Alynxkia

On a similar note, I want an elevator so bad. Been dreaming of that since early access for the first game. We’d have to build the elevator shaft and that would be what increases/limits how high the elevator can go. It would need to have an old-school manual lever elevator to make it go up and down as there’s no telling how players would set up their floors/stops. I would want two sizes; a fairly small elevator that’s literally just meant to move your character up and down and then a large one meant to hold a couple pallets.

Can confirm, the pine door is not buggy friendly.

I’m not against the buggies needing additional care, but I’m not a fan of the grass idea as a default. The medium to large insects wandering around in game have the grass move around them due to their movements. It would honestly be a bit weird that our buggy didn’t have the grass move. If the developers wanna add in an option where grass doesn’t bend for buggies, I have no issues. I do like being able to choose additional challenges, especially when replaying and what you are proposing would definitely change the way the game feels which could make things interesting. Perhaps our mounts should need food and water. I feel like they should be able to slurp regular nasty water without ill effects though not the stuff in the toxic ant hill. And there are food sources as you’re wandering whether it be the human food that spawns, mushrooms or them being able to eat bugs we kill. For bases we should be able to have feed/water troughs. There are ways to add an additional needs without it being a major disruption to gameplay. I suspect this might be a feature that players will want the ability to shut off. It’s definitely gonna feel too “micromanagement” to some. On a different thread it was proposed that there be some consequences to constantly keeping our characters up for days on end. I certainly don’t wanna have to make my character sleep every night, but I’m not against having a debuff if I make them pull a three day bender. Continuing on that thought path, maybe our Buggies should need rest once in a while and that would give us a reason to swap them out.

I have nephew who is colorblind who would benefit from this as well as some items look very similar and being able to see grass vs dry grass from a distance rather than walking up to each blade (they look like the same color to him) would be handy. It would also help differentiate dried up leaves and milk pods on the stalk. While I don’t have trouble with that, I fully understand that some people do.

None of the dual wield weapons display correctly on the display mounts. The mitey claws seem to be the worst in my game as they just float in the air near the display mount. A lot of weapons seem slightly off in their positioning. It’s cosmetic so likely not a priority fix, but hopefully it will be addressed.

It would be nice for there to be some reason to use the dummies. In addition to weapon damage feedback, I wouldn’t mind if there was like a fourth tier to weapon mutations only allowable by interacting with the dummies with that particular weapon. There’s a part of me that feels like it should be a truly tedious amount of interactions, something most players would not attempt to do in one go and instead would just put in some training time when they’re back at base at night and eventually unlock.

I want to have a pouch for trinkets that is separate from regular inventory so that I can carry more of them around with me. I end up not using many of them as it’s not convenient to carry them around wasting my inventory space. It doesn’t have to hold all of them, but I would like at least five slots to hold spare trinkets. I actually wanted to go with small plushies being an option for the stuffed insects. While the big ones are neat, I also dislike how much space they take up. I basically want them all to be the size of the aphid. But I am fine with the skill tree idea where we use their corpses to traverse it… still kind of want the mini plushies as base decor but they don’t need to serve the same function as the skill tree.

I also find the map lacking. Somehow I find it worse than Grounded 1 which was literally just outlines. They almost went and put too much effort into trying to make it pretty rather than useful. I understand that it is designed to look like a brochure map. Bravo, it does look like that, but I have fancy high-tech arm gear and I want to be able to have a far more useful map in it. Preferably one that can zoom in further and has a couple layers so that explored cave systems can be displayed. I did get through the entire first game many, many, times without being able to see the caves systems, but they have gone for a much bigger world this time around and it would be nice to know when I have found something that I haven’t already explored as it’s not mapped yet. I would not like the tunnels displaying ahead of exploration though. I want to find things on my own. I suppose I can just start building something outside of cave entrances to show that I’ve already gone through them so it’s not really really world ending.

I’m gonna keep commenting and liking suggestions that involve paint or dyes because I really want them. I want something to do with all my surplus items I’ve collected and I really really enjoy building and would like to make more unique builds. But when it comes to ingredients, I want the developers to focus on items that players tend to gather way too much of during their gameplay and let those be something we can go to town with for paints/dyes.

While I am used to the radial menu as I’m a controller user, I fully support getting a building menu similar to Grounded 1. It was just far more convenient to see what your current options were in that menu type.

Yes, the buggy staying still after dismounting does solve the problem, but it does make it feel… less alive. Regardless I think “still” will be a perfect answer for a lot of players. It matches up with what horses doing a lot of games. It seems like a fair portion of players like that it has some autonomy of movement… they just wanted to be less like an attention starved cat.

I believe “y” might toggle them. There should also be an option in the HUD. If that doesn’t address your problem, then please know I have had them display so high in the sky that when I looked around me at ground level I could not see them. You might be experiencing that glitch.

Ditto. Same issue.

I like the idea, especially as this game is a lot darker than the first grounded so being out and about at night, definitely feels more treacherous. In order to keep the lean to/bed relevant maybe the dent wouldn’t fully restore health the way that lean to /bed would.. or it could act like a consumable. Just something so it’s not replacing the function of those items.

I wonder if this is the current default to handle if you entered the biome further in from the edge (from above) as the buggy would not be able to stay where the dismount was triggered. It could bolt for the nearest non-ice area but I don’t know that would be any better. If you are on the edge of the biome it would be convenient for the buggy to act like you are approaching a lab door.