Guide Has Hint Is Not Solution (WIP)

We all know the feeling of being stuck in a puzzle game. Some prefer hints over solutions, and this is exactly what this guide offers.

Stuff

• Notation: "baba" = baba text, whereas baba = object baba.
  
• Hints are ranked from vague to explicit, view one at a time for minimum spoilers.
  
• Intended or not, some levels have alternative solutions which are also included in the guide.
  
• We are not native speakers, expect some mistakes.
  
• "Forest" refers to Ch.5 (Deep Forest), whereas Ch.4 (Forest of Fall) is referred to as "Fall".
  
• If you find hints that are misleading, unhelpful or both, feel free to leave a comment, and we will revise. Thanks in advance!
  
• Game is constantly updated at this point. Although we're trying our best to cover everything, oversights are likely to happen. Some hints might be outdated, allow me to restate the previous bullet point.
  
• As opposed to other Sokoban games, the execution part of Baba is easy. Most of the difficulty arises from the thought process, so don't expect hints to give clear instructions on what to do, as stated in the title: "hint is not solution".
  
• Feel free ask for hints on levels that aren't included in the guide at the moment.
  
• Baba is good, not baba is uninstall.

Overworld 0-7

Level 0 - Baba Is You

Hint:
You're just curious to see what I have to comment on this one, very good.

Level 1 - Where Do I Go?

Hint:
Wall doesn't act as one if it's not stop.

Level 2 - Now What Is This?

Hint:
Exactly the same as level 1, only the underlying logic matters.

Level 3 - Out Of Reach

Hint:
How do you win?

Level 4 - Still Out Of Reach

Hint:
How do you bypass skull unscathed?

Level 5 - Volcano

Hint:
Lava is always hot, but you have other options.

Level 6 - Off Limits

Hint:
Can't get to the other side unless you're already on the other side.

Level 7 - Grass Yard

Hint:
Wander around or observe. Or both.

The Lake

Level 1 - Icy Waters

Hint:
Water sinks in baba, not the other way around!

Level 2 - Turns

Hint 1:
Can't sink "baba". How to gain control over crab?
Hint 2:
You can control multiple instances that are "you".

Level 3 - Affection

Hint:
Love eludes me.

Level 4 - Pillar Yard

Hint:
"Defeat" only destroys "you", not other objects.

Level 5 - Brick Wall

Hint:
If "you" and "win" objects collide, you win.

Level 6 - Lock

Hint:
A door can open a key as long as the logic is consistent.

Level 7 - Novice Locksmith

Hint:
Crossword puzzle, but with words not letters.

Level 8 - Locked In

Hint:
Wall is defeat, but jelly is not.

Level 9 - Changeless

Hint:
Must create a flag.

Level 10 - Two Doors

Hint:
Don't open the door.

Level 11 - Jelly Throne

Hint 1:
Access the other side of the map beyond the flag, but with whom?
Hint 2:
With another baba.

Level 12 - Crab Storage

Hint 1:
Override.
Hint 2:
Crab is win.

Level 13 - Burglary

Hint:
It's not necessary to open the door.

Alternative solution hint:
Break "wall is stop".

Extra 1 - Submerged Ruins

Hint:
You can not activate "crab is defeat" from the start.

Extra 2 - Sunken Temple

Hint 1:
You have to activate "crab is defeat" from the start.
Hint 2:
There is one less crab compared with extra 1.

Solitary Island

Level 0 - Poem

Hint:
Use the gap on "violet"'s left.

Level 1 - Float

Hint:
Float and non-float objects do not interact.

Level 2 - Warm River

Hint:
Float and float objects interact.

Alternative solution hint:
This level can be solved even if "water is stop".

Level 3 - Bridge Building

Hint:
At hindsight, the rock stuck in the corner is useless.

Level 4 - Bridge Building?

Hint:
There's an advantage and a disadvantage to rock being float, use that advantage.

Level 5 - Victory Spring

Hint:
Lake-5 flashbacks.

Level 6 - Research Facility

Hint 1:
To salvage "win", "defeat" is inevitably pushed into "skull is hot". Therefore "skull" must be pushed away by bolt, but then again "skull is hot" which melts bolt.
Hint 2:
With good timing the conundrum can be resolved.

Level 7 - Assembly Team

Hint:
Baba demands a noble sacrifice.

Level 8 - Tiny Pond

Hint:
You can get "win" out of the pond.

Level 9 - Catch The Thief!

Hint:
Thief can intrude.

Level 10 - Wireless Connection

Hint:
Two automation and two text to deliver.

Level 11 - Prison

Hint:
Text can be pushed onto keke.

Level 12 - Evaporating River

Hint:
Destroy one skull.

Extra 1 - Boiling Water

Hint:
Need "water is float", salvage the "is".

Extra 2 - ...Bridges?

Hint:
In addition to level 4, there's an advantage and a disadvantage for text being float, use that advantage.

Extra 3 - Tiny Isle

Hint:
Don't have to get "win" out of the pond.

Extra 4 - Dim Signal

Hint 1:
Now it's three text to deliver, need to retrieve one automation.
Hint 2:
Moving object will bounce back when it hits a wall.

Extra 5 - Dungeon

Hint:
Text can be pushed onto baba.

Temple Ruins

Level 1 - Fragility

Hint:
Break everything in your way.

Level 2 - Tunnel Vision

Hint:
Rock is less useful than baba.

Level 3 - A Present For You

Hint:
Go outside.

Level 4 - Unreachable Shores

Hint:
"Has" when used correctly yields infinite resources.

Level 5 - But Where's The Key

Hint 1:
Change yourself into a key
Hint 2:
First change yourself into a box

Alternative solution hint:
Ruins-4 flashbacks, but now with DOUBLE infinite resources.

Level 6 - Love Is Out There

Hint:
Ruins-2 flashbacks.

Alternative solution hint:
Ruins-5 alternative solution flashbacks.

Level 7 - Perilous Gang

Hint:
Cannot break "skull is defeat", but something different can be done.

Level 8 - Double Moat

Hint 1:
Make keke facing the door.
Hint 2:
Do not waste any resource.

Level 9 - Walls Of Gold

Hint:
Lake-5 flashbacks.

Alternative solution hint:
Form "rock is baba" and "rock is wall" at the same time.

Extra 1 - Further Fields

Hint 1:
Feign death.
Hint 2:
Use horde of baba to push "dead" keke through grass, and somehow revive.

Forest of Fall

Level 1 - Hop

Hint:
Experiment with how teleport works.

Level 2 - Grand Stream

Hint:
Keke without real usage, how suspicious.

Level 3 - Rocky Road

Hint 1:
Need to push the love on the other side.
Hint 2:
Teleport through love, then reactivate "love is push".

Level 4 - Telephone

Hint:
Teleport the ___, you decide.

Alternative solution hint:
Teleport the ___, you decide.

Level 5 - Haunt

Hint 1:
How do you win?
Hint 2:
Need the "is" in "leaf is defeat".

Level 6 - Crate Square

Hint:
Pull the flag out without melting it.

Level 7 - Ghost Friend

Hint:
Stand still but move, somehow.

Level 8 - Ghost Guard

Hint 1:
Key cannot be pushed, how to move it?
Hint 2:
Push the teleporter.

Level 9 - Leaf Chamber

Hint:
Mainly use "pull", only use "move" to position, and pull out the fungus.

Alternative solution hint 1:
Fungus can be retrieved without moving the key.
Alternative solution hint 2:
Well-timed moving leaves.

Level 10 - Not There

Hint:
Override.

Level 11 - Catch

Hint:
Push "baba is" to the right without losing control of baba.

Level 12 - Dead End

Hint:
"Not push" looks fishy.

Level A - Literacy

Hint:
Wall is defeat, not stop.

Level B - Broken Playground

Hint:
Text cannot be teleported, but objects can.

Alternative solution hint:
This solution is dumb but fun, explore how "text is you" can be utilized.

Level C - Fetching

Hint:
Along with Island-10 and Fall-5, game teaches you yet another way to break a sentence.

Level D - Scenic Pond

Hint 1:
Float over skull.
Hint 2:
In order to form "baba is float", a noble sacrifice must be made.

Level E - Skeletal Door

Hint:
Fall-B and Ruins Extra 1 flashbacks.

Extra 1 - Jump

Hint:
Same trick as fall-1, but with more efficient use of resources.

Extra 2 - Even Less There

Hint 1 for both solutions:
There's only 1 "is", so "baba" can only be used once. Otherwise "baba is win" would have sealed the deal.
Hint 2:
Be on the fence when you create "fence is win".

Hint 2 for alternative solution:
Try to not use "baba" but still have the "baba is win" effect.
Hint 3 for alternative solution:
Baba is not fence.

Extra 3 - Deep Pool

Hint 1:
Skull is defeat, need immortality.
Hint 2:
Hence need another "baba".

Deep Forest

Level 1 - Renovating

Hint:
Experiment with how shift works. Note that wall is defeat, not stop.

Level 2 - Toolshed

Hint:
Walk through the door.

Level 3 - Keep Out!

Hint 1:
Need to pull tree onto fungus, but how to deal with the corner?
Hint 2:
Shift.

Level 4 - Baba Doesn't Respond

Hint 1:
Need baba to push "shut" and "defeat" to the right while you're at the other side of reed.
Hint 2:
Make use of the belts.

Level 5 - Patrol

Hint:
Ruins-4 flashbacks.

Level 6 - Canyon

Hint:
Experiment with how up works, and dig ghost out of the pit.

Level 7 - Concrete Goals

Hint:
Flag is stop, but baba is not.

Level 8 - Victory in the Open

Hint:
Control keke remotely.

Level 9 - Moving Floor

Hint:
Belt when facing a wall cannot affect your movement.

Level 10 - Lovely House

Hint:
Maximize your resources, make 2 out of 1.

Level 11 - Supermarket

Hint 1:
We all know where rock should go, but can baba make it in time?
Hint 2:
First position the rock, then switch belt directions.

Level 12 - Lock the Door

Hint 1:
Think deep. "Shift" objects will push objects on the same tile to the next tile it's facing.
Hint 2:
Build a remote device that automatically moves in a straight line.

Level 13 - Factory

Hint:
Pesticide.

Level 14 - Tiny Pasture

Hint:
Forest-3 flashbacks, how to deal with the corner?

Level A - Nearly

Hint:
Swap the "swap".

Level B - Not Quite

Hint:
Reminds me of how mathematicians solve problems: transform it into an already solved scenario.

Level C - Passing Through

Hint:
Both skull and keke can move, but only keke is swap.

Level D - Salvage

Hint:
Break the skull chamber without using brute force.

Level E - Insulation

Hint 1:
Of which direction do you want which wall to be swapped towards?
Hint 2:
Where do you want baba to be when this happens?

Extra 1 - Crumbling Floor

Hint:
Don't have enough resource to waste on each of the bugs.

Extra 2 - Skull House

Hint 1:
Forest-10 flashbacks, now do it with a deep understanding of game mechanics.
Hint 2:
"A is B" doesn't actually transform A into B, instead A vanquishes and B appears on the same spot.

Rocket Trip

Level 1 - Empty

Hint:
Empty, is an instance, that is empty.

Level 2 - Lonely Flag

Hint:
Empty can be transformed.

Level 3 - Babas Are You

Hint:
Create baba on the other side of the wall.

Level 4 - Please Hold My Key

Hint 1:
"Fall" objects can be supported from below.
Hint 2:
Build a mobile bridge.

Level 5 - Horror Story

Hint 1:
Crazy things will happen when "empty is you": press left and some empties will move left and overlap with other empties, empties will emerge from tiles that are actually empty. Any of these can't be observed, but what can be observed is the interaction between empty and other objects.
Hint 2:
Can't win with "empty is you", the tile where the flag is on is always non-empty.

Level 6 - Aiming High

Hint:
One baba pushes and the other carries.

Level 7 - Trio

Hint 1:
Use keke to break "skull is defeat", keke has to be falling down that pit facing left.
Hint 2:
Let keke bump into a wall a return left.

Level 8 - Bottleneck

Hint 1:
Action at a distance.
Hint 2:
Think of how "empty is push" works, thoroughly.

Level 9 - Platformer

Hint:
The key is actually useless, use something else to open the door.

Level 10 - The Pit

Hint 1:
Get one text over there to destroy the door.
Hint 2:
Change "moon is you" from horizontal to vertical.

Level 11 - Heavy Words

Hint 1:
Need "dust is weak", "moon is win" and "star is push".
Hint 2:
Reuse the "is" from "star is push".

Level 12 - Guardians

Hint 1:
Think of how "empty is pull" works, thoroughly.
Hint 2:
Ice is not empty, empty can be pulled onto ice.

Level 13 - Sky Hold

Hint 1:
Create a key by destroying something.
Hint 2:
Need something that is open and something that is shut.

Extra 1 - Existential Crisis

Hint 1:
Think of how empty (as you) interact with objects that are and aren't pushable.
Hint 2:
Let baba approach flag without being vanquished by moon.

Extra 2 - Heavy Cloud (OUTDATED)

Hint 1:
Similar idea to Space-11, but the star is useful here.
Hint 2:
Form "dust is weak" vertically.

Flower Garden (WIP)

Level 1 - Condition

Hint:
Change grass into key, but not all of them.

Level 2 - Thicket

Hint 1:
Clear a trail for you to backtrack.
Hint 2:
Grass is shut.

Level 3 - Sorting Facility

Hint:
Make belt able to transport rock whilst not being able to obscure anything else.

Level 4 - Relaxing Spot

Hint 1:
Need to bring two objects over the one-way belt, but it will separate any overlapped objects.
Hint 2:
Overlap the objects on the other side of belt.

Level 5 - Maritime Adventures

Hint 1:
Need a way to indirectly control an object's movement. Using "move" is a good start, but you'll need a scheme to change the direction in which it's moving.
Hint 2:
Only "you" can change the direction.
Hint 3:
Pay attention to the seemingly useless things in the level, and use them.

Level 6 - Ruined Orchard

Hint:
If only we can have "belt make key" and "belt is shift" at the same time.

Level 7 - Blockade

Hint 1:
Nullify "water is sink".
Hint 2:
Sink the bottom left and bottom middle water tiles.

Level 8 - Jaywalkers United

Hint 1:
Protect "flag on rock is me"
Hint 2:
Need "rock is push" to move rock to flag, but with "rock is push" you cannot win.

Level 9 - Overgrowth

Hint:
Push the key out from the inside.

Chasm (WIP)

Volcanic Cavern (WIP)

Mountaintop (WIP)

??? (Secret Chapter)

How to Access

Hint:
Notice "baba is you" and "flag is win" on the map? Do something to level 9 and level 10.

Level 1 - Glitch

Hint:
Welcome! Your journey has come to the end of the beginning, or the beginning of the end if you prefer.

Level 2 - Error

Hint:
Play scrabble.

Level 3 - Whoops

Hint:
Keke is savior.

Level 4 - Mean Fence

Hint:
You can go through the wall.

Level 5 - Scale

Hint:
Gain control of baba / flag when they're further on the right than the skill.

Level 6 - Parade

Hint 1:
Protect "baba is you".
Hint 2:
Skull can be destroyed but you actually want to destroy something else, right?

Level 7 - Turn the Corner

Hint:
Better "win" than "sink".

Level 8 - Vip Area

Hint 1:
Island-10 flashbacks.
Hint 2:
Dig "keke" out.

Level 9 - Tense Atmosphere

Hint:
Hint is not hint.

Level 10 - Tag Team

Hint:
Without that skull it would be too easy.

Level 11 - Security Check

Hint 1:
???-8 flashbacks but not quite
Hint 2:
Vanquish keke.

Level 12 - Ultimate Maze

Hint:
Approach the flag from above.

Extra 1 - Across

Hint1:
Create "flag is win", somehow.
Hint2:
Form "baba is you" horizontally and stick it in.

Extra 2 - Castle Disaster

Hint:
My imagination is limited with only one "is" on the field.

Extra 3 - Hazel Den

Hint:
Yet another level that requires overlapping text.

Extra 4 - Baba Has Keke

Hint 1:
Build a circular conveyor, which alternates the sentence between "baba has keke" and "keke has baba".
Hint 2:
"Has" isn't on the conveyor.
Hint 3:
"Push" is on the conveyor, acting merely as a block to be shifted around.

Access of Two Secret Levels

Hint 1:
You might want to skip it for now, only return to it after clearing Depths and Meta.
Hint 2:
What else are there on the map?

Secret 1 - Huh?

Level "Rock"
Hint:
You can stay afloat on grass, or on top of a text.

Secret 2 - Getting Together

Level "Water"
Hint 1:
First stack wall and text, think of how to stack these onto baba. The remaining are easy to deal with as they are neither stop nor push.
Hint 2:
Why is there an additional rock?

ABC

Level 1 - Lunar Gallery

Hint:
"MOON", "HOT" and "NOT".

Level 2 - BA

Hint:
Create three sentences with four "BA".

Level 3 - AB

Hint 1:
Create two sentences with two "B", two "A" and "AB".
Hint 2:
Although not required, you might want to use 5 belts.

Level 4 - Queue

Hint 1:
Need "keke is push" and "baba is push" at the same time.
Hint 2:
Build an one-way teleporter.

Level 5 - Wall

Hint:
"WALL" has "ALL".

Level 6 - Stardrop

Hint 1:
Drop it and catch it.
Hint 2:
Form "flag is fall" and "belt is GHOST" simultaneously.

Extra 1 - Meteor Strike

Hint 1:
GHOSTAR
Hint 2:
Form "STAR is fall" and "belt is GHOST" simultaneously.

Alternative Solution Hint:
Same trick as in ABC-6

Depths

How to Access

Hint:
Need "level is baba" in ???-7.

Level 1 - Cleaning Service

Hint:
Need "level is skull" to access Depths-2.

Level 2 - Exercise Hall

Hint:
Flip the monitor or turn your head, your call.

Level 3 - Crushers

Hint:
Just win.

Level 4 - Collaborative Effort

How to access:
Need "level is text" in level 3.
Hint 1 on how to access:
Forest-11 flashbacks.
Hint 2 on how to access:
Overlap text.

Hint 1:
Need "skull is pull", break it afterwards.
Hint 2:
Keke is at your disposal.

Alternative solution hint:
Pull "skull" out of the pit.

Level 5 - Living Lands

Hint:
Need "level is me" to access the flag (and other things)

Extra 1 - Priority Lane

Hint on how to access:
Push something out of your way. Or transform baba into something harmless.

Hint:
Run faster than keke, hop 3 tiles per move.

Extra 2 - Secure Cottage

How to access:
Rock

Hint 1:
Play or replay Mountain-3 to find out about this level's solution.
Hint 2:
When two objects with "open" and "shut" collide, they vanquish. But where exactly do they vanquish?
Hint 3:
They vanquish at where the "shut" object has been on.

Extra 3 - Hidden Relic

How to access:
Baba

Hint:
Experiment with how "baba is move" works.

Extra 4 - Buried Tresure

How to access:
Baba

Hint 1:
Same idea as the previous level to create "keke is you", except that you can't do it with the "baba is move" hopping technique.
Hint 2:
But you still need to push "you" two tiles to the right. If it can't be done in one turn, you‘ll need to have "baba is move" active after you've pushed "you" to the right and lost control of baba.
Hint 3:
Turn keke into baba at the beginning.

Extra 5 - Endless Corridor

How to access:
Flag is level.
Hint of how to access:
Notice that lonely "is" at the left?

Hint1:
Move baba without moving the stone.
Hint2:
Press spacebar to move.

Meta

Level 1 - Hot Potato

Hint:
Push the key without being near it.

Level 2 - Adventure

Hint:
Escort "win" through belts.

Level 3 - Booby Trap

Hint:
Just win. But you will return to this level many many times.

Level 4 - Canister

How to access:
Need "level is baba" in level 3.
Hint 1 on how to access:
Manage your resources carefully to block lava on both sides.
Hint 2 on how to access:
Forest-12 flashbacks.

Hint 1:
Bring texts into the canister.
Hint 2:
Send text through skull.

Level 5 - Avalanche

Hint:
Cliff can't fall, but something else can.

Level 6 - One-Way Entrance (OUTDATED)

Hint 1:
"Belt on keke is shift" seems suspicious.
Hint 2:
Cancel "rock is fall" after rock falls.

Level 7 - Bramblevine

Hint 1 on how to access:
Need flag to open the door, but where is it?
Hint 2 on how to access:
"Level is flag" in level 3 and "level is baba" in level 5.
Hint 3 on how to access:
In level 3, we have Forest-12 flashbacks again, but it's not the same as how we've achieved "level is baba" previously.
Hint 4 on how to access:
Overlap text.

Hint:
How do you stop the growth of hedge?

Level 8 - Mutual Feelings

Hint:
Just win.

Level 9 - Delicate Star

Hint 1 on how to access:
You don't have enough babas, what else can you sink?
Hint 2 on how to access:
"Level is Level" seems suspicious.
Hint 3 on how to access:
Revisit level 8.
Hint 4 on how to access:
Overlap "baba" and "flag".

Hint 1:
Notice the door on the left? Think of how to place a star on its right.
Hint 2:
In order to be carried around, star has to be push or pull. Surprisingly, both push and pull are viable methods.
Hint 3:
Use box to facilitate the procedure.

Level 10 - Just No

Hint:
Hint is not not hint.

Level 11 - Acrobatic

Hint 1 on how to access:
Need "level is baba" in level 10.
Hint 2 on how to access:
Make use of the word "Cursor".
Hint 3 on how to access:
Create another flag to open the door.

Hint:
Think about where "keke is hot" should be when keke is on ice.

Level 12 - The Return of Scenic Pond

Hint 1 on how to access:
What's an object that you can control and can also go through the wall?
Hint 2 on how to access:
Need "level is Baba" in level 14.
Hint 3 on how to access:
In level 14, ensure that lava would not melt the level.

Hint 1 for both solutions:
You don't have enough resources, find a way to overlap two piece of texts.
Hint 2 for both solutions:
Text is defeat.
Hint 3:
Fall extra-3 flashbacks.
Hint 4:
Place a text that is not "flag" on the left side of "is win".

Alternative solution hint 3:
Form "baba is float", use it then break it.
Alternative solution hint 4:
Island Extra-5 flashbacks.

Level 13 - Breaking and Entering

Hint 1:
When opening a door, "has" can prevent you from losing resources.
Hint 2:
Carefully choose things to sink at the beginning.

How to win meta

Hint 1:
Need "level is text" in level 13.
Hint 2:
How to push "level" up there?

Level 14 - Tangle

Hint:
Just win.

Level 15 - The Box

Hint 1:
Think creatively, why is this level called "the box"?
Hint 2:
There are not many things you can do in this level.
Hint 3:
Need "level is flag" in level 14.

Extra 1 - Hidden Path

Hint 1 on how to access:
Need 3 babas.
Hint 2 on how to access:
You can access the level as long as you've unlocked the first 8 levels in meta, nothing else is required.

Hint:
Experiment with how "level is shift" works.

Extra 2 - Triplets

Hint 1:
Need "baba is you", "baba is float" and "baba is hot". At least one "baba" in those sentences should be an actual baba.
Hint 2:
Sustain the sentence(s) formed by actual baba(s).
Hint 3:
Make use of the rock.

Extra 3 - Power Generater

Hint 1:
Baba can sink pile. but it can not sink empty.
Hint 2:
Push "win" without touching it.

Extra 4- A Prize Well Earned

Hint on how to access:
There is an unique icon on the map.

Hint 1:
Just get bonus and win.
Hint 2:
Get bonus, not orb.

Extra 5 - Another Way

Hint 1 on how to access:
Is there anything else on the map can be turned into a level?
Hint 2 on how to access:
Need "level is text" in level 3 to form "flag is level".
Hint 3 on how to access:
No, this time you don't need to overlap anything in level 3.
Hint 4 on how to access:
Push "text" through the alley as far as you can in level 3.

Hint 1:
Keke is not hot.
Hint 2:
Ice will not turn to wall when keke is on it.

[makerio (f2p)]

1. some level names have changed (notably in solitary island)
2. extra 6, called level 12, should have the hint that text can be sunk as well

[Some_kind_of_no_name]

You are the best!

[littlepoi45]

NICE

[Coder4360]

baba is hint

[Yuri]

Some of these hints are obvious and useless, sadly.

[red_sparky dragon_force]

Billp226 I've got a hint for you: "Life's not so lonely when you've got a friend!"

[Billp226]

I need a hint for Mountaintop - The Floatiest Platform (Extra 1)

[Alexolas]

ok but can i suggest an actual "hint" (or maybe a "piece of advice") for Overworld - 0? i think you'll like this one:

"Instead of going straight for the flag, try experimenting with the rules a bit. What happens if you break them, or replace their words with each other's? If you're clever, there's even a way to break the universe in this level."

[Biervampir [AUT]]

Secreat level 9 hint is genious

[a human guy]

but where keys hint just tells you to do something that you were already trying to do