Placeholder

Placeholders are temporary designs that hold a place before they are replaced by the final design. Placeholders are commonly used throughout the development of Baldi's Basics Plus.

Level Generator
The green wall placeholder texture, the red floor placeholder texture, the blue ceiling placeholder texture, and the placeholder door texture are used by the level generator when generating a level prior to replacing them with the actual textures. These were first used in the development build. These textures are later present in debug rooms and Gotta Sweep's closet prior to Baldi's Basics Plus V0.2. In the current version, the placeholder tile textures are now used as a placeholder skybox in the level generator.

Ending
The placeholder ending for the current version of Baldi's Basics Plus involves Baldi's Office and Baldi singing and dancing with the music.

A few seconds later after the music ends, the screen will be flashing with the random colored shader effects and it will load the screen, but with a random color palette.

Baldi's Math Machine
The placeholder design of Baldi's Math Machine was used prior to Baldi's Basics Plus V0.2 and it was completely different as it was a placeholder. It was a gray cube-shaped machine with text saying, "Comic Sans MS", displaying a math problem in the center, and the bottom of the machine says "". Prior to V0.3.3, the placeholder textures were still used in premade levels.

Elevator
Prior to Baldi's Basics Plus V0.2, the room was gray and yellow-ish, there were only two cogs on the left, the door was lime-green and has an " ELEVATE " text with nothing next to them. There was no "Comic Sans MS" word above "Comic Sans MS", the pipes had multi-colored squares on them and the siren horns inside of the alarms were either lacking or unable to be seen. The inside of the elevator when the player is out of it consisted of wooden textures. Also, the "Current Grade" and "Time" results were placeholders before that update, the "YTPs Earned" and "Total YTPs" results were placeholders in Baldi's Basics Kickstarter Exclusive Demo before V1.2.

Item
This placeholder was the word "Item" written in a messy font diagonally. It was first used in the development build. In the development build, the placeholder was used as a test for proper items. It was also used for empty slots in the player's inventory but only in the Full Game Early Demo. In Baldi's Basics Classic, when using hacks to see the UI in the alternate ending and get some items, certain items will have the placeholder item instead of the image of that item.

Faculty Room
In Development Build, all faculty rooms lacked items and furniture and used the placeholder door as an entrance, similar to the debug room. However, the floor, walls, and ceiling of each faculty room were completely filled with the wood texture that was later used for the inside of the elevator seen when the player is out of it, prior to Baldi's Basics Plus V0.2 in randomly generated levels and V0.3.3 in pre-generated levels.

Trivia

 * Prior to Baldi's Basics Plus V0.3, the placeholder ending consisted of a plain black screen with the green text with Baldi dabbing after looking at the text for some time and turning around. The previous ending was not intended to be added in the game at that time.