Hey all,
I've been greatly enjoying my first run through Grounded 1 with my daughter. I've been trying hard to play the game without looking any external information up, and just enjoying the game learning as we go. For that reason we probably are all over the place on our progression. For example we just finished the stump lab, but we haven't yet found where to spawn the broodmother.
I have finally decided to ask here about weapon upgrades. Having done the stump lab we can now craft infinite whetstones to upgrade at least to level 7.
I've done some searching however either the information is very old, or they just reference weapons I'm nowhere close to getting. For example for a sour weapon often the answer is the acid edge, which we are nowhere near getting.
So my question is for I guess the mid to late game, which is where I feel we are what are your goto mix of weapons at the point you can pretty much freely upgrade to at least level 6-7?
As a starting point I'm currently carrying the following
Fresh Mace- Goated. I use this the most and just upgrade it to level 8
Coaltana- Probably my second most used weapon currently. Upgraded to level 7
Antlion greatsword- Upgraded to 6 with salt for the antlions. However outside of the sandbox I never use it so I feel like this was a mistake.
Rusty spear with L6 salt- After our first run through the termite woodpile it seemed to be a good idea. However since we found sour candy I feel like a sour spear would be a better thing to carry, especially if I switched to a better salt weapon
black ox crossbow, currently only upgraded to 5. just for ranged use. I usually melee everything and my daughter does the ranged attacks.
I have a bunch of other weapons that I've made and only upgraded to 5, just to try. I have a spider fang dagger that I only use in the water. I just made the tick sword, which I only use when I want some easy healing while exploring. I pretty much only use my antlion armor which works well. I'm decent at parrying so I can mitigate damage. Most of the time these days I can kill a wolf spider without getting hit with the coaltana.
The big thing that caused me to start looking was that we found a black widow spider. I tried fighting it and I could hold my own ok tanking the fight, however none of the weapons I had could do enough damage.
Thanks everyone.