How to Complete and Craft Trinkets in Grounded 2

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Items known as Trinkets in Grounded 2 are small but powerful accessories you can unlock and craft. They provide passive bonuses like increased resistance to damage or boosting your damage output with certain weapons. These Trinkets are crucial for survival, especially during challenging bug battles in the garden.

To improve your skills and effectiveness, you’ll want to unlock some Trinkets. Here’s how to obtain different ones and what you need to craft them.

How to Obtain Trinkets in Grounded 2

Trinkets are either crafted or found by looting creatures or candy items. However, looting has a low chance of dropping Trinkets, so you’ll need to loot many bugs or candies before they appear. Crafting recipes become available once you analyze specific ingredients using the Resource Analyzer or reach certain Brainpower levels.

Your Brainpower increases as you analyze new resources at the Ranger Station Resource Analyzer. The higher your Brainpower, the more recipes you can unlock. Focus on analyzing every new resource you come across to raise your Brainpower.

Tip: Pay attention to the buffs each Trinket offers. Choose only those that complement your current build to maximize benefits.

Once you unlock a recipe, you can find the corresponding Trinket in your weapons and armor menu under the SCA.B 2K section. Before equipping, you’ll need to gather the necessary resources, which range from common plants to rare items obtained by fighting bugs.

All Trinkets Recipes and Effects

Below is a list of available Trinkets, their effects, how to get their recipes, and the resources needed:

Trinket	Tier	Effect	How to Get	Recipe Resources
Astonishing Acid	1	Boosts the damage of the final hit in a three-hit combo.	Analyze an Acid Gland in Resource Analyzer.	5 Acid Glands, 2 Sap, 2 Larva Spikes
Nifty Needle	1	Fully charged bow shots deal more damage.	Analyze a Thistle Needle in Resource Analyzer.	1 Thistle Needle, 2 Sap, 3 Gnat Fuzz
Sturdy Shell	1	Reduces friendly fire damage and enemies prefer attacking you.	Analyze an Acorn Shell at Resource Analyzer.	1 Acorn Shell, 2 Sap, 3 Grub Hides
Blistering Boiler	2	Final hit in a three-hit combo releases a blastwave.	Defeat a Bombardier Beetle.	N/A
Eco Exploitation Token	2	Increases carrying capacity and reduces damage from spiders.	Search a dead employee in Spider Den.	N/A
Fancy Fletching	2	Faster charge for bow shots.	Break a Crow Feather with Omni-Axe II.	N/A
Fluffy Dandelion	2	Allows infinite gliding in the air.	Chop a Dandelion using Omni-Axe I.	N/A
Myrmecologist Token	2	Increased damage to ants but reduced overall damage resistance.	Search a dead employee in Snackbar Anthill.	N/A
O.R.C. Nullifier	2	Short-term damage reduction against O.R.C. creatures.	Reach Brainpower level 6.	2 O.R.C. Receivers, 1 Lingonberry Leather, 2 Gum Nuggets, 1 Roach Head
Roach Rage	2	Increased attack damage when health is low.	Kill the General Berserker Cockroach.	N/A
Shivering Scale	2	Causes enemies to chill and freeze with melee attacks.	Kill a Blue Butterfly.	N/A
Spectacular Spicy Shard	2	Adds extra damage to melee attacks with a spicy effect.	Break a Spicy Candy with Omni-Hammer II.	N/A
Stabby Stinger	2	Adds venom to the final hit in a melee combo.	Kill a Northern Scorpion.	N/A
Suspicious Mint	2	Adds fresh damage to melee attacks.	Break a Fresh Mint with Omni-Hammer II.	N/A
Volatile Capacitor	2	Adds shock damage and overloads O.R.C. creatures with charged strikes.	Reach Brainpower level 9.	3 O.R.C. Receivers, 4 Unstable Goo, 3 Bug Rubber, 1 Praying Mantis Head
Cleaving Claws	3	Greatly increases critical hits with low-health creatures (two-handed weapons).	Kill a Praying Mantis Nymph.	N/A
Everlasting Hogstopper	3	Keeps your hunger bar full over time without eating.	Defeat Cockroach Queens or Billy Hogs.	N/A