Tired of starving to death while in search of dew drops in Obsidian's new survival game, Grounded? Follow this♊ guide and you wont need to worry about food or water again.
Grounded is an ambitious new survival game that offers players an updated perspective on the genre.. and the world in general. While the game mirrors classic survival games like ARK and Conan Exiles, itꩲ also offers players 👍"tiny" changes to the survival tropes we have become used to. Eating and drinking being one of those changes.
Surviving in Obsidian's new, bold installation in the survival genre has players befriending ladybugs, battling ants and fleeing from spiders. However, there is another enemy that is just as likely to kill your character as the 🀅aforementioned enemies: hunger and thirst. Sure, searching for a clean water source or bugs to eat is standard practice in a survival game, but what happens when the bugs you normally eat, wind up eating you?
When you first spawn in the mysterious back yard of Grounded, it wont take players long to start noticing their thirst and hunger bars beginning to drop. Players can often find themselves struggling to make progress♔ when they are constant✅ly in search of something to eat or drink, so getting a good handle on your resources is imperative to success in this pint-sized installment from Obsidian.
Finding Some Food
When venturing into the spanning landscape of "someones backyard" players should immediately search out small groupings of mushrooms. These mushroom clusters won't appear on your map, unless you drop a marker, so when you find them be sure to harvest a🌞s many as you can. Mushrooms will supply the player with a somewhat solid food supply as it takes roughly eight to ten mushrooms to completely fill your hunger bar. There are other foods and drinks that can fill it faster, but we'll get to those in a minute. Mushrooms seem to be the main food resou𒐪rce in the game aside form bug meat. Further in your progress you will be able to analyze the "mushroom garden", which will allow players to grow their own food source and shift their worry from starving to death to being eaten by giant spiders.
Searching For Water
Food is actually one of the easier resources to acquire in the early game. The bigg✱est struggle for players will be dying of thirst. Unlike most survival games, finding water isn't as easy as finding a puddle or creek to drink from. In this case, your water supply is located up in the air instead of down on the ground. Dew drops can be found clinging to the tips and mid-sections of green grass blades across the map. They seem to be more prevalent in the early morning hours as well. A dew drop wil📖l fill one quarter to half of a players thirst bar by interacting with it to "slurp" it up. Try to avoid puddles of water, however, as they are filled with dirty water that will make your player sick, increase your hunger level and not refill much of your thirst meter.
For the more brave of the backyard backpackers, venturing further into the map will bring players across tipped over juice boxes and soda cans. These are fantastic finds! One s💙ip of a juice or soda droplet will not only max out your thirst meter, but replenish some of your huger as well. Soda-pop and juice boxes haven't been this healthy since the 1960s.
Later in game, players will uncover blueprints for a "dew trapper", which allows players to trap their own water droplets and then store them for future use in a chestnut barrel or canteen, but those require harder resources like spider silk and acorns. Bug meat, which can still be difficult to acquire, makes for a fast repཧlenish of your hunger meter, but will require you to hunt bugs and roast them on a spit. Small flies and ticks are the easiest sources of food in the early game.
Grounded is an incredibly ambitious new take on the relatively saturated survival game market. Fans of survival will love the new perspective on the genre and the changes to game mechanics, while new players will find it a colorful and - oddly - cute new experience. As of right now, Grounded is only available on Xbox and Xbox Game Pa💞ss for PC. There are not plans to port it to PlayStation 4 or PlayStaion 5 anytime in the future.
Since its launch on July 28, Grounded has already shot up to "best seller" status on Steam. Needless to say, the game may be small, but it is offering fans BIG experiences. Obsidian has already laid out a plan to expand the property with new bugs, enemies, and areas, so long as the commun👍ity remains intact. Which, afteജr the successful early access preview, seems like it will.