The player

For other uses, see Play (disambiguation).

The player
The player's real model, visible by using hacks.
Profile information
AKA*	Determined* FRIEND* Capsule Collider* OOOOOOOOOO* Note: The following content may have spoilers for the deep lore. Idiot* LIAR* USER*
Species	Shape*
Gender	Determined
Job	Student
Program information
Spawn location	Elevators (Plus) Exits (Classic/Birthday Bash/Classic Remastered) Hallways (Field Trip demo: Camping)
Attracts Baldi	Making door, swinging door, or locker sounds When answering all problems incorrectly in the You Can Think Pad Inserting the wrong Math Machine balloon into Baldi's Math Machine When answering at least one problem incorrectly in the You Can Think Pad for the first time (Classic Remastered only)
Noise value	127*
Floor debut	Floor 1
Development information
Created with	Unity
Added in	Baldi's Basics Classic (V1.0)

To help him out, you have to go back in the school and find all his notebooks for him.

—"HOW TO PLAY" story screen, to the player, Baldi's Basics Classic

The player is the unidentifiable main protagonist in the Baldi's Basics series. Due to the fact that the player is represented as the person themselves with no revealed identity (gender, name, species, etc.), the characters constantly do fourth wall breaks when speaking to them. The player takes the role of a student of the Schoolhouse or Super Schoolhouse to retrieve all notebooks while avoiding Baldi.

The player actively keeps track of how many notebooks they have at any given time with diligence as it is their main mission, indicated by the notebook counter located on the top left corner. Their inventory on the top right keeps track of the items, depending on the game, they currently have in their possession. There is a stamina meter located at the bottom left corner. In Baldi's Basics Classic and Baldi's Basics Birthday Bash, the inventory can only store three items, and the stamina meter is located at the top center between the two others HUDs.

Description

The game is played from a first-person perspective, so the player's external appearance is never shown. They see from slightly below Baldi's eye level, indicating that they are shorter than him by default as if they are young.

Principal of the Thing gives hints that they are a child, as when sending them to detention, he says that they should know better and shouldn't make him send them to detention again, but still insists on telling their parents about what they did, even for a small infraction such as running in the halls.

1st Prize claims to be programmed to desire their image and will chase them relentlessly in a prolonged effort to hug or push them.

Curiously, the player's movement lacks view bobbing, potentially identifying that they slide around similar to everyone else.

The player is only heard making a direct sound three times. They are heard blowing the birthday cake's candle out in Baldi's Basics Birthday Bash and Party Style of Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered, drinking from water fountains in Baldi's Basics Plus, and can be heard biting into an Energy Flavored Zesty Bar in Baldi's Basics Plus.

Personality

The player is excellent at quick mental subjects such as addition and subtraction in math problems. However, they fail to solve more complex problems either because those problems are genuinely impossible, or they simply cannot understand how to solve them.

The player's morality can be shaped through their actions—for example, while it is not necessary to cut Playtime's jump rope (which is considered a rude action but temporarily thwarts Playtime being an obstacle), the player could engage in such an action without hesitation. Given that the Safety Scissors has no other friendly uses, it could be implied that the player would always grab and use them for their purpose of cutting Playtime's jump rope, or some other similarly malicious action such as cutting 1st Prize's wiring. However, performing such an action grants the player extra time to evade Baldi, resulting in a greater chance of survival, albeit at the cost of someone else. Therefore, it can be assumed that everything questionable that the player does or may do is in the spirit of evading Baldi and not being a bully.

Although perhaps the player is only doing it for the items they can obtain, the player goes camping with Baldi, so it seems that the player likes to go camping.

They seem to lack many of the human characteristics that would typically make such a scenario as Baldi's Basics impossible, such as fear or shock that would typically faze any other person too much to engage in Baldi's scenario efficiently enough to survive.

It can be assumed that the player is not very assertive or strong, as the player is unable to circumvent hazards that other characters bring, such as being caught by Baldi, being stuck jumping rope with Playtime, failing to walk past It's a Bully without any items, being caught breaking the school rules by Principal of the Thing, being pushed with ease by Gotta Sweep or 1st Prize, getting caught in Beans' gum, slipping on a 'Nana Peel, or told to get to Mrs. Pomp's classroom without being late. Furthermore, their generosity and lack of assertiveness is shown by the fact that they are willing to stay in school after hours.

Note: The following content may have spoilers for the deep lore.
The player also seems to be a very curious person, because the player managed to discover all the secrets in Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered, despite Null's warnings not to continue playing. The player also appears to be a prankster, because according to NINENINE secret, on April 17, 2019, they prank called a distant relative of a character named “Lord Bumbo.”

Role

Baldi's Basics Plus

As the player enters the school, they are greeted by Baldi standing in front of the elevator. The player has to find classrooms which contain a notebook each. When Baldi finishes his countdown, he will start chasing the player. After the player has succeeded to collect all the notebooks, all elevators are open. The player has to escape by going through all elevators depending on the floor they are on while trying to avoid Baldi in order to complete the game.

Baldi's Basics Classic/Birthday Bash/Classic Remastered

When collecting a notebook, the You Can Think Pad will appear for the player to answer math questions. After the player answers all of the questions correctly in the first notebook, Baldi will give them a Quarter (Present in Birthday Bash and Party Style of Classic Remastered). But as soon as the player views the third question of the second notebook, it shows a distorted math question, as mystman12 designed the game in such a way that the player would always fail the third question from the second to seventh notebook. The first notebook does not have that question. Instead of elevators, the player has to go to four exits. Each exit disappears, showing a map indicating where the player is until the fourth exit, which they have to go through in order to escape the school. However, in Baldi's Basics Birthday Bash and Party Style of Classic Remastered, instead of getting out of the Schoolhouse, all characters greet them as a surprise party instead.

In Demo Style of Classic Remastered, the player can get a notebook from Baldi's Math Machine after answering a math problem. In this style, only the second problem is impossible to solve as it is always glitched out.

In Baldi's Basics Classic and Classic Remastered, the player's friend requests them to head back to the Schoolhouse to navigate the notebooks for him.

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

Possibly after following Null's message to "do worse though" in Classic Style, the player finds Null in Baldi's office, and despite what Null said, the player decides to continue playing the game. After finding Null in Party Style and Demo Style and beating the game with all the Fun Settings activated, the player faces Null in NULL Style. The player manages to get all the notebooks, but when the player was about to escape, Null closes the last exit, something that was not supposed to happen. In spite of this, the player decides to throw objects to Null to be able to face him, something that the player achieves, and Null ends up disappearing in mystman12's office.

Speed

Baldi's Basics Plus

Type of moving	Time to navigate through a tile
Walking	0.6 seconds
Running	0.4 seconds

Baldi's Basics Classic/Birthday Bash/Classic Remastered

Type of moving	Time to navigate through a tile
Walking	0.7 seconds
Running	0.5 seconds

Trivia

General

• Even if Baldi's Basics Plus is in final development, there will be no other playable characters.
• The player is the only character in the Baldi's Basics series that is a 3D model, instead of a pre-rendered sprite, even though the player is only a gray cylinder.
• On Anthony Hampton’s X videos, the player has a face similar to Baldi.

Baldi's Basics Plus

• The player's icon on the map shown as a white triangle, which was first seen in development footage from mystman12.
  • Also, there is another arrow on the bottom left at 0:20 in the video. mystman12 confirmed that it was a leftover for multiplayer mode.

Baldi's Basics - Field Trip demo: Camping

• When hacking by disabling the first-person view and forcing meshes to be visible, the player's identity is a tall, whitish-gray cylinder model. mystman12 even refers the player as Capsule Collider, based on the model's name. The cylinder is actually a Unity-Mesh Type, but by default, the player's model is invisible.
  • This cylinder model is the only model for this character as of October 8, 2022.

Baldi's Basics in Education and Learning: Development Build

• The player's movement seems to be more ice-like because it is not using some sort of rounded speed as the normal game does. The reason for the player's strange movements and varying speed seems to be due to the game being played with a controller.

Audio

Baldi's Basics Plus

Sound	Caption	Description
	*Slurp*	When the player drinks from a water fountain.
	*CRUNCH*	When the player eats an Energy Flavored Zesty Bar.

Baldi's Basics Birthday Bash/Classic Remastered

Sound	Description
	The sound the player makes when blowing out the fire on the cake's candle.

Gallery

The player's icon on the map screen.

The player's model in Baldi's Basics Classic's pre-release screenshot with PlaceFace.