Grounded Update 1.2.0 Patch Notes Detail Significant New Features

Grounded has received a Super update 1.2.0 today, April 25, 2023, and we have compiled its complete patch notes here. Today’s update adds handy features, creatures, and other major improvements. Let us check out the update 1.2.0 patch notes for Grounded without further ado.

Grounded Update 1.2.0 Patch Notes

New Features

Grounded update 1.2.0 adds significant features to the game as Super Duper is introduced in the Oak Lab.

Wasps Swarm the Yard

• Players can battle with wasps and drones that guard their mini hives across the upper yard.

Super Duper (Item Duplication Machine)

• The Super Duper is a new piece of equipment installed in the Oak Lab that duplicates gear and items using Raw Science.
• Find Duper Discs in the yard labs, which upgrade the Super Duper to clone even more items. The first disc unlocks the operation of the Super Duper, while the other discs unlock duping of higher-tier equipment and items.
• Any equipment that is duped will include all the item’s Smithing upgrades.
• Higher-tier equipment costs more Raw Science to dupe.
• It can even duplicate trinkets, unique items, and upgrade stones!
• Example: Duplicate upgraded equipment set for your friends if they join your party mid-way through your adventure!

Chillax at your Base in Patch Notes

• Buildings now exude cozy vibes when you are nearby. If you are around enough cozy buildings, your level of coziness will rise.
• For each new level of coziness you reach, you can unlock new things:
  • New decorative building recipes
  • A mutation useful for base building
  • New emotes to expand your body language.
• Being in a cozy location will also give you status effects that decrease your hunger and thirst drain and slowly heal you.
• Multiple buildings of the same type don’t give you the same level of coziness. 
• There are five levels of coziness. Your coziness level will show on your HUD if it is at least 1.
• Some existing decorative buildings are now unlocked via the coziness system instead of by analyzing a material (such as the Grandfather Clock).

Handy Gnat 

• As Handy Gnat, you can fly around to build and customize bases to your heart’s content.
• You must have the “Handy Gnat Unlocked” custom game option toggled on to use Handy Gnat. You must first convert your game to a Custom Game in the Game Settings menu to enable this feature.
• Once enabled, Handy Gnat can be activated in the Crafting menu or the Construction radial.
• Handy Gnat can build from storage near your teen and even haul Grass Planks and Weed Stems.

Additional Custom Game Options: Grounded Update 1.2.0

• All Mutations Unlocked
  • Start with all Mutations unlocked and available.
• Fully Yoked
  • Start with all Milk Molar infusions fully maxed out.
• Handy Gnat Enabled
  • Allows you to activate the Handy Gnat build helper.
• “All Recipes Unlocked and Free” has been split into two options.: All Recipes Unlocked, and All Recipes Free.

Loot Luck

Increases the chance of obtaining rare drops and receiving more loot in general! Loot luck comes in 2 forms:

• Generic Loot Luck
  • Increases drop rate for all items on all creatures.
• Targeted Loot Luck
  • Greatly increases the drop rate for all items from a specific creature type (for example, “Loot Luck: Black Widow” will increase the drop rate specifically for black widows).

Turret Improvements

• The Pebble Turret and Pollen Turret have been converted into a single Turret called “Acorn Turret” that can load different ammo types like a bow.
• In the Turret, you can press ‘R’ or Right Bumper to swap ammo types on the fly. The new ammo types you can craft are:
• Rocky Rounds
  • • Pebblet rounds are made smooth with bug acid. Pack a punch and push targets back.
• Ground Rounds
  • • Sticky turret rounds don’t damage much but can easily ground flying insects.
• Pointy Rounds
  • • Sharp and simple. Very small cooldown between shots.
• Sappy Rounds
  • • Gooey rounds are perfect for slowing down enemy crawlers.
• Burny Rounds
  • • Hot little suckers that can set the ground around them ablaze.
• Splody Rounds
  • • They explode. Nuff said.
• The Pollen Turret recipe and Pollen Turret Science Store entry have been removed.
• If you previously purchased the Pollen Turret or Pebblet Turret, you can access the new “Acorn Turret” building recipe.
• The franchise will refund 4,000 Raw Science if you previously purchased both Turrets.
• Turret aiming angles have been increased so you can aim higher and lower.
• You can now see the health of the Turret while inside it.

Yoked Gardening

Muscle Sprouts can be grown in the Garden Patch now.

New Achievements: Ground Patch Notes

Three new achievements were added related to the new features and content.

Photo Mode Improvements

• Added Depth of Field slider.
• 5 new poses were added.

Steam Deck Support

Grounded has been updated to include official Steam Deck support. Fixed issues and improvements in the Grounded patch notes include: 

• The game now boots past the initial loading screen.
• The Xbox log-in window properly displays.
• Tuned the default graphics settings for Steam Deck to provide an enjoyable experience. It also includes some Steam Deck-specific optimizations.
• Steam Deck virtual keyboard pops up when selecting any input text field in the game (entering a multiplayer game password, naming your trail marker/storage, pet, etc.)
• Control prompts no longer flip-flop between displaying gamepad and mouse/keyboard controls when using the touchpad or gyro.
• Note: The Steam store page will not reflect this official support until the 1.2 Public Test period is complete.

Quality of Life Features: Grounded Update 1.2.0 Patch Notes

View Enemy Status Effects

• Status Effects applied to creatures now appear beneath the enemy health bar while you are attacking them.

Building: Hold to Place Many

• You can press and hold the build action and move your cursor to place many structural buildings simultaneously.
•  You can also bind the “Place Many” control (default unbound) to start Place Many with one button press instead of using the “Hold Build” action to activate.

Relocate Walls / Floors / Roofs / Foundations

• You can now relocate walls, floors, roofs, and other structural buildings as long they are not the sole supporter of another building.

Mutations

• You can now configure 4 Mutation load-outs and quickly swap between them using the new Mutation LoadoutsLoadouts radial.
• The default binding to open the new radial is the Right D-Pad on the controller or T on the keyboard.
  • The emote and chat radial have been combined into a single radial to make room on the controller.
• There are 5 new mutations to unlock.
• Active Mutation status effects are displayed next to the UI’s other status effect icons. 

Arrow Auto-Pickup Improvements

• Arrows will now auto-pickup only for the player who shot the arrows. This is to prevent players from accidentally picking up their friends’ arrows.
• Arrow markers will only display for the player who shot the arrows.

Shared World Backup Saves

• Shared Worlds now create local backup saves on the last host’s machine anytime a save is made.
• These saves are not stored in the cloud as the primary Shared World save; thus, only the host that made them can access them.
• Backup saves can only be loaded if you were the last host for the Shared World when the backup save was made.
• This prevents multiple players from loading very old backup saves that stomp over the current playthrough progress.
• Practical use case example: Your base is destroyed, and the current host wants to load a backup auto-save from 15 minutes prior when the base is still standing.

New Content: Grounded Patch Notes

The Super Duper 1.2 Update is available! This massive update brings many quality-of-life changes, more than 100 new items to craft, a Base Coziness feature, and wasps, a new terrifying creature to fight! Check it out!https://t.co/sgoaohawzi

— Grounded (@GroundedTheGame) April 25, 2023

There are new equipment, new buildings, and decor.

New Equipment / Items

• Wasp Morion
• Wasp Breastplate
• Wasp Greaves
• Bard’s Tudor
• Bard’s Bow
• Wasp Queen Trinket
• 6 secret trinkets
• Pollen Arrows
• More smoothies and meals

New Buildings

Over 90 new buildings have been added for your base building needs!

 Utility: Grounded Update 1.2.0 Patch Notes

• Large Storage Chest
  • Holds 60 items.
• Large Plank Pallet
  • Holds 60 Grass Planks.
• Large Stem Pallet
  • Holds 60 Weed Stems.
• Hot Tub
  • Seats up to four tiny teens, who gain the “Hot Springs” status effect upon soaking in it.

Decor

• Bunk Bed
• Petal Bed
• Pupa Leather Couch
• Trash Can
• Ant Candle
• Spider Candle
• Acorn Shelf
• Koi Scale Shelf
• Pinecone Shelf
• Toenail Chandelier
• Fireplace Hearth
• Fireplace Chimney
• Fireplace Half Chimney
• Fireplace Chimney Clover Roof
• Fireplace Chimney Crow Roof
• Fireplace Vent
• Picture Frame
• Pinecone Table
• Pinecone Armoire
• Short Pinecone Dresser
• Tall Pinecone Dresser
• Vase D
• Vase E
• Vase F
• Weevil Statue
• Aphid Statue
• Koi Statue
• Yoked Girth Statue
• Moldorc Statue
• [REDACTED] Statue
• [REDACTED] Statue
• Standing [REDACTED] Brazier
• Sitting [REDACTED] Brazier

Base Structures

• Clay
• Half Clay Foundation
• Curved Clay Foundation
• Pebbles
• Half Pebblet Foundation
• Curved Pebblet Foundation

Clover

• Clover Peaked Roof
• Clover Peaked Dome Roof
• Clover Valley
• Clover Awning
• Clover Awning B
• Clover Awning Corner
• Clover Awning Diagonal
• Clover Awning Diagonal B

Crow Feather

• Crow Feather Valley
• Large Crow Feather Peaked Roof
• Crow Awning
• Crow Awning B
• Crow Awning Corner
• Grass
• Grass Outer Curved Floor
• Corner Grass Stairs
• Interior Corner Grass Stairs
• Corner Grass Half Stairs
• Interior Corner Grass Half Stairs
• Grass Valley
• Weed Stem
• Stem Outer Curved Floor
• Log Valley
• Acorn
  • Acorn Stairs
  • Acorn Half Stairs
  • Corner Acorn Stairs
  • Interior Corner Acorn Stairs
  • Corner Acorn Half Stairs
  • Interior Corner Acorn Half Stairs
• Mushroom
  • Mushroom Stairs B
  • Corner Mushroom Stairs
  • Interior Corner Mushroom Stairs
  • Mushroom Valley
• Pinecone
  • Pinecone Roof
  • Pinecone Roof Corner
  • Pinecone Roof Squared Corner
  • Pinecone Roof Interior Corner
  • Pinecone Flat Roof
  • Pinecone Flat Triangle Roof
  • Pinecone Peaked Roof
  • Pinecone Peaked Dome
  • Pinecone Valley
• Ash
  • Ash Valley
• Other
  • Bur Outer Curved Floor
  • Buoyant Foundation Ramp

Wall Mounts

• Infected Wolf Spider
• Infected Gnat
• Grub
• Wasp
• Wasp Queen

Stuffed

• Infected Wolf Spider
• Infected Gnat
• Grub
• Wasp
• Wasp Queen

Other Changes / Tuning

Audio

• Updated pickup and equipment sounds for weapons, armour, and items.
• Many more objects will now play the proper material impact sounds when hit.

BURG.L Quests

• Raw Science reward values granted from Kill quests have been simplified and generally grant more science:
  • Passive Creatures = 50 per kill
  • Tier 1 Creatures = 100
  • Tier 2 Creatures= 200
  • Tier 3 Creatures= 300

Conversations

BURG.L now plays talking animations during conversations. 

Milk Molar Upgrades: Grounded Update 1.2.0 Patch Notes

• There’s now a sixth level of the “Health” upgrade.
• Health has been rescaled.
  • Previously: 30 → 50 → 65 → 75 → 80
  • Now: 30 → 55 → 75 → 90 → 100 → 105
• Stamina has been rescaled.
  • Previously: 20 → 35 → 45 → 50 → 55
  • Now: 25 → 45 → 60 → 70 → 75
• Hunger and Thirst rates have been rescaled.
  • Previously: 80% → 70% → 60% → 55% → 50%
  • Now: 80% → 65% → 55% → 50% → 45%
• Like all other upgrades, the healing upgrade has been rescaled to have diminishing returns.
  • Previously: 15% → 30% → 45% → 60% → 75%
  • Now: 20% → 35% → 45% → 50% → 55%

Combat

• Creatures now have a stagger cooldown to prevent them from being stun-locked, ranging from 1 to 20 seconds, depending on the tier/creature.
• Perfect Blocks now deal significantly more stun damage to flying creatures.
• Mosquitos now have an extended hitbox to make them easier to hit with melee weapons.
• Increased stamina to swing club-type weapons.
• Base unarmed damage is reduced because it ignores resistance.

Bosses

• The Broodmother has been updated to provide a slightly harder challenge.
• You can no longer hurt the Broodmother as she slowly descends from the ceiling.
• No longer receives specific damage-type resistances as her phases change.
• Now applies various debuffs on her attacks.
• Idle time spent between attacks has been reduced.
• Health has slightly increased.
• Broodmother no longer attempts to leap to specific egg sacs after a phase change.
• Added a new “backwards dodge” attack to the Broodmother.

Mutations

• Lil Fist:
  • Bonus damage stacks are now clear when you take damage.
  • Mastery bonus proc chance reduced.
• Trapper PEEP.R’s final tier now requires 60 gold cards instead of 59 to even out the tiers (20 → 40 → 60).
• There’s an increase in the Meat Shield bonus health.
• There’s an increase in the Buff Lungs’ bonus stamina value.
• Cardio Fan stamina regen buff increased at all tiers.
• [REDACTED] Stranger:
  • Proc chance doubled.
  • Damage of [REDACTED] summons increased.
• Shocking Dismissal proc chance increased.
• Grass Master bonus damage increased.
• Rock Cracker bonus damage increased.

UI Changes: Grounded Update 1.2.0 Patch Notes

• Players can now toggle Survival tutorial quests in the options menu.
• You can now sort Recipe lists in recipe buildings by tier.
• There are modifications on some of the buttons on the UI to look more like buttons when using the keyboard.
• There are additional clarifications on the weak points of the creature cards.
• Weapons that maintain their original damage type after upgrading down an elemental path should now communicate more clearly
• For example, an axe upgrading down the “spicy” path should now communicate that it’s spicy + chopping

World

• The treasure chest in the Black Anthill storage room now always gives 2 crow feathers instead of randomly giving 0 to 5.
• The Stump Lab has additionally been improved to have less frustrating platforming.
• Added a quest objective and map marker for finding the Hedge Ascent for the Hedge Lab quest.
• Wolf Spiders will not wake up alone for the first 3 nights of starting a new game.
• Large Feather nodes can now drop up to 10 feather resources, up from 7.
• Small Feather nodes can now drop up to 3 feather resources, up from 1.

Pets

• Pets will jump to their homes or masters when the party rests.
• Active pets will magically appear near the player if they are far away.

Optimization

• Notably reduced the amount of network traffic between hosts and clients when playing Multiplayer.
• Improved framerate on extended playthroughs with larger bases.
• Creature pathing will not fragment memory so much, which should help prevent out-of-memory crashes.
• Improved CPU performance of base built on top of buoyant foundations.
• Improved CPU performance when items are floating in water (example: Lint in the Undershed water).
• Other general CPU performance improvements.

Buildings

• The “Copy” action is now mapped to R3 for Gamepad. It was previously unmapped.
• Sitting in chairs slows your hunger and thirst drain.
• Roof Interior Corners are now placed by flipping Roof Corners (default ‘G’ or Y button).
• Several types of buildings will now conform better to the ground during placement.
• The player can hold the Drop button to drop all hauled items into storage buildings.
• Minor performance improvements on saves with large numbers of static freeform buildings, such as partitions, stuffed creatures, and vases.
• The Grinder will now work with nearby palette storage.
• Asymmetric Ash buildings now have a flip option.
• Aligning buildings with the terrain will be smoother, particularly close to the player.
• Ceiling-mounted buildings can now be optionally grid-snapped.

Armour and Weapons Patch Notes

• The repair hammer now repairs buildings when thrown.
• Crossbows now grant the “Rough Reload” effect.
  • Block canceling is enabled after firing a shot.
  • Damage is significantly reduced on the next shot if fired faster than the normal reload duration.
• Spears:
  • Rusty Spear base damage reduced.
  • Thrown base damage decreased across all spears.
  • Melee range increased across all spears.
• Ant Club base damage reduced.
• Bonus poison damage granted by spider armor sleek effect reduced.
• Super Gas Arrow damage reduced (normal gas arrows unchanged).
• Sleek Ladybug armor’s extra healing effect is slightly reduced.
• Toenail Sword base damage increased.
• Fire Ant Club charged attack damage increased.
• Prod Smacker base damage increased.
• Salt Morning Star base damage increased.
• Sour Battle Axe stun damage increased.
• Pinch Whacker:
• Damage from AoE shock increased.
• Stun damage from AoE shock increased.
• Sour Arrows:
  • • Stun damage when used in crossbows increased.
    • Stun damage when used in bows increased.
• Mint Staff base damage increased.
• Sour Staff:
  • • Base damage increased.
    • Damage per pulse on charged projectile increased.
    • Stun damage from the direct hit of charged projectile increased.
• Mosquito Rapier:
  • • Base damage increased.
    • Charged attack damage increased.
• Tiger Mosquito Rapier:
  • • Base damage increased.
    • Charged attack damage increased.
• Spiky Sprig attacks now apply a small bleed DoT.
• All poison DoTs provided by weapons and armor now have the same tick rate.
• Increased Poison Nova’s damage per tick to compensate for the new slower tick rate.
• Increased [REDACTED] Club’s bonus venom damage from [REDACTED] perk effect to compensate for the new slower tick rate.

Items

• Roasted meats now heal the same amount as base smoothies instead of that of beefy smoothies.
• Unarmed bonus attack triggered from the power droplet base damage reduced.

Crafting

Reduced crafting costs for most meals.

Bug Fixes: Grounded Update 1.2.0 Patch Notes

Crash Fixes

• The game will no longer crash when dropping certain items directly from a chest.
• Fixed a rare crash linked to Building Integrity.

Major Fixes

• Subsequently, the player will no longer clip into objects at the end of a zipline trip.
• Clients no longer always see the flames of the Oak Lab explosion when joining a game after BURG.L has been rescued.
• Mantis fight no longer lags when the Mantis attacks.
• Using Photo Mode for long periods while hosting a Shared World will no longer make it appear as if it is not being hosted anymore.

Other Fixes

• The player’sPlayer’s head will appropriately render when interacting with beds or in conversation.
• Boss music will correctly play after retriggering a boss fight after loading a save game.
• The player cannot sit in chairs when the seat is obstructed by something.
• The player can no longer place overlapping grid-snapped buildings by looking straight up.
• Wolf spiders will not wake up until the third night (second fix).
• Sunken Bones no longer jump around when digging them up on clients.
• The Garden will now ask the player for confirmation when they cancel production using the hotkey.
• Triangle Ash Walls can no longer be walked on.
• Acorn Shells dropped from wall-mounted heads will no longer clip into walls.
• Items on ziplines will no longer clip through objects.
• Fixed collision on the car tire rim, however, letting the player drop through small holes properly.
• ORC Disruptors will drop ingredients when destroyed by the player.

More Fixes

• ORC Disruptors will now play audio correctly on clients.
• Gnats will no longer continue playing animations while dead.
• PEEP.R’???’ UI element no longer can get stuck on screen when a creature walks out of PEEP.R view.
• Highlighted keywords in item descriptions no longer have large spaces around them when playing the game in aspect ratios smaller than 16×9.
• Grubs now have a hit reaction animation.
• After loading a save, the player’s weapons will no longer show while zipping.
• The player will no longer become oddly stretched when loading a save while on a zipline with a shield.
• Copying unflipped buildings will set the building being placed to unflip.
• Deposit All can no longer overfill plank and stem pallets.
• Half Stairs can now be placed directly against walls.
• “Take All” will work correctly on Sap Catchers after loading a save.
• Guard Dog, mutation, and turret damage bonuses now work on wave versions of Lawn Mites, Antlions, Larva, Orb Weavers, Orb Weaver Jrs, Ticks, Tiger Mosquitos, and Fire Ant Soldiers.
• The player’s facing direction on the map now faces the correct way when ascending zip lines.
• Player nameplates will fade out in the correct locations on aspect ratios other than 16:9.
• Curved walls can now have curved floors placed more reliably in the middle of the wall’s inner side.
• Players can no longer place against and clip Foundation Ramps through walls.
• Items will no longer become stuck on the hotbar when consuming the last item while entering zipline placement mode.
• The player can no longer relocate walls with wall-mounted buildings attached to them.
• Camera monitor feeds no longer show labs with missing art.
• Certain destroyed buildings, such as diagonal walls and straight roofs, will no longer leave floating buildings they previously supported.

Grounded Update 1.2.0 Patch Notes:More Minor Fixes

• Creatures will no longer sometimes delete improperly on load.
• The error causing freeform buildings to snap to grid buildings after destroying supporting buildings is no more.
• [Redacted] will not hum less.
• Water Containers will display the correct levels after loading a save.
• L lure and gas arrows will now have the correct textures when loading in bows.
• Adjusted the position of a few pre-placed ziplines to make them easier to reach when going up them using the ZIP.R upgrade.
• Diagonal walls will now appear at the correct rotation when changing their material.
• Filtering lists like the Recipe list is now correctly case-insensitive in non-English languages.
• Clubs no longer lose their generic damage type when upgraded down elemental paths.
• Power Droplet no longer triggers the Quickdraw effect.
• Infected Wolf Spiders no longer sometimes die while jumping.
• Dead aphids will no longer become stuck in mid-air when falling onto a choppable plant.
• Players with the ZIP.R upgrade will now consistently start zipping in the direction they are facing.
• Pet inventories will, however, no longer appear perpetually empty for clients.
• Hanging Stuffed creatures will no longer be hung at unusual angles on sloped ceilings.
• Repairing saves that had the “Missing Scientist” quest complete but did not have the last Cocktail recipe unlocked.

Grounded is available on Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and Microsoft Windows.