THE KOI POND IS HERE

We have a new trailer, a letter from the devs, an update full of previews, and patch notes! Welcome to Grounded's Early Access Update 0.4!

A Letter from the Developers

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The team is thrilled that we've have had so many people enjoy Grounded, and we are very excited for today's release. We wanted to give you all a quick update on the development of Grounded and share a bit of what's on the horizon in future updates. Moving forward, the team is going to be focusing on larger content rel...

Today the Grounded team has released their largest update yet, introducing players to a brand-new biome - the underwater world of the Koi Pond.

This newly released area of the backyard brings with it new wildlife, new crafting recipes, and new mysteries, along with underwater gameplay mechanics that will allow players to go deeper than ever before.

Intrepid explorers navigating the depths of the murky pond will meet a host of creatures, including Tadpoles, Water Boatmen, Diving Bell Spiders (did you know certain spiders can swim?!), and the awe-inspiring Koi Fish. Additionally, players can craft recipes for a Slime Lantern, Bone Trident, Pebblet Dagger, Gill Tube Rebreather, and much more, to help increase the survival chances down in the pond. We can’t wait for players to dive in and check out the new update!

Obsidian and Xbox Game Studios are ecstatic to celebrate that ...

Due to some unforeseen issues that have been brought to our attention after launching the Xbox Flight for Grounded, we will need to close off the flight to any players currently not in the flight. Those who are in the flight will still have access to the flight build, but we recommend that they do not leave the flight at this time.

We have been made aware of an issue where player save files were being wiped when moving from the Xbox Flight back to the live build, and in order to investigate into this and prevent more save files from being lost, we have made the difficult decision to temporarily stop the flight at this time. We are committed to investigating this issue in order to open the flight back up as soon as we are able to find the cause and apply a fix for this specific issue.

To all of our players who were looking forward to joining the Xbox Flight, we apologize that you were not able to join us at this time. To all of our players who have rep...

The Xbox Insider program is a great way for dedicated Grounded players to provide feedback and bug reports for the latest content made for Grounded.  While the Xbox Game Preview and Steam Early Access versions of Grounded are also intended to do this, we are looking to make them even more stable by inviting these dedicated players to help us find issues and provide feedback before the content is pushed to Xbox Game Preview and Steam Early Access.  Access to this flight will be limited and will be on a first come first served basis.

To join the Xbox Insider program, you will need to own a copy of the game or have an active subscription to Xbox Game Pass or Xbox Game Pass for PC, and you will want to download and install the Xbox Insider Hub on your PC or Xbox One. To do this, you can follow the instructions for your platform of choice below.

Xbox One

• Go to the Store tab on the dashboard.
• Select the Sea...

We have just pushed out Patch 0.3.3 for all players. Please update your game when you see that this update is available to receive the following fixes and changes:

MAJOR ISSUES

• Fixed random client crash when pickup up items
• Fixed crash with destroying Plank Pallet or Stem Pallet building
• Fixed crashes dealing with Cloud Save syncing on the Main Menu
• Fixed issues with saves not properly uploading or downloading from the Xbox Cloud causing corrupted or missing saved game

Thank you for your reports and your continued support while we further develop Grounded! We are working to push out updates to enhance your gaming experience continually.

To stay current with the commonly reported issues and to follow their status, please visit our ...

Earlier today we pushed out Patch 0.3.2 for all players. Please update your game when you see that this update is available to receive the following fixes and changes:

MAJOR ISSUES

• Fixed client crash when ziplines exist in the yard across very large distances
• Fixed random crashes when traversing the yard
• Fixed crash related to Frankenline when loading a saved game
• Fixed crash for clients when joining a game near a Spinning Wheel / Roasting Spit / Jerky Rack that currently has processing items on it
• Fixed random crashes when syncing cloud saves
• Slight improvement on Friends Search reliability

GAME

• Fixed issue with Inventory and Crafting screens having low FPS on Xbox and Win 10 Store builds
• Fixed issue where saving the game was not allowed if there was no internet connection
• Fixed clients not having access to the Daredevil Mutation when rejoi...

Patch 0.3.1 was released today for all players. Please update your game when you see that this update is available to receive the following fixes and changes:

MAJOR ISSUES

• Fixed crash when placing grid-based buildings (Walls, Foundations, etc.)
• Improved reliability of friend search in the server browser.

GAME

• Fixed issue with conversations not triggering properly
• Hedge area art polish
• Added impact VFX for Ice Cap mints and webbed door
• Web sacs wiggle when hit
• Made sticky webs easier to hit while webbed
• The teens will sometimes verbally express their excitement when using a zipline
• Fixed durability not randomizing between which armor piece gets deducted from when hit

WILDLIFE

• Fixed soldier ants red eyes not appearing when angry
• Removing "venom" from Orb Weaver loot

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It wouldn't be a proper content update without a new vlog! Join Shyla, Obsidian's Social Media Manager, as she walks you through some of the new changes and fixes, exciting new content, and spooktacular surprises released with today's update!

You can find more information on what was included with this update by going to the September Content Update notes on our website here.

Tomorrow, September 30th, we will be releasing Update 0.3.0 around 10am PDT / 1pm EDT. Included in the patch are the following changes and fixes we've made to the game:

New Features

• The Hedge has been revamped with new content
• New Building: Zip-lines
• New Building: Spinning Wheel
• New Building: Signs
• New World Landmark: Frankenline
• Halloween Additions: Jack-o-Lantern landmark, Candy Corn food item
• Localization for French, German, Spanish, and Italian (more to come at a later date)
• New spider webs that stick to unsuspecting players and critters

Changes/Game Tuning

Engine

• UE4 Version Upgrade

Combat

• Ant Soldiers have a set of new attacks
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🏡 Join Shyla, Obsidian's Social Media Manager, as she takes you around to look at the busy life in the backyard. In this vlog you'll gain insight into how the insects spend their days and nights while you aren't around. From finding food to making themselves happy, the backyard is full of life and personality day in and day out. Just take a look!

The next content update will be released on September 30th! Until then, stay safe, stay healthy, and stay Grounded!

Today we are excited to announce that we have opened up a Grounded public test for our community! This test will allow players to hop into the game to help us test out new changes, features, and content for Update 0.3.0 before it is released for everyone.

While this test is currently only available to players who own the game on Steam, the team understands the importance of having as many players in the test as possible and are working hard to include players on all platforms in the near future through the Xbox Insider program.

For more details on how to join the Public Test, ...

Hello everyone!

Today we released hotfix patch 0.2.2 for all players. This patch includes the following change:

• Fixed an issue introduced in 0.2.1 that caused some saves to fail to load for some players.

We want to thank you all for your patience while we worked on a fix for this issue, and we want you to know that we are working hard to find fixes for the other issues you have been reporting.

To stay current with the commonly reported issues and to follow their status, please visit our Grounded Issue Tracker Trello Board, or you can bo...

Hello everyone!

Today we released patch 0.2.1 for all players. Please update your game when you see that this update is available to receive the following fixes and changes:

TOP COMMUNITY ISSUES

• The chat log will now show your own messages in the lobby and in the game.
• Ants will no longer be able to steal items from containers out of reach from them.
• You can now overwrite saved games.
• Save Games are grouped by playthrough in the Save / Load menu.
• Fixed an issue where the camera would go inside the player while in the 3rd-person camera when near specific building structures.
• Grub audio has been adjusted.

PERFORMANCE

• Better render performance when dealing with dynamic shadow culling.

MAJOR

• Added a message that will notify PC players when their system clock does not match the server clock. This issue prevented the...

The August Content Update has arrived, bringing with it many gifts for the players!

Along with the bird, which players can expect to see feathers appear in the backyard to use for crafting, there are plenty of other goodies waiting.

Players can now expect to see two new categories of quests available from BURG.L: Chipsleuth quests that will ask players to explore to find missing BURG.L chips and the Artificer quests will ask players to craft specific items. Both quest types reward the player with Raw Science, which can then be used in BURG.L's Tech Chip Swap Shop to purchase upgrades, blueprints, and a new perk: Meat Shield.
Perks are another new feature included with this update. These perks allow the player to select up to 3 different mutations to apply to their character to help them survive the backyard.

These and more are waiting for you, and you can see everything included today by viewing the ...

Update 0.2.0 is now available to download. Included in the update are the following changes and fixes we've made to the game:

New Features 

• Bird! - Includes new crafting materials and recipes from bird feathers. 
• Perk system with 13 unique perks to discover! 
• New BURG.L Quest types: Artificer (crafting quests) and Chipsleuth (quests asking you to locate BURG.L chips). 
• Added Fence buildings (Sprig and Acorn). 
• Added Table buildings (Grass and Clover). 
• Added Water Flea ambient insect to flooded biome.

Changes / Tuning

Combat

• Buffed damage on the Spider Fang Dagger so it's on the higher end of tier 2 weapons.
• Buffed damage on Spike Traps significantly.
• Spiders learned a new set of attacks to choose from instead of just their basic bite.
...

Hello everyone!

It's been an exciting 17 days so far, and we have been wowed by all of the feedback and suggestions you have shared! We have also been so grateful for all of the reports we have been receiving. These reports have been showing us what we need to continue to work on and what we need to fix to continue to enhance your gameplay during this Xbox Game Preview / Steam Early Access development.

While we wait to see what the Grounded team has in store for us on August 27th, I wanted to take some time to share a few things with you that we are working on to improve the community and the communication between all of you and the team!

First on the list, we are in the works of building a road map for you all! We are very excited to share this with you once it is finished, and this road map will allow the Grounded team to share with you all the exciting backyard content they are working on to release into the game.

Speaking of sharing...

Patch 0.1.2 has been released. Included with it are the following changes and fixes we've made to the game:

MAJOR ISSUES

• Better handling of dismissing profile selection at the Main Menu on Xbox One and Windows 10 Store versions which will help prevent saved games from going missing for players on the Xbox console and Windows 10 store.
• Fixed an issue where if you had the "Kill Mosquito" quest prior to the patch 0.1.1 release where it wasn't removed properly and would crash if you killed a creature while that quest was active.
• Fixed crash with approaching a base with traps that have an insect being damaged by one when the player arrives.
• Resolved an issue that would cause random crashes with juice drop combining when approaching them.

GAME

• We cleared out excess larva from games that still had large numbers of larva in their game from the infinite larva respawn issue prior to pat...

Hello everyone!

We have just released patch 0.1.1 which includes some changes and fixes to enhance your gameplay.

Changes/fixes that you will see made to the game:

MAJOR ISSUES

• Made changes to make finding, joining, and hosting games with friends more reliable.
• We adjusted the handling of joining game failure (the game is full, the game no longer exists, etc.).
• Added a way to allow players to resolve the issue of the game logging the player into the wrong Xbox Live account on PC.
• Fixed issues with Windows 7 and Windows 8 users crashing when attempting to login. Those users should be able to load into the game after updating.
• Fixed crash when saving or loading and the "Autosave Count" number in the options is set to 0.
• We have implemented a fix for players who were getting stuck on the welcome popup screen and unable to move past it.
• Fixed characters not being saved occasionally i...

We are completely blown away by how many of you joined us in the backyard this week! To be exact, over 1 MILLION players made their way into the backyard in the first 48 hours!

To show his thanks, Grounded's Game Director, Adam Brennecke, has a special message to share with you all!

Hello everyone! While we are still working on finding resolutions for all of the issues reported, I would like to let you know that Steam will be receiving an update soon that should help resolve the logging in issues for players playing on Windows 7 and Steam.

If you are on Windows 7, have updated your game, and still experience this login issue, please contact us here: https://support.obsidian.net/