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.

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

Up next, we’re going to look at one of Axel99zx’s Playgrounds! Get ready to defend your tower against waves of spiders in Supreme Commander! You are charged with defending your tower against an arachnid assault where killing spiders will reward you with upgrade points. Use those points to upgrade your crossbow, increase your ammo refill rate, automate your robot army, upgrade your TAYZ.T’s, and activate your automated turret systems! Endless waves of spiders will attack your tower, and as time progresses, the more difficult it will get. See how long you can last and rack up as many kills as you can to secure the high score!
Download Code: DQW-XQ5-8DP

Are you ready to win some prizes? Then let’s head on down to Manty’s! Created by RYYY Jones, Ticket to Mantys is an incredible wonderland of mini games! In this interactive experience, you’ll shoot hoops, go to the shooting range, play stab-a-bug, and so much more. There are even five hidden treasure chests to collect. Don’t forget to bring home a stuffed Aphid for your kid sister, or she’ll throw a tantrum!
Download Code: VBN-P39-XBS

That wraps up this month’s Playground Showcase. Give these Playgrounds a try and make sure to share your own Playground in the official Discord Server[discord.gg]; they might just end up on future showcases in the months to come!

Thanks for reading, and remember, stay safe, and stay Grounded.

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).

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
Always dreamt of running your own lemonade stand? Then check out Lemonade Tycoon by M09264! Make Lemonade, grow your business, and attract new customers! Get started by mashing lemons, mixing ingredients, and making juice. Once you start selling a steady stream of lemonade, you’ll get access to the upgrade store where you can unlock new customers and other perks. Get enough rare coins and you can unlock even more abilities to help your business grow and become a Lemonade Tycoon!

Download Code: TGG-NZQ-2XQ
Mordor
Experience Middle Earth in the Backyard! Created by Loodarav87, get whisked away to another world and explore the land of Mordor. Pass through the Black Gates where the armies of men prepare to take on the evil forces of Sauron, visit Minas Morgul where the Witch-King resides, experience the scorching heat within Mount Doom, and behold the magnificence of the Eye of Sauron! Explore all that Mordor has to offer.

Download Code: AKP-BKH-6XG
That's all for this blog, I hope these Playgrounds inspire you to make your own creation, and who knows, maybe your Playground will be featured in these monthly blogs! We can’t wait to see what you all create and see the conversations unfold in our official Discord server!

Thanks for reading, and remember, stay safe, and stay Grounded.

We are excited to announce that we have patch 1.4.2 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!

• You can now “Thumbs Up” or “Thumbs Down” any Published Playgrounds. These community ratings will be used to filter higher quality Playgrounds to the top.
  
  • This combined with the new “Filter Playgrounds” menu added in 1.4.0 should help you find quality Playgrounds of various types.
• Playground Descriptions are now shown when browsing Community Playgrounds.

• Hedge Broodmother Roar attack can be perfect blocked.
  
• Mantis attacks no longer always trigger additional effects even when blocked or perfect blocked.
  
• “Fury” effect can now trigger combo finisher effects.
  
• Explosive damage from enemies can be blocked with shields again (including infusion based explosive damage).
  
• +Summon Thorns effect from Red Strategist set decreased from 50% to 25% per piece (they still stack).
  
• Thorns now deal “true” damage.
  
• You can go back to befriended Ant Queens and get a new Baby Ant pet if your prior Baby Ant pet has died or was lost.
  
• Lowering the stun damage of 2 Handed Axe weapons.
  
• Increasing the stun damage of 2 Handed Club weapons.

• A new module is accessible in the ASL station while in New Game+: remote access to the Super Duper machine!
  
• When duplicating or deduplicating an item, you can now skip the animation.
  
• Clients that join a New Game+ world will have their starting Milk Molar stats matched up to the host if they are lower
  
  • Helps clients not lose out on prior Milk Molar upgrades from before new game+ or prior new game+ playthroughs.

• Infusion effects that creatures get will be more random instead of almost always having explosive damage (this was a bug).
  
• “+Unarmed Damage” effect can now be found on randomized trinkets.
  
• A large number of Random Effects for trinkets and infused weapons have been buffed:
  
  • All creature specific damage increases (such as “+Black Widow Damage) increased from 10% to 30%
    
  • +Damage Resist increased from 10% to 50% (in the previous patch)
    
  • +Block Strength increased from 25 to 100
    
  • +Max Health increased from 25 to 100
    
  • +Max Stamina increased from 25 to 100
    
  • Hyperstamina increased from 10% to 25%
    
  • +Attack Stamina increased from 10% to 25%
    
  • Exhaustion Recovery increased from 10% to 25%
    
  • +Sprint Distance increased from 10% to 25%
    
  • The Quickness increased from 10% to 25%
    
  • +Poison Resist increased from 10% to 50%
    
  • +Explosive Resist increased from 10% to 50%
    
  • Starcrusher Damage Resist reduction increased from 25% to 50%
    
  • Arcane Archer Damage Resist reduction increased from 25% to 50%
    
  • Fresh Mage stamina refund increased from 5 to 25 per attack
    
  • Spicy Mage attack speed buff increased from 10% to 15% per attack
    
  • Sour Mage charge time multiplier fixed from 1.5x to .5x so it actually reduces charge time instead of increasing it
    
  • Wizards Defense proc chance increased from 50% to 100%
    
  • Fixed +Bow Attack not being labeled as “minor”, “major”, and “best” for the 3 variations
    
  • Bow Attack Major increased from 20% to 25%
    
  • Bow Attack Best increased from 30% to 50%
    
  • Trickle Regen increased from 1 hp per 10 seconds to 2 hp per 10 seconds
    
  • Guard Dog increased from 50% to 100%
    
  • Tenderfoot Offense increased from 5% to 100%
    
  • Tenderfoot Defense increased from 5% to 90%
    
  • +Finale Damage increased from 10% to 25%
    
  • Fixed ‘Implant Weakness: Sour’ and ‘Implant Weakness: Salty’ using the ‘Implant Weakness: Fresh’ string
• “Fury” effect on New Game+ trinkets can now trigger other trinket effects such as “Samurai” and “Mad Scientist”.
  
• The “Increased Damage” infusion effect on infused creatures no longer also increases the damage of other infusion effects.
  
• Infused Weapons now have 2 random effects instead of just 1.
  
• BURG.L’s Old Flipper now has 2 random effects, much like infused weapons.
  
• The Assistant Manager can trigger the laser and shock pillars immediately in New Game+. Lasers will spin faster with each Remixed Level.
  
• Similar candy weapons acquired from NG+ now have different finale effects:
  • Example: the Sizzle Striker has Finale Aftershock, where as the Wallopeño has Finale Fury
• Thorns damage that can be reflected with any attack is capped to the max health of the character being attacked.
  
• Thorns damage that is reflected is no longer improperly double scaled from Status Effect or Difficulty modifiers.
  
• Salt Chipper now properly utilizes the “Smasher” mutation instead of “Barbarian”.

• Loading a saved game takes less time:
  
  • Xbox Series X / PlayStation 5: 5+ seconds faster
    
  • Xbox One / PlayStation 4: 15+ seconds faster
    
  • Nintendo Switch: 60+ seconds faster
    
  • PC: (Depends on your CPU but faster than before)

• Improved framerate.
  
• Save game thumbnails will no longer be extra dark.
  
• Added mouse and keyboard support.

• Reduced asset popping and short draw distanced in the Sandbox.
  
• Notes found in the yard that require scrolling to read all of it can scroll the text using the analog stick.

• Creatures attacking from the Waft Emitter are no longer randomly invulnerable.
  
• Power Droplet can trigger additional effects off of unarmed attacks again.
  
• Clients no longer sometimes respawn with no lighting after completing the undershed lab.
  
• Achievements will properly unlock after reloading your game if you had originally completed them while offline (Xbox / PC).
  
• Playing a Shared World game across multiple consoles will no longer have you load in with lost player data.
  
  • Retroactive fix still in the works for sessions that have already encountered this.
• Multiplayer games that were made while crossplay was off and then are converted to Shared Worlds when crossplay is enabled will not have lost player data upon hosting or joining that game.
  
  • Retroactive fix still in the works for sessions that have already encountered this.
• Stairs can be built up diagonally without direct support below again.
  
• Loading a Shared World backup save while in the middle of playing a Shared World will properly save continued game progress during that session.
  
• The loot delay on dead bugs has been reduced back.

• Fixed attempting to host or join a multiplayer game immediately after being disconnected from a game causing a crash.
  
• Fixed crash when loading an Early Access save.

• The Oak Lab explosion smoke no longer freezes when looking directly at it sometimes.
  
• BURG.L Quests are no longer reset when activating the REMIX.R.
  
• Using burnt toast in the Garden Patch no longer causes the growth time to be negative.
  
• Fixing an instance of a randomized milk molar that could spawn underwater.
  
• Fixing the repair costs on some of the NG+ elemental weapons.
  
• The web sacs in the Hedge Broodmother fight no longer will trigger infusion effects from the Broodmother’s roar or jump back attack.
  
• The Health and Stamina bar on the SCA.B properly show lines for values past 300.
  
• Infected Ant mounted trophy and infected ant stuffed creature buildings have had their materials fixed.
  
• The Sign Set Teen Spirit is no longer always removed after loading a New Game+ save.
  
• Improved building placement while trying to place a hanging stuffed creature.
  
• Additional creatures spawned in during boss fights are no longer lootable when they die if you fail the fight and return to the boss arena.
  
• Clients that are present when the REMIX.R is activated will spawn back in correctly at the kid case instead of being on top of the host.
  
• Rotten Stinger Spear in the T-Rex no longer falls out of the toy’s mouth on any new games created.
  
• Infected Broodmother final phase scream no longer triggers infusion effects.
  
• Chopper no longer improperly uses the Blademaster mastery effect.
  
• You can no longer build sap catchers in the Mantis arena.
  
• The “Royal Arrangements” achievement can be unlocked for new players in New Game+ if all Ant Queens were dealt with in the prior playthrough.

Grounded is free to play this weekend on Steam! Invite your friends, dive in, and check out "Fully Yoked" 1.4 update: the premiere Grounded experience that's bulging with new content and features.

Ends 4/22 @ 10am PT, so grab your friends get FULLY YOKED today!

Hey, Grounded fans! The backyard is buzzing with excitement, and it's all because of our latest update, "Fully Yoked" – and yes, it's as massive as it sounds! We're not just talking big; it's bulging with a ton of new content, features, and quality-of-life updates! This Fully Yoked update is here to turn your backyard into an epic adventure like never before. Let's dive into the wonders waiting for you in this colossal update!


The royal Ant Queens have arrived! These regal creatures are more than just a new face; they bring a new vibe to the backyard. When meeting them, it won’t be about 'flexing your muscles' in combat but more about flexing your decision-making skills; it’s about choices and consequences - ally with them and gain powerful friends, betray them and brace for some severe ant-itude, or you can do the third option, which is [REDACTED]! These decisions echo across your entire experience, so choose your path wisely and watch your journey unfold with these new influential neighbors.

And the excitement doesn’t stop there – get ready for 12 new Ant Queen-inspired buildings, like the grand Ant Queen Chaises and Chandeliers as the 'bench press' of ant architecture. Plus, for pet enthusiasts, there's a heartwarming twist – the chance to adopt a baby ant pet. Remember, every choice in the ant world carries weight, shaping the relationships within this tiny, yet 'mighty', kingdom.


Get ready to 'lift' your adventure to new heights with our 'New Game+' mode. After you conquer the mightiest of foes like the Broodmother and the Wasp Queen, you'll unlock the REMIX.R, leading you to alternate dimensions with remixed challenges. Every playthrough is a unique experience with creatures appearing in new spots, more demanding bosses, and hidden secrets.

But beware – some creatures are infused with Raw Science, making them stronger, faster, and harder to fight. Overcome these challenges to collect special trinkets with unique properties. Plus, don't miss out on the new ASL content, Milk Molars in randomized locations, and the all-important Yoking Station for that extra power boost in remixed yards.


We're always listening to our community, and this update brings quality-of-life improvements that make the backyard more enjoyable. Multiplayer fans, rejoice! Hosts can now switch saves without a hitch, keeping the adventure flowing. Lost a pet? Our 'Recover Pets' feature ensures they'll find their way back home. For our builders and creators, the new object capacity meter is a godsend for optimizing performance and sharing your world creations.

Speaking of creation, the Playground mode now offers even more control and options for crafting your unique backyard. Report rule-violating Playgrounds, quickly identify trinkets, and delve into a trove of new content – it's all part of enhancing your Grounded experience.


"Fully Yoked" is not holding back. The update is packed with over 20 new items and equipment, from the Termite King Pipe Organ to decorative rugs. Achievement hunters prepare for new challenges and the game-changing 'Antbassador' mutation. And we didn't forget about Playgrounds as they received fresh news props to add more possibilities for creativity.

Wrapping Up This Final Content Update

To help show you how Grounded is now beefier than ever, continue reading the patch notes below! The 'Fully Yoked' update brings endless possibilities to your backyard escapades. The game has evolved in many ways, such as adding full Japanese VO for all players to check out. On top of that, the game can now be played on multiple platforms, including the newly added PlayStation 4|5 and Nintendo Switch. Now, players across all platforms can experience this Grounded: Fully Yoked edition of the final game, together.

Lastly, a huge thank you to our incredible community. Your support and passion have shaped Grounded into what it is today. As our last planned content update, we promise to keep refining and perfecting your experience in the game so you and your friends can play in the backyard.

Stay safe, and as always – stay Grounded!


Hey Grounded fans! We are proud to present to you the "Fully Yoked" 1.4 update: the premiere Grounded experience swole with new content.

Each of the three ant colonies now has a royal leader residing deep within their respective hills. These new Ant Queens are not fightable bosses. They instead offer you a choice: either befriend or betray with a tasty offering. Which you choose affects the rewards you receive and how the colony reacts. Some choices have cascading effects that aren't immediately apparent...

Next up, we've remixed your backyard! Introducing the New Game+ mode: a complete overhaul that adds layers of complexity and challenge. Instead of finishing the game, you will have the option to enter an alternate dimension via the new REMIX.R device. Each playthrough in this mode remixes the yard in a host of ways that will give you new challenges and rewards.

Accessing New Game+ requires defeating the Broodmother, Mantis, Wasp Queen, and completing the Javamatic fight. When entering this mode, all of your existing bases, items, recipes unlocks, etc. will carry over with you.

In Remixed backyards, creatures can be infused with the power of Raw Science. Not only do they have more health, do more damage, and attack faster, but they also have unique properties that make them extra challenging. 

The good news is that infused creatures can drop special trinkets that are also infused with Raw Science. These new trinkets also have special randomized properties. Ominent Badges can be collected again, and have new properties, and every BURG.L Chip awards a new BURG.L Chip Trinket, they too will have randomized properties to give you more options on how to build your character.

The Yoking Station, available at the ASL in a remixed yard, allows you to upgrade your weapons to even more powerful levels. To upgrade your weapons, you will need to find new materials and resources only found in remixed yards. 

Molars can be gathered once more, and you will need to continue to collect them to stay as swole as the creatures of the yard. In a remixed yard, the molars are now in new, randomized locations. 

There are a large number of new additions to the Science Shop. Check out the ASL for a new sign set, the Yoking Station, new weapons, equipment, and more, that can only be purchased in a remixed yard. To help with purchasing the new items there are new Raw Science spawn locations, and MIX.Rs have increased rewards.

There are other changes that are made to the yard in a remixed world, including more loot chests, different candy, and some other surprises. 

The game can now be played additional platforms, including the newly added PlayStation 4|5 and Nintendo Switch. Players across all platforms can experience this Grounded: Fully Yoked edition of the final game, together, with crossplay!

By default, natural enemies will fight each other if they are near each other, and neutral creatures will fight each other if struck accidentally. This can now be turned off (useful in Playgrounds when designing encounter rooms for the player).

Links now have 5 color options for distinguishing them while editing.

You can now load a save while in the middle of a multiplayer session. All connected clients will load into the new world once the load is complete.

• A new Game Repair button has been added to recover any pets that are not currently following you.
  
• Pets allocated to a pet house will also teleport to their house, in case they are outside of the terrain.

• An object capacity meter can be found on the pause menu that tells you how many objects, either in a Playground or a standard game, you have in your level. This is useful to know if you are sharing worlds with lower end machines to make sure the game can be played reliably on all hardware.
  
• If you have no intention of having your yard be as crossplay compatible as possible, this capacity limit can be changed in the Game Settings menu to match your platform's suggested limit or have no limit at all.

There are now buttons available to copy and paste the configuration of a Link in a Playground.

Community Playgrounds can be filtered by keywords, player count and genre while browsing.

Community Playgrounds can be reported by players if they violate rules. 

• 12 Ant Queen-related buildings
  
  • Chaise Lounges
    
  • Chandeliers
    
  • Stuffed Queens
    
  • Head Mount
• Yoking Station
  
• New Floor Rugs
  
• Termite King Pipe Organ
  
• REDACTED

3 new Baby Ant Pets to befriend.

• Over 20 new items and equipment.
  
• Over 20 new trinkets.

A lot of these will be found only in New Game+

Antbassador - Become one with the ants of the yard. 

A new sign-set that can only be purchased in New Game+

• 2 for the base game
  
• 2 for New Game+

The game now has full Japanese voice over, including voices for the teens, BURG.L, cutscenes, and audio logs. Select Japanese Voice Over from the Game Options menu to enable this feature. 

There are a number of new props that are now available to be placed in Playgrounds. This includes the Jack o Lantern, Ice Caps Box, Big TazT, Big Dice, Wendell Chair, Big SCA.B Mesh, Stump Bark and Pulp, Rash, Yoked Girth and Yogi Swole, Quarter, Garden Light, Milk Molar Bottle and Lid, Gnome, Baseball Bat, Trash Bag, Pink Slip, Anarchis, Lab Dome, Pink Flower Petals, Cattails, Honeycomb, Lilypad, Shovel, Cacti, Charcoal Bag, Moldorc's Castle, the Bird Bath, and more.

Attack speed slow effects no longer stack.

Stagger animations for all ants and stinkbugs now physically displace them.

• Increasing scythe attack speed by 15%.
  
• Lowering attack speed bonus granted by battle axe combo finishers by 5%.
  
• The Mighty upgrade path now applies an additional status effect to weapons, much like the Sleek upgrade path for armor.

• Trinket items that previously appeared as brown bags now have a new shared trinket model.
  
• Gold cards are not required for 100% on the Report Card.

• Quest objectives on the map show the quest name now when hovered over.
  
• Trailer Marker names are shown on the map when hovering over a Trail Marker icon if a name is set.
  
• Improved image quality of item icons on lower end hardware.

New audio track added for New Game+

Ziplines created in Playground edit mode cannot be recycled or renamed in Play mode.

Optimization

• Significantly reduced the CPU load of the game.
  
• Significantly reduced the CPU load during defense events.
  
• Reduced memory usage across the game.
  
• Saving the game is now faster.

• Audio logs that were collected but not showing up in the Data tab will properly show up now.
  
  • This was affecting some people from getting 100%.
• Animations and audio work correctly for clients when someone else uses a dandelion tuft.
  
• Some buildings placed in very specific locations will no longer be unsupported upon loading the save.
  
• Fixed a problem where certain stacks of ladders could cause a saved game to never finish loading.
  
• Non-grid buildings attached to grid buildings will now appear and disappear correctly on clients.
  
• Bugs will interact with the world around them more often (Lady Bugs chasing Aphids, Aphids dropping Honeydew, etc.)

• You can steal from aphids while wearing sleek aphid slippers.
  
• "Read To Me" will now read building customization sliders correctly.
  
• Buildings cannot be placed inside stem pallets.
  
• Digging up Koi fish bones and scales as a client no longer has them float up quickly and teleport back.
  
• Weapon upgrade icons on the HotPouch no longer disappear after hitting something.
  
• Black Ants properly navigate from outside the Trash area back to their ant hill.

• The building distance axis will now be properly conveyed to clients in Playground Design Mode.
  
• Preplaced grid buildings placed in the air can no longer be induced to collapse in Play Mode, unless Building Damage is enabled.
  
• Non-building actors placed on slopes will no longer change rotation slightly when relocated.
  
• Placed objects with simulated physics now correctly simulate physics in play mode and not in edit mode.
  
• If an object is rescaled while being relocated, clients will now see the correct scale.
  
• Pre-existing scene objects will no longer disappear when loading the game after trashing them and then undoing the trash.
  
• In edit mode, destroying a building with other buildings attached to it will now reliably destroy the dependent buildings as well.
  
• The Toggle Grid Snap radial menu option now works even outside of placement mode.
  
• Slime Mold Grass will no longer become uninteractable after being relocated.
  
• Double-clicking a building supporting Place Many in the Playgrounds build menu will no longer immediately place a copy.
  
• Buildings placed on scaled buildings will no longer sometimes appear at the wrong height.
  
• Mushrooms will no longer lose their stems when relocated.
  
• Undo operations cannot be redone if another player makes conflicting changes to the same actors.
  
• The Lab Control Panel now faces the correct way when placed on walls.
  
• Dandelion D can now be placed and trashed in Playgrounds.
  
• Cacti can now be copied and relocated.
  
• Dice can now be copied and relocated.
  
• Mushroom Curved Doors will no longer rotate and break after cancelling connection from them.
  
• ASL Terminal and Resource Surveyor screens will appear correctly after undoing destruction.
  
• ASL Terminal and Resource Surveyor will actually reappear when destruction is undone.
  
• Players can no longer become stuck on the Frankenline when transitioning between Play and Design mode.
  
• Strange Spore is easier to place.
  
• Table B can now be stacked.

The ultimate Grounded experience is now bulging with content that's sure to get you pumped! Fully Yoked update contains new ant queens, new game + mode, and an array of exciting new gear. Are you ready to get Fully Yoked? Grounded: Fully Yoked is available 8am PT / 11am ET tomorrow, April 16, 2024.

Hey, Grounded friends! We're absolutely buzzing to introduce the upcoming "Fully Yoked" 1.4 update – the ultimate Grounded experience bulging with new content that's sure to get you pumped!

First up, let's talk ants. Each of the three ant colonies in Grounded now has a royal leader you can meet, the Ant Queen, who can be found deep within their respective hills. You will face a crucial decision with each queen: to befriend or betray her with a delectable offering. The path you choose determines not only the unique rewards you'll receive but will also shape how the entire colony reacts to you. But tread carefully – some decisions have ripple effects that might not be immediately obvious...

Ready for a backyard makeover, Grounded style? The New Game+ mode brings a thrilling twist to every corner of your backyard, heightening your gaming experience with unique challenges. Each playthrough morphs the backyard in astonishing ways, introducing a multitude of new system enhancements. Accessing this mode isn't a walk in the yard – you'll need to conquer the Broodmother, Mantis, Wasp Queen, and emerge victorious in the Javamatic fight. After defeating those bosses, players can choose to leap into an alternate dimension courtesy of Wendell's new creation, the REMIX.R. Expect different creature spawns, tougher bosses, and a host of eerie anomalies and hidden secrets in these otherworldly dimensions.

In a remixed yard, be prepared to face creatures infused with the essence of Raw Science. These beasts aren't just tougher – they're quicker, stronger, and have unique abilities that elevate the challenge. But fear not! Defeating these infused creatures rewards you with special trinkets, also infused with Raw Science. These trinkets come with random, unique properties, offering a myriad of ways to enhance your character. Keep an eye out for Ominent Badges and new BURG.L Chip Trinkets as they too will have randomized properties to give you more options on how to build your character.
To get more powerful, you will need to purchase the Yoking Station from the ASL (Advanced System Library) in remixed yards. Here, you can level up your weapons to previously unimaginable strengths. Be prepared to scour these new realms for unique materials required for these upgrades.
Don't forget to keep collecting molars, now hidden in randomized spots in remixed yards. Staying as mighty as the backyard's inhabitants demands constant strength upgrades, and these molars are key.

• Hosts can now load a save while in the middle of a multiplayer session and all connected players will seamlessly transition into the new game world.
  
• Full Japanese Voice Overs: Immerse yourself completely with full Japanese voice-overs, covering everything from the teen characters to BURG.L, cutscenes, and audio logs. Simply enable this feature from the Game Options menu.
  
• The 1.4 update adds four new achievements, one new mutation, twelve Ant Queen-related buildings, new baby ant pets, and so much more we can’t list here!
  
• Cross play will be supported across Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch and PC.

Mark your calendars, because on April 16th, the “Fully Yoked” 1.4 update goes live across all platforms with help from our amazing partners, Double Eleven, offering a whole new dimension of backyard adventure for our 20 million and growing player community. This release is not just another update; it's the last planned content update for Grounded, poised to make your gaming experience more thrilling than ever. Gear up for a backyard adventure that's truly yoked!

Excited yet? Want Grounded on another console or looking to get your friends to join you in the backyard? Then great news for you! Digital preorders are available PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch for an April 16th release.

Not only that, if you're a fan of physical editions then don't miss out on securing your copy for Xbox One, Xbox Series X, PlayStation 5, and Nintendo Switch through Limited Run Games, who have been incredible partners in this journey. And for you collectors out there, take a look at the Collector's Edition of Grounded, available for preorder today!

See you in the backyard!