Baba is You (Switch): all the updates (latest: Ver. 1.11)

On this page, you will find all there is to know about the various updates for Baba is You on Nintendo Switch (originally released on March 13th 2019 in Europe and North America, and December 16th 2019 in Japan)!

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Baba is You – Ver. 1.11

Release date: April 11th 2023 (North America, Europe, Japan)
Patch notes:

Baba is You – Ver. 1.09

Release date: March 22nd 2022 (North America) / March 23rd 2022 (Europe, Japan)
Patch notes:

Removed some unfinished translations from the game files until they’re more complete

New level in Familiar Lands!

Fixed | not showing in the hand-drawn font

Fixed a small visual glitch in the main game

Fixed a recursive submenu bug

Fix to a cornercase where Fear would cause an object to move in a buggy way

Fixed Power not working with Level

Added support for multiple Power/Powered words

Fixed Seeing and Power not working together

Fixed lua errors with Baba and Play

Fixed broken Play notes

Fixed some language file quirks

You can now see the level code in the pause menu

You can now see the level code when browsing the “Play Custom Levels” menu

New level in Land of Vehicles

Fixed a bug where the quickbar could have non-existent objects

You can now enter level codes without the hyphen and the game will add it automatically

Level Is Chill works now

* added to the in-game font

Fixed level numbering in Starry Lands

The way conditionals are handled in the code was reworked heavily

Fixed “Baba Play Not A” not disabling “Baba Play A”

The pause menu buttons should now stretch horizontally if needed

Added Cheese, Chair, Bomb & Table

Fixed Level not working with multiple conditionals

Fixed objects blinking annoyingly in 3D

Fixed an Empty & Chill interaction

Fixed an Empty & Facing interaction

Fixed a bug where Empty Is Move would make Empty move randomly even when it shouldn’t

Implemented some stuff for displaying Thai

New level in Land of Oddities

Implemented an optimization for Power/Powered that should speed them up a lot

Another new level in Land of Oddities (thanks to Misshapensmiley for showing this variant idea!)

A large optimization to sentences placed next to each other; something like “Baba Is You Rock Is Push” now separates the two rules earlier in the parsing process to prevent unnecessary processing

Fixed a buggy interaction between Word & Feeling (potentially also Powered)

Fixed Pull breaking if you pull more than 2 objects more than one tile at a time

Added a drop shadow for signpost text

Fixed a bug where Still objects could be Swapped in certain circumstances

Fixed a bug where text stacked with letters could break rule parsing

Fixed a bug where the outcome of a Powered condition check could be affected by particle effects

Fixed signposts losing their text after being destroyed

Fixed Not Without working differently from how it used to in how it handles multiple parameters

Added some missing translations

Fixed some oversights with word-wrapping

Additional notes: none
Source: Hempuli

Baba is You – Ver. ???

Release date: December 15th 2021 (North America) / December 16th 2021 (North America, Europe, Japan)
Patch notes:

Changelog

Fixed a bug with the map music in the new maps

Added 10 levels to New Adventures

Added 4 levels to Museum

Fixes to the Polish translation

Fixed a bug that could send you to the wrong level

Fixed a crash in the Switch level editor

The game now tracks levels you’ve downloaded and solved! If you delete and download the same level, the game should still show your past completion in the “Featured Levels” & “Play Levels” menus (doesn’t work retroactively, sorry)

Fixed an issue where certain uppercase symbols could break the hand-drawn font

Added several missing translation lines in. Sorry about that!

Renamed certain levels with placeholder names

Reworked the way Revert works; it should now be more optimized and not bug as easily

Levels adjusted

Written In Stone (was previously impossible, apologies)

Skull Pile (was previously impossible, apologies)

Teamwork Is A Must (was previously impossible, apologies)

New Adventures!

Seeing B

Land of Oddities

Baba Is Empty

Experiment

Land Land Land

Hangar

Land of Vehicles

Ventilation Shaft

Skygate

Spaceport

Rapid Growth

Sturdy Flowers

Safety Vest

Tangled Passage

Waiting For You

Feeling Dangerous

Dangerous Feeling

Secret Clearing

Garden? What Garden?

House House

Haunted Spa (thanks to Axerity for the fix!)

Blow The Candles Out

Parakeet Bouncer

Antigravity

Pushing Uphill

Happy Dance

Harvest Party

Gone Fishing

Sun Boulevard

Milky Way

Set The Stage

Fragile Existence – Old (major fix)

More Unused Levels (big adjustment)

Train

Train 2

Land of Delicacies

Appetizer

Sideways Fireplace

Private Garden

Safety Box

Safety Box 2

Moonrise, Sunset

More Unused Levels

Turmoil In The Clouds (major fix)

Treasure Chest

Set The Stage

Quarters

Experiment

Ventilation Shaft

Cloud Apartment

Baba Fields

Outreach (full redesign)

Shiny Ladder

Hidden Blueprints

There And Back

Smelting Facility (thanks to Axerity for suggestions!)

Exclusive Membership

Once More With Feeling!

Where Am I Going?

Seeing A

Fertile Ground

Supply Route

Planet Baba

Destructive Presence

ABAB CD EFG

Baba Needs Friends

Keke The Guard

Seasons

Additional notes: none
Source: Hempuli

Baba is You – Ver. ??? (Baba Make Level Update)

Release date: November 17th 2021 (North America, Europe) / November 18th 2021 (apan)
Patch notes:

No patch notes available yet. This update brings the following:

The official level editor, complete with tutorials!

The ability to share your levels with other players!

The ‘Featured levels’ list – hand-picked puzzles for you to enjoy!

Over 150 new puzzles!

Over 100 puzzles that showcase unused designs and cut content!

New objects, art, music and effects!

A lot of additional tweaks, bugfixes, and polish!

Additional notes: none
Source: Hempuli (YouTube)

Baba is You – Ver. 1.0.5

Release date: December 16th 2019 (North America) / December 17th 2019 (Europe)
Patch notes:

Fixes & tweaks

Fixed a small ending-related visual bug if the grid is enabled

Fixed a rather severe oversight where certain rules were adding events to the undo buffer in the wrong order, causing errors

Added an additional check for situations where the player would’ve cleared an area but due to e.g. level repositioning between versions didn’t get the flower for it

Fixed a bug where floating Baba and a weak Wall would have a mystery interaction

In certain cases where the game would freeze, it displays a special effect instead (this’ll be expanded on and it might not appear in the game at the moment)

Large underlying code reworking related to conditionals, not relevant in the game right now but it’s work for the future

Related to the above, conditionals with parameters behave in an equivalent way whether the condition has a Not or not

Fixed the word Facing not accepting directional words

Related to above, made Empty Is work mostly as intended

Fixed “Empty Is X” particle effects appearing everywhere even if Empty had a conditional word

Added guest credits to “Across”. Apologies to Corey Martin for missing that when adding the level.

New option in the settings menu! You can now disable screenshake.

There’s a new secret thing in the game!

A certain map now has a clear counter like other maps, so you can actually fully finish it. This should retroactively activate if you’ve already cleared the map.

Changed the way the level selector works. This shouldn’t affect the playing experience apart from one level adjustment listed below. If you note new bugs with the level selector, I’m very interested in knowing about them.

If you’d try to enter two levels at once, the game now opens a menu to pick from.

Added a visual indicator for movement that “fails” (i.e. ends up not moving the object). So if Baba moves against a Shifting object, you’ll now get a small visual indicator that some movement happened.

Fixed a buggy cutscene.

You can now use “Return to map” in a new spot.

Fixed a slightly annoying error with how the map cursor is positioned in certain rare situations

Fixed a level selection -related bug

Fixed a particular Win-condition not working

Fixed a rare conditional statement not working

Fixed a case of the player not being able to enter a level despite having the map cursor on them

Fixed a case of the game trying to enter an erroneous level in certain circumstances

Fixed a case of the game ignoring a level if it thought you were trying to enter two levels at once

Fixed the game storing sub-second frame timing data improperly; not very important but I guess the game tracks your playtime more accurately now

Fixed a graphical glitch in an ending-related thing

Fixed a case where the borders of the levels were considered Empty

Fixed a rare bug relating to an endgame conditional word

Languages! The game now supports 13 languages, with more coming later. Note that the translations only affect the UI and menus; the graphics are English-only. We tried hard to look into localizing it all but it would’ve been too massive of an undertaking. (Please report any issues with the translations, be it on Steam or in-game!)

You can now see the version ID in the bottom-left corner of the main menu! Relatedly, I moved away from the two-letter version naming scheme because it could’ve been confusing.

The game will get an official level editor in 2020! I’ll make a flashier announcement about that in a bit. Anyway, there have been some underlying changes in preparation for that.

Levels adjusted/changed

Whoops

Collaborative effort

Acrobatics

Tectonic Movements

Seeking Acceptance

Heavy Cloud (this might actually be a large change)

Keke And The Star

The Heist

Gallery

Backstage

Maritime Adventures

Elusive condition

Floodgates (used to have tons of rules, adjusted the level to have the same idea with less fixed rules)

A Way Out?

Another Way

???

Meteor Strike

Triplets (a large unintended solution)

Rocky Road (changed Foliage to Rocks to keep the name sensible)

Hidden Path

Out At Sea (added water that I had removed during development for the name to make some sense)

Tunnel (the level didn’t utilize the intended mechanic)

Additional notes: none
Source: Hempuli

Baba is You – Ver. 1.0.4

Release date: May 9th 2019 (North America) / May 10th 2019 (Europe)
Patch notes:

Fixes & tweaks

Promoted Skull House to an extra level

Added Lovely House to where Skull House used to be

Some underlying work for potential future features

Replaced Secure Cottage with Fireplace

New level: Pillarwork! Located where Fireplace used to be

New option to disable particle effects

Shuffled levels a bit in Cavern

Fixed a colourization error in one of the endings

Fixed the area completion effect not staying in the correct place in some cases

Made background particles appear & disappear correctly when toggling the corresponding option in the settings menu

You can now adjust the game’s window size when in windowed mode by pressing Control + 1/2/3 etc (this might become a proper settings option eventually)

Fixed a crash in Ultimate Maze (probably not fully)

Reduced Garden’s required level count for clearing

Fixed background particles in one particular case appearing wrong

Added 3 new levels! I’ll try to refrain from adding any more because that’s not very elegant, but here we are for now. You can find one of them in Rocket Trip as a variant for Horror Story.

Changed “Force default colours” to “Force high-contrast colours” and made the setting use a slightly altered palette. This’ll be adjusted further in the future if needed.

“Fixed” a bug with Empty (that is, added a solution that doesn’t fix it fully but makes it less of an issue)

Started implementing a larger code structure related to Empty in preparation for future use and to fix a particular bug

Swapped the order of Garden’s extra levels since it makes much more sense that way

Made control icon positioning work even if the player adjusts the zoom type during gameplay

Added a pause menu control hint to Where Do I Go?

Fixed level numbering in a lategame area

Fixed the level cursor not recognizing a level in certain situations

Fixed the undo & restart tips appearing wrong

Got All This Stuff Here completely redesigned! The old puzzle was broken in multiple ways and caused crashes. The replacement is called Ruined Orchard.

Adventurers redesigned; the idea is the same but in a less frustrating configuration

Actually fixed the undo/restart message

Fixed multiple syntaxes that worked despite not being supposed to (Baba Not Is You and so on)

Fixed completed level outline effect appearing wrong for some players

Made certain directional rulewords work slightly more consistently

Made certain secrets behave more consistently

Fixed a rare inconcistency in how Tele works

Changed the way the game writes text in preparation for potential translations

Fixed a situation where an object didn’t have a corresponding word

Added a safety measure in cases where the game doesn’t know where to load the player into

Fixed an issue where the game skipped the intro in certain circumstances

Fixed an issue with undoing a Floating object being destroyed

Fixed the area completion effect not staying in the right position in certain cases

Fixed a case where the pause menu might not render text properly

The game checks certain rules more thoroughly when you start a level

Fixed a very very rare crash that mostly affected only my own development work

Fixed the final instance of inconsistent level placement

Fixed a couple cornercases with conditional rules

Made certain lategame visual elements easier to read

Fixed a very specific functionality related to Open/Shut

Level adjustments

Dead End

Lock the Door

Vital Ingredients

A Way Out?

Another Way

Ghost Friend

Pillarwork

Entropy

Horror Story

Trapped

Heavy Cloud

Torn Apart

Tangle

Grand Stream

Tectonic Movements

Across

Power Generator

Bottleneck (adjusted to be slightly more forgiving)

Seeking Acceptance

Lovely House (removed a potential red herring)

Skull House (removed a potential red herring)

Heavy Words (removed a confusing extra structure)

Got All This Stuff Here (see above)

Adventurers (see above)

Automaton

Entropy

Parade

???

Condition

Rocky Road (tiny readability improvement)

Thicket (made Make’s functionality easier to figure out)

Meta (just a small readability adjustment)

Hostile Environment (not extremely happy about this adjustment)

Delicate Star

One-way Entrance

Sky Hold

Additional notes: none
Source: Hempuli

Baba is You – Ver. 1.0.3

Release date: April 5th 2019 (Europe, North America)
Patch notes:

Fixes & tweaks

– Fixed a bug where certain interaction with the word Pull caused an infinite loop
– Repositioned “return to map” in the pause menu
– Fixed an issue with opening the pause menu while a level was restarting
– Fixed a typo in the credits text
– Fixed a bug where the level counter bugged out at 100 levels solved
– Fixed “Disable zoom” saying “Zoom mode” in settings
– Fixed a bug related to the word Tele
– Fixed an infinite loop in Chasm (one remains)
– Fixed the ability to get multiple [REDACTED]
– Fixed several achievements not working
– Fixed the game showing gamepad hints when gamepad is connected but player is playing using the keyboard
– Made the crash in “Love is out there” harder to get – it’s still there so this needs more work
– Fixed a lua error in A Way Out?
– There’s a new zoom mode – stretch!
– Fixed the ABABA bug
– Fixed a bug where the sound crackles when fading
– Fixed the general sound snap bug
– Fixed the bug where alt-tabbing reduces performance greatly
– Fixed an infinite loop related to “Word”
– Alleviated the issue with multiple Push objects in a row. Still ways to go with that, though
– Swapped two secret levels to make certain secret stuff flow better
– Two new levels! One is in the Solitary Isle area, one is hidden
– Coronation promoted to an extra level
– Levels shuffled around in Cavern a bit
– Fixed an infinite loop related to “Pull”
– Fixed a newly-introduced bug related to “Not”
– Fixed a bug where undoing didn’t revert certain qualities
– Fixed a bug where the main map included unintended areas as being required for completion
– New fix for audio issues
– Fix to an area not getting the “completed” flower
– Fix to the new zoom mode potentially not working
– Fix to save slots 2 & 3 sometimes bugging when you start a fresh game on them
– Fixed a level with “Cliff” not appearing properly as an object
– Fixed a lua error related to undoing when Float is involved

Level adjustments to at least these levels

– Prison
– A Way Out?
– Ghost Friend
– Backstage
– Grand Stream
– Maritime Adventures
– Alley
– Further fields (promoted into an extra level)
– A way out?
– Got all this stuff here
– Meteor rain
– Stardrop
– Queue
– The pit
– Catch the thief!
– Endless Corridor
– Meta
– Tunnel
– Overgrowth
– Elusive Condition
– Condition
– The End
– Passing Through
– Coronation
– Metacognition
– Adventure
– Buried Treasure
– Depths
– Another Way
– Insulation
– Secret Garden
– Babas Are You
– Guardians

Additional notes: none
Source: Hempuli

How to download updates for Baba is You for the Nintendo Switch?

To download the updates for Baba is You, you have three options:

let the console do its thing if you have automatic downloads activated, and didn’t completely turn it off

If not…

try to launch the game from the Home Menu while being connected to the internet. You should get a prompt when doing so: simply follow the instructions on screen;

select the game > press either + or – to go to the Options page > select Software update > select Via the Internet.

To check that you have the latest version installed, simply select the game on the Home Menu, and press – or + to go to the Options: the version number is displayed just below the game title.