Highlights
- Peeping in Grounded with the Peep A Creature mechanic is essential for gaining valuable information on bugs and enemies.
- Creature Cards provide details on bug locations, weaknesses, and recipe ingredients, aiding players in strategizing and planning.
- Collecting Gold Creature Cards can indicate rarer insects and enemies, making it a desirable goal just like collecting Pokemon cards in real life.
In Grounded, there are tonnes of bugs and enemies to discover in the giant backyard, open-world setting. Luckily Grounded has a valuable mechanic called Peep A Creature, enabling players to hold up their tiny, in-game hands binocular-style to zoom in on insects in range. Peeping gives players a wealth of handy information in the neat form of a Creature Card, in a nostalgic flashback to 90s playground card swapping and even the Pokemon-style collectible trading cards of today.
Players can only imagine how the game's playable characters, Max, Willow, Pete, and Hoops, might get out a shrunken-sized pack of cards from their mini pockets and rummage through them, comparing who has the shiniest collectibles. This guide explains how peeping itself is a useful gameplay strategy and what types of information Creature Cards give.
Updated April 22nd, 2024 by Russ Boswell: Peeping can be very useful in Grounded, especially when playing in a group. Peeping will allow players to mark enemies and keep track of other items on the map from a distance. It can also be used to collect creature cards, which can help players keep track of recipe parts and materials on the go. To better showcase how to use the Peep function in Grounded, the following guide has been updated with a companion video.
How To Peep A Creature
In Grounded, players can Peep A Creature using their PEEP.R goggles. When players come across a bug they want to peep, they must press Y on an Xbox controller to shift the camera into first-person mode, making their character form telescope or binocular-shaped hands to zoom in; an action that would make any pirate with a spyglass from Sea of Thieves gaze in wondrous awe at the magical motion. A black box with white question marks appears, indicating the creature is peepable. Players must press the RB button while the bug is still in view to peep, giving them its Creature Card in the player's Data menu.
It's worth noting that players can only peep a creature once. If they've already peeped an aphid, they cannot do so again. However, the game does keep track of the number of bugs players defeat, which is a nice touch. Pressing B on an Xbox controller returns the player to their previous viewpoint, whether switched to third or first-person.
Going into PEEP.R mode is also a handy method of zooming in on the backyard and locations yet to discover. If players build a base at a height, such as around the Great Oak Tree, they can peep to gain a good vantage point of different landmarks in the surrounding area and even place waypoints.
Types Of Creature Cards
There are 3 main categories of Creature Cards grouped into insect threat levels, plus standard and Gold varieties. Creature Cards are divided into Harmless, Angry, and Neutral. Harmless cards like aphids have no weaknesses or resistances listed, presumably because they cannot attack the player even if harmed. Guilt and evil-feeling levels may rise to the max whenever a player needs aphid meat.
Angry Creature Cards display insects in the yard that attack players on site, such as ferocious orb weavers. In contrast, Neutral Creature Cards feature bugs that are indifferent to player presence, but if the player attacks them, they fight back, like fireflies and ants.
As players unlock more Creature Cards by peeping bugs they encounter, they may notice that some cards are standard, normal Creature Cards, whereas others are Gold, like the various robots discoverable in BURG.L chip labs. Gold Creature Cards don't display or do anything different from the standard variety.
However, collecting them may indicate players have discovered rarer kinds of insects or enemies in the yard, making it more desirable to collect them all as any shiny trading card might. Players may also notice that Creature Cards are graded in a tier system, like weapons, armor, and tools like the Tier 2 shovel.
What To Do With Creature Cards
Although it's not possible to actively do anything with Creature Cards in-game, they contain a range of valuable information for players to support their gameplay decisions and strategy. Players can also get the 'Gotta Peep Them All' achievement by unlocking every Creature Card in Grounded. In the Data menu, Creature Cards give players the following information:
- Map area locations to find particular bugs. Finding specific bugs becomes much easier when players activate the Resource Surveyor, which pinpoints the exact locations of bugs on the map within a fixed radius of each Field Station. Til then, referring to Creature Cards for general well-known bug locations is handy for players looking for specific recipe ingredients, such as where to find Bombardier Beetles for those looking to make a Jerky Rack.
- The types of recipe ingredients insects drop when defeated, such as Spider Chunks and Web Fiber from Orb Weaver Spiders. This information can help players plan what bugs they must kill for the specific recipe parts they need for items they want to craft.
- Bug weaknesses, resistances, and weak points - this enables players to strategize and select the most suitable weapons, armor, and upgrades for the best chance of defeating specific insects, like Wolf Spiders and Stink Bugs, which can annihilate many players with their poison or gas attacks. Some creature cards show weak points, so players know where to target their attacks. When players have selected a Creature Card, if they press X on an Xbox controller, they can inspect the bug and turn the left analog stick to spin the creature around for a better view.
Grounded is available to play on PC, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S and is available to play on Xbox Game Pass.
