Getting Started in Fatal Baboons

This Getting Started guide is the day-one walkthrough for Fatal Baboons on Roblox. You will learn the core loop VertexLabs built: leave a Safe Zone, scavenge scrap, sell it at the Scrap Recycler next to Abby’s Shop, gear up, and survive Lab monsters with friends. The game released 17 August 2026, then reinvented itself in the November 2026 New Lab revamp (rename from Scary Baboon Reimagined, new map, new hunters, fightback). Everything below assumes that remade Lab.

If you only remember four rules, remember these: monsters cannot enter Safe Zones; you can carry at most 6 scrap; Crown scrap sells for 50 coins; when a fightback-eligible monster grabs you, press F and win the QTE.

Before you click Play

• Favorite the official experience so updates surface in your list.
• Invite friends if you can - online co-op on up to 20 - player servers is the intended social mode.
• Skim the Monster Tier List so names like John, Brute, and Null are not total surprises.
• Accept that codes do not exist yet - no redemption UI as of November 2026. Progress comes from scrap and skill.

Fatal Baboons revamp - Lab, monsters, and scrap loop

Controls and first spawn

Use standard Roblox movement: walk, sprint, jump, camera. The critical special input after the revamp is F for fightback when grabbed-details in the Fightback guide. Keep your fingers free; opening shop menus in a Danger Zone is how tutorial players die.

You will spawn or regroup somewhere protected. Look for painted Safe Zone versus Danger Zone borders on the floor. Step across only when you have a plan to return. The Safe Zone is your classroom: talk, sort coins, open Abby’s Shop, and recover. The Danger Zone is where scrap and monsters live.

The scrap loop (your real tutorial)

1. Enter a Danger Zone corridor with an exit path in mind.
2. Pick up scrap from the environment until your carry count approaches 6 - or bail earlier if you hear trouble.
3. Return across the border into the Safe Zone.
4. Sell at the Scrap Recycler located next to Abby’s Shop.
5. Spend coins on useful gear or cosmetics, then repeat.

Crown pieces are the jackpot valuation at 50 coins each. Do not risk a Crown-filled bag on a vanity detour through Meater’s favorite hallway. Deeper route planning lives in Scrap Farming.

Safe Zone habits that save runs

• Sell before you flex. Unsold scrap is imaginary wealth.
• Reorient after every death: borders, recycler, shop, elevators to Backrooms.
• Assign one friend to watch chat or call threats while others buy.
• Never AFK on the border line-hitboxes and panic sprints cause hilarious (and fatal) mistakes.

Meet the Lab roster (beginner view)

You do not need every stat on hour one, but you need silhouettes:

• John - Blind. Hunts sound out to roughly 145 studs. Pink screen means he is running on your noise. Stand still.
• Brute - Speeds from about 35-42 over five seconds. Jump his low swings; break line of sight early.
• Bertha - Instant 38. Corners and jumps. Fightback eligible.
• Meater - Fastest Lab sprinter at 40. Spot first or lose.
• Spitter - Goo every ~5s, -20% speed for ~4.5s. Do not get slowed before a chase.
• Dimmer - Drains lights. Memorize geometry when the bulbs die.

Full counters: Survive Monsters. Numbers sheet: Monster Stats.

Backrooms can wait-but not forever

The Backrooms are a separate pressure cooker with Null (stare or he rushes at 54), Meat (tall grab; climbing will not save you), and Mimic (fake teammate; check faces; long chase). Finish two or three clean Lab recycler loops before you ride elevators down. When you are ready, open the Backrooms guide and the Backrooms Update history.

Fightback in your first hour

If Bertha, Meat, or Null (among eligible threats) grabs you, press F and complete the punch QTE. Escaping Null grants about 30 seconds of immunity-use it to reach a Safe Zone, not to greed more scrap. A second catch can still kill. Treat fightback as a seatbelt, not a license.

Co-op tips for brand-new squads

• Meet in Safe Zone; agree on one wing.
• Call “selling - when anyone hits 5- scrap.
• Keep noise low if John might be near.
• In Backrooms later, verify faces before sharing loot paths-Mimic reads as a player.
• Read Players for lobby etiquette once you outgrow pure panic.

What not to do on day one

• Do not download random scripts before you understand fair play risks.
• Do not trust “working codes - lists-there are none live.
• Do not chase jumpscare clips into unknown rooms with a full bag.
• Do not ignore painted borders because a friend is yelling on the other side.

First-hour checklist

• Find Safe Zone borders and the recycler by Abby’s Shop
• Complete one sell of any scrap amount
• Survive a John silence moment (stand still when pink threat appears)
• Practice one jump over a low attack if Brute/Bertha appears
• Die once on purpose? Optional. Dying with 6 Crown because of greed? Avoid.
• Bookmark Updates for Lockdown news

After Getting Started

Graduate to Survive Monsters, then Scrap Farming, then Fightback. Use the mid-article video for a visual tour of the remade Lab, monster parade, and scrap sell flow. When the teased Lockdown update lands, return to Updates first-borders and scrap rules may stay, but routes will move.

Welcome to Fatal Baboons. Sell often, listen hard, and keep the Safe Zone sacred.