The counter is used for indicating how many notebooks the player has during main gameplay. The player's goal is to explore the Schoolhouse or the Super Schoolhouse depending on the game, and collect all the notebooks before escaping.
A different item counter would display in field trips prior to Baldi's Basics PlusV0.3. In the previous version of the camping field trip, the version of this counter HUD was used for collecting logs in an unlimited number, although the more the player collected, the slower they got due to carrying a huge amount of logs until putting them in the campfire to earn points.
In Field Trip demo: Camping, the item counter is white instead of black, uses a different font, and has the word "Sticks" instead of "Logs". The player can also discard all obtained logs by pressing the R key.
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In Baldi's Basics Birthday Bash and Party Style in Classic Remastered is possible to extend the maximum counter of notebooks to 9/9 in the glitched school, similar to floor 3. If the slash (/) is removed, then it becomes the number 99, seen numerous times in the game.
Baldi's Basics Plus[]
Prior to V0.4, the notebook counter could have fewer notebooks than usual in Hide-and-Seek/Explorer Mode, due to level generation error.
A notebook counter prior to V0.6.
Prior to V0.6, the notebook counter only consisted of plain text.
However, this old item counter is still used in Baldi's Basics Classic, Birthday Bash and Classic Remastered.
Baldi's Basics Classic[]
The older version of the item counter seen in the first version of Classic.
The item counter was changed a few times through update versions:
Prior to V1.3, the early version of the notebook counter lacked the "Notebooks" text.
Prior to V1.4, the text of the counter appeared to be bold and less pixelated.
In some images in the V1.4 status update post, the notebook counter has different styles, such as wider text or a different font, but they are not implemented into the game.[1]
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The item counter is seen along with some other HUDs outside Baldi's Office when using hacks.
