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After hours of fighting spiders and robots, building your base, and upgrading your equipment, you’ve finally beatenGrounded, and it’s finally time to get back to your normal size. But what if you didn’t?
Grounded’s 1.4 update introduced an alternative. Instead of finishing the game, you can hop on over to an alternate timeline and do it all again. Using the Remix.r and Grounded’s New Game+ mode, your adventure in the yard doesn’t have to be over any time soon.
How To Start New Game Plus
While other games have you start a new game plus after hitting the credits, Grounded has you do it just before. Once you’vesuccessfully defended the JavaMaticand crafted the Embiggening Cocktail, you’ll be guided to the Spac.r on the middle of the lower yard to finish the game.
Even if you don’t plan to rush into new game plus straight away, you don’t have to activate the Spac.r. You’re free to explore the yard for as long as you like before finishing the game.
Instead, head to the north shore of the Pond, where you’ll find a flowerbed. In the wall of the flowerbed, there will be acrack and a tunnel.Follow this tunnel, and you’ll find a large, sealedOminent door, surrounded by monitors.
As the monitors suggest, you’ll need to have beaten a few challenges before heading into new game plus:
JavaMatic, upper yard
The hedge, by the frisbee
Upper yard, on the Shed porch, in the plant pot
Defeat the Wasp Queen
Upper yard, in the wasp nest inside the Brawny Boy Bin.
While you can access the Broodmother and the Mantis boss fights without any difficulty, gaining access to the Wasp Queen will require you toopen the Brawny Boy Binby killing enough wasps and destroying their hives.
Youdo nothave to defeat Director Schmector or the Infected Broodmother to unlock the door in the flower bed wall.
Once you’ve done everything required, you’ll be able to open the door to theRemix.r Lab. In here, you’ll find various resources liketoast,but the main appeal will be the large, purple machine in the middle of the room: the Remix.r itself.
Hold the interact button on the red dial at the front of the Remix.r, and you’ll be warned about the enormity of what it is you’re doing. Confirm it to be warped back to the Teen Case in the lower yard, andnew game plus will begin.
What Changes In New Game Plus?
As you’d expect from a new game plus mode, everything is more difficult than it is in the base game. Enemieshit harder and faster, making even your +9 upgraded armour feel weak in comparison.
However, this isn’t just changing some stats. The entire yard will be ‘remixed’, with a number of big changes:
Hopping over to a new timeline does also mean you make a few sacrifices when entering new game plus, though. As you arecompletely restarting the story, all of the world-changing actions you made before will be reset, including:
What Do You Keep In New Game Plus?
You don’t have to start again from nothing in new game plus, which, in a lot of ways, makes it easier than your first run.
All ofyour items, resources, and equipmentwill be exactly where you left them. Even your dropped backpacks carry over, so don’t worry about grabbing all of them before heading to the Remix.r.
It’s a good idea toget the Fungal Charmbefore starting new game plus. There’s a good chance that the infused enemies you encounter have explosive attacks, and having the Fungal Charm on hand can reduce the damage you take from them. you may get this from the Haze by chopping down infected mushroom spores.
Anybases you’ve builtwill also still be there. Crucially, this includes ziplines, which can help you get to the labs so much quicker than if you were travelling on foot. It’s also nice to stillhave a place to sleep, instead of scrabbling to make a lean-to like in your original first days in the yard.
Though you do lose your milk molar upgrades, youdon’t lose your unspent molars ormutations. The most important thing this effects is the Pond Lab, as you’ll still have access to both your diving equipment and the Merteen mutation to make that first approach to it a lot easier.
Any data you collected will still be unlocked as well. Though the 1.4 update removed the requirement of getting every single gold creature card for a 100 percent completion, your bragging rights will still be safe as Peepr cardsare saved between runs.
Finally, you won’t lose yourraw science. You’ll need a lot of it to unlock the new recipes found only when you first enter new game plus – the recipes for the new weapons, for instance, costs 50,000 science.
How Many Times Can You Do New Game Plus?
You’ll have to finish most of the story to do the JavaMatic defending again, but as long as you meet all the requirements to unlock the Remix.r, you can repeat the process as many times as you like. The number of times you’ve restarted the game is represented by a purpletoast icon.
Each time you start a new game, things like thecolour of the tree and the sandbox, the location ofmilk molars and raw science, and thetypes of candyyou find in the yard will all change again. Everything alsobecomes stronger, and infused enemies will also pick up even more attributes, making them harder to deal with.
It’s a good idea to export your save before entering a new game plus. This is because Grounded limits you toten save slots, with each save after that overwriting your oldest save.
By exporting saves, you’ll always have a copy of your previous world in case you find the next step up too challenging.
