We're all still finding our footing in the inspiring, but also at times terrifying, world presented in the early access version of Grounded. However, there are a few locations around the map you'll want to make sure you take a trip out to find as soon as possible. If you play through what is available of the game's story, you will be guided to visit one of the game's Lab location😼s, but there are actually two more the game won't tell you about. Based on the first Lab you're brought to as part of the main quest, all of these high tech bases are certainly going to be important to the game's story as Obsidian continues to add content.
While you can't enter♏ all the other Labs just yet, you can still get ahead of the game by seeking out t💎heir locations for when they are inevitably opened up.
Oak Lab Location
This is the lab you will naturally come to as part of the main quest line in Grounded. During the second part of the Mystery Machine quest yꩵo🦩u are told to go explore the area around the oak tree where the explosion occurred. Once there, a trail of purple smoke will lead you to a door hidden behind a leaf. This is, of course, the Oak Lab.
Inside the lab you will find a BURG.L report ꧂that you can trade in your Raw Science for daily quests, as well as a bit of lore surrounding the circumstances of your shrunken 🐽size. At the moment, this is where the story concludes.
Hedge Lab Location
The next Lab that has been discovered is on the Eastern edge of the map in the hedges beside the house. Finding it is one thing, but if you want to get inside you'll be in for a difficult trꦏial. First you'll need to climb up a nearby tree and find the right branch to run across that will lead you above the lab. The limbs get pretty narrow so take it slow to avoid falling. You'll navigate onto a square section of the base, then need to make another tricky jump to a branch below that will give you access to a broken outer wall of the lab.
However, this section is sealed off by a locked door, so you'll need to go back outside, make some more tricky jumps across leaves and branches to get back above the base until you can drop onto another section. Like before, there is a wall that is exposed you can jump to from a lower branch. This will finally discover the location and grant you access to a Resource Analyzer and a lever you can pull. Explore𓂃 around, being cautious of Orb Weaver spiders, and you can find Ominent Log 03 on a table for some more lore.
Haze Lab Location
The final Lab discovered so far is the Haze Lab in the Southwest corner of the map. It is just to the left of the giant rake, but make sure you have crafted a gas mask before you attempt to scout this one out since it is also right next to tank of weed killer. If you don't have one yet, analyze a Weevil's nose and craft it with one Weevil Nose, four G꧟nat Fuzz, two Woven Fiber, and one Stinkbug Feeler.
This lab is mostly just for show, at least for now. No♋ one has discovered a w🌱ay to enter it legitimately yet, and it's clear Obsidian isn't ready to reveal its secrets.
Thankfully Grounded is going to be꧙ updated on a monthly basis so it shouldn't be too long before we get a look at what this Lab is hiding.