Grounded’s ‘Absolutely Yoked’ Replace 1.4: A Larger, Bolder Yard Awaits!

Hey, Grounded followers! The yard is buzzing with pleasure, and it is all due to our newest replace, “Absolutely Yoked” – and sure, it is as large because it sounds! We’re not simply speaking large; it is bulging with a ton of recent content material, options, and quality-of-life updates! This Absolutely Yoked replace is right here to show your yard into an epic journey like by no means earlier than. Let’s dive into the wonders ready for you on this colossal replace!

New Neighbors: Ant Queens and Your Choices

The royal Ant Queens have arrived! These regal creatures are greater than only a new face; they create a brand new vibe to the yard. When assembly them, it gained’t be about ‘flexing your muscle tissues’ in fight however extra about flexing your decision-making abilities; it’s about selections and penalties – ally with them and acquire highly effective pals, betray them and brace for some extreme ant-itude, or you are able to do the third possibility, which is [REDACTED]! These selections echo throughout your complete expertise, so select your path correctly and watch your journey unfold with these new influential neighbors.

And the thrill doesn’t cease there – prepare for 12 new Ant Queen-inspired buildings, just like the grand Ant Queen Chaises and Chandeliers because the ‘bench press’ of ant structure. Plus, for pet fans, there is a heartwarming twist – the prospect to undertake a child ant pet. Bear in mind, each alternative within the ant world carries weight, shaping the relationships inside this tiny, but ‘mighty’, kingdom.

Yard Adventures: Remixed!

Get able to ‘elevate’ your journey to new heights with our ‘New Sport+’ mode. After you conquer the mightiest of foes just like the Broodmother and the Wasp Queen, you may unlock the REMIX.R, main you to alternate dimensions with remixed challenges. Each playthrough is a novel expertise with creatures showing in new spots, extra demanding bosses, and hidden secrets and techniques.

However beware – some creatures are infused with Uncooked Science, making them stronger, sooner, and tougher to struggle. Overcome these challenges to gather particular trinkets with distinctive properties. Plus, do not miss out on the brand new ASL content material, Milk Molars in randomized areas, and the all-important Yoking Station for that further energy enhance in remixed yards.

High quality of Life: It is All Concerning the Expertise

We’re at all times listening to our group, and this replace brings quality-of-life enhancements that make the yard extra gratifying. Multiplayer followers, rejoice! Hosts can now swap saves and not using a hitch, conserving the journey flowing. Misplaced a pet? Our ‘Get well Pets’ characteristic ensures they’re going to discover their approach again house. For our builders and creators, the brand new object capability meter is a godsend for optimizing efficiency and sharing your world creations.

Talking of creation, the Playground mode now affords much more management and choices for crafting your distinctive yard. Report rule-violating Playgrounds, shortly determine trinkets, and delve right into a trove of recent content material – it is all a part of enhancing your Grounded expertise.

Hulking Content material: Extra Gadgets, Extra Enjoyable!

“Absolutely Yoked” will not be holding again. The replace is full of over 20 new objects and gear, from the Termite King Pipe Organ to ornamental rugs. Achievement hunters put together for brand spanking new challenges and the game-changing ‘Antbassador’ mutation. And we did not neglect about Playgrounds as they obtained contemporary information props so as to add extra prospects for creativity.

Wrapping Up This Remaining Content material Replace

To assist present you ways Grounded is now beefier than ever, proceed studying the patch notes under! The ‘Absolutely Yoked’ replace brings limitless prospects to your yard escapades. The sport has developed in some ways, corresponding to including full Japanese VO for all gamers to take a look at. On high of that, the sport can now be performed on a number of platforms, together with the newly added PlayStation 4|5 and Nintendo Change. Now, gamers throughout all platforms can expertise this Grounded: Absolutely Yoked version of the ultimate sport, collectively.

Lastly, an enormous thanks to our unbelievable group. Your assist and keenness have formed Grounded into what it’s at the moment. As our final deliberate content material replace, we promise to maintain refining and perfecting your expertise within the sport so that you and your pals can play within the yard.

Keep secure, and as at all times – keep Grounded!

Hey Grounded followers! We’re proud to current to you the “Absolutely Yoked” 1.4 replace: the premiere Grounded expertise swole with new content material.

Every of the three ant colonies now has a royal chief residing deep inside their respective hills. These new Ant Queens will not be fightable bosses. They as an alternative give you a alternative: both befriend or betray with a tasty providing. Which you select impacts the rewards you obtain and the way the colony reacts. Some selections have cascading results that are not instantly obvious…

Subsequent up, we have remixed your yard! Introducing the New Sport+ mode: an entire overhaul that provides layers of complexity and problem. As a substitute of ending the sport, you should have the choice to enter an alternate dimension by way of the brand new REMIX.R system. Every playthrough on this mode remixes the yard in a number of ways in which gives you new challenges and rewards.

Accessing New Sport+ requires defeating the Broodmother, Mantis, Wasp Queen, and finishing the Javamatic struggle. When coming into this mode, your whole current bases, objects, recipes unlocks, and many others. will carry over with you.

New Sport+ Options

Infused Creatures

In Remixed backyards, creatures might be infused with the ability of Uncooked Science. Not solely have they got extra well being, do extra harm, and assault sooner, however in addition they have distinctive properties that make them further difficult.

New Trinkets

The excellent news is that infused creatures can drop particular trinkets which are additionally infused with Uncooked Science. These new trinkets even have particular randomized properties. Ominent Badges might be collected once more, and have new properties, and each BURG.L Chip awards a brand new BURG.L Chip Trinket, they too could have randomized properties to present you extra choices on the right way to construct your character.

Yoking Station +10

The Yoking Station, accessible on the ASL in a remixed yard, lets you improve your weapons to much more highly effective ranges. To improve your weapons, you have to to seek out new supplies and sources solely present in remixed yards.

Slurp the Core with Extra Molars

Molars might be gathered as soon as extra, and you have to to proceed to gather them to remain as swole because the creatures of the yard. In a remixed yard, the molars at the moment are in new, randomized areas.

New ASL Additions

There are numerous new additions to the Science Store. Take a look at the ASL for a brand new signal set, the Yoking Station, new weapons, gear, and extra, that may solely be bought in a remixed yard. To assist with buying the brand new objects there are new Uncooked Science spawn areas, and MIX.Rs have elevated rewards.

Even Extra

There are different modifications which are made to the yard in a remixed world, together with extra loot chests, totally different sweet, and another surprises.

The sport can now be performed further platforms, together with the newly added PlayStation 4|5 and Nintendo Change. Gamers throughout all platforms can expertise this Grounded: Absolutely Yoked version of the ultimate sport, collectively, with crossplay!

“Bugs Battle Every Different” Customized Sport Possibility

• By default, pure enemies will struggle one another if they’re close to one another, and impartial creatures will struggle one another if struck by accident. This could now be turned off (helpful in Playgrounds when designing encounter rooms for the participant).

Hyperlink Colours

• Hyperlinks now have 5 coloration choices for distinguishing them whereas modifying.

Multiplayer Load Sport

• Now you can load a save whereas in the course of a multiplayer session. All related shoppers will load into the brand new world as soon as the load is full.

Get well Pets

• A brand new Sport Restore button has been added to get better any pets that aren’t presently following you.
• Pets allotted to a pet home will even teleport to their home, in case they’re exterior of the terrain.

Object Capability

• An object capability meter might be discovered on the pause menu that tells you what number of objects, both in a Playground or a typical sport, you’ve gotten in your degree. That is helpful to know in case you are sharing worlds with decrease finish machines to verify the sport might be performed reliably on all {hardware}.
• When you’ve got no intention of getting your yard be as crossplay appropriate as potential, this capability restrict might be modified within the Sport Settings menu to match your platform’s prompt restrict or don’t have any restrict in any respect.

Playground Hyperlink Copy/Paste

• There at the moment are buttons accessible to repeat and paste the configuration of a Hyperlink in a Playground.

Playground Browser Filtering

• Group Playgrounds might be filtered by key phrases, participant rely and style whereas searching.

Reporting Playgrounds

• Group Playgrounds might be reported by gamers in the event that they violate guidelines.

New Buildings

• 12 Ant Queen-related buildings
  • Chaise Lounges
  • Chandeliers
  • Stuffed Queens
  • Head Mount
• Yoking Station
• New Flooring Rugs
• Termite King Pipe Organ
• REDACTED

New Pet

• 3 new Child Ant Pets to befriend.

New Gear

• Over 20 new objects and gear.
• Over 20 new trinkets.

A number of these can be discovered solely in New Sport+

New Mutations

• Antbassador – Grow to be one with the ants of the yard.

New Indicators

• A brand new sign-set that may solely be bought in New Sport+

4 New Achievements

• 2 for the bottom sport
• 2 for New Sport+

Full Japanese Voice Overs

• The sport now has full Japanese voice over, together with voices for the kids, BURG.L, cutscenes, and audio logs. Choose Japanese Voice Over from the Sport Choices menu to allow this characteristic.

There are a variety of recent props that at the moment are accessible to be positioned in Playgrounds. This consists of the Jack o Lantern, Ice Caps Field, Massive TazT, Massive Cube, Wendell Chair, Massive SCA.B Mesh, Stump Bark and Pulp, Rash, Yoked Girth and Yogi Swole, Quarter, Backyard Gentle, Milk Molar Bottle and Lid, Gnome, Baseball Bat, Trash Bag, Pink Slip, Anarchis, Lab Dome, Pink Flower Petals, Cattails, Honeycomb, Lilypad, Shovel, Cacti, Charcoal Bag, Moldorc’s Fortress, the Fowl Tub, and extra.

Fight

• Assault pace gradual results not stack.

Animation

• Stagger animations for all ants and stinkbugs now bodily displace them.

Armor and Weapons

• Rising scythe assault pace by 15%.
• Reducing assault pace bonus granted by battle axe combo finishers by 5%.
• The Mighty improve path now applies a further standing impact to weapons, very like the Glossy improve path for armor.

Gadgets

• Trinket objects that beforehand appeared as brown luggage now have a brand new shared trinket mannequin.
• Gold playing cards will not be required for 100% on the Report Card.

UI

• Quest targets on the map present the search title now when hovered over.
• Trailer Marker names are proven on the map when hovering over a Path Marker icon if a reputation is about.
• Improved picture high quality of merchandise icons on decrease finish {hardware}.

Audio

• New audio observe added for New Sport+

Playgrounds

• Ziplines created in Playground edit mode can’t be recycled or renamed in Play mode.

Optimization

• Considerably decreased the CPU load of the sport.
• Considerably decreased the CPU load throughout protection occasions.
• Decreased reminiscence utilization throughout the sport.
• Saving the sport is now sooner.

Main Fixes

• Audio logs that had been collected however not exhibiting up within the Knowledge tab will correctly present up now.
  • This was affecting some folks from getting 100%.
• Animations and audio work accurately for shoppers when another person makes use of a dandelion tuft.
• Some buildings positioned in very particular areas will not be unsupported upon loading the save.
• Mounted an issue the place sure stacks of ladders may trigger a saved sport to by no means end loading.
• Non-grid buildings connected to grid buildings will now seem and disappear accurately on shoppers.
• Bugs will work together with the world round them extra usually (Woman Bugs chasing Aphids, Aphids dropping Honeydew, and many others.)

Different Fixes

• You’ll be able to steal from aphids whereas sporting modern aphid slippers.
• “Learn To Me” will now learn constructing customization sliders accurately.
• Buildings can’t be positioned inside stem pallets.
• Digging up Koi fish bones and scales as a shopper not has them float up shortly and teleport again.
• Weapon improve icons on the HotPouch not disappear after hitting one thing.
• Black Ants correctly navigate from exterior the Trash space again to their ant hill.

Playgrounds Fixes

• The constructing distance axis will now be correctly conveyed to shoppers in Playground Design Mode.
• Preplaced grid buildings positioned within the air can not be induced to break down in Play Mode, except Constructing Injury is enabled.
• Non-building actors positioned on slopes will not change rotation barely when relocated.
• Positioned objects with simulated physics now accurately simulate physics in play mode and never in edit mode.
• If an object is rescaled whereas being relocated, shoppers will now see the right scale.
• Pre-existing scene objects will not disappear when loading the sport after trashing them after which undoing the trash.
• In edit mode, destroying a constructing with different buildings connected to it would now reliably destroy the dependent buildings as properly.
• The Toggle Grid Snap radial menu possibility now works even exterior of placement mode.
• Slime Mildew Grass will not grow to be uninteractable after being relocated.
• Double-clicking a constructing supporting Place Many within the Playgrounds construct menu will not instantly place a duplicate.
• Buildings positioned on scaled buildings will not generally seem on the flawed peak.
• Mushrooms will not lose their stems when relocated.
• Undo operations can’t be redone if one other participant makes conflicting modifications to the identical actors.
• The Lab Management Panel now faces the right approach when positioned on partitions.
• Dandelion D can now be positioned and trashed in Playgrounds.
• Cacti can now be copied and relocated.
• Cube can now be copied and relocated.
• Mushroom Curved Doorways will not rotate and break after cancelling connection from them.
• ASL Terminal and Useful resource Surveyor screens will seem accurately after undoing destruction.
• ASL Terminal and Useful resource Surveyor will really reappear when destruction is undone.
• Gamers can not grow to be caught on the Frankenline when transitioning between Play and Design mode.
• Unusual Spore is simpler to put.
• Desk B can now be stacked.