About Groundwork Simulator Guide
Who runs Groundwork Simulator Guide, which sources the pages are built on, and how corrections reach the site.
Groundwork Simulator Guide is an independent fan site for Groundwork Simulator, the open-world gold-mining and heavy-machinery sim from XYZ STUDIO. It is not affiliated with the studio, it is not an official wiki, and nothing here is a substitute for the store page.
Where the facts come from
Every page is built from the public record, and the record is short because the game is two days old: the Steam store listing and its app metadata, the developer's own site at groundworksimulator.com including the published roadmap, fourteen official screenshots and two official trailers, and the Steam discussion forum where players started posting problems within hours of launch.
That last source matters more than it looks. The most useful mechanical detail on this site — that you disconnect a pipe from a pump with a right-click, that the gold map can be closed with P or with its own X, that the main-menu music toggle lives in the bottom-left corner — came from players answering each other on October 22, not from a press release.
What we will not do
We do not publish numbers the game does not show. There is no bucket capacity table here, no per-gram gold price, no upgrade cost list, because none of those are in the official material and a guess written as a table is worse than no table. Where the developer describes a mechanism without a figure — the hydraulic resistance in the bucket, the daily refresh on gold demand, the way mud and slope change traction — the page describes the mechanism and leaves the number out.
We also do not publish fake hands-on verdicts. This is a guide site, not a review channel: no scores, no "we played 40 hours" claims, no invented performance benchmarks.
Corrections
Balance and behaviour change fast in Early Access. If a page describes something that no longer matches your build, send the URL, the build you are on and what you saw instead, and the page gets fixed with a new verification date. The footer date on every page is the last time that page was checked against the live build.
Send corrections through the contact page, and for anything that looks like an actual game bug, report it to the developer — the official Discord link is pinned in the Steam discussions, and there is also support@groundworksimulator.com on the official contact page.
What this site is not
- Not a data-mined stats database.
- Not a spoiler site: pages stay mechanics-first.
- Not a code or key generator. Groundwork Simulator has no redeem-code system on Steam, and any page claiming to hand out keys is lying to you.
