Grounded Dev Tracker

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.
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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...