Nothing

Nothing
General information
AKA*	None* Item*
Type	Nothing
Found	At the start of the game or any style In unoccupied inventory slots When other items are used
Price	50 YTPs*
Floor debut	Floor 1
Development information
Added in	Baldi's Basics Classic (V1.0)
Description
What the!? This shouldn't be possible!

Nothing is, technically, an inventory item in the Baldi's Basics series. As its name implies, it appears in inventory slots to represent the absence of actual items.

Description

Nothing is, as the name indicates, nothing. The placeholder icon has the handwritten text "Item", and is used for the background of the inventory item slots in Baldi's Basics Full Game Early Demo. The small "icon" is fully transparent, as it is meant to represent nothingness. However, when Nothing is present in the storage locker, it is represented by a red question mark.

Usage

The player wandering around floor 1, while using Nothing as best as they can.

Nothing cannot be used. When "used" (selecting it in the inventory and pressing the use button, commonly assigned to the Right Mouse Button or the Q Key), nothing happens, and Nothing stays in the inventory. When any other item is used however, it is removed from the inventory and is replaced by Nothing, as the item gets used up and nothing is left.

Nothing is used as a placeholder for when no other items are selected or placed in an inventory slot, as nothing is there to be selected or used.

Tips & Tricks

Advantages

• When Nothing is selected in the inventory, it becomes significantly harder to accidentally use an item when not needed via accidental input, as no other items are selected, and Nothing itself cannot be used up.

Neutral

• Nothing has absolutely no usage at all on its own, as it does nothing at all in any situation.
• Nothing's main purpose is to be used to obtain something, and while in your inventory, it can be used to gain new items without exchanging them for other usable items. The game accounts for this automatically.

Disadvantages

• Whenever any item runs out of uses, it gets replaced with Nothing, rendering the previous item no longer usable.

Locations

Main gameplay

Nothing is the easiest item to obtain, because absolutely nothing has to be done to obtain it:

• Anytime any mode has started, the player starts out with a full inventory of Nothing.
  • This does not include Stealthy and Grapple Challenges, where the player spawns with a full inventory of Dirty Chalk Erasers, and a Grappling Hook with the next 4 slots being Nothing, respectively.
• Every time any item has been used up or placed in a storage locker, it gets replaced with Nothing.

Trivia

• Nothing is the first and only item to have no usage at all in any situation or context.
  • Nothing was also the only item to not "have" a large icon, as it was literal nothingness. In V0.6 of Baldi's Basics Plus, this has been changed to a transparent red question mark. However, the icon is still transparent in all other games besides Full Game Early Demo.
  • Because of this, Nothing is also one of the only items to not be sold at Johnny's Store, with the other being the Bus Pass.
    • It does, however, have a placeholder Store description, referencing how it is only accessible in the shop by either using hacks or modifying the game.
• Technically speaking, It's a Bully does give the player an item back, he gives them "Nothing" in replacement of one of their other items when they interact with him.
  • The same applies to Baldi when he comes in contact with the player when they have An Apple for Baldi in their inventory.
• Nothing's placeholder icon only appears in Baldi's Basics Full Game Early Demo. It remains unused in both later demos and Baldi's Basics Plus.
• Nothing has a pick-up animation like any other item, but because Nothing lacks a visual and audio cue, this cannot technically be seen by the player. The only evidence of this is within the game's code.
• In the changelog for V0.6, mystman12 stated that the "fan favorite "nothing" item [...], now has a question mark sprite assigned as its large icon.", stating that not only is the Nothing item recognized as an official item, but a "fan favorite" as well.

Glitches

• In V0.8.1, if the Shrinking Inventory Game Setting is selected, the small icon for Nothing can replace the icon for another icon when losing a power tube. This only happens after the inventory has shrunk.
  • This can be combatted as the item reappears as normal after swapping another item it with, or putting it in the storage locker.

Audio

Sound	Description
	What Nothing sounds like.

Gallery

The texture for Nothing for the mobile item button in Baldi's Basics Classic and Birthday Bash.

The icon for Nothing in Baldi's Basics Full Game Early Demo.