One of the first things a lot of players want to do in Grounded is figure out how to build floors. Grounded is such a unique survival game that its only natural players would want to build incredible bases as soon as possible.
We’re going to run through everything you need to know about how to build floors in Grounded. We’ll explain what you need to do to unlock floors, and how to unlock additional floor types.
How to Unlock Floors in Grounded
Figuring out how to build floors in Grounded isn’t as simple as a lot of other survival games. Floors aren’t unlocked by default, meaning you need to jump through a few hoops to get your hands on the recipe. Thankfully, these hoops just so happen to be the first few story events – so you’ll have to do them, regardless.
To build floors in Grounded, you need to purchase the Multi-Story base plan from BURG.L in the Oak Lab. To get to the Oak Lab, you’ll need to activate the Mysterious Machine. The Mysterious Machine is right next to the Field Station, and activating it is the first story objective in Grounded.
How to Start the Mysterious Machine in Grounded
Activating the Mysterious Machine in Grounded isn’t too difficult, and it’s mandatory if you want to build floors.
Once you find the machine – which shouldn’t take too long as it’s right next to the Field Station, you’ll need to hop on top of it. From here, you should be able to see two buttons. Interacting with the buttons will cause three lasers to fire out of giant emitters located around the machine. These lasers need to hit the three antennas on the machine in order to turn it on.
Only one of the three lasers will be working when you first activate the Mysterious Machine. The other two will be experiencing some technical difficulties that you’ll be responsible for solving. One of them is blocked by a blade of grass, and the other is experiencing some hardware problems.
Dealing with the grass first is ideal. All you have to do is identify which blade of grass is blocking the laser’s path, and cut it down – simple.
The other faulty laser will require you to actually travel to it. Once you arrive there, you’ll see a bunch of Garden Mites chowing down on the laser’s wiring. Kill all the mites on the wires on the surface, then follow the cable down into a cave, killing all the mites there, too. Then the objective should update
Either way, that laser is now fixed. So, all you have left to do is to return to the Mysterious Machine and hit the buttons again.
How to Unlock Floors in Grounded
After you activate the machine you’ll get a cutscene in which the base of an oak sustains a small explosion. That location will then be marked on your map. Your quest objective will also update, pointing you in the lab’s direction.
Investigate that explosion and you’ll find yourself in the Oak Lab. Progress through the lab and you’ll stumble across BURG.L, the robot. After chatting with him and getting some exposition, as well as your next objective, the ASL Terminal will become available for use.
When you log into the ASL Terminal, either in the lab or the Field Station, you’ll be given the option to purchase the Multi-Story Bases construction recipes for 1000 Raw Science. Buy those recipes, and you’ll unlock the basic Grass Floor recipes, each of which requires a number of Grass Planks to construct.
How to Build Additional Floor Types in Grounded
Purchasing the Multi-Story Bases recipes in Grounded only unlocks the Grass Floor plans. There are a few other types of floors that you can unlock as you progress through the game. They are:
- Stem Floors – Fortified Bases Recipes.
- Curved Floors – Curved Bases Recipes.
- Bur Floor – Unlocked by analyzing Spiky Bur.
Each floor type includes a few different options for construction – including half floors and triangle floor tiles. Each type also escalates in how expensive it is to build floors, so keep that in mind as you upgrade your Grounded base’s floor over the course of your playthrough.
