Hello everyone!

It looks like I'm due to write up a new status update, so let's jump right into it!

If you didn't hear, there is a Beans plushie from Makeship available now! There are only a few days left to grab one, so be sure to check it out soon if you'd like one. You can find it on Makeship's website here:

https://www.makeship.com/products/beans-plushie

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It's hard to believe, but a couple days ago Baldi's Basics had its eighth anniversary! I didn't have anything lined up to celebrate, but I did see a lot of awesome fan art for which I'm very thankful. It means a lot that so many of you have stuck around after all this time and that many new fans keep showing up despite how old Baldi's Basics is getting. I can't properly express how much of a blessing it is that I can keep working on this project full time and I'm incredibly thankful to God and to all of you for making that possible. As development continues I will keep trying my best to make a game that will be worth the wait!

While I didn't have any big anniversary plans this year, I did recently start an official Baldi's Basics archive which includes several pre-1.0 builds of Baldi's Basics Classic! I will occasionally add more builds to the archive, but for now you can check out what I've uploaded here:

https://basically-games.itch.io/baldis-basics-classic-archives

As discussed in the previous status update, Baldi's Basics Plus version 0.14 has now released and brings several QOL improvements, bug fixes and balance changes to the game. Since then 0.14.1 has also released and I am currently working on more improvements that are being queued up for 0.14.2. The plan is to continue releasing 0.14 sub-versions on occasion to keep improving the game's state in early access while I continue working on version 1.0 exclusive content.

I do want to again clarify something I've said previously that I've frequently seen being misinterpreted/misunderstood. 0.14 was the last scheduled major early access update. Emphasis on "scheduled". There very well may be a 0.15 and beyond if it makes sense to do so. The only difference now is that I am not beholding myself to a specific early access release cadence. On that note, I also want to emphasize that 0.14 is not even close to representing the planned 1.0 release. Some people seem to think that version 1.0 is just going to look like 0.14 with a bit more content slapped on, but I can assure you that version 1.0 will be a hugely substantial update!

That leads me the next topic...

Progress on the 1.0 horizontal slice has been going very well. Over the past couple of months I've been toggling between early access development and h-slice development every week. In fact, the h-slice is finished!.. Is what I would be saying if every feature turned out as great as I imagined it would.

For the most part, everything I've implemented for the h-slice has turned out great, but there is one sub-set of features that I've had to reevaluate as A) I've struggled to click every aspect of it into place and B) The ideas I've tried out for this thing are not turning out to be as fun as I'd hoped. I will be exploring a new approach that I think will work better. As a result I'll be working on the h-slice a bit longer before I can consider it finished.

This isn't a bad thing! One of the reasons for doing the h-slice is to implement ideas and make sure they actually work before fully fleshing them out. Finding things that don't work and revising them is all part of the process.

Aside from that, I have implemented some really cool stuff that I'd love to show you all, but I have to restrain myself since it's stuff that will be even cooler if it's saved as a surprise, so it will have to wait. That said, here's a screenshot of the h-slice that I can show you:

I can't go into details regarding the search for a publisher at this time, but I can at the very least confirm that there has been some movement in this area since the last status update. Currently I'm feeling very optimistic that we will end up with a good publisher! As I've mentioned before, announcements will be made once everything is finalized and planned out. Until then details will have to be kept under wraps.

I think that covers everything! As usual I will post another status update in a couple of months. Until then I will be hard at work on Baldi's Basics Plus 0.14 sub-versions and the h-slice!

Thank you all for your support and patience!

Hello everyone!

I'm happy to announce that version 0.14.1 is available now! This update brings a few more quality of life improvements to the game, including a complete overhaul to the central room in the factory levels. Check it out, I'm sure the changes will grab your attention!

In other news, a Beans Plushie campaign from Makeship was launched a few weeks ago! This plushie was designed with input from Beans' creator, Padre Snowmizzle, and looks great. The campaign is currently scheduled to end on March 28, so be sure to check it out here[www.makeship.com] before then if you want one.

Now onto the changelog!

• Replaced the conveyor belt room in the factory with a new crane room.

  • Several cranes randomly move around in this room. Whenever one moves over an entity, it will pick up the entity and then drop it onto one of the available output conveyor belts.

  • The conveyor belt flaps are now placed at the ends of the output conveyor belt instead of at the entrances of the central room in the factory.

  • The buttons that toggle conveyor belt directions are now found inside the crane room next to the conveyor belt output entrances instead of at the ends of the output conveyor belts.

• The cafeteria now has a raised ceiling.

• The lightbulb testing room now has unique on and off light sprites.

• Chalkes' transparency is now rendered via dithering instead of the sprite renderer's color alpha.

• Updated the Principal of the Thing's character poster to reflect his updated sprite.

• Updated a Kickstarter backer's name in the credits.

• Lights can now be assigned separate on and off sprites.

• Fixed an oversight with singletons being destroyed. A singleton being destroyed would maintain an instance of the current instance class in memory, even if the game object ceased to exist. Now, if a singleton's game object is destroyed, the singleton instance variable will be set to null.

• Windows now have controllable properties for being breakable and for allowing audio to pass through them.

• Fixed a bug where, if the sticker opening animation was stopped before finishing, it would resume where it left off the next time it played, displaying stickers collected from a previous pack instead of the newly opened pack.

• Fixed an issue where conveyor belts didn't mark the floor of the cell they were generated on as covered. This allowed objects such as lockers to generate on top of them.

• Corrected an issue with The Test where it would be sent to the EntityBuffer layer when disabled instead of the disabled layer.

• Fixed an issue where lights could generate above exit signs.

• The new crane sound effects are missing captions.

• AudioManagers playing multiple sounds in different mixer groups at once causes volume conflicts.

• NPCs occasionally getting stuck against walls

• NPCs can collide between solid surfaces.

• Key Bindings aren't saved per user

• In the laboratory level type, class rooms that appear to be in one zone sometimes actually count for another zone.

• YTP Multiplier sticker can be used on field trips minigames

• Sticker tutorial voice lines sound different from the others.

• Power lever cables that have defaulted to on do not always buzz.

• Quickly Pausing/Unpausing can result in the game not rendering while unpaused (Also applies to the Packet-O-Matic)

• Whirlpools can teleport entities to the inside of hallway pillars

• If a breaker switch exists on the same cell as a normal light, it will not light green during a power outage.

• Dr. Reflex will get his hammer instantly if he cannot find a path to his clinic.

• Completing an activity in a room attached to a locked room will attempt to unlock the locked room doors.

• Cloudy Copter's wind can pass through solid objects like lockdown doors

• There is no indication for when entities are about to become unsquished

• Cloudy Copter can blow wind from a location he is not at if he cannot find a path to that spot

• Placing an alarm clock in a doorway prevents the door from being clicked

• Captions are more likely to stack on top of each other and become hard to read due to the new sound propagation system.

• Mrs. Pomp's map time is oddly placed in odd shaped rooms.

• Seeds show in pre-made map elevators.

• Held sprites (Such as when holding a balloon) use the lighting of OOB when held against a wall.

• CoreGameManager sounds stack and then play all at the same time when the environment is frozen.

• Maps from saved sessions are bugged when updating from an older version with different level generation.

• PotT doesn't open/close doors while fleeing from the tape.

• The player camera can rotate while inside the locker

• Opening the advanced map while inside the locker causes visual issues.

• Invalid Portal Poster sound doesn't always play when attempting to place a Portal Poster.

• Entity lighting and visibility constantly fluctuates based on the below cells while traveling though vents.

• Using the Hourglass sticker in explorer mode causes the incorrect time limit to appear.

• Multi-poster posters can spawn in places where they are not completed or have gaps.

• YTP display snaps when quickly toggling it's raised state by going in and out of Johnny's store.

• Entities can occasionally be seen clipping through the walls of vents due to the way they can crisscross

• The locker rule is not listed on the school rules poster.

• Beans will repeatedly run back and forth if he sees the player but there is an obstacle between them requiring him to move away around a corner to try and approach them

• One-way doors that fail to generate and revert to swinging doors still keep one-way icon on map

• Pressing opposite directions in advanced map causes slow movement.

• Arts and Crafters' echoes don't always match Crafters' orientation during Gravity Chaos.

• On some screen resolutions, the elevator screen has gaps that can be seen through.

• Lockdown doors near spawn can be seen snapping to the open position when game starts.

• If an entity gets squished while gum is stuck to it, it won't render properly.