Grounded: 10 Things the Game Doesn't Tell You (But Should)

Bruh

They really should have added a koi scale shield

How come you build a base at the koi pond yet when I tried to last game play the Koi would jump out the water and eat me

Mosquitos attack me, and i haven't even collected my first chip

i did the good ending cos the completionist in me wanted to make sure i scoured every area and unlocked everything xD but i did not know it was the good ending and thought it was just the only ending cos i did everything before ending the game xD

I see you're a fellow conoseur of Lilypad bases. Respect.

The bed: already knew it
Berry leather: already knew it

Zipline for grass: interesting, didn't know that

Buffs don't stack: well, you'll notice this the first time you eat 2 buffs

Rename storage: already knew, hard to miss

Quartz does not respawn: totaly agree, I only knew because of the wiki that they don't respawn. But how would you tell that without breaking immersion?

Stabing damage arrows: but thr game does tell you, there is no stabing icon on the status arrows

Also: why would the game tell you that this makes mosquitos spawn?

sleeping is so unrealistic in this game. in reality when you wake up you just wake up more tired than you were when going to bed.

YOU CAN SEND GRAS PLANKS ON ZIPLINES??!!!

You can peep the orc bugs. They don’t have their own card, but if you go to peep.r mode and look at one, it will tell you it’s weak to sour.

A useless thing, is that there us a secret air guitar noise, it's really rare though

It’s actually kinda easy to make whetstone and plating without marble or quartzite for brittle whetstone it only takes 1 sap and 1 larva spike
For the sturdy version it takes 1 sap and 1 spider fang and finally for the supreme version it take 1 sap and 1 black ox horn

Doesnt tell you but should ... you sound like one of those weak Kids who play fortnite

Mosquitoes are ass

If you ask Wendell about the orcs, he hints at there being an ominent facility hidden somewhere in the yard.

"Here are 10 things the game totally tells you but I'll tell you anyway because most players, myself included, aren't listening to what the game is saying"

really, im 120 hrs in and didnt know i could put grass on ziplines

Very good guide, only one thing id change. They do explain that the scab meters change the appearance of your HUD.

tip for anyone trying to get to the upper yard early, you literally don't have to build a single thing. if you go to the bird bath, and up the tunnel just north of it, then follow the rocky ledge to the wall, you can parkour up the grass and spike-leaf plant right there to get up the wall, and from there run along the wall all the way to the upper yard. completely doable with zero items, on a fresh character, with no mutations. easier than most parkour jumps as well.

Constantly swap between mutations depending on what you are doing.
Upgrade to have more mutations.
Carry stuff to repair your armor on the go if you are gonna be away long.
Carry bombs around.

Awl something with the quartzite and marble is that they respawn when you rebirth

OK WTF I have thousands of hours in this dam game and never knew you could send grass and sticks down a zipline. AAaaaaahhhh

The biggest thing I've noticed about this game since I got it is that all combat is based on perfect party. If you master perfect party it seems like most enemies simply cannot harm you. Perfect parrying a mosquito actually knocks it from the air when it does its dive attack and stuns it. That makes em pretty easy to handle.

LOL the food name... Larvagna! 😆

I’m just amazed this guy built his mini base in spitting distance of 2 wolf spiders

I beat the director and then did java - was unaware there was a second one

my game save is so old i've gotten the quartzite and marble to respawn like 4 times - basically any time theres a major update i get that plus all the raw science resets around the map

You can also rename baskets from the icon selection screen

SPOLIER***











You can do the final defense then go defeat schmecter to get the full ending. It doesn’t have to be before the Java matic

A thing to add to the arrow damage types: The damage type every weapon and ammo does is displayed as a little icon on the top right of its item card in the inventory

Thanks for the video!

The renaming also works for Trail Markers, which I also find extremely helpful

The spoiler warning earned you a like. Thanks for the tips and thanks for not spoiling the end 😂🙏

I got killed twice by mosquitoes on mild difficulty last night. I’m definitely glad I didn’t go for a harder difficulty because I don’t think I’m very good at this game 😂 it’s fun though definitely like a challenge

Another arrow that doesn't do any stabbing damage is the bomb arrow... for obvious reasons

saw the lady bug i bow and said "mah lady"

Some of them do respone cuz i destroyed one in the gas cave thing nd everytbing came back

The game technically does tell you about which arrows do stabbing/other damages, by the little icons on the right.
But really good to call that out all the same.

“things the game doesn’t tell you” and the first one is something the game does tell you, and you provided the evidence 😂

Deadass I always make leather w jerky stands

it took me 150hrs of play time to realize I could send stems and planks on ziplines

As a veteran and current player at the same time, I confirm 100% of what you say. Thanks for the orc bug info, I didnt know that.

Yup cause I want the game to tell me every little detail rather than finding it out myself lmao.

The arrow thing. That's something I didn't know. Amazing!

The second ending, the good ending, is technically a secret ending. That's right. You want the good ending, you gotta earn it.

There are lots of things in this game that the game doesn't tell you, that feels awesome when you learn it by yourself. However, some of the things on this list, like O.R.C bugs being weak to sour, and a few other details? I'd say they cross the line.

Personally, I've been playing video games since Sonic Spinball and Donkey Kong Country 3. I'm used to obscure mechanics and hidden secrets. This is one of those games that forces you to explore and experiment a lot. Even with the help of Google, you'll be hard pressed to discover EVERY hidden mechanic, EVERY hidden item or secret.

I think the best advice I can give you, and it's kind of lame, but it took my friends all the way til the end of the game to know this.

You don't just put a trail marker at the location of the side quests. The quest puts a trail marker for you that you have to find and build, and some of them like the sand castle are very difficult to find and require you to build structures to reach them.

...you can see your statuses in the bottom right corner.

You don't have to move to the status screen, it's at your inventory bro 💀

mosquitoz still show up even when i had no super chips, ill be by the hedge at night just to be attacked by 3 mosquitos.
or by the pond nearest to the tree. so they must have changed it at some point?

Scabby. =.=

I'm pretty sure the way the arrows work is that they do stabbing damage and elemental and the damages get calculated separately and added together, same as the coaltana

I was wondering why I hadn’t ran into a mosquito yet

I wish I known that the upgrade stones did respawn because I got 3 armor sets tier 9 and I don’t even use them