.

• Lockdown doors near spawn can be seen snapping to the open position when game starts.

• If an entity gets squished while gum is stuck to it, it won't render properly.

Hey everyone!

I've got a quick announcement concerning the release of Baldi's Basics Plus version 0.14.2, which will be releasing soon (Most likely on Monday, April 20)! Among other things, this update will change the way control maps are saved so that they can be saved per-save file, instead of all files having to share the same control map. Because of this change, control maps saved from the previous versions of the game will not be carried over (With the exception of custom Steam Input maps; See below).

In order to make the transition to the new system as smooth as possible, I recommend taking a moment to write down or screenshot your current controls so that you can more easily re-assign them to be what you are used to when 0.14.2 releases.

Alongside this change the default control scheme for controllers may change as well, so even if you are currently using the default control scheme for a controller, I still recommend taking note of the current controls so you can easily re-assign those to a scheme you are used to.

Steam Input

If you are using controllers through the Steam Input API (You can determine if you are using the Steam Input API by opening the game and checking the controls screen in options for the "Open Steam Control Mapper" button. If it's visible, that means you are using the Steam Input API), these changes will have no impact on how that system works or on your custom control maps. However, I do plan on updating the default Steam Input control maps in the near future (Not necessarily when 0.14.2 releases). This will be done primarily to add the option to assign buttons for selecting inventory slots 6-9 (When available via stickers), however I am also planning on revising the default control schemes. Because of this, if you are currently using an unmodified official layout for Baldi's Basics Plus, I recommend saving a copy of that control layout so that it will not be changed when I update the official layouts.

I'm not entirely sure what will happen when the official layouts are updated. My assumption is that existing users currently using those layouts will immediately receive the updated versions. I want to be on the safe side here, so that's why I'm recommending people make copies of the default layouts if they are using them and they want to continue using them.

Conclusion

That's all I wanted to share! 0.14.2 will bring a handful of other QOL changes to the game, but I wanted to let you all know about the controls in advance to lessen the inconvenience of the control maps resetting. Please prepare accordingly, and thanks for understanding!

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Hello everyone! I'm happy to announce that version 0.14.1 is available now! This update brings a few more quality of life improvements to the game, including a complete overhaul to the central room in the factory levels. Check it out, I'm sure the changes will grab your attention!

In other news, a Beans Plushie campaign from Makeship was launched a few weeks ago! This plushie was designed with input from Beans' creator, Padre Snowmizzle, and looks great. The campaign is currently scheduled to end on March 28, so be sure to check it out here before then if you want one.

Now onto the changelog!

Changelog

Changes

• Replaced the conveyor belt room in the factory with a new crane room.

  • Several cranes randomly move around in this room. Whenever one moves over an entity, it will pick up the entity and then drop it onto one of the available output conveyor belts.

  • The conveyor belt flaps are now placed at the ends of the output conveyor belt instead of at the entrances of the central room in the factory.

  • The buttons that toggle conveyor belt directions are now found inside the crane room next to the conveyor belt output entrances instead of at the ends of the output conveyor belts.

• The cafeteria now has a raised ceiling.

• The lightbulb testing room now has unique on and off light sprites.

• Chalkes' transparency is now rendered via dithering instead of the sprite renderer's color alpha.

• Updated the Principal of the Thing's character poster to reflect his updated sprite.

• Updated a Kickstarter backer's name in the credits.

Technical

• Lights can now be assigned separate on and off sprites.

• Fixed an oversight with singletons being destroyed. A singleton being destroyed would maintain an instance of the current instance class in memory, even if the game object ceased to exist. Now, if a singleton's game object is destroyed, the singleton instance variable will be set to null.

• Windows now have controllable properties for being breakable and for allowing audio to pass through them.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where, if the sticker opening animation was stopped before finishing, it would resume where it left off the next time it played, displaying stickers collected from a previous pack instead of the newly opened pack.

• Fixed an issue where conveyor belts didn't mark the floor of the cell they were generated on as covered. This allowed objects such as lockers to generate on top of them.

• Corrected an issue with The Test where it would be sent to the EntityBuffer layer when disabled instead of the disabled layer.

• Fixed an issue where lights could generate above exit signs.

Known Issues

• The new crane sound effects are missing captions.

• AudioManagers playing multiple sounds in different mixer groups at once causes volume conflicts.

• NPCs occasionally getting stuck against walls

• NPCs can collide between solid surfaces.

• Key Bindings aren't saved per user

• In the laboratory level type, class rooms that appear to be in one zone sometimes actually count for another zone.

• YTP Multiplier sticker can be used on field trips minigames

• Sticker tutorial voice lines sound different from the others.

• Power lever cables that have defaulted to on do not always buzz.

• Quickly Pausing/Unpausing can result in the game not rendering while unpaused (Also applies to the Packet-O-Matic)

• Whirlpools can teleport entities to the inside of hallway pillars

• If a breaker switch exists on the same cell as a normal light, it will not light green during a power outage.

• Dr. Reflex will get his hammer instantly if he cannot find a path to his clinic.

• Completing an activity in a room attached to a locked room will attempt to unlock the locked room doors.

• Cloudy Copter's wind can pass through solid objects like lockdown doors

• There is no indication for when entities are about to become unsquished

• Cloudy Copter can blow wind from a location he is not at if he cannot find a path to that spot

• Placing an alarm clock in a doorway prevents the door from being clicked

• Captions are more likely to stack on top of each other and become hard to read due to the new sound propagation system.

• Mrs. Pomp's map time is oddly placed in odd shaped rooms.

• Seeds show in pre-made map elevators.

• Held sprites (Such as when holding a balloon) use the lighting of OOB when held against a wall.

• CoreGameManager sounds stack and then play all at the same time when the environment is frozen.

• Maps from saved sessions are bugged when updating from an older version with different level generation.

• PotT doesn't open/close doors while fleeing from the tape.

• The player camera can rotate while inside the locker

• Opening the advanced map while inside the locker causes visual issues.

• Invalid Portal Poster sound doesn't always play when attempting to place a Portal Poster.

• Entity lighting and visibility constantly fluctuates based on the below cells while traveling though vents.

• Using the Hourglass sticker in explorer mode causes the incorrect time limit to appear.

• Multi-poster posters can spawn in places where they are not completed or have gaps.

• YTP display snaps when quickly toggling it's raised state by going in and out of Johnny's store.

• Entities can occasionally be seen clipping through the walls of vents due to the way they can crisscross

• The locker rule is not listed on the school rules poster.

• Beans will repeatedly run back and forth if he sees the player but there is an obstacle between them requiring him to move away around a corner to try and approach them

• One-way doors that fail to generate and revert to swinging doors still keep one-way icon on map

• Pressing opposite directions in advanced map causes slow movement.

• Arts and Crafters' echoes don't always match Crafters' orientation during Gravity Chaos.

• On some screen resolutions, the elevator screen has gaps that can be seen through.

• Lockdown doors near spawn can be seen snapping to the open position when game starts.

• If an entity gets squished while gum is stuck to it, it won't render properly.

Hello everyone!

I'm happy to announce that Baldi's Basics Plus version 0.14 is now available to download! This update brings many quality of life improvements, balance changes and bug fixes to the game. As discussed in previous status updates, this will likely be the last major update for the foreseeable future as I shift my focus to 1.0 specific development. In the meantime however, I plan on releasing several 0.14 sub-versions with more minor improvements in order to make sure the early access version plays as well as possible during the wait for the next major update!

The full changelog can be viewed below, but there is one really big new change that I want to point out. I significantly improved the code that controls elevators in levels, and while doing so I took the opportunity to make a mechanical change as well. You now have to press a button inside the elevator to finish a level! Don't forget it!

This update also adds signs above classroom doors that let you know what activity is inside and if a bonus question is available, a chalkboard in the Pitstop that tells you what the next level type is, and new window textures alongside a new dithered transparency effect. Oh, and the Principal of the Thing has had a small sprite rework!

Notable balance changes include making it so that the Match Machine is completed after three matches instead of requiring all four, adding a breaker reset button that lowers all raised levers to maintenance levels and setting Baldi's max speed on level 4 to be slightly faster than his max speed on level 3 (Previously, it was lower).

There are also lots of bug fixes, big and small! The entire changelog can be viewed below. As always, thank you very much for the support!

Changelog

Additions

• Added a button to Maintenance levels that resets the entire circuit, lowering all raised power levers.

• Added a chalkboard to the Pitstop which displays what the next level type will be.

• Added a new shader effect which renders alpha levels in sprites and textures via dithering.

• Added a new green window which is used for classrooms (Post pre-release).

• Added exterior signs to classrooms which show what the activity inside the classroom will be.

  • "BONUS" hanging neon signs will appear under these when a bonus question is available.

Changes

• Elevators now have a button inside. This button must be pressed while inside the elevator in order to finish a level.

  • It lights up when the elevator is open and and ready for exiting the level (Even if it will go out of order when approached).

  • Pressing the button counts as reaching the elevator and will set the elevator to the out of order state if the player still has to reach more out of order elevators before they can exit.

• Elevators now switch to an out of order state during power outages in the maintenance level type. When power is restored, the elevators will be restored to their previous state.

• The elevator screen no longer has buttons for skipping the Pitstop, continuing or starting a level. The elevator screen now automatically starts the loaded level once it's ready.

  • If you want to skip the Pitstop, simply turn around and press the button inside the elevator and you'll be sent to the next level!

• Match Machines now only require three matches to be made instead of four. Once three matches have been made, the remaining pair will automatically reveal itself.

• Reduced the max distances that power levers can generate from their respective classrooms.

• Adjusted Baldi's speed curve on level four so that his speed once all notebooks have been collected (Assuming no activities have been failed) is slightly faster than it is on level three.

• The elevator music now continues to play in the Pitstop after the elevator screen closes.

• Adjusted the size of the camping Baldi sprite to be more consistent with Baldi's other sprites.

• Removed the decorative plants from the Pitstop elevator.

• Added water fountains to all of the level 1 classrooms.

• Changed several sprites and textures to use the dithered transparency shader effect.

• Dithered several previously un-dithered sprites and textures.

• Changed the old "BONUS QUESTION" signs to the hanging neon "BONUS" sign.

After pre-release

Changes marked with "*" are specific to content found in the pre-release.

• *The wood window has been re-added and updated and is now used for offices and faculty only rooms.

• Class rooms can now rarely have windows. These use the new green window.

• Updated the copyright year to "2026".

• Gave Principal of the Thing a new idle sprite with his hand down. The old sprite is now only used when he is aggroed.

  • Both sprites have received improved color on the bow tie.

• *Increased the size of the trigger used to determine if the player is inside an elevator or not.

• Reworked more sprites and textures to use the dithered transparency shader effect.

• Exiting a level or opening the sticker screen will not stop the sticker opening animation.

• *Changed the word "level" to "floor" on the chalk board that displays the next level type.

Technical

• Overhauled the systems that managed game elevators. They can now be switched between different states more freely as a result.

• Playing a MIDI music track that is already playing no longer causes the track to restart.

• Open area calculations will now group all cells in a non-hall room together, however it will not mark non-open cells as such when doing so. This fixes navigation issues with more complex room layouts.

  • Some cells can be marked to be excluded from room groups in order to prevent unwanted cells (Such as out of bounds cells) from being included.

Bug Fixes

Potential bug fixes are for issues that I was not able to test thoroughly, but that I attempted to fix regardless. These issues may still persist.

• Fixed a bug where the elevator triggers blocked the player click raycast.

• (Potentially) Fixed a bug that caused the Match Machine shaft to drift out of position over time.

• Fixed a bug that caused NPCs to not properly navigate rooms with multiple open areas or alcoves.

• Fixed a bug where, when an NPC wandered through an open area and the selected exit point could be reached more efficiently by traveling outside the area rather than through it, the NPC would immediately turn around and take the more efficient route outside the area.

• Fixed a bug where, when the level generator attempted to place a faculty only door at a specific location, but couldn't due to the possibility of that location creating a softlock, it would leave behind a navigation block. This would create a spot in the level that NPCs would not be able to navigate through even though nothing was generated there.

• Fixed a bug which caused the player's position relative to a teleporter to not be properly maintained when being teleported to the destination teleporter.

• Fixed a bug where an entity being teleported outside of a teleporter by Arts & Crafters or some other outside force after entering an active teleporter, but before being teleported, would result in the teleporter sending the entity to an incorrect location. Now, if the entity is removed from the teleporter before the teleportation occurs, the entity will immediately regain control and not be teleported.

• Fixed a bug that would cause a vent controller to encounter an error when an entity exited a vent.

• Fixed the "About" button on the main menu being one pixel too low.

• Fixed a bug that caused Math Machines to stop their reset timers in endless mode once their bonus questions were activated.

• (Potentially) Fixed a bug that would cause some balloons in Balloon Buster to not be counted by the activity after it had been reset while a bonus question was still available (Only possible in Endless Mode).

After pre-release

Fixes marked with "*" are specific to issues found in the pre-release.

• Fixed the "Play" and "Options" buttons on the main menu being one pixel too low.

• Fixed the version number hotspot on the title screen not being transparent.

• *Fixed the exit sign sprite being invisible.

• *Fixed activities not being initialized, and thus their exterior signs not generating, in premade levels.

• *Fixed the camping field trip not loading when accessed through the main menu.

• *Fixed the Pick-Quick-Nic tutorial not having music.

• Fixed the Playground ambience not being affected by volume settings.

• *Fixed a bug that caused NPCs to get stuck when wandering into the wormhole room.

• Fixed a bug that caused Beans' spitting animation to not play properly.

• *Fixed the circuit reset button revealing all the power controlled rooms on the map.

• *Fixed a bug that prevented NPCs from wandering into vents.

• *Fixed a bug that caused the Principal of the Thing to stand still while trapped in the small room he spawns in in the tutorial.

• *Fixed the pillar special hall formation not generating correctly.

• Fixed a bug that caused the player's actual guilt time when escaping detention to not be accurately reflected by the status effect gauge.

• Fixed a bug where First Prize's pushing speed would not take movement modifiers into account.

• (Potentially) Fixed a bug where Arts & Crafters could be stuck with a movement modifier from a crowd entity even after Student Shuffle ended.

• Fixed an issue where the storage locker could not be opened from far away with super stretchy gloves.

  • When opened from a large distance, the player will not be marked guilty for looking in other people's lockers.

• Fixed a bug where navigation data would not be updated when It's a Bully was moved somehow (Such as by a whirlpool). If he is moved, his old location will now be unblocked, and his new location will be blocked.

• Fixed an issue that caused the bell sound to play twice at the exact same time (Resulting in it being slightly louder) when purchasing a map or glue stick.

• Fixed a caption error where a lower-case letter was used to start a sentence.

• Fixed a bug where the bus would remain audible if it was audible at the moment it disappeared.

• Fixed a bug that could cause sticker descriptions to only appear for a single frame after placing one.

• Fixed a bug where the tape player could encounter an error upon finishing if the player gave a student their lost item, causing them to de-spawn, while the sound was playing.

• *Fixed a bug where some bonus question neon signs did not render with the correct lighting.

Known issues

• AudioManagers playing multiple sounds in different mixer groups at once causes volume conflicts.

• NPCs occasionally getting stuck against walls

• The conveyor belt room sometimes generates with a missing exit point.

• NPCs can collide between solid surfaces.

• Key Bindings aren't saved per user

• In the laboratory level type, class rooms that appear to be in one zone sometimes actually count for another zone.

• YTP Multiplier sticker can be used on field trips minigames

• Sticker tutorial voice lines sound different from the others.

• Power lever cables that have defaulted to on do not always buzz.

• Quickly Pausing/Unpausing can result in the game not rendering while unpaused (Also applies to the Packet-O-Matic)

• Whirlpools can teleport entities to the inside of hallway pillars

• If a breaker switch exists on the same cell as a normal light, it will not light green during a power outage.

• Dr. Reflex will get his hammer instantly if he cannot find a path to his clinic.

• Completing an activity in a room attached to a locked room will attempt to unlock the locked room doors.

• Cloudy Copter's wind can pass through solid objects like lockdown doors

• There is no indication for when entities are about to become unsquished

• Cloudy Copter can blow wind from a location he is not at if he cannot find a path to that spot

• Placing an alarm clock in a doorway prevents the door from being clicked

• Captions are more likely to stack on top of each other and become hard to read due to the new sound propagation system.

• Mrs. Pomp's map time is oddly placed in odd shaped rooms.

• Seeds show in pre-made map elevators.

• Held sprites (Such as when holding a balloon) use the lighting of OOB when held against a wall.

• CoreGameManager sounds stack and then play all at the same time when the environment is frozen.

• Maps from saved sessions are bugged when updating from an older version with different level generation.

• PotT doesn't open/close doors while fleeing from the tape.

• The player camera can rotate while inside the locker

• Opening the advanced map while inside the locker causes visual issues.

• Invalid Portal Poster sound doesn't always play when attempting to place a Portal Poster.

• Entity lighting and visibility constantly fluctuates based on the below cells while traveling though vents.

• Using the Hourglass sticker in explorer mode causes the incorrect time limit to appear.

• Multi-poster posters can spawn in places where they are not completed or have gaps.

• Entities can occasionally be seen clipping through the walls of vents due to the way they can crisscross

• The locker rule is not listed on the school rules poster.

• Beans will repeatedly run back and forth if he sees the player but there is an obstacle between them requiring him to move away around a corner to try and approach them

• One-way doors that fail to generate and revert to swinging doors still keep one-way icon on map

• Pressing opposite directions in advanced map causes slow movement.

• Arts and Crafters' echoes don't always match Crafters' orientation during Gravity Chaos.

• On some screen resolutions, the elevator screen has gaps that can be seen through.

• Lockdown doors near spawn can be seen snapping to the open position when game starts.

Hey everyone!

Development Update!

Now, let's talk about 0.14.

Version 0.14 Status Update

• Adding a display in the Pitstop that will show what the next level type will be

• Reducing the max distance that power levers can generate from their respective classrooms and adding a circuit reset button that will lower all raised power levers in a level

• Fixing NPC navigation in rooms that aren't one large open area

• Adding signs to the exterior of classroom doors that will display the activity type and when a bonus question is available

• Making it possible to click through open doors; They will still be able to be held open by clicking on the hinge

• Changing it so that Match Machines only require three matches to be made to be completed, since at that point the last match cannot be failed anyways

• Reworking elevator programming to not be terrible so it is easier to work with in the future

• Improving the behavior of the conveyor belt room

Conclusion

Merry Christmas and happy holidays everyone!

I'm happy to announce that Baldi's Basics Plus version 0.13.1 is available now! This is a small patch to address several issues with stickers as they launched in version 0.13, as well as to fix a handful of bugs. The biggest changes include improvements to the sticker inventory and stickers only lasting for five notebooks in endless mode. I also added some info on stickers to the tutorial!

Changelog

Additions

• The tutorial now features info on how stickers work.

Changes

• Collected stickers are now displayed in two columns instead of one.

• Applied stickers can now be viewed any time during a game through the map menu. However, stickers can still only be modified with the Packet-O-Matic.

• Stickers now stack when there are multiple of the same sticker. A number is displayed next to stacked stickers to show how many of that sticker you currently have.

• In endless mode, stickers will only last for five notebooks once applied. The number of notebooks remaining for an applied sticker will be displayed next to it.

• The students now have a max YTP reward value of 200.

Bug Fixes

• Corrected a typo where the glue stick was mistakenly referred to as super glue in the about screen.

• Fixed a bug that would cause a room group to stop generating prematurely if an attempt was made to place a room by connecting it to another room when no valid spawn positions existed. Now if this occurs the generator will try to place the room again, this time using hallway spawn points, instead of giving up.

• Fixed a bug that would cause a locked room to generate without a game lock while still locking the doors if the key failed to be spawned. Now, if a key fails to generate, the room will not be locked.

• Fixed the door to the item room in the tutorial unlocking before collecting the notebook when correctly completing the Math Machine, which enabled a potential softlock.

• Fixed a bug that caused Hide & Seek settings to apply to other modes in some scenarios.

• Fixed Dr. Reflex encountering an error if an entity he is squishing despawns.

• Implemented a fix for an issue that could cause the pit stop to be skipped or the game to soft lock if Baldi caught the player on the same frame they entered the elevator. There is still some odd behavior when this occurs, but nothing game breaking.

• Fixed a bug that caused the Distance Bonus sticker to award -5 YTPs if a valid navigable path to Baldi could not be made. Now if this happens, the game will fallback to using the const distance multiplied by 2. If there is no valid const path either, the distance will default to 100 for an award of 500 YTPs.

• Fixed the alarm clock entity not matching the player's status effects when used.

• Removed the space between "12" and ".5" in the ear muffs sticker description (This was originally done on purpose for clarity in certain display resolutions).

• Fixed a misplaced item spawn point in Room_Class_BalloonBuster_2.

• Fixed floating chairs in Room_Class_BalloonBuster_0.

• Fixed the glue stick price tag not changing to SOLD when buying the glue stick.

Technical

• Added the ability to control the speed of an entity animator.

• Baldi will now only announce that all notebooks have been collected once if more notebooks than the total in a level is collected.

• Fixed a programming error where entity height changed via an entity overrider was updated before the overrider marked itself as overriding height, resulting in height not properly updating the first time an overrider's height was set. This did not result in any notable issues in unmodified versions of the game.

Known Issues

The known issues list was previously managed separately from what was listed in my bug tracking software. Starting now, this list will be copied from my bug tracker to improve the consistency of the public known issues list. Note that because of this, some of the issues listed here are still being evaluated based on reports and as a result some bug descriptions may not be 100% accurate.

• Belt room can generate with a missing exit point
• Baldi on level 4 is slower at all notebooks than he is on level 3.
• If the player is displaced after activating a lab teleporter, but before it teleports them, the player will end up at an incorrect location.
• NPCs do not navigate rooms with multiple open areas or no open areas correctly.
• Detention and escaping guilt timers are not consistent
• Balloon Buster does not reset properly when a notebook respawns while an unanswered bonus question is available.
• Entering the elevator on the same frame as opening the packet-o-matic results in the HUD not rendering
• If the player gets out of the wormhole room while Mrs. Pomp tries to drag the player around, they will get stuck until she interacts with the player again.
• NPCs will sometimes travel through walls to repeatedly enter ventilation
• First Prize's push speed is not modified by its modified speed
• Arts and Crafters can get stuck with forces from student shuffle
• NPCs can collide between solid surfaces.
• Math Machine Balloons can get stuck behind the diagonal math machine
• AudioManagers playing multiple sounds in different mixer groups at once causes volume conflicts.
• NPCs occasionally getting stuck against walls
• Game can crash in endless if you wait for hours apparently.
• The storage locker cannot be opened from far away with reach extensions due to the player distance.
• YTP Multiplier sticker can be used on field trips minigames (May or may not be an issue)
• Dr. Reflex can navigate through It's A Bully with opposite orientation while other NPCs can't
• Cables that have defaulted to on do not always buzz.
• Quickly Pausing/Unpausing can result in the game not rendering while unpaused (Also applies to the Packet-O-Matic)
• OneWay doors that get switched to regular swinging doors during level generation still maintain a one-way door appearance on the map.
• Whirlpools can teleport entities to the inside of hallway pillars
• Completing an activity in a room attached to a locked room will attempt to unlock the locked room doors.
• Sticker tutorial voice lines sound different from the others.
• If the last solved math machine is not in the room the last notebook is collected in, balloons will respawn in that room.
• Principal, under some circumstances, can maintain his fast speed after using the principal whistle
• Crafters can teleport players into objects if the calculated path passes through a room.
• NPCs will occasionally end up wandering into an area they should be fleeing from
• NPCs behave weirdly when trying to enter and navigate through a room where the path is shorter between the entrance and exit outside the room than it is inside.
• If Bully gets moved by a whirlpool or some other outside force, the NavBin isn't updated.
• Dr. Reflex will get his hammer instantly if he cannot find a path to his clinic.
• Balloons occasionally clip into areas they cannot fit and shake
• One-way swinging doors can generate on top of standard swinging doors
• Cloudy Copter's wind can pass through solid objects like lockdown doors
• Baldi can end the player's game on the same frame he reverts from a safe state, but the sprite will not update in time to reflect that.
• NPCs will occasionally appear to turn-around when entering open areas where a hallway bridges between two different parts of that open area.
• JoyCon gyro controls through still active through Steam Input despite being disabled by user
• There is no indication for when entities are about to become unsquished
• Placing an alarm clock in a doorway prevents the door from being clicked
• Captions are more likely to stack on top of each other and become hard to read due to the new sound propagation system.
• Throwing a 'Nana Peel while time is frozen results in it traveling away from the player but not dropping
• Playtime does not pursue the player while speaking
• Cloudy Copter can blow wind from a location he is not at if he cannot find a path to that spot
• Key Bindings aren't saved per user
• Giving Johnny the bus pass while the bus is still audible results in the audio getting stuck playing.
• The player camera can rotate while inside the locker
• The elevator collider blocks the packet-o-matic from being clicked on
• Entity lighting and visibility constantly fluctuates based on the below cells while traveling though vents.
• Using the Hourglass sticker in explorer mode causes the incorrect time limit to appear.
• Bonus question signs for new activities are not placed correctly.
• Entities can occasionally be seen clipping through the walls of vents due to the way they can crisscross
• Purchase ding sound plays twice when buying the glue stick
• Entering the elevator on the same frame Baldi catches the player skips the lose animation
• Pressing opposite directions in advanced map causes slow movement.
• Crafters echoes don't always match Crafters' orientation during Gravity Chaos.
• Beans' Gum graphical issues on displays thinner than 4:3
• Mrs. Pomp's map time is oddly placed in odd shaped rooms.
• Seeds show in pre-made map elevators.
• Held sprites (Such as when holding a balloon) use the lighting of OOB when held against a wall.
• Mrs. Pomp doesn't wander around class rooms in pre-made maps since there are no entity safe cells set.
• CoreGameManager sounds stack when the environment is frozen.
• Crafters attack loop sound can be timed out by looking at The Test.
• Maps from saved sessions are bugged when updating from an older version with different level generation.
• PotT doesn't open/close doors while fleeing from the tape.
• Chalkles is affected by Gravity Chaos.
• During the flood, hall swinging doors do not open but room swinging doors do.
• Mrs. Pomp can queue up a # minutes left line right as the player enters her class room.
• A one way wall is generated when two elevators spawn next to each other in a certain way.
• Some resolutions show a gap in elevator door.
• Lockdown doors near spawn can be seen snapping to the open position when game starts.
• Opening the advanced map while inside the locker causes visual issues.
• Invalid portal poster sound doesn't always play
• Math Machine texture doesn't revert after it resets in endless mode or for bonus question.
• Multi posters can spawn in places where they are not completed or have gaps.
• A frame of audio plays when closing the challenge map victory screen.
• Baldicator doesn't reset if it is visible when a level reloads.
• The locker rule is not listed on the school rules poster.
• Beans will repeatedly run back and forth if he sees the player but there is an obstacle between them requiring him to move away around a corner to try and approach them
• Doors that have been locked after the flood opened them do not get opened by the floodwaters again
• Arts and Crafters can get sucked into a whirlpool while spinning around the player.

Hello everyone, I hope all who celebrate had a great Thanksgiving!

Baldi's Basics Plus version 0.14

2025 Review

2026 and Beyond

Recently I've started envisioning a pretty solid timeline for how I'd like the rest of development to go, and in order for that timeline to work out I'm going to have to stop doing the regularly scheduled major updates. I certainly don't want to take the steady flow of new content away from you all, but for the sake of finishing the game well I think this is a necessary change.

Have fun trying to figure out what the heck is going on here!

Conclusion

Stickers

What's next?

• The tutorial doesn't cover stickers yet. This will be a high priority for me... Once my voice recovers from a cold I got last week. I can't record new lines sounding like I do at the moment!
• The Packet-O-Matic sprite is outdated considering it isn't used to open packets anymore. That will likely be changed at some point.
• All sticker packs currently look the same. I will look into giving the different types different appearances so they can be differentiated without needing to read the descriptions.
• Stickers can become hard to look through when you have a lot in your inventory. I will look into ways to improve this soon.
• Currently it is not possible to view your applied stickers at any point during the game. This is something I'll add eventually.
• The safe room is still using placeholder textures. These will be improved at some point. For now enjoy the copious amount of funny orange rugs.

Changelog

Additions

• Added stickers
  • Stickers can be purchased via sticker packs in Johnny's store. There are 18 stickers available as of this update.
  • Up to four stickers can be applied to the back of the You Can Think Pad at a time via the Packet-O-Matic, a new device that appears in Johnny's Store and the Pit Stop.
  • Each sticker activates a unique effect when applied.
  • When multiple of the same sticker are applied, their effects accumulate.
  • Applied stickers only last until a level is beaten.
  • Stickers can be made to last as long as the player wants by upgrading slots with the new Glue Stick item.
  • Applied stickers will be lost when replacing them with other stickers.
• Updated the layout and design of Johnny's Store to account for stickers.
• Added new entries into the credits.
• Added diamond YTP pickups worth 250 YTPs. These are available to collect after winning field trip minigames.

Changes

• The time and grade bonuses have been removed in exchange for sticker bonuses. Some stickers can be used to get YTP bonuses at the end of a level.
  • The grade system has been removed.
• Student Shuffle crowds now push entities at 95% of their movement speed instead of 100%.
• Students now start out rewarding 100 YTPs when returning lost items instead of 75.
• (Pre-release 2) Removed the stealth sticker from endless mode due to a crazy powerful exploit it enabled.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed the inventory shrinking when full with the shrinking inventory challenge enabled when using quarters on vending machines or in other scenarios where using an item instantly replaces it with another.
• (Pre-release 2) Fixed a typo in one of the sticker descriptions.
• (Pre-release 2) Fixed the Fresh Sticker Pack not working when the player had at least one of every sticker in their possession.
• (Pre-release 2) Fixed sticker pack descriptions not reappearing after restocking them.
• (Pre-release 2) Blocked off all the walls in Johnny's store to prevent portal posters from being placed on them.
• (Pre-release 2) Fixed captions appearing when sound effects for the sticker pack opening animation played.
• (Pre-release 2) Fixed Bonus Sticker Packs being available in Endless Mode.
• (Pre-release 2) Fixed the inventory shrinking even when full when entering a level after losing or replacing a Backpack sticker.

• Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered
• Baldi's Basics in Education and Learning (Baldi's Basics Classic)
• Baldi's Basics Birthday Bash
• Baldi's Basics Plus version 0.12 Pre-release

Changelog

Technical

• Updated the Unity Editor to version 2020.3.49f.
  • This fixes a security vulnerability that existed in previous versions of Unity.

Hello everyone!

Baldi's Basics Plus version 0.12.1 has just released! This update brings a few small changes alongside some bug fixes. The full changelog can be viewed below.

But first, just another reminder that the 2.0 Edition Angry Baldi plushie from Makeship is still available for a few more days! You can check it out here. If you want one, be sure to order before it's gone!

Changelog

Changes

• All entity animators now have their speed multiplied by the relative time scale. For example, Dr. Reflex's animations will slow down or speed up depending on how The Test has affected time.

• Propagated audio sources can now have priority values assigned. This is used to ensure certain sounds are always audible over other sounds.

• BSODA, nana peel and grappling hook entities now copy the player's status when spawned. This means they will be flipped or squished if the player is either of those when used.

• BSODA spray, Beans' gum and grappling hook collision with entities is now independent of orientation since there is no easy way to determine whether or not they are upside down. This resolves an oversight in the previous version that made BSODAs ineffective against upside down entities.

• When gum sticks to an entity, it now matches that entity's orientation.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that caused the file select screen to become unresponsive after deleting a file.

• Fixed an issue that would cause file select buttons to not function properly if the number of actual save files somehow became inconsistent with the saved total value of save files.

• Fixed crumbled balders moving on their own when influenced by outside conditions, such as when using the tape.

• Fixed Baldi's slapping sound sometimes getting overridden and not being audible when there is a large number of competing audio sources (Like during Student Shuffle).

• Fixed a bug that could cause Balloon Busters in endless mode to not reset properly after leaving a bonus question unanswered, resulting in balloons that would be ignored by the device.

• Fixed mis-placed item spawn points in Room_Class_BalloonBuster_2.

• Fixed issues with how entity orientation and height changes were handled. These fixes have resulted in a less smooth player flipping animation while squished unfortunately. Notably, this fixes

  • Rotating to see out of bounds if flipped while inside a vent.

  • The camera being pushed forward, potentially clipping beyond colliders, when being flipped while squished.

Hello everyone!

Today marks the release of Baldi's Basics Plus version 0.12! This isn't a huge update, but it adds some cool new content! Two new activities, Balloon Buster and the Match Machine, have been added. You'll need to complete these alongside Math Machines to get notebooks. Two new random events, Student Shuffle and Balder Dash, have also been added! These events will add a bit more chaos to the game, so stay prepared!

Alongside these additions there are also a handful of QOL improvements and bug fixes, which will be detailed in the changelog below.

Just a reminder that this update is relatively small due to the fact that I've begun focusing much of my development time on future development, which is stuff that won't really be seen until version 1.0 is released. I still intend to finish a "horizontal slice" version of the game by the end of the year, which is what I'm now calling the build that will represent the structure of the finished game, which I've referred to in previous status updates. Again, this is going to be for internal use only, but it will be a big milestone and really help my team get an understanding for what will be needed to wrap up the project.

With that in mind 0.13 is likely to be very small as well, as I want to put extra focus on future development to ensure the horizontal slice is completed before the end of the year. I am very excited to get the horizontal slice completed. There's a lot of cool stuff I've had planned for a long time that I can't wait to implement, even if it will still be a while before everyone gets to see it all!

In other news, Makeship and I have teamed up yet again to do another run of the Angry Baldi plushie!

This is nearly identical to the first run (although it has a 2nd edition badge on the bottom) and will be available to purchase until the morning of September 27, so if you want one be sure to get it soon! You can check it out here!

Changelog

Changes marked with (Pre-release 2) primarily pertain to changes made between pre-release 2 and the public release.

Additions

• Added two new activities

  • Added Balloon Buster. This activity requires players to pop the balloons in the room until only the amount displayed on the device remains. Once this is done, the player must pull the pulley to submit their answer. The remaining balloons will be popped and counted and if the total matches the solution, the player will successfully complete the activity. If there are too many balloons when submitting an answer, or too many balloons are popped, the activity will be failed.

  • Added the Match Machine. This activity requires the player to match pairs of object balloons. The balloons all start as question mark balloons. When clicked, they will be revealed as a specific object. When two balloons are revealed and they don't match, this pair will revert to exclamation point balloons after a moment. If a revealed pair of balloons matches, they remain revealed and the player earns some stamina and YTPs and Baldi will pause to praise the player. Once all four pairs are matches, the activity will be completed successfully. If a revealed pair does not match, and at least one of the balloons had already become an exclamation point, the activity will be failed.

  • Each new activity comes with its own set of classrooms.

  • Added chalk boards to classrooms that explain how to solve its activity.

  • (Pre-release 2) Added textures, animations and missing sounds for new activities. The Balloon Buster device now has a hologram sprite on it which turns off when not powered and which turns red when the activity is failed.

• Added two new random events.

  • Added Balder Dash. This event causes several "balders" to spawn at the elevators. These randomly roll around the level and crush any entities they collide with for a few seconds. They can also break through windows and open locked doors. When two balders collide, one of them will crumble. After enough time has passed, all balders will crumble.

  • Added Student Shuffle. This event causes several crowds of students to spawn from the elevators. These students randomly rush through the levels and push around any entities they collide with. If groups get separated, the separated group will become independent. If two separate groups collider, one will begin following the other. After a certain amount of time has passed, all groups will exit the level through the elevator.

• Added an animated popping effect for when balloons pop.

• (Pre-release 2) Added captions for new sound effects.

Changes

• Pressing the pause button while the level results animation plays will skip the animation to show the results immediately. Pressing pause again after the results are fully displayed will skip the remaining time and the TV screen will immediately retract.

• Updated the Bully's poster text.

• Updated the name of a Kickstarter backer in the credits at their request.

• Dr. Reflex's hammer check now checks for collision validity between his entity and the targeted entity to determine if he can actually squish the other one. This prevents him from squishing entities with opposite orientation, for example.

• Mrs. Pomp can no longer drag players when she is squished, in an opposite orientation, or any other collision invalidating scenario.

• Principal of the Thing will now attempt to send the player to detention when colliding with the player, even if the collision is invalid. If the collision is invalid, he will be teleported to the principal's office and the player will receive the detention status effect, but the player will not be teleported.

• Playtime now becomes sad if she has an invalid collision with the player while chasing them.

• Mrs. Pomp can now invite the player to her class regardless of if the collision is valid or not.

• Dr. Reflex will wander away if he has an invalid collision with the player after chasing them.

• Arts and Crafters now disappears if colliding with a player with invalid collision while chasing them.

• Beans gum will copy any of Beans' status effects when he spits it out.

• Balloons now slightly bob up and down.

• In endless mode, bonus questions now only become available for the previously completed activity when collecting a notebook.

• Game lock collision now goes away immediately after unlocking them instead of after the animation is completed.

• If the doors in the room are locked, solving its activity will unlock the doors.

• When making activity progress (Such as popping a balloon in Balloon Buster), Chalkles will lose some charge. Chalkles will reset entirely when completing an activity, and will not respawn until the player enters another room with a Chalkles chalk board.

• Notebooks no longer reward a stamina boost. Instead, a stamina boost is earned when successfully completing activities.

• (Pre-release 2) Updated sprites for regular balloons, now with new colors!

• (Pre-release 2) Updated sprites for matching balloons.

• (Pre-release 2) Updated new event intro voicelines with finalized versions.

Technical

• Changed the way Unity scenes are managed to better handle loading multiple scenes at once.

• Changed collision between entities so that, instead of not calling collision functions when entities are in states that should prevent collision (Squished, of the opposite orientation, etc.), the functions are called with a boolean passed into them representing whether or not the collision is valid. This enables for alternate behaviors when collisions fail, which is used to fix many issues and annoying behaviors from before.

• Entities can now copy the status effects of other entities.

• Optimized entity collisions by utilizing a layer mask system before trying to find an entity with GetComponent.

• Added renderer culling to some entities to improve performance.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Dr. Reflex continuing to say "thiii..." when colliding with the player with invalid collision.

• Fixed a bug that caused NPCs to occasionally not use a detour to flip themselves into the player's orientation when targeting them.

• Fixed entities continuing to move even when set inactive.

• Fixed Gotta Sweep and First Prize not adjusting their push speeds based on the NPC time scale.

• (Pre-release 2) Fixed bug that caused notebooks to not disappear in endless small.

• Fixed a bug where Mrs. Pomp would encounter an error when seeing the player while their faculty nametag expires.

Known Issues

• Arts and Crafters can get stuck with pushing forces from Student Shuffle (And possibly other entity collisions, such as BSODA).

• BSODAs may phase through entities under certain circumstances.

• There is a Balloon Buster classroom with misplaced item spawn points.

• Bonus Question signs for new activities are not placed properly.

• Baldi's audio source is not higher priority than others, which can cause his sounds to be overridden when there is a high amount of active audio sources, such as during Student Shuffle.

• Crumbled balders can still move around on their own in certain circumstances, such as when the tape is played.

That's all for now, I hope you all enjoy Baldi's Basics Plus version 0.12!

Hello everyone!

I hope you all have been enjoying the improvements I brought to endless mode in version 0.11. Today I'd like to bring you all a status update with a sneak peak at version 0.12, but first I've got some very big news to share!

Baldi's Basics Plus now has a producer!

As I've mentioned in previous status updates, I'd begun searching for a producer/project manager. Primarily to help me get a publisher for Baldi's Basics Plus, but also to help keep things on track and wrap up the project within a reasonable amount of time. Well I'm happy to announce that Nayan Ramachandran has been brought onto the project to fill that role!

Nayan has had several years of experience within the video game industry, specifically working with independent game developers. With his experience I believe he will be a huge help in getting Baldi's Basics Plus a good publisher and, ultimately, finished!

We've been working together about a month now and are starting to really get into the swing of things. So far this has been great as we've begun working on our pitch and getting more organized with Baldi's Basics Plus' development cycle! In the future I will likely bring a few more team members onto the project, at which point Nayan's management skills will become invaluable. All that is to say, I'm incredibly thankful to have his help moving forward!

What's in store for version 0.12?

A lot of my dev time since 0.11's release has been for 1.0 stuff, but I have also created some new content for version 0.12! Here's a couple sneak peaks:

These screenshots are of some of the new surprises you can expect in version 0.12. Any guesses as to what they are?

In more technical news, I have made some big improvements to the way collisions between entities are handled. You know how in the current version of Baldi's Basics Plus, characters who are chasing you, such as Playtime and Principal of the Thing, will hover on top of you while they're squished until they finally regain their normal height? Well I've now set up a system where entities can detect invalid collisions as well as valid collisions and react accordingly. On top of that I've extended this system to other scenarios that affect the ability of entities to interact, such as Gravity Chaos. This ensure consistency between entity interactions so they'll always behave how you expect.

So now if a squished Playtime reaches you she'll become sad and wander away instead. If Principal of the Thing is chasing you, but you're upside down and he's not, he'll try and fail to send you to detention, which results in him teleporting there but not you. And good ol' Dr. Reflex can no longer squish entities if he's in a scenario that should prevent interactions!

This change not only fixes several longstanding issues, but also makes it easy to ensure future collision affecting mechanics I may introduce in the future will be consistent with the existing ones.

Let's Talk About Challenge Maps

Something I've been thinking about for a while now is the future of challenge maps. As I've focused more and more on the core of Baldi's Basics Plus I've started wondering if challenge maps might be outside the scope of the project, at least in their current form. Before making any drastic decisions though I wanted to get feedback from all of you!

Legacy challenge maps

As I'm sure you all know, the game currently has three challenge maps which I've labeled as "legacy" content since they've become pretty outdated relative to the rest of the game. I've tried to make sure they remain playable as I update the game, but they do have a handful of issues due to changes breaking certain behaviors in the challenge maps. With that said, I'm wondering how you all would feel if they ended up getting removed at some point during the early access.

Now this isn't something I plan on doing, but if at some point I make a change that breaks the legacy challenge maps, I would prefer to be able to just cut them instead of spend time trying to fix them. Since I don't plan on making any new challenge maps until version 1.0 releases I wouldn't be able to replace them quickly like when I temporarily removed the old field trips to make way for the current one.

I don't like removing content that I've already released, because I know there may be players out there who still enjoys it, but that's why I'm asking now. How many of you still enjoy the legacy challenge maps and would be disappointed to see them disappear in future early access versions? Your current feelings will help me make the decision should I ever need to make it. I'll also add that if I were to remove the challenge maps, I'd let you all know beforehand to give anyone who cares the chance to back up the current version. Of course, the current challenge maps will end up getting scrapped in 1.0 anyways, so no matter what they won't last forever!

The future of challenge maps

Speaking of 1.0 though, that brings me to the other point I'd like to discuss, and that's whether or not challenge maps will make the cut into the final game at all. As I've continued developing Baldi's Basics Plus I've become less excited about the idea of challenge maps, and have also started questioning how well they fit into the overall design of the game. In terms of development, designing several levels by hand is very different from everything else I've been doing. In fact, not even the legacy challenge levels were designed by hand, they were procedurally generated levels that I converted into premade map data!

What I'm getting at is, designing levels, like really good levels, would require a skill that I've never practiced before. Whenever it would be time to start designing challenge maps, I can't help but feel like that would put a weird damper on development as we'd probably be nearly finished with everything else. I'd very likely need to bring an experienced level designer onto the team, which of course would require a higher budget than without. If I did the level designs myself, that would take me away from working on other, more important things, and probably result in levels that are just okay. In either case it would probably extend development time.

Of course, I don't want to scrap a feature that I've been saying would be added to the game in the future. Even with my disclaimer of "everything is subject to change" it's not something I take lightly when it's an entire game mode at stake. At the same time, I'm trying to consider what's overall best for the game. So currently, I see three options:

• A) I keep challenge maps as originally planned.

• B) I scrap challenge maps entirely.

• C) I compromise and make challenge maps procedurally generated levels, focusing entirely on interesting gameplay scenarios instead of unique level designs.

Currently, I feel like option C is the one I'd like to take, but what do you all think? Making the challenge levels mostly procedural would be relatively simple, as I'd mainly only need to worry about programming the conditions that make them unique. On the other hand, the unique potential of hand-made levels would be lost. Originally, one of my main goals for challenge maps was for them to function as subtle tutorials, where they'd be designed in such a way that they'd help players learn game mechanics without outright explaining them to them (Similar to, for example, how the beginning of Super Mario Bros. level 1-1 almost forces players to learn that goombas are bad and mushrooms are good). While I would like to maintain that aspect of the challenge maps, I do wonder if it's really necessary or if experience in Hide & Seek is enough for players to learn how everything works. Maybe there's another way entirely I could allow players to more easily experiment with individual game elements. There's a lot to think about!

I will not be making a final decision on this matter for a while, and will continue considering other approaches I could take that could work better than the original idea, but I'd love to hear feedback from you all to help me navigate this issue and make the best decision possible!

Conclusion

I hope you all will look forward to version 0.12! I plan on releasing the pre-release on August 25, followed by the public release on September 1. As with version 0.11, this will be relatively small update, but I think there will be a lot of fun to be had with the new content!

I think that covers pretty much everything for this status update. Thank you all for the support, and I look forward to reading everyone's comments about the challenge map stuff!

Hello everyone!

I'm happy to announce that version 0.11 of Baldi's Basics Plus is now available! This update is mostly focused on endless mode by bringing several improvements to it. Firstly, you can now select from a wider range of level options! Select the level type and size to play however you want. Secondly, several changes have been made to the mode to make it even more endless than before! New items will spawn in when collecting notebooks, new students will appear every so often, and you can now answer bonus questions to get even more YTPs! With more resources at your disposal you'll have more tools to help you survive as Baldi gets faster.

With all these changes however, I have decided to remove the old premade endless medium map. I plan to bring premade maps back to endless in the future, but for now it will be limited to procedurally generated maps for simplicity's sake. Remember, if you want to compete directly with another high score, you can click on it to use the seed that score was made on!

Aside from endless mode improvements, a handful of other tweaks and additions have been made. Johnny's store now has a restock button that will refresh the inventory for 250 YTPs, and there are two brand new items to check out! Structures from the new level types are also sprinkled throughout levels 2 and 3 to create a smoother introduction to the mechanics in those levels.

Check out the full changelog below. Any changes starting with "(Pre-release)" were made after the pre-release version was released.

Changelog

Additions

• Added the Super Stretchy Glove item. This item gives you unlimited reach for one minute, allowing you to click on any interactive object you can see no matter how far away it is. It will also allow you to click on things you normally couldn't while squished.

• Added the Invisibility Elixir. This item will turn you invisible for thirty seconds. NPCs won't be able to see you, however they can still collide with you!

• Added new levels to endless mode alongside a new level select menu. You can now select a level type and size. Note that endless levels are currently all based on levels found in Hide & Seek.

  • With these changes, all endless mode high scores from previous versions will be erased when updating to this version as they are no longer applicable to the new level selection.

• There is now a button in Johnny's store that will restock the store when pressed if the player has 250 YTPs. This spawns a new selection of items in all available item slots, replacing any existing items.

Changes

• Several changes were made to improve endless mode:

  • A new item will spawn somewhere in the level every time a notebook is collected if there is room for more items.

  • A new student will spawn in the level alongside a lost item every two minutes if there is room for more items.

  • Johnny's store no longer starts out closed in endless mode.

  • Johnny's store no longer restocks every five notebooks the player collects. The store will now only restock when the player purchases a restock with the restock button.

  • Math Machines will now immediately switch to bonus questions after collecting their notebook in endless mode. They will return to normal if their notebook respawns before the bonus question is solved.

  • Chalkles can no longer spawn in endless mode.

  • (Pre-release) If all the notebooks in a level have been collected before any respawn, one randomly selected notebook will be forced to respawn immediately.

  • (Pre-release) The bus pass is now replaced with a 100 YTP pickup in endless mode.

  • (Pre-release) Increased the number of NPCs that spawn in large endless maps and decreased the number in the small schoolhouse map.

• The tutorial store now stocks the super stretchy glove, which can be used to press the button on the other side of the conveyor belt as another option for passing it.

• Levels 2 and 3 can now generate with a handful of structures found primarily in later levels.

• Adjusted level sizes to ensure there is always room for Johnny's store to generate.

• (Pre-release) Power levers no longer have a gauge next to them if there is no breaker in the level.

• (Pre-release) Changed the weighting of different structures in levels 2 and 3 for better balancing. More difficult structures are rarer now.

• (Pre-release) Johnny's store now appears purple on the map.

• (Pre-release) Johnny now makes comments when the player purchases or attempts to purchase a restock.

• (Pre-release) The super stretchy glove now allows you to click on all interactive objects even while squished.

Bug Fixes

• (Pre-release) Fixed the box that surrounds the factory level not tiling the wall textures properly.

• (Pre-release) Fixed the way the map reveals rooms that have a mix of open and non-open areas.

• (Pre-release) Fixed the factory sometimes generating with two conveyor belt rooms.

• (Pre-release) Fixed activity-less notebooks not rewarding any YTPs in endless mode.

• (Pre-release) Fixed students in the small schoolhouse level starting their YTP reward at zero.

Removals

• Removed endless mode's pre-made medium map.

That's all for this update, thanks for your support and I hope you all enjoy playing!

Development is changing!

Bubs!

What's next?

Changelog

Changes

• The 'Nana Peel now ignores friction based forces (Conveyor belts, the merry-go-round) when an entity is slipping on it.
• The 'Nana Peel now changes direction when a non-friction based force (Gotta Sweep, BSODA) pushes it while an entity is slipping on it.
• Slowed down the outer conveyor belts in the factory level so that the player can outrun them a little bit. This opens up more ways for the player to interact with them. The conveyor belts in the conveyor belt room are still the same speed.
• Math Machine balloons are no longer sucked into vents or other forces that require overriding the entity.
• Made some improvements to The Test's shaking sound.
• Made some improvements to the faculty only door sounds.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a crash which could occur when It's a Bully could not find a valid spawn point.
• Fixed Gravity Chaos never ending if a student was given a missing item after the event started and before it ended.
• Fixed the Player.log file being filled with tons of the following message: "SteamInput handle for ID Item was not found."
• Fixed a bug that caused rooms to only check one possible orientation when looking for a valid location to generate. This fixes a rare bug that caused laboratory levels to be missing one or more teleporter rooms despite there being plenty of space for them.
• Fixed the lightbulb testing room and conveyor belt room having placeholder door textures on rare occasions when rooms with standard doors connect to these rooms.
• Fixed the grappling hook that spawns in locked rooms only having four uses instead of five.
• Fixed being able to pause on the tutorial completion screen.
• Fixed a bug that allowed the player to give multiple instances of the same item to one student.
• (Probably) fixed a bug that would occasionally result in Math Machine balloons not being popped properly and respawning when they exit a room.
• Fixed the camera rotating improperly when being flipped by the gravity event starting or ending while being teleported.
• Fixed Principal of the Thing not opening doors when fleeing from an annoying noise that was activated quickly after being sent to detention.
• Fixed laboratory levels having some objects not placed consistently on the same seed due to a cascading effect of the zone posters not being seed based.
• Fixed a bug that caused visual issues where the turning points in conveyor belt rooms met walls in other rooms.
• Fixed wormhole room ambience volume not being controlled by audio settings.
• Fixed an issue which caused conveyor belt and wind textures to not update properly when their timescales were being changed.
• Fixed an issue where faculty only doors wouldn't be considered closed during level generation, which occasionally resulted in closed off areas being generated by one way and coin door placement.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an error that would break audio, among other things, on the factory level under certain conditions.
• Fixed the teleporter control panel not having collision.
• Fixed Math Machines not rewarding any more YTPs after incorrectly answering it earlier in a round.
• Fixed the outer labels in Johnny's Store being mixed up.

Version 0.10

Changelog

Additions

• Added levels four and five to Hide & Seek.
  • Level four contains seven notebooks and will either be maintenance, factory or laboratory. Baldi's speed curve becomes more aggressive in this level than in previous levels.
  • Level five contains nine notebooks and will either be maintenance, factory or laboratory.
• Added three new level types: Maintenance, Factory and Laboratory. Each level type has its own unique combination of structures. Level types will never repeat in a run (Excluding the school level type).
• Maintenance
  • Added power levers. These can be used to control power and lights in connected classrooms. Classrooms must be powered on to solve their activities.
    • Each power lever has a cable connecting it to its class room. You can follow this cable to figure out which lever controls which room. When a power lever is on, the cable will emit an electric humming sound. When flipping a lever, the room it controls will be discovered on the map if it hasn't been found yet and the room's state will be shown on the map as well.
    • Each power lever has a gauge next to it which shows how much power is being used. Turning on too many levers at once will blow a fuse and turn off all the lights in the level.
    • When this happens, the player must find the breaker and reset it to restore power to the level. The breaker emits a green light and alarm sound which can be used to easily find it.
    • Elevators cannot be entered or closed while the power is out.
  • Added steam valves. Leaky steam pipes fill surrounding areas with clouds of steam which can be hidden in, but reduce visibility. They can be toggled on and off with nearby valves.
  • Added the lightbulb testing room. This special room randomly toggles the lights off and on every ten seconds, creating potential hiding spots in unlit areas.
  • Added new wall and floor textures and light sprite for maintenance.
• Factory
  • Added the conveyor belt room and new associated conveyor belt structure. This room splits the level into two halves and, when entered, randomly sends the player through a maze of conveyor belts which will send the player elsewhere in the level. This includes two belts at opposite sides of the level which move in opposite directions and can be changed with a button press. These are the primary means by which the player can get from one side of the level to the other.
  • Added new floor texture, swing door variant, light object and special suspended ceiling object for the factory.
• Laboratory
  • Added teleporter rooms, the wormhole and faculty only doors. These structures generate in conjunction with each other to split the level into four distinct sections separated by the faculty only doors.
    • A teleporter generates in each section and can be used to get to any other section. Teleporters must cool down for 30 seconds after being used however, so be careful! When pressing a button and opening the teleporter, any entity that enters the teleporter will be sent to the destination, so it is possible for characters to be teleported.
    • In the center of the level there is a wormhole room. At the start of a round, this room is closed off, but when all notebooks in a section have been collected, that section gains access to the wormhole room by opening the lockdown doors. The wormhole room is a large room with a wormhole at the center that pulls any entity inside towards it. Any entity that enters the wormhole will be sent somewhere random in the level. When an entity is sent through the wormhole, an indicator appears at that entity's destination a few seconds before it arrives. If you see one appear near you, watch out!
    • Faculty only doors are a special type of door that allows all NPCs to pass through, but not the player. The doors only close when the player is detected however, so it is possible to pass through by using certain items or scenarios to your advantage.
  • Added new floor, wall and ceiling textures for the laboratory level.
• Added locked rooms. These are special faculty only rooms that generate with a large lock over the door with a shape on it. In order to remove the lock, players must either find and use the matching key item on it, or access the room by some other means. Locked rooms typically spawn with very valuable items inside. On level two, the locked room will always contain the bus pass.
• Added students. These NPCs spawn around classrooms and only wander around nearby areas. Each student that spawns will also cause an associated lost item to generate somewhere else in the level. Standing near a student will cause them to show you what item they are missing. Return the lost item to them in exchange for YTPs. The amount of YTPs you earn for this increases for each student you return an item to in a round.
• Added status effect gauges to the HUD. These indicators are used to communicate which effects are active and how long they will last. Some items have been updated to use this instead of their own, unique indicators, such as the Techno Boots and the Faculty Nametag.
• Added push pins to the advanced map. These are a special type of marker that are placed in pairs and can be used to marked connections between points on the map. These are useful for marking where vents lead or what buttons control for example.

Changes

• When a controller is disconnected, the game will now be paused.
• Baldi will now pull players out of the lockers if he hears them hide inside one. This is accompanied by a new voiceline. Baldi won't tag you while he's speaking so you can use this as a chance to escape!
• Changed Big Ol' Boots to Techno Boots to more clearly communicate their behavior. Boots now prevent being pushed by forces in addition to movement modifier values. When being moved by an outside force while wearing Techno Boots, the player will move very slightly in the pushed direction to make the effect of the boots more obvious.
• Reduced the volume of Beans' voicelines.
• Gravity flippers now freeze time while the player is getting flipped. This helps prevent confusing control scenarios.
• Gravity flipper shader is now transparent.
• When reduce flashing is on, the gravity flipper animation is skipped.
• Item loadouts are no longer seed dependent. Both the items that spawn and where they spawn will change every time a level is loaded. This increases the difficulty of repeat attempts at a level.
• All entities now become invisible in total darkness to match the player's ability to become hidden to NPCs in total darkness. In this state, the entity can only be seen once it is close to the camera.
• Chalk eraser clouds now make all entities invisible, not just the player.
• Improved the appearance of chalk eraser clouds.
• Changed rooms to use more consistent texture types. Faculty only rooms now all have the wood panel walls for example.
• Reworked The Test. The Test is now more of a useful tool than a threat, but players must still be careful.
  • Looking at The Test will cause time around the player to dramatically slow instead of stop entirely.
  • Looking away from The Test will cause it to teleport to a random hallway cell in the level instead of chasing the player.
  • Looking at The Test for too long will cause it to start shaking. Once it begins shaking violently it is very unstable. Look at it for much longer and it will explode!
  • Once The Test explodes, time around the player will speed up significantly for a little while. This means the player will still move at normal speeds, but NPCs, other entities and level objects will be sped up.
  • The Test will not respawn until another round is started.
  • Updated The Test's poster description to match its new behavior.
• Lockdown doors are now controlled by levers which provide an instantaneous response based on the lever's position. Up means the door will be open, and down means the door will be shut.
• Propagated audio managers now have a minimum distance.
• Missing a jump in jump rope will now make a sound Baldi hears.
• Mrs. Pomp no longer freezes the player and stops the environment when informing them about her class.
• Audio from propagated audio managers is now pitch shifted based on that object's corresponding time scale.

Pre-release Changes

• Adjusted level 5 map price and total items in shop.
• Made some relevant items more likely to spawn in factory and laboratory levels.
• Made it so late game locked rooms will usually contain high end items.
• Reduced the max item values in late game levels a little bit.
• Chalk clouds are now culled.
• Power levers are now limited in how far they can generate from the room they are powering.
• Changing the state of a power lever now reveals the connected room on the map and updates the appearance of the room on the map to reflect whether or not it's currently powered.
• Changed placeholder power lever cables with colored cables that can be followed more easily.
• Created a proper model for the power gauges.
• Restored characters rewarding YTPs.
• Mrs. Pomps YTP reward now varies based on how long it takes to reach her class.
• Losing Reflex's test no longer makes noise.
• Reduced the speed at which the faculty only doors close to enable more ways to pass it (Such as using a 'Nana peel).
• Each section of the Laboratory now contains posters that label each one with a number.
• Teleporter rooms now show their corresponding numbers on the map.
• Increased initial Student YTP value.
• Now when a level generation error occurs, the player's game is saved with the seed changed and they are given the option to return to the main menu. The game can then be loaded and continued.
• Buffed the test a little bit by increasing the amount of slow down and the time it can be looked at before exploding.
• The Test now has a crumbled sprite for when it explodes.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed characters who cannot open locked doors being able to navigate and pass through them.
• Fixed the dither screen transition being tied to the framerate, which caused extremely slow transitions on lower-end hardware.
• Fixed a rare level generator error where it would attempt to build a special hall formation outside the bounds of the level.
• Fixed Hide & Seek options not saving immediately upon being changed. This resulted in settings reverting to a previous setup in some scenarios.
• Added a buffer around the math machine in Room_Class_MathMachine_2 to try preventing balloons from getting stuck between it and the wall.
• Fixed NPCs not targeting entity safe cells when traveling through open areas with no valid exits aside from the one they used to enter.
• Extended the second conveyor belt in the tutorial such that it extends through the entire hallway.
• Fixed Rewired input mapper calibration window. It previously was not modified to work with the OS themed sprites and text was unreadable.
• Fixed issues with particle effects not being affected by things like lighting and fog.
• Mrs. Pomp will now assign a class to go to even if she cannot navigate to any at the moment she attempts to do so. After this she will wander randomly until she is able to find a path to the selected room. This prevents her from breaking in this scenario.
• Playtime can now only start jump rope if she can see the player.
• Fixed rooms not being found in their entirety when entered instead of only finding open areas.
• Fixed conveyor belts not being affected by the environment time scale.

Pre-release Fixes

• Fixed a bug caused by an outdated door position outside the bounds of the lightbulb testing room which caused swinging doors to rarely generate in an adjacent room.
• Fixed trap detection not working reliably due to it not counting already blocked off cells as neighbors to check path finding against.
• Belt constructor now blocks off belt cells in all directions during level generation. This fixes softlocks in the factory level.
• Fixed lockdown doors that start closed not blocking paths during level generation, resulting in softlocks in factory levels.
• Fixed extra doors on locked rooms changing the other room's cell room to its own room.
• Fixed Baldi saying "nine notebooks" instead of "seven notebooks" on level 4.
• Fixed room group lights not being implemented.
• Fixed class rooms in levels 4 and 5 not using the wall with molding texture.
• Fixed tutorial doors being able to be closed.
• Fixed tutorial doors using levers instead of buttons.
• Power lever cables now stop at classroom doors and connect to lever walls.
• Increased the size of the game lock collider so that principal's keys cannot be used on the door.
• Fixed the jump rope failure sound value being lower than that of doors.
• Blocked all the walls in the belt room so that buttons and similar level objects will not generate inside them.
• Fixed missing controls for lockdown door in Stealthy Challenge.
• Cells that are blocked by objects in the teleporter room are now marked as blocked so that objects cannot be generated or placed on those walls.

Changelog

Additions

• Added an interactive tutorial level. This tutorial teaches players about the game's core mechanics.
  • Players on files that have never been prompted before will receive a prompt to play the tutorial when clicking the play button on the main menu.
  • The tutorial can be accessed by clicking the new tutorial button on the mode select screen.
  • The tutorial features chalk boards which display the currently set inputs for game actions. These chalk boards will refresh whenever the game is un-paused to reflect any changes to controls made during the tutorial.
  • The tutorial includes a new placeholder music track created with Microsoft Music Producer.
  • Added tons of new Baldi voicelines for the tutorial.
• Added a dedicated Hide & Seek menu.
  • Play Style, challenge options and seed input have been moved to this screen.
  • Explorer mode has been moved to this screen. It is now a play style option.
  • When there is a saved game, there is now a button which will allow players to start a new game alongside the continue button. Pressing this button will prompt players to make sure they're okay with losing their current saved game before starting a new one.
• Added an in-game keyboard for entering new file names.
  • If there are no save files, players will be taken directly to this screen when starting the game.
• Gave Baldi a new speaking animation which automatically lip-syncs to his audio. This is used in the tutorial and when correctly completing activities. Added lockdown doors which cannot be closed after being opened (Currently only used in the tutorial).
• Added the Anim8or Community Discord to special thanks section in the credits.

Changes

• The new file button is now always visible on the file select screen if there is an unused slot available, instead of only being visible on Steam Deck.
• Certain structure builders can now be used to populate premade maps. This is used to generate lockers, water fountains and plants in the tutorial map.
• Tweaked Baldi's file select screen voicelines to accommodate for the changes made to file creation.
• The save and quit poster in the pit stop no longer mentions that players cannot save in explorer mode. That information is now shown on the play style tooltip.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed volumetric audio sources, such as that of conveyor belts and Cloudy Copter's wind, not being propagated.
• Fixed, for realsies this time, BSODA not properly pushing entities through conveyor belts/wind when they enter the triggers of those objects after colliding with the BSODA.
• Fixed a few old typos.

Pre-release Changelog

• Added a third class room to the final section of the tutorial to prevent it from being completed too quickly.
• Fixed a bug that caused all modes to use whatever challenge and playstyle settings were selected in the Hide & Seek menu.
• Fixed a bug that caused saved games to be erased when playing any mode, not just starting a new game.
• Removed the window between the first hall and the principal's office in the tutorial.
• Posters in the tutorial principal's office are now spread apart.
• Fixed a bug in the tutorial that caused Baldi to repeat instructions when placing a BSODA in the storage locker and taking it out again. Now Baldi will only repeat the instructions to spray him with the BSODA when using the quarter on the BSODA machine.
• Increased the prices of items in Johnny's store in the tutorial.
• Re-enabled the ability for Johnny to let players buy items they are 100 or fewer YTPs short of affording in the tutorial.
• Fixed a bug that allowed buttons behind the tutorial prompt to be clicked on.
• Updated the copyright year to 2025.
• Fixed an oversight that caused level 3 to be labeled as level 2 in Steam Recorder.
• Fixed an bug that caused Baldi to become stuck on his praise sprite in some scenarios.
• Fixed a bug that caused the item icons of items in slots that had previously been lost via the shrinking inventory challenge to not appear when losing and reloading.
• Reduced the volume of the tutorial music track.
• After Baldi finishes counting down, he will briefly switch to his smiling sprite before changing to the normal ruler sprite.

2024

2025

0.9

0.10

0.11 and Beyond

Conclusion

Additions

• Added new challenge options accessible in the game settings menu.
  • 1 Minute Limit: Sets the time limit on every level to one minute. Hurry up!
  • No Map: Completely disables the map. Pay attention!
  • Shrinking Inventory: When using an item, you will lose a slot for the rest of the level. Think carefully!

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Strict mode being labelled as "Intense"
• Fixed a bug that caused room exit functions to not be called when a player/NPC/entity exits a room via vents.
  • This fixes the game staying muted when leaving a library via a vent.
  • This fixes Chalkles continuing to charge when leaving the room via a vent.
• Fixed missing captions for the time out bell.
• Fixed walls forming inside the pillar in the special hall formation with the pillar, which could trap players inside. There are still some generation issues with this pillar, but players should no longer be able to get trapped if they end up inside (Except in very rare cases where lockers or other objects trap the player).