If you’re a newcomer to the release of Grounded, we’ve put together 10 useful tips and tricks in this guide to help you get started.
What it’s about: Survival titles can often be overwhelming, especially at the beginning. In this guide, we’ll give you some useful tips for beginners. With these, you should be able to survive the first few hours without any problems.
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The 10 most important Tips for Beginners in Grounded (1.0)
1. Collect all Resources
The most important rule sounds totally logical at first, but still it is important to mention it. You should collect and keep pretty much all the resources you find. On the one hand you need a lot of resources for crafting, on the other hand you can explore almost all materials. We’ll explain how research works in more detail later.
It is important that you pay special attention to small materials that are almost inconspicuous. Especially pebbles, mushrooms, sprigs or plant fibers you can collect directly at the beginning without tools.
2. How to Get Food
Especially at the beginning it is difficult to find out where you can get food from. You can find many food sources right at the start.
Here are some of the first ways to get food:
- Find small mushrooms right at the spawn.
- Find the small orange aphidhoney to eat on the ground.
- Grill the flesh of gnats or aphids. You can kill them with your bare hands.
- Tip: 1-2 gnats usually spawn near the Mysterious Machine.
3. Here You can Find Water in Grounded
Besides hunger, thirst also plays a big role in Grounded. At the beginning, you’ll mainly find small puddles. However, it’s best to keep your hands off the disgusting water. Rather get yourself some fresh dew drops. Watch out for the tips of the grasses, some of which have dewdrops hanging high above them.
For Advanced: In another guide, we have already shown you how to use the dew collector to collect dew drops.
To get the dewdrops, you just have to hit the corresponding blade of grass with your hands and the drop will fall to the ground. If you drink it, you will quench most of your thirst.
4. Just Analyze EVERYTHING
As already mentioned, you explore a lot in Grounded. For this, there are so-called research stations. The game actually takes you straight to the first station. There you can unlock many new recipes and examine your found materials.
At the beginning, you have some resources, but you can’t do anything with them or build anything. Therefore, go to the first research station and use the resource analyzer. With the help of the analyzer, you can analyze all materials that are marked with an exclamation mark in your inventory. This will unlock new recipes and generate Raw Science. You will need Pure Science later in the game.
The disadvantage is that you can only use the analyzer three times. After that you have to wait about 5-10 minutes, and you can use it again.
Personal Tip: It’s best to research all the materials you get right away. You can also research manufactured items again to unlock new recipes.
5. Few Dangers
In Grounded there are many different areas where different dangers lurk. Therefore, especially at the beginning, when you have no equipment, it is important to know where you can move freely.
Within the first few minutes, the game will guide you towards the Mysterious Machine. Around the machine you’ll find three lasers on the map. Your task at the beginning is to direct these three lasers towards the machine. The area inside the circle, around the lasers, is relatively peaceful. This doesn’t mean that there are no dangers here, but you will mostly encounter smaller enemies. We’ll tell you how to deal with them in a moment.
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6. Your First Base
Now, you may have already explored and collected quite a bit. Then it’s time for you to build a shelter. There are two places that are perfect for the first base: on the baseball and the stone next to the Mysterious Machine. However, don’t make the mistake of building directly on the machine.
For Advanced: We’ve already shown you the best places to build your base – both for starter bases and end-game bases.
The first base should have some basic components:
- Workbench (explore Sap or a Grass Plank).
- Lean-To (explore Clover Leaf)
- Roasting Spit (explore Sprig)
You can round it out with a wall and some storage baskets. Be really careful not to build on the ground, though, to be protected from enemies and thieving ants.
7. Correct Choice of Tools and Weapons
Compared to other survival games like Conan Exiles or ARK, you can rarely use tools to mine different resources in Grounded. In the beginning, an axe is sufficient for fighting, for example, to kill a defenseless gnat, but for larger enemies an axe is very inconvenient.
We have compiled a small list of tools and weapons for you and what you use them for:
- Pebble Axe: Best for felling and chopping (Analyze Crude Rope).
- Pebble Hammer: First hammer for breaking small stones (Analyze Crude Rope).
- Pebble Spear: First melee weapon to take down enemies stronger than a fly (Analyze Pebblet).
- Sprig Bow: The bow is the first ranged weapon and requires arrows (Analyze Fly Fuzz).
- Arrows: Components of the bow (analyze Thistle Needles or Mite Fuzz).
8. Take Care of Yourself
This tip may sound banal, but it’s really important. At every corner in Grounded lurk potential dangers from dangerous spiders or thieving ants. Yes, you heard right: thieving ants. That’s why, for example, it’s important to build your base high above the ground. Ants will steal your food, even if it is stored in boxes.
You should also be careful which creatures you attack. At the beginning, you should be careful that you only defend yourself. Of course, smaller enemies, such as flies, lice or mites, are excluded. Ants, for example, can quickly become provoked and aggressive.
So keep your eyes open and think carefully at the beginning whether a fight is worth it or not.
9. That’s Why You should Play at Night
From 20 o’clock it gets dark in Grounded and the night begins. It’s best to build a lean-to by then, so you can skip the night in it. At night, there are a few more dangers lurking in the garden.
However, there are not only disadvantages. The dew drops on the grass tips are sometimes difficult to see during the day. At night it is possible to spot them better. In addition, the spawn rate of the dewdrops is significantly higher at night than during the day.
10. Special Settings
The developers of Grounded are clearly ahead of the rest of the industry in some places with settings that offer the player a more customized and better gaming experience. We would like to point out two particular settings.
Arachnophobia Mode: Think Grounded would be a great game if it weren’t for those nasty spiders? Fear not. For players who suffer from arachnophobia, the fear of spiders, there is a mode that makes the spiders more and more indistinct at different levels. At the highest level, the spiders are simply small balls. This mode does not change anything in the rest of the game.
Reset Insect Locations: During the course of the game, it can happen from time to time that insects are somewhere where they don’t belong and would thus break the game. However, the developers were clever and offer the possibility to reset the insect spawns once per savegame under Debug Settings. If you reload the savegame afterwards, you can use this setting again. This way, you can even work around bugs that would otherwise have destroyed your game.
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