It’s time to go swimming with the fishes in Grounded. I don’t mean that menacingly, though. Yesterday, Obsidian added a big koi pond to their Honey I Shrunk The Kids-like sandbox, so you can literally go for a little swim with some aquatic lads now.

Actually, wait, the pond does sound quite dangerous.

“This boss of the pond might only have one good eye, but it only needs one eye to notice you, and you never, ever, want it to notice you,” the devs say of that chonking great koi.

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Honey I Shrunk The Kids ’em up Grounded has taken a step into the deep end. The next update for Obsidian’s teeny tiny survival sandbox opens up the Koi Pond, letting you dive into murky puddles while evading dangerous goldfish and submerged spiders. The pool will open for everyone next month – but if you’re feeling antsy, you can dive in right now via the public test server.

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The backyard is booming and boo-ing with new stuff in early access miniature survival game Grounded. Obsidian have added a new zipline structure to help your tiny little people with traversal and some spooky new food and décor for Halloween. They’ve made some bug fixes to the game’s many bugs as well.

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As we all know at this point, I am a big fan of the ants in Obsidian’s new early access survival game Grounded. But the ants aren’t the only thing I ask about when I interview Obsidian’s Adam Brennecke, the game’s lead designer.

In Grounded you play as a child, or group of children working together, who has been mysteriously shrunk down so that a normal suburban garden becomes a huge jungle. It’s a great idea, but I’m curious where Grounded came from conceptually. Did they set out to make a survival game that eventually became about being tiny and encountering giant ants and spiders, or was there a particular idea or concept that came before that? It turns out it’s the former.

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It’s been less than a month since ant-bothering shrinky garden survival game Grounded entered early access, but in the current era, three weeks could mean anything between a day and four hundred years.

In any case, I’m rather fond of the game, and have attacked my own friends for daring to menace its ants, as warned. So you can probably imagine how excited I got at the prospect of interviewing its lead designer, Obsidian’s Adam Brennecke, about the ants. That’s not all I asked him about, and I’ll have more to share next week, but this article today is about mostly about the ants.

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Tiny-person-in-a-garden survival sim Grounded will be getting bees and mosquitoes, and monthly updates as part of its ongoing early access development, Obsidian have said.

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Spider Silk is an extremely valuable material in Grounded, and it’s no understatement to say that obtaining Spider Silk is a gateway from the early game to the mid-game of Obsidian Entertainment’s fantastic survival experience. In this Grounded Spider guide, we’ll walk you through exactly how you can obtain Spider Silk, alongside some handy and practical tips on defeating Orb Weavers and other Spiders.

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Quartzite is a fairly important resource in Grounded, and one which has eluded a great many players during their first ventures into this fascinating survival game. In this guide, we’ll reveal all the locations we’ve discovered where you can mine Quartzite in Grounded, along with what you can use it for once you have it.

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You have possibly already heard about the Facebook group called “A group where we all pretend to be ants in an ant colony“. Statistically speaking, it is likely that some of you are members. It prompted many slightly bemused articles around May and April of this year, as outlets like Buzzfeed tried to parse what it was and why over a million and a half people were members of it. Really, its aims were and are simple and few, and mostly stated in the title: everyone pretends to be an ant. The group loves ants and ant content. We BITE, LIFT and WORK for the QUEEN.

There are now almost two million members in the group, which has diversified the kind of ant content getting shared, and recently my ant family discovered Grounded, Obsidian’s new early access survival game. You play as a child or team of children who’ve been shranken down to insect size, and must survive in the now dangerous jungle that is a suburban back garden. There is, as Sin pointed out, a lot of good ant content in Grounded. The colony likes this.

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The standard edition of Microsoft Flight Simulator costs £59, but like me trying to show my parents their house from a Airbus A320neo, we can go lower. A lot lower, as it turns out. Here’s how you can play (but not own) what’s looking to be the first game of the next, next, next-generation for as low as £1. And you get over 200 other games with it as well.

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