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).
  

Additions

• Added time limits. When time runs out, a special event activates which causes changes in the game and level. Each level has its own time limit. Level 1 = 5 minutes, level 2 = 7 minutes, level 3 = 9 minutes. The time out event does the following:
  
  
  
  • Baldi begins to get faster and faster over time.
    
  • The player will become permanently guilty for being in school after-hours. If Principal of the Thing sees the player in this state, he will chase them and send them to detention.
    
  • Individual lights in the hallways begin to dim until all have dimmed.
    
  • Principal of the Thing will turn out the lights in rooms with the exception of rooms with incomplete activities. Rooms with bonus questions do not count as incomplete activities.
    
  • A new music track will play. This track is a placeholder created using Microsoft Music Producer.
    
  
  
• Added timers to elevator areas that display time remaining in a level.
  
• Added decorative items and an exit sign to elevator areas.
  
• Open elevators now act as light sources. When all notebooks have been collected and all elevators re-open, they will light green to make them easier to find.
  
• Players can now hide by standing in cells that are as dark as possible.
  
• Added map markers. Map markers can be placed by clicking the new map marker buttons on the advanced map and removed by clicking on placed markers on the advanced map. Map markers can be seen at their corresponding position in 3D space when viewing the quick map.
  
• Added a new structure: Vents!
  
  
  
  • Vents generate in levels as an entrance in a wall connected to an exit in the ceiling elsewhere in the level via a series of winding ventilation ducts.
    
  • Any entity that enters a vent entrance gets sucked in and pulled through the ducts, eventually being ejected out of the exit point.
    
  • Vents apply a reverb audio filter to any entities with propagated audio while inside.
    
  • When the player is outside vents, entities with propagated audio will have their audio propagated from the vent entrance or exit, depending on how close the entity is to either.
    
  • When the player is inside vents, the player will hear the audio of all entities with propagated audio that are currently inside the vent regardless of position.
    
  • When the player is inside vents, they will hear audio outside the vents from the position of either the vent entrance or exit, depending on how close they are to either.
    
  • When any entity hits a turn while traveling through vents, a metallic bang sound will be produced. This can be heard from both the entrance and exit of a vent regardless of the position of the entity that triggered the sound's position in the vent.
    
  • When the player exits a vent, the exit will make a noise Baldi hears.
    
  
  
• Added new Play Style option. This option controls how lives work.
  
  
  
  • Normal (Default): You start each level with three power tubes.
    
  • Arcade: You start with three power tubes, but do not get any more each level.
    
  • Strict: You only get one power tube per-game. Lose once and that's game over!
    
  
  

Changes

• Made several changes to the level generator.
  
  
  
  • Halls now generate more intelligently and avoid forming dead-ends and bottlenecks.
    
  • Structure generation has been reworked and streamlined.
    
  • Swinging doors should now generate such that there is only one per-hall.
    
  • When controllable lockdown doors are added to a level, there can now be more than one.
    
  • When roto-halls are added to a level, there can now be more than one.
    
  • Some structures that were previously only generated in halls, such as storage lockers and vending machines, can now also generate in rooms at pre-determined safe positions.
    
  • Phones can now only generate in rooms.
    
  • More plants now generate in levels.
    
  • Level size in Hide & Seek levels is no longer random. As a result, levels are a more consistently compact with less wasted space.
    
  • No special halls are placed before hallways are generated. Now, special halls are only placed after halls are generated (Previously, special halls were placed both before and after). This prevents issues with inaccessible areas of levels being generated.
    
  • There are likely other small, unintended changes due to the structure rework.
    
  
  
• Activities can no longer be completed if a room is not powered. This means bonus questions cannot be answered if Principal of the Thing has turned off the lights in the room. If a room is not powered, all lights on the Math Machine will be off and it will not indicate that it is clickable.
  
• Changed advanced map interface. It now features on-screen zoom and scroll buttons, marker buttons and a timer display. The on-screen size of the map display has been reduced to make room for these new buttons.
  
• Made changes to shaders to improve lighting in darkness. Textures no longer become totally black and there is now a much more noticeable increase in contrast in dark areas.
  
• All three Hide & Seek levels now use the same lighting method in order to accommodate lights going dark once the time limit has expired.
  
• Removed the detention HUD element that displayed detention time and replaced it with a timer that sits above doors in the principal's office.
  
• Detention no longer uses real seconds and time counts down at 1.25 times the normal speed.
  
• Cloudy Copter's wind will now affect other Cloudy Copters (This scenario is currently only possible via modding).
  

Removed

• Conveyor belts have been temporarily removed as they are in the middle of being reworked. They will return in a future update!
  

Bug Fixes

• The elevator gate can no longer be seen in the playground in the endless medium map.
  
• Fixed Mrs. Pomp crashing if there are inaccessible classrooms when she tries sending the player to a class.
  

New Known Issues

• Getting flipped due to Gravity Chaos starting or ending while traveling through a vent causes the camera to move outside the vents.
  
• The lighting of entities traveling through vents appear to flash frequently due to using the grid-based lighting system.
  
• Due to the way vents can crisscross, entities can occasionally be seen clipping through the walls of vents.
  
• Time limit ticking and bell sounds are missing captions.
  

Pre-release Changes

• Updated Baldi's placeholder time out line with finalized line.
  
• Added sound effects to vents.
  
• Added above mentioned audio mechanics to vents.
  
• Fixed NPCs being able to see the player (And Principal seeing the Bully) while in vents.
  
• Fixed Dr. Reflex being able to hammer entities while inside vents.
  
• Fixed Mrs. Pomp being able to grab and drag the player while inside vents.
  
• Fixed being able to see entities traveling through vents the player is not in.
  
• Fixed vent exits being able to generate in Playgrounds.
  
• Fixed vent entrances being able to generate in the principal's office and in playgrounds.
  
• Updated and re-enabled pre-made maps.
  
• Fixed vent exits being able to generate over lights.
  
• Fixed being able to see lockdown doors and elevator gates inside vents.
  
• Fixed room functions triggering when entities are traveling through vents.
  
• Fixed issue where vents would sometimes generate with a segment near the end that reverses 180 degrees in order to ensure it connects to the selected destination point.
  
• Fixed an issue which allowed vent exits to generate too close to vent entrances.
  
• Fixed levels generating with inaccessible areas.
  
• Slightly reduced time limits (Okay but actually after testing these adjusted time limits I felt they were a tad too tight, particularly level 3 without a map, so I meant to set them back to where they were but forgot WHOOPS. Hope this update isn't too hard!).
  

Play Style

• Normal - You start each level with three power tubes (This is how the game has worked since launch).
  
• Arcade - You start with three power tubes, but do not get any more each level.
  
• Strict - You only get one power tube per-game. Lose once and it's game over!
  

Hurry Up!

Time Limits

Lights Out

Level Generator

Slowing Down

Conclusion

Additions

• Added the ability to give Johnny a Bus Pass when a field trip is available. He will go on the field trip in your place and bring back three randomly selected items.
  
• Added Steam Timeline/Recording support. Steam Recording is currently only available in Steam client betas. Whether you are currently using the beta, or wait for the feature to release officially, Baldi's Basics Plus will indicate useful information on your recording timeline to make it easier to find specific moments from your play session.
  

Changes

• In Pick-Quick-Nic, the round indicator text color has been changed to green.
  
• In Pick-Quick-Nic, the round indicator will now say "Final Round" on the final round, and "Bonus Round" followed by the number of bonus rounds that have been played if the player manages to go beyond the final round.
  
• When playing minigames in Hide & Seek, there is now text if you lose indicating that you could have earned items if you had won the minigame. If you win, but do not get a perfect bonus, there is now text explaining that you can now pick three items.
  
• When playing Campfire Frenzy in Hide & Seek, there is now an indicator showing how many tosses are left until the game is finished.
  

Bug Fixes

• Fixed field trip entrance ambience not being affected by volume settings.
  
• Fixed field trip minigames being in scoring mode while accessing them in Explorer Mode.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the grade bonus to not award the same amount of YTPs as displayed on the results screen.
  
• Fixed a visual issue where the elevator screen would zoom a bit more than it was supposed to for one frame at the end of the animation.
  
• Fixed an error that would silently occur due to banana trees spawning bananas in an invalid location.
  

Known Issues

• Balloons occasionally clip into objects.
  
• NPCs will often not try to flip themselves when they are oriented opposite the player during Gravity Chaos. This can lead to strange NPC behavior.
  
• NPCs will occasionally appear to turn-around when entering open areas where a hallway bridges between two different parts of that open area.
  
• Lockdown doors near spawn can be seen snapping into the open position at game start.
  
• Dr. Reflex can squish NPCs even when they do not match his orientation during Gravity Chaos.
  
• Captions are more likely to stack on top of each other and become hard to read due to the new sound propagation system. I plan on finding a way to prevent captions from rendering on top of each other.
  
• There is no indication for when entities are about to become unsquished.
  
• It is possible to see out of bounds while being rotated by a gravity flipper while squished.
  
• On some screen resolutions, it is possible to see a gap through some elements on the elevator screen.
  
• Some NPCs are very annoying when they are squished.
  
• Wind and conveyor belt audio is not propagated.
  
• NPCs will occasionally end up wandering into an area they should be fleeing from.
  
• Dr. Reflex can sometimes get his hammer early while being pushed around by outside forces or when he is not able to find a path to his clinic.
  
• NPCs can collide with other entities through walls, triggering their effects.
  
• Math Machine balloons can rarely get stuck behind the diagonal math machine.
  
• Principal, under some circumstances, can maintain his fast speed after using the principal whistle.
  
• Arts and Crafters' echoes while attacking don't always match his orientation during the gravity event.
  
• A seed is displayed when playing pre-made maps.
  
• Held sprite objects, such as the math machine balloons, can be held into other areas such that their lighting noticeably changes.
  
• Mrs. Pomp doesn't wander around class rooms in pre-made maps. She just stands in a corner.
  
• Certain sound effects are delayed while the environment is frozen (Such as when Mrs. Pomp is asking the player to come to her class).
  
• Maps from saved games of Hide & Seek from older versions of the game will fill out the areas found from the previous play session, even if it doesn't match new level generation.
  
• Principal doesn't open office doors during detention while fleeing from a tape.
  
• During the flood, hall swinging doors do not open, while swinging doors that lead into rooms do open.
  
• AudioManagers playing multiple sounds in different mixer groups at once causes volume conflicts.
  
• NPCs occasionally getting stuck in walls/objects.
  
• One-way swinging doors can generate on top of standard swinging doors.
  
• Cloudy Copter's wind can pass through solid objects like lockdown doors.
  
• Placing an alarm clock in a doorway prevents the door from being clicked.
  
• Gotta Sweep can navigate through locked standard doors but will not open them.
  
• The Test can spawn close to the player.
  

Additions

• Added new field trip format.
  
  
  
  • Field trips now have 3D, explorable hub areas.
    
  • Each field trip now has two minigames to choose from.
    
  • Winning a field trip minigame spawns in eight items that the player can pick. The player can pick up to three of these items.
    
  • Playing a minigame perfectly rewards the player with a perfect bonus of 250 YTPs.
    
  
  
• Re-added camping trip.
  
  
  
  • Added new minigame Campfire Frenzy: Keep the fire roaring by launching fuel into it. Watch out though, not all fuel is good for the fire!
    
  • Added new minigame Pick-Quick-Nic: Be quick to pick a bite to eat before Baldi's appetite gets the better of him! Don't take his favorite food though!
    
  
  
• Added a tutorial for each minigame. Tutorials can be accessed by clicking on a Baldi that is standing nearby a minigame area.
  
• Added new music for minigames.
  
• Added the Bus Pass item. This item must be in your inventory when clicking the bus door to go on a field trip.
  

Changes

• You now must click on the bus door to go on a field trip, rather than just walking up to the bus.
  
• The bus sprite has been updated to a rendered 3D object that better matches the game's style. Baldi finally gave the bus back to Joe after "borrowing" it for six years.
  
• The bus now has collision.
  
• Items can no longer be used in The Pitstop. This prevents several bugs from occurring.
  
• The Pitstop now gives the player unlimited stamina.
  

Pre-release Changes

• Made several small difficulty tweaks to Pick-Quick-Nic.
  
  
  
  • The round where all food appears and Baldi is only thinking of one item now has slightly more reaction time.
    
  • Hotdog bomb and pizza bomb rounds now have slightly more reaction time.
    
  • Slightly reduced the difficulty curve in normal (Non-scoring) mode.
    
  • Reduced the frequency of hotdog rounds relative to pizza rounds in normal mode.
    
  
  
• Fixed a Pick-Quick-Nic issue where occasionally on round 2 all plates would unintentionally contain valid food.
  
• Made food in Pick-Quick-Nic easier to click by making the plates valid hotspots as well.
  
• Fixed the campsite ambience not being affected by volume settings.
  
• Camping Baldi now has an animated mouth controlled by the volume of his voicelines.
  
• Fixed an error that would be logged when entering the field trip entrance room in The Pitstop when no field trip is available.