Grounded: 12 Things I WISH I KNEW When I Started Playing

[@joshuaneilson2176]

One thing that might be worth mentioning is that when you are wearing the red ant armor, you can use the red ant hill as a base of sorts and luer in the more dangerous bugs and the red ants will fight them for you. I've tried it with ladie bugs, bees, stink bugs, bomb beatles, wolf and silk spiders so far nothing can survive. I usually use them as a meat shield and shoot arrows over the top to speed things along.

[@chriseternals]

That is a great tip. Thank you, Josh.

[@hashtastic3537]

Omg I nvr even thought about that. Imma try it

[@kh6853]

Possible without humANT, but way more annoying.

[@4piecespicy589]

Joshs win at everything

[@PhantomGeth]

yep I do that for early game parts 😂 discovered it in early release and didn't Release how broken it was till recently

[@MissingSirius]

Another water container trick: If you place one under the straw of a juice box, the drops fall into it. So you can come back a few days later and it will be full of juice instead of there just being one drop on the ground.

[@frankphillips5884]

[@sarahrandall8735]

Awesome, thanks

[@1962SjS]

This is a most possibly one of the best game tips ever💪🏽

[@tylerforeman6844]

I was just commenting the same thing buddy lol

[@SaintedKarma]

Also you can use roof pieces to have the droplets flow in a direction I have a build I did where the clover roof pieces make the droplet flow on top of a row of containers and if the first one is full the droplet will roll along to the next one and fill that. It is a super useful build as a few of my ziplines go over it and I can see the droplet go into the roof piece funnel (there’s 10 containers under the funnel … 2 rows of 5 - back to back as you can clip containers into each other quite a bit)

[@thymerhemann3230]

Dude I literally JUST learned that you can make berry leather on a jerky rack for a 1:1 ratio

[@MediocreMilton]

Super useful since all the good armor uses it!

[@frankphillips5884]

THANK YOUUuuuUuuuuuUUuuuuUUU!

[@hvhrFr]

Wtf

[@Teddy-qv5fw]

Lmao I wish I knew this a lot sooner. I used to go shoot down the berries and just craft the berry leather

[@katwyld]

Same here with rope. Definitely game changing!

[@OriginalBrannayen]

The 2 wolf spiders under the oak tree are very easy to kill with a bow and alot of arrows. Sneak in while they sleep, and there is a rock up in a crack you can stand on. They cannot reach you and just stand there. Start plinking away with arrows until both are dead. That's how I got my first insect bow.

[@Madidus3DPrints]

Also the lamp thing there's a branch leading up to it and its also near the wolf spiders so I just shoot them from the branch and its to thin for them to jump on it

[@EI_Greko]

Or use axe and lady bug armor ez

[@TheRealJohnMadden]

I love the small details you just random come across in this game where as soon as you find it you're like 'aaaaah come on, this would've saved me so much time'.. Grounded is honestly probably one of the most refreshing and enjoyable survival experiences I have ever had. It's not overly difficult and there's not just this looming thought of death the entire time. The one feature I believe the game is missing though is the ability to deconstruct weapons or armors for even a little bit of the investment back. I always find myself just trashing items or throwing them on the ground.

[@jurridoras4001]

The creativity in this game keeps me coming back for another session with the boys!!!

[@zachary_smith84]

Here's an extension of one you mentioned... pallet relocation. The reason for it snapping back to its starting location has to do with threat detection. If that little warning pops up, your pallet or anything else you're moving just gets deselected. A lot of people tend to falsely believe there's some sort of magical limit to how far you can take things. Not the case at all. So if you are using this method and you accidentally run into a wolf for instance, dropping the pallet immediately before its eyes glow red can save you a lot of headaches as long as you're in the right mind to back the spider away from the pallet so it doesn't destroy it in the heat of combat. Only mentioning this because for awhile I was under the same false impression that there was some distance limit and cringe to think how many seconds that have added up to hours at this point I have wasted dropping and picking it back up when I can clearly see the coast is clear and doing so was unnecessary.

[@invertedsun]

Actually noticed this the other day testing some things involving containing orb weavers. I had the orb in a mush enclosure and trying to build a walkway above when it would exit me from building everytime i was aggro to the orb. i feel like this is commonly mistaken. thank you for confirming this :) happy hunting friend! ps. i havent figured it out yet but, even though the orb was completely trapped, i walked away for a couple mins and heard it walking around in the grass. Went to check and sure enough, it was out as if it phased through the mush walls...

[@zachary_smith84]

@@invertedsun This is also a thing. They set a render setting awhile back in unreal to allow the bugs to phase through objects when they aren't being rendered by a player. Was done to help them path because they used to derp into grass when you tried to flee. It's also the main reason bugs phase into terrain. So yea, you managed to stumble into an even lesser known bug within the game. There are certain terrain object they have a harder time doing so with though, such as player built structures, which is why Milton's aphid/weevil trap continues to work without them walking through it when he's not looking directly at them. I have seen some interesting traps made out of this unintentionally intentional bug though back when basketball hoops were immune to damage to trap wolves into them. I hope that helps with the confusion. And good luck with your exploits in game too :)

[@kysonjackson8800]

bro wrote a whole essay💀

[@scrin3215]

@@kysonjackson8800 bro just had to call someone out over talking about something they enjoy🤡💀

[@zachary_smith84]

@Split Dimension The only limitation is still threat. You pull aggro and it bops you out of the relocation.

[@peanut1329]

Most of you probably know this but on the grinder I think. You can convert one grass plank into 5 plant fiber. You can put five grass planks in there. So you can get 25 plant fiber if you fill it up with grass planks.

[@Aflay1]

Oooh, I didn't know this. Feels like a lot of this stuff would be common sense, but like....there is SO much stuff to learn!

[@Plopodop]

@@Aflay1it’s 8 plant fiber per weed stem btw

[@CZIvosh]

I wish I knew earlier that upgrading a weapon also repairs it. That can save few rare resources by replacing them with quartz.

[@mishy3862]

While useful quartz is a finite resource. So unless you planned to upgrade it already it is a waste of something you can't get back.

[@ricardomonrroy67]

@@mishy3862 this was when it respawned

[@RF-Ataraxia]

@@mishy3862 I'm fairly certain that quartzite and marble occasionally do respawn like pebbles, sap and gum do. Even the candy things respawn, though only as buried treasures

[@Prodigalson-vk9io]

@@RF-Ataraxia Unfortunately no they do not. Maybe the shards lying around, but the rocks do not respawn after being broken

[@jacobbalcer3329]

You can also aggro big enemies like the ladybug to destroy things like mushrooms before you get the tier 2 axe. Or if you forget it.

[@alexisconnergaming6793]

Another thing with being able to move the pallets like that is that you can actually do the same with the clover baskets and chests. I use this trick to transport resources from bases. Or simply just when I need to gather a lot of one item. I will bring a chest with me and keep all of the item I am currently looking for in there and free up inventory space for other items I come across.

[@Blargy2inch]

Thats a great idea takeing a basket or chest can more than double ur inventory as long as u dont lose it

[@Kat.The.Reaper]

Ive been doing that since i started. Its such a great relief.

[@alexisconnergaming6793]

@@Blargy2inch definitely, I will set my basket or chest down every now and again, just so I don't lose it if I happen to get into a bettle.

[@Plant_Parenthood]

How do you pick up the basket with stuff inside it? Do you just click "relocate"?

[@alexisconnergaming6793]

@@Plant_Parenthood you would just move the basket as normal. But I recommend that if you're taking it a far distance. Set it down fairly frequently. If you find a bug along the way and it starts tha battle sequence your basket will go to the last lovation it was placed.

[@chanukito]

The berry leather tip is SO helpful, thank you!

[@MediocreMilton]

Awesome, glad it helped!

[@Locutus.Borg.]

Yep. It's definitely one I wish I knew much, much sooner! 👍

[@joshuarechkemmer8048]

I literally kept thinking it would be cool if I could make berry leather with this but never tried it. Also I think you can also make dry grass chunks by putting on plant fibers

[@Locutus.Borg.]

@@joshuarechkemmer8048 _"Also I think you can also make dry grass chunks by putting on plant fibers"_ We already covered that. Look at my earlier comment. 👍

[@joshuarechkemmer8048]

@@Locutus.Borg. cool. I don't look at the comments

[@duytran9086]

You actually can transfer a Stem pallet, while you yourself carry stems on the shoulder. So if you want to maximize your stems transfering, use Ant gear + Ant smoothie to get the maximum amount of stems you can carry on the shoulder. Move an empty Stem pallet to a location with lots of tree, then proceed to pile up the pallet and your character's back with stems. You would be able to bring nearly 25 stems per travel.

[@Agatecheetah542]

Yessss 🎉

[@turtles3]

Now u can carry like 40 stems and transfer a large pallet of like 60 for a total of 100.

[@salvatoredelilleorlansino5332]

They should make it so you have to drag the stem and plank container like a sled so it makes more sense and maybe be able to drag them with a ladybug making a berry leather saddle and a fishing stick with an aphid at the end to have direction

[@iliavelichkov9318]

you can anger bugs and lead them in an big ant hill to their demise

[@weaversongcharm5185]

I built a base near the red ant hill solely for this purpose

[@Sparrow-f1i]

Easy there satan

[@romaine989]

Omg thank you ill try this today 😂

[@ujingamer]

Little tip: I don't know if this changed some time. Wolf spiders don't wake up for the first three days unless you hit them so your safe from the for a few days

[@daphodil7145]

I did not know about using the spinning wheel to make crude rope, or using the drying rack for berry leather. That is a huge convenience. Thank you! Keep up with the great videos ☺️

[@RodneyG669]

You can do the same for pupae leather.

[@thymerhemann3230]

When you make a spinning wheel, it literally tells you that you can make crude rope I'm pretty sure

[@themonsterunderyourbed9408]

What did you think the spinning wheel was for?

[@R__A]

@@thymerhemann3230 it does now in latest updates, in this video tho it doesn’t show any recipes so it clearly used to be different

[@R__A]

@@themonsterunderyourbed9408 it never used to show recipes, it would just show your inventory like in this video, so you’d only know if you happened to have it in your inventory while using the spinning wheel

[@dravenlei1870]

I used the Baseball near the start... draw lady bugs and stink bugs to it and climb up and snipe them with arrows. At the Oak tree lab there's a leaf above the entrance and you can see under the tree are two wolf spiders. I used grass half walls and boarded up the opening except one little half wall spot and then shot at the Wolf Spider. It charged to me but couldn't get past the grass wall barrier I built and I was able to keep shooting it from on top the leaf.

[@TheRaySkye]

Always carry a bee stinger, clay and mushroom brick when you are exploring. You can very easily set up a wall and hook so you can zipline back later, Clay is also very useful.

[@jack_crutons]

Man this game is so fun, I’ve mostly been figuring it out on my own and it’s really rewarding to slowly progress and get stronger gear

[@sothisisbasicallyhow4696]

With respect to making bugs fight each other, it is SUPER easy to kill anything that spawns remotely close to the red anthill if you have ant armor. Since they don’t aggro you, the soldiers will murder anything that you kite toward the hill. Super easy way to kill orb weavers and even wolf spiders early on. There are just too many ants

[@R__A]

So ant armour makes u immune to ant aggro??? Sick, never knew

[@sothisisbasicallyhow4696]

@@R__A only the red ant set, but, yes.

[@JustinMShaw]

@@R__AYes with the red ants, unless you attack them or steal their eggs.

[@timmyireland1]

A tactic I've been wanting to try out is to barricade the openings to the underside of the Oak tree, where the Wolf Spiders spawn. It's not covered in this video but at 4:40 it looks like you've done just that. I will try it with a windowed wall, so that I can fire gas arrows through the opening and hopefully get a couple of easy Wolf Spider kills.

[@WetBreadOnTheStreet]

broo i spend like a solid 20 minutes to collect 57 berry chunks for the lady bug armor and you are telling me that i just could've used a jerky rack

[@diro999]

the acorn liquid containers can be placed under the juice boxes and they will collect juice automatically.

[@MacCheekz1990]

Did they change that? Cause I remember trying this last year and it didn't work. The drops bounced off of it.

[@grunchchristmas]

I found this out by myself,pretty proud of that

[@BungieStudios]

*🔫 i giv u 9 sec too delet this* 😱

[@dawningofdumb2430]

For the crude rope part, an easier and faster way to harvest it is chopping down a blade of grass and then chopping the little left over base at the bottom which will give you like 10 plant fiber :)

[@klee8283]

that will prevent the grass from resapwning though

[@dojostarfox4520]

Ohhhh... now thats a good tip. Doesnt seem to work that way for dandelions tho.. unless im mistaken.

[@alexrogers9051]

Better off putting plant planks in the grinder so you don’t lose the grass from spawning back

[@francestaylor9156]

@@klee8283- not true. The grass spawns back. Same with the weed stems. It just takes a few in game days. Like 2-3 days. I know because I’ve done this many many times.

[@TheSmokyRoomGaming]

You can run right to the rotten bee spear as well right from the start. There's air bubbles that you can follow and make it to the sunken t rex with no upgrades or armor

[@Musicman9096]

According to the wiki the berry leather tip also works for Pupa Leather which is honestly even more time saving for going into T3.

[@ConsciousExpression]

Hey an important thing you didn't mention is when you move grass/stem pallets, you drop the pallet periodically because if threat detection kicks in, it cancels the move pallet action.

[@daisycraw5]

He did mention it

[@daisycraw5]

5:51

[@ConsciousExpression]

@@daisycraw5 Yeah he said place it down periodically, but he doesn't explain why it will revert back to where it was. Pallets ONLY revert back to their original spot if threat detection gets activated. So if you have an area cleared and you know you're not going to be threatened, you don't have to drop it. You could carry it all the way across the yard.

[@josephhurst4902]

2:11, if your gonna make a Lot of Rope, Suggest using a Grinder to Grind Grass Planks into pieces of plant Fiber for Rope.

[@moawik4864]

#7 not only can you get that, but if you kill a few mites for the mystery maschine them make a stink bug get close to the ant hill, wait a bit then go and take the parts of the ants you can imideatly start with ant armor (will need a workbench for that, which requires you to make an axe but its also just picking up a few materials), use it to go into the anthill and get all 3 parts of the bee armor in there (you might wanna get a torch before entering, but it does only recuire a few materials), then go to the pond swim down to the sunken dino and get the bee stinger. Now you have full bee and ant armor as well as a bee stinger and larva sword by just killing a few mites at the start and picking up stuff

[@1984ToyotaPickup4WD]

Wow! The wife and I started playing this with our kids and got hooked. We have started over at least a dozen different times in different locations. I didn't know half the stuff you talked about 🤣. Great video! Thanks and I look forward to more helpful videos from you.

[@xDarkTrinityx]

The stems on the zipline and moving by pallet are super helpful, I had no idea. Granted I don't have many ziplines, but good to know. Though one thing is they just changed mutations so now I think you start off only have 2 at a time and you can upgrade with milk molars to have I think up to 5 at a time? (I'm currently only at 3 and my next upgrade is 4, so I'm assuming max is 5)

[@angel__king]

My fav thing to do starting the game is to craft a bow or a spear and run over to the red ant nest where you’d get one of the aux burgl chips and then have a stink bug and the ants fight each other. Tons of free ant parts and soldier ant parts and a few stink bug parts for only a few arrows. And it gets even easier after the first time since you can craft the red ant armor and red ant club

[@BLAHSHKY]

Unlimited crude rope pretty much ; grow a fiber in a garden patch and have some spinning wheels right beside it. Always save 1 or 2 fiber (depending on the amount of patches you have) but doesnt take long to grow. And if you have spoiled meat it will decrease the time it takes and also increases green thumb chance which each plot will give you anywhere from 4 fiber to 20

[@Lezappen]

Once you unlock the grinder, you can grind 1 grass plank into 5 fiber, that's 15 plant fiber per grass cut which is super convenient, from 1 grass you get 15 crude ropes.

[@CatalystMusik]

@@Lezappen damn. Didn’t think of this! Thanks

[@lukeedwards6027]

Don’t take the time to kill a bunch of bees, make your first Bee Spear and throw it, immediately after making it thinking you can kill a mosquito with a cool finishing move. It will probably instantly move to the side, making you miss AND I STILL CAN’T FIND IT!!!! Dude props on that amazing zipline/weed trick. I had no idea

[@YannR34]

😃 Using this bee spear is the only way I have been able to kill one water spider to get only one part from it... And it takes two bees to repair it. But I need those spiders parts to have a trident which should make it easier to kill those spiders... Maybe. At least in Wow mode.

[@qapiojg]

followup to your storing juice drops. You can put the liquid storage container directly under the spout of a juice bottle and it'll collect the drops. There's a bit of an area the drops can fall in so it sometimes won't get all of them but you can just sit and forget it and come back for plenty of juice.

[@tentardigrades968]

Mine only ever collects 1 drop.

[@desi21century]

As someone who just spent their first 30 real hours playing the game farming plant fibers and building bases and constantly running out of space and crude rope… the first trick blew my mind. A 3:1 to 1:1 ratio is insane so much rope

[@SheyD78]

Only recently noticed the spinning crude rope thing, definitely a good early tip, but the multiple drying racks tip isn't exactly a start of game thing since they require spider fangs that you mostly get from wolf spiders, and if you can kill multiple of those, you're already set. Cool stuff all round though!

[@Axiomatix]

I thought I would watch this video and say "I already knew all of that" but I learned quite a few things. Thank you for sharing the knowledge good sir

[@NIX0LAS]

The tip #4 zipline resource trick is a gamechanger, though I wish you could move the pallet after you hopped on the zipline! Subscribed!

[@Kat.The.Reaper]

If you play multi-player, when you have a stack of grass or stems if you leave and rejoin it will duplicate it.

[@katdupasht]

I've also seen the two stink bugs by the lab between the pond and the bird bath fight a wolf spider. I don't usually catch it, but it was definitely a good way to get wolf spider parts before I knew about the one that naps between the roots of the oak tree. (I can't always figure out or get to a good high spot to shoot them much of anywhere else). I've had ants go against orb weavers and ladybugs. Easy ladybug parts - orb weavers are already pretty easy, but the distraction was good.

[@asparapee4213]

So I was so proud of my base, then I started watching KZbin videos and some of the bases people construct make mine look like a 1 bedroom trailer.

[@MeezyPeezy]

My wife and I just started playing You just earned a sub for such a great presentation. Not annoying and overwhelming

[@linusah]

If you don't like to fight red ants, go to the gass area and there will be a plethora of dead ants, just at the edge where there is no gass. But be careful it's easy to wander to close. Also i have used red ant armor, to fight ladybugs at the red ant hill, to get the "help" of soldier ants without getting attacked by them.

[@DMWaldo]

The pallet movement trick is fantastic. Definitely wish I knew about it earlier. Since you can carry stems/planks at the same time, that's a ton of material movement! I'm mostly set up with ziplines to move them around these days, but this will be invaluable when starting new adventures! Assuming they don't nerf it.

[@MediocreMilton]

Glad it was helpful!

[@Chilledoutredhead]

not sure if its been said, but my tip is, the wolf spider at the egg sacks you showed, the one that sleeps under leaf, if you stand above it and shoot arrows, it 'bugs' out and cant get you. takes a lot of arrows starting out.. but early game it respawns every 3 days and is a great way to get the fangs for low risk.

[@benw1046]

Ugh we just finished a house and that pallet idea would have been sooo helpful

[@Locutus.Borg.]

You only finished one house. I finished a series of sky bridges spanning from the baseball, to the hedge and the oak tree built from grass planks before this change was made to the game! Like I said above, I have been playing _Grounded_ since it's Beta release (currently 1,296 hours on the same saved game). I also built numerous buildings, elevators, stairs and traps all over the map.

[@jerome9380]

@@Locutus.Borg. that’s quite sad

[@kylokryptone]

@locutus Borg Alright dude me mans finished his first house and you come align with you “big flex” how impressive. It’s not like your the only person to do this.

[@bestvids9295]

@@Locutus.Borg. unnecessary flex

[@davidconway6344]

Btw you can hold planks or stems when moving the pallet.

[@Locutus.Borg.]

And you can carry 8 planks or stems in full ant armour plus 2 more with a _"Worker's Comp"_ smoothie which lasts for 2 minutes at a time before you drop 2 items. Have them in a hot key to continue your trip without wasting time. That means you can carry a maximum of 31 weed stems or 34 grass planks at any one time. 👍

[@francestaylor9156]

With the hauling mutation, you can carry 21 in the pallet and 20 in your arms for 41 items at a time.

[@idkwhatmynameis7326]

7:56 "it can end up shooting you in the air" i got out the spider nest trap near the rock at the house by walking into the bottom of a sprig and it almost shot me into the haze lab,i hit a rock thankfully.once i was fighting a bee and stepped on a grass plank and i went from near the house to in it,i lost the bee and found it in a random room that did'nt have a door

[@letastycrumpet]

So me and my buddy built in the pagoda hadn't even finished the pond lab yet we wanted to make transport across the lake easier we spent close to 3 hours pushing weed stems and setting up these zip lines loved the challenge and it made us feel clever, only to realise that there were buoyant bridges in the game. Wish we had knew that sooner...

[@Locutus.Borg.]

Unfortunately, I knew all of these tips already... except the first tip! Embarrassing to admit it, but after 1,296 hours playing _Grounded_ I didn't know that you could get a 1:1 production of plant fibre to crude rope using the spinning wheel. Btw, you can also convert plant fibre to dry grass on a 1:1 ratio on the drying rack as well.

[@poeticjustice8476]

Oooh, thank you for the tip!!

[@MediocreMilton]

I was going to mention the Dry Grass tip but I never use it because it’s so easy to get Dry Grass but thanks for sharing in case others aren’t aware.

[@Locutus.Borg.]

@@MediocreMilton It's still handy in case you aren't located near an area with dry grass, and it saves you going out in the night when you run short while you are crafting something. But to be honest, I use the drying rack primarily for food and I have a production area for berry leather in the hedge with 10 drying racks specifically for this purpose. Still, some good tips for beginners and those new to the game. Have you been playing since the beginning? Things were tougher then and there are so many improvements now, but there is still more development under way, so things will only get better. Looking forward to roly-polies (pill bugs - Armadillidiidae) and the black ant hill in the sandbox to be introduced before full release, along with the remainder of the under construction areas.

[@josephhurst4902]

13:53, Also in Recent Updates they made it so SOME of the larger bugs have the Ability to JUMP so being on top of a Rock may not be 100% safe anymore.

[@leojames2950]

@@LucDaMan4 yes thats true, i used to have my base on the big rock near the red ant hill, the orbweaver spawn, the stinkbug spawn and the bombadier beetle spawn, and every time i got chased the bastards somehow got up. Makes me think why i built my base there.

[@TBSxBEERUS]

Stinkbugs and spiders are the only ones I know of but yea that caught me by surprise 😂

[@Khaizen10]

Most land bugs can jump.

[@kidcurree]

iirc, another tip on the ant armour is if a different type of bug attacks you while you wear it, and a soldier ant is nearby/witnesses it, it will come to your aid. I'm not sure if worker ants do too

[@MediocreMilton]

Haven’t tested this but I definitely will to see if it works!

[@saehtnyS]

ooh if this is true i can see it being useful

[@YannR34]

Good tip 👍 and it makes sense, even if I never though about it . And I have noticed that the baby spider don't attack me when I wear the spider armor. I have been surprised by them and they just went around me like if I wasn't there either.

[@YannR34]

It seems that all the armors add some bonus when the set is full, but for some I don't understand what, because the name of the bonus can be unclear and it's not always easy to see the difference. The ladybug was healing you but I'm not so sure now, at least in wow mode. The spider is suppose to be a chaser bonus but I don't see what even if the baby spider avoid you it's not in accord with the name. Acorn I don't even understand the meaning of the name of the bonus and didn't notice anything.

[@Locutus.Borg.]

@@YannR34 Beyond the additional protection, full ladybug armour allows you to heal progressively over time.

[@louiscali8617]

You can also place the liquid containers directly underneath the straws on the juice boxes and the juice will drop directly into the container and become collected.

[@legologan5000]

the thing that confuses me the most about grounded is that you cant eat the hedge berry chunks. they are litterally giant chunks of blueberries how is that not edible?

[@l3rimm]

can't believe i didn't think of trying the ant armor when exploring the ant hills. doh!

[@Locutus.Borg.]

The same goes for bee armour with the bees, except be careful if you are going near the bee hive. They can get easily agro'ed.

[@chloeeast6015]

Another rope/grass planks tip or solution is to put the planks into a holder near a grinder station, and grind them up. You have to be holding them for the grinder to pick up on the planks. You get 5 fiber per plank and throw 5 in at a time. So x25 end result. Just have spinner and storage station close by cause you end up with too much rope and fiber in the end

[@chloeeast6015]

Also works for extra clovers and sprouts

[@brendan9951]

A trick i started using is i built a tent and i set as respawn point and i relocate it and go where i wanna go and drop it off whenever there's danger or to make it easier to get to a spot

[@jacobgraemoor5778]

I don't know if this has been said in one of these videos and I don't know how actually new it is but if you put down a stuffed mount you can mark a foe when gives you a damage buff against that creature. I was into end game shit, had no idea this existed, and it scared the shit out of me because I will almost thought it summoned one up for a second.

[@succulentsand3812]

Sleeping will automatically complete anything no matter how recent it was started

[@daviddamasceno6063]

When me and my friends started playing this game we decided that we wouldn't look for information on the internet, we would learn everything ourselves, or die trying. And die we did, since this game can be very punishing, but we were a group of 3 so we persisted. Having finished the game I must say it was a blast. Sometimes the most fun you can get out of a game is the struggle, is having to figure out even the simplest things and even "playing it wrong" for a long time until you learn the "proper" way to do things. I wouldn't trade that experience for anything!

[@dojostarfox4520]

Very true... I did that with Ark when it first came out, and it was by far the best gaming experience Ive ever had. Eventually though, I started watching content on it.. and while I still enjoyed it, the experience changed into something that was not nearly as memorable, because inevitably I was exposed to other peoples solutions to the challenges of the game. But yes.. when its just you (and your friends) against the game, it really does become something entirely different. I was trying to avoid watching content for this game, but it's hard to resist watching videos like this.. although this video isnt game ruining by any means, and I had already figured out all but one of them before watching anyways. Im going to try to resist watching any more content for this game though, because this is definitely one of those games that I know will stick with me.

[@HellSnake-dj6er]

Me and my friend got free wolf spider parts for just getting a couple of antlions to 3v1 the spider, very enjoyable to watch

[@Titan360]

Willow: *watching the spinning wheels* "How are they spinning like that?" Pete: "Oh, I have aphids running on hamster wheels in my horrible aphid sweat shop down in the basement." Willow: "Okay, that makes sen.....wait, WHAT!?" ..... Aphid: "Please sir, let us rest. Our little green legs are so tired." Pete: "Come now, you wouldn't want to end up as another plush toy for Ally, would you? I know we still have a little bit of mite fuzz left over..."

[@ash072]

4:40 Love how you blocked in the wolf spider hole. This is great gameplay! I need to remember I can build ANYWHERE.

[@JoeTAC]

About tip 2 - This is also true for Pupa Leather, which has a much higher exchange rate at 5x1 on workbench but 1x1 on the jerky stand.

[@ATE0009]

0:57 also, (I haven’t watch the full video yet, so I don’t know if he already mentioned this) if you cut down grass the little stumps at the end will drop plant fibers, and the same thing goes with weed stems played in the world for about I would say five hours ish and after building a base, I had like 200 plant fibers

[@ATE0009]

Also, there’s two different types of grass there is grass that is a flat like U shape and it gives three grass planks and then there’s another type that is an O shape and gives 7 to 5 grass planks. I don’t know the exact amount but it’s around that.

[@EricLinstone]

Yeah, I put on ant armor and dragged a stink bug to the ant hill. It killed a LOT of ants but they killed the stink bugs!

[@forcetz]

The crude rope and berry leather one is one that I wish I knew sooner, so this is a big help, thank you.

[@charlesschroth8861]

So it must be a PC thing but there is not 3 mutation selections on console only 2. In order to get 3 you have to go to an ASL terminal and upgrade it with the white molar.

[@C0nanCH0l]

another way to get stinkbug parts without doing anything is to wear ant armor and shoot at the 5 stink bugs that sit near the hill. the soldier ants will swarm out and kill them all.

[@Agent_of_Grim]

Plank pallets (9), 4-5 grinders. When you're at your base, just focus on making sure they are working

[@gehnzou1]

Hum-ant is awesome, aggro anything near ants and they'll kill it for you.

[@jessicalavedas2026]

I'm not really new to the game. Most of the people are, but I don't know if they are or not new, but you're probably new so you're like a better than me. So that's why I'm watching everyone's videos and grounded on KZbin actually

[@highscore4693]

I have been playing this game for like a year now and I still found some new things out, thanks man 🙏.

[@dixieboyz1]

Red ants are my go to method for easy bug parts, get the bugs to follow you to their anthill while wearing full red ant armor they'll do all the work

[@landonletterman831]

They need to add a thing where each juice box/flavor provides a temporary buff (crit chance, speed boost, etc), and you can mix them (1 from each juice) to make custom buffs.

[@dragonpuddle]

My only issue with the transporting stems and planks via ziplines is every time I do, they phase through the ground at the destination :C At best, I got 1 back from an entire pallet full :C I'm assuming I need an actual floor for them to land on, otherwise they clip through the terrain like they bugged into the wall for you?

[@danielambriz7259]

if you lead the wolf spider to the water and have it lunge at you it will die after a few seconds. But you can't be in the water or it wont agro you anymore, standing on the edge of the lily pad will typically do the job, be careful as it may lunge on to the lily pad itself. The hardest part will be leading it to the water as its lunge is insane

[@edenwarburton4192]

Just place the water containers under the sraws, automatically collects the juice without you having to use a canteen to scoop them in

[@FirstLast-lt2id]

relocating pallets/chests/other storage units/buildings will be cancelled if a bug enters battle with you. also i feel like its worth noting killing ladybugs and soldier ants early was done by me with stacks of grass and hurling them at the ants. just cut grass in the immediate area you plan on battling in so you can run around and grab some then hurl then repeat

[@EnderElohim]

6:10 that we done in our first playthrough XD And the way we find is basically because we are game developers so we love to try to find things that make no sense XD

[@leggygtej2554]

No lag no issues with performance on series x. On high setting. Thanks for tips my friend

[@MediocreMilton]

Great to hear the new console is running strong!

[@rileymiller3154]

Fun fact if a ant soldier witnesses another bug attack you while wearing a full set of the same ant armour they will instantly agro onto the bug thats attacking you and help out (this also causes all the workers to join in the fight)

[@rmnorton81396]

The red ant armor also give your the ability to haul more stuff when building bases better to hold 14 grass then 5

[@Mavmack]

I discovered mutations after 5 hours of gameplay

[@mayraportillo-xb6gk]

Idk if anyone mentioned this but an easy way to fill a water collector is relocate it under a grass with a water knock it off and land it in the container then keep repeating 😁

[@PNoster]

I clicked this thinking “oh here’s gonna be a guy that’s like “hey…you can get bee fuzz from bees 👀” but straight off the bat the crude rope and then berry leather tip blew my mind! I’m 120 game days in…

[@OnlyAcid23]

Use ant armor when getting planks you get 8 instead of 5 you can get all the way up to 21 planks in hand with mutations and the armor👍🏼

[@LionHeartBlue]

Brilliant! I've been playing for a fair few hours and didn't know most of these things :) Thank you very much.

[@MediocreMilton]

Are you still playing Scrap Mechanic?

[@LionHeartBlue]

@@MediocreMilton Not so much. I started a modded series just trying out a few mods..but they break so often I spend most of my time fixing rather than playing. So,.I've been focused on Grounded for now. I still do a little with my ScrapChat series, doing little interviews here and there in my creative world..

[@jimhudson4744]

Thanks, Just started today. Hope this helps a lot.

[@UndisclosedClassified]

Little tip with crossbows. When reloading block and it will skip the reload animation and allow you to fire faster.

[@digitalnorp890]

Spent an hour last night grinding for berry leather. Had to get over 100 to make armor for the 3 of us. Man I feel stupid now

[@AlphaSeagull]

The biggest thing i learned early on is how disgustingly easy and overpowered parrying is. If you know what you're doing, you can fight a wolf spider with nothing but a few pebblet spears and no armor just by parrying every attack. From other videos I've watched on this game, apparently consistent parrying isn't something most players do, but I feel like it's incredibly underrated, especially with the parry master mutation. I think the best way to get better at parries is to play Sekiro as practice. Deflects in Sekiro work in an identical way as Parries in Grounded (simply blocking right before the enemy hits you) except it's even easier in Grounded. This isn't even the first time a soulslike game prepared me for another game. Parries in Dark Souls also made me better at Parrying in Breath of the Wild too

[@V1ctoria00]

After feeling like that in several games by the time I was 17 I just looked up everything about every game before I played it. Then I didn't have to feel like I should have known before about a thing.

[@guilhermehenrique-zj5tt]

just 1 correction. currently you can have 2 mutations. the third one is a upgrade if you break a teeth.

[@austindrake4697]

Pupa hide can be dried on the jerky rack... 1 for 1 instead of using x3 in the menu.

[@supremeboy]

Played game for few weeks. Didnt know that you can pick up planks pallet and move it around with FULL of planks. I picked up planks and run back and forth from home base collecting planks like that. Lost a lot hours thinking why is it so long to gather materials for building.

[@kaidestinyz]

Water container beside your dew collector is a noob trap. You are wasting time storing water. A dew collector is a mini water container with 4 maximum drops if you think about it. A water container does not produce any water.

[@VTXTL]

Tip for pallets: carry 5 of whatever item you want, then relocate the pallet to carry the pallet plus the 5 (more if you use the ant drink)

[@brandonwarner3732]

Also I learned that you can get 5 mutation slots by upgrading at a station with milk molars