Hello Grounded community! We've been amazed at all of the fun and unique experiences you have been creating with Playgrounds since the Make It and Break It update went out. To celebrate all of your creativity, the Grounded team comes bearing Playground gifts this holiday season!

Playground Browser

You can now view new and popular Published Playgrounds from the Grounded community. When accessing the "Downloads" section, you will be able to quickly view Playgrounds based on various categories:

• Recent Hits:
  • The most downloaded Playgrounds of the last week.
• Monthly Hits:
  • The most downloaded Playgrounds of the last month that are older than a week.
• All Time Hits:
  • The most downloaded Playgrounds ever that are older than one month.
• Brand New:
  • The most recent Playgrounds published hot off the press.
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Happy Monday everybody! We are excited to announce that we have patch 1.3.3 ready for you all to download and install! Please update when you see it and let us know how it works for you!

Major Fixes:

• Various buildings no longer rotate their placement after save / load.
• Various buildings no longer rotate their placement after switching between Play mode and Design mode in Playgrounds.
• Playgrounds that use a Player Spawner as the starting spawn location will properly be deactivated when another Player Spawner uses the "Set Checkpoint" action.

Changes:

• Equipment generating gizmo now returns current equipped items to your inventory or drops them in the world when equipping new items.

Crash Fixes:

• Fixed crash that could occur if an Explosive Bur Trap was near a Laser Pillar.

Other Bug Fixes:

• Items grown in the Garden Patch will no longer fall over after loading a save...

Bug Fixes / Changes

Major Fixes:

• Network code improvements that reduce random client disconnects and lag.
• Designer placed foliage objects properly show up for clients when joining a Playground that was loaded from a save.

Crash Fixes:

• Fixed random crash that could occur loading a save or returning back to Design mode.
• Fixed crash that could occur with creatures that use ranged attacks.
• Fixed crash that could occur loading a save from version 1.1.3 or before.
• Fixed crash that could occur after closing the Inventory screen or one of the radial menus.
• Fixed crash that could occur when a building was destroyed that had other buildings attached to it.

Other Bug Fixes:

• Fixed items collected during Play mode sometimes not showing back up after returning to Design mode.
• Downloading a Standard Save Copy of a Shared World Design Playground works properly.
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We have released Patch 1.3.1 for everyone to download and install. Please update your game and let us know if you continue to experience any further issues. We appreciate your patience! :)

Bug Fixes / Changes

Major Fixes:

• Weapons will equip after your attack animation completes if you trigger an equip action mid-attack.
• You can build on the Baseball again.
• Sizzle rate in the BBQ Spill is no longer being applied multiple times causing the rate to increase extremely fast.
• Fixed issue where the client would not be allowed to build in locations that had a building that was removed.
• You can eat off of the Campfire again.
• The Fan in Playgrounds works more reliably when placed on the ground.

Changes:

• Lowered Sour Battle Axe damage by 10%.
• Health and Safety Badge only life steals on Combo Finishers.
• Creature Spawner Gizmo for Playgrounds changes it's spawn radius ...

We have released Patch 1.3.1 for everyone to download and install. Please update your game and let us know if you continue to experience any further issues. We appreciate your patience! :)

Bug Fixes / Changes

Major Fixes:

• Weapons will equip after your attack animation completes if you trigger an equip action mid-attack.
• You can build on the Baseball again.
• Sizzle rate in the BBQ Spill is no longer being applied multiple times causing the rate to increase extremely fast.
• Fixed issue where the client would not be allowed to build in locations that had a building that was removed.
• You can eat off of the Campfire again.
• The Fan in Playgrounds works more reliably when placed on the ground.

Changes:

• Lowered Sour Battle Axe damage by 10%.
• Health and Safety Badge only life steals on Combo Finishers.
• Creature Spawner Gizmo for Playgrounds changes it's spawn radius ...

The Grounded team is pleased to present the next update to Grounded with a new experience called Playgrounds. This new mode allows you to create, share, and play an endless amount of new content where only your imagination is the limit.

That’s not all, this update adds many quality-of-life changes, 40+ new building pieces, a revamped BURG.L quest system, and even a way to throw some hoops with the all-new basketball item. But first, let’s dive into Playgrounds… a new way to play and experience Grounded!

The Make It and Break It Update

Playgrounds

Introducing Playgrounds, our ambitious new game mode that allows you to cr...

Come help us Make It and Break It with the new 1.3 Update!

The test is optional, but we always appreciate the extra help! Please keep in mind that this is the development phase of this update, and there is always a risk when testing out new features. Any progress you make on the test server may or may not carry over, so please keep this in mind when you join. We love having you all help us and appreciate it greatly.

After joining the test server, be sure to join our Discord server if you haven't yet so that you can chat with others who are testing! Not only that, you'll have an easy way to share your feedback and suggestions with the community and directl...