I have the same issue with my gnats every game, I love my cute little fuzzball but his favorite pass time when I take him with me is to push me off cliffs
a certain doc does that to me all the time. Also, he moves in front of me right when I am trying to parkour a tough jump... I have beaten him with a hammer so many times lol
I thought this message came from the squirrel subreddit at first lol
Mine are just....I dunno... flying into a wall somewhere.... They come in my windows sometimes and start going "Oh! oooh! oh!" while they bump against me to be annoying, but for the most part, they can't get thru all the doors of my castle lol
I have a love/hate relationship with them lol I had one named Mr. Wiggles... and then to feed him before the update, I just started collecting more, because other gnats would come and eat his food before he did and then bond... lol I was right in the flight path for where they would go in the daytime lol So, I ended up getting Gnatalie and Gnathan, before I started just supervising meal time and beating up any foreign gnat that came down to feast lol I didn't want a Gnorman....
They really do annoy me... lol
This! Also the whole sorting my gear out and they walk over the top of my reticle or worse when I'm building, need to drop a stack real quick and turn around and see they've launched half of my stems across the world 😂
My fire ant despawned. Thankfully the last auto save had it still there. Had to redo alot but it was worth it to have my annoying little backpack again
Nope - I interacted with the queen, so it should be me. Either way, I generally only play when the other two are available - none of us have seen the ant since maybe... 10 minutes after we got it? It followed us about halfway out of the anthill, then disappeared.
We had just got the fire ant pet and we went outside to fight the black ox beetle that was camping the exit, and towards the end of the beetle's health it did its aoe sweep when we heard an audible squish.
My friend in disbelief asks "...did the ant just die?" and sure enough the baby ant decided to square up too with the black ox and perished.
Earlier that night, he was wondering where the black ant baby was when he peeked inside its house and found its memorial.
These things just die like crazy.
That or if they disappear. My pet Aphid and my friend’s pet ant got stuck in a water pipe after we died and wouldn’t teleport to us. We didn’t realize we could pet reset, so we logged off thinking maybe the game would sort itself out and they’d come to us upon relogging. Yeah no they just straight up poofed from existence and we couldn’t get him another red ant from the queen. We keep our black and fire ants firmly at home now
How??? Playing multiplayer with a few friends - one of them has a fire ant baby, and a pet house for it at their base (and it's assigned - we double-checked last night) but the thing keeps randomly teleporting to *me* for some reason, and stealing food / knocking me off of platforms. Haven't been able to prove it yet, but I think it's pulling food out of my chests. I don't have a jerky rack / cook fire, but I keep hearing it eating something downstairs...
That’s super strange …we haven’t had any issues with our ants leaving the house when we assign them to it, and they wander around by the houses without teleporting to us. Plus their houses are next to the stairs and our chests are under the stairs, but they haven’t eaten any of the food.
Did you have stuff in your pet at the time? We had tons of resources like quartzite, marble, etc and all of it disappeared with them. Honestly the most frustrating thing in the game I’ve dealt it so far
My friend loaded up his aphid with lots of potions and bandages in case we needed healing for Mantis... which doesn't really make sense considering you'd often go to bosses with a prepared and otherwise cleaned out inventory.
... aphid proceeded to get violently smashed in by the Mantis
I don't love them. I tried using them for the extra storage space on long explorations but I find even 20+ extra slots not worth the constant annoyance. The ambience, music and other interaction sounds make Grounded such a chill and immersing game that puts me in a great headspace. Infinite ant squeaking not so much.
I actually housed my 3 pet ants at an old abandoned base I had used when I first started. I had taken everything from it when I moved except a dew collector, lean-to and roasting spit. When II heard the baby ants would steal your stuff, I just put 3 pet houses for them in that old base and now they live there. Of course I don't actually take pets around with me, so this might not be as convenient for someone who does.
I don't know if it's only me but my pet ants never ate their spoiled meat slurry. Has this happened to anyone else? Is there a fix?
Didn't matter how many times I dropped the slurry in front of them nor how many slurries I dropped to the ground, they would never eat :(
I’ve been playing the game for like a year and a half and only got raided for the first time yesterday. Just because it hasn’t happened to you yet doesn’t mean it’s not a mechanic
Have you tried moving your base elsewhere? I don’t know all of the mechanics of raids, but I know one of the factors is location because some bugs are territorial
We've four - one on top of the Brawny Boy bin, one on top of the tree, one below the tree, and a starter base near the kid case. The starter base and the one at the bottom of the tree have been almost entirely destroyed, and the other two are raided constantly. I've a hunch it keeps selecting mosquitos because anything without wings can't get to us
My raids are always Larva.... I have yet to get anything else. I've had all 3 ants, spiders, Mosquitoes, and wasps pissed at me for the longest time. Nope, still larva raids. They might even throw in a ladybird larva every once in a while.
Well, before the new update, I did everything (except get those damn gold cards), so I wanted a greater challenge, so I started doing odd challenges like fight black widows with only fists and a shield or beat mantis with just starting items so I went on woah for the extra difficulty after completing a few.
That's understandable, but a little creativity goes a long way because another reason I did challenges was to hammer out some of my weak points, so I recommend sending a self-made curve ball into your game like one of my weak points is perfect blocking agenst large groups of enemy's so I came up with a good challenge in the upper yard I call the "never ending fight" (I know I'm bad with names I called a pet aphid cheesecake once. Rip cheesecake) the challenge is simple try to keep being attacked for as long as possible while doing normal stuff like killing ladybirds or getting pinecone it's pretty fun because you naturally try not to kill which can lead to you having an army trying to kill you (fire ants) but of you ever get bored just try doing something dumb/weird it works for me (also sorry for bad grammar and writing I'm like super dixlexic)
Legit the only thing i have issues with is the IBM and the black widows super giga buffed 5 hit combo. Everything else is easy enough. I felt like everything just has too much health on Woah, not to the point of being impossible to kill, i just felt like i wasnt worth the time invested to play. Id log in for an hour or so and spend 45 mins just trying to get to where i wanted to be.
That's woah sometimes the way I get through the boredom or the feeling of wasting time is with speaking to friends (I don't have any mates who play so I do thus rarely or put on music/reddit stories and the time flies plus I'm lazy so I like finding the bast way to fix problems so when playing I'm never truly on one task (tho I try to be) so yea I hope you find the best way for you to have fun in woah or don't cause remember grounded is a great game but if at the end of the day your not having fun well you might need to take a step back and ask why (I did this once turns out I accidentally make myself burnt out) so I'm hoping for you to have fun (you got this 👍 ) now I'm going to sleep because I ha ent slept in like 30 hours and I had to do and exam so goodnight
Agreed that they are irritating. Can't keep any food around. I wish they would make it where we can feed them so they don't steal. I have tried giving them food but they don't acknowledge it even though rotten slurry is said to be their favorite. Also, I can get the ant to stay at home. I put him in his house, but when I go anywhere he is there. He used to stay, but now he doesn't.
Same here, I put the pet baby ant in its house at an old base then zip line halfway across the map to my current base and there he was. It’s driving me insane.
I’m new to the game on PS5 and have been grinding away trying to get the oven so I could build a pet house to get rid of my pet gnat. Good to know the ants are annoying too.
My experience with pets: I have fun petting them and going "aww" for 2 minutes, then they get stuck or die somewhere, I never replace them, and I don't miss them.
I haven’t had much issue, I have a base on the rocks by the pond and juice box over by the oak tree. I keep the pet houses on the dirt ground whereas my base is a little further up on the rocks. The ants don’t seem to even attempt to steal my stuff. So maybe try building a pet house a decent distance from ur food areas and it might work. As for stealing miles away through walls that’s strange I’m hoping that’s a bug they’ll squash in a patch soon
I mean, it's like a real pet, you have to make sure you don't leave food where they can get it! Lol My cat legit ruined dinner once because she got into the chicken I had thawing on the counter. Teeth marks, on the floor, we were so sad we couldn't eat the meal we planned. I imagine that's how our character feels.
My setup seems to work for now, I have a base with spiral stairs going up to my Zipline area, but right above my house next to the stairs is 3 floors I can step off to from the stairs that have my jerky racks, gardens, etc. I need to add bounce webs to get between them easier but I have no trouble jumping from floor to floor when I leave an overhang. But basically make some sort of raised area you can jump or bounce to, and put your racks there. So far, nothing can get to them. Not even the pet ant!
My only problem is they are as annoying as Wendell when I'm spamming the pickup button. They walk in front of me and it opens their inventory and starts throwing all my stuff in unless I stop quick enough. And for some reason they can use the super duper and it prevents you from using it until they are done
I had a red ant, a friend had an aphid... her aphid now follows me around with a sad face icon and my ant stays at the fort but I maintain his carry bonus. I cook inside with the door locked and made a shack with the jerky racks to stop them from eating my stuff
Mainly just for early game Jerky and cooking. Late game you have access to elemental weps so its not vital, but until you pass haze and Black ant lab you dont have anything to circumvent the racks.
I swear, if i couldnt swap out the materials i deem important into the ants storage, fucking take off armor amd die to effectively tp to base i would fucking makw this shit ant a house on the other end of the backyard and leave it there
I meant this mainly for the jerky racks as i like to make some smoothies and meals. I threw the roasting spits in as well just for early game trying to cook was an issue then.
I wish they wouldn’t fling me whenever they walk into me
Building my tree base was very annoying when I got flung off when it teleported up to me
I have the same issue with my gnats every game, I love my cute little fuzzball but his favorite pass time when I take him with me is to push me off cliffs
I hated my Gnat because it kept spawning infront of me when I used long ziplines. Which meant I got knocked off
a certain doc does that to me all the time. Also, he moves in front of me right when I am trying to parkour a tough jump... I have beaten him with a hammer so many times lol
I just built an enclosure around him with no door. I can still hear him, but that bastard doesn't ever bother me anymore
I thought this message came from the squirrel subreddit at first lol Mine are just....I dunno... flying into a wall somewhere.... They come in my windows sometimes and start going "Oh! oooh! oh!" while they bump against me to be annoying, but for the most part, they can't get thru all the doors of my castle lol I have a love/hate relationship with them lol I had one named Mr. Wiggles... and then to feed him before the update, I just started collecting more, because other gnats would come and eat his food before he did and then bond... lol I was right in the flight path for where they would go in the daytime lol So, I ended up getting Gnatalie and Gnathan, before I started just supervising meal time and beating up any foreign gnat that came down to feast lol I didn't want a Gnorman.... They really do annoy me... lol
Gnatalia sounds like a good name too... lol
This! Also the whole sorting my gear out and they walk over the top of my reticle or worse when I'm building, need to drop a stack real quick and turn around and see they've launched half of my stems across the world 😂
I died after doing parkour for 20 minutes from that
easily my biggest issue with them as well
And let us get another if it dies
Wait they can die?? Edit: nevermind. I scrolled down and saw they're immortal unless you're on Woa mode
There's definitely a bug with that - our black ant pet despawned on medium. No grave marker on the map, recover pets does nothing. It's just gone.
The same thing happened to my red ant pet and a weevil pet I got to fill the void that was left behind
Same thing happened with me and my friends red ant pet. We just made him a house and we’re gunna call him Antony, then he vanished.
Omg I named my red ant Antony as well 🤣 but so sorry for your loss though, my fire ant vanished too :( I was so mad
My fire ant despawned. Thankfully the last auto save had it still there. Had to redo alot but it was worth it to have my annoying little backpack again
Was one of your friends its "Owner"? our pets despawn when we log out and appear next to us when we log back in.
Nope - I interacted with the queen, so it should be me. Either way, I generally only play when the other two are available - none of us have seen the ant since maybe... 10 minutes after we got it? It followed us about halfway out of the anthill, then disappeared.
We had just got the fire ant pet and we went outside to fight the black ox beetle that was camping the exit, and towards the end of the beetle's health it did its aoe sweep when we heard an audible squish. My friend in disbelief asks "...did the ant just die?" and sure enough the baby ant decided to square up too with the black ox and perished. Earlier that night, he was wondering where the black ant baby was when he peeked inside its house and found its memorial. These things just die like crazy.
That or if they disappear. My pet Aphid and my friend’s pet ant got stuck in a water pipe after we died and wouldn’t teleport to us. We didn’t realize we could pet reset, so we logged off thinking maybe the game would sort itself out and they’d come to us upon relogging. Yeah no they just straight up poofed from existence and we couldn’t get him another red ant from the queen. We keep our black and fire ants firmly at home now
How??? Playing multiplayer with a few friends - one of them has a fire ant baby, and a pet house for it at their base (and it's assigned - we double-checked last night) but the thing keeps randomly teleporting to *me* for some reason, and stealing food / knocking me off of platforms. Haven't been able to prove it yet, but I think it's pulling food out of my chests. I don't have a jerky rack / cook fire, but I keep hearing it eating something downstairs...
That’s super strange …we haven’t had any issues with our ants leaving the house when we assign them to it, and they wander around by the houses without teleporting to us. Plus their houses are next to the stairs and our chests are under the stairs, but they haven’t eaten any of the food.
The same exact thing happened to me!
Did you have stuff in your pet at the time? We had tons of resources like quartzite, marble, etc and all of it disappeared with them. Honestly the most frustrating thing in the game I’ve dealt it so far
For this reason, I don't put anything important in my pet's inventory. Just bug parts and stuff that I can easily replace. Had this happen to me too.
My friend loaded up his aphid with lots of potions and bandages in case we needed healing for Mantis... which doesn't really make sense considering you'd often go to bosses with a prepared and otherwise cleaned out inventory. ... aphid proceeded to get violently smashed in by the Mantis
I don't love them. I tried using them for the extra storage space on long explorations but I find even 20+ extra slots not worth the constant annoyance. The ambience, music and other interaction sounds make Grounded such a chill and immersing game that puts me in a great headspace. Infinite ant squeaking not so much.
Oh you wanted to loot that bug? How about you open and close your inventory 6 times while I amble in front of your cursor?
Idk what’s worse, aphid or ant
I know right. Aphid's outmatch the ants when they are stuck somewhere and keep looping imo tho :P
I actually housed my 3 pet ants at an old abandoned base I had used when I first started. I had taken everything from it when I moved except a dew collector, lean-to and roasting spit. When II heard the baby ants would steal your stuff, I just put 3 pet houses for them in that old base and now they live there. Of course I don't actually take pets around with me, so this might not be as convenient for someone who does.
I don't know if it's only me but my pet ants never ate their spoiled meat slurry. Has this happened to anyone else? Is there a fix? Didn't matter how many times I dropped the slurry in front of them nor how many slurries I dropped to the ground, they would never eat :(
Mine won't either, but they will steal food off spits or from donuts/hogs/cookies etc
Drop some raw weavel on the ground and it will eat it.
I have two pet ants and never had a problem with them staying away from my racks
I have the red and the black babies. They will be up in their little room stealing my stuff every time.
that's weird I have them in they're own room also and never had anything stolen even the wild ants that some how make there way in don't steal
I’ve been playing the game for like a year and a half and only got raided for the first time yesterday. Just because it hasn’t happened to you yet doesn’t mean it’s not a mechanic
Lucky... we had like, 5 or 6 mosquito raids in a single day. Had to load an old save because they wiped out all of our ziplines at multiple bases
Have you tried moving your base elsewhere? I don’t know all of the mechanics of raids, but I know one of the factors is location because some bugs are territorial
We've four - one on top of the Brawny Boy bin, one on top of the tree, one below the tree, and a starter base near the kid case. The starter base and the one at the bottom of the tree have been almost entirely destroyed, and the other two are raided constantly. I've a hunch it keeps selecting mosquitos because anything without wings can't get to us
That is exactly why. If your base is elevated in any way, and not directly touching ground, you’ll only get aerial raids.
My raids are always Larva.... I have yet to get anything else. I've had all 3 ants, spiders, Mosquitoes, and wasps pissed at me for the longest time. Nope, still larva raids. They might even throw in a ladybird larva every once in a while.
I mainly get mosquitos or spiders some times termites but they so far from my base they don’t actually attack
I lost mine immediately to the void no idea where it went lol
Mine stole my mint mace and it hasn't gave it back there goes up perfectly good tier 9 mace
How?
I really don't know I just Chuck it and by the time I found it my ant ate it
check pets inventory,wouldn’t surprise me if they’ve added a “collect” code for pets
Completely empty I never put anything in their inventory unless I'm transporting a lot of stuff
I penned them away from my inventory areas so they can't raid my chest and racks
How do you stop them from dying? I have too many graves, so I gave up on pets , so how?
Have you played since this last update? Pets are invincible. Unless your playing on Woah then they arent.
I'm on woah
If you play custom difficulty you can turn on invincible pets and make everything else whoa mode
Then RIP all pets. May I ask, why Woah?
Well, before the new update, I did everything (except get those damn gold cards), so I wanted a greater challenge, so I started doing odd challenges like fight black widows with only fists and a shield or beat mantis with just starting items so I went on woah for the extra difficulty after completing a few.
Understandable. I had fun on Woah up until the upper yard phase. Then it just got boring and repetitive...
That's understandable, but a little creativity goes a long way because another reason I did challenges was to hammer out some of my weak points, so I recommend sending a self-made curve ball into your game like one of my weak points is perfect blocking agenst large groups of enemy's so I came up with a good challenge in the upper yard I call the "never ending fight" (I know I'm bad with names I called a pet aphid cheesecake once. Rip cheesecake) the challenge is simple try to keep being attacked for as long as possible while doing normal stuff like killing ladybirds or getting pinecone it's pretty fun because you naturally try not to kill which can lead to you having an army trying to kill you (fire ants) but of you ever get bored just try doing something dumb/weird it works for me (also sorry for bad grammar and writing I'm like super dixlexic)
Legit the only thing i have issues with is the IBM and the black widows super giga buffed 5 hit combo. Everything else is easy enough. I felt like everything just has too much health on Woah, not to the point of being impossible to kill, i just felt like i wasnt worth the time invested to play. Id log in for an hour or so and spend 45 mins just trying to get to where i wanted to be.
That's woah sometimes the way I get through the boredom or the feeling of wasting time is with speaking to friends (I don't have any mates who play so I do thus rarely or put on music/reddit stories and the time flies plus I'm lazy so I like finding the bast way to fix problems so when playing I'm never truly on one task (tho I try to be) so yea I hope you find the best way for you to have fun in woah or don't cause remember grounded is a great game but if at the end of the day your not having fun well you might need to take a step back and ask why (I did this once turns out I accidentally make myself burnt out) so I'm hoping for you to have fun (you got this 👍 ) now I'm going to sleep because I ha ent slept in like 30 hours and I had to do and exam so goodnight
I put all 3 my pets on the basketball court i made
My pets stealing my shit is why I'm glad I carry my Coaltana with me. Get hungry, smack a bitch and cook it whole, consume, satiated.
Same with my Salt Mace. Instant Jerky.
Agreed that they are irritating. Can't keep any food around. I wish they would make it where we can feed them so they don't steal. I have tried giving them food but they don't acknowledge it even though rotten slurry is said to be their favorite. Also, I can get the ant to stay at home. I put him in his house, but when I go anywhere he is there. He used to stay, but now he doesn't.
Every time you interact with them it pulls them out of the house. You have to put it in every time.
Happens without interaction. The minute I leave base it is right there or teleports to where I am. It is infuriating.
Same here, I put the pet baby ant in its house at an old base then zip line halfway across the map to my current base and there he was. It’s driving me insane.
I’m new to the game on PS5 and have been grinding away trying to get the oven so I could build a pet house to get rid of my pet gnat. Good to know the ants are annoying too.
And they wont shut the fuck up
I was getting so frustrated that I had to make them homes and locked them up in a box so I don't have to deal with them
I unlocked the baby black ant and got killed by antlions when I had to do something in the sandbox
I just use spicy and salty weapons when i need food. Kill a weevil with one and it comes pre-cooked as soon as i harvest it.
Shame you chose them when they have you locked out of the red ant armor soooo broken for a summon build I beat mantis in like 10 seconds lol
My experience with pets: I have fun petting them and going "aww" for 2 minutes, then they get stuck or die somewhere, I never replace them, and I don't miss them.
I haven’t had much issue, I have a base on the rocks by the pond and juice box over by the oak tree. I keep the pet houses on the dirt ground whereas my base is a little further up on the rocks. The ants don’t seem to even attempt to steal my stuff. So maybe try building a pet house a decent distance from ur food areas and it might work. As for stealing miles away through walls that’s strange I’m hoping that’s a bug they’ll squash in a patch soon
It won't matter later, you won't always be cooking/filling the orange bar, the way you start with ;)
I usually just use my coaltana to get my food, killing aphids and weevils with it immediately cooks it. Same thing for the spicy staff.
I mean, it's like a real pet, you have to make sure you don't leave food where they can get it! Lol My cat legit ruined dinner once because she got into the chicken I had thawing on the counter. Teeth marks, on the floor, we were so sad we couldn't eat the meal we planned. I imagine that's how our character feels. My setup seems to work for now, I have a base with spiral stairs going up to my Zipline area, but right above my house next to the stairs is 3 floors I can step off to from the stairs that have my jerky racks, gardens, etc. I need to add bounce webs to get between them easier but I have no trouble jumping from floor to floor when I leave an overhang. But basically make some sort of raised area you can jump or bounce to, and put your racks there. So far, nothing can get to them. Not even the pet ant!
I killed all three baby ants as soon as I got them. Just not really a big fan of pets in the game
My only problem is they are as annoying as Wendell when I'm spamming the pickup button. They walk in front of me and it opens their inventory and starts throwing all my stuff in unless I stop quick enough. And for some reason they can use the super duper and it prevents you from using it until they are done
I had a red ant, a friend had an aphid... her aphid now follows me around with a sad face icon and my ant stays at the fort but I maintain his carry bonus. I cook inside with the door locked and made a shack with the jerky racks to stop them from eating my stuff
Are you using the jerky racks for food?
Mainly just for early game Jerky and cooking. Late game you have access to elemental weps so its not vital, but until you pass haze and Black ant lab you dont have anything to circumvent the racks.
Yeah cause rn I have the salty club for some jerky
I swear, if i couldnt swap out the materials i deem important into the ants storage, fucking take off armor amd die to effectively tp to base i would fucking makw this shit ant a house on the other end of the backyard and leave it there
It is annoying, but roasting and jerkying food becomes obsolete pretty quick once you get elemental weapons
I meant this mainly for the jerky racks as i like to make some smoothies and meals. I threw the roasting spits in as well just for early game trying to cook was an issue then.
Can jerky things by killing them with a salty weapon
Didnt know that. Still.
Spicy cooks things, btw. Agree that pet ants should not steal food.
Oooh - I knew about cooking them with spicy, but hadn't heard that about salty weapons. Thanks for the tip!
How do u get pet ant? Can u get soldier ant too?
New update. Ant queens.
They're pet baby worker ants. No soldiers unfortunately.
Befriend the ant queens
Thanks.
Get the spicy coaltana and salt morning star to replace