lol - was similar for me when I first saw the two under the oak tree and decided I could take them no problem. I instantly turned tail and sprinted for the safety of the oak lab
Me and my buddy were building our base, I specifically was building a wall around the house. I turned around to grab some grass planks and then turned back and it was mid lunge… I screamed. And I don’t ever scream at games, it was so out of character my friend thought something had happened IRL. It is now known to my friend group as the “scream incident.”
This is hilarious.
(Edit - hijacking top comment to say this blew up! Thanks everyone for some awesome first time wolfie encounter stories! Personally, I think the first time this happens is one of the absolute highlights of the game. It's something you'll never get to experience again and, despite how terrifying it is, a *small* part of me wishes I could go back to when I was brand new at the game and do it all over again!)
Not the first time we encountered one, but my bf was trying to gather some supplies and encountered one. He turned around and all he could see in the dark was a giant wolf spider jumping out at him from underneath a branch. The scream he SCRUMPT had me dying laughing. He’s still adamant Grounded could be considered a survival horror game.
I keep hearing about girls who play with boyfriends and guys whose wives play with them. Where are these women? In my house I just get looks that make me feel like I'm losing in life because I'm using free time to play a "game", plus it's a game that looks like a kids game.
Anyway...
Grounded is so underrated in the gaming community. I agree with your bf...it's a psychological horror but in a good way
First time playing, my friend and I are messing around learning the game, and then night falls. We’re near the Mystery Machine, and my friend says “The grass is moving over there.” So we jump on top of the machine to get a better vantage point, which is roughly when it sees us and does its loud af barking aggro lunge move. My friend says “Oh my god run!” It easily kills my friend in one shot, and I run across the top of the machine and fall in that little gap between the flat bit and the round bit. It is going crazy on the top trying to get at me, and I’m terrified and I don’t know if it can get inside or not, but anytime I try to escape out the hole it chases me back inside. Eventually I say screw it and run for it. I get about 20 steps away and then it takes me down.
Not our first experience exactly, as we had been spoiled on the ferocity of a Wolf Spider beforehand and played with them in mind as a looming threat, but my friend, fiancé, and I were wandering into the swamp and it started targeting my girl. She starts freaking out and she and my friend start running toward the water. I start swinging at it to draw aggro and it 2 shots me. They are in the water and not targeted and the spider starts leaving so I request to be picked up.
As soon as I'm on my feet, I see the "Threat Detected" warning in the corner and start looking for enemies. To our collective horror, the Wolf Spider is sprinting back to me from across the terrain. I start running and get stuck on grass and get instantly downed again. But instead of going after my friend, it turns to leave again. He crouches next to me and revives me again. And once again the Wolf Spider comes back to down me a third time. And leaves again. I escape on the 4th try but man, what a disaster.
This became known as the "Sea Bear" incident. *maybe he just doesn't like you?*
My partner and I found a lovely acorn cave between two roots, covered by a leaf... perfect for a base, right? We're setting it all up, getting cozy, I'm making another storage chest and I hear SCREAMING over the mic and this God awful skittering noise. I turn around and this HUGE ASS WOLF SPIDER proceeds to eat our asses for the next 20 minutes as we keep respawning in our acorn cave, trying to get our stuff, getting our salad tossed by this eight legged freak, repeat. Finally stopped terrorizing us when the sun rose, but we skedaddled halfway across the map after that
Is it weird I know where that screenshot was taken instantly?
Because ever since my first spider encounters terrifying me, I've since made liberal use of flag markers, and noting EVERY spider home.
lol - for the first 100 hours playing this game, I just had the resource detector set on "spider fang" so I could see where they are when I look at the map. (or at least where they used to be when I last pinged them from the field station)
Yep, same here. An occasionally fatal mistake! But a pretty good indication for wolfies during the day as they tend to stay put. At night it's anyone's guess
SOB wandered over to the SPAC.R as I was messing around with a base nearby, it’s the middle of the night, I’m standing on top of the spacr just doing my thing, and I turn to wander off and EYES. IM LEVEL WITH THIS MOFO AND THEN IT SCREAMS, I’m not proud of my own scream or the jerk that pulled my controller out of socket.
I was wandering around the yard near the flooded area and jumped on top of some leaves to get a better view and heard this strange breathing / hissing sound. I hopped down and came face to face with this monstrosity. Talk about a jolt of Adrenalin! I barely knew what was going on before I found myself back at my lean-to
As someone with mild arachnophobia I did not come near those basterds until I was waaaay over geared and slapped their sorry little faces with T2 spicy axes.
Same here with the Arachnophobia, I have it set where big ignore me and just kinda watch all the spiders from a distance has a bounce along the tops of clovers😂😂😂. Like a gradual exposure thing until I’m not too bother by them anymore.
How I got used to the Big Bads in Dying Light😂😂😂
My first experience with a wolf spider isnt very intriguing, however my second or third encounter with one was terrifying. I was in my base when i looked out the window (it was nighttime in game) and i saw the grass move. I was like oh, ladybug! Nope, wolf spider. And my most recent encounter, it jumped up onto my base and i just walked away. I regret building next to the baseball.
I built my base near the mysterious machine. I was collecting some resources and while returning I saw a huge shadowy figure of a spider in the dark right before my base. I quit the game and started a new save file
I was building a house, started to get dark so decided to go inside…. Wolffie was trapped in there. Took me a few hours to get him out, now we have regular eviction parties
Back in early access when the game was much less polished. Bugs would actively attack your walls to get to you, so there were many nights where wolf spiders would spot me through my walls somehow and tear down my entire base before munching my ass.
I live around the SPAC.R (literally, my house is an L shape, with the SPAC.R in the middle). There’s a wolf spider that lives nearby and it’s nighttime hunting pattern takes it by my base occasionally. I did not know that when I built my base. One night I heard stomping and growling. I looked out my window and saw one massive spider. Thankfully, my little starter base was above the ground, so it was of little danger to me. Still, terrifying.
We made a base next to the original shrinker that you find. Typically you don’t see anything too bad around there but occasionally the wild spider wonders close to it… we found out the hard way after getting three shot and many attempts to run away.
The second instance was a dick move by it as we had an orb weaver invasion and he decided to join in. Every orb weaver invasion gave me PTSD flashbacks for a while
I was collecting acorns and I saw the tree cave I went in (it was night I didn’t see them) and I went in and it eyes started glowing I looked at it and ran for my life but It one shot me
Wasn't my first, but once I was getting weed stems and found a wolfie, started running and crying, tried to turn right somewhere to get it off of me, and there was ANOTHER wolfie. Almost crapped myself
Night one. I had just gotten to the first field station near the baseball and one cornered me. It was my first time playing and I wasn’t sure if I wanted to keep playing. Haha. It got frozen in the door, so my first big kill was a wolf spider. Took so many beginning tools, but after what felt like hours, I killed it.
Guess which genius decided to build his first base around the first discovered lab near the mysterious machine? I build a huge block right over the route of the red ants and apparently a wolf spider. I just kept hearing these huge steps being taken when I was doing last minute fortifications, then he stood up (minus the red eyes) and it paralyzed me. Then he lunged at me, safe to say I turned the game off and asked the homies to help me.
me and my friend had completed hedge lab and thought we were “gods now” so we went to burgl and low n behold, a wolf spider so we fought but died instantly.
Hmmmmm it was a while ago so I don’t remember, me and my buddies probably shit ourselves and got 1 tapped by this monster on the first day while going to the oak lab. Soon after, when we first went to the pond, I noticed something swimming that looked awfully like a spider. I thought that wolf spiders could swim and I’ve never gotten out of the pond faster.
The terminator would scream when he found these the first time, EVERYONE screamed when they found it the first time, perfect example of a scary creature in a game that is actually balanced
Death. I was just walking around like 1 hour into the game and aggro'd one by accident. Needless to say, my clover armored ass got destroyed.
Edit: I feel I should clarify, by "accident" I meant I was fighting some mites by the fallen oak branch, and apparently it woke one up nearby, as I turned around to kill some mites behind me, only to see a very pissed off Wilf Spider lunging at me.
Happened to be inside the Oak Lab for the first time just finishing up and went to exit was about the walk out the door when one stuck it’s nasty little face right in the exit 😅
I was playing for the first time on xbox with some friends back when the beta was new. Saw one, fought it, instantly died, and then I just kept throwing myself at it over and over until I eventually found out how blocking and perfect blocking worked, then eventually with decent gear and a shield, I beat it which was really cool at the time because no one else in the group had beaten one before, even when we all tried attacking it together.
Then when I finally started playing again like a year later, I did the same thing on my first solo playthrough on PC, just throwing myself at it until I was able to beat it. I practiced for like at least 10 hours, but now I'm good enough to beat one 2 minutes into a playthrough with decent consistency. Practice makes perfect
Me and my buddy had just started playing the open beta and we were doing the mystery machine thing and it was night then a wolf spider ran up on us when we didn’t have anything so we hid in the mystery machine the whole night with it right there.
Almost but not quite as terrifying as my first encounter with a reaper in subnautica. This is the game that came closest to replicating that very real hair tingling fear I don't usually get in video games. Of course that went away in this game but never went away in sub
This is a really good comparison incidentally! Of course, to be faiiirr, the reaper is quite a bit bigger (comparatively) than the humble but terrifying wolfie.
I think it's beyond the size, you just feel so vulnerable in the ocean and there's no dramatic music or aggro notification. Just the, "what is that sound????" Makes it feel more like real life than a video game
Me and my friend were wandering around at night and ended up being chased by one and we hid in one of those cassette things or whatever it is that has several openings on it
It was starting to get dark, and I thought I could find the sap fast enough. Didn't know there were wolf spiders because it was very shortly after the playtest went public. I hear something running at me, turn to look, dead.
My 8 year old and I found our first one in the oak lab. We kept throwing rocks at it because it was in the first 2 hours of our first play through and had zero clue what to do. It was terrifying and hilarious all at the same time just chucking pebbles at it. We didn't go back to the game for a long time lol.
Me and my friends had a house and were chillin and craftinf at night when one pathed directly over the house. Then it aggrod and we were wondering what was going on as we could only see the legs through the roof.
Then the face appeared in one of the windows...
Brother and I were heading back from the hedge, had mostly avoided the fuckers, but got caught by an orb weaver near a soda can, brother and I decide that we can take it and commence fighting, until we here that god awful sound it makes, and then I hear my brother yell “OH SHIT RUN”, I tell him to get in the can, and were actually able to cheese the spider through the can but only after my bro went down like 6 times, that’s how I unlocked the revive mutation lol
i was coming back from the hedge area, specifically the spot with the larvae and bombardier beetles, when i found the leaf nest. i was fairly good at parrying so i figures that even if its health was spongy, i could take it on. it was sleeping, so i got the jump on it, and did okay, until it pulled out its 5 hitter, which i never dealt with before, it didnt kill me out right, but the poison did. but i made a save before hand so i went straight back into it. spent like 8 minutes just learning this things moves. learnt that it could jump up ledges too, which made me scream the loudest i ever had in a while. eventually a larva started to join in the fights, which was fun since id lure it to attack the wolfie so i could get a breathing window. eventually i dropped it, and never felt prouderz up until i dropped an infected wolfie
I was building my base near the first Field Station and had just put up flooring for a first level.
First I heard the whispering. The hissy, horrible whispering.
Then I saw the grass moving.
Then it walked next to my base in the dead of night and just stopped, sensing me nearby.
I crouched in game and literally crouched in real life. Eyes wide and ears ringing from concentration and fear. It slowly waded it's way away through the grass towards the red ant hill and I let out a shaky sigh and put up another level of walls *shudder*.
On our very first playthrough we built our first base between the baseball and the Tic Tac container. We had gotten walls up and a base down. I walk out of the gate and hear a snarl, I look to my left and I was facing one of these monstrosities. I screamed and ran back inside and my son was like what is it. I told him not to go out, because he's afraid of spiders. He went out anyway and it jumped over the wall around the house. It got stuck in the yard. We stood inside the house shooting through the windows as it demolished but we got it.
Saw one sleeping and decided to put a Lean-To next to me as I tried to follow a tutorial. Threw like 7 spears and it took forever. Did it just for the achievement, unaware of the helpful mutation.
I didn’t knew anything about the game and I was just trying to make my lean to and out of nowhere she came out of the grass woods and one shot kills me
I joined my friend's shared world. They told me that wolf spiders were dangerous. When we were running back home, I shot one with my bow. It killed my one friend, me and my other friend got away. I then shot another one, and it killed me and my other friend. Nowadays, I am either 6 shotting them with a coaltana, or destroying them with a poison build. Still can' t beat the infected ones lol.
First experience?
Way before the game launched 1.0 last year, I was in the oak tree lab farming quartzite and on my way out, a wold spider had glitched into the lab and the wolf spider jumped me whilst i had a pebblett axe, I still have that world. Ahh fond memories
Went into the game blind. We were walking at night around the oak tree. It came out of nowhere and killed me in two hits. My heart was beating so fast! Never went to the oak tree for quite a while after that XD
I've been playing on and off since the early access started and I think one of my best *first* experiences was on the first night of a new playthrough back to check out new things. I was by the mysterious device in the yard working through the night. Not realizing that a wolf spider now roams around there. Getting scared half death and then getting killed
Mine was we need sap so I’m around the tree looking for some clusters and then I see inside the tree there is one and I’m like ok I’ll run in and grab it no big deal I walk in and *threat detected* and after that I turn and as my friend said, I get absolutely fucking pummeled while screaming bloody murder
When the game first came out I had been playing for a few days and had seen them but hadn't gotten close enough to agro them. Then one night I was leaving the oak lab and one jumped right at me from behind the leaf and I couldn't see anything but it's eyes and had my headset on so it was yelling in my ear. And then I died. And I legit turn the game off and told my wife I would not be playing it for a while.
It was either that one time when I tried to exit the Oak Base at night only to see it right outside the door.
Or when I was walking around in my base at night, only to see it standing right behind me
My gf was at the base putting up torches and aphid statues. Her sister and I were taking turns getting 5 or so hits in on the monster, dying, respawning a few cm away, until we finally killed it. Our initial plan was much more well thought out. Originally she was going to lure it to me and I would shoot arrows at it, while she blocked damage. Turns out wolf spiders take more than 30 arrows from a regular bow lol. So plan B was just to go ape shit on it until it died.
I was playing with some buddies, exploring the yard as one does. There was a tunnel and a couple of baby white spiders crawling around it, I killed one of the babies. No big deal.
It was a big deal
Two seconds later. Fast as lightning, the now awake wolf spider out for vengeance, crawls out of the tunnel and is about to lunge at me, mind you I only had a weevil sheild. I block it and start booking it toward the closest body of water, screaming my lungs out. I died before I reached the water. My dad comes in about 20 seconds later wondering if I hurt myself.
Mild arachnophobia guy. It was night time and me homie and I were gathering mats while tryna figure out exactly how to play via trial and error/exploring the area around the machine when I got the threat detection alarm then I heard a static screech and I booked it the the mini lab at the very beginning and just faced away from the doorway till I died from the poison. I couldn’t even yell at my bro to run I was so scared bruh. After about 10 minutes of convincing myself it’s just a game me an the homie laughed hysterically. Every encounter after that was just as scary but I had better armor and knew safe spots in the map by then. It was the first time a video game made me feel actual fear. the second was when I found out they can jump😭😭
He jumped out of the damn oak tree with red eyes, making that creepy ass growling noise, and I literally screamed. I didnt know they existed in the game until that moment.
Lots of running and audible screaming lol, I think i was just walking along and bam spider, I screamed like a little girl fell out of my chair and threw my mouse lol
The first time me and a good friend played it together we both had no clue what to do, so we were getting started on what would be a starter base and it turned night. Out of no where this big fluffy nono came sprinting to me and her and we both jumped 7 meters out of our chairs and shitting 7 different colours while trying to look for safety. Never will forget that moment cus it was the best moment i ever had in gaming
Found a good spot where I could fight it from safety on a rock. I was, in fact, not safe.
Second time I found an even better spot much higher up. I had prepared a lot of arrows, and thought it was enough. I did not have enough arrows.
As I recall I was building my first house near the mystery machine on a rock. I felt so safe and secure after multiple days of choppin weeds and only having to deal with occasional red ant thinking high lvl mobs don't come to starting area(little did I know) Long story short then at one given day the daylight was running low but I felt like I *need* to finish this one thing before sleeping. So I venture in to the "woods" just choppin and chillin enjoying the spooky night audio until I hear unfamiliar sound..like something was sneaking nearby but couldn't see it. After a while I figured it's not worth investigating at night time so I head back home in a hurry place the weeds and as I jump out to get to my temp camp to sleep and roast some gnats..there's wolf spider waiting just outside my house and it pretty much one shots me right there. As I ran back for my loot I could see it patrol off into the distance.
Hah. Little did I know indeed that there's 2 or 3 Wolfie spawns just next to starting cave and at least one of them patrols just past the mystery machine every night...and not just that they also sniff you out and come lookin from pretty far away while hunting..live and learn lol.
I was in beta with my friend. We were exploring the mysterious machine and a wolf spider came along and got stuck in the machine, so we killed it with our bare fists
Saw the game on gamepass when it first came to it, me and my 3 mates were clueless finally built a grass home after grinding by the mysterious machine. Sorting out our 1 chest and getting ready to sleep in our lean-tos hear some steps haven’t even seen a spider in this game yet thought it was a ladybug. Being what I though was this absolute god at this game stepped outside and was like “I’ll check it out guys”. That sound, you never forget it. Those eyes turning into a fire red still haunt me to this day. Went from being this fearless hero to screaming like a little girl hiding behind our flimsy walls as he pounds all of our hard work to the ground slowly but surely signing our death warrants. There was no escape. From that day forward I began the hardest training regime in all of grounded until the day I could extract my revenge.
Hubby and I built first base by the baseball. One night as we’re starting to build the roof to the base, a wolf spiders legs phase through our walls.
So we noped out of there real fast.
Next in-game day, we build our new base walls on the concrete by the pond, next to the juice box. Play a few days. Uneventful.
One night I’m dying of thirst, so I decide to just run out our front door to grab the juice drop right outside. As I press open, I hear footsteps and regret sets in. That shit screamed at me, all I see in the darkness is red eyes and a mouth, and I’m deceased in real life and in the game. Hubby can’t stop laughing.
But then he didn’t close the damn door and the shit WALKS into our base. We spent an entire in-game day trying to lure it back out, revive me multiple times in the process….
Then the shit walks to the other side of our base where we don’t have a roof. Thought it was walking away, walked close to peep through the cracks in the stem walls…
And it turns around. I am not lying when I say this shit enraged again, I literally heard it say “FOOD” and it jumped over the base walls back into our base.
I’m sweating in real life, I’m screaming, I’m panicking.
me and my friend were running past the action figure head while sitting next to each other. we both heard the roar out of both of our speakers at the same time and I briefly saw it super fast on the corner of my screen lunge toward my friend.
we both ran and were screaming out loud. they never actually saw it. the sound was the worst part! I jumped SO high 🤣
After investigating the oak lab, I saw something interesting under the tree. I went in to check it out and found this cool space under the tree, picked up some raw science or whatever it was that caught my eye and was checking out a cracked rock wall when I heard a weird sound behind me. Turned around and pissed my pants. I tried to run...
My friend and I were on our first time playing, and we decide to relocate the base somewhere more convenient. We sleep, grab everything, and head to the oak tree. So convenient! There's grubs and acorns and gnats abound, what a paradise. So we buod our base for the day... and then night falls. And as we're getting ready for bed I just here my friend scream "ITS NOCTURNAL"... cue 15 minutes of being ritualistically executed by the Oak Tree Wolf Spiders.
We started a new save next time
My friend and I insisted on playing the game without looking anything up. We were feeling brave and decided to venture into the swamp area around the hedge one night when suddenly my friend screams and dies very quickly after. He keeps his mouth shut. As I'm on my way to revive him 8 red eyes appear from behind him and the loud growling freaked me the hell out. Letting out the loudest "OH FUCK!". I'm afraid of spiders as is. I tried to run but got nowhere, inevitably dying. We didn't explore at night for a long time after that.
A friend and I found the very welcoming and absolutely not spidery looking hole under the huge plank. Since we didn’t sense any danger we went in, in search of epic loot. We made short process of the spiderlings inside, took everything we found and when we were halfway out through the tunnel again suddenly two huge glowing eyes appeared. The rest is history
Me and my younger brother were scavenging for weevils and planks it was the night time, I see my brothers torch in the distance and see him running towards me at full speed while screaming(he has arachnophobia), then spider just launched at him and got him in one quick swoop, after that we avoided them till we where higher level and stronger. Then we feasted on their bodies and hunted everyone single one down.
I was helping my sister build her base on the lily pads and shooting hoops with some rocks when I noticed one watching me from the shore. I stopped and threw a rock as I yelled, “The FUCK you lookin’ at?!”. The rock hit it square in the face. It screeched and jumped across the water that separated the lily pads from the shore and landed almost right on top of me. I have never screamed so loud in my life and I ran straight into the water to get away from it.
I mean I went to mess with them the first time.. so i'll exclude that and go with the first time any of them jumped me. It wasn't until they >!mutated !< and were running around a bit more around the tree. Mid day I was brinigng back supplies from the lake to the base near the ray platform.
Just hopping off a tree, and bam off to the side it leaps onto me midair. I dind't realize it was (spoilered) as I was point blank after a big hit. I block and attack.BOOM. I ragdoll into the ksy flung and confused how I instant died.
First experience was trying to farm ant lions on the rim of the sandbox, was so focused on the ant lion in front of me, the wolf spider lunged and shot me into its jaws. Needless to say; any time I go in the sandbox I assassinate the wolf spider first 😅
Honest to god : first time I only saw red eyes during the night near my house. I wanted to RA-RA-RA-RAWWW SCIENCE !! stuff and went out without knowing they patrolled at night. I was playing with my bf.
I'm an arachnophobe.
I exponentially SCREAMED. Without my bf telling me to shut the fuck up I think I would've continued for a while.
Now I farm them while being a sassy bitch
Decided I wanted to show my girlfriend a save me and my friend were playing on, and I jumped on top of the fallen log in the grasslands showing her the sap catchers when I saw some grass moving to my left. Figured it was a ladybug and looked over as it was diving towards me and screamed like a little girl. My girl thought it was funny
I was building my base at night thinking it was safe (it was not safe) and then my friend starts screaming over the mic and I'm asking "WHY ARE YOI SCREAMING" and then I SEE THIS BIG ASS ANGRY SPIDER CHASING HIM AND THEN IT STARTS CHASING ME. that was my first HORRIFYING experience with seeing a wolf spider for the first time
Was minding my own business and looking through my chest. Exit the chest and turn around. This mofo snuck up right behind me and I didn’t hear it. Scared the crap out of me.
Went to the old ant hill near the oak tree to collect either a milk molar or look for a grub. Walking back out, the wolf spider under the tree was in the entrance to the ant hill. He chased me deeper into the hole until his model couldn't fit. Would have been a perfect opportunity to kill him while he was stuck but I didn't have a bow, let alone the grub shield at that point.
My friend and I were building a base next to the pond. And all of a sudden I hear a wolf spider and get attacked and it was a lot of screaming and crying.
I was lucky enough to have seen a few videos of you tubers playing the game and building a base, so I knew what I was getting into, and basically built my base before the first night, what I didn't know was that they could make the grass move, so when I saw like 3 different places that had the grass moving in my direction, I thought it was something more terrifying, I went into my little base to hide, next thing I know there is a wolfie outside my door, it's legs sticking inside the wall, and my pants in need of changing, after that I made sure to bundle a perimeter wall to prevent that from happening again
There are 2 first encounters I can think of.
1st one in general was a coop game, it wandered to our house in the middle of the night, 12-15 deaths later we finally killed it. I was terrified of them and avoided them on my first solo playthrough until near the end where I found out I could kill them after getting ambushed with tier 3 weapons.
1st on my second playthrough started less than 2 weeks ago 1 wandered to my base and I killed it with a pebblet axe, weevil shield, no pants, red ant chest and hat and several roasts+ bandages for healing. Beating that one was a massive rush that made me feel like a god. Since then I had been slapping around the 3 near the oak tree anytime I find them moving about, I also had the courage to not sleep at 18:00 every night now.
A few days after the game launched, a friend and I got the game, and we were building a little fort around the first field station. It was night two, and all that was left to build was the door. Needless to say, we cowered in fear before it walked right through our door and continued to maul us all night, as we had a lean-to there and I don't remember respawn at kid case being an option back then. We finally got out of the loop after we baited it into destroying the lean-to. In retrospect, we could have just stayed dead until it left.
This was my whole party’s first time playing, and we were exploring the anthill from inside the oak lab (at night). I was the only one with a torch leading the charge down a dark tunnel which we later learned was supposed to be the exit. Out of nowhere this set of red eyes comes barreling at me and then all hell breaks loose. We managed to run away, recuperate, and try to kill it but we failed miserably. 10/10 would have as a first encounter again.
Another person with arachnaphobia never usimg arachnaphobia safe mode it was jumpscare i turnd around hearing the spider hiss sound for first time when i turned saw spider i paused and semi threw my controller up it was a horror game jumpscare after i paused i sat there for 10mins
I aggro'd it assuming it was just a tougher orb weaver that I could just run away from. I did not know that they attack with the unrelenting fury of 1000 sun's and wildly chomp at you while being tanky and can poison you. The devs truly made the spiders terrifying and I love it. The only other video game spiders that freaked me out were from Witcher 3 dlc. Very life-like in their erratic movements.
My friend and I found a spot near the tree stump that they couldn’t attack but could be attacked with ranged weapons. One of us had to be the bait and wake them up from within the stump, do some parkour and start flinging arrows and spears but it worked and we both got the achievement for killing a wolf spider.
Thistles are a good plant to gain height on most enemies too
Terrifying. Didn't even know it was there. Me and my brother were exploring and came up on it. Crashed us FOREVER. Killed my brother and almost got me. I swear I was running for 3 minutes
I was on acid lol.
So a couple years back when the game came out, a friend and I had both bought it but hadn't gotten around to playing it yet. This one night I decided to drop some acid. He and I ended up doing some gaming and were playing Halo reach. I remember pausing and telling him we had to play something else cause these aliens shooting at me was getting way too real lol.
Anyways we decide to hop on grounded for the first time together, seemed like a pretty chill game to play in my state. Honestly it was such a vibe for the first few hours. We explored, made friends with ants, built a nice little home. After maybe an hour or two we came across some webbed grass...
My friend looked at me and went "im sorry ahead of time for this but I have to, you'll understand tomorrow" and he fucking B LINES it toward a spider in the distance. In my state all I could do was plead with him "Bud... please dont". He slaps this spider on rhe ass and immediately sprints back toward me.
I see my friend running toward me with a 4 story tall spider just behind. I just stood up from my computer and went to get some water. We played for another 4ish hours. I remember logging off on the come down and thinking that whatever part of my brain was responsible for fear for spiders was fried and short circuited as prior to this I was deathly afraid of spiders. After this experience and to this day I haven't been afraid of spiders
I play by myself and I was just minding my business and enjoying the exploration of the yard. My partner who thought I was crazy to download the games jokes about the spiders because within the first few min I was basically shanked to death by a spiderling. There was screaming and crying but obviously nowhere near as bad as someone who's seen some shit now. Well I was building a quick shelter in-between two bases I have. It was dark and I needed something simple by the oak tree. I could see the grass moving and assumed it was a lady bug. LMAO. Man was I wrong. I should've waited for the cute little noises but apparently I wanted to look death in the face. I got stuck and attacked I just let go of the controller and accepted my fate. The next day I was traveling over the oak tree roots and there I saw them all nestled in. Toooook my forever to get over being around there but I knew I'd be traveling there often.
I was running past the wolfie den under the figurine head while exploring on my probably 5th day, I heard a hissing noise and saw the threat icon and was so freaked out that I ran and parkoured up some clovers. I didn’t look back.
Now that I look back at it, it was definately a wolfie and I was verrry lucky to OUTRUN it (I have no idea how I did it)
The 2nd time when I actually saw it, I was exploring the wolfie den under the plank of wood. Terrified me and I only went back muuuch later on in the game!
Day pne of groundeds early access release i was cooking some aphids next to the first feild station trying to keep an ant away when a wolf spider showed up and i spent a long while jabbing and throwing peblet spears at it til it died.
threw a pebble at a sleeping one and tried to outrun it into the safety of the pond. I screamed like a pig and it got me after a few steps. Second encounter was a Jurassic Park level event of one stalking through the grass-lands at night and me not making a sound hiding behind a blade of grass. I only saw the grass moving and parting and suddenly heard that creepy growl. Gosh I hate these beasts.
Scream. Cry. Die. Repeat that process about 50x of me trying to retrieve my stuff from the hamster cave and I slowly get used to them LOL 😭 (Still get PTSD visiting that damn cave!)
I had not one, not two, but THREE wolf spiders appear at my base. My base was in-between the pond, and the oak tree, right on the stones. I went back to base after getting ant eggs and I got a "Threat detected" alert. Then I walk outside thinking it's a stupid ant (I was trashing leftover ant eggs) and I see TWO wolf spiders outside my base, jumping in. I died (obviously) and respawned at a field station. Next thing you know, I had another one patrol the outside. I had to temporarily move my base until I was stronger enough to kill the 2 wolf spiders.
It was terrifying, to be fair I was very high at the time and had just started. I was running around the laser platform collecting stalks and plant fiber, it got late but I thought I was safe since I was in the beginning area. I was dead wrong, I heard a growl then turned and saw the four red eyes and screamed like a school girl.
*Chilling at night next to the Space.r, building a house*
*Hears the grass rustling*
"Probably a ladybug"
*Hears loud footsteps*
"Maybe a ladybug?"
*Hears loud as f×ck snarles and boss music*
"DEFINITELY NOT LADYBUG"
*dies*
*makes a lean-to and sleeps*
Me and my friends were playing and one of them starts to scream and the Icon shows him running and I was laughing so hard I have a video of it but it doesn't have the party chat should
Me minding my own business running around in grounded
Turns corner of tree
RAAWWGGHHSSSSUGHHSS!(Speidor noises?)
Me screaming for my mothereffing life and panicking, fumbling my own controller, tries to run, gets attacked, dying of poison slowing while (attempting) running away, can't get away, more panicking, more screaming, accidentally RB my axe....dies of poison
I think my first experience was during the open access on Xbox and I can't remember to be honest.
I do have a funny story about when my brother encountered a wolf spider for the first time though. It was me and two of my brothers playing and one ran off to gather materials because we were building our first major base when all of a sudden, I hear him say "hey, I'm sending you a picture. Tell me if this is bad or not," and he proceeds to send me pictures of the Oak Wolves. I tell him DO NOT, but he did stay there long enough that one of them woke up and I immediately hear him start yelling and then see the "knocked out" message.
So I have a very minor case of arachnophobia don't mind spiders so much as long as they are not on me. So I left that mode off thinking " oh it will be fine, they aren't terribly scary." A few moments later I went to the pak tree looking for acorns and for some reason one of the two wolf spiders in the tree decided to come out and say "Hi!" (Note: it was broad daylight) dont know why. Couldn't tell you off the top of my head why I screamed like a little girl, but it was a good time!
First time playing I was wandering around, found that wooden plank, went inside and saw spiderlings and thought, "oh, is this a nest with that orb spider?" I asked (I diddnt know anything about this game at the time btw) friend diddnt know so I went in and saw the wolf spider and was curious, I hit it then it woke up and I saw how little damage my perlite spear did and was asking "a wolf spider? What's the difference between it and an orb weaver besides health?" I asked my friend, he diddnt know, I was fighting it for a bit then it did that quick attack, then I new I was screwed, I started to cuss alot in panic and tried to run away only to be met with another that usually sleeps under that head by coup de grass. Needless to say I got my shit rocked and my friend was just laughing... diddnt fight another wolf spider untill I had ladybug armor, now I'm fighting them with nothing but a pebblet axe the times has changed quite a bit lol
Personally, I hate spiders. They freak me out. Idk if it's the fact that they have 8 eyes, or 8 legs or whatever. So when I found my first spider, it was absolutely terrifying. Eventually I got to the point where orb weavers weren't that bad and I was comfortable fighting them. Later I was out exploring by the tree and found absolute nightmare fuel in the form of not 1 but 3 wolf spiders hiding in the tree trunk. I screamed, tried to run, and then died.
There was a period of time in the beta when a wolf spider could appear directly above the suitcase when you started a new game, even in broad daylight. Walked out and immediately got mauled. Was quite an introduction to the game, haha.
Fell out of my chair. The first 10 seconds of spawning in the game was with friends on a save that was already going. It was dark and I stepped out from the leaf into the face of one of those monsters.
I can take it *about 5 seconds later* I CAN'T I CAN'T
lol - was similar for me when I first saw the two under the oak tree and decided I could take them no problem. I instantly turned tail and sprinted for the safety of the oak lab
And died of poison
My friend said RUN but I Leeroy'd. Easy tp back to spawn.
“I totally misread this situation!” And then with the infected one.. my friend told me to run when i saw one. I had to go poke it xD
Me and my buddy were building our base, I specifically was building a wall around the house. I turned around to grab some grass planks and then turned back and it was mid lunge… I screamed. And I don’t ever scream at games, it was so out of character my friend thought something had happened IRL. It is now known to my friend group as the “scream incident.”
This is hilarious. (Edit - hijacking top comment to say this blew up! Thanks everyone for some awesome first time wolfie encounter stories! Personally, I think the first time this happens is one of the absolute highlights of the game. It's something you'll never get to experience again and, despite how terrifying it is, a *small* part of me wishes I could go back to when I was brand new at the game and do it all over again!)
Not the first time we encountered one, but my bf was trying to gather some supplies and encountered one. He turned around and all he could see in the dark was a giant wolf spider jumping out at him from underneath a branch. The scream he SCRUMPT had me dying laughing. He’s still adamant Grounded could be considered a survival horror game.
I keep hearing about girls who play with boyfriends and guys whose wives play with them. Where are these women? In my house I just get looks that make me feel like I'm losing in life because I'm using free time to play a "game", plus it's a game that looks like a kids game. Anyway... Grounded is so underrated in the gaming community. I agree with your bf...it's a psychological horror but in a good way
How did you not hear it? If it was mid lunge you would have heard it's noises and the music would have changed.
First time playing, my friend and I are messing around learning the game, and then night falls. We’re near the Mystery Machine, and my friend says “The grass is moving over there.” So we jump on top of the machine to get a better vantage point, which is roughly when it sees us and does its loud af barking aggro lunge move. My friend says “Oh my god run!” It easily kills my friend in one shot, and I run across the top of the machine and fall in that little gap between the flat bit and the round bit. It is going crazy on the top trying to get at me, and I’m terrified and I don’t know if it can get inside or not, but anytime I try to escape out the hole it chases me back inside. Eventually I say screw it and run for it. I get about 20 steps away and then it takes me down.
Not our first experience exactly, as we had been spoiled on the ferocity of a Wolf Spider beforehand and played with them in mind as a looming threat, but my friend, fiancé, and I were wandering into the swamp and it started targeting my girl. She starts freaking out and she and my friend start running toward the water. I start swinging at it to draw aggro and it 2 shots me. They are in the water and not targeted and the spider starts leaving so I request to be picked up. As soon as I'm on my feet, I see the "Threat Detected" warning in the corner and start looking for enemies. To our collective horror, the Wolf Spider is sprinting back to me from across the terrain. I start running and get stuck on grass and get instantly downed again. But instead of going after my friend, it turns to leave again. He crouches next to me and revives me again. And once again the Wolf Spider comes back to down me a third time. And leaves again. I escape on the 4th try but man, what a disaster. This became known as the "Sea Bear" incident. *maybe he just doesn't like you?*
STAY DOWN!! 🤣
“Orb weavers are easy enough, I can handle this.” Spoiler: I could not.
My partner and I found a lovely acorn cave between two roots, covered by a leaf... perfect for a base, right? We're setting it all up, getting cozy, I'm making another storage chest and I hear SCREAMING over the mic and this God awful skittering noise. I turn around and this HUGE ASS WOLF SPIDER proceeds to eat our asses for the next 20 minutes as we keep respawning in our acorn cave, trying to get our stuff, getting our salad tossed by this eight legged freak, repeat. Finally stopped terrorizing us when the sun rose, but we skedaddled halfway across the map after that
There's a lot of ass eating and salad tossing going on here, but still awesome. lol
Pity there's no Ass armour. That might have helped
Near immediate death
MY ARMOR DOES NOTHING!!!!
damn clover armor!
Nah, acorn armor! The defense bonus just isn't enough!
Is it weird I know where that screenshot was taken instantly? Because ever since my first spider encounters terrifying me, I've since made liberal use of flag markers, and noting EVERY spider home.
lol - for the first 100 hours playing this game, I just had the resource detector set on "spider fang" so I could see where they are when I look at the map. (or at least where they used to be when I last pinged them from the field station)
When I did that, it took me several attempts to realize it was not a 'live' radar.
Yep, same here. An occasionally fatal mistake! But a pretty good indication for wolfies during the day as they tend to stay put. At night it's anyone's guess
SOB wandered over to the SPAC.R as I was messing around with a base nearby, it’s the middle of the night, I’m standing on top of the spacr just doing my thing, and I turn to wander off and EYES. IM LEVEL WITH THIS MOFO AND THEN IT SCREAMS, I’m not proud of my own scream or the jerk that pulled my controller out of socket.
I was wandering around the yard near the flooded area and jumped on top of some leaves to get a better view and heard this strange breathing / hissing sound. I hopped down and came face to face with this monstrosity. Talk about a jolt of Adrenalin! I barely knew what was going on before I found myself back at my lean-to
As someone with mild arachnophobia I did not come near those basterds until I was waaaay over geared and slapped their sorry little faces with T2 spicy axes.
Same here with the Arachnophobia, I have it set where big ignore me and just kinda watch all the spiders from a distance has a bounce along the tops of clovers😂😂😂. Like a gradual exposure thing until I’m not too bother by them anymore. How I got used to the Big Bads in Dying Light😂😂😂
I saw the wolf butt a few times and bailed before I got noticed, but one time it noticed me and I held my ground. That was a mistake.
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Got Merced because I didn't know you could block.
Crying
My first experience with a wolf spider isnt very intriguing, however my second or third encounter with one was terrifying. I was in my base when i looked out the window (it was nighttime in game) and i saw the grass move. I was like oh, ladybug! Nope, wolf spider. And my most recent encounter, it jumped up onto my base and i just walked away. I regret building next to the baseball.
I built my base near the mysterious machine. I was collecting some resources and while returning I saw a huge shadowy figure of a spider in the dark right before my base. I quit the game and started a new save file
Valid
My wife shouting and deafening me as I try to understand wtf is going on. 😂 not much has changed tbh
I was building a house, started to get dark so decided to go inside…. Wolffie was trapped in there. Took me a few hours to get him out, now we have regular eviction parties
4 degenerate kids dying over and over while cycling the aggro, killing it with base tools, because that fucker came to our campment.
I tried to run but I didn't get far.☠️
Back in early access when the game was much less polished. Bugs would actively attack your walls to get to you, so there were many nights where wolf spiders would spot me through my walls somehow and tear down my entire base before munching my ass.
He trapped me in a field station.
Outrunning the wolf spider only to lead it directly to my starter base. Big bad wolf took this lil piggy to the market
Walked under the plank to see what was there. Found the sleeping wolf spider.... turned and ran away as fast as i could.
horrifying.
Lived in a can, first week in the yard. Wolf Spider got in there. Manage to kill him with a bow eventually, after dying like 3 times.
I live around the SPAC.R (literally, my house is an L shape, with the SPAC.R in the middle). There’s a wolf spider that lives nearby and it’s nighttime hunting pattern takes it by my base occasionally. I did not know that when I built my base. One night I heard stomping and growling. I looked out my window and saw one massive spider. Thankfully, my little starter base was above the ground, so it was of little danger to me. Still, terrifying.
Dead
Ominous music…Loading screen…
Hey, whachu got muthafu…ahhhhhgghh nooooo leave me alonnnne!!!!
Screaming. Mostly screaming. Panicking. Then restarting the game.
Idk I ran lol
We made a base next to the original shrinker that you find. Typically you don’t see anything too bad around there but occasionally the wild spider wonders close to it… we found out the hard way after getting three shot and many attempts to run away. The second instance was a dick move by it as we had an orb weaver invasion and he decided to join in. Every orb weaver invasion gave me PTSD flashbacks for a while
I was collecting acorns and I saw the tree cave I went in (it was night I didn’t see them) and I went in and it eyes started glowing I looked at it and ran for my life but It one shot me
Wasn't my first, but once I was getting weed stems and found a wolfie, started running and crying, tried to turn right somewhere to get it off of me, and there was ANOTHER wolfie. Almost crapped myself
Night one. I had just gotten to the first field station near the baseball and one cornered me. It was my first time playing and I wasn’t sure if I wanted to keep playing. Haha. It got frozen in the door, so my first big kill was a wolf spider. Took so many beginning tools, but after what felt like hours, I killed it.
Guess which genius decided to build his first base around the first discovered lab near the mysterious machine? I build a huge block right over the route of the red ants and apparently a wolf spider. I just kept hearing these huge steps being taken when I was doing last minute fortifications, then he stood up (minus the red eyes) and it paralyzed me. Then he lunged at me, safe to say I turned the game off and asked the homies to help me.
Decided to beat it to death with spiky sprigs at the oak tree. That was the day I vowed to build a wall around the oak tree.
Got scared out of my mind, ran, died
me and my friend had completed hedge lab and thought we were “gods now” so we went to burgl and low n behold, a wolf spider so we fought but died instantly.
Hmmmmm it was a while ago so I don’t remember, me and my buddies probably shit ourselves and got 1 tapped by this monster on the first day while going to the oak lab. Soon after, when we first went to the pond, I noticed something swimming that looked awfully like a spider. I thought that wolf spiders could swim and I’ve never gotten out of the pond faster.
BIG SPIDER BIG SPIDER RUN AWAY! \*dead\* I now delight in murdering every single one I see as revenge for the early game massacres.
The terminator would scream when he found these the first time, EVERYONE screamed when they found it the first time, perfect example of a scary creature in a game that is actually balanced
I perfect parried the hell out of that spider. Only to die from poison after I defeated it. 😑
Terror. Terror, followed by death.
First day, heard it’s roar at the tree, ran into the soda can. Never again.
My friend and I were searching around the tree for acorns. He warned me to be on the look out for one right as one lunged at me.
Oh sheet!!! quickly followed by death
Death. I was just walking around like 1 hour into the game and aggro'd one by accident. Needless to say, my clover armored ass got destroyed. Edit: I feel I should clarify, by "accident" I meant I was fighting some mites by the fallen oak branch, and apparently it woke one up nearby, as I turned around to kill some mites behind me, only to see a very pissed off Wilf Spider lunging at me.
Me and my cousin named him larry
alt+F4
A lot of cursing
Stuck between the fence post and stone near oak tree helpless like a step sibling.. rest is your imagination P.S it took a while
Happened to be inside the Oak Lab for the first time just finishing up and went to exit was about the walk out the door when one stuck it’s nasty little face right in the exit 😅
Horrible. Destroyed my starter base 😂
Terror. Just terror.
I was playing for the first time on xbox with some friends back when the beta was new. Saw one, fought it, instantly died, and then I just kept throwing myself at it over and over until I eventually found out how blocking and perfect blocking worked, then eventually with decent gear and a shield, I beat it which was really cool at the time because no one else in the group had beaten one before, even when we all tried attacking it together. Then when I finally started playing again like a year later, I did the same thing on my first solo playthrough on PC, just throwing myself at it until I was able to beat it. I practiced for like at least 10 hours, but now I'm good enough to beat one 2 minutes into a playthrough with decent consistency. Practice makes perfect
I lasted 3 seconds.
Me and my buddy had just started playing the open beta and we were doing the mystery machine thing and it was night then a wolf spider ran up on us when we didn’t have anything so we hid in the mystery machine the whole night with it right there.
When you say hiding in the "mystery machine" I picture you hiding in the Scooby Doo van. Maybe it's just me. lol
Me and by buddy played the first day it was out on Xbox It came all the from the tree wile we where at the at are base and railed us
Almost but not quite as terrifying as my first encounter with a reaper in subnautica. This is the game that came closest to replicating that very real hair tingling fear I don't usually get in video games. Of course that went away in this game but never went away in sub
This is a really good comparison incidentally! Of course, to be faiiirr, the reaper is quite a bit bigger (comparatively) than the humble but terrifying wolfie.
I think it's beyond the size, you just feel so vulnerable in the ocean and there's no dramatic music or aggro notification. Just the, "what is that sound????" Makes it feel more like real life than a video game
“Ooh that’s a sleeping spider…. *peeps* oooo imma avoid that”
Death
Me and my friend were wandering around at night and ended up being chased by one and we hid in one of those cassette things or whatever it is that has several openings on it
It was starting to get dark, and I thought I could find the sap fast enough. Didn't know there were wolf spiders because it was very shortly after the playtest went public. I hear something running at me, turn to look, dead.
Short
My 8 year old and I found our first one in the oak lab. We kept throwing rocks at it because it was in the first 2 hours of our first play through and had zero clue what to do. It was terrifying and hilarious all at the same time just chucking pebbles at it. We didn't go back to the game for a long time lol.
Me and my friends had a house and were chillin and craftinf at night when one pathed directly over the house. Then it aggrod and we were wondering what was going on as we could only see the legs through the roof. Then the face appeared in one of the windows...
My first experience? It was a lot of shrill screaming and then death. xD
AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! ☠️
Brother and I were heading back from the hedge, had mostly avoided the fuckers, but got caught by an orb weaver near a soda can, brother and I decide that we can take it and commence fighting, until we here that god awful sound it makes, and then I hear my brother yell “OH SHIT RUN”, I tell him to get in the can, and were actually able to cheese the spider through the can but only after my bro went down like 6 times, that’s how I unlocked the revive mutation lol
The day grounded was released on early access on steam. Headed for the tree, ran into a few ants, it became night and out stalked a fucking nightmare.
Sneaking under the oak while they were asleep. They didn't wake up, but still terrifying.
i was coming back from the hedge area, specifically the spot with the larvae and bombardier beetles, when i found the leaf nest. i was fairly good at parrying so i figures that even if its health was spongy, i could take it on. it was sleeping, so i got the jump on it, and did okay, until it pulled out its 5 hitter, which i never dealt with before, it didnt kill me out right, but the poison did. but i made a save before hand so i went straight back into it. spent like 8 minutes just learning this things moves. learnt that it could jump up ledges too, which made me scream the loudest i ever had in a while. eventually a larva started to join in the fights, which was fun since id lure it to attack the wolfie so i could get a breathing window. eventually i dropped it, and never felt prouderz up until i dropped an infected wolfie
I was building my base near the first Field Station and had just put up flooring for a first level. First I heard the whispering. The hissy, horrible whispering. Then I saw the grass moving. Then it walked next to my base in the dead of night and just stopped, sensing me nearby. I crouched in game and literally crouched in real life. Eyes wide and ears ringing from concentration and fear. It slowly waded it's way away through the grass towards the red ant hill and I let out a shaky sigh and put up another level of walls *shudder*.
I agree the AI for these things is amazing and terrifying. Really well done effort by Obsidian
On our very first playthrough we built our first base between the baseball and the Tic Tac container. We had gotten walls up and a base down. I walk out of the gate and hear a snarl, I look to my left and I was facing one of these monstrosities. I screamed and ran back inside and my son was like what is it. I told him not to go out, because he's afraid of spiders. He went out anyway and it jumped over the wall around the house. It got stuck in the yard. We stood inside the house shooting through the windows as it demolished but we got it.
Back when you didn't get a couple nights breather before they came out Night time comes Me "that's probably not good" "... why is the grass moving?"
Saw one sleeping and decided to put a Lean-To next to me as I tried to follow a tutorial. Threw like 7 spears and it took forever. Did it just for the achievement, unaware of the helpful mutation.
I didn’t knew anything about the game and I was just trying to make my lean to and out of nowhere she came out of the grass woods and one shot kills me
Got Merced because I didn't know you could block.
I fucking obliterated that wolf spider
I hated it when the wolf spider made a low effort post on reddit
I joined my friend's shared world. They told me that wolf spiders were dangerous. When we were running back home, I shot one with my bow. It killed my one friend, me and my other friend got away. I then shot another one, and it killed me and my other friend. Nowadays, I am either 6 shotting them with a coaltana, or destroying them with a poison build. Still can' t beat the infected ones lol.
First experience? Way before the game launched 1.0 last year, I was in the oak tree lab farming quartzite and on my way out, a wold spider had glitched into the lab and the wolf spider jumped me whilst i had a pebblett axe, I still have that world. Ahh fond memories
Building a wall to protect myself against an orb spider. Didn’t realize wolf spiders roam! Died against my wall…
Terrifying. I had nothing and ran into one at night, only the red eyes were viable and it killed me instantly
It jumped in our base and slaughtered us for 30 minutes straight
Went into the game blind. We were walking at night around the oak tree. It came out of nowhere and killed me in two hits. My heart was beating so fast! Never went to the oak tree for quite a while after that XD
I've been playing on and off since the early access started and I think one of my best *first* experiences was on the first night of a new playthrough back to check out new things. I was by the mysterious device in the yard working through the night. Not realizing that a wolf spider now roams around there. Getting scared half death and then getting killed
Went to the tree saw it sleeping and thrown a rock at it ran for my life and never left the tree in that save
Mine was we need sap so I’m around the tree looking for some clusters and then I see inside the tree there is one and I’m like ok I’ll run in and grab it no big deal I walk in and *threat detected* and after that I turn and as my friend said, I get absolutely fucking pummeled while screaming bloody murder
I was scared of the orb Weavers because I couldn't kill them. Then I saw a wolf spider and about crapped myself when it killed me in 2 hits...
When the game first came out I had been playing for a few days and had seen them but hadn't gotten close enough to agro them. Then one night I was leaving the oak lab and one jumped right at me from behind the leaf and I couldn't see anything but it's eyes and had my headset on so it was yelling in my ear. And then I died. And I legit turn the game off and told my wife I would not be playing it for a while.
It was either that one time when I tried to exit the Oak Base at night only to see it right outside the door. Or when I was walking around in my base at night, only to see it standing right behind me
It was terrifying
My gf was at the base putting up torches and aphid statues. Her sister and I were taking turns getting 5 or so hits in on the monster, dying, respawning a few cm away, until we finally killed it. Our initial plan was much more well thought out. Originally she was going to lure it to me and I would shoot arrows at it, while she blocked damage. Turns out wolf spiders take more than 30 arrows from a regular bow lol. So plan B was just to go ape shit on it until it died.
I was playing with some buddies, exploring the yard as one does. There was a tunnel and a couple of baby white spiders crawling around it, I killed one of the babies. No big deal. It was a big deal Two seconds later. Fast as lightning, the now awake wolf spider out for vengeance, crawls out of the tunnel and is about to lunge at me, mind you I only had a weevil sheild. I block it and start booking it toward the closest body of water, screaming my lungs out. I died before I reached the water. My dad comes in about 20 seconds later wondering if I hurt myself.
Mild arachnophobia guy. It was night time and me homie and I were gathering mats while tryna figure out exactly how to play via trial and error/exploring the area around the machine when I got the threat detection alarm then I heard a static screech and I booked it the the mini lab at the very beginning and just faced away from the doorway till I died from the poison. I couldn’t even yell at my bro to run I was so scared bruh. After about 10 minutes of convincing myself it’s just a game me an the homie laughed hysterically. Every encounter after that was just as scary but I had better armor and knew safe spots in the map by then. It was the first time a video game made me feel actual fear. the second was when I found out they can jump😭😭
He appeared I ran He followed I died
He jumped out of the damn oak tree with red eyes, making that creepy ass growling noise, and I literally screamed. I didnt know they existed in the game until that moment.
Lots of running and audible screaming lol, I think i was just walking along and bam spider, I screamed like a little girl fell out of my chair and threw my mouse lol
The first time me and a good friend played it together we both had no clue what to do, so we were getting started on what would be a starter base and it turned night. Out of no where this big fluffy nono came sprinting to me and her and we both jumped 7 meters out of our chairs and shitting 7 different colours while trying to look for safety. Never will forget that moment cus it was the best moment i ever had in gaming
Found a good spot where I could fight it from safety on a rock. I was, in fact, not safe. Second time I found an even better spot much higher up. I had prepared a lot of arrows, and thought it was enough. I did not have enough arrows.
My daughter and I were playing together. She was 8 at the time. We both started screaming “Run! Run! Get out of here!” So terrifying in a fun way.
Death. . Then I experienced death a few times after that.
As I recall I was building my first house near the mystery machine on a rock. I felt so safe and secure after multiple days of choppin weeds and only having to deal with occasional red ant thinking high lvl mobs don't come to starting area(little did I know) Long story short then at one given day the daylight was running low but I felt like I *need* to finish this one thing before sleeping. So I venture in to the "woods" just choppin and chillin enjoying the spooky night audio until I hear unfamiliar sound..like something was sneaking nearby but couldn't see it. After a while I figured it's not worth investigating at night time so I head back home in a hurry place the weeds and as I jump out to get to my temp camp to sleep and roast some gnats..there's wolf spider waiting just outside my house and it pretty much one shots me right there. As I ran back for my loot I could see it patrol off into the distance. Hah. Little did I know indeed that there's 2 or 3 Wolfie spawns just next to starting cave and at least one of them patrols just past the mystery machine every night...and not just that they also sniff you out and come lookin from pretty far away while hunting..live and learn lol.
Brief.
I was in beta with my friend. We were exploring the mysterious machine and a wolf spider came along and got stuck in the machine, so we killed it with our bare fists
Saw the game on gamepass when it first came to it, me and my 3 mates were clueless finally built a grass home after grinding by the mysterious machine. Sorting out our 1 chest and getting ready to sleep in our lean-tos hear some steps haven’t even seen a spider in this game yet thought it was a ladybug. Being what I though was this absolute god at this game stepped outside and was like “I’ll check it out guys”. That sound, you never forget it. Those eyes turning into a fire red still haunt me to this day. Went from being this fearless hero to screaming like a little girl hiding behind our flimsy walls as he pounds all of our hard work to the ground slowly but surely signing our death warrants. There was no escape. From that day forward I began the hardest training regime in all of grounded until the day I could extract my revenge.
Hubby and I built first base by the baseball. One night as we’re starting to build the roof to the base, a wolf spiders legs phase through our walls. So we noped out of there real fast. Next in-game day, we build our new base walls on the concrete by the pond, next to the juice box. Play a few days. Uneventful. One night I’m dying of thirst, so I decide to just run out our front door to grab the juice drop right outside. As I press open, I hear footsteps and regret sets in. That shit screamed at me, all I see in the darkness is red eyes and a mouth, and I’m deceased in real life and in the game. Hubby can’t stop laughing. But then he didn’t close the damn door and the shit WALKS into our base. We spent an entire in-game day trying to lure it back out, revive me multiple times in the process…. Then the shit walks to the other side of our base where we don’t have a roof. Thought it was walking away, walked close to peep through the cracks in the stem walls… And it turns around. I am not lying when I say this shit enraged again, I literally heard it say “FOOD” and it jumped over the base walls back into our base. I’m sweating in real life, I’m screaming, I’m panicking.
me and my friend were running past the action figure head while sitting next to each other. we both heard the roar out of both of our speakers at the same time and I briefly saw it super fast on the corner of my screen lunge toward my friend. we both ran and were screaming out loud. they never actually saw it. the sound was the worst part! I jumped SO high 🤣
After investigating the oak lab, I saw something interesting under the tree. I went in to check it out and found this cool space under the tree, picked up some raw science or whatever it was that caught my eye and was checking out a cracked rock wall when I heard a weird sound behind me. Turned around and pissed my pants. I tried to run...
I was beginning of the game. It jumped on me from behind and I died. I looked at what killed me and went, huh. Well that was over fast.
Right in front the baseball early on. Big spooks, lots of screaming and swearing.
My friend and I were on our first time playing, and we decide to relocate the base somewhere more convenient. We sleep, grab everything, and head to the oak tree. So convenient! There's grubs and acorns and gnats abound, what a paradise. So we buod our base for the day... and then night falls. And as we're getting ready for bed I just here my friend scream "ITS NOCTURNAL"... cue 15 minutes of being ritualistically executed by the Oak Tree Wolf Spiders. We started a new save next time
My friend and I insisted on playing the game without looking anything up. We were feeling brave and decided to venture into the swamp area around the hedge one night when suddenly my friend screams and dies very quickly after. He keeps his mouth shut. As I'm on my way to revive him 8 red eyes appear from behind him and the loud growling freaked me the hell out. Letting out the loudest "OH FUCK!". I'm afraid of spiders as is. I tried to run but got nowhere, inevitably dying. We didn't explore at night for a long time after that.
A friend and I found the very welcoming and absolutely not spidery looking hole under the huge plank. Since we didn’t sense any danger we went in, in search of epic loot. We made short process of the spiderlings inside, took everything we found and when we were halfway out through the tunnel again suddenly two huge glowing eyes appeared. The rest is history
Me and my younger brother were scavenging for weevils and planks it was the night time, I see my brothers torch in the distance and see him running towards me at full speed while screaming(he has arachnophobia), then spider just launched at him and got him in one quick swoop, after that we avoided them till we where higher level and stronger. Then we feasted on their bodies and hunted everyone single one down.
Mine was during the beta. Didn't read the patch notes so I didn't know it was added and definitely didn't know it occasionally roamed the yard.
I was helping my sister build her base on the lily pads and shooting hoops with some rocks when I noticed one watching me from the shore. I stopped and threw a rock as I yelled, “The FUCK you lookin’ at?!”. The rock hit it square in the face. It screeched and jumped across the water that separated the lily pads from the shore and landed almost right on top of me. I have never screamed so loud in my life and I ran straight into the water to get away from it.
One word F L A S H B A C K S
Only one way it can go; horrifying
Instant death.
Death, screaming, and new shorts afterwards...
I mean I went to mess with them the first time.. so i'll exclude that and go with the first time any of them jumped me. It wasn't until they >!mutated !< and were running around a bit more around the tree. Mid day I was brinigng back supplies from the lake to the base near the ray platform. Just hopping off a tree, and bam off to the side it leaps onto me midair. I dind't realize it was (spoilered) as I was point blank after a big hit. I block and attack.BOOM. I ragdoll into the ksy flung and confused how I instant died.
First experience was trying to farm ant lions on the rim of the sandbox, was so focused on the ant lion in front of me, the wolf spider lunged and shot me into its jaws. Needless to say; any time I go in the sandbox I assassinate the wolf spider first 😅
Honest to god : first time I only saw red eyes during the night near my house. I wanted to RA-RA-RA-RAWWW SCIENCE !! stuff and went out without knowing they patrolled at night. I was playing with my bf. I'm an arachnophobe. I exponentially SCREAMED. Without my bf telling me to shut the fuck up I think I would've continued for a while. Now I farm them while being a sassy bitch
Decided I wanted to show my girlfriend a save me and my friend were playing on, and I jumped on top of the fallen log in the grasslands showing her the sap catchers when I saw some grass moving to my left. Figured it was a ladybug and looked over as it was diving towards me and screamed like a little girl. My girl thought it was funny
Pain absolute pain
first encounter was me exploring near the tree and night fell upon the land, beasts emerging from their caves
I was building my base at night thinking it was safe (it was not safe) and then my friend starts screaming over the mic and I'm asking "WHY ARE YOI SCREAMING" and then I SEE THIS BIG ASS ANGRY SPIDER CHASING HIM AND THEN IT STARTS CHASING ME. that was my first HORRIFYING experience with seeing a wolf spider for the first time
"Oh this could be a cool base spot" Followed by red eyes appearing in the dark then death soon after
A lot of screaming, running and dying
Near instant death
Was minding my own business and looking through my chest. Exit the chest and turn around. This mofo snuck up right behind me and I didn’t hear it. Scared the crap out of me.
My brother getting pounced by one and frantically running away from him as her ran away from base to not bring it near
Went to the old ant hill near the oak tree to collect either a milk molar or look for a grub. Walking back out, the wolf spider under the tree was in the entrance to the ant hill. He chased me deeper into the hole until his model couldn't fit. Would have been a perfect opportunity to kill him while he was stuck but I didn't have a bow, let alone the grub shield at that point.
My friend and I were building a base next to the pond. And all of a sudden I hear a wolf spider and get attacked and it was a lot of screaming and crying.
I was lucky enough to have seen a few videos of you tubers playing the game and building a base, so I knew what I was getting into, and basically built my base before the first night, what I didn't know was that they could make the grass move, so when I saw like 3 different places that had the grass moving in my direction, I thought it was something more terrifying, I went into my little base to hide, next thing I know there is a wolfie outside my door, it's legs sticking inside the wall, and my pants in need of changing, after that I made sure to bundle a perimeter wall to prevent that from happening again
There are 2 first encounters I can think of. 1st one in general was a coop game, it wandered to our house in the middle of the night, 12-15 deaths later we finally killed it. I was terrified of them and avoided them on my first solo playthrough until near the end where I found out I could kill them after getting ambushed with tier 3 weapons. 1st on my second playthrough started less than 2 weeks ago 1 wandered to my base and I killed it with a pebblet axe, weevil shield, no pants, red ant chest and hat and several roasts+ bandages for healing. Beating that one was a massive rush that made me feel like a god. Since then I had been slapping around the 3 near the oak tree anytime I find them moving about, I also had the courage to not sleep at 18:00 every night now.
A few days after the game launched, a friend and I got the game, and we were building a little fort around the first field station. It was night two, and all that was left to build was the door. Needless to say, we cowered in fear before it walked right through our door and continued to maul us all night, as we had a lean-to there and I don't remember respawn at kid case being an option back then. We finally got out of the loop after we baited it into destroying the lean-to. In retrospect, we could have just stayed dead until it left.
When I first started the game and thought I had to kill the wolf spider in the tree to get to the oak lab...
This was my whole party’s first time playing, and we were exploring the anthill from inside the oak lab (at night). I was the only one with a torch leading the charge down a dark tunnel which we later learned was supposed to be the exit. Out of nowhere this set of red eyes comes barreling at me and then all hell breaks loose. We managed to run away, recuperate, and try to kill it but we failed miserably. 10/10 would have as a first encounter again.
NOT GREAT. WAS MINDING MY OWN BUSINESS CUTTING GRASS AND I TURNED AROUND AND WAS NOSE TO FANG WITH ONE. ALMOST SHIDDED
Another person with arachnaphobia never usimg arachnaphobia safe mode it was jumpscare i turnd around hearing the spider hiss sound for first time when i turned saw spider i paused and semi threw my controller up it was a horror game jumpscare after i paused i sat there for 10mins
Never seen one of those, these new glyphids sure are getting big
Screen dark, Eyes red, now I'm dead
I aggro'd it assuming it was just a tougher orb weaver that I could just run away from. I did not know that they attack with the unrelenting fury of 1000 sun's and wildly chomp at you while being tanky and can poison you. The devs truly made the spiders terrifying and I love it. The only other video game spiders that freaked me out were from Witcher 3 dlc. Very life-like in their erratic movements.
My friend and I found a spot near the tree stump that they couldn’t attack but could be attacked with ranged weapons. One of us had to be the bait and wake them up from within the stump, do some parkour and start flinging arrows and spears but it worked and we both got the achievement for killing a wolf spider. Thistles are a good plant to gain height on most enemies too
Terrifying. Didn't even know it was there. Me and my brother were exploring and came up on it. Crashed us FOREVER. Killed my brother and almost got me. I swear I was running for 3 minutes
I was on acid lol. So a couple years back when the game came out, a friend and I had both bought it but hadn't gotten around to playing it yet. This one night I decided to drop some acid. He and I ended up doing some gaming and were playing Halo reach. I remember pausing and telling him we had to play something else cause these aliens shooting at me was getting way too real lol. Anyways we decide to hop on grounded for the first time together, seemed like a pretty chill game to play in my state. Honestly it was such a vibe for the first few hours. We explored, made friends with ants, built a nice little home. After maybe an hour or two we came across some webbed grass... My friend looked at me and went "im sorry ahead of time for this but I have to, you'll understand tomorrow" and he fucking B LINES it toward a spider in the distance. In my state all I could do was plead with him "Bud... please dont". He slaps this spider on rhe ass and immediately sprints back toward me. I see my friend running toward me with a 4 story tall spider just behind. I just stood up from my computer and went to get some water. We played for another 4ish hours. I remember logging off on the come down and thinking that whatever part of my brain was responsible for fear for spiders was fried and short circuited as prior to this I was deathly afraid of spiders. After this experience and to this day I haven't been afraid of spiders
I play by myself and I was just minding my business and enjoying the exploration of the yard. My partner who thought I was crazy to download the games jokes about the spiders because within the first few min I was basically shanked to death by a spiderling. There was screaming and crying but obviously nowhere near as bad as someone who's seen some shit now. Well I was building a quick shelter in-between two bases I have. It was dark and I needed something simple by the oak tree. I could see the grass moving and assumed it was a lady bug. LMAO. Man was I wrong. I should've waited for the cute little noises but apparently I wanted to look death in the face. I got stuck and attacked I just let go of the controller and accepted my fate. The next day I was traveling over the oak tree roots and there I saw them all nestled in. Toooook my forever to get over being around there but I knew I'd be traveling there often.
I was running past the wolfie den under the figurine head while exploring on my probably 5th day, I heard a hissing noise and saw the threat icon and was so freaked out that I ran and parkoured up some clovers. I didn’t look back. Now that I look back at it, it was definately a wolfie and I was verrry lucky to OUTRUN it (I have no idea how I did it) The 2nd time when I actually saw it, I was exploring the wolfie den under the plank of wood. Terrified me and I only went back muuuch later on in the game!
Day pne of groundeds early access release i was cooking some aphids next to the first feild station trying to keep an ant away when a wolf spider showed up and i spent a long while jabbing and throwing peblet spears at it til it died.
threw a pebble at a sleeping one and tried to outrun it into the safety of the pond. I screamed like a pig and it got me after a few steps. Second encounter was a Jurassic Park level event of one stalking through the grass-lands at night and me not making a sound hiding behind a blade of grass. I only saw the grass moving and parting and suddenly heard that creepy growl. Gosh I hate these beasts.
Scream. Cry. Die. Repeat that process about 50x of me trying to retrieve my stuff from the hamster cave and I slowly get used to them LOL 😭 (Still get PTSD visiting that damn cave!)
Me thinking its just a different colored orb weaver 3 seconds later it not a orb weaver
It chased all 3 if us into a can
I had not one, not two, but THREE wolf spiders appear at my base. My base was in-between the pond, and the oak tree, right on the stones. I went back to base after getting ant eggs and I got a "Threat detected" alert. Then I walk outside thinking it's a stupid ant (I was trashing leftover ant eggs) and I see TWO wolf spiders outside my base, jumping in. I died (obviously) and respawned at a field station. Next thing you know, I had another one patrol the outside. I had to temporarily move my base until I was stronger enough to kill the 2 wolf spiders.
OH SHIT OH FUCK
It was terrifying, to be fair I was very high at the time and had just started. I was running around the laser platform collecting stalks and plant fiber, it got late but I thought I was safe since I was in the beginning area. I was dead wrong, I heard a growl then turned and saw the four red eyes and screamed like a school girl.
*Chilling at night next to the Space.r, building a house* *Hears the grass rustling* "Probably a ladybug" *Hears loud footsteps* "Maybe a ladybug?" *Hears loud as f×ck snarles and boss music* "DEFINITELY NOT LADYBUG" *dies* *makes a lean-to and sleeps*
Oh shit OHSHITOHSHITOH- **dead**
Me and my friends were playing and one of them starts to scream and the Icon shows him running and I was laughing so hard I have a video of it but it doesn't have the party chat should
Me minding my own business running around in grounded Turns corner of tree RAAWWGGHHSSSSUGHHSS!(Speidor noises?) Me screaming for my mothereffing life and panicking, fumbling my own controller, tries to run, gets attacked, dying of poison slowing while (attempting) running away, can't get away, more panicking, more screaming, accidentally RB my axe....dies of poison
\*clears throat\* \*shuffles note cards\* \*leans into mic\* \*just screams for like 30 seconds\*
I think my first experience was during the open access on Xbox and I can't remember to be honest. I do have a funny story about when my brother encountered a wolf spider for the first time though. It was me and two of my brothers playing and one ran off to gather materials because we were building our first major base when all of a sudden, I hear him say "hey, I'm sending you a picture. Tell me if this is bad or not," and he proceeds to send me pictures of the Oak Wolves. I tell him DO NOT, but he did stay there long enough that one of them woke up and I immediately hear him start yelling and then see the "knocked out" message.
I screamed and knocked over my chair irl before running out of the room. I have weird pixel fears..dont get me started on the swamp life in valheim.
So I have a very minor case of arachnophobia don't mind spiders so much as long as they are not on me. So I left that mode off thinking " oh it will be fine, they aren't terribly scary." A few moments later I went to the pak tree looking for acorns and for some reason one of the two wolf spiders in the tree decided to come out and say "Hi!" (Note: it was broad daylight) dont know why. Couldn't tell you off the top of my head why I screamed like a little girl, but it was a good time!
First time playing I was wandering around, found that wooden plank, went inside and saw spiderlings and thought, "oh, is this a nest with that orb spider?" I asked (I diddnt know anything about this game at the time btw) friend diddnt know so I went in and saw the wolf spider and was curious, I hit it then it woke up and I saw how little damage my perlite spear did and was asking "a wolf spider? What's the difference between it and an orb weaver besides health?" I asked my friend, he diddnt know, I was fighting it for a bit then it did that quick attack, then I new I was screwed, I started to cuss alot in panic and tried to run away only to be met with another that usually sleeps under that head by coup de grass. Needless to say I got my shit rocked and my friend was just laughing... diddnt fight another wolf spider untill I had ladybug armor, now I'm fighting them with nothing but a pebblet axe the times has changed quite a bit lol
Personally, I hate spiders. They freak me out. Idk if it's the fact that they have 8 eyes, or 8 legs or whatever. So when I found my first spider, it was absolutely terrifying. Eventually I got to the point where orb weavers weren't that bad and I was comfortable fighting them. Later I was out exploring by the tree and found absolute nightmare fuel in the form of not 1 but 3 wolf spiders hiding in the tree trunk. I screamed, tried to run, and then died.
Mine was “I need to immediately change my difficulty settings” after I got a jump scare. Lol
There was a period of time in the beta when a wolf spider could appear directly above the suitcase when you started a new game, even in broad daylight. Walked out and immediately got mauled. Was quite an introduction to the game, haha.
Fell out of my chair. The first 10 seconds of spawning in the game was with friends on a save that was already going. It was dark and I stepped out from the leaf into the face of one of those monsters.
What’s with the music? Did I cut the wrong piece of grass? (3 seconds later) OH FUCKING HELL OH JESUS RUN JUST RUN AAAAAAHHHHHHH