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Grounded Guides — Survive the Backyard at Insect Size

Grounded guides, creature and tool databases built from the wiki: what bites, what to craft, and how to stay alive when you are the size of a penny.

Where the numbers come from. The tables below are built from the game wiki's own data, not from memory. Where a page needs an exact figure, we mark it and check it before we call it fact.

Start here

Grounded drops you at insect size in a backyard where a spider is a boss and a blade of grass is cover. These guides and tables turn the yard from terrifying into a map you can read.

All Grounded guides

Start Beginner Guide

Your first day in the yard: eat, craft, and build before dark.

 Bestiary Creatures Guide

What every bug does, where it lives, and what kills it.

 Gear Tools & Weapons Guide

Axes, swords, bows and staves compared by tier and damage.

 Gear Best Weapon Class

All 9 damage types, which weapons belong to each, and why fists ignore every resistance.

 Gear Best Weapon Upgrade

Levels 1-5 costs, then Mighty vs elemental paths weapon by weapon - the permanent choice.

 Gear Best Arrow

Damage, tier and damage type for all 9 arrows - why Bomb Arrow is not a straight upgrade.

 Build Base Building Guide

Where to build, how to defend, and what to automate.

 Fight Combat Guide

Stamina, parries and weak points that end fights fast.

 Gather Resources Guide

Where every resource spawns and what to hoard first.

 Defense Armor Guide

Armor sets, resistances and how to stack them.

 Bosses Boss Guide

The broodmothers and mini-bosses, and how to prep.

 Map Exploration Guide

Reading the yard, the labs, and the hidden shortcuts.

 Live Survival Guide

Hunger, thirst, mutations and the day-night loop.

 Perks Mutations Guide

How mutations work and which to take first.

 Ramp Difficulty Guide

How the yard scales and when a run is lost.

 Avoid Common Mistakes

The habits that get new players eaten.

 Edge Tips & Tricks

Small habits that compound into easy runs.

 How to Grounded — How to Kill a Black Widow

Black Widow stats, why sour is the only elemental option, and why killing the Widowling before she eats it decides…

 Tune Grounded Settings Guide

Graphics, FOV and controller tuning: drop to Medium before resolution, set FOV near 90, and turn off motion blur.

Reference tables

Two reference tables sit below: every creature with its aggression and resistances, and every tool with its damage and tier. Both are wiki-sourced, not guessed.

Reference Creature Database

160 creatures with aggression, health and weaknesses.

 Reference Tool & Weapon Database

24 tools with type, tier and damage.

Data notes

The tables above are built from the game wiki's own pages. Where a figure matters, we mark it and check it before publishing it as fact. Pages with incomplete source data are marked rather than filled with guesses.

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Sources

Figures and item data on this site are read from the game’s own reference wiki before publishing. Where a value could not be confirmed there, the page says so instead of filling the gap.