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Welcome back friends! Ready to check out more incredible Playgrounds for the month of December? We’ve curated some great holiday themed Playgrounds and one boardgame you might find familiar!

Jingle Burst
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Let’s get started. Up first we have Jingle Burst from Rossoccx! In this epic mini-game, you’ll be launching “snowballs” into your opponent’s house windows to score points. Is the other team scoring too fast and close to victory? Not a problem, just launch a “snowball” through the top window to open the front door of your opponent’s house and try to score through the door to reset the other team’s points to zero! You gotta be quick as you just have 10 seconds to do it or until the other team closes the door. Whether you’re up for some 1v1 action or 2v2, the first team to score 10 points wins! Make sure to read all the information in the waiting ar... Read more

Welcome to November’s Community Playground Showcase!
Over the past few months, we asked the community to spotlight some Playgrounds for us to showcase. Thanks to the community, they have delivered 3 amazing Playgrounds to check out.

Up first we have Legends of the Five Jewels by Rossoccx! Famed Archeologist Christopher Packett mysteriously vanished and you’re on the hunt for these enigmatic jewels that hold strange powers. In this unique storytelling map, you’ll find puzzles, clues, different biomes, and complete quests from NPCs! Find all the jewels and discover the legend of the five jewels!

Legends of the Five Jewels
Download Code: CSQ-LCB-B5H


Next, we have Nightmare of the Yard! Get ready to experience the backyard in a new narrative experience by Mariuss PL! An evil corporation has shrunk you down, where you’ll need to build, craft, and survive... Read more

Halloween Time:

• The Scarecrow building is now available for purchase in the Science Shop (through October only!)
  
• The porch Jack-o-Lantern properly shows up when loading a world that was started prior to October.

Pet Baby Ants Buffs:

• Red Ant Pet: Bonus hauling capacity increased from 10 to 15.
  
• Black Ant Pet: Damage resist increased from 10% to 50%.
  
• Fire Ant Pet: +10% Acid damage changed to +25% all damage.

REMIX.D Yard - Changes:

• Sour Orb Infusion
  
  • Dramatically Reduced AOE Damage
    
  • Removed the Stun from the AOE Attack
    
    • If the Sour Orb Attack hits you directly it will still do high damage and stun
  • Sour Orb attack can be Perfect Blocked
• Creature damage scaling reduced from 40% to 20% per REMIX.D level.

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Welcome to the spooky edition of the Playgrounds Showcase for October! We have some scary Playgrounds for you to check out this Halloween season! Will you be able to escape Granny’s House? How about escaping the Mines? Will you survive the haunted forest in Spooky Mystery? Let’s dive in!

Granny’s House:
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Granny's House
Up first we have Granny's House by IZ BURG L. After a car crash, you find yourself at Granny's house. As you approach the house, you get knocked out by a mysterious figure and awaken in a strange and dark room. The goal is to survive for 5 days and escape from Granny’s House. There are tons of puzzles to solve and mysteries to uncover. Be careful though, there are some creepy monsters hunting you down. Try to get all 4 endings and change the difficulty for a more challenging experience!

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Greetings friends! We have a small patch out today for some changes to the Steam store, you no longer have to sign in with your Microsoft account, but is still required for Crossplay, Shared Worlds, and Playgrounds. If you are experiencing any issues, please contact us at http://support.obsidian.net.


Steam Native Support

• Steam players no longer require a Microsoft Account to play multiplayer
  
  • While not logged into a Microsoft Account, you can host and join standard world multiplayer sessions with players from your Steam friends list
    
  • Note: a Microsoft Account is still require...

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Welcome back friends! We have returned with another set of three Playgrounds you should check out this September. Experience a blast of nostalgia as we battle in the Temple, progress through increasingly tougher wave battles, and behold the legend of Pete!

Get ready for some 007 action in Groundedeye! Created by ADRANUS, prepare to see who the best secret agent in the reimagination of the el-Saghira Temple level from one of the most nostalgic 007 games around. Filled with hidden secrets, power ups, and gear, take on your friends to see who the top agent is. Oddjob is obviously banned.

Groundedeye:
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Up next is Cage Wars! In this progressive wave arena created by Axel99ZX, take on challenges and get better gear with each wave you beat. The waves start out simple but scale up in difficulty as you progress further and further. How many wave... Read more

Hello again, friends! We’ve returned with another set of three Playgrounds you should check out. Mega dungeon crawls, puzzle solving, and a Halo themed arena, oh my! The Grounded community continues to blow us away with how creative and talented they are.

Grounded: The Tower
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Welcome to Grounded: The Tower, challenge your way through 10 floors and over 40+ rooms as you climb to the top to become the champion of the Tower! Apex Predator created this amazing Playground where you find loot, upgrade equipment, explore unique rooms filled with dangerous encounters, and test your combat skills as you bring them to new heights. Challenge yourself and become the ruler of the tower!

Find The Button:
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Welcome back, friends! If you enjoyed the three Playgrounds from last month, then you definitely won’t want to miss this month’s set of awesome maps made by our talented community. Looking for a challenge or just some good wholesome fun? We got you covered.

Grounded Shrunken Souls Kicking off the list this month’s Grounded Shrunken Souls by Capitao Shultz! This Playground is the perfect soulslike experience in a big way, but tiny. Explore various locations filled with creatures, loot, and hidden secrets. Steele yourself to overcome challenging biomes and face your fears against epic bosses. Don’t forget to raise the BURG.L bonflags to set your spawn point and keep an eye on the lighting to help guide you to the next location.

Download Code: X8J-UCF-L4X

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Greetings, friends! Welcome to the first of many blogs that will showcase three amazing Playgrounds from our incredibly talented Grounded community. Moving forward, you can expect these blogs on the first Wednesday of every month on here, Steam, and Discord! (Except today, it’s Friday).

Only Down Heard of Only Up? How about Only Down! Created by JADEPG, you have to traverse this platforming course all the way down to the bottom to win. It’s not as easy as it looks. Fortunately, Jade set up some checkpoint systems, so you don't lose all your progress. Do you have what it takes to get to the final platform?

Download Code: D4Y-Y7E-4QZ


Lemonade Tycoon Always dreamt of running your own lemonade stand? Then check out Lemonade Tycoon by M09264! ... Read more

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 s...

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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 based on the c...

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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 BREAKT IT UPDATE

PLAYGROUNDS Introducing Playgrounds, our ambitious new game mode that allows you to create, share, and play new Grounded experiences with a new suite of tools and features, buil... Read more

We are excited to announce that we have patch 1.1.1 ready for you all to download and install! Thank you all so much for your patience while we worked to get this patch out to you, so please update when you see it and let us know how it works for you.

CHANGES:

• Holiday Tree presents are only delivered at night.

CRASH FIXES:

• Buildings that get destroyed with stuffed creatures hanging from them will no longer crash if the building is destroyed.
  
• Fixed crash that could occur from charge attacking grass of clovers.

BUG FIXES:

• Holiday Trees properly spawn presents again for players where it was not working.
  
• Fixed a few instances of missing text, including one of the quest objectives on the Javamatic quest.
  
• Changing diff...

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Thank you all for your reports to our Support Team as they have helped us gather some information to find resolutions for the following issues. Hopefully these will help you with your time in the backyard, and we hope you have a fantastic weekend! And be sure to hit up our support team if you continue to experience any issues! [email protected]

CRASH FIXES

• Fixed crash that could happen when a client would equip a pet armor to a pet.
  
• Fixed crash that could happen when using photo mode while in a turret.

BUG FIXES Major Fixes

• Natural Explorer no longer deactivates when attacking non-hostile creatures.
  
• Loading a save will now cleanup ant hills that have too much food stashed in them causi...

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Hello everyone and happy Wednesday! Thank you all so much for your patience while we worked to get this patch out to all of you, so please update when you see it and let us know how it works for you!



BUG FIXES:
Crash Fixes:

• Fixed crashes that could happen using Shared Saves
  
• Fixing a progression blocker that could happen where a Haze lab door would not open
  
• Reduced DLL dependencies for Steam version to help accommodate playing the game on Windows 7 and Windows 8.0

Bug Fixes: Crash Fixes:

• Fixed crash that could happen with dew drop / soda drop spawning introduced in 0.13.3.

CHANGES Jumping creatures stuck in small areas will now periodically attempt to escape from them.

BUG FIXES:
MAJOR ISSUES:

• Reduced memory usage while in the Oak Lab for Xbox One and Xbox One S to prevent Out of Memory crashes.
  
• BURG.L conversation now has proper text for various languages outside of -English (translation pass now complete).
  
• Creatures no longer walk through base walls when you are not looking at them.

CRASH FIXES:

• Fixed crash when running "Cancel Nearby Blueprints" when the player is dead.
  
• Fixed crash when near a newly spawning Dew Drop by the Oak Tree that immediately combines into an already existing Dew Drop.
  
• Fixed random crash that could occur when looking at buildings that get destroyed or recycled.

OTHER ISSUES:

• When using a gamepad to select a Ch...

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Bug Fixes - All Platforms: Major Issues:
Fixed client crash that could happen when using the Oven, Grinder, or Spinning Wheel that was introduced in 0.13.1.

CHANGES Factional Reputation / Waft Emitter / MIX.R

• The amount of extra creatures that are sent during base attacks in multiplayer has been lowered.
  
• Lowered the amount of negative reputation players gain when hanging around certain areas of the yard that aren't bug dens.
  
• Players no longer generate negative reputation with Bees by just being in the Flowerbed area.
  
• The max amount of flying creatures that can be attacking your base at the exact same time has been halved. No change for non-flying creatures.
  
• Infected Gnats no longer participate in defense events.
  
• Infected Wolf Spiders no longer participate in base attacks...for now.
  
• Defense event creatures are now much easier to stun.
  
• Defense event creatures now remain stunned for longer.
  
• Defense event creatures now have a much lower stun cooldown.
  
• Defense event creatures n...

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Hello Watchers!
 
Another patch with more bug fixes!
 
Patch notes for v4.1.2.0047
Resolved Issues

• The Combat Start is no longer visible before starting combat in certain situations.
• Terrified party members who cannot move will now pass their turn correctly.
• Casts interrupted by "Mage Slayer" are now correctly removed from the turn queue in turn-based mode.
• In deck-to-deck combat, loot can no longer be lost if there is too much.
• Characters are now able to jump between ships' decks during combats in turn-based mode.
• Characters automatically finish reloading when their turn starts.
• The combat speed slider will now update correctly when using the hotkeys to change it.
• The Combat Start autopause event will now trigger properly when combat starts with a cutscene (e.g. deck-to-deck combat).
• Vela's level now matches the player's level in Hylea's Challenge, granting h...

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