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Endless Mode is the secondary mode in the Baldi's Basics series. The goal is to collect as many notebooks as possible until Baldi catches the player.

Gameplay

Baldi's Basics Plus

Collect as many notebooks as you can before Baldi tags you! Baldi speeds up over time, but notebooks slow him down!

—Description, Baldi's Basics Plus

The player can choose either the "Random" level or the "Medium" level before starting Endless Mode. In the elevator, the floor acronym is "END", no matter which option they pick.

  • Random - Randomly generates a level with a custom or random seed. It is also possible to select the seed used by an endless high score by clicking on it.
  • Medium - Starts the level with a pre-generated (albeit outdated) medium-sized map.

Baldi's behavior is different than in the Hide-and-Seek mode. Collecting a notebook will slightly decrease his speed, emphasizing the goal to collect as many notebooks as possible, and allowing the player to avoid him longer in-game. Notebooks will respawn in classrooms after a while, playing an audio cue resembling a low hiss from the classroom they spawned in.

Baldi eventually speeds up more and more on his own, with collected notebooks slowing him down. After some time, Baldi will become so fast that he will be impossible to avoid. Therefore, in order to achieve a high score, the player must collect as many notebooks as possible while Baldi is slower. The longer the game lasts, and the more notebooks the player collects, the faster Baldi will become overall.

Baldi's Basics Classic/Birthday Bash/Classic Remastered

Collect as many notebooks as you can!

—Description, Classic/Birthday Bash

Classic Remastered Notebook Score

Result screen in Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered.

Upon starting, the gameplay is no different until the player reaches the third notebook. Instead of having an unsolvable third math question in Story Mode, each question is answerable, as well as all of the notebooks after. Aside from this, Baldi's behavior also changes. Answering all three problems correctly in a Notebook will slightly decrease his speed, emphasizing the objective to answer as many math problems correctly as possible, and allowing the player to avoid him longer in-game.

While Baldi will still become faster should the player answer a problem incorrectly, the speed curve will gradually increase independently over time. Thus, he will eventually speed up more and more on his own, with correctly answered notebooks making him slower and slower. After a certain amount of time, Baldi's speed will become so fast that he will be practically impossible to avoid, meaning that in order to achieve a high score, they must get as many notebooks as possible while Baldi is still slow. The longer the game lasts, and the more problems the player gets wrong, the faster Baldi will become overall.

In Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered, none of the Fun Settings work in this mode because it is not fair to keep scores with and without these settings in the same leaderboard.[1]

Map

Baldi's Basics Classic, Birthday Bash and Classic Remastered use the same map as in Story Mode. (See Map:Schoolhouse)

Endless Mode - Medium (Baldi's Basics Plus)

MediumMapv0.6

Trivia

General

  • The notebooks make a sound when they respawn.[2][3] It shows up in the captions in Baldi's Basics Plus and Classic Remastered.
  • Endless Mode is unavailable in all demos, apart from Demo Style.

Baldi's Basics Plus

  • In the current version, the word "Mode" in its name is not capitalized.
  • There are 7 characters in Endless Mode - Medium. The list of characters is Baldi, Beans, Chalkles, Cloudy Copter, It's a Bully, Playtime and Principal of the Thing.
  • The test procedure event is absent in this mode.
  • In the game files, there are Small and Large values in the Endless Mode's list. The developer said that these two options will be implemented in a future update.[4]
  • PST CLS BaldiBuried

    The "BaldiBuried" poster with the Endless Mode icon.

    The Endless Mode icon from Baldi's Basics Classic/Birthday Bash is used for the "BaldiBuried" poster, although Baldi's ruler features its normal color/texture rather than being untextured.
  • In the random option, there is no difference between a positive seed and its negative counterpart, like floor 1.
  • Since V0.4, the Endless Mode - Medium map and level have not been updated, except for Johnny's Store, which was added in V0.6.
  • Prior to V0.3.3, each level used a different acronym. The acronym for a Random level was "ER" and for the Medium level, it was "EM".
  • In V0.8 Pre-release 2, the medium option was unavailable due to preparing new level system for pre-made levels.

Baldi's Basics Classic/Birthday Bash

  • Endless Mode new high score Classic

    The text that shows whenever the player gets a new high score.

    There is some red text that appears when the player collects more notebooks than their record. It reads "WOAH WOW KAZOW! THAT'S A NEW HIGHEST SCORE!".
  • In the icon, Baldi's ruler is untextured. mystman12 noticed this a very long time after he made this icon.[5]
  • Updated development roadmap
    The notebooks from the icon are also used in the Baldi's Basics Plus development roadmap image.
  • Endlessmode-congratulationsyouwon

    Winning Endless Mode in Baldi's Basics Classic.

    By using hacks, if 7 or more notebooks are collected and one of the swinging doors connected to the outside area is touched, then the player can apparently win the mode.
    • This does not work in Baldi's Basics Birthday Bash due to having a different ending.

Baldi's Basics Classic/Birthday Bash/Classic Remastered

  • When the player answers all three questions correctly in the third notebook and onward, then the You Can Think Pad shows text that will either say "Keep up the good work or see me after class..." or "That's more like it...".

Baldi's Basics Classic

  • Prior to V1.3, this mode was unavailable.
  • Story and endless
    From V1.3 to V1.3.2, the Endless Mode's icon was located to the left, similar to the Story Mode's one. Also, the text was not clickable.


Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered

Note: The following content may have spoilers for the deep lore.




Glitches

Baldi's Basics Plus

  • In V0.3.3, no matter which option the player chose, a high score was always recorded in the Random level. That means, even after getting a high score in the Medium level, it was recorded in the Random level instead and the rankings in the Medium level were never updated.
  • In V0.3.4, Principal of the Thing would not scold the player for escaping detention in the Medium level.
  • In V0.8 Pre-release 1, Endless Mode - Random levels' level generator was outdated, which resulted in it constantly crashing.

Gallery

References

  1. "Currently fun settings don't work in endless mode, but I might change that in the future. The only catch is that I probably won't be able to make separate leaderboards for endless mode with fun settings on. That's the reason they don't currently work in endless, as it's not really fair to compare scores with and without fun settings on." - Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered Steam Community Hub
  2. NoteRespawn.wav file from the Baldi's Basics Plus asset files
  3. respawn.wav file from Baldi's Basics Classic and Birthday Bash's asset files
  4. Q: "Will there be more endless mode maps then just the medium? like small or large?" / A: "Yes!" - Gmail (question), Gmail (response)
  5. "I've only just now noticed that the ruler is untextured in this render..." - mystman12. April 16, 2024. Twitter/X

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