Alynxkia

I would not mind it if Grounded implemented chest upgrade system where we use the O.R.C receivers to increase the range that our sca.b can pull supplies from. I honestly have no idea how Grounded lore might explain that we can pull stuff from chests. I’m just making stuff up now. Sticking with the same “in my head lore”, perhaps there is a Ranger station where we can upgrade our sca.b to have even more range.

The first thing we’d have to solve is what would be the most basic building and crafting resources besides the insects. We can give the house some potted plants and a greenhouse, but the majority of the map would not have grass, clover, sap, wood stems, stone, pine needles, mushroom, clay, dew, berries, etc. (Barring an abandoned house that’s being reclaimed by nature.) There could be a fair amount of wood furniture basically everywhere so you could easily find splinters. There could be a woodshop somewhere in the house to add additional wood resources but again that doesn’t put them all over the map. If we added in some small animal cages in other rooms though that could provide multiple locations for gathering wood shavings/saw dust. Honestly a hamster maze sounds like cool dungeon/lab. A fair number of rooms could have carpets and thus there could be carpet fuzz and/or lint. If the rug happens to be shaggy, it could end up feeling like exploring a short grass area. A craft room could provide some fabric/paper resources. Maybe some glue globs. Some tiny paper clips. A broken sauna could provide a foggy, moist environment that’s different from the rest of the house. If we can get into the walls, that means we do have access to insulation. There could be various types used in a single building so different parts of the map could have different insulation resources. We could still find nails and thus rust. We should still be able to find candy inside. Water could be found from dripping faucets and maybe leaking from sone pipes in the walls/floors. If there is a wood-burning stove stove of some sort, then we have a way of getting charcoal. Somehow hair ties end up everywhere in my house so I feel like that could be a random resource find. We also need a reason for the house to either not be inhabited or implement a stealth mechanic to avoid the full size humans living there. If the full size humans knew you were there, either they would be nice and help you thus defeating the need to do basically anything in the game or they would present a threat. If the house is inhabited though and you need to stay hidden, that limits where builds can happen. The easiest route to keep the gameplay most similar to the current Grounded gameplay is to have a reason the house is not inhabited. Though I have to admit, it would be interesting to try to infiltrate the house of someone high up in Ominent with the goal being to find some sort of technology or evidence. Though I wonder if they really wouldn’t think to defend against tiny invaders. Maybe it’s best to mix both and have the house in question be abandoned by a high-ranking Ominent employee and they did defend against tiny invaders and you have to deal with some surprises on your adventure.

Pet route: Some species of jumping spiders are quite small and would suit being a pet even when compared to your shrunken size. They are hunters so they could randomly supply the player with aphid/gnat/weevil meat. Perhaps petting the jumping spider could increase the odds of that occurring for a period of time. They’re also pretty good at fleeing so maybe they could act like an early warning system; if they are traveling with your character and you get within a certain range of one of the more dangerous enemies they abandon you to your potential doom and return when you have been out of imminent danger for a bit. Or if they are chilling at the base they bail if dangerous enemies come close and come home later. Mount Route: Jumping spiders can be larger than ants so they could be a fun mount. if they ever let mounts have passive abilities when you’re not using them, it could potentially still hunt for you. I would not want it to run away on me as a a mount though. I would appreciate it having superior jumping when just exploring the world and far less fall damage. I also think it should having superior dodging abilities in battle compared to other mounts.

I like your ideas regarding broadening the use of the tamed bugs. I would definitely enjoy them gathering things. Even if the majority of the time what they brought back were common items; if every once in a while they could bring something rare that would feel pretty sweet. I’d even be OK if certain bug types only ever picked up things that your character had dropped or started the harvest process of rather than hunting down enemies. If I decimated an entire section of grass and I had a couple tamed ants that I was not actively using as my mount; it would be pretty nice if those ants went and tried to gather some of that grass. The smaller bugs could pick up arrows or sap from the collectors. Being able to unleash your entire tamed army of bugs would completely change the feel of raids. It’s possible it could make raids a little too easy… or it could result in your bug army being decimated. It really depends on if the developers decide to adjust the scale of the raids to match the number of participants and/or how well you can juggle defending/rescuing your comrade bugs as the need arises. And if you have upgraded your mounts, they should do better in the fight thus giving you more payoff on investing in them.

In the beginning I recommend getting on top of one of the large leaf milkweed plants away from your base. By being up in the air, you only have to worry about one flying enemy typically. In the starting area, it’s usually a bee. If you head to the picnic area it will change to a butterfly. If you can take down the one flying enemy, then you can try picking off any ground enemies that spawn with a bow or just wait them out. One of my favorite spots is on a log fence in the picnic area post by a light pole. it works just like the milkweed plants except I find it far easier to not accidentally fall off. That said, I don’t disagree that it would be nice to have a feature that lets players adjust the difficulty and frequency of raids. I’m a very big fan of letting people play the way they like to play. I think it would be nice to have this be a feature players can adjust from within the game and not have to set it at the start of a new game. Initially players may not enjoy the raids but later on they might enjoy a challenge. The raids are a good source of science and resources.

I just want a pet that will collect the arrows that fall through the map for me. I lose my mind when I am right there The arrow icon is right there… and I cannot get arrow.

On a different thread there was conversation regarding weather patterns impacting the bugs that appear and the resources that are available and requiring different armor or even creating the need to take shelter. A flaw with that is it could be really annoying waiting for the right weather when you need a particular resource. I had proposed a weather machine. We already have a shrinking machine and mind control bugs. The ice cream cart creates a winter wonderland. Why not a full blown weather machine (that initially we cannot control) and thus we end up with various weather patterns and even season like changes. To address the RNG problem that would likely occur at some point and to just make the gameplay interesting, we could find various chips to help us program the weather machine so we could create the kind of weather we wanted, for at a small period of time, before the machine went back to its default programming.

I will second to the request for one-handed mage weapons. Some wands would be lovely. Less power but faster attacks. We could make various crystal shields to pair with the wands.

I’ve been wanting this since grounded 1.

Something that can go further horizontally than the dandelion would be nice. Perhaps upgradable so it can go even further.

I will second that motion. I’m also fine with there being a slider in the sound options as even just decreasing the buggy sounds by 50% would be nice. I’m pretty sure i would prefer mute but I’m sure some players enjoy their buggy making noises.

I like all the suggestions, particularly the stained glass as we can mess around with the lighting features near the windows.

I’m Interested but the speed on them is so slow except on edges (which might be a glitch they remove) and with orb weavers. I would want an additional feature where we can apply a spray to the webs we build to make them less sticky. An upgrade rather than a replacement like reinforcing in Subnautica or Raft. Honestly wouldn’t mind being able to reinforce/upgrade a lot of what we build.

You gave it a good perk while also keeping it from being OP. Then you added in some fun to it like dancing and fetch. I like the idea.

I had always assumed that scent was part of how the red ant armor in Grounded 1 or the red ant Buggy in Grounded 2 worked so I like your idea of being able to make termites (and maybe some other insects) docile via scent. I don’t know that we should be able to make the scent item before we have completed the associated lab/dungeon/hill/mound. (I’m leaning more towards whatever we use for scent being more like a smoothie that wears off than like a trinket.) The red ant buggy makes several of the ant hills we explore very easy. I’d like other areas to at least be a challenge the first time through. I’m OK with them becoming easier when you’re going back through just to farm items.