To create an ant club, you will need to kill ants, and worker ants are easy to defeat as long as you separate them from their friends. Armies of ants have been known to roam the Grounded world, and if you aggravate one within range of the others, you’ll likely die. Ants work together, remember this.
You can get ant parts from worker ants, but not ant mandibles. You have to get them from soldier ants and it is a tougher fight.
How to prepare to face soldier ants in Grounded
The best weapon to use before the Ant Club and to kill soldier ants is the weaker Spiky Sprig.
The Spiky Sprig, a good starting weapon.
The only complicated component needed to create the Spiky Sprig club is thistle needles, as twigs and plant fibers (for woven fibers) are found in the ground everywhere. Thistles are large plants with colorful purple tops and spiked leaves that, as far as I know, are indestructible and produce as many needles as you want to cut them with your Pebblet Axe. This is useful because Thistle Needles also produces arrows.
The thistles are scattered fairly close to the starting area, but the most conveniently located plant I found was near the water’s edge on the far side of the oak tree.
A view of my waterfront base from Oak Tree. The thistle plant is on the right and there is a research base dome on the left.
The rocky boardwalk is a rare open space where no creature other than the occasional friendly worker ant enters, making it an ideal spot for a lean-to bed to sleep through the night and a bench of work and storage.
Where is the waterfront base area on the map.
This location gives you access to a nearby research station or analysis of new materials, and access to an endless supply of acorns that provide materials to craft armor and food to eat. The river water can be drunk but is dirty, the negative effects of which you can counteract by eating more Acorn Pieces. I spent many quiet nights here.
In addition to the Spiky Sprig club you will need, as mentioned, Acorn Armor, which in addition to decent protection gives you a boost to your maximum health. (Note: It will be possible to make Ant Armor without killing Soldier Ants, but Acorn Armor has the same defense rating and gives you a boost to reach maximum health.)
Acorns are found scattered on the ground around the oak tree and harvested with a pebble hammer. Give an acorn a few hits and it will break into an acorn shell, an acorn top, and acorn pieces. Sometimes these move away because you’re on a hill, so make sure you pick everything up.
You will have a great time.
You’ll also need some sap for acorn armor, which you can easily find in orange blobs either on twigs or on the ground around the oak tree, or in large clumps that you can hit with your pebble hammer. You’ll find clovers near the water’s edge, right next to your makeshift base, and plant fibers in the soil nearby.
The only slightly annoying component is Mite Fuzz for the Acorn face mask (and other face masks). The mites are small, red, and very easy to kill, and you’ll be directed to a bunch of them by chewing on a wire early on as you try to reactivate the Mystery Machine. Save your Mite Fuzz from this encounter.
Acorn armor.
The only other thing you will need for all combat encounters are fiber bandages. They are made from Plant Sap and Fibers and both are easy to obtain. These bandages heal some health instantly and some over time. They are useful both in combat and outside of it to prepare to fight again.
Where to Find a Soldier Ant Location in Grounded
Once you have your acorn armor, Spiky Sprig club, and fiber bandages, and are well watered and fed, you’ll be ready to kill soldier ants.
The best place to do this is inside the Abandoned Anthill, where you won’t be bothered and there are only three ants. It will be marked on your map fairly soon.
In Abandoned Ant Hill you’ll find a soldier ant in the area where sunlight peeks through a hole in the tunnel above, and then two together further inside.
How to kill soldier ants in Grounded
When dealing with the couple, try to separate one from the other because two at a time will be difficult.
The first thing you should do before any type of combat in Single Player mode is Save your game.
Then, if you can, start the fight by throwing a Pebblet Spear at the soldier ant (you can pick it up later) to take away some health. Arrows also work, but deal less damage.
When in combat, pay attention to the soldier ant’s attack animation. It’s pretty clear, a pause and then a lunge, so try to time your block so that the lunge animation gets a perfectly timed parry. You will see small golden sparks if you do this and take no damage.
Also, try to dodge the ant while it attacks because sometimes it will miss.
It’s important to know that you’ll get stuck in a three-hit attack animation if you keep clicking attack, so don’t do it. You will deplete your stamina, making you unable to block and ruining the timing of your parry. Try to limit yourself to two hits after a block and then when you see stars around their head indicating they’re stunned, move in to capitalize.
When you kill the soldier ant, you’ll have the mandibles you need to make your Ant Club, and now you’re ready to kill a spider in Grounded.
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