The player needs to stand close to the machine, press the Interact key/button with a Quarter selected, and they will purchase an item.
In the current version of Baldi's Basics Plus and Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered, all BSODA, Zesty and Diet BSODA machines only have one use. Once a Quarter is inserted into them, they will display a sign over the machine that reads "Out of goodnes".
Types[]
All vending machines are entirely 3D models with a cuboid shape. They come in four types.
BSODA[]
A BSODA machine seen in a hallway.
It is a soda machine containing a BSODA item. The machine overall has bluish colored-tints and white "BSODA" text. This vending machine is rare to find since V0.6, because Diet BSODA was added in this version. It is only found in certain seeds.
Zesty[]
The machine that grants an Energy Flavored Zesty Bar. It has an orange gradient on a rectangular prism, the "ZESTY" text on the top, the "BAR" text on the bottom, and the Energy Flavored Zesty Bar's icon on the middle. This vending machine is very common and is present in almost every seed.
Diet BSODA[]
This machine grants a Diet BSODA. It has a light blue background with white accents, and dark blue "DIET BSODA" text. It was added in V0.6. This vending machine is very common and is present in almost every seed.
Crazy[]
A crazy BSODA vending machine.
Ditto, but with the Zesty Bar design.
These machines have a very rare chance to replace regular vending machines. They are either BSODA or Zesty machines, but with a poster saying "GET A CRAZY ITEM!" poorly placed over the original machine labels. The poster on the BSODA machine is slightly more stretched out than the one on the Zesty machine.
Unlike the other three machines, which only give specific items, these machines will give a random item, except for Nothing and a Quarter, and a Quarter can be inserted 10 times before the stock is out, but the player would usually receive around 7 Quarters in a game, so the player would have more than enough to use these vending machines. These machines were first introduced to Plus in V0.4.
In Birthday Bash and Party Style of Classic Remastered, these machines can also appear, and function similarly to how they do in Baldi's Basics Plus. However, they can only give out a random item from Baldi's Basics Classic, also except for a Quarter, or a Dangerous Teleporter. They will also always replace other vending machines.
The non-crazy vending machines can commonly be found in hallways and faculty rooms. The cafeteria is where several vending machines are found. Vending machines can very rarely be found in the library. Since V0.8, they can sometimes be found in classrooms too.
Rarely, crazy vending machines can be generated in any location.
Challenges[]
In the Speedy Challenge, both types are found. There are one BSODA machine and three Zesty machines.
In Baldi's Basics Classic, the BSODA machine can be found in one of the hallways (next to the door on the left of the faculty room with Baldi's Least Favorite Tape) and the cafeteria. The Zesty machine is located in one of the faculty rooms with the Principal's Keys, the Big Ol' Boots poster, and the WD-NoSquee item.
In Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered, the vending machine makes a sound when a Quarter is inserted. Also, all vending machines have light guides, so the player can see the light effect for these machines, especially when the building gets darker.
In Baldi's Basics Full Game Early Demo, a Zesty machine and a BSODA machine are found in a hallway alongside a faculty room with a Quarter and the Principal's Keys. Another Zesty machine is found outside of the Principal's office.
The BSODA machine disappearing in the Speedy Challenge.
In Baldi's Basics - Challenges Demo, the BSODA machine in the Speedy Challenge will disappear once the player inserts a Quarter into it.
Trivia[]
Baldi's Basics Plus[]
The sign that appeared when the machine is out of stock was first considered in one of Basically, Games!'s itch.io comments.[1] This was then first introduced in V0.3.
Prior to this update, each vending machine usually had an infinite amount of items inside, likely making the game easier for the player (if they had a lot of Quarters).
Prior to V0.3.3, this sign did not display in pre-generated maps such as Endless Mode's Medium option and in challenges.
The Diet BSODA vending machine is the first vending machine not to include a "crazy" variant.
The word "goodness" in the sign when the vending machine is out of stock is misspelled as "goodnes".
Prior to V0.3.8, there was no light guide for vending machines.
From V0.4 to V0.6, crazy vending machines did not grant all items.
Baldi's Basics Plus/Classic Remastered[]
Crazy vending machines can also run out of stock if 10 Quarters are used in a single machine. Crazy vending machines with both BSODA and Zesty machine textures will have the BSODA machine texture when they are out of stock. This can only be done with Debug Mode enabled.
Baldi's Basics Classic/Birthday Bash[]
The tops of the vending machines are not present.
However, the tops are modeled in Baldi's Basics Plus and Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered. Since the player cannot see the tops of the vending machines, so only way to see the tops of them are using hacks. The same goes for lockers.
Baldi's Basics Full Game Early Demo[]
It is possible to purchase an item from behind the vending machine and from the sides.
↑"I wanted to limit it to only one BSODA (When testing I found it to be too easy with infinite BSODAs since there are some really long hallways in the level) so as a quick fix I just made it disappear. I'll eventually have an "out of stock" sign or something appear on empty vending machines." - Basically Games' comment on Version 1.0 bug reports post
