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Groundfall is a minimalist sandbox game where you fly bush airplanes in an open wilderness setting! Attempt to take-off and land your STOL airplane at rugged and remote locations as you complete missions to explore, camp, build, survive, and more.

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Bigger Tires? OK! New Airplane Maintenance and Mod System

Apr 27

Hi STOL Pilots!
This update contains some fun new features and lays the groundwork for the next few updates. Enjoy!

New - Airplane Maintenance and Modification System
-A new interface for adding repairs, fuel, oil and modifications.
-Airplane upgrade/modification system (just tires right now, but other items are coming soon - e.g. propellers, skis, suspension, engine upgrades, etc.)

New - Save Game
The auto-save functionality is back! Game progress is automatically saved every 5 mins when outside the airplane and every time the player exits the airplane. It is not saved while flying. Aside from slow map loading, it seems to work pretty well, but it is still a work-in-progress.

New - Parachutes
A parachute item has been added. Why? I'm not sure! :-D It can be used for jumping out of an airplane (although, I don't recommend jumping out of a perfectly good airplane), or it can be used for base-jumping from tall cliffs or structures.

New Objectives/Missions
Redesigned the objectives structure - there are now three categories of objectives: Exploring, Runways, and Missions. There are multiple items in each of these categories and the goal of the map/level is to achieve all them. The pause menu now shows your progress through the objectives and your progress is saved. Upon completion of each category, you will receive a Steam Achievement.

New Steam Achievements
New Steam achievements have been added for completing each of the objective categories along with a other "hidden" missions or activities.

Updated - Maps
-All the maps have received small updates, but the South Islands map has received the most attention in this release: added more big rocks/cliffs, moved and changed some islands, new item pickups, new POIs (points of interest) to explore, new Missions to complete and new Runways to land.

Misc Bug Fixes & Updates
Numerous bug fixes and a few quality-of-life updates.

GroundFall

Groundfall Hint Guide Beta vers & suggestions list

So this is an attempt at a Groundfall Tip/Help guide with a few questions thrown in for the dev who I encourage to chime in. Also would appreciate any comments, corrections or tips from other players experiences to make this guide especially useful for new players. Groundfall Tips updated 2/26/2025 Some info included from Groundfall ingame guide. I wrote this to share my experience with Groundfall so that others will feel less mystified by it's features and learn how to find/use the tools functions ...

baobobafet

Mar 16 @ 1:39am

General Discussions

Feedback after my first time in game

The concept behind this flight adventure survival sim is really original and is why I decided to purchase this EA title. Upon loading I was met with a screen asking me to plug in a game controller - which I obliged. I remember seeing the screen config - made some changes. The game loaded up and I had a chance to walk around and get familiar with the plane's systems. I went to setup my HOTAS and found some limitations there - having to do with view panning options. Could not get my throttle (edit: joystick...

baobobafet

Feb 10 @ 5:32pm

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Rope + Grapple?

After landing my plane on a beach it spun around at the last moment and headed towards the edge of the water. I managed to stop it about a foot from the waters edge. Because the shoreline was on a slope, I could not push the plane back - in fact it had the opposite effect, and the plane rolled further into the water. Trying to push the tail around just made matters worse, until the plane ended up entirely underwater and I had to restart. In retrospect, I should have held the brake and applied hard rudder ...

baobobafet

Feb 20 @ 11:10pm

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Suggestion for a survival scenario

What if each island had it's own unique resources that would be required to build a home base. Bases could be set up on any island but some islands are more dangerous than others. Some islands will have more predators to deal with, so getting those resources there will be harder. One Island could be a rust junkyard where metals can be recycled and brought home to be used to build items and structures. (example) Zombies could populate such an island and make it tougher to get those resources. Another isla...

baobobafet

Feb 15 @ 3:49pm

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Weather Impacts on Gameplay

One of the things I like a lot in game is the variety in weather. Sometimes it seems as if there is a conspiracy to stop me from flying, especially if it rains 3 days in a row (not that that would stop me) Than there is the dark red sky that seems to say 'don't you dare' even though it is early in the day. When the fog hits, it's a no brainer so you need to hunker down, unless you like very low visibility flying. If this happens early in the day (as it did with me) you need to find something to do for t...