Is it actually possible to build Grounded rooms underground?

[Buster Voodoo]

The definition of Grounded says that a room can be underground, but can you actually satisfy the room requirements underground?

For example the fine kitchen or Geomancer's Hall both require grounded, but you have to build items on the wall in order to make those rooms. But I can't see anywhere underground where I can put anything on any of the walls.

I think it would be cool if I could extend my school underground, I just don't see how to accomplish it.

[Thicc Mittens]

I was able to put a chalkboard on the initial underschool room with the big mana crystal thing, but it didn't count as an actual "room" so no Geomancer's Hall. Like you, I couldn't find any other underground rooms that allowed wall items.

I guess it'd work in the other underschool rooms that don't require wall items like a Scullery, Woodcutters, or Sculpture Studio (but I've not actually tried it).

[Jaggid Edje]

You can build rooms that require grounded in the underground rooms, but only if they don't require any wall items or windows.

The rooms in the underschool all have various keywords, not just grounded, which you can see if you go into the room view and look at the rooms down there. Any rooms which require keywords which you find in the Underschool can be built in the underschool as long as no wall items or windows are also requirements for the room.

I used to always build all my Archive rooms in the underschool, but I like the wallpaper and flooring of the Archive, and those don't show in Underschool rooms, so I stopped building anything down there.

[b1ngnx33]

Yes. In the future......the devs will allow us to dig underground.......just like Oxygen Not Included. Dig dig dig. Oh the horror. Joking. We will have digger Quilt robots.

[Violent Rainbow]

Did you run out of room above ground?!

[Soul4hdwn]

Originally posted by Violent Rainbow:

Did you run out of room above ground?!

Lmao

[ExMachina14]

Originally posted by Buster Voodoo:

Is it actually possible to build Grounded rooms underground?

Yes. You have to use the rooms further down that are unlocked after clearing the Underschool battles.

Open the room view. The "rooms" that are greyed out (i.e., the ones that contain the crystal, the summoning apparatus, the book of rituals) don't count as rooms. The ones further down will show as generic school rooms until something is done to change them into something else.

Most of those Underschool rooms have very little buildable space and are a far enough commute that I don't really bother with them personally, but they can be turned into classrooms and such. Might be worth considering if playing on extremely high difficulty settings in which the Fog constantly swallows up the surface.

[n3mes1s]

NO. Underground is very limited and despite the numerous requrests to be able to build there, the devs don tlike the idea, they never did.

I mean, deep in the underschool you have space to build some things, but thats about it. By the time you reach that part of the game you wont even need to build there, at all....