Endless Mode

**Endless Mode** is the secondary mode in the *Baldi's Basics* series. The goal is to collect as many notebooks as possible until Baldi catches the player.

## Gameplay

### *Baldi's Basics Plus*

The player can choose either the "Random" level or the "Medium" level before starting Endless Mode. In the elevator, the floor acronym is "END", no matter which option they pick.

* **Random** - Randomly generates a level with a custom or random seed. It is also possible to generate a seed by clicking on the high score.
* **Medium** - Starts the level with a pre-generated medium-sized map.

Baldi's behavior is different than in the Hide-and-Seek mode. Collecting a notebook will slightly decrease his speed, emphasizing the goal to collect as many notebooks as possible, and allowing the player to avoid him longer in-game.

Baldi eventually speeds up more and more on his own, with collected notebooks slowing him down. After some time, Baldi will become so fast that he will be impossible to avoid. Therefore, in order to achieve a high score, the player must collect as many notebooks as possible while Baldi is slower. The longer the game lasts, and the more notebooks the player collects, the faster Baldi will become overall.

### *Classic*/*Birthday Bash*/*Classic Remastered*

Upon starting, the gameplay is no different until the player reaches the third notebook. Instead of having an unsolvable third math question in Story Mode, each question is answerable, as well as all of the notebooks after. Aside from this, Baldi's behavior also changes. Answering all three problems correctly in a notebook will slightly decrease his speed, emphasizing the objective to answer as many math problems correctly as possible, and allowing the player to avoid him longer in-game.

While Baldi will still become faster should the player answer a problem incorrectly, the speed curve will gradually increase independently over time. Thus, he will eventually speed up more and more on his own, with correctly answered notebooks making him slower and slower. After a certain amount of time, Baldi's speed will become so fast that he will be practically impossible to avoid, meaning that in order to achieve a high score, they must get as many notebooks as possible while Baldi is still slow. The longer the game lasts, and the more problems the player gets wrong, the faster Baldi will become overall.

In *Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered*, none of the Fun Settings work in this mode because it is not fair to keep scores with and without these settings in the same leaderboard.

## Trivia

### General

* The notebooks make a sound when they respawn. It shows up in the captions in *Baldi's Basics Plus* and *Classic Remastered*.
* Endless Mode is unavailable in all demos, apart from Demo Style.

### *Baldi's Basics Plus*

* In the current version, the word "Mode" on its name is not capitalized.
* There are 7 characters in Endless Mode - Medium.
* The Test Procedure event is absent in this mode.
* In the game files, there are `Small` and `Large` values in the Endless Mode's list. The developer said that these two options will be implemented in the future update.
* Prior to V0.3.3, each level used a different acronym. The acronym for the Random level was "ER" and for the Medium level, it was "EM".

### *Classic*/*Birthday Bash*

* There is some red text that appears when the player collects more notebooks than their record. It reads "**WOAH WOW KAZOW! THAT'S A NEW HIGHEST SCORE!**".
* In the icon, Baldi's ruler is untextured for an unknown reason.
* The notebooks from the icon are also used in the *Baldi's Basics Plus* development roadmap image.
* In the icon, in a part from the green notebook on the bottom, a part of Baldi's right arm and head are missing probably because of a glitch in Anim8or.
* If you have 7 or more notebooks, and somehow touch one of the swinging doors connected to the outside area, the player can apparently win the mode.
	+ This does not work in *Baldi's Basics Birthday Bash*.

### *Classic*/*Birthday Bash*/*Classic Remastered*

* When the player answers all three questions correctly in the third notebook and onward, then the You Can Think Pad shows text that will either say "**Keep up the good work or see me after class...**" or "**That's more like it...**".

### *Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered*

* If the player chooses Endless Mode in NULL/Glitch Style, the mode will still be Story Mode.

## Glitches

### *Baldi's Basics Plus*

* In V0.3.3, no matter which option the player chose, the high score was always recorded in the Random level. That means, even after getting a high score in the Medium level, it was recorded in the Random level instead and the rankings in the Medium level were never updated.
* In V0.3.4, Principal of the Thing would not scold the player for escaping detention in the Medium level.

## Gallery

Endless Mode's icon in the current version of *Classic*/*Birthday Bash*.Ditto, but underlined.
## References

1. ↑ "*Currently fun settings don't work in endless mode, but I might change that in the future. The only catch is that I probably won't be able to make separate leaderboards for endless mode with fun settings on. That's the reason they don't currently work in endless, as it's not really fair to compare scores with and without fun settings on.*" - *Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered* Steam Community Hub
2. ↑ `NoteRespawn.wav` file from the *Baldi's Basics Plus* asset files
3. ↑ `respawn.wav` file from *Baldi's Basics Classic* and *Birthday Bash*'s asset files
4. ↑ Q: "*Will there be more endless mode maps then just the medium? like small or large?*" / A: "*Yes!*" - Gmail (question), Gmail (response)