GROUNDED 10 THINGS New Game Plus Doesnt Tell You! What You Need To Know About Remix.d Yards! Tips!

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[@Grimlander]

One thing that I don’t like is how now you can’t instantly pick up the bug parts after they die you have to wait through the entire dying animation. The new weapons though are just way to grindy there is no point in getting all of them

[@literatemax]

I agree it is a bad change

[@oggopia]

I think this was their way of addressing all of the glitching into terrain - not dropping the items until the body has completely stopped moving seems to have fixed a lot of those issues. I've noticed the same with arrows - there's a delay before you can pick them up, and you can't pick them all up at the same time. It's a bit annoying, but now I'm losing maybe 2-3 out of 100 to terrain, instead of the 20-30 I was before

[@literatemax]

@@oggopia so it's another inelegant and lazy band-aid fix that makes the game feel worse but appear less glitchy 👍

[@oggopia]

@@literatemax I mean, it fixes the issue, so I'm not complaining about it. They've given us a lot of free content post-release - they *could* be like Bethesda, releasing barely-functional games and just assuming the player base will make it playable through mods. Then releasing any new content as paid-dlc that reintroduces all of the same bugs...

[@literatemax]

@@oggopia yeah it could be a lot worse. I should be happy that more people get to play the game

[@gabrielc9198]

W shoutout bro,tiny pirate gaming really helped me out

[@whosthismuriguy]

While super grindy, all the Infused weapons having the same stats for the weapon it’s based on is kinda cool. If I’m understanding correctly, you can use a lower tier weapon for the looks instead of only the tier 3 designs. Allows for a bit more customizability with what weapons to use! (Again, if I understand it right)

[@wolfygirlowo]

peblet axe gang on top fr

[@tinyboxtim7313]

Also unique trinkets respawn with new effects, I found the pendent with the pendent and the quickness effect on it

[@BlueBannedGod]

so the power droplet should be broken?

[@scottfoster9353]

Breaking spider eggs around the hedge gets me about 12-20 ooze for infused spider-lings. Also Science Cones can have really special abilities like Samurai, Star-core. Fastest way to get waffles is the shed porch. Just kill all the black ants. 3-8 waffles a trip and 5 to 10 infused.

[@caiusdrakegaming8087]

The cones must be pretty rare, no one I've seen play has gotten one yet. You know a good place to get them, or at least what kind of creatures are meant to drop them? I'm not at the stage to do ng+ yet but I do want to prepare ahead of time.

[@MushwellFungi]

I'm sort of annoyed alittle about the infected ants, you see their fungus stems don't show up when to build the stuffed replicas and still appear as blueprints and when you re-enter the save the Fungus becomes solid but not textured (unless they are gonna add a patch soon) and they don't appear in the playground which is strange Same for the queens but I guess that's because of story stuff but yet their offerings are in playground which is also kind of doesn't make sense

[@The_Apex_Of_Predators]

I think they aren’t in playgrounds because they didn’t want people to spoiler everything

[@MushwellFungi]

@@The_Apex_Of_Predators true, didn't think of that, but eventually they will add them, right? However most of the infected ant stuff doesn't seem to be properly implemented as Im guessing that also has to do with the idea of not being discovered so soon

[@The_Apex_Of_Predators]

@@MushwellFungi They do work properly?? And most likely they will add them

[@MushwellFungi]

@@The_Apex_Of_Predators oh wait sorry i misinterpitated what i meant, i mean the stuffed replicas, there is currently a glitch where the fungus parts dont show up correctly on newly built stuffed infected ants (appearing as a blueprint while the ant itself remians normal), when you leave and re-enter the world the fungus does appear then, but it is not textured (appearing as a grayish checkered non-glowing model, the rest of the ant(s) model is fine though)

[@mikehook4201]

Im on new game + got everthing about maxed out just missing 7 milk molars for food and thirst.Does it give you enough to max everthing cuz I been every where and cant find any more. Jw before i go to new game++

[@Cryptic-cy3xr]

In order to get the boss random drop weapons ( I'm not 100% sure), build the stuffed version of the boss you're about to fight. It says if you run it it'll give you a greater chance of getting additional rare treasure. I haven't tested this yet

[@JadePGCrafted]

nope thats for bug parts might work onmce in ng plus 4 but tahst when weapons will drop

[@Cryptic-cy3xr]

@@JadePGCrafted oh ok cool

[@wolfygirlowo]

@@JadePGCrafted it helps for the crinkles/waffles/cones too

[@Khaizen10]

@@JadePGCraftedit works with all of their drops.

[@D0qy]

I’ve done every thing for good card apart from what I think burgl quest, is burgl quests required for 100%? If yes then I know what to get, if no then maybe I’m missing something.

[@SteelWheelSkybelieves]

Do you know how many milk molars there are in total in ng+? I maxed out all my stats but the report card says I still need more

[@marcusayers2711]

I am literally getting destroyed in ng+ 1 and 2 i just beat the mantis after using the bards bow ofc. Also funny thing is i usually play in medium not anymore this is so difficult now that i have to play in mild and i still get like 1 shotted or 2 shotted from most if those stupid attacks, like schmecotrs orc summon now sending like 6 elemental attacks at you at ONCE. Or their being 2 mantises. I never asked to play grounded as a dark souls game ._. And now i either have to leave this save sense i cant go back. Or keep suffering, and i honestly dislike both options. ._. Update: I killed the mantis in ng+4 and uh this is....peaceful I guess I mean my only worries is the javamatic now.

[@wolfygirlowo]

ermmm just get good fivehead dont die grounded is the new elden ring and we dont have a choice

[@marcusayers2711]

@@wolfygirlowo I have many heals. Good weapons. And I'm good at perfect blocks. I also reached +3 now and I only have the javamatic and wasp queen at the moment :p

[@marcusayers2711]

@@wolfygirlowo I also have a trinket for best bow, sour, fresh, and sour damage Still don't have best spicy damage but eh that's fine :p

[@ThErEs_BaMf]

They should open up next door and implement weather changes 😅 new area new gear, building materials, Imagine igloos and stuff😵

[@Sleezy-yeti]

If it wasent so hard to get certain weapons in the game id go for them but anything after ng + 1 and unlockibg the staffs and newer weapons ill call it there

[@hansethetooly5421]

i found a few milk molars under water i cant bust to collect, gonna be hard to solo up to ng four, so i guess im gonna be going crazy on defenses for the java finally a use for my big chests of bricks and cement.

[@DaggerEnthusiast]

use bomb arrows

[@hansethetooly5421]

@@DaggerEnthusiast cant its in a spot with no line of site and cant even bounce the broodmother grenade to it.

[@darkdraco02]

​@@hansethetooly5421 can you throw your hammer at it ?

[@93ksj]

They should drop that to game plus 2 or 3, 4 is kinda insane

[@simeonbairaktaris4092]

How many molars spawn each NG+? The boxes reset, and get be unlocked again, aside from the mutations one. But do enough molars spawn each NG+ to max all the stats? Im asking because im missing like 15 to max my stats, and i dont want to search in vain.

[@mikehook4201]

Im missing 7 for hunger and thirst. Everthing eles maxed out.

[@simeonbairaktaris4092]

GUYS! I just found out the answer! There are enough molars to max out all your stats, at least in NG+. In later NGs, I don't know yet. Keep your eyes out for places you'd never go to: The 3 laser towers, the lantern towers that light up at night, the top of wendel's favorite chair, the top of the tree stump, a branch over the fire ant nest, the basket and the wheels of the bicycle (the one against the wall), the empty can on top of the paint bucket next to the brawny boy bin, and also swim around in the pond. The last two molars I was missing were just floating around under a lilypad each.

[@mikehook4201]

I got one that I cant seen to find corner of the house near the trash heap. Been up and on and below. I go half way up the garden hose says im on it. Getting there just need 3 more

[@simeonbairaktaris4092]

@mikehook4201 yeah, that molar is INSIDE the garden hose. I know because I used console commands to noclip. You can enter the hose at the sandbox. It's the only entry point. Problem is, you can't walk up that steep section of it. I used the console to deleport myself into the hose, right after the steep part. From there, it's possible to walk to the molar. Question is, how is it possible to collect that without hacking.

[@JunkYard12345]

New Game Plus' are insanely difficult. At this point, these arent NG+, they are New Hardcore Plus.

[@wolfygirlowo]

fr they either need to nerf the bosses in NG+s or make it so we can upgrade armor past 9 hell i think we need a second sleek thing for upgrading armor past 9 (like u can choose between A or B and A is more defense and B is a new effect, this wouldnt change ur initial choice of bulky or sleek) maybe even increase the level cap to 20

[@BlueBannedGod]

level cap was supposed to be 50 before the game would be dropped but sadly the new systems ain't out yet so major wait(unless they truly drop the game)

[@wolfygirlowo]

@@BlueBannedGod source?

[@JoshuaRAWRR]

Kinda disappointed with the time and hype they put into content that most people won't even bother to get to.

[@user-km8nx7xi5t]

So are you saying that players won't come back to old saves and start new game pluses over idk 40 years or so as a real gamer I come back to my games every few years and most of them don't have new game + so seems kinda ignorant to think that a player will come back in a few years and just start over instead of just starting new game plus ? Like do people even use there brains you own the game forever like wtf you really think that grounded fans will not come back in there entire life for new game + ? Even if you just played it every 5 years you would easily get new game + 4

[@JoshuaRAWRR]

@@user-km8nx7xi5t Dumb take.

[@Choryrth]

@@user-km8nx7xi5t so you are saying you expect most playesr to put literally hundreds of hours into the game, when the vast majority literally don't even finish a single game, let alone play it twice or enter new game + if it has it? pretty stupid to be honest.

[@caiusdrakegaming8087]

It's weird that ng+ gives you more Megas Milk Molars when they don't have a point after you max them out the first time. Maybe you're supposed to get more things to use them on as you go up the ng+ stages?

[@Raphlog]

They appear randomly as like a way to allow people to max out if they missed a bunch before going in ng+, like me

[@Naydra7]

I’m so annoyed that when you infect the queens, it goes to the next ng+ I started a new game just for infecting all queens 😢😢

[@literatemax]

You can't even infect all 3 until you are in NG+2 or higher

[@wolfygirlowo]

u gotta do NG+ anyways dawg

[@negative7proxy]

I'm still trying to defeat the infused Broodmother in NG+ for her ooze to make the yoking station, but she destroys me each and every time.

[@sarahstagg3085]

You don’t have to! Just go do the hedge Brood mother in NG 1 and she will drop the ooze

[@Khaizen10]

⁠@@sarahstagg3085did you read the original comment? They are saying it’s destroying them every time.

[@sarahstagg3085]

@@Khaizen10 yea I did. I was confused between the infected infused BM and just the infused. I kept trying to beat the Infected infused one thinking that’s where I had to get the ooze and then realized I could get it from just the Infused BM. I assumed they were having the same issue as me. You can leave your attitude at the door.

[@Khaizen10]

@@sarahstagg3085 sorry if I came off as aggressive. I was just making sure you knew they said infused and not infected because I see some people getting them mixed up.

[@sarahstagg3085]

@@Khaizen10 my bad, the “did you not read the comment” through me off. No harm. Have a great weekend. Thanks for trying to clear that up.

[@IghtOkayAlright]

Ng+ really only works for games where by the end your one shotting everything but that not the case even if you have max level gear any combination or weapon. Its not really a new game plus as much as it is a challenge run mode

[@HydraaPlats]

For the new grow big again achievement, do you need to complete the NG+ playthrough or can you just grow big again after starting the NG+ playthrough?

[@taylorschreiber1772]

commenting for same question!!

[@JadePGCrafted]

I think you need to rescue wemdk again, just test it yaself head to machine and see if it allows to grow big, then just reload save once get mutation

[@matthewmartinez3550]

I really wish Javamatic would bypass the repair phase in NG+. I'm in custom mode, and I kinda went all out on defense. My outer wall is bugged and gets warped on reload (a bunch of walls get rotated) and it takes like 5 minutes to get my gnat into my coverings. It feels like you would naturally improve your defenses each NG+, but having to tear them up because the cores need to be fixed makes the whole thing a pain.

[@wolfygirlowo]

or u could just make a good defense with a door/tunnel/staircase to the cores sometimes just randomly mashing buttons and spamming ash walls isnt the best idea, u should build something more similar to a fortress; itll help defend it especially because then u can reliably use gas arrows or the blaster (ur in custom so id assume u have friendly fire off so u wont damage ur builds with the blaster)

[@matthewmartinez3550]

@@wolfygirlowo My thought was that if I could get in, bugs could get in. Honestly, a big part of the issue was that this was my first javamatic, so I assumed that I wouldn't need to get inside. This was very much a heat-of-the-moment vent, and now that I've calmed down, I've already figured out how to do what I was going for without screwing myself over. It was basically me using creative mode logic without knowing just how excessive that was, and how simple the AI is.

[@Khaizen10]

@@matthewmartinez3550door

[@SvenicusGermainus]

I hate that you can't infect all the queens until NG+2 at the earliest. Also sucks that they patched being able to reroll the stats on the trinkets.

[@GarbajeCan]

Where do you find the infected food receipe for the ant queens?

[@Lego_Fortnite_lovers_here]

The red ant ones in the haze lab but if you want the other two I suggest just looking for a tutorial

[@GarbajeCan]

@@Lego_Fortnite_lovers_here that's what I did yeah (lego fn overrated)

[@Lego_Fortnite_lovers_here]

@@GarbajeCan I know I just can't be bothered to change it 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@fanarkboy8543]

Should I befriend, kill or infect the ant queens in normal mode? I'm a completionist/item hoarder and I really want a full set of ant queen armor but also I want a baby pet ant of each type.

[@ShadraRune]

You can’t infect them all in your first loop, Wiki says the Fire Infect recipe only appears in +2

[@bellaboo818]

Ngl I’ve made it to ng+2 and I’m already feeling a burn out the Javamatic is extremely tedious now and I’m not excited to do that 3 more times and they really needed to add an upgrade to the milk molar detector because I spent hours running around looking for them all only to find ones impossible to collect like in the house near the black ant nest and underwater where you can’t use a hammer I even found one in the basket of the bike near the termite area which you couldn’t see from the floor and doesn’t get detected from the floor either meaning the only way you’d even find it is if you already had a staircase up there like I did and it’s just gonna get boring quick knowing doing the exact same tedious things over and over again

[@moinmeister4078]

Is everything I build still there after going into ng+? (Ropes, Bases and so on)

[@JadePGCrafted]

YES

[@moinmeister4078]

@@JadePGCrafted thanks for quick reply! 👍🏼

[@ohdarp9237]

I was about to ask the same question

[@Azhureus]

So you have to infect the queens in the basic game in order to have them infected in NG+ to get some extra ? Am I correctly understanding this ?

[@JadePGCrafted]

yup teh red ant queen, not the others as you cant pick up recipie till ng2 and ng3

[@literatemax]

​@@JadePGCrafted1 and 2

[@Azhureus]

Oh, so it works only for the red one. So can I befriend the fire and black queens with no other meaning in the NG+?

[@marykeferreira7268]

Ye i am going to ng+5

[@bluntlyhonest3157]

How many times can you new game plus? Infinite?

[@RyanLg123]

How do you get that much raw science to buy the teleporters?

[@JadePGCrafted]

It's easy in new game plus kil lots of infused

[@rockowlgamer631]

I'd probably just do NG+ once and then be done for a while cause I don't feel like its worth going through 200 hours worth of grinding just to get everything done.

[@tobot9745]

Infused dust mite are way too strong i was fighting 1 and it had the bomb attribute and the dustmite smoke was dealing damage and exploding so i could not block it

[@wolfygirlowo]

u think thats bad? allow me to introduce u to venom mantis

[@Khaizen10]

@@wolfygirlowono, NO NO NO NO NO. NOT THE VENOM MANTIS.

[@cactus_hugger]

alot of random seem pretty common honestly everyone has just about the same changes in the lawn aside from molars in NG+ maybe it changes a bit later but i very highly doubt it

[@theGzusMan]

Ok but do by previous base builds get destroyed? Nobody seems to be talking a lot about the other simple questions 😅

[@JadePGCrafted]

its been answered to death by like every video i have doen and others and explained aton in dev posts, no ya base is fine

[@matthewdunn6722]

I'm struggling with the broodmother and the ant man on ng1 they keep spawning with that bs explosive damage anyone any tips 😅

[@matthewdunn6722]

Get like half way or over half way through the health bar then they do some bs combo hit and I die hahahaha

[@Khaizen10]

Learn to perfect block well.

[@pop-cornyt]

When you do a new game + do you lose all do you have ?

[@magicpyroninja]

You have to beat the game four times before you can see some of the new stuff. That's a definite turn off My attention might have been held for one more playthrough if there was new stuff to find, but not if i have to beat it four times to get to it

[@mysticaljammy8542]

then don't nobody gives a shit that magicpyroninja dosen't want to do that. you look like a 1600s boy band member

[@wolfygirlowo]

theres new stuff in each NG+ until like NG+4 also damn mysticaljammy that was brutal, u aint wrong tho man

[@itsalittleloud7799]

​@@mysticaljammy8542lmaooooo he's just sharing his opinion 😂😂😂 your a psychopath like dude get on some medication or something.....

[@idiotplays377]

0:46 that my image :0

[@matthewbad2000]

This is too much for someone as casual gamer as myself, I will leave the new game plus to those hard care gamers

[@jabbott6748]

You say @8 o'clock pm... in what time zone? I'd bet anything that your 8pm isn't the same as mine. First guess would be UTC, aka GMT+0, but assumption is the mother of all fu¢& ups so I'm double checking.

[@goldenrush_6434]

Yo

[@skort94]

They just people to rage quit at this point I think

[@TheZanzibarMan]

It's spelled Doesn't.

[@The_Apex_Of_Predators]

Nobody cares lil bro, it’s a KZbin title, move on…. (Also if you don’t add the punctuation mark, people can see more of the title from the home page)

[@unknown_ray1016]

bro is the super disk the only way to get the deduper jelly?

[@JadePGCrafted]

yup

[@literatemax]

You can make them from any crinkle cone or waffle

[@Badoopboop]

Maybe if I didn’t have 4k hours already. I’d rather play Fortnite at this point. lol.

[@haro6025]

4 ng+? that will make the game boring

[@Lil_Noris]

nah

[@rockowlgamer631]

@@Lil_Noris Considering this game can take 50+ hours on a normal playthrough, I highly doubt I want to go to ng+4 which would take 200 hours. That's a burnout waiting to happen. edit: turns out you keep all your stuff so it goes from 50+ hours to more about 10 hours, the biggest issue is grinding out fusion crystals just to keep up with the infused bosses.

[@m.j5861]

​@@rockowlgamer631nah only the non new game plus takes long bc then you already have you gear

[@greengoomba9933]

Mayhem mode from borderlands is what they did

[@Lil_Noris]

@@rockowlgamer631 then don’t play, no one is forcing u

[@gamingcs1591]

To me I just think it's a stalling technique. They came out with these creation worlds so that we can create our own stuff since they had nothing else and now they've come up with NG and NG + etc. Maybe one of these upcoming updates might be one of our own creations.

[@JadePGCrafted]

stalling technique?@ you not realise how much tiem and effort goe sinto thes eupdates? weird take my friend and clearly knwo nothing about game making, there are no more content updates its done now till grounded 2

[@gamingcs1591]

@@JadePGCrafted I see you one of those rude people okay let's get it. You said exactly the same thing I said except you worded it different. This is a stalling technique because they don't have any more content and you just sound stupid for saying what you just said. I don't care about your affiliation or wannabe affiliated.

[@brodiemcewen]

I think more people need to speak out on the disappointment of this update. After all the time we waited and all the support we’ve given the devs in the development of this game this “final update” kinda feels like a spit in the face even Elden rings ng + isn’t this hard and they didn’t really add that much. They added reskins of weapons boring tier 4’s and ant queens which people have been asking for what 4 years?

[@brodiemcewen]

Why is their no lizard boss when assets are literally there for it and why did they completely forget about salt weapons there’s like 2

[@matildanintendo149]

1 hour gang

[@matthewstephens6502]

Telepotty thing is disappointing. Almost worth quitting over, to make a point to myself.

[@goldengaming5675]

As i scroll through this comment section, im glad this is their last update. Yall are ungrateful.

[@Adabulldoya]

Wow I do not like the way they went with this update. As some who only has MINUTES a week to play. Sometimes not even that I’m so tired. And I still have the Java fight to do. At least I’ll be in new game plus then. But the teleporter price is insane that’s just mean I feel like. I have like 1800 raw science I’ve never had over 5k idk how you find so much. I love the game and I want to get all the new stuff but I don’t know about fighting all the bosses 3-4 times. That’s a bit ridiculous. It seems like they only cared about trying to get more play time out of the game

[@Lil_Noris]

that’s u buddy, if they made it easy it wont be fun

[@zaclittlejohn2701]

I play a couple of hours a week, and some of the prices are ridiculous unless you set up a farm specifically for raids. With raids, burg.l quests, and infused bugs raw science becomes ALOT easier to get.

[@Lil_Noris]

@@zaclittlejohn2701 enfused bugs is something u will face all the time, giving u 3k science each time

[@TimberBuilds]

you can get 100k raw science in less than 20 minutes! its not a grind people are just lazy and aren't paying attention. you get 3k science from every single infused bug, just go kill 10 mites and you got 30k. its really not that difficult.

[@oggopia]

Raw science is not hard to accumulate - we just started a new game, and from researching materials / killing some bugs in the starting area, we got a bit more than 17k from autocompleted quests when we got to BURG.L

[@FalconKyule1]

The way you talk about fighting infected ants in all 3 hills makes it sound like youre afraid to do such a thing. Thats fine, we Americans can handle it.

[@JadePGCrafted]

yawn, good luck murica

[@stonerviking4079]

Not a big fan of this update. The majority of it is way too grindy and the enemies are overpowered like the infused bosses. Games are supposed to be fun not an exercise in frustration

[@crayzmusic]

what is new game?

[@surewhynot2156]

generic comment

[@alidalouw803]

frig the guy that said first

[@MushwellFungi]

Your going to need a Blue Shell to humble them

[@Pandora1034]

FYI YOU DO NEED THE GOLD CARDS

[@JadePGCrafted]

nope you dont they have said multiple time sthey are changing it, check teh official patch notes bub

[@Pandora1034]

@@JadePGCrafted well BUB i need it to get 100% i did it before and got 98 so check your facts

[@SegBar411]

​@@Pandora1034Well BUB I got 100% without gold cards check your facts.

[@Pandora1034]

@@SegBar411 yeah no lmao cry about it (no longer going to respond to stupidity)

[@Khaizen10]

@@Pandora1034they literally changed it. You don’t need them anymore.

[@VeloRift_]

Whose gonna tell him that that isn’t how you spell doesn’t

[@JadePGCrafted]

gotta keep that engagement right

[@VeloRift_]

@@JadePGCraftedthinking in 4D

[@Badoopboop]

This is actually trash lol.

[@susieecklund6450]

First

[@alidalouw803]

[@evbe6561]

I hope your pillow is warm tonight

[@7596jerky]

what is the too many items error

[@JadePGCrafted]

It's new setting, to help withs witch and lower systems, turn it off in options (mainly keep it if you play crossplay with switch or have a older console

[@za_subskrybuj7040]

Do i have to get all baby ants to get 100% score?

[@JadePGCrafted]

Yas

[@SirTiggs1]

​@@JadePGCrafted i translate it and it said plastic😂

[@jabbott6748]

You say @8 o'clock pm... in what time zone? I'd bet anything that your 8pm isn't the same as mine. First guess would be UTC, aka GMT+0, but assumption is the mother of all fu¢& ups so I'm double checking.