How To Get the Dew Collector in Grounded

You might have shrunk in Grounded, but that doesn’t mean your needs have also shrunk. If anything, fighting off spiders, mosquitoes, and stinkbugs while building fancy veggie homes increases your need for hydration. Luckily, you can get resourceful with water thanks to the Dew Collector in Grounded. It sort of automates your water collection. Hence, I’ll be walking you through how to get the Dew Collector to stay hydrated.

Unlocking the Dew Collector in Grounded

Before you can craft it, you need to unlock the Dew Collector via a Field Station or a Lab. For that, you are going to need a Silk Rope. You’ll have to submit a Silk Rope for analysis at a Field Station to unlock the recipe for the Dew Collector.

As for where to get a Silk Rope, that’s the hard part. Here’s a step-by-step process though I want to remind you that it’s a deadly activity.

1. Build a Spinning Wheel, it requires the following basic ingredients:
   • 2x Acorn Top (plenty near the Oak Tree)
   • 4x Clay (plenty around the Koi Pond banks)
   • 4x Red Ant Part (kill Red Ants, of course)
   • 3x Sap (just about any tree has these)
   • 4x Crude Rope (Plant Fiber, crafted by hand)
2. Next, prepare a weapon, preferably a spear. You need to kill spiders.
3. Look for spider nests (there’s one at the base of the Oak Tree) and kill Spiderlings as they’re easier targets compared to the adult spiders.
4. Collect Web Fiber from the dead spiders and bring it back to the Spinning Wheel to make a Silk Rope.
5. Bring the Silk Rope to a Field Station for analysis.
6. Also, you might want to craft at least 5x Silk Rope for the Dew Collector.

Sometimes you might get lucky since certain spider nests and homes have Web Sacs or Spider Webs that you can loot for Web Fiber. So if you’re not confident in killing spiders, just try raiding their nests.

Building the Dew Collector in Grounded

Hopefully, you heeded my advice to craft additional Silk Ropes, because here’s the recipe for the Dew Collector:

• 5x Crude Rope
• 8x Pebblet (they’re almost everywhere)
• 5x Silk Rope
• 6x Weed Stem (chop down Dandelions, Husky Weeds, or Bur Weeds)

Once you have the components ready, it’s time to build the Dew Collector. It takes around eight hours (or 16 minutes in real life) for the Dew Collector to produce one Dew Drop which you can drink.

Moreover, make sure to collect the Dew Drops as the Dew Collector can only hold four of them at a time. You’ll want this structure outside your bases for maximum hydration.

Grounded is available on PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X|S.