That's cool!

I really think BFNS Ultimate will end up having one of the largest OSTs for a Baldi fan project, maybe the biggest so far, with 80+ tracks that have already been composed in total across multiple composers (with Haroon composing a majority of them), so it will be great people will be listen able to your soundtracks from BFNSU on Bandcamp as well!

And don't forget, BFNS series fans, that BFNSU's OST will be available to listen to on the BFNS Soundtrack YT channel and maybe also BFNS Series Central after 1.0 has been released!

Including unused tracks or older versions of them as well!

Ok, so the item pickup poll on Twitter/X I was doing ended in a tie, so I'm doing it over again, though for only 5 days long this time. You can find the new poll here.

Well, since it ended in a tie surprisingly, I decided to do the poll again, but for 5 days this time instead of 7. You can find the new poll here.

Thanks! Even though I mostly do digital art like creating graphics for thumbnails/games/etc and whatnot, I do some drawing in real life too like the balloons show.

Also, I personally like the idea of items flying towards the player when they're collected as well, though the voting poll is currently tied, so I'll have to end up seeing which option players would prefer once it's finished in about a week.

The winning option would become the one active in customization settings by default, though the other fade out or maybe the old instant disappear could be included as options to select from as well, so players could choose which one they want active.

So, while I'm waiting for the USB issue to hopefully be resolved, I've decided to do a different voting poll relating to BFNS Ultimate in the meantime prior to the upcoming map layout voting ones for Beta 1.

It's about whether collected items should fly towards the player or fade out when clicked on rather than instantly disappearing, and you can find the poll on X/Twitter here.

It runs for a week, and once the voting is done, the winning option will be implemented into the test floor to make sure it will work properly in actual gameplay floors, and it's all about improving the experience and making it more polished compared to what the Alpha versions were like, with more animations/etc to make floors feel more alive/interesting, and music might play in certain rooms like classrooms as well.

Also, as a side note, I might find some way to implement these "balloon arts" I recently drew when I was bored into BFNSU at some point, maybe in some party themed secret/floor/minigame, with the "Baldloon" baldi balloon being a reference to the "SpoopBalloons" from Baldi's Basics Birthday Bash.

Yeah, the swinging doors are planned to get redesigned as well at some point like the classroom doors are to have rounded edges and the other visual improvements, though for now, the swinging door design from BFNS Remastered is used in the test floor and it might stay that way since the test floor uses some placeholder assets to make sure the mechanics work like opening/closing the redone doors, but in regular floors and the main menu the redesigned versions of swinging doors are planned to be used, along with other redesigned doors like for the faculty and principal's office doors.

Hello again, Baldi's Fun New School series players! So, I have a quick update regarding the upcoming map layout voting polls mentioned in the 2025 recap.

Due to a unfortunate hardware issue that recently occurred where the USB I was storing the map layout image files I was working on for that suddenly died a few days ago without warning, leading to me having to send the USB to a data recovery lab in an attempt to save the files from being permanently lost, with that process currently being underway and a good chance they will be successfully recovered and I will be able to get them back in maybe a week or two, that's why the map voting polls will now not start until the end of February with the voting ending in early March to give me time to finish the rest of the layout images for the poll once I get the data from the USB back, although if the map layout image files don't end up being recovered successfully, those dates would be pushed back as I would have to make them all over again, but like I said there's a good chance that shouldn't end up being the case.

On better news, the test floor continues to make progress, with test collectibles (like notebooks) having been added to the test floor, and more decorations like posters as well, which all have been running pretty smoothly in terms of performance. Here's some development images of that recent work below, and hopefully there won't be anymore hardware issues this year, but you never know...

Well, I have good news regarding that. I was finally able to sync the project back to the cloud again so you and GrandGames can continue helping me out with development of the BFNS Ultimate project, and it's now up-to-date to the latest Beta 1 development I was working on, which is currently the test floor I've recently mentioned.

As part of the Unity VCS changes though, it's now in a totally new repository for developers named "BFNS Ultimate/BFNSU" which you should be able to find and download through Unity Hub. And the old cloud repository was renamed to have OLD at the start of it's name to avoid confusion with the new, latest one. Here's some screenshots so you can see where to find it as well.

I tested it as well with adding it to my laptop that doesn't have the latest BFNSU project version since I develop it on a desktop now, and it worked totally fine with adding the project to my laptop without any issues, so you shouldn't have any when you do that as well. And the lighting system and most of the decorations have been added to the test floor as well, as you can see below.

So, I just came up with an idea of a refined version of Gotta Sweep's mechanics that may or may not end up being implemented in BFNS Ultimate, and here's how he could potentially work.

Rather than sweeping up all characters he encounters, which could lead to bugs sometimes in older versions where characters would get stuck on Gotta Sweep after he finished sweeping, instead when Gotta Sweep goes out of his closet to sweep, perhaps he would only pick up to 3 characters (and maybe excluding the player) at a time, and after holding a character for a random amount of seconds (maybe between 5-10 seconds), he would release them from his sweeping hold and not be able to pick them up again until the next time he goes out to sweep.

Adding upon this concept, perhaps there could be a challenge floor (or in a secret floor) where there are multiple Gotta Sweeps, and rather than picking up characters, these specific ones would teleport any characters (including the player) that they encounter while sweeping as part of the challenge.

Overall, I think these changes would help make Gotta Sweep more balanced/unpredictable and unique/different from how he usually works in other Baldi projects, and I've thought of refined 1st Prize mechanics as well, though I'm going to wait to share ideas for those until after Beta 1 is released, as 1st Prize is not planned to be added until a post-Beta 1 update for BFNSU.

Yeah. I'm glad I decided to change that old Adventure Mode concept for the better as well. 

And throughout BFNSU's long development, there's been a lot of other concepts and ideas that have come and gone, so maybe after BFNS Ultimate is fully completed, I'll do a video called "The BFNSU That Could Have Been..." detailing some of those for people interested in seeing what BFNSU could of ended up being like if certain things had been done differently.

Though for now, the development focus is on the test floor, and preparing for the upcoming map voting poll as well, which will include layouts for the Main Menu and first 3 Adventure Mode floors (and their associated chill zone/secret floor map layouts as well since those will be seperate, connected levels from the main floors), since that's how many of the 10 total main Adventure Mode floors Beta 1 is currently planned to include.

Now that it's been a few days since this post about the start of work on a test floor for BFNS Ultimate, I have some more progress to share.

First off, all of the doors and room chunks have been added to the test floor's layout, which you can see in the image below. Please note that due to it being a test floor, it has some placeholder assets for testing purposes, which is why all of the doors are the same redone classroom door design.

Next off, occlusion culling and the room manager system planned to be used in regular floors has been added to the test floor as well, and it properly hides rooms (aka areas) without any issues as the player is going through the test floor, which means it's working well. And the performance is great too. This aspect will probably be shown in a future development footage video of the test floor along with other tests being done in the WIP floor.

Also, regarding the redone doors that have been previously mentioned in progress updates, some improvements and fixes have been made to them since they were last mentioned.

First, the doors close more smoothly now without slowing down at the end of their closing animation which was especially noticeable when being closed slowly instead of quickly (as shown in the short dev look video below), and also, a bug where opening the door again right as it starts closing would cause it swing around to the other side and clip through nearby walls has been fixed as well, which is also shown in the video, which was taken on the WIP test floor.

Overall, it means when they arrive in the Beta 1 update, they should work even better than they did before.

So, does anyone remember that test floor that I mentioned I was going to create in this previous post from August 2025?

Well, I have a small update regarding it. Now that the Christmas/New Year's breaks are over and I have a new monitor which has been working well, I've finally started working on it today, which you can see in the image below.

While there isn't much to show, the fact I was able to build this much of the floor in just around 1-2 hours using the improved chunk system means in the next few days or so I might be able to finish most of the test floor depending on how much time I have to work on it.

Older BFNS series players may notice the layout being built looks somewhat familiar. Well, that's because I've decided to use the Floor 1 layout from BFNS Plus Classic Edition's Experience Mode as a base for the test floor's layout (a reference image of it is below), although it will be a bit different from it, like having special test stuff in it for testing things like the lighting system, which might be shown in a future development footage video.

Anyways, that's all I have to share for now.

Happy New Year and 2026 to everyone! This is just the start of what will likely be an active and productive year for Baldi's Fun New School Ultimate development! As a reminder, the map layout voting polls (as detailed here) are planned to open on February 28th, with voting ending a week later on March 7th, the results of which will be posted in a devlog on March 9th.

Thanks! I want to make the Adventure Mode feel like a unique and fun experience that will, well, actually feel like an adventure unlike the Story Mode in earlier BFNS entries and the alpha versions of BFNSU which included some concepts like bossfights for the Adventure Mode, which is why I feel doing it in that way is a good idea.

Hello, Baldi's Fun New School Ultimate players! Happy New Year's Eve, and ahead of the start of 2026 tommorow, the 2025 recap for Baldi's Fun New School Ultimate has been published! It includes statistics updates, some Adventure Mode details and reveals, and more! You can check it out here.

Sounds good. I can't wait to listen to it! And the 2025 recap is going to include some exciting Adventure Mode details/reveals as well, so I think next year is going to be great for BFNS Ultimate and the series in general!

Merry Christmas to everyone, and this is just a reminder that on December 31st, 2025, like last year, a BFNS Ultimate 2025 recap is planned to be published which besides including growth stats, will also explain some further ideas for features in the still under development Beta 1 update of BFNSU, which is now expected to be released sometime in 2026 pending any further delays, and also include dates for when the map layout voting polls will begin and end, so stay tuned for that recap post coming in about a week from now, and thanks to everyone who continues to support the development of this project year after year, as me and the development team really appreciates it!

Thanks! It's good to be back. As for the map layout concepts for the voting polls, I haven't really had time to work on them lately since over the last few weeks, my main focus was to patch some of my more popular existing projects and the BFNS series entries as well, which was completed earlier today with first patches being released yesterday.

With all of those patches now out of the way, and with Christmas/New Year's coming up soon, I'm going to be taking a break for those, and by early next year in 2026, I'll get back to working on the map layout concepts (each of which is planned to have 2 variants like for the main menu layout that can be voted on likely via Google Forms), and in the meantime, here's a look at that partially finished main menu layout for the first of 2 main menu variants that will be able to be voted on in the poll I've previously mentioned, using an improved map layout legend key I've created which should help make the map layout images more visually appealing, which is also included below for reference.

Hello everyone! I'm glad to announce that a patched version of the Windows, macOS, and Android releases of the Baldi's Fun New School Plus Ultimate Edition Alpha 6 2 Floor Demo project has been released to address Unity's 2025 Security Vulnerability that has been found in projects made in older versions of Unity, such as this one.

I'm doing this for some other more recent projects I've released as well, so make sure to check out my recent community posts to see what other projects have been patched as well, and thanks to everyone for being patient for these patched versions to finally be released!

Hello everyone! I'm glad to announce that a patched version of the Windows and macOS releases of the Baldi's Fun New School Plus Classic Edition project has been released to address Unity's 2025 Security Vulnerability that has been found in projects made in older versions of Unity, such as this one.

I'm doing this for some other more recent projects I've released as well, so make sure to check out my recent community posts to see what other projects have been patched as well, and thanks to everyone for being patient for these patched versions to finally be released!

Following up to this post from a few months ago, patched versions of the Windows, Android, and macOS releases of the Alpha 6 Part 2b update (which came out in 2023) of Baldi's Fun New School Ultimate to fix the Unity 2025 security vulnerability are finally ready to go, and are planned to be uploaded on this page tommorow to replace the unpatched versions.

The rest of the latest versions of BFNS series entries like BFNS Remastered are planned to receive patched versions tommorow as well, and the first entry in the series, the original Baldi's Fun New School from 2020, has already received a patched version for it's final 1.0.7.5 update that came out in 2020, which you can download here from it's main page.

Hello everyone! I'm glad to announce that a patched version of the Windows and Android releases of the Five Nights At Baldi's Redone project has been released to address Unity's 2025 Security Vulnerability that has been found in projects made in older versions of Unity, such as this one.

I'm doing this for some other more recent projects I've released as well, so make sure to check out my recent community posts to see what other projects have been patched as well, and thanks to everyone for being patient for these patched versions to finally be released!

Hello everyone! I'm glad to announce that a patched version of the Windows, Android, and macOS releases of the Baldi's Mathin' Mondays project has been released to address Unity's 2025 Security Vulnerability that has been found in projects made in older versions of Unity, such as this one.

I'm doing this for some other more recent projects I've released as well, so make sure to check out my recent community posts to see what other projects have been patched as well, and thanks to everyone for being patient for these patched versions to finally be released!

Hello everyone! I'm glad to announce that a patched version of the Android releases of the Baldi's Basics Field Trip Demo Android Port project has been released to address Unity's 2025 Security Vulnerability that has been found in projects made in older versions of Unity, such as this one.

I'm doing this for some other more recent projects I've released as well, so make sure to check out my recent community posts to see what other projects have been patched as well, and thanks to everyone for being patient for these patched versions to finally be released!

Hello everyone! I'm glad to announce that a patched version of the Windows release of the Baldi's Basics Multiplayer Remake Prototype project has been released to address Unity's 2025 Security Vulnerability that has been found in projects made in older versions of Unity, such as this one.

I'm doing this for some other more recent projects I've released as well, so make sure to check out my recent community posts to see what other projects have been patched as well, and thanks to everyone for being patient for these patched versions to finally be released!

Thanks for doing that! You did a good job recreating the style of the previous OST videos on the channel.

So, since I can't do much in terms of Baldi's Fun New School Ultimate or other game development right now, I decided to make an AI game trailer video for The Crazy Baby game that is inspired by it's plot and story. You can watch it here, and it actually came out pretty decent. You'll never see The Crazy Baby the same way again after watching this lel...

Yes, I recommend patching the currently available Alpha 6 version of BFNS Ultimate with Unity's patcher tool (which players can get here), at least until I can patch it myself in December and then replace the unpatched Alpha 6 version with a patched one for the Windows, Android, and macOS releases.

And I'm going to patch BFNS Remastered 1.4.7 and all of the other latest BFNS series versions of projects as well for their Windows, Android, and macOS versions (and add a guide post to the BFNS Remastered community section on how to do this yourself), and maybe some of the other more recent projects I've released as well, like FNAB Redone and the Baldi's Basics dev build recreation.

Hello, Baldi's Fun New School Ultimate players! So, I have some unfortunate news. Due to an accident causing the main monitor I use to develop BFNS Ultimate to get damaged, I won't be able to continue working on the project until I get a new one, which should be sometime in Late November/Early December 2025 around Black Friday/Cyber Monday (which did end up happening). This is also why the dates for when the BFNS Remastered 4 year anniversary retrospective videos are planned to be published have been changed as well until I have a more concrete date.

In the meantime, I've updated the end of Progress Update 18's text to indicate the new date when the 19th progress update could potentially be released (which is now set to NET Early 2026) based on the updated timeline following the accident, and Early 2026 is also when the voting polls should open up for players to help me decide on which map layouts for Adventure Mode floors, the main menu, etc, will be selected out of several votable variants for each layout to be built in-game and also as a way for players to have a bigger say in the project's development by helping shape the map layouts that will be included by default from Beta 1 and onwards, and also to make sure that map layouts being added and tested are ones that players will actually enjoy.

Thanks! And as for you being credited in the soundtrack of the cancelled 1.4.8 update, some tracks from BFNSU (like the Credits! OST) were planned to be included in that update, hence why your name was added to the credits.

Also, even though NULL mode was planned for 1.4.8, it never got far enough into development for it to be completed and added, which is why it's now planned to be included in Baldi's Fun New School Remastered 2. One thing that was completed for 1.4.8 though was faster loading screen times, but not much more than that.

I'm glad you are looking forward to the BFNSR version retrospective videos coming soon, and maybe I'll share some map layout concepts soon for the main menu and some adventure mode floors in BFNS Ultimate, similar to how I use to make them on images with letter keys (BAL for Baldi, etc) and color coded chunk sections for rooms before building the maps in-game to give me an idea of how they should be set up, and maybe I'll do a poll as well with several variants of each map layout concept where players can vote on which one they'd like to see implemented the most like I've also done before.

Hello Baldi's Fun New School series players, and welcome to this special post for the 4 year anniversary of Baldi's Fun New School Remastered!

As part of the celebration of 4 years of BFNS Remastered, I'll be going through the version history of the mod, and share some plans regarding a version history retrospective video series! Without further ado, let's get started!

Version History

• 1.0 (Released August 5th, 2021) - After approximately 2 months of development from June to August 2021, the first public version of BFNS Remastered was released. The mod launched with a total of 8 modes, which would later be expanded to 15 over time. A trailer was also uploaded for this version prior to it's release on August 1st.
• 1.1 (Released August 8th, 2021) - The first major update, this version brought some improvements, changed the appearance of the selectable players, added Zolt, a multiplayer maze in the Discussion Area, and a new ending. This version was followed up by a 1.1.1 hotfix update a few days later on August 10th, which fixed a bug with the then newly added multiplayer maze.
• 1.2 (Released August 18th, 2021) - The second major update, this version added Cloudy Copter to the Fun Schoolhouse (which is what the main "remastered" schoolhouse in BFNS Remastered is now being referred to as in retrospect), the Book Of Found Items on the main menu, the Chewsi Speedy Bar and An Apple For Baldi items, a minimap, and a Safety Scissors vending machine. This was also the first version where players could submit suggestions for the next major update in a formal way.
• 1.3 (Released August 27th, 2021) - The third major update, this version was the first to start adding new modes, with Portal Chaos being added in this update. This version also added Kyle as a selectable player, Joe on the main menu next to Baldi, and a day night mode setting.
• 1.4 (Released September 26th, 2021) - The fourth and final major update to BFNS Remastered, this version added more fan-arts, some new posters, Rapparep Lol as a selectable player, Random Event Madness as a new gamemode, bringing the total to 10, and some other additions. A week later, on October 3rd, a 1.4.1 bugfix update (and the first 1.4 sub-update) for the mobile version was released, and this would be the last update to BFNS Remastered until mid-2022.
• 1.4.2 (Released May 6th, 2022) - The second 1.4 sub-update, this version resumed updates for BFNS Remastered after approximately 7 months, and added the Student Race gamemode, updated the mod's Unity version from 2021.1 to 2021.3, and added the Random Event Machine from the Alpha 6 2 Floor Demo of BFNS Ultimate.
• 1.4.3 (Released May 14th, 2022) - The third 1.4 sub-update, this version added Game Jolt integration into BFNS Remastered with earnable trophies and leaderboards, the Classic Mode gamemode and a new ending, and controller support as well. A 1.4.3.1 bugfix update was also released for this version a day later on May 15th, which fixed some bugs, made some changes, and added 3 more Game Jolt trophies.
• 1.4.4 (Released July 10th, 2022) - The fourth 1.4 sub-update, this version marked the return of an item from the original BFNS, the Principal Banner, added 5 more Game Jolt trophies, a cursor management button on the main menu, the Genuine Mode gamemode (bringing the total up to 13), and a new character, Dis Guiser.
• V1.4.5 "Anniversary Update" (Released August 5th, 2022) - The fifth 1.4 sub-update and the first of 2 "named" updates (the second and last being the 1.4.6 "Halloween Update"), this version was released to celebrate the 1 year anniversary of BFNS Remastered, and added a new gamemode called Celebration Mode, collectible party hats in other modes as part of unlocking the then new party themed mode, a new ending, some bug fixes, and party hats that appear on other players while playing in the Discussion Area between August 5th and 12th (and this still happens every year, meaning if you were to play BFNS Remastered's discussion area right now, you would see this!).
• V1.4.5.1 (Released August 20th, 2022) - An update to 1.4.5, this version added a "view save file" button to the main menu, lockers to the Classic Mode schoolhouse, and some other changes and bug fixes.
• V1.4.6 "Halloween Update" (Released October 31st, 2022) - The sixth and second to last 1.4 sub-update, and the second of 2 "named" updates, this version was released on Halloween 2022 and added a Spooky Mode setting to the main menu which changed some things in the Fun Schoolhouse to Halloween themed versions, updated the design of some posters, doors, and achievement icons, and fixed 2 bugs.
• V1.4.7 (Released January 27th, 2023) - A few months after 1.4.6, in early 2023, a trailer for the 1.4.7 update was uploaded, followed by the update's release a week later. This version was the seventh and last 1.4 sub-update released, bringing updates for BFNS Remastered to an end, and added 2 modes (Field Trip and Mazetastic) for a total of 15 modes (not 16 since the former Camping mode was merged into Field Trip Mode), 9 more Game Jolt trophies bringing the final amount to 43, some secrets, and an updated version of Joe's design.
• V1.4.8 (Cancelled, Was Planned To Be Released In 2025) - Although never released, this version was planned to be released sometime after 1.4.7. However, after some early development on the update began in 2024/2025, it ended up being cancelled due to several reasons (such as BFNS Ultimate's development taking priority and the announcement and start of work on a sequel, BFNS Remastered 2). However, some of the content originally planned for 1.4.8, such as a NULL mode and Discussion Area improvements, is now planned to be included in Baldi's Fun New School Remastered 2, which is set to include improved versions of some of the modes from BFNS Remastered 1 in it (such as Student Race), along with some new modes as well.

Before I end off the version history section of this anniversary post, I would like to share some development images of the now cancelled BFNS Remastered 1.4.8 update, so everyone can get a look at it for the first and last time.

Now that we've gone through the entire version history of Baldi's Fun New School Remastered, it's time to discuss my plans for a version history retrospective video series on the mod!

Version Retrospective Video Series

So, as part of the 4 year anniversary celebration of BFNS Remastered, I'm planning on doing a version retrospective video series, where I will be going through most of the versions I've just discussed such as 1.0, 1.2, etc, with a video per version starting with a short overview of the version at the video's beginning, followed by gameplay of the version for the rest of the video.

Here's a look at the schedule for when these videos are planned to be uploaded, so you won't miss when the next one is released! Video links will be added here when the videos become available on the BFNS Series Central YT channel.

• 1.0 - The Beginning (BFNS Remastered 4 Year Anniversary!) [NET 2026]
• 1.1 - The First Major Update (BFNS Remastered 4 Year Anniversary!) [NET 2026]
  
• 1.2 - Cloudy & Chewsi Bars (BFNS Remastered 4 Year Anniversary!) [NET 2026]
  
• 1.4 - The Final Major Update (BFNS Remastered 4 Year Anniversary!) [NET 2026]
  
• 1.4.2 - Student Races (BFNS Remastered 4 Year Anniversary!) [NET 2026]
  
• 1.4.3 - Return Of A Classic (BFNS Remastered 4 Year Anniversary!) [NET 2026]
  
• 1.4.4 - Genuinely Fun (BFNS Remastered 4 Year Anniversary!) [NET 2026]
  
• 1.4.5 - One Year Later (BFNS Remastered 4 Year Anniversary!) [NET 2026]
  
• 1.4.6 - Spooky Scary Schools (BFNS Remastered 4 Year Anniversary!) [NET 2026]
  
• 1.4.7 - The End (BFNS Remastered 4 Year Anniversary!) [NET 2026]

Conclusion

With Baldi's Fun New School Remastered turning 4 this year, I want to thank everyone who made the creation of BFNS Remastered possible, gave me the motivation to create it in the first place following the positive feedback on earlier entries in the series, and improve it over many updates with all of the suggestions, feedback, and fan arts over the ~1.5 years from 2021 to 2023 the mod was actively being worked on and received updates.

Even though work on Baldi's Fun New School Remastered has now officially come to a close, it's legacy continues to this day, and it turns out that it has ended up being around for years to come, like that message in the Discussion Area stated all of those years ago!

As I look forward to BFNS Ultimate's continued development and BFNS Remastered 2, and even the beginnings of projects beyond those, I just want to thank everyone again, as we celebrate 4 years of Baldi's Fun New School Remastered today!

Also, Baldi's Fun New School Ultimate is planned to include a BFNS series fan art room somewhere in it's 3D main menu, so feel free to submit appropriate fan art images below for potential inclusion in the room, including BFNS Remastered 4 year anniversary fan art as well!

Yes, that's exactly right. I want to get the foundation done first, which work can continue on now that I'm back from vacation, and once that's complete, more of the fun stuff and new content can come in later updates like Beta 2, 3, etc.

Soon, I'll likely be creating a test floor to test all of the work in a gameplay-like test environment (like the redone doors, sound awareness system, multi height character navigation, etc), which may be shown in Progress Update 19 (which is now planned to be published in late August or more likely September) alongside WIP versions of some of the redone Adventure Mode floors for the upcoming Beta 1 update.

Progress Update 18 for Baldi's Fun New School Ultimate has been published! You can read it here, and see what's been worked on recently for the project. Also, Beta 1 development progress is now at 62% complete in the Beta Progress Checker.

Here's just a little page background update before the Progress Update 18 devlog drops in a few hours from now :)

Before

After

See you in the progress update soon!

Yeah, he later clarified he wants the update (likely referring to Beta 1) to be released on Browser, which is planned when it comes out sometime later this year. And Beta 1 is really about implementing a new, more modular foundation for BFNS Ultimate development moving forward, which is why it probably won't have much gameplay wise, like you've said Haroon. Though it will still have the redone Floor Maker available, some Adventure Mode floors, and maybe more, though that depends. I'm currently working on updating some graphics from Alpha 6 for Beta 1, and currently I've finished a slightly redesigned computer lab monitor, and some notebook textures (including the Golden Notebook), which are planned to be shown in Progress Update 18 tommorow.

Well, the reason the build area shown in that development footage video was small is because the one for the Baldi's Basics Classic floor design is planned to be used for making similar sized floors to the original schoolhouse, which was on an approximately 40x1x40 grid (1,600 nodes), as shown. The other floor designs that will be available to choose from and switch to are planned to have different grid sizes, with most likely to be larger than that, such as a larger one than the 64x1x64 grid (4,096 chunks) used in Alpha 6's Floor Builder for the BFNS Ultimate floor design, which might be a 70x2x70 (9,800 nodes) or even a 85x3x85 size grid (21,675 nodes), with the ability to press the number keys to switch which grid layer is active for multi-height floors (such as pressing 1 for the first layer, 2 for the second, etc) to make placing areas and objects on specific layers easier, especially when you're in the Bird's Eye View area placement mode.

You're welcome! Also, that development footage video I was thinking about releasing at the end of May is now out on the BFNS Series Central YT channel, with even more progress made since the development screenshots I shared above, such as the start of work on the catalog UI for one of the planned floor design themes, specifically the Baldi's Basics Classic one!

Well, it's now at 59% as you can see on the Beta Progress Checker screen that I just updated.

Also, even though external mod support is no longer planned for BFNS Ultimate, it's at 100% now, since that functionality is now planned to be achieved by the multiple selectable floor designs when making custom floors in the under development Floor Maker for Beta 1 (with each floor design with maybe a few original exceptions planned to be based around/inspired by a certain Baldi's Basics game/mod/fangame with what objects and areas you'll have available to place while building your custom floor), and also due to the modular way they are being set up, it will make it easier for me to add more floor designs that are selectable in future updates after Beta 1, including potentially even player suggested ones, which should end up being a better solution overall and encourage players to really experiment with creating floors in the different designs.

In addition to that change, the Beta 1 preview is now planned to be released when the overall progress is close to 80%, not 50% as originally planned, since it makes more sense for most of the core mechanics and gameplay to be finished for Beta 1 before releasing the preview version. Given the current rate of development, that means the Beta 1 preview may now come out in a few months from now, although longer development times or delays could still occur, but with the foundation work going well, I'm feeling more confident now that a Beta 1 preview might be able to finally be released during that upcoming time period. I really don't want to rush anything and have been taking my time to make sure the new additions and content work as expected and have good performance, which should lead to a better final Beta 1 release update experience overall.

Another thing that I've started work on since Progress Update 17, is creating an environment around the grid where you'll be building custom floors, because since it's now in a first person editing perspective, it means I can do more with it than was possible with the top down perspective used in Alpha 6 and earlier versions. Here's a teaser of that work, and a setup room is also planned for the Floor Maker, which is where you'll enter the grid from, and be able to change settings for custom floors like the skybox (replicating that functionality from Alpha 6's Floor Builder), as well as switch floor designs and save/load custom floors.

Yeah, I know. By the time of Progress Update 18 in July, the work might be complete enough by then to show some Beta 1 gameplay as the foundation work is nearing completion, though if not, then by Progress Update 19, which might come in August on the date of the 4th anniversary for BFNS Remastered, which would be August 5th, 2025, since BFNSR2 at this point is definitely not going to be done until after BFNSU's 1.0 release either later this year or in 2026, and as BFNSR2 is going to use a lot of the improved systems developed for Beta 1 and later of BFNSU (the BFNSR1 1.4.8 update might use those as well), it makes sense to complete BFNSU first before continuing development on BFNSR2 and the likely final update for BFNSR1, as they will rely on the improvements made in BFNSU for some aspects as a part of making them better.

Since Progress Update 17, more progress has been made on the Floor Maker as well, so before the end of May, I might upload a dev footage video to the BFNS Series Central YT channel showing a more complete though still WIP look at it compared to what was shown in the 17th progress update.

Well, I've been working on getting the foundation right for Beta 1 before all of the other game work and "fun stuff" is finished and goes on top of that for the under development Beta 1 update. Still though, I think it discussed a good amount of content, as some things like the Floor Maker (previously known as Floor Builder) overhaul only had work start on them recently (like within the last few days/weeks as I was re-doing things to make them better for the upcoming update, such as from a performance perspective), and there should be more to share by the time Progress Update 18 is released.