• Weapons will equip after your attack animation completes if you trigger an equip action mid-attack.
  
• You can build on the Baseball again.
  
• Sizzle rate in the BBQ Spill is no longer being applied multiple times causing the rate to increase extremely fast.
  
• Fixed issue where the client would not be allowed to build in locations that had a building that was removed.
  
• You can eat off of the Campfire again.
  
• The Fan in Playgrounds works more reliably when placed on the ground.

• Lowered Sour Battle Axe damage by 10%.
  
• Health and Safety Badge only life steals on Combo Finishers.
  
• Creature Spawner Gizmo for Playgrounds changes it's spawn radius based on the creature size and number of creatures spawned.
  
  • This lowers the spawn radius in most cases.

• Fixed client various crashes in Playgrounds.
  
• Fixed crash that could occur during the Drink Water or Build a Lean-to quest.
  
• Fixed crash that could occur when hitting the "Copy" action when not in range of an object to copy.
  
• Fixed crashes related to projectiles and attacks.

• Don't show unreleased test recipes in Design Mode in the Crafting screen.
  
• Unique items can be trashed in Design mode.
  
• Using the "Building Menu" hot key in Design mode will not say "Building Disabled" if you have the Buildings custom game option turned off.
  
• Publishing a Playground from a Shared World will no longer attempt to create a Local Shared Copy of that Playground.
  
• Updating a Playground from a Shared World will no longer create a new Playground and code while hiding the previous published version.
  
• Published Playgrounds from a Shared World will no longer show as a Shared World Backup Save.
  
• Downloading a Design Copy of a Published Playground for a Shared World will save the copy under a new playthrough ID since only one primary save can exist per Shared World.

The Grounded team is pleased to present the next update to Grounded with a new experience called Playgrounds. This new mode allows you to create, share, and play an endless amount of new content where only your imagination is the limit.

That’s not all, this update adds many quality-of-life changes, 40+ new building pieces, a revamped BURG.L quest system, and even a way to throw some hoops with the all-new basketball item. But first, let’s dive into Playgrounds… a new way to play and experience Grounded!





Introducing Playgrounds, our ambitious new game mode that allows you to create, share, and play new Grounded experiences with a new suite of tools and features, built right into the game.

Dream of creating your own boss battle arena? Create an escape room with traps and surprises? Dash into a racecourse with power ups and obstacles? It’s all possible with Grounded’s Playgrounds!

Playgrounds has over 300 world props to use to build your own backyard, 400+ items like equippables, resources, and consumables, more than 100 harvestables, and all the creatures! Yes, that includes bosses!



If you thought that was cool, wait until you hear about the gadgets and gizmos you have at your disposal! We’re introducing tools such as buttons, switches, levers, timers, lasers, power ups, and much more to add interaction to your Playground.

Dive into our advanced logic options, which include Condition Checkers, Logic Gates, and Switch Gizmos, to set up complex gameplay mechanics, like a Telepotty unlocking after defeating a boss to lead int


Not only is there a new game mode, there are two maps to choose from!

The backyard you know and love, and our new Playground map: The Grassbox.

The Grassbox is a completely empty backyard for you to build to your heart’s content, you are only limited by your own imagination. The team has included some areas to build your creations in such as ant hills, above and underground science labs, and a flooded area where you can use the wet terrain to your advantage.

While creating a playground, there are two modes: Design Mode and Play Mode. In Design Mode, you can freely place and arrange assets; in Play Mode, you can experience your creation in real-time. Even design with your friends in multiplayer!

Made a mistake? No worries! With the Undo/Redo feature, you can quickly backtrack. And with Free Placement and Rotate Freely options, you're not limited by grid placements.

Once you've built a Playground you're proud of, you can publish it for the whole world to see. Each Playground gets a unique code ID that you can share with others. This means your incredible game modes, obstacle courses, or scavenger hunts could become the next big thing in the Grounded community!


If you are only interested in playing, you can download Playgrounds from your friends and from creators all over the world. Enter the unique codes that are shared and download and play an endless amount of new content.

Next, we have a number of improvements to the core Grounded gameplay experience.



We understand everyone has their own play style, so we're rolling out additional Custom Game Options to help you tailor your Grounded experience the way you want to play.

And guess what? All these custom game options have been neatly grouped under sub-categories for easier navigation. Plus, all players will be notified anytime the host changes a custom game option during gameplay. Talk about quality-of-life improvements!

We're implementing some key adjustments to Grounded's difficulty modes to fine-tune your gameplay experience. In Medium Mode, we are reducing all enemy damage by 10% and making pets invincible. May your little pet live on forever!

In Whoa Mode, we are beefing up player damage, increased building health and item durability. Durability penalty on death will be more severe, creatures will be beefier, and the time of day speed is slowing down a bit. Taking fall damage will be more dangerous and ALL of your items will drop on death.

Creative mode will now have all mutations unlocked, be fully yoked, and pets will also be invincible!


Bandages, Smoothies, and Meals now have a 4 second cooldown. Don’t you worry though, healing items also got a serious upgrade, so you won’t need to spam smoothies anymore. Snacks and all other miscellaneous consumables ignore this cooldown. So snack away!

Speaking of Smoothies, the Questionable Slop is no longer craftable. We are replacing it with the Soothing Syrup which is super easy to craft and the recipe becomes available when you unlock the Smoothie Station. Slurp it up!

Dandelion Tufts no longer need to be equipped in the accessory slot. They are consumable items that are one time use. Don’t fret, you can now stack tufts and dandelions will drop more when chopped down. Along with this change, the Fluffy Dandelion Tuft now has unlimited uses.

We're thrilled about all the new content and systems we're adding, but we haven't forgotten the little things that can make a big difference. Let's dive into some new features and improvements introduced in today’s update.



We made some major adjustments to the Map UI. Not only can you clean up the clutter, you will also be able to see which SCA.B and Milk Molars you have collected so you can reference it with the ones you are missing on a Wiki page! Each icon category can now be toggled on and off for group visibility.



We are revamping the randomized, daily, repeatable BURG.L quests by introducing a series of "Apprentice Quests" that unlock sequentially. Once you complete the first quest, you'll unlock the second, continuing up to the final most challenging quests. There are roughly 100 in total!



But don't worry, daily quests aren't going anywhere; we're just changing how you unlock them. After you've finished the first 20 Apprentice Quests, a new Daily Quest section will become available in the ASL Quest menu. These dailies offer a mix of objectives based on your progress. Unlike before, you'll gradually unlock more options in your daily quest pool as you complete more of the Apprentice Quests, enhancing the questing experience for all players.


Combat combo damage has been revised, the first 2 hits now deal consistent damage at 100%, while the third hit in the combo delivers a 25% bonus damage, packing more punch and keeping damage consistent. That’s not all, charged attacks have been boosted for nearly every weapon and crit damage now has a base chance even without any specific crit-boosting effects.



We're spicing things up in the trinket department too! Recognizing that trinkets have typically been more of a mid-to-late-game feature, we've introduced a new set specifically designed for early gameplay. Each trinket corresponds to a classic RPG role—so whether you fancy yourself a tank or an archer, you'll find a trinket tailored to your playstyle.



The team has added over 40 building pieces, even the most highly requested Half Vertical Wall! You heard right! We didn’t stop there, we also included quarter pieces for each wall, foundation, and roof pieces! Go all out with all these new additions to build your perfect dream base. We also have some brand new Boss Vanity building pieces using the Broodmother, Mantis, and Wasp Queen parts.



That brings us to the end of our in-depth look at what's new in Grounded's "Make it and Break it" 1.3 Update. From the Playground feature to an array of new content and quality-of-life tweaks, we're continually striving to enrich your backyard adventures. But we've only scratched the surface here; for the full rundown of everything this update offers, check out the complete patch notes below.

We're thrilled for you to explore all the new features, and we can't wait to hear what you all have to think about everything we've introduced into the game today. Join our official Discord and keep the conversation going.

Stay tuned for more updates, and until then—Stay safe, and stay Grounded.


Introducing Playgrounds: our ambitious new game mode that allows you to create, share, and play new Grounded experiences, using a new suite of tools built directly into the game. Populate your very own backyard with an array of items — Chunky Chubbs baseballs, toy army men, spiders galore — and that's just the start.

Playgrounds are powered by these core elements: Design Mode, Play Mode, Publish, and Play:

• Design Mode
  
  • Design mode is where you create your Grounded experience by placing and arranging game objects and linking them up to make unique and fun play spaces.

• Play Mode
  
  • Test your creation at any moment by swapping into Play Mode. In Play Mode, your yard will look and play how others will experience it. When you've tested enough, you can switch back to Design Mode, resetting everything back to its unplayed state.

• Publish
  
  • Once you've built a Playground you're proud of, you can publish it for the whole world to see. Each Playground has a unique code that you can share with others. This means your incredible game modes, obstacle courses, or scavenger hunts could become the next big thing in the Grounded community!

• Play
  
  • You can experience any Playground published by the community by entering the matching unique code to download a copy to play whenever and wherever!

When starting a new Playground, you will be placed in Design mode. In Design mode, you can run around as your selected teen or as Handy Gnat, placing and arranging game objects to make fun and unique experiences.

You have access to most objects that exist in the game, including:

• Over 300 objects used in the backyard: baseballs, army men, juice boxes, and more!
  
• Over 400 items, like equipment, resources, and consumables.
  
• Over 100 harvestables like acorns, pebblets, and berries.
  
• Over 400 buildings you already know and love.
  
• All creatures. Yes, including bosses.

• Objects can be placed anywhere in the yard (including labs and anthills) and even floating in the air.
  
• Objects can be rotated freely in all three dimensions. Objects can be placed sideways or upside down.
  
• Existing objects, including foliage, can be moved or erased.

Also introduced in Playgrounds are a host of Gizmos and Gadgets that will add interactivity to your designs. Gizmos are invisible during Play Mode. Gadgets are visible in both Design and Play Mode.

Buttons, Switches, and Volumes

• Button
  
• Standard Switch
  
• Lever Switch
  
• Pull Switch
  
• Timer
  
• Transmitter
  
• Receiver
  
• Pressure Plate
  
• Rectangular Trigger Volume
  
• Rectangular Blocking Volume

Gameplay Gadgets

• Telepotty
  
• Fan
  
• Super Bounce Pad
  
• Landing Pad
  
• Laser Cannon
  
• Laser Pillar
  
• Shock Pillar
  
• Power Up
  
• Score Board

Gameplay Gizmos

• Time of Day
  
• Speaker
  
• Music Changer
  
• Effect Spawner
  
• Quest Marker
  
• Creature Spawner
  
• Player Spawn
  
• Equipment Equipper
  
• Inventory Filler

Logic Gizmos

• Counter with Condition
  
• Switch Gate
  
• Switch Gizmo
  
• Random Chance
  
• Random Selector

Many of the objects listed above can "trigger" actions on another object.

A few simple examples include:

• A placed Button can toggle a Plant Lamp on and off each time it's pressed.
  
• A placed Timer Gizmo can trigger a Laser Cannon to fire every 3 seconds.
  
• A player walking into a Trigger Volume can activate a Creature Spawner to spawn five Black Widows around them.

An advanced example:

• A Basketball Hoop increments a Scoreboard and Counter with Condition each time a shot is made. After 10 shots are made, Fireworks shoot into the air and the Door blocking your way unlocks, letting you into the next room of the dungeon.

You can set up events by creating a "Link" from any object that has a Link Trigger to any object that has a Link Action. Once you have a Link between two objects, you can Customize the Link to set the triggering Event and the Action to take on the Linked object.

Many of the Gizmos and Gadgets above support Linking, as do a myriad of existing items, buildings, and objects already in the game.

In addition to designing Playgrounds by yourself in single-player, you can also design in multiplayer and utilize Shared Worlds with this new feature.

Not only can you design in the canonical backyard you know and love, we're also introducing a new map called Grassbox for Playground mode. Grassbox is a smaller, blank-canvas yard for you to Design in if you so choose.

The Grassbox comes with some empty, premade areas for you to quickly design in including:

• Small bodies of water
  
• Empty lab spaces
  
• Empty ant hill spaces
  
• And more!

To help you customize your Grounded playthroughs (and your new Playgrounds!), we have added additional Custom Game Options:

Building Enabled

• Whether or not players can build and relocate buildings.

Crafting Enabled

• Whether or not players have access to the crafting menus.

Time of Day Speed

• How quickly the time of day will progress in the game.

Thirst Burn Rate

• Multiplier that affects thirst loss.

Hunger Rate

• Multiplier that affects hunger loss.

Resource Respawn Rate

• Multiplier that affects how quickly resources are respawned.

Creature Health Scaling

• Multiplier that affects the amount of health that creatures will have.

Fall Damage Scaling

• Multiplier that affects the damage received from falling.

On top of that, all of the custom game options have been grouped under sub-categories for better navigation and clients will be notified whenever the host changes a custom game option during gameplay.

Defending attacks from Factional Reactivity or from the Waft Emitter will reward you Raw Science for each creature defeated. Stronger factions reward more Raw Science per kill.

We are revamping the randomized, daily, repeatable BURG.L quests by introducing a series of "Apprentice Quests" that unlock sequentially. Once you complete the first quest, you'll unlock the second, and so on up to the final, most challenging quests. There are roughly 100 in total! After you've tackled these milestones, that's it for the Apprentice Quests—your journey is complete.

But don't worry, daily quests aren't going anywhere; we're just changing how you unlock them. After you've finished the first 20 Apprentice Quests, a new Daily Quest section will become available in the ASL Quest menu. These dailies offer a mix of objectives based on your progress on Apprentice Quests. You'll gradually unlock more options in your daily quest pool as you complete more of the Apprentice Quests, enhancing the questing experience for all players.

Map Improvements

• Collected Milk Molars and SCA.Bs will show up on your map to help you know which collectables you are missing. Go ahead and cross reference those online wikis now.
  
• Each icon category can have the visibility of the entire group toggled on and off in the map so you can have your map as clean or as cluttered as you wish.

Name Ziplines

• You can now name individual ziplines to more easily find the right path to zip down.

Drop / Transfer / Trash Amount

• When doing drop, transfer, or trash actions on items, you can now specify a number of items to affect

MIX.R Preview UI

• MIX.Rs now display what creatures are involved in the defense attacks as well as the raw science reward before starting them.

"Place Many" Improvements

• Many roofs, stairs, and awnings can now be placed with "Place Many".
  
• Spiral staircases will alternate correctly when using "Place Many" downwards.
  
• Buildings being placed using Place Many will be shown even if they are unsupported.

Basketball Improvements

• New "Basketball" items to craft.
  
• Dribbling and shooting animations.
  
• New shooting mechanic that adjusts your shot distance based on how long you hold the attack button.
  
• Basketball hoop now has reactive physics and has new audio.
  
• Making a basketball shot can be used as a triggering event in Playgrounds.

Improved Stickied Quest Display

• Stickied Quest Objectives on your HUD will now cycle between the different types instead of showing a wall of quest objectives in extreme cases.

First Person Handy Gnat

• You can now toggle between Third Person and First Person while using Handy Gnat.

Berry Basketball and Pupa Basketball

• Two new equippable basketball items that are made from different materials. While a basketball is equipped, holding the attack button will start a charged basketball shot that goes farther the longer you hold it.

Three new early game trinkets added for various play styles

• Each new trinket corresponds to a classic RPG role—so whether you fancy yourself a tank or an archer, you'll find a trinket tailored to your playstyle.

• Gnat Lamp
  
• Pupa Leather Ottoman
  
• Target
  
• Standing Target
  
• Target Dummy
  
• 2 Broodmother Décor buildings
  
• 2 Mantis Décor buildings
  
• 2 Wasp Queen Décor buildings

6 Vertical Half Walls

• Grass
  
• Grass Crenelated
  
• Stem
  
• Palisade
  
• Mushroom
  
• Ash

2 Half Awnings

• Clover
  
• Crow Feather

2 Half Foundations

• Pebblet
  
• Clay

10 Half Stairs

• Grass
  
• Corner Grass
  
• Interior Corner Grass
  
• Mushroom
  
• Mushroom B
  
• Corner Mushroom
  
• Interior Corner Mushroom
  
• Acorn
  
• Corner Acorn Stairs
  
• Interior Corner Acorn Stairs

3 Half Floors

• Grass
  
• Stem
  
• Bur

4 Quarter Walls

• Grass
  
• Stem
  
• Mushroom
  
• Ash

4 Quarter Triangle Walls

• Grass
  
• Stem
  
• Mushroom
  
• Ash

3 Quarter Floors

• Grass
  
• Stem
  
• Bur

3 Quarter Roof pieces

• Clover
  
• Crow Feather
  
• Pinecone

3 Quarter Flat Roof pieces

• Clover
  
• Crow Feather
  
• Pinecone

2 Quarter Foundations

• Pebblet
  
• Clay

Battle Buddies

• Reduces friendly fire damage dealt and received.

• Added new sign set to the Forgotten BURG.L Chip found in the Brawny Boy Bin.
  
• Added a new sign that automatically unlocks after a certain point in the story. The sign is the Grand Prize Winner from the Grounded Sign Art Contest.

Medium Mode

• Reduce all enemy damage by 10%.
  
• "Pets Invincible" is now enabled by default.

Woah Mode

• Player damage buffed from 75% to 80%.
  
• Building health buffed from 50% to 100%.
  
• Item durability buffed from 75% to 100%.
  
• Durability penalty on death from 10% to 30%.
  
• Creature health increased from 100% to 120%
  
• Time of day speed decreased from 100% to 80%
  
• Fall damage multiplier increased from 100% to 120%
  
• Death behavior changed to drop all items on death

Creative Mode
Creative With Bugs and Creative with no Bugs have the following options enabled by default:

• Unlock all Mutations
  
• Fully Yoked
  
• Pets Invincible

• Some consumables now have a 4 second cooldown before they can be used again.
  
  • Bandages, Smoothies, and Meals all respect this new cooldown
    
  • Snacks and all other miscellaneous consumables ignore this new cooldown
• Doubling the effect of all healing items.
  
• Bandages now provide a burst heal when used in addition to their heal over time.
  
• Bandage heal over time heal per tick tripled.
  
• Bandage heal over time duration reduced.
  
• Quesadillantlion and Omelant thorns damage has been doubled.

The "default" smoothie has been changed to help better communicate its purpose as a basic healing potion.

• Questionable Slop is no longer craftable.
  
• Unlocking the smoothie station will now also unlock the "Soothing Syrup" smoothie.
  
• Soothing Syrup provides a basic heal and is cheap to craft.
  
• All smoothies have had their healing amount doubled.
  
• Smoothies respect the new 4 second consumable cooldown.

Dandelions no longer need to be equipped, and players no longer have to decide between equipping a tuft or a trinket. Instead, tufts are single-use items with no durability. To balance this change, tufts can be stacked, and dandelions yield more tufts when chopped down.

That being said, the "Fluffy Dandelion Tuft" trinket now has unlimited uses, enhancing its value and making it more of an interesting accessory choice.

Combo system overhauled:

• Combo damage of weapons changed from 50% → 100% → 150% to 100% → 100% → 125%.
  
  • First and second hit of the combo now deal the same amount of damage.
    
  • Third hit now deals 25% bonus damage compared to the other hits in the combo.
    
  • All weapon damages adjusted with this change
• Charge attack damage increased for almost every weapon.
  
• Players now have a default chance to crit without any crit chance boosting effects.
  
• Most Thorns effects have been increased substantially.
  
• Increased base damage of all turret ammo types.
  
• Two-handed swords and the two-handed axe have new attack animations with slightly faster timing than before.
  
• Two-handed club attack animations are slightly sped up and updated, and the first-person camera movement on them has been heavily reduced.

• On Gamepad, players sprint by default. Pushing the sprint key will toggle you into walk mode. This can be changed in the options with the new Sprint Mode option.
  
  • Keyboard / Mouse players will still default to Hold Sprint to run but can change to the new toggle modes in the options.
    
  • Improved Handy Gnat cursor precision.

• Two-handed swords and axes come with new and slightly faster attack animations.
  
• Two-handled club attacks have faster animations now. The first person camera movement during these attacks has also been reduced.
  
• Third person throwing animations have been updated.
  
• Third person diagonal crouch walking animations have been added.
  
• Stagger animations for ladybugs and larva have been updated, they will no longer move back to their original position after being staggered.
  
• Sit on the Broodmother Throne as if you are destined to wear the jeweled crown of Aquilonia upon a troubled brow.

• Black Widow Changes:
  
  • Resistant to Spicy, Mint, and Salty
    
  • Weak to Sour
    
  • Neutral to all other damage types
    
  • No longer immune to poison damage
    
  • Now has 2 new attacks in its arsenal
    
    • Can shoot a ranged web at the player, which spawns a black widowling
      
    • Can consume a living black widowling to heal and temporarily increase its attack speed

• Wave creatures take even more damage from turret attacks.
  
• Larva and Ladybug stagger animations have been updated.
  
• RUZ.T flat damage reduction reduced.
  
• RUZ.Ts now have a smashing damage weakness.
  
• Stun cooldown on most non-boss creatures reduced.
  
• Increased gold card drop rate of Meaty Gnats 10x.

• Anger thresholds for certain factions to send a base attack have been adjusted.
  
• Wave cooldown and spawn variance has been adjusted.
  
• Number of creatures that can be active in a wave during multiplayer games has been increased.
  
• Spawn weights for various creatures have been adjusted.
  
• Spawn weight thresholds for wave defense difficulty brackets have been adjusted.
  
• Total number of creatures that can spawn in each difficulty bracket has been adjusted.
  
• Maximum number of creatures that can be active in a wave has been adjusted.
  
• Termite Kings can now spawn in termite faction raids.
  
• Additional faction waves are now able to be angered via the Waft Emitter.
  
  • Stinkbug
    
  • Sickly Roly Poly
    
  • Roly Poly
    
  • Ladybug
    
  • OMINENT
    
  • Moth
    
  • Black Widow

• Infected Broodmother drop rates improved.

• Sour Sensation thorns damage increased sixfold.
  
• Substantially increasing stamina restored by Parry Master.
  
• Spore Lord
  
  • Quintupled the chance for the damage up effect to proc.
    
  • Doubled the chance for the Heal over Time and speed up effect to proc.
    
  • Added stack caps of 50 to all buffs provided by Spore Lord.
• Apex Predator effect added for Blaster of the Moldy Matriarch.
  
• Sharpshooter now increases crit chance with bows and crossbows instead of reducing sprint stamina.
  
• Chopper defense down proc duration reduced.
  
• Javelineer thorns damage doubled.

• A pre-cracked Milk Molar in the Hedge lab has been added to help players get their first Milk Molar earlier in the game. The Milk Molar in the Minotaur Maze Chest has been removed to compensate for this new Milk Molar.
  
• Dandelions now drop triple the tufts.
  
• Acorns are now guaranteed to drop their top.
  
• Small Feather nodes are now guaranteed to drop at least 2 feather resources.
  
• MIX.Rs and Super MIX.Rs now reward more science on completion.
  
• Improved the Hedge Ascent. Our goal was to smooth out the difficulty curve in this area.
  
  • A new quest objective has been added to the Hedge lab quest to point to the area where you enter the hedge.
    
  • Spiderling spawns in the Hedge Ascent moved off of the branches and into the various lab outposts.
    
  • Removed one of the two RUZ.Ts from the resource surveyor outpost in the hedge.
    
  • Added hedge trimmers and additional lights in the lower hedge area to improve visibility and navigation.
    
  • Added a bed in the first outpost lab.
    
  • Added and changed branches to help navigation in the area before the Hedge lab.
• The small Pond Lab Outpost will now be locked by default when exploring the pond.
  
  • The doors will open automatically now at a later point as a result of progressing through the main Pond Lab.
    
  • The doors further inside these smaller outposts will remain locked behind the assistant manager key.
    
  • The loot found in the initial explorable area in the outposts has been improved.
• Added REDACTED to REDACTED for REDACTED.

• Elemental upgrade paths now provide the same amount of damage boost as the Mighty path.
  
• Black Ant Armor set bonus "Pincushion" thorns damage has been doubled.
  
• Prod Smacker's damage increased.
  
• Pinch Whacker now triggers its lightning AoE on its combo finisher instead of having a chance to trigger every hit
  
• Unique elemental melee weapons now have a proc effect on their combo finisher unlocked after getting to +6
  
  • Mint Mace: Area of Effect mint attack.
    
  • Coaltana: Increased parry window buff. If an attack is parried while this buff is active, your next attack gains a significant damage increase.
    
  • Sour Battleaxe: Increased attack speed.
    
  • Salty Morningstar: Applies a bleed to the target.
• Mother Demon and Moldy Matriarch armor sets
  
  • Increased DR.
    
  • Increased durability.
    
  • Now considered heavy armor.
• Moldy Matriarch Armor set
  
  • Dynamighty proc chance doubled.
    
  • Dynamighty explosive resist down debuff duration halved.
    
  • Explosive Stun has been replaced with Big Boom.
    
    • Explosive attacks have a chance to provide a stacking crit damage buff.
• Shield Changes
  
  • Tier 3 shields now provide even more block strength
    
  • Having a shield equipped now lowers the damage you deal
• Acorn armor set crafting ingredients changed to require the player to venture to other tier 1 biomes
  
• Grub armor status effect changed. Now increases damage dealt to tier 1 creatures.
  
• Clover armor status effect changed. Now increases defense against tier 1 creatures.
  
• Clover armor set bonus changed to trickle regen.
  
• Mosquito Needle and Tiger Mosquito Rapier can now be used underwater
  
• Spider Fang Dagger and Widow Dagger now poison enemies underwater
  
• Rusty Spear now applies infection to enemies underwater
  
• Black Widow armor set bonus Death's Impetus effect changed
  
  • Old: Movement Speed increase on kill
    
  • New: Trickle Regen + Attack Speed increased on kill
• Black Widow armor status effect values normalized so they're all equal instead of being different per piece
  
• Aphid Slippers sleek effect changed from sprint stamina to Aphkid
  
• All club weapons now attack 15% faster
  
• Widow dagger now applies venom instead of poison
  
• Added new animations for 2 handed sword and axe attacks, increasing their speed by about 20%
  
• Dropped weapons and equipment in the yard will no longer despawn over time.

Did you know Steam has character limits? Neither did we! Because the patch notes for Update 1.3 are so large, please read the rest of the patch notes on our website.

Thanks again and stay Grounded!

We have released Patch 1.2.6 for everyone to download and install. Please update your game and let us know if you continue to experience any further issues. We appreciate your patience! :)

Bug Fixes / Changes
Major Fixes:

• Fixed a memory leak crash that could happen while the game is paused.
  
• Reduced memory usage on Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S to reduce out of memory crashes.

Bug Fixes:

• Clients will no longer randomly have a very dark exterior or a very bright interior after respawning.

BUG FIXES / CHANGES
MAJOR FIXES:
Fixed issue where sometimes for clients, crossbows would not show their display name or load correctly.
Fixed item duplication glitch that could be done using storage chests.
Reduced memory usage notably to reduce Out of Memory crashes.

BUG FIXES:
Additional Infected Broodmother Lair adjustments to prevent cheesing.
Players can remove completed items from production buildings individually.
Relocating a ladder multiple times no longer increases the resources dropped when destroyed.
Dug up treasure at the sandbox properly restores to the correct location after load.
Reduced CPU usage after loading into the game.

Hello everyone! We have just released patch 1.2.3 in order to fix some issues you have been reporting. Please update your game as soon as you can and let us know if you continue to experience any further issues.

• Blaster of the Moldy Matriarch now works with the Apex Predator mutation.
  
• Blastwave and Clusterbomb no longer deal friendly fire damage.
  
• Quick Shot Refund and Charged Shot Combo now have double the duration after being procced.
  
• Pinecones drop more pieces when harvested.
  
• Hauling Hero mutation and Chillax achievement will unlock after loading your game if you have achieved max coziness and they did not unlock before.
  
• Adjusting some falling bomb placements in the Infected Broodmother lair to cover more area.
  
• Infected Broodmother slower combo attacks now deal less damage but more block gauge damage.
  
• Turret audio for the various different ammo types has been improved.
  
• Adjustments to the Infected Broodmother lair to prevent players from cheesing.

• Fixed memory leak that was causing out of memory crashes after playing for a short while.
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur with burrowing creatures.
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur when ending a conversation with player choices.
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur when placing buildings.
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur when looking at buildings.

• Venom Coating no longer affects the player when activated.
  
• Poison Nova now actually doesn't friendly fire.
  
• Critical Chain effect now procs on all crits, not just charged attack crits.
  
• The Infected Broodmother will no longer drop 2 overlapping smoke clouds when she dodges.
  
• Life Steal effects are now buffed by + healing received effects and reduced by - healing received effects.
  
• Wasp Queen Chunks and Heads now respect milk molar upgraded stack sizes.
  
• Splatbursts and the Volatile Fang explosion now properly benefit from effects that trigger/buff explosions.
  
• Infected Broodmother egg attack no longer can explode after it has been destroyed.
  
• Block Corrosion effect from the Fire Ant Shield works again.
  
• Text-to-speech no longer reads chat messages twice at a time.

In celebration, we have a special surprise for you all to help recognize our favorite Spider mom of the yard.

Additional armor recipes have been added for you to craft to complete the Hedge Broodmother armor set: 

• Chest of the Mother Demon
  
• Greaves of the Mother Demon

The Mom Genes mutation will now also increase all poison damage you deal by a large amount, on top of allowing you to summon spiderlings to fight alongside you.

During the month of May, a new May Sign Set will be purchasable at the Science Shop related to Spring and the allergies that come with it.

That's right, the Hedge Broodmother isn't the only mom in town and we will be celebrating the arrival of the Moldy Matriarch this Broodmother's day month as well!

• The Infected Broodmother lays hidden, deep in the bowels of the Haze, waiting for a poor soul to set her free.
  
• This new epic boss is a permanent addition to the game (not just for the Month of May) and will test your backyard skills to the limit.

• Full equipment set related to the Infected Broodmother
  
• 1 new weapon to craft
  
• 1 new trinket to obtain

• 1 New Achievement for killing the Infected Broodmother

• Infected Broodmother Throne
  
• Infected Broodmother Brazier
  
• Stuffed Infected Broodmother
  
• Infected Broodmother Wall Mount

With that, we wish you good luck, and don't forget to tell your favorite yard mom "Happy Broodmother's Day!"

• Fewer Wasps spawn in base attacks.
  
• Wasps are no longer immune to poison.
  
• Wasp Drone heal amount reduced.
  
• Most poisons applied by the player to creatures now have double the duration.
  
• Increasing damage per tick of all poison effects.
  
• Broodmother set poison, venom, and poison nova effects no longer get applied to the player or your party members.
  
• Increasing the bonus poison damage gained from Spider and Widow armor sets.
  
• Increased the damage and stun damage of the unarmed bonus attack from Lil Fist.
  
• Increased the damage of the bonus attack from the power droplet.
  
• Lil Fist Mastery bonus now guarantees a second hit with every punch.
  
• Wasps summoned with the Apex Predator effect of the Bard's Bow now also apply bleed with their attack.
  
• Updated the building shape of the chimney-to-roof intersection pieces.
  
• The previous shape prevented corner roof pieces from attaching correctly if the chimney was placed flush with the walls.
  
• Added in Chimney'd Pinecone Roof which was missing from the original 1.2 update.

• Fixed a memory leak in physics code that should reduce out of memory crashes that happen after playing for some time.
  
• Fixed a crash that could happen when using the "Copy" action on a building.

• Steal effect no longer applied to friendly targets.
  
• Player summons can no longer trigger effects from the player when attacked by the player.
  
• Clients can now achieve the "Chillax" achievement if the host had already achieved it without them being there.
  
• Wasp Queen boss music properly loops.
  
• Fixed a few dialogues in the game that were not triggering (late game lab, Moldorc Castle button).
  
• The post-game report card can now be closed when using a controller.
  
• Sour weapons can no longer damage some lab machines.
  
• Equipment in chests can now be correctly repaired using materials in nearby chests.
  
• The player will no longer be briefly stuck in front of the Super Duper after inserting a disk.
  
• Bard's Bow will now have an on-screen marker when dropped on the ground.
  
• Respawning from the Petal Bed properly spawns the player next to the bed.
  
• Bee Bee Q recipe in the Oven interface no longer extends past the edge of the screen.
  
• Chat messages no longer are read aloud if both players have "Chat Text to Speech" disabled.

Want to check out Grounded but haven't yet? Then now is the time to play as Grounded is free to play for this weekend only on Steam!

The event is only for this weekend, so be sure to grab your friends, download today, and come check out the backyard before then! Then if you decide to own it, then you can take advantage of the Xbox Publisher Sale going on through May 4th and get Grounded for 25% off!

Check out the Super Duper update video as you get real cozy at your base and meet the new neighbors in the backyard. See what the buzz is about in Update 1.2.0 as we share all the handy features, new creatures, and other significant improvements. It’s the update that will bring the sting of the hive.
 

 
The Grounded team is excited to bring Update 1.2.0 to the community today. Rightfully titled The Super Duper update, this massive update brings with it many quality-of-life changes, more than a hundred new items to craft, a brand new Base Coziness feature, and wasps, a new terrifying creature to fight. But first, let’s dive into the Super Duper… an item duplication machine!

The Super Duper is a new piece of equipment installed in the Oak Lab. Players will find the Super Duper machine the next time they visit BURG.L! This machine will allow players to duplicate specific equipment and items using Raw Science. To use the Super Duper, players must locate Duper Discs throughout the yard. The first disc unlocks operation of the machine, while the other discs grant the player the ability to unlock duping of higher-tier equipment and items.



It can even duplicate trinkets, unique items, and upgrade stones. Making this even more helpful for players, any item duplicated will include all of the item's Smithing upgrades, saving a lot of time for when you and your friends need to gear up quickly and get back to adventuring.

Bases are now more than just protection against giant insects that want to eat you. It’s time to chillax at your base and get cozy with the new Base Coziness system.



Buildings, furniture, and decorations now add to the coziness level of your base. If you are around enough cozy buildings, your level of coziness will rise. There are five total levels of coziness. For each new level of coziness you reach, you can unlock new decorative building recipes, a mutation that’s useful for base building, and new emotes. Being in a cozy location will also give you status effects: decrease hunger, decrease thirst drain, and slow healing.


To help players out with their bases and to start working on gaining those coziness levels, this update also brings with it close to 100 new crafting items. The community has already shown a talent for creative bases, and we are super excited to see what new masterpieces you will create with the additional building pieces and furniture. We hope the Base Coziness system and new base buildings help you and your friends make a new home in the backyard.


Need a hand? Build the base of your dreams with the help of a new friend: Handy Gnat!
Players can summon the Handy Gnat to help with base building plans. This gnat will be able to build from storage near your teen using planks, stems, and other resources from your stockpiles.



The Handy Gnat Unlocked custom game option will be defaulted to active in Creative and Creative with Bugs game modes. To activate this new friend in Survival game modes, players must convert their games into Custom Games in the Game Settings menu. Once active, Handy Gnat can be activated in the Crafting menu or the Construction radial. The Handy Gnat feature a fantastic resource (and friend) to help you build or upgrade your home in no time.

Make rounds around the backyard and get ready to fire. The Pebblet Turret and Pollen Turret have been combined to be a single Turret called Acorn Turret. Use different ammo types, including new ones you haven’t seen before.



Turrets now have six different types of ammo you can rotate through to swap ammo types and all the ammo can be stored in a chest next to the turret. The best part? Players can swap between ammo without ever leaving the turret seat. Slow down enemy crawlers with Sappy Rounds, or use Groundy Rounds to ground flying insects with ease. Speaking of flying insects, this change with the turrets comes at the perfect time to fight against the new creatures in the backyard.




Get ready to buzz with excitement as wasps invade the yard! These hostile enemies will surely sting, and caution should be used when attempting to meet them in the upper yard. If you locate their nests and mess with them too much, you’ll release the full fury of the hive.



Players looking for a more significant challenge can attempt to locate the Wasp Nest and meet her majesty, the newest creature boss. Players who successfully defeat these wasps will unlock new items to craft, such as a new armor set and a new trinket to wear. Defend yourself and fight gracefully in the royal court of the Wasp Queen!

Players on the go are about to get a pleasant surprise as the team has been able to get Grounded on the official Steam Deck support list. That's right!



Those on Team Steam Deck can now fully enjoy Grounded wherever they are. That's not all, as starting April 27th, Grounded will be hosting a free weekend on Steam through May 1st. This will be the best time to get your friends into the game with you and show them the fantastical world you have built. And as always, Grounded is included in Xbox Game Pass, so if you have an active subscription, you can download and start playing Grounded today.

Grounded is available now on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Windows 10/11, and Steam for $39.99. It's also available with Xbox Game Pass, PC Game Pass and Xbox Cloud Gaming (Beta). To learn more about Grounded and for full details on the Super Duper update, check out the latest Developer Vlogs on the Obsidian YouTube Channel or visit the official website.


Get ready to buzz with excitement as wasps invade the yard. Battle with wasps and drones that guard their mini hives across the upper yard. Keep your eyes peeled for the hidden main nest as well. A word of caution: piss off their kin and you'll release the full fury of the hive.

Cozy within her hidden hive, the ominous queen of the skies awaits.

Introducing the Super Duper!

• The Super Duper is a new piece of equipment installed in the Oak Lab that duplicates gear and items using Raw Science.
  
• Find Duper Discs in the yard labs, which upgrade the Super Duper to clone even more items.  The first disc unlocks operation of the Super Duper, while the other discs unlock duping of higher-tier equipment and items.
  
• Any equipment that is duped will include all the item's Smithing upgrades.
  
• Higher-tier equipment costs more Raw Science to dupe.
  
• It can even duplicate trinkets, unique items, and upgrade stones!
  
• Example: Duplicate an upgraded equipment set for your friends if they are joining your party mid-way through your adventure!

Bases are more than just protection against giant insects that want to eat you. They are also for making you feel warm and fuzzy inside.

• Buildings now exude cozy vibes when you are nearby. If you are around enough cozy buildings, your level of coziness will rise.
  
• For each new level of coziness you reach, you can unlock new things:
  
  • New decorative building recipes
    
  • A mutation useful for base building
    
  • New emotes to expand your body language
• Being in a cozy location will also give you status effects that decrease your hunger and thirst drain and slowly heal you.
  
• Multiple buildings of the same type don't give you the same level of coziness. For example, one bed will provide lots of coziness, but a second bed of the same type will only give you a little more coziness.
  
• There are five levels of coziness. Your current coziness level will show on your HUD if it is at least 1.
  
• Note: Some existing decorative buildings are now unlocked via the coziness system instead of by analyzing a material (such as the Grandfather Clock).

Have a large base renovation in mind? Tired of gravity holding you down? Then see what the buzz is about and call on your local construction pro: Handy Gnat!

• As Handy Gnat, you can fly around to build and customize bases to your heart's content.
  
• In order to use Handy Gnat, you must have the "Handy Gnat Unlocked" custom game option toggled on. This option is on by default in Creative and Creative with Bugs game modes. For Survival game modes, you must convert your game to a Custom Game first in the Game Settings menu to enable this feature.
  
• Once enabled, Handy Gnat can be activated in the Crafting menu or the Construction radial.
  
• Handy Gnat can build from storage near your teen and even haul Grass Planks and Weed Stems.

• All Mutations Unlocked
  
  • Start with all Mutations unlocked and available.
• Fully Yoked
  
  • Start with all Milk Molar infusions fully maxed out.
• Handy Gnat Enabled
  
  • Allows you to activate the Handy Gnat build helper.
• "All Recipes Unlocked and Free" has been split into two separate options.: All Recipes Unlocked, and All Recipes Free.

Increase the chance of obtaining rare drops and receive more loot in general! Loot luck comes in 2 forms:

• Generic Loot Luck
  
  • Increases drop rate for all items on all creatures.
• Targeted Loot Luck
  • Greatly increases the drop rate for all items from a specific creature type (for example, "Loot Luck: Black Widow" will increase the drop rate specifically for black widows).

This new luck status effect can be found in various places, most easily by utilizing the new "Rub For Luck" feature on all the stuffed creature buildings!

• The Pebblet Turret and Pollen Turret have been converted to be a single Turret called "Acorn Turret" that can load different ammo types like a bow.
  
• When in the Turret, you can press 'R' or Right Bumper to swap ammo types on the fly. The new ammo types you can craft are:
  
  • Rocky Rounds
    
    • Pebblet rounds made smooth with bug acid. Pack a punch and push targets back.
  • Groundy Rounds
    
    • Sticky turret rounds that don't do a lot of damage but can ground flying insects with ease.
  • Pointy Rounds
    
    • Sharp and simple. Very small cooldown between shots.
  • Sappy Rounds
    
    • Gooey rounds that are perfect for slowing down enemy crawlers.
  • Burny Rounds
    
    • Hot little suckers that can set the ground around them ablaze.
  • Splody Rounds
    
    • They explode. Nuff said.
• Pollen Turret recipe and Pollen Turret Science Store entry have been removed.
  
• If you previously purchased either the Pollen Turret or Pebblet Turret, you will have access to the new "Acorn Turret" building recipe.
  
• If you previously purchased both Turrets, you will be refunded 4,000 Raw Science.
  
• Turret aiming angles have been increased so you can aim higher and lower.
  
• You can now see the health of the turret while inside of it.

Muscle Sprouts can be grown in the Garden Patch now.

Three new achievements added related to the new features and content.

• Added Depth of Field slider.
  
• 5 new poses added.

Grounded has been updated to include official Steam Deck support. Fixed issues and improvements include: 

• The game now boots past the initial loading screen.
  
• The Xbox log-in window properly displays.
  
• Tuned the default graphics settings for Steam Deck to provide an enjoyable experience. Also includes some Steam Deck-specific optimizations.
  
• Steam Deck virtual keyboard pops up when selecting any input text field in the game (entering a multiplayer game password, naming your trail marker / storage, pet, etc.)
  
• Control prompts no longer flip flop between displaying gamepad and mouse/keyboard controls when using the touch pad or gyro.
  
• Note: The Steam store page will not reflect this official support until after the 1.2 Public Test period is complete.

Status Effects applied to creatures now appear beneath the enemy health bar while you are attacking them.

• Tired of placing one wall at a time? Then utilize Place Many!
  
• You can press and hold the build action and move your cursor to place many structural buildings all at once. You can also bind the "Place Many" control (default unbound) to start Place Many with one button press instead of using the "Hold Build" action to activate.
  
  • Example uses:
    
    • Place a horizontal line of 10 foundations all at once.
      
    • Place a vertical set of 8 walls all at once.
      
    • Use both directions to make a 10x10 set of walls all at once.
  • Cool Extra Examples:
    
    • Quickly build a vertical spiral staircase.
      
    • Quickly build a fireplace with a chimney as tall as you want.

You can now relocate walls, floors, roofs, and other structural buildings as long they are not the sole supporter of another building.

• You can now configure 4 Mutation loadouts and quickly swap between them using the new Mutation Loadouts radial.
  
• The default binding to open the new radial is Right D-Pad on controller or T on keyboard.
  
  • To make room on the controller, the emote and chat radial have been combined into a single radial.
• There are 5 new mutations to unlock.
  
• Active Mutation status effects display in the UI next to your other status effect icons. 

• Arrows will now auto-pickup only for the player who shot the arrows. This is to prevent players picking up their friends' arrows on accident.
  
• Arrow markers will only display for the player who shot the arrows.

• Shared Worlds now create local backup saves on the last host's machine anytime a save is made.
  
  • These saves are not stored in the cloud like the primary Shared World save and thus only the host that made them has access to them.
    
  • Backup saves can only be loaded if you were the last host for the Shared World when the backup save was made.
  • This is done to prevent multiple players from loading very old backup saves that stomp over the current playthrough progress.
    
  • Beneficial use case example: Your base is completely destroyed and the current host wants to load a backup auto-save from 15 minutes prior when the base was still standing.

• Wasp Morion
  
• Wasp Breastplate
  
• Wasp Greaves
  
• Bard's Tudor
  
• Bard's Bow
  
• Wasp Queen Trinket
  
• 6 secret trinkets
  
• Pollen Arrows
  
• More smoothies and meals

Over 90 new buildings have been added for your base building needs!
Utility

• Large Storage Chest
  • Holds 60 items.
• Large Plank Pallet
  • Holds 60 Grass Planks.
• Large Stem Pallet
  • Holds 60 Weed Stems.
• Hot Tub
  
  • Seats up to four tiny teens, who gain the "Hot Springs" status effect upon soaking in it.

Decor

• Bunk Bed
  
• Petal Bed
  
• Pupa Leather Couch
  
• Trash Can
  
• Ant Candle
  
• Spider Candle
  
• Acorn Shelf
  
• Koi Scale Shelf
  
• Pinecone Shelf
  
• Toenail Chandelier
  
• Fireplace Hearth
  
• Fireplace Chimney
  
• Fireplace Half Chimney
  
• Fireplace Chimney Clover Roof
  
• Fireplace Chimney Crow Roof
  
• Fireplace Vent
  
• Picture Frame
  
• Pinecone Table
  
• Pinecone Armoire
  
• Short Pinecone Dresser
  
• Tall Pinecone Dresser
  
• Vase D
  
• Vase E
  
• Vase F
  
• Weevil Statue
  
• Aphid Statue
  
• Koi Statue
  
• Yoked Girth Statue
  
• Moldorc Statue
  
• [REDACTED] Statue
  
• [REDACTED] Statue
  
• Standing [REDACTED] Brazier
  
• Sitting [REDACTED] Brazier
  
• [REDACTED] [REDACTED]

Base Structures

• Clay
  
  • Half Clay Foundation
    
  • Curved Clay Foundation
• Pebblet
  
  • Half Pebblet Foundation
    
  • Curved Pebblet Foundation
    
  • Clover
    
  • Clover Peaked Roof
    
  • Clover Peaked Dome Roof
    
  • Clover Valley
    
  • Clover Awning
    
  • Clover Awning B
    
  • Clover Awning Corner
    
  • Clover Awning Diagonal
    
  • Clover Awning Diagonal B
• Crow Feather
  
  • Crow Feather Valley
    
  • Large Crow Feather Peaked Roof
    
  • Crow Awning
    
  • Crow Awning B
    
  • Crow Awning Corner
• Grass
  
  • Grass Outer Curved Floor
    
  • Corner Grass Stairs
    
  • Interior Corner Grass Stairs
    
  • Corner Grass Half Stairs
    
  • Interior Corner Grass Half Stairs
    
  • Grass Valley
• Weed Stem
  
  • Stem Outer Curved Floor
    
  • Log Valley
• Acorn
  
  • Acorn Stairs
    
  • Acorn Half Stairs
    
  • Corner Acorn Stairs
    
  • Interior Corner Acorn Stairs
    
  • Corner Acorn Half Stairs
    
  • Interior Corner Acorn Half Stairs
• Mushroom
  
  • Mushroom Stairs B
    
  • Corner Mushroom Stairs
    
  • Interior Corner Mushroom Stairs
    
  • Mushroom Valley
• Pinecone
  
  • Pinecone Roof
    
  • Pinecone Roof Corner
    
  • Pinecone Roof Squared Corner
    
  • Pinecone Roof Interior Corner
    
  • Pinecone Flat Roof
    
  • Pinecone Flat Triangle Roof
    
  • Pinecone Peaked Roof
    
  • Pinecone Peaked Dome
    
  • Pinecone Valley
• Ash
  
  • Ash Valley
• Other
  
  • Bur Outer Curved Floor
    
  • Buoyant Foundation Ramp

Wall Mounts

• Infected Wolf Spider
  
• Infected Gnat
  
• Grub
  
• Wasp
  
• Wasp Queen

Stuffed

• Infected Wolf Spider
  
• Infected Gnat
  
• Grub
  
• Wasp
  
• Wasp Queen

• Updated pickup and equip sounds for weapons, armors, and items.
  
• Many more objects will now play the proper material impact sounds when hit.

• Raw Science reward values granted from Kill quests have been simplified and generally grant more science:
  
  • Passive Creatures = 50 per kill
    
  • Tier 1 Creatures = 100
    
  • Tier 2 Creatures= 200
    
  • Tier 3 Creatures= 300

BURG.L now plays talking animations during conversations. 

• There's now a sixth level of the "Health" upgrade.
  
• Health has been rescaled.
  
  • Previously: 30 → 50 → 65 → 75 → 80
    
  • Now: 30 → 55 → 75 → 90 → 100 → 105
• Stamina has been rescaled.
  
  • Previously: 20 → 35 → 45 → 50 → 55
    
  • Now: 25 → 45 → 60 → 70 → 75
• Hunger and Thirst rates have been rescaled.
  
  • Previously: 80% → 70% → 60% → 55% → 50%
    
  • Now: 80% → 65% → 55% → 50% → 45%
• Healing upgrade has been rescaled to have diminishing returns like all other upgrades.
  
  • Previously: 15% → 30% → 45% → 60% → 75%
    
  • Now: 20% →  35% → 45% → 50% → 55%

• Creatures now have a stagger cooldown to prevent them from being stun-locked, ranging from 1 second to 20 seconds depending on tier/creature.
  
• Perfect Blocks now deal significantly more stun damage to flying creatures.
  
• Mosquitos now have an extended hit box to make them easier to hit with melee weapons.
  
• Increased stamina to swing club type weapons.
  
• Base unarmed damage reduced because it ignores resistances.

• The Broodmother has been updated to provide a slightly harder challenge.
  
• You can no longer hurt the Broodmother as she slowly descends from the ceiling.
  
• No longer receives specific damage type resistances as her phases change.
  
• Now applies various debuffs on her attacks.
  
• Idle time spent between attacks has been reduced.
  
• Health has been slightly increased.
  
• Broodmother no longer attempts to leap to specific egg sacs after a phase change.
  
• Added a new "backwards dodge" attack to the Broodmother.

• Lil Fist:
  
  • Bonus damage stacks now clear when you take damage.
    
  • Mastery bonus proc chance reduced.
• Trapper PEEP.R final tier now requires 60 gold cards instead of 59 to even out the tiers (20 → 40 → 60).
  
• Meat Shield bonus health value increased.
  
• Buff Lungs bonus stamina value increased.
  
• Cardio Fan stamina regen buff increased at all tiers.
  
• [REDACTED] Stranger:
  
  • Proc chance doubled.
    
  • Damage of [REDACTED] summon increased.
• Shocking Dismissal proc chance increased.
  
• Grass Master bonus damage increased.
  
• Rock Cracker bonus damage increased.

• Survival tutorial quests can be toggled off in the options menu.
  
• Recipe lists in recipe buildings are now sorted by tier.
  
• Some of the buttons on the UI have been modified to look more like buttons when using the keyboard.
  
• Additional clarification on weakpoints has been added to the creature cards.
  
• Weapons that maintain their original damage type after upgrading down an elemental path should be communicated more clearly
  
• For example, an axe that's upgraded down the "spicy" path should now communicate that it's spicy + chopping

• Treasure chest in Black Anthill storage room now always gives 2 crow feathers instead of randomly giving 0 to 5.
  
• The Stump Lab has been improved to have less frustrating platforming.
  
• Added a quest objective and map marker for finding the Hedge Ascent for the Hedge Lab quest.
  
• Wolf Spiders will not wake up on their own for the first 3 nights of starting a new game.
  
• Large Feather nodes can now drop up to 10 feather resources, up from 7.
  
• Small Feather nodes can now drop up to 3 feather resources, up from 1.

• Pets will jump to their homes or masters when the party rests.
  
• Active pets will magically appear near the player if they are very far away.

• Notably reduced the amount of network traffic between hosts and clients when playing Multiplayer.
  
• Improved framerate on extended playthroughs with larger bases.
  
• Creature pathing will not fragment memory so much, which should help prevent out-of-memory crashes.
  
• Improved CPU performance of based built on top of buoyant foundations.
  
• Improved CPU performance when items are floating in water (example: Lint in the Undershed water).
  
• Other general CPU performance improvements.

• The "Copy" action is now mapped to R3 for Gamepad. It was previously unmapped.
  
• Sitting in chairs slows your hunger and thirst drain.
  
• Roof Interior Corners are now placed by flipping Roof Corners (default 'G' or Y button).
  
• Several types of buildings will now conform better to the ground during placement.
  
• Player can hold the Drop button to drop all hauled items into storage buildings.
  
• Minor performance improvements on saves with large numbers of static freeform buildings, such as partitions, stuffed creatures, and vases.
  
• The Grinder will now work with nearby palette storage.
  
• Asymmetric Ash buildings now have a flip option.
  
• Aligning buildings with the terrain will be smoother, particularly close to the player.
  
• Ceiling-mounted buildings can now be optionally grid-snapped.

• The repair hammer now repairs buildings when thrown.
  
• Crossbows now grant the "Rough Reload" effect.
  
  • Block canceling is enabled after firing a shot.
    
  • Damage is significantly reduced on the next shot if fired faster than the normal reload duration.
• Spears:
  
  • Rusty Spear base damage reduced.
    
  • Thrown base damage decreased across all spears.
    
  • Melee range increased across all spears.
• Ant Club base damage reduced.
  
• Bonus poison damage granted by spider armor sleek effect reduced.
  
• Super Gas Arrow damage reduced (normal gas arrows unchanged).
  
• Sleek Ladybug armor extra healing effect slightly reduced.
  
• Toenail Sword base damage increased.
  
• Fire Ant Club charged attack damage increased.
  
• Prod Smacker base damage increased.
  
• Salt Morning Star base damage increased.
  
• Sour Battle Axe stun damage increased.
  
• Pinch Whacker:
  
  • Damage from AoE shock increased.
    
  • Stun damage from AoE shock increased.
    
  • Sour Arrows:
    
    • Stun damage when used in crossbows increased.
      
    • Stun damage when used in bows increased.
  • Mint Staff base damage increased.
    
  • Sour Staff:
    
    • Base damage increased.
      
    • Damage per pulse on charged projectile increased.
      
    • Stun damage from direct hit of charged projectile increased.
  • Mosquito Rapier:
    
    • Base damage increased.
      
    • Charged attack damage increased.
  • Tiger Mosquito Rapier:
    
    • Base damage increased.
      
    • Charged attack damage increased.
  • Spiky Sprig attacks now apply a small bleed DoT.
    
  • All poison DoTs provided by weapons and armor now have the same tick rate.
    
  • Increased Poison Nova's damage per tick to compensate for new slower tick rate.
    
  • Increased [REDACTED] Club's bonus venom damage from [REDACTED] perk effect to compensate for new slower tick rate.
  
  
  Items
  • Roasted meats now heal the same amount as base smoothies, instead of that of beefy smoothies.
    
  • Unarmed bonus attack triggered from the power droplet base damage reduced.
  
  
  Crafting
  Reduced crafting cost for most meals.
  
  
  Bug Fixes
  Crash Fixes
  • The game will no longer crash when dropping certain items directly from a chest.
    
  • Fixed a rare crash linked to Building Integrity.
  
  
  Major Fixes
  • The player will no longer clip into objects at the end of a zipline trip.
    
  • Clients no longer always see the Oak Lab explosion flames when joining a game after BURG.L has already been rescued.
    
  • Mantis fight no longer lags when the Mantis attacks.
    
  • Using Photo Mode for long periods of time while hosting a Shared World will no longer make the Shared World appear as if it is not being hosted anymore.
  
  Other Fixes
  
  • Player's head will appropriately render when interacting with beds or in conversation.
    
  • Boss music will correctly play after retriggering a boss fight after loading a save game.
    
  • The player cannot sit in chairs when the seat is obstructed by something.
    
  • The player can no longer place overlapping grid-snapped buildings by looking straight up.
    
  • Wolf spiders will not wake up until the third night (second fix).
    
  • Sunken Bones no longer jump around when digging them up on clients.
    
  • The Garden will now ask the player for confirmation when they cancel production using the hotkey.
    
  • Triangle Ash Walls can no longer be walked on.
    
  • Acorn Shells dropped from wall-mounted heads will no longer clip into walls.
    
  • Items on ziplines will no longer clip through objects.
    
  • Fixed collision on car tire rim to allow player to properly drop through small holes.
    
  • ORC Disruptors will drop ingredients when destroyed by the player.
    
  • ORC Disruptors will now play audio correctly on clients.
    
  • Gnats will no longer continue playing animations while dead.
    
  • PEEP.R '???' UI element no longer can get stuck on screen when a creature walks out of PEEP.R view.
    
  • Highlighted key words in item descriptions no longer have large spaces around them when playing the game in aspect ratios smaller than 16x9.
    
  • Grubs now have a hit reaction animation.
    
  • The player's weapons will no longer be shown while zipping after loading a save.
    
  • The player will no longer become oddly stretched when loading a save while on a zipline with a shield.
    
  • Copying unflipped buildings will set the building being placed to unflipped.
    
  • Deposit All can no longer overfill plank and stem pallets.
    
  • Half Stairs can now be placed directly against walls.
    
  • "Take All" will work correctly on Sap Catchers after loading a save.
    
  • Guard Dog mutation and turret damage bonuses now properly work on wave versions of Lawn Mites, Antlions, Larva, Orb Weavers, Orb Weaver Jrs, Ticks, Tiger Mosquitos, and Fire Ant Soldiers.
    
  • The player's facing direction on the map now faces the correct way when they are ascending ziplines.
    
  • Player nameplates will fade out in the correct locations on aspect ratios other than 16:9.
    
  • Curved walls can now have curved floors placed in the middle of the wall's inner side more reliably.
    
  • Foundation Ramps can no longer be placed up against and clipping through walls.
    
  • Items will no longer become stuck on the hotbar when consuming the last item while entering zipline placement mode.
    
  • The player can no longer relocate walls with wall-mounted buildings attached to them.
    
  • Camera monitor feeds no longer show labs with missing art.
    
  • Certain destroyed buildings, such as diagonal walls and straight roofs, will no longer leave floating buildings they previously supported.
    
  • Creatures will no longer sometimes be improperly deleted on load.
    
  • Freeform buildings optionally-snapped to grid buildings will now properly collapse when the supporting buildings are destroyed.
    
  • [Redacted] was asked to hum less.
    
  • Water Containers will display the correct levels after loading a save.
    
  • Lure arrows and gas arrows will now have correct textures when loaded in bows.
    
  • Adjusted the position of a few pre-placed ziplines to make them easier to reach when going up them using the ZIP.R upgrade.
    
  • Diagonal walls will now appear at the correct rotation when changing their material.
    
  • Filtering lists like the Recipe list is now correctly case-insensitive in non-English languages.
    
  • Clubs no longer lose their generic damage type when upgraded down elemental paths.
    
  • Power Droplet no longer triggers the Quickdraw effect
    
  • Infected Wolf Spiders no longer sometimes die while jumping.
    
  • Dead aphids will no longer become stuck in mid-air when falling onto a choppable plant.
    
  • Players with the ZIP.R upgrade will now consistently start zipping in the direction they are facing.
    
  • Pet inventories will no longer appear perpetually empty for clients.
    
  • Hanging stuffed creatures will no longer be hung at unusual angles on sloped ceilings.
    
  • Repairing saves that had the "Missing Scientist" quest complete but did not have the last Cocktail recipe unlocked.
  All 1.2 PTB Changes

Casually Grounded hosted the Backyard Brawl with several of your favorite streamers fighting for the Champion title. It was an epic PvP tournament between the most valiant in the arena. Special thank you to the streamers for participating in the event and the Grounded community who supported them.

After the tournament, we revealed the Mutation Loadouts feature coming to the next update. Take a look!




You’ve been asking and we’re here to deliver! You can now configure 4 mutation loadouts in the Mutations menu. Players can quickly swap between mutation loadouts using a radial. The default binding to open the new radial is Right D-Pad on the controller or T on the keyboard. To make some room on the controller, the emote and chat radial have been combined into a single radial. We hope these changes will make survival in the backyard an even smoother experience.


Speaking of the mutations, new options are available in the Game Settings when you play a custom game. Check it out.



All Mutations Unlocked allows the player to start with all the mutations unlocked and available, meaning you’ll be able to activate them at the beginning of the game! Please note that players are limited to two mutations at the start of the game unless they upgrade their Max Active Mutations in the ASL using Milk Molars. That, or enable Fully Yoked Start to fully max out the active mutations limit to 5. Fully Yoked Start will enable all Milk Molar infusions such as Max Health and Stamina to be fully maxed out.

“All Recipes Unlocked and Free” has been split into two separate options: All Recipes Unlocked, and All Recipes Free. All Recipes Unlocked allows all recipes to be unlocked but will require the player to gather materials to craft buildings or items. All Recipes Free means you will have the complete freedom to build what you want.

Handy Gnat Enabled will activate the Handy Gnat build helper for you to craft the base of your dreams. Wait… what’s the Handy Gnat?




Have a large base renovation in mind? Tired of gravity holding you down? See what the buzz is about and call on your local construction pro: Handy Gnat!



The Handy Gnat feature gives the player control over the handiest gnat around. Fly up and around to blueprint, build, and customize bases to your heart's content. In order to use Handy Gnat, you must have the Handy Gnat Unlocked custom game option toggled on. This option is toggled on by default for Creative and Creative with Bugs game modes. For Survival game modes, you must convert your game to a Custom Game first in the Game Settings menu to enable this feature. Once enabled, Handy Gnat can be activated in the Crafting menu or the Construction radial. The Handy Gnat can build from storage near your teen and even haul Grass Planks and Weed Stems. We hope this fly guy helps you create the base you want to build with less time and effort.


Here’s an exclusive look at a new base building recipe. Introducing the Corner Stairs!



Corner Stairs come in four types for Grass and Acorn materials: Corner Stairs, Interior Corner Stairs, Corner Half Stairs, and Interior Corner Half Stairs. The Mushroom material has two variants being the Corner Mushroom Stairs and Interior Corner Mushroom Stairs. We’ve got the Corner Stairs and plenty of new base building recipes in store in the Super Duper update so stay tuned!




Here’s a shoutout to u/Quick_Art_7497 from Germany for their outstanding base in Survival Mode. The architectural layout and dedicated hours on building your headquarters made us go… WOW! Thank you for sharing this beautiful base and we hope to see more of your adventures in the backyard. We’re always amazed on how talented and creative our players are in Grounded.

... and more!

Join Casually Grounded on Wednesday, April 12th, as special guest Game Director Adam reveals more content and features AND MORE in the upcoming 1.2 update. We’ll see you then!

Casually Grounded airs every Wednesday at 1PM PT / 4PM ET at http://twitch.tv/obsidian

Happy Wednesday everyone! We are currently releasing patch 1.1.2 to everyone. Please update your game as soon as you can and let us know if you continue to experience any further issues.

Bug Fixes:
Clients will no longer sometimes disconnect when respawning inside a large base.
Clients will no longer get position desyncing while at bases, especially after having used stairs.
Improved network bandwidth usage for clients when walking around a large base.
No longer able to duplicate items using drop / transfer item trick at containers.
Ammo radial shows the total number of each arrow type you have instead of just a single stack amount.