Grounded (PC) - Honey I Shrunk the Survival Crafting Genre

what's up guys and gals and welcome back to the nerd castle today in the world of indie games all right i lied to you this is not an indie game uh but we're playing grounded which is a new survival game where everybody's been shrunk honey i shrunk the kids style and you got to survive ants and birds and spiders and all that kind of fun stuff in order to figure out what has gone on the game is currently in early access so you can check it out on steam if and you want to well let's dive on in we'll check out like the first 30 minutes see if it's something that tickles your jimmy or if it's something that you'd rather pass on we gotta pick our character out here we can go with max we can go with willow we can go with pete and we can go with hoops apparently i'm gonna go with max max seems like the kid from my neighborhood we'll go for it uh what does this do that's the difficulty right there okay sounds good all right so here we are what oh that's kind of cool there's like a little there's like a little i don't even know what that like that little styrofoam case that we were inside apparently was hydrating all of us too or something can't be this must be one of those those prank tv shows an extremely elaborate realistic prank show i think the guy that does the voice acting for this character i think he's the squire from galavant or magnitude from community i think hey buddy i'm just glad he's not big enough to switch me hey how you doing little pal i see a rock over here it was very very shiny i'm gonna start picking things up man i am a i am a i am a crafting game aficionado at this point on the interwebs all right starting to think this might not be a prank some plant fibers some pebblets though okay gonna need an agent a publicist a sports car nah man you don't want the sports car that sports car problems right there you want the luxury car you want to skip straight over the corvette and everything else you want to go straight for that maserati straight for that mercedes that's what i'm talking about right there there's a bunch of sap up here i guess i'll grab all that stuff track a signal to its source oh yeah there's a thingy over there let's go i also looted a whole bunch of these little mushrooms right here which i'm pretty sure i can eat i did a little bit of a test run before this so if it feels like i know what i'm doing well hey it's because i did a little test run beforehand splatty out here doing his homework so as not to waste the timeses and we've got can i make anything right now we can make a pebblet spear i say we do that yup pebblet spear there we go now i've got a spear shank i like it okay i dig it all right i'm good to go i mean i wouldn't dig with a spear that's a that's a inferior digging implement but you know if that's what you want to do with the spear you're more than welcome to do so we found a field station over here all right let's dive on in here this thing is going to allow us to research our objects so like what we can do is we can come on in here and if you interact with this machine right here someone had to set up all this sciency stuff here yeah you can analyze like the rocks and it'll tell you all the recipes that include rocks uh you can also research this right here it'll give you everything for like the grasses and then this thing recharges with time so you're gonna have to give it a minute and we can also look at sap right there which works out pretty good too in my opinion there we go analysis complete and it's given us a bunch of new recipes that we're going to be able to use now let's take a look and figure out if there's any a we can make a pebblet uh pebblet axe right there that'd be kind of cool let's make a yeah let's go with the axe first if we can oh i need sprigs okay and then i need woven fibers too let's do some woven fibers right here i'm going to turn like all of these into woven fibers because i've got a feeling there's going to be a lot of woven fibers in our future there's also some of these sprigs over here let me grab these big old beetle just wandering through he doesn't seem to care about how you doing just me doing beetle stuff out here you know how it goes don't always seem to go that you are a beetle with a big nose grab that right there all right or something it's coming right at me um i don't trust that much i don't think he's going to harm me hey i'm not so sure it seemed like maybe he was coming in for a strafing run i can't prove it but it seemed like a possibility what do we have here uh looks like we've got nat fuzz okay all right we grab some plant fibers couple of rocks apparently we can get pebbles from that thing over there and what does it want me to do right now do we need to do anything like special i don't see anything too crazy at the moment my little tutorial area in the top left isn't like jumping out at me right now so that's okay looks like that little red thing for a fight i mean we can go investigate i don't know what he's gonna do other than die i guess he's dead we got mite fuzz and we've got nap fuzz you might think that the two things are pretty much comparable to one another but no uh they are pretty much the the same thing well oh it wants me to find water yeah okay so i think the water is actually like rain droplets that are up on the bottom of some of these plants over here but you got to kind of like find it and then it's a bit of a jumping puzzle to actually make your way up there yeah it's a little aphid actually i i recognize those those like right there those little aphids when i was a kid the lady next door she was an old french lady and the lady next door she had like this hedge row next to her house i guess that would like divide her house from the house next to it and basically if you went there was like a little path that went through the middle of it just from kids in the neighborhood running behind it effectively they tread it all out myself included i'm not going to act like i wasn't a part of that erosion process but anyways if you went in there all the leaves and stuff they had like uh all kinds of random little aphids and things on it you see like thousands of ladybugs in there just eating them the ants would harvest off of them like the ants keep them as like pets because apparently like the aphids produce some kind of weird booty liquor and the ants like really really like it and so like i guess they just like i guess they just eat ass all day long they eat that aphid ass now let's see here we've got water up there if we can get to it's pretty high up though that might be a tad optimistic to get after that one that one's like up there yeah i don't see any real way that we're gonna get up there for right now i mean we might be able to cross over from right here we can have a look but yeah it's always kind of a bit of a a challenge to get the water there we go got the water right there that filled up our meter in the bottom left looking pretty good where am i oh i'm actually like right about where i was actually i went like a big circle okay um can i make the axe thing yet yeah make the axe we'll make a pebbled axe we've got a hammer right there yeah make that too can i make the torch i need dry grass chunks to make that i can make a bow as well oh i need a workbench though in order to make that okay oh no never mind i can make it oh i accidentally made it right there okay well i can't use the bow just yet we don't have any arrows so unfortunately that's not gonna be an amazingly helpful piece of equipment at the time being but maybe later maybe later on we got some of that food back in over there all right let me see what i can do with this food yeah just yep eat that thing there you go just throw it down your gullet it'll be okay lubricate it with the water that you just ate i don't know how dry or you know how difficult it's going to be to get down little tiny microscopic mushrooms honestly with where i live i wouldn't eat them because that almost like guarantees you some kind of deadly neurotoxin but at the same time might work for some people this looks like maybe the dry grass that we're going to need so i say we give it a go i don't want to hit the ants on accident i want to kill him oh yeah there's some dry grass chunks right there nice a mysterious machine looks like we can get down inside of it i don't know if i would want to joe just because we're so little and like some of the connectors might still be connected you know you don't want to electrocute yourself to death we also have a button over here hey there buddy oh yeah there's like little there's little lasers so we've gotta find whatever is weakening that laser right there okay and then we gotta unobstruct this laser well this one's easy we can fix that like right now that's like an easy project so like let's maybe yeah just take that out there you go perfect falls over just like bamboo nice so that should no longer be get out of here might get out of here get out of here ain't nobody got time for you all right so that's taken care of that laser is good we got to go check out that laser right there we do have some grass planks right here that we can bring back with us i would suggest we take these all back to the medical science center uh that way we have them available for when we need to use them let's see where was the science center there it is right there i think i see it that might be our little circular tent the eye focusing in this game takes some getting used to like things come into focus when they're like closer and like some games what'll happen is when you look at things like they'll go into focus like the tree right there and everything around it won't but this game it's kind of the focus seems to be whatever you're closest to all right so we'll unload these guys right here we should probably let's see we've got a workbench right there if we have grass planks sprigs could probably make that happen doesn't seem that difficult yeah we'll just put it right there and then we'll just like add what we have for right now we'll incrementally build it throw those on all right that's good to go uh what else did we need in order to finish this off we need just a sprig do there's got to be a sprig like right there yeah take it there we go perfect now we have a workbench so we can fiddle around with things i guess i don't really want to mess with the ants because the ants are like my friends they're like my little homies i don't want to murder them or anything but like what if they have sweet ass loot on them um might be worth considering let me get some more woven fibers going real fast and then i also wanted to make a torch because darkness in this game actually is dark so keep that in mind you're gonna you're gonna you're gonna need a torch if you want to adventure around underground otherwise you're gonna get yourself in trouble i'm gonna deactivate it for right now because why not let me rearrange my yeah let me rearrange my crafting situation here my weapons are always on four whenever i play a game like this so i'm gonna put it back over there my hammer is right there for mining all right shadow there we go uh let's follow this on over to the laser and see if we can get it resolved all right well laser's still up there i'm gonna try to pick up little resources while i'm in the neighborhood if we could find some more water i wouldn't be against it too so you know scream at me if you see any water just holler at me now you can't do that on youtube on twitch you can though i'll probably be streaming this game over the coming days if you want to check out the twitch stream twitch tv slash splatter cat gaming um i'm over there pretty much every day of the week just chilling oh there's little mites that are eating it okay let's whoop on these mites real fast there we go that might's dead that one is also dead yeah they're chewing on the copper wire right there all right uh what are they up to in the rest of this oh there's one right there too i'm gonna kill him there we go perfect another one bite out he got me there we go a little bit more might fuzz we might be able to do something with it what threat has been engaged what threat oh no those things look like little deer ticks or whatever like we have things like that where i live they kind of like bite you and they leave like a little welt on you there we go now we got this too although we are getting ourselves a really really good stockpile of buzz man like a huge amount of fuzz definitely stoked about that kill this little dude he's stuck in the ground right there early access i guess a couple more of these down in here give me your fuzz i harvest forth the fuzz of your body dude i got mite fuzz for days all right so we fixed the laser that's all good to go i don't know what these do but i do know that this quartzite right here we might be able to do something with this if we scientifically research it it seems like a smart idea to me so we'll bust up some of this quartzite right here there you go looks like there's a path back here so let's bust this off too yeah there we go get us in here let's rock it takes a hot minute actually to mine everything in this game i'll pick up the rest of that quartzite i don't think i'm gonna mine the rest i feel like we've got enough like like god only knows how much we need there's something in the ground right there and i don't know what it is that worries me what is that you discovered scab scheme mite rider okay it looks like the thing that we're wearing on our wrist on the left so i'm assuming like it's our little telecom device or whatever that would use to talk to other survivors or or maybe make contact with so i'm gonna grab these two just in case they're useful for something who knows minor attack i feel like i might be under attack but if i just bail out do i really have anything to worry about like we can just like lay out and get out of the cave and then i think we'll be all right right sure enough all right um water or some agua right there hey i didn't expect that to work i don't know what lemon crime is it's probably a delicious sounding soda i guess although lemon crime makes it sound like a bad thing when you really think about it like lemon so bad it's criminal you know what i mean like that kind of i don't know if the branding is on point for that soda they may want to revisit that and we have apparently activated whatever this device is right here so let's go see what happens if we like headbutt it or something i don't really know there was like that little platform down here it's definitely receiving power the little leds are on maybe i gotta stand in the middle of the platform i tried to get the aphid but he was too swift for me oh that thing's moving now [Music] oh no no no no no [Music] okay [Music] don't much like what just happened well you know let's kind of stay positive about this situation there's a few more sprigs and whatnot over here investigate the explosion at the oak tree all right i guess we can do that i mean i don't really is there anything that i can craft so i can make a canteen out of a grub i can make a fiber band-aid if i have that if i had grub hides i can get that too i haven't seen any grubs though like a grub is just a oh hey what's going on how you doing friendly little critter oh is it hunting the aphid oh i think it is man that's cool i like that that's realistic it looked like it went after that aphid that ran by its foot pretty sweet oh there's a cereal box over here or something oh no it's like a it's like a high c punch box okay it's a juice box i wonder if it's got any juice left inside of what is that oh maybe it's like a dribble of juice possibly yeah the tropicop puncho okay all right well we haven't seen grubs or anything yet but once we do it seems like there's going to be gear that we can craft there's the tree right there i do like how the points of interest are like very much prominent like it's easy to see them even through kind of what would be the tree line in this case i guess like navigation becomes really really simple just because like you have such a good view line despite the fact that you're walking through like jungle they really managed to hit that middle ground that was always one of the things uh as i was saying that was always one of the things with green health is that your view line is always so obstructed that it can be really really difficult to navigate and there's kind of like a middle ground in between like games that are too sparse and games that have like a very very oh no no no no no no no no no yeah you ain't wrong i don't know if we just gotta run past him i don't feel like i'm equipped for this like i don't feel like i'm i don't feel like i'm ready to fight a giant death spider a few ants over here along with an acorn weevil meat i guess i'll take it i don't know really sorry little buddy oh he ran for it there we go there we go there we go took a little bit of a scuffing right there but we killed our first aunt i really know what that noise is but the ladybugs seem pretty bummed out i don't know if that ant was like their personal homie and i murdered it but that sort of makes me feel like i might be the bad guy here i need sap and i need sap very badly wants me to want me to build a shelter all right i'll give that a go but first sap sap where you at i saw you you were sparkling in the sunshine there we go perfect uh you need a couple of sap in order to make like bandages and if you don't make that you get yourself into trouble oh hello hey perfect can we do anything with the acorn oh i assume the acorn bits are edible they gave us an acorn top over there yeah get the shell do they stack as long as they stack we're probably all right yeah dude i can probably make a hat or something out of those that might be kind of cool let's go back and use our research points i know we came all the way out to the tree but like let's go use our research points real fast because i think we're gonna have to like concoct some kind of storage or something to really make this all like super effective i also kind of want the acorn bits in all honesty there we go grab a couple bits of shell all right let's go back to our little let's go back to our little science hut little science hut i've returned yes i know you missed me little science hut i knew you missed me you don't gotta say nothing baby all right let's see if we got any more research we can do out here to kind of like advance ourselves in the game uh so we have sprigs we can do that i actually kind of want to check out the acorn shells and sort of see what we can do with those uh apparently we can get ac yeah dude that's what i was hoping for and the storage chest was in there we just got a big double whammy for the two things that i was looking for a i was looking for things to protect me and then also i was looking for things for sure oh yeah with the quartzite too let's check that out maybe we can make walls out of it so maybe it's like our stone a dew collector oh okay all right we got to wait for this thing to recharge for a little bit i would like if it had like a physical indicator on it somewhere like a little like lamp right here that like fills up to let you know how full the battery is do i need to make any of this an acorn face mask oh i need more woven fibers well luckily enough i am in a really really good position to make some woven fibers so here we go let's get rocked out real fast all right so we're looking good oh we can make an ant helmet too interesting all right well let's go for an acorn mask and some acorn leggings that sounds pretty good uh can i make knee guards or anything oh i got to kill a bunch of ants in order to make that work okay and if i wanted to make the arm guards or whatever so the ant like it looks like the ants give it oh cool the different sets give you different bonuses so the ants the ants make you stronger this gives you more hp and this makes your stamina more efficient very nice okay let's slap this stuff on real quick oh we get a glider that's kind of badass i didn't even think about that there's our lower body right there uh what about crafting storage chests we need more acorn shells and we need clover leaves okay ant mandibles for that one right there a water container for a dew collector we have the quartzite we need spider silk ooh that's the part that's gonna get nerve-wracking that's the part that's gonna get a little bit iffy and it's almost nighttime around here too who even knows what's gonna happen at nighttime like it could honestly be like anything and you know everything and spiders and stuff i think let's go get the clover oh our inventory's full okay well with our inventory full we're going to have to kind of make some decisions about what we want to lay around with let's start out maybe with the lean-to so there's the lean-to that's just clover and sprig so let's do it i'm gonna put it in like right there we'll throw the two sprigs in there and clover i'll tell you where the clover is at the clover's in my backyard that's where it's at trust me there's a dude with a backyard i'm gonna tell you where the clover's at it's in my backyard if you need some clover swing through my backyard all right make sure if you get shrunk you get shrunkenated in my backyard cause that is the place where the clovers kick it that's where they be at uh we cleared that out that's good i've been eating a lot of food lately so i'm not really gonna grab any more food if i can help it i don't see anything that looks like clover for right now but then again i've been known to miss things so it's always possible you just walk right past that looks like clover i don't know how many of these that i needed so i guess i'll just take a few more back with me i didn't like pay attention only needed three so that was an easy assembly now we can set our respawn point here and then now that our respawn is set can i sleep oh i gotta wait 30 minutes before i can sleep okay well i'll probably like catch up with you guys back in the morning then since we don't really have a whole lot of activities that are looking ready to be thrown down on all right so we slept sleeping appears to heavily drain your resources though just got to be careful about sleeping i guess if you want to skip the night it's going to cost you from what i see so far let's eat up some of this food that will clear out an inventory space because i think we had like 11 of these so there we go we can see if the juice box may be repopulated yo what does it feel like it's about to rain dude i feel like it's kind of like overcast right now at least a little bit and if we can get up there and get that that'd be pretty spicy but i don't really see a super solid way to get there it's kind of the trouble you run into i guess don't really want the dry grass we definitely need to figure out some kind of like rain catch or like some kind of water collector i think because like i think water is kind of the scary thing for right now that we're gonna be running out of i'm gonna see if the juice box had a little bit of a driplet going on i know that it had some drips around here i was using them all day yesterday yeah there it goes dude it looks like it spawns a little bit of the resource for you so let's get our juice on man hell yeah okay all right very very nice uh it looks like we maybe only get like one or two driplets a day possibly but that one was definitely a fresh spawn so if every morning we could swing on by and just kind of like refill our tank off of it wouldn't be against it and we got that right there very good all right so if we want to build more stuff we're gonna have to so like the big thing that we need for right now is not the dew collector it's the utility we need a storage chest so i need to go get a bunch of acorn shells acorn shells as you may have guessed are probably gonna be over here next to oh it's aphid honeydew is that what that is oh nice i thought that was sapling on the ground i wonder if we can capture aphids and put them in like a pen and then like feed them so they can produce those little things that would be a cool feature i'd be about that life that sort of thing would be very very stimulating for me uh let's not go spelunking for right now especially since we know that there's spiders and things around that may be less than happy to see us tastes good is that fresh dew is that what that was usually the stuff that lays on the ground is bad for you and you're not allowed to have it acorn bits though we're running out of mushrooms so i think acorn bits are probably a good acquisition let's break some of this up i need acorn shell very very badly uh where'd that one's shell go i don't know man that one's shell went somewhere but it's out of my view line there's another shell over here too they must be falling from on high there we go let me get that shell how many do i have do i have enough i have four so we do have enough all right let's go back so as i went past the juice box it respond again so it looks like the juice box is kind of just like this resource that continuously just kind of restores i guess maybe it's for the first couple days i don't really what is that hold on what is that like research points or something maybe i don't know it was weird i don't know what that was that i just picked up but it seemed to be some kind of resource i just want to get this chest built so that we have storage before we go much further let's go ahead and like i need a place where i can stow up my stuff keep it nice and safe i am slightly tempted to kill that ant but i feel bad because the ants are nice it makes me feel like a dick whenever i kill the ants like i don't feel like a good person when i kill ants because they're friendly to me and they don't hurt me all right so here we are let's craft it on up we got our storage chest that's all that we wanted that's what like i was toiling for in all honesty i don't know which side is the front probably this side right here with the little dingler on it i don't know sweet all right well we've got storage space now uh my name is splattercat thank you for hanging out and playing video games with me here today i appreciate it uh you guys take care check the game out down below it's an early access right now a very very unique and atmospheric kind of little game i think you guys are going to like it a lot i haven't been this excited about like a survival game probably since like subnautica because this has a really solid team behind it and so anyways check it out if you enjoyed this make sure you check out my stream and my discord i'll have both of those links for you down there thanks for hanging out for a little bit and i'll see you tomorrow with something hot and fresh off the indie skillet y'all

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Length: 29min 32sec (1772 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 29 2020