Outside of gear upgrades, your main way of powering up in Grounded 2 is by collecting Milk Molars and Mega Milk Molars. These candied chompers act like skill or attribute points in other games, letting you pick a stat to improve. While there are tons of Milk Molar locations around the park, they’re not always…
Surviving the park in Grounded 2 is surprisingly hard, with new gear being few and far between in the early hours. Beat The Art of War mission, though, and you’ll unlock the smithing station for armour and weapon upgrades. To construct the smithing station, and for the subsequent gear upgrades you’ll undoubtedly want, you’ll need…
Grabbing some weed stems in Grounded 2 is a necessary step in building your first base and constructing the hatchery so you can raise a red soldier ant to ride around the park on. You might have noticed the husky weeds that are dotted about the Ranger Outpost: Snackbar, but annoyingly, harvesting these requires the…
You need to find bombardier parts and boiling glands in Grounded 2 if you want to craft sizzling-resistant gear. Similar to the chill you can get in the Picnic Table Cooler or the gas ailment from the Trash Can, sizzling is a fire-based ailment that’ll damage your health in areas like the Fire Pit, or…
As you make your way through quests in Grounded 2, you’ll be tasked with crafting a lot of gear and structures, many of which want acorn shells or tops. So, knowing where to find acorns is essential. In fact, one of the first quests tasks you with building a hatchery, which, you guessed it, requires…
Shrunken down to the size of ants—smaller, actually—you’ll need to look high and, mostly low, to find water in Grounded 2. As you’d expect from a survival game, you’ve got a hydration meter to keep in check, and while there are a few ways to satisfy your liquid lust, some are certainly better than others….
Grounded 2 is full of odd crafting materials, such as household items, or even seeds that you can repurpose into handy gear. One of the most important is blueberry leather, since it’s used in vital upgrades like the Omni-Axe and lots of tier two armour, including the Ladybug and Northern sets that you’ll likely want…
Brookhollow Park in Grounded 2 is full of old, stinky food that’ll quickly kill you if you’re not careful. I’d know, because I died climbing inside a foul trash can in the Signals and Stashes mission. To counter the poisonous stench, you need to find stinkbugs, since these creepy crawlies drop stinkbug parts and gas…
In a park full of scorpions, why is it so hard to find northern scorpion stingers in Grounded 2? Well, the answer is, unfortunately, quite simple: all those scorpions you’ve been fighting so far have just been younglings and teenage scorpions, which don’t have the massive stinger you’re looking for. Terrifying as they are, you…
As an arachnophobe and all-around bug hater, Grounded 2 is a terrifying time, so having already spent over 20 hours in Brookhollow Park is a testament to how well it scratches that survival game itch. In that time, I’ve learned a few things that make being shrunk down to size just a little bit easier….