Hello all explorers of the backyard, both old and new, and welcome to another Early Access content update for Grounded: Patch 0.6, which will introduce flying creatures! Check out what's in store with Shyla in our developer vlog, or just head right in to the patch notes below it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a1vILf7yHE

New Creatures

Mosquitos

Fireflies

Bees!

New Crafting Content

• Bee Armor Set (Face Mask, Shoulder Pads, Shin Guards)
• Firefly Head Lamp
• Stinger Spear
• Mosquito Needle
• Weevil Shield
• New consumable: Healbasa
• Two new stuffed friends: Stuffed Bee and Stuffed Firefly

New Perks

• Barbarian Perk: Club damage increased

New Features

All platforms

• Equipped items no longer take up Backpack space.
• Equipped items will stay on the player after death. Each piece of equipment will take a small amount of durability damage after you die.

Changes / Tuning

Systems

Networking

• Container inventory contents are no longer replicated to clients until needed (an optimization)
• More reliable networking calls from clients to server
• Reduced the amount of network data sent between various systems.

Other

• BURG.L Chips now award science when returned regardless of whether the corresponding BURG.L quest is active.
• Mint Mallet has been renamed "Mint Mace"
• Rotten bee equipment can now be analyzed to unlock the un-rotten recipes.

Combat

• Bone weapons have slightly less durability.
• Most unblockable creature attacks are now blockable with shields (still unblockable with weapons)
• Pollen can now be thrown.
• Previously-equipped off-hand items that were displaced by a two-handed weapon are restored when re-equipping a one-handed weapon.
• The arrow you have nocked on your bow reflects the arrow ammo type you have selected.

Interface

• Point of interest notification has been altered to be more responsive and look better.
• Notifications now will display what's in the queue to improve feedback with this system.
• Save game screenshots now work with Logout saves.
• Rest / Set Respawn UI adjustments
• A "New Resource" queue will display on the HUD if you end up picking up new items faster than the HUD can handle displaying the notifications for them.
• Layout revision to the OS Config menu to make viewing status effect icon / details better
• Weapons and arrows that are embedded in creatures will not display their floating icon until the weapon / arrow becomes dislodged. This cleans up some icon spam when using a bow.
• Items dropped in the world that use the temp loot bag model (armors, etc.) will have their item icon displayed on top of them.

World

• Nectar now spawns on top of flowers instead of below them
• Creatures will fade out / fade in when approaching their despawn distance to prevent visual popping (currently only works on host).
• Bratburst visual effects better match the ingredients that were used to craft it.
• Added "Recover Backpacks" in the Game Preview debug menu to help recover backpacks that have gotten stuck.
• Busted Acorns can drop more shells.

Buildings

• Buildings will be invalid less often when placing them inside structures.
• Incomplete buildings are more visually apparent.
• Buoyant Markers can now be built in the lower pond.

Creatures

• Creature Perception: Player noise now has a linear falloff as opposed to all heard player noise having the same value regardless of distance.
• Increased hearing range of Wolf Spiders from 2500 to 5000 to account for the above change.

Bug Fixes - All Platforms

Top Community Issues

• Foundations will no longer be invalid when snapping to other foundations that stick out of the ground too much.
• Clients can now dump canteens
• Autosaves no longer cause performance hitching.
• Fixed issue with clients failing to spawn in games that have huge player bases built.
• Fixed issue where clients would sometimes lose all of their inventory and mutations and spawn back at the start location when rejoining a game

​​​​​​​Game

• Fixed crash with clients joining a saved game where their loot bag was collected by another player.
• Incomplete doors will no longer have collision after loading.
• The player can no longer eat or drink items while gliding or zipping.
• The player will now drop all hauled items when starting zipping.
• The player can no longer attack while gliding.
• Air bubbles will no longer spawn in large clumps when first approaching sources of them.
• Door frames now have collision applied to them.
• Fixed issue where "Craft and Equip" could cause a random inventory item to get equipped.
• Characters will no longer fall when loading a save in which they were ziplining (not retroactive)
• Dew drinking while hauling is disabled to prevent issues where dew disappears without giving you any hydration.
• Fixed crash with clients joining a saved game where their loot bag was collected by another player.
• Structures that were anchored to certain objects, such as the baseball or flagstones, will no longer be considered unsupported.
• Fixed issue where kicked players end up having their inventory lost in the save data (does not retroactively restore inventory for players that have been kicked prior to 0.6.0).
• Fixed issue with depositing items into a full container with a controller.
• Hauled items will correctly be dropped when knocked down in multiplayer.
• The dropped web will properly display on clients.
• Fixed issue with depositing items into a full container with a controller.

Items/Equipment/Resources

• Muscle Sprouts will now respawn
• Dirty droplets no longer act like clean ones when drinking them
• Buoyant Foundations can no longer be built underneath the water in some situations.
• Buoyant Marker can no longer be placed on land.
• Objects without physics will no longer cause the bounce pad to bounce.
• The previous weapon, for the Equip Previous hotkey, now persists across saves
• Shovel+ now has a proper faster animation.
• Fixed some interaction issues with FrankenLine.
• Soda droplets will more consistently respawn.
• Punch-O Juice drops properly despawn after 72 hours so new dew can drip out.
• Items floating on the water will now despawn when appropriate.
• Bratbursts now visually work correctly for clients.

World

• Gnats will get happy after boops more consistently.
• Aphids will now face the correct direction when descending grass blades.
• Clovers will now save and restore properly.
• Grubs can no longer be dug up by the Repair Tool or the Mint Mace.
• Fixed issue where sometimes sleeping creatures were displaying as awake on clients.
• Mites no longer sometimes animate like they are walking while not moving.

• ​​​​​​​UI

• The field of view will no longer sometimes oscillate when sprinting sideways.
• Fixed issue with the "low O2" black vignette not working on clients.
• Fixed the third person camera occasionally being tilted after respawning.
• No longer showing the "Health Bar" for creatures that cannot be killed (BURG.L, Koi Fish, etc.)
• Fixed issue with pixelated lighting artifacts showing up on weapons when held up to the sunlight.
• Fixed some rendering issues with player eyes around lights.

Audio

• Fixed submerged audio getting stuck on clients after death if they died underwater

Ominent Practical Technologies

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