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Principal of the Thing

Staminometer with stamina

The Staminometer that is used to feature the stamina.

Stamina is a meter HUD in the Baldi's Basics series. It allows the player to run anywhere so they can get away from Baldi or other characters and collect notebooks faster and more efficiently.

Mechanics

Baldi's Basics Plus

Stamina

The Staminometer's needle moving.

The amount of stamina left is displayed by the Staminometer, located at the bottom left of the screen. It has a red to green gradient background, text at the top that says "STAMINOMETER", and a blue needle that displays the amount of stamina the player has. It is located at the bottom left of the screen as a heads-up display.

When the player runs by holding the "Run" key (Left Shift by default), the Staminometer's needle will move to the left. If the Principal of the Thing sees the player run for more than a half second (except in the playground and Principal's office), he will scold them for breaking one of the school rules, so caution should be taken while running.

There are five ways to recharge stamina:

  • Stopping and waiting for several seconds.
  • Eating an Energy Flavored Zesty Bar, which will set the player's stamina to 200%.
  • Collecting a notebook.
  • Walking around or standing still in the playground. (Running here does not recharge nor drop the stamina.)
  • Drinking from a water fountain.
Staminometer empty

When stamina is empty.

Overcharged stamina

The Staminometer without the needle.

If the Staminometer's needle is located at the left and covering half of the needle, the player will not be able to run, making them vulnerable to Baldi. Also, when the player eats an Energy Flavored Zesty Bar, the needle cannot be seen. It will slowly move to the left while they are using stamina until it returns to the normal full position, then the drain speed returns to normal.


Baldi's Basics Classic/Baldi's Basics Birthday Bash

Stamina Classic

The stamina bar.

Out-of-Stamina

The meter when stamina has completely run out.

The stamina meter is located on the top center of the screen. It is a green bar with a red background, and when it runs out, a warning (YOU NEED REST!) will display at the bottom of the meter.

Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered

Authentic

Staminometer in Authentic Mode.

It uses the same design as Baldi's Basics Plus. However, in Authentic Mode, there is a lever on top of the Staminometer to toggle running.


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

The player has infinite stamina while in Baldi's Office, the glitched school, and Baldi's Basement, so even if they run, their stamina will not deplete.



Trivia

General

  • The player recharges stamina while they are playing Playtime's minigame, if they are standing still*, which would seemingly and logically consume energy. This might be due to the fact that the player is standing still when they play jump rope, and mystman12 did not program the jumping to decrease stamina.
    • It might also be due to the fact that because the player is standing still* and is vulnerable to Baldi, the stamina recharges to allow the player to run away from Baldi if he is close by once the player had finished Playtime's jump rope minigame. This keeps the game fair.

Baldi's Basics Plus

  • Prior to V0.2, the stamina did not have the "STAMINOMETER" texture and it was only a plain bar, which was the same as the one in Baldi's Basics Classic prior to V1.4.
  • Prior to V0.3, it allowed the player to collect logs quickly and bring them to the campfire before it dies out in the camping field trip.
  • Staminometer with stamina Plus V0.3

    The old Staminometer from V0.2 to V0.3.4.

    Prior to V0.3.5, the stamina was featured as green or red bar. The red part of the bar meant depleted stamina.


Baldi's Basics Classic

  • The stamina was changed three times via update patches:
    • Prior to V1.1, if the player was out of stamina, it would recharge after standing still for 3 seconds. Also, notebooks did not refill the stamina.
    • Out of stamina Classic V1.3
      The "YOU NEED REST!" warning was a bit different from V1.2 to V1.3.2: The font was bold, non-pixelated, colored in black instead of red, and would flash rapidly. In other words, the text would look like "YOU NEED REST!".
    • Prior to V1.3, the player would slow down when they ran out of stamina. Since this version, the player will move at walking speed in that case.
    • Prior to V1.4, the stamina meter was located at the bottom left corner of the screen. Since this version, the meter is located at the top middle.
Note: The following content may have spoilers for the deep lore.

  • Classic HUD outside

    The stamina meter seen outside when using hacks.

    In Baldi's Office, the stamina GUI moves outside the hallway where the player sees the splash screen, along with the inventory and the notebook counter. This can only be seen when using noclip hacks.



Baldi's Basics Birthday Bash

  • While the player is on the elevator-like platform, the stamina will not be refilled until they blow out the fire on the cake's candle. Pressing the "Run" key will reduce the stamina in that case.

Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered

Baldi's Basics - Field Trip demo: Camping

  • FieldTripDemo-screenshot3

    The old stamina meter in Field Trip demo.

    In V1.0, the stamina meter appeared to be much smaller than in the current version and other games.


Glitches

Baldi's Basics Plus

  • mystman12 tried to fix the glitch that the stamina did not recharge in the blue locker in V0.1.4, but since another glitch occurred, the blue locker issue was left unfixed after fixing the new glitch.[2] It was later fixed in V0.1.5 along with a similar glitch while teleporting or getting sucked in the whirlpool.
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    Staminometer above the event box.

    Prior to V0.3.4, the Staminometer was layered above the event box.
  • In V0.5, stamina was not reduced when the player was slower than their walking speed. It happened when they were running in the opposite direction of Cloudy Copter's wind or conveyor belts.


Gallery

References

  1. "Q: "True, but Birthday Bash didn't give you infinite stamina ;)" / A: "But it might soon!" - mystman12. YouTube
  2. "Stamina now recharges while inside lockers Okay so this is embarrassing... I fixed this, and then this introduced another bug, so I fixed that, which ultimately... Unfixed this and I didn't realize it until after I released the update. OOPS! Expect this to be fixed in the next update." - Baldi's Basics Plus V0.1.4 Changelog

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