This small update adds a tutorial and a couple other QOL features!—Changelog, February 10, 2025
Version 0.9 is the thirty-first regular update and eighth major update of Baldi's Basics Plus. It was released on February 10, 2025, and mainly focuses on adding a new mode, the Tutorial.
Documented changes[]
V0.9[]
Additions[]
- Added an interactive tutorial level. This tutorial teaches the players about the game's core mechanics.
- Players on files that have never been prompted before will receive a prompt to play the tutorial when clicking the play button on the main menu.
- The tutorial can be accessed by clicking the new "Tutorial" button on the mode selection screen.
- The tutorial features chalkboards which display the currently set inputs for game actions. These chalk boards will refresh whenever the game is un-paused to reflect any changes to controls made during the tutorial.
- The tutorial includes a new placeholder music track created with Microsoft Music Producer.
- Added tons of new Baldi voicelines for the tutorial.
- Added a dedicated Hide-and-Seek menu.
- Play Styles, challenge options and seed input have been moved to this screen.
- Explorer Mode has been moved to this screen. It is now a Play Style option.
- When there is a saved game, there is now a button which will allow players to start a new game alongside the continue button.
- Added an in-game keyboard for entering new file names.
- If there are no save files, players will be taken directly to this screen when starting the game.
- Gave Baldi a new speaking animation which automatically lip-syncs to his audio. This is used in the tutorial and when correctly completing activities.
- Added lockdown doors which cannot be closed after being opened (Currently only used in the tutorial).
- Added the Anim8or Community Discord to special thanks section in the credits.
Changes[]
- The new file button is now always visible on the file select screen if there is an unused slot available, instead of only being visible on Steam Deck.
- Certain structure builders can now be used to populate pre-generated maps. This is used to generate lockers, water fountains and plants in the tutorial map.
- Tweaked Baldi's file select screen voicelines to accommodate for the changes made to file creation.
- The save and quit poster in the Pit Stop no longer mentions that players cannot save in Explorer Mode. That information is now shown on the Play Style tooltip.
Bug Fixes[]
- Fixed volumetric audio sources, such as that of conveyor belts and Cloudy Copter's wind, not being propagated.
- Finally fixed BSODA not properly pushing entities through conveyor belts/wind when they enter the triggers of those objects after colliding with the BSODA.
- Fixed a few old typos (Unspecified).
Pre-release Changelog[]
- Added a third classroom to the final section of the tutorial to prevent it from being completed too quickly.
- Fixed a bug that caused all modes to use whatever challenge and Play Style settings were selected in the Hide-and-Seek menu.
- Fixed a bug that caused saved games to be erased when playing any mode, not just starting a new game.
- Removed the window between the first hall and the Principal's office in the tutorial.
- Posters in the tutorial principal's office are now spread apart.
- Fixed a bug in the tutorial that caused Baldi to repeat instructions when placing a BSODA in the storage locker and taking it out again. Now Baldi will only repeat the instructions to spray him with the BSODA when using the quarter on the BSODA machine.
- Increased the prices of items in Johnny's Store in the tutorial.
- Re-enabled the ability for Johnny to let players buy items they are 100 or fewer You Thought Points short of affording in the tutorial.
- Fixed a bug that allowed buttons behind the tutorial prompt to be clicked on.
- Updated the copyright year to 2025.
- Fixed an oversight that caused Floor 3 to be labeled as Floor 2 in Steam Recorder.
- Fixed an bug that caused Baldi to become stuck on his praise sprite in some scenarios.
- Fixed a bug that caused the item icons of items in slots that had previously been lost via the "Shrinking Inventory" challenge to not appear when losing and reloading.
- Reduced the volume of the tutorial music track.
- After Baldi finishes counting down, he will briefly switch to his smiling sprite before changing to the normal ruler sprite.
V0.9a[]
Hey everyone, I'm just letting you all know that I just released a super minor update to fix an issue where finishing the tutorial would not switch Steam Input to the "Interface" action set, which made it impossible to close the tutorial results screen and continue to the main menu when using Steam Input (This was most noticeable on Steam Deck where Steam Input is on by default). Since the first thing most new players will do now is play the tutorial, I didn't want to leave a bug that would require some to force close the game after completing it, so I went ahead and fixed the issue now. I'm sorry for any inconvenience this issue may have caused, and thanks to those who reported it!—Changelog
This version is exclusive to Steam and can be considered the thirty-second regular update patch of the game. It is a hotfix that fixes a bug with the tutorial not behaving properly when using Steam Input.
Undocumented changes[]
V0.9[]
- The "few old typos" that were fixed are the following:
- The word "freinds" in the description for the Dirty Chalk Eraser.
- The word "progess" in the description for the farm field trip.
- Baldi's waving sprites were slightly changed; his left elbow is now blue instead of gray.
V0.9a[]
- Baldi's apple eating sprites were slightly changed; his left elbow is now blue instead of gray.
Trivia[]
V0.9[]
- Many people thought this update would be the last early access version of Baldi's Basics Plus before it was clarified that the game's builds would be released in a different format.[1]
- This update was originally supposed to be focused on fixing bugs in the list of known issues.[2] However, that did not end up happening due to mystman12 mainly focusing on developing the tutorial for this version, which took most of his development time in January 2025.[3]
- This version is the first Baldi's Basics Plus version to have added an additional mode, this being the Tutorial.
V0.9a[]
- This version is the first Baldi's Basics Plus version to have a letter in its name, and to be an exclusive hotfix to Steam.
- This is the fifth version in the series to have a letter in its name.
- This is the second version to have the letter "a" in its name.
- This version does not have any numbered sub-versions.
References[]
- ↑ "Oh, and just a note since there seems to be some confusion regarding version numbers; Baldi's Basics Plus is using semantic versioning, so after 0.9 will come 0.10, 0.11, etc. I wanted to clarify this since I've seen that some people think 0.9 will be the last early access version of the game. I don't currently know what the last early access version will be, but it will be well beyond 0.9!" - Version 0.8 Status Update
- ↑ "With that in mind, 0.9 (Which will likely release at the beginning of February) will probably be focused on bug fixes since the list of known issues getting quite large and that will be a good way to warm back up after taking a short break." - Version 0.8 Status Update
- ↑ "Previously I had announced that 0.9 would be focused almost exclusively on bug fixes. However, before I got started on that I decided to do some work on the tutorial level I have been planning for a little while, and that ended up taking most of my development time in January. So unfortunately I did not get around to fixing many bugs, instead opting to work on some other important, albeit unexciting, improvements to the game." - Version 0.9 Changelog