Beating Grounded in 1 Hour! || Any% Speedrun in  

Like taking in the view do ya?

I do my sight-seeing.

Same dude

Yeah, pretty much :D

​@haydencady756 so you take an hour to make a workbench?

Haha hope you're okay! Glad you enjoyed, thanks

Tis a fun fight

Just imagine the assistant manager and his minions ready to battle, but this teen jumps on top of him and starts pummeling him, and the minions just watch like "Should we go help him?" "Nah I ain't going near that maniac!"

Probably the best lab for parkouring about, good fun

ONE HOUR, shiii I prolly didn’t get those till hour 8-10

Eyyy thanks, glad you enjoyed it Bradley!

Get on it!

That's dope, glad you enjoyed! Hucking spiky sprigs is very good yeah, although that has taken a slight hit with the recent update that added a stagger cooldown. Damage is unaffected though. Sub hour is definitely doable! Could have had it in this run I think but I didn't have enough sap for the workbench twice which cost a lot of time and I lost some time at the end by respawning at the wrong place then missing the jump up out of the mystery machine. That new stagger cooldown might make the final defense a lot harder but I haven't tried it yet so we'll see. Haha yeah hadn't thought of that. I made a save on a good rng practice run at the same spot as 35:50 so I could practice the end so when I finally got good rng on an actual run I knew what I was doing. After watching 2 minutes of that I noticed I lost even more time to not having enough sap for the smithing station and having to empty my inventory mid craft. I remember now that was one tiny section I never got as clean as I could

Haha it does get a bit wild. There would be at least two less respawns if crafted items didn't stay in our inventory on death. Thanks, definitely want the sub hour!

@@HolyCodztayou can turn that off in settings

@@asthmaticmonkey3120 Thanks yeah I wouldn't want to though. By saying there would be less respawns I meant it might be easier to follow what's going on, not that it would speed up the run

Thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed

Haha I had so few runs get to the end it was very satisfying to hear that music!

​​​​​@@HolyCodztahow you do soo much dmg to the black ox beetle

​​​@@HolyCodztasorry I misspelled

@@i_just_post_anything You dare misspell a word in MYYY COMMENT SCETION?!

@@i_just_post_anything Hucking spiky sprigs + mild difficulty = dead ox

You did all the heavy lifting tbf man! Would love to do it justice and get the sub hour. Wouldn't mind if it got beaten soon, onto glitched runs if not though...

not a record of beating the game still dont have the mega n norm molars

@@cptnamaroblackbeardjones8175 That’s why it’s labelled as Any%. Any% means you just have to see the end screen, nothing else matters

@@zylo4029 lol sounds like some shit a kid made up to make his self feel good cause he cant really play games

@@cptnamaroblackbeardjones8175 Yeah I saw the credits so I'd say the game's over

Thanks! Regards from Cornwall!

Nice, took me quite a while! Used to be way better too before they changed combo damage. Haha you can thank Zylo for that! He was the first to use it. It is quite powerful

Thanks!

Practice brother! Hucking spiky sprigs is kinda OP too tbf

Lower difficulty helps. The difference between WOAH mode and the other difficulties is MASSIVE

To be honest, my friend built a huge base. Really amazing stuff. However, our gear was trash, the base itself kept getting in the way, and we didn't use any particular cheese strategies. We didn't know how to properly fight the dust mites. This was all in mild mode btw. I want to say, it is harder with a group, but I saw this man pummel so many insects and fortify the whole thing single-handedly where I would have struggled. There is clearly skill required here, but it definitely helps to at least have SOME semblance of knowledge of the fight. Don't be blind idiots like me and my friends.

im amazed how much easier the lower difficulty mode is.

Haha you're not worried about spoilers then I take it? Thanks though. It is a great game!

Put at least a few hours into this one...

Eyy that's cool. Glad you enjoyed!

Funny enough, I'm the only friend in my group who watches any speedruns or guides, but it was my best friend who doesn't do any of that, doesn't use guides, didn't play this game at all, or have any spectacular armor or gear. *He just kept trying to progress the story. He has an killer focus and an iron will that I will never truly understand.* For what it's worth, I gathered a lot of the upgrade materials and pretty much became the tank of the group. Any boss battle, any raid battle, I was invincible. I just...REALLY suck at actually completing the story or solving puzzles. Maybe that's why my best friend is so good. He's a huge Legend of Zelda fan. I'm more of the Minecraft and Hi-Fi Rush guy.

ngl I hate it in the moment but I'm glad you got some enjoyment out of it hahah

This was obviously glitchless too, not sure what the glitched time could be but I know it'll be nuts to try and optimise! Could've had the sub hour in this run but twice I didn't have enough sap for the workbench and both times I didn't think to relocate the bench and bring the blueprint with me so it didn't cost quite as much time. Thanks!

@@HolyCodzta Yeah, there’s a lot of very minor optimizations that could be made, but still overall a great run. I’m also excited for glitched run; I always like to see what and how many time skips can be made

Ah that's cool, nice to see someone appreciate both!

Thank you sincerely for your kind words and congratulations! It means a lot to me that you not only enjoyed my impressive speedrun of Grounded but also appreciate my deep knowledge and understanding of the game mechanics. Your support and encouragement fuel my passion for speedrunning, and I'm excited to continue showcasing my skills and dedication in future runs

@@HolyCodzta I love you guys but this kinda sounded like a conversation between two AI chatbots haha

I was the same! I've drunk from a scummy puddle more times than I care to admit haha. Thanks!

Haha good! Figuring out the pond lab can be tough for sure with the extra risk of drowning. Did you watch the whole thing having not got to pond lab yet?

Finally going big and going home was a very cool moment having played since the start of early access

Wow the one and only Bababooey commenting on my video! Thanks, glad you liked it

It's funny you say that because I've been sick for the last few days! Thanks though, you too

@@HolyCodzta Get well soon!

Not yours though, ha! Oh... Thanks!

Big ups

@@HolyCodzta Guss so.

Thanks! Although Zylo has been doing them for a while, they can be hard to find if you don't know what to search for. Here's his channel www.youtube.com/@zylo4029/videos Haha that's brave watching a story speedrun when you haven't finished it yet! Fair enough if you just stopped where you got up to though. So a field station only becomes a respawn point when you look at it and it pops up on-screen saying "you discovered field station". If you look away as you walk up to a field station so you don't get that message pop up, you can interact with everything in there but it won't become a respawn point. So at 1:38 you see me look down and I don't discover it, at 3:43 I discovered the one near the oak, at 6:50 I discovered the stinkbug one, I respawned from black ant lab at 25:06 and oak is closest so I spawn there. I only needed to spawn at the oak once so at 26:22 I finally discover the one at the start, which I actually wanted to do because it should have given me natural explorer (it didn't because I didn't get pond dome so I unlocked it at the mix.r).

Eyy that's dope, glad you enjoyed! Yeah can't believe it was sap of all things that cost me the sub hour. Haven't watched this since posting it so I'm keen to get back into it soon and see if I notice any strats that could be improved. There is a slight time save Zylo has used where when you respawn at kid case at the end of the run, you can give up immediately and respawn at field station so you're closer to the mystery machine, saves about 10 seconds. Oh yeah I messed up a bit at the end too by respawning at the wrong place which cost me about 5 seconds. Hope you have fun with it! Let me know if you want an invite to the speedrunning discord so we can discuss strats more easily

Dude i would absolutely love a invite to the discord! I commented about an hour after you replied but i dont see it anymore wonder if it got removed because i put my discord in it? Weird but yeah wide interaction seems to fail me more than it does me good but a its a necessary evil haha and would the new route up the hedge save time? Seems like just a second if it does but looks alot easier to complete did my first run yesterday and was stopped at the haze lab because the door to the boss stayed closed for some reason definitely got a little heated and had to put it down for a day haha

Edit boss door stayed closed after the fight and i was effectively trapped by that time my brain wasn't working fully so by the time i should have givin up and respawned at kids case i already wasted over 2 minutes 😂😂 ill practice harder definitely would be cool to get leaderboards in this game!

Ahh that's annoying, I have it set to hold potentially inappropriate comments for review but apparently youtube still automatically deletes comments with links in! Haha yeah wide interact does make some stuff more difficult. After trying to get used to it though I could see it pros outweighed the cons quite a lot. There's a new route up the hedge? Did you go back and double check you hit the switch? Have seen zero miss that and have to go back for it. Either way that's tilting hahaha. Here's the link discord.gg/pSCvfzEc

@@User-ur9ws6yusxld Ohh right, that sucks. I know I used to swim back through the tunnel but now your stuff stays in your inventory you probably just wanna give up after grabbing everything from the chip room yeah. Get on it!

Glad to have this verified by a certified Nugget Doctor!

Haha I think my first playthrough looked something like that as well!

Start small and work your way up! That's what I did at least, first with the wolf spider, then super chips, then broodmother etc. Just gotta yolo into some dumb situations to find out what happens and hopefully find a way to make it work haha. Bombardiers messed me up for the longest time tbf so I'm not judging!

@@HolyCodzta alr thanks for the wise words mans i appreciate it.

Sure thing, lemme know if you do end up running anything!

It doesn't give much gas resist though, I actually posted about it a while back. old.reddit.com/r/GroundedGame/comments/yjb369/am_i_missing_something_or_does_the_toxicology/ How would it save me any granola bars? I'd have to use them to get through the haze to the haze lab front door compared through the exposed pipe which cost me 0 granola bars

​@@HolyCodzta what about the fresh defence mutation. Will it work?

@@GameNix On its own it's not very good and it won't reduce damage taken any further if paired with the badge because that's already hitting minimum damage threshold (can see in the post). Plus I'd need to get a tier 2 shovel or hammer to get the mints for the mutation which I think would take longer than getting a bone dagger and going through exposed pipe to haze lab. Sorry!

Hahaha fists op for sure

Dang what's beyond pro?

Hahaha I forgot about that, that was quite an intense one. I try to always make sure I have a minimum amount of stamina when I need it but do still occasionally end up in those awkward moments!

Cheers Tyshroi! My intent with "giving up" is always to save time, like at 35:52, it saves a bit of time over running back to the baseball bat. I messed up at the very end by respawning at my lean-to instead of kid case which cost some seconds. Can save more time again there by giving up and respawning at field station after respawning at kid case. I do give up at 39:15 to drop granolas and most javamatic ingredients otherwise I have to drop them then pick them all up again individually. I can't think of anywhere else I give up to drop resources, usually craft any items as soon as possible, like the acorn shovel any time before hedge lab because I wanna scan clay at the pond outpost. 17:37: Granolas don't stay in your inventory when you respawn but I want them for the AssMan fight and respawning at the lean-to there skips the swim back through the tunnel. 26:00: We use the recover backpacks option in the game repair menu twice and you can only use it once per load of a save, so a quick save and load let's us do it again. Bug loot rng is determined when they spawn which I assume happens across the map when you first start the world. For spamming through dialogue, you can press the number keys to select a dialogue option as well as spacebar so I just mash 1 and spacebar, no remapping or auto clickers or anything. Thanks a lot, might be this again actually because the sub hour is so possible but I did get Hogwarts installed yesterday sooo... I do wanna *almost* complete Grounded in a speedrunning sense, so good ending, just Schmector, redo Mant cause my Mant run is a meme at this point, Mantis and then an all bosses run, including minor bosses like termite king and widow.

You're very welcome guapy, glad you enjoy it!

Cheers lad

Thanks Yann

Yeah co-op runs have been talked about for a while, maybe I should get on and finally do one... Clubs and spears just do crazy damage when thrown and they're so easy to get early on. Sure I could kill an ox faster with a maxed out morning star but that's obviously not feasible in a speedrun. Spiky sprigs actually stagger enemies when thrown at them too so it makes the fights a lot easier

Mate ask as many questions as you like! And yeah I am, probably Grounded again next but might be Hogwarts

Maybe, there's always someone out there who's better though!

Thanks!

Thank heavens!

Heck yeah, go for it! Happy to help if you ever have any questions. To quickly get good at parrying first save your game, then in the pause menu go into game settings, swap it to a custom game and turn off the player damage, hunger/thirst drain and equipment durability settings. They changed it so with player damage turned off you can still parry even though you'd take no damage anyway. Practice parrying against whichever creature(s) you want and when you're done just reload that save you made at the start to reenable achievements

Nice, got em all set up on armour dummies and everything? Cheers

@@HolyCodzta yea. Although I'm a trash builder so it ain't pretty

@@GIGLR Haha tell me about it, I just can't make anything decent looking in Grounded

Timestamp? Don't remember that at all haha

@@HolyCodzta 6:33

@@czdented6051 Ahh yeah, he was pretty slick top to dodge me like that!

Poor stamina management that. Thanks will do!

Sorry for the delay, guess you've figured out by now if it's convenient or not! If you don't mind fighting off or walling in the wolves then it's a good central spot. Good for ziplines and acorns and sap right there. Glad you enjoyed the videos!

I probably practiced that 399 times tbf!

I agree

I agree

Thanks! Enjoy

i agree

Zylo actually found a consistent launch using the grass door! streamable.com/r2bq3j Glitched runs combining that with getting out of bounds (also with the door which you can see in the 8 minute Mant run on my channel) can potentially crush all glitchless runs, just need way better rng

Thank you.

Damn, what a guy! So what did you think?

Ain't playin around out here!

Well I'm running this again because HarryButchers beat my time and it's even faster! Getting real close to a good run so keep an eye out for that

Spiky sprigs best weapon in the game?

Welcome! It has been nerfed yeah, plus this was on mild so if you're on medium there's the nerf and difficulty making your spears worse than in this run

Ain't messin around out here

Hahaha that was quite an intense one

He came back though, right?

It's funny you say that because I just fought a wolf spider today for what feels like the first in months, so it does seem like they've been avoiding me! Not having the sap there was devastating, it was an almost perfect run but I just didn't have enough sap. Such a small thing to lose so much time to. Thanks! Hopefully it doesn't take that long to beat! I wanna see it done in under an hour sooner rather than later

@@HolyCodzta we are waiting

I'll look into it!

Hahaa my main world is not pretty. Got like a quarter of the way through building the base I had slightly planned out before I got bored of playing regularly. Thanks for reminding me though because someone else asked for a base tour ages ago and I totally forgot! So I'll try and record a quick walk through it. Thanks! Glad you enjoyed

Of course

Haha cheers. To put it lightly, this wasn't my first playthrough...

Haha coulda been faster too if the dandelion didn't have to ruin it

My spacebar and 1 keys don't think so! You should check my broodmother tas at 5:58, did it even faster with a macro lol

Holy moly it looks like a machine gun lmao

You can throw them! Look for a "huck" button in the bottom right when holding them and stop blowing up your feet

Mate you have no idea, produced a third of a vat in just this run!

@@HolyCodzta I need you in my game😂

My base on casual playthroughs was almost always just a ring of grass walls protecting some chests haha

Haha something tells me he's been in that situation before

@@HolyCodzta dude you got to the hedge in five minutes and I am there and it took me an hour you’re insane

@@HolyCodztaUPDATE!!!! I just made the mint mace and finally completed the undershed lab!!! Dr. Wendell Tully has been saved! Now I just need to get O.P. and complete the Javamatic fight. I also still have to grab a couple of Burg.L chips! Thank you for all of the inspiration this year!

Yeah they made that change fairly recently so you respawn with anything crafted, including stuff like crude rope and for some reason, gum

Just strolling through, nuthin to it!