“Show me a bigger base,” Dwn2Hang posted onGrounded’ssubreddit, attaching a clip that opens with them looking over a giant castle-like city. It’s enormous, or at least, relatively enormous. To a regular-sized human, it probably looks like an expensive medieval dollhouse, but when you’re shrunk to a size smaller than an ant, it’s incredibly impressive and, importantly, effective.
“I’ve only been attacked by mosquitos twice here,” Dwn2Hang commented. “Almost always larva, or red ants. And they go for the same outer wall every time. Raids are honestly easy to handle here. Not being dramatic. Equip a repair tool when being attacked and you can see where they’re coming from too.”
There are a ton of rooms, each with its own practical purpose, that Dwn2Hang shows off acrosss eight clips. To name a few:
Luckily, their base hasn’t been raided by wasps (the location is mostly safe, though there is the chance of infected ladybugs), so they’ve managed to keep their castle in one piece. But it’s so big that enemies never get close enough anyway, hence why they use the repair tool to find out where they’re coming from.
The size isn’t the only impressive thing about this base, nor the fact that it’s still standing. The most demanding part of all of it is that it’s made out of mushroom blocks, which require you to put mushrooms, mushroom chunks, or toadstool chunks into a grinder to make a slurry. Five slurry equals four bricks, just about enough for a single piece of wall. That’s a lot of shrooms.
They haven’t said how long the base took to make, but they claim it was all done in survival, not creative, so it’d be dozens of hours at the least, if not hundreds - a herculean task, anyway.
Grounded is available right now on Xbox Game Pass and PC, but it’sfinally making its way to PS5 and Nintendo Switchon April 16 with its 1.4 update.
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A fun action-adventure game that evokes classic movies, Grounded sees you play a character shrunk to tiny proportions. You must survive a garden full of hostility in a bid to return to natural size.
