When Principal of the Thing catches the player breaking the school rules (excluding "No bullying" and "No fourth wall breaks", as the player cannot actually commit them without modifications), he gives the player detention for a certain amount of time, depending on how many times the player gets detention in a round.
In Baldi's Basics Plus, the detention timer is featured on the timer above all doors leading out of the Principal's office. It also counts down 1.25x faster than real time, so detention will last shorter than other games.
When Mrs. Pomp reaches the player, she will tell them to be at her class in 2 minutes. If the player visits Mrs. Pomp's class in time, 100 You Thought Points will be awarded. However, entering any room after the time runs out will trigger a rather furious Mrs. Pomp to appear.
After completing a floor, the results screen displays the time taken to complete it. If the player completed the floor within a certain time, they will be awarded You Thought Points.
Time limit[]
The time limit next to an elevator.
The time limit displayed on the map.
Class dismissed! School is no longer in session! Better wrap things up soon, or else I'm gonna fiiiiind yoooooou!
However, if the "1 Minute Limit" challenge is enabled in the Game Settings, all time limits are set to 1 minute regardless of the floor.
The timer will not start until Baldi starts chasing the player, meaning the player can safely explore the Super Schoolhouse until then.
If the time limit reaches 5, 3 or 1 minute, it will be displayed on Baldi's TV.
The player has to escape the floor before the time limit runs out. If the time limit does run out, the Lights Outevent will begin and Baldi will announce it on his TV.
The Lights Out event will remain active until the player leaves the floor they are in. While this event is active, the following will happen:
Hallways will begin to dim.
Principal of the Thing will turn off the lights after leaving any room. He will also scold the player for "being in school after-hours" as soon as he sees them.
Baldi will gradually get faster until he is so fast that he is virtually impossible to avoid.
Once the teleporter is used in the teleporter room, there will be a 30 second cooldown to use the teleporter again.
Trivia[]
General[]
According to mystman12's livestream, either the first detention time would be changed to 10 seconds or the current one would be kept and the detention time increment would be reduced to 5 seconds in Baldi's Basics Plus. The developer said that a detention of 30 seconds or longer makes Baldi very likely catch the player unless they use Baldi's Least Favorite Tape to distract him for a while.[1]
Since Full Game Early Demo, the increment is 5 seconds, but the initial detention time is still 15 seconds.
Baldi's Basics Plus[]
Prior to V0.1.2, the timer to Mrs. Pomp's class could still be seen on the map command even when her class is dismissed.
Prior to V0.2, in the result screen, the time to complete the floor was always 99:99 as a placeholder.
Prior to V0.3, Mrs. Pomp's timer was 4 minutes in all gamemodes, except for the Grapple Challenge, where it was 2 minutes.
Prior to V0.3, the camping field trip's timer counted down from 180 seconds (3 minutes). Once it reaches 0, the field trip would end and the player would get prizes depending on the final score. It was located at the top left of the screen.
Prior to V0.3, the farm field trip's timer mechanism was different. If the timer reached 150–350 seconds (between 2 minutes and 30 seconds and 5 minutes and 50 seconds), a giant Gotta Sweep would spawn, reaping the corn maze and causing an angry Baldi to spawn and chase the player.
The detention timer prior to V0.8.
Prior to V0.8, the detention timer consisted of plain text and counted down at the same speed as real time, which is still used in other games and demos.
The timer is located at the top right of the screen, instead of the top left.
Glitches[]
Baldi's Basics Plus[]
Prior to V0.1.2, the maximum detention time was 65 seconds. However, Principal of the Thing said "99 seconds" instead.
Prior to V0.8, the detention timer was misaligned, especially with 10 or more seconds left. However, this still applies in Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered.
This happened from V0.3.3 to V0.7.1. In this version, only the detention timer's number was misaligned. From V0.3.4 to V0.7.1, the detention timer line with the timer was slightly moved to the left.
A number, used in the timers for detention and time limit.
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A colon, used for dividing minutes and seconds.
A box timer.
Teasers[]
A teaser of the timer in the V0.8 Status Update.
References[]
↑"One thing I think I'll probably do in the full game is make it so detention doesn't increment as high. I'll probably start out like 10 or maybe to keep it a 15 seconds and then make a increment by like 5 seconds each time or something like that. 'Cause it really is kinda like, once you get 30 seconds, it's most likely you're gonna die and that 45 seconds is like there's no chance, unless you do have a tape." - Livestream archive 55:19-55:41
