Flood

## Mechanic information

### Effects

Water floods the Super Schoolhouse due to a leak. Whirlpools appear to teleport the player or other characters to a random location.

## Affect information

### Character(s)

All characters (except for It's a Bully and Chalkles)

## Other information

### Added in

*Baldi's Basics Full Game Early Demo* (V1.0)

## Event description

Looks like the leak is leaking again. Watch out for the whirlpools!

**Flood** is one of the random events featured in *Baldi's Basics Plus* and Demo Style from *Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered*.

## Gameplay

### General

Currently, the event only occurs on floor 2. The cause of the halls and rooms flooding seems to be a leak, based on the event's description. The whole school is flooded, causing all of the characters to move slower. During this event, all standard doors will stay open, which makes it easier for the player to enter classrooms, faculty rooms, the Principal's office, or Gotta Sweep's closet without directly opening the doors to draw Baldi's attention, escape detention without using the Principal's Keys, and get out of a classroom when Chalkles becomes solid. However, standard doors will not open when the event starts after the doors are locked and they will not stay open afterwards.

Whirlpools will spawn in any location, whether it would be the mystery room. Unless the Big Ol' Boots are used, the player will be forcefully dragged into the whirlpool, as it gets stronger the closer you are to it. When they get sucked into the center of the whirlpool, they will get teleported to a random location, similar to the Dangerous Teleporter item. The whirlpool will disappear after teleporting. There is also a chance for two whirlpools to spawn on each other, most commonly taking place in hallways.

Other characters except for It's a Bully and Chalkles can also get sucked up and teleported by the whirlpools as well.

### Other appearances

* In *Baldi's Basics Full Game Early Demo* and *Baldi's Basics Kickstarter Exclusive Demo*, the water texture seems more stretched out. If any character including the player gets dragged around by a whirlpool for several seconds, said whirlpool will disappear. If said character is the player and they have any items, one of them will be taken away. This function was also in *Baldi's Basics Plus* prior to V0.1.4.

## Trivia

### General

* The flood event was first revealed in a post on Kickstarter by mystman12.
* The whirlpools' pre-*Baldi's Basics Plus* V0.1.4 function was a temporary function in order to get *Full Game Early Demo* released on time.

### *Baldi's Basics Plus*

* The current function of the whirlpools was first mentioned in a Twitter post about V0.1.4.
* If the flood event is over while the player is being sucked up in a whirlpool, it will cancel the teleportation.
* A room can only have one or two whirlpools, and can only drag you if you are standing where the door is, but the playground and library can have more. The amount is always randomized.
* If NPCs have not been fully sucked in by the whirlpool, they can still detect the player.
* A mystery door will make a sound when opened by this event, although the mystery door will not appear in the hallway at that time.
* In a classroom or faculty room, there is a chance that a whirlpool can be underneath a piece of furniture, like a desk or a chair, which means any character will get sucked in the whirlpool and collide with the furniture.
	+ The player will in fact go through the furniture.
* The sound of the whirlpool has an echo effect.
* In V0.1.4 to V0.3.7, the whirlpool's gurgling sound was unused.
	+ This sound is later reused in *Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered*, then V0.3.8 in *Baldi's Basics Plus*.

### *Baldi's Basics Full Game Early Demo*

* In V1.0, the player's and characters' speed was reduced to 50%. In V1.1, their speed is only reduced to 75%.

## Glitches

### *Baldi's Basics Plus*

* When the flood first happens, the sound effect fades in, but for a split second, it starts out at max volume before fading in.
* During this event, some items cannot be grabbed in specific angles.
* If the player is teleported from the library while sinking, they can hear sounds.
* Prior to V0.1.4, in a rare occasion, an item was stolen from the inventory even if the player was not near the whirlpool.
* Prior to V0.2.2, if any character was sucked by a whirlpool, they would be flipped upside-down when exiting the whirlpool.
	+ Unlike the Gravity Chaos event, upside-down characters made by this glitch could interact with the player.

### *Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered*

* If the player is teleported to an area in one of the faculty room where two desks block the path, the game is soft-locked because there is no way out unless using noclip feature.

### Demos

* There was a rare bug that caused the game to crash when touching the whirlpool.

## Gallery

* Image files
* Screenshots

A texture for the water.A texture for the whirlpool. This texture spins around.

*Baldi's Basics Plus*
The flood event in the early access screenshot.The flood event in the alpha screenshot.Baldi DrownsA glitch where Baldi goes upside down in a whirlpool, seen on mystman12's Twitter.
*Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered*
The flood in the screenshot.The flood event in teaser of the trailer.
*Baldi's Basics Full Game Early Demo*
The flood event in the screenshot.
Others
The flood event in the *Development Build*'s screenshot.
## References

1. ↑ **Status Update #9 - A look at upcoming demos!** | Baldi's Basics in Education and Learning - Full game! | July 23, 2019 | Kickstarter
2. ↑ "*the whirlpools will probably not do that in the full game. I've had a different idea in mind for whirlpools, but it would have taken me too long to implement in time for the demo so I did the item stealing as a temporary thing.*" - mystman12. September 19, 2019. Kickstarter comments section
3. ↑ "*#BaldisBasics Plus version 0.1.4 will release tomorrow morning! Alongside the regular bug fixes and tweaks, whirlpools have been reworked. They now suck the player and NPCs in, and then teleport them somewhere else on the map. No more losing items to whirlpools!*" - mystman12. July 24, 2020. Twitter
4. ↑ "*If items are getting taken from you while not near a whirlpool, that's a bug.*" - mystman12. September 19, 2019. Kickstarter comments section