Hazard Levels Gravity Gauntlet Guide: Grab, Throw, Upgrade

What the Gravity Gauntlet Does

The Hazard Levels gravity gauntlet is your main tool, and the game's whole loop centers around it. You use it to loot every ingredient, and you also use it to fight off rift creatures. It lets you grab, carry and throw objects with physics. That covers glowing pulse berries, crystals, monster feces, explosive barrels and even your friends. If you can't handle it well, ingredients lose value on every wall they hit and your team misses quota. If you handle it well, a messy Crawl turns into a solid payday.

The loop works like this:

• Pick up the gauntlet from the double decker bus before a Crawl, along with your scanner and a Rift Stabilising Device.
• Use it to harvest rift-grown ingredients.
• Haul the loot to the collection station and sell it there to fill your quota.
• Push deeper through new rifts, or get back to the bus before the rift collapses.

Carry Limits and Handling Loot

The gauntlet can hold more than one object at a time. Patch v0.1.2 lowered the default limit to 2 items. Two works well for most hauls. Grab a pair, carry it to the collection station, and go back for more.

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Ingredients take damage, and damage lowers their sell value. Damage numbers pop up every time a berry or crystal hits a door frame, a wall or a teammate's face. A plant worth thousands can lose a big chunk of its value after a couple of clumsy bumps. Throwing is quicker than walking, but every hard landing costs you money.

Tips for protecting your haul:

• Wait for doors to open fully. Facility doors slide open slowly, so don't push loot through a half-open gap.
• Walk high-value items, throw cheap ones. Toss a low-value worm across a room, but carry the 6,000-plus Cosmic Apple by hand.
• Clear the path first. Crusher rooms, laser barriers and fire traps will damage or destroy what you're carrying. Cross the hazard empty-handed, then come back.
• Watch your teammates' lanes. In four-player Crawls, two people hauling through the same corridor will knock each other's loot around.

Charged Throws and Aiming

The gauntlet's throw has been reworked several times since Early Access:

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• Charge your throws. Since v0.1.2, holding the throw builds up power for a harder launch. The Summer Update made the item's outline change color as the throw charges, so you can see how hard it will fly.
• Aim anytime. Since the Summer Update, you can aim and zoom the camera whether or not you're holding something. Line up the throw before you pick the item up.
• Updated crosshair. The gauntlet's crosshair was also updated in v0.1.2.

Use a short, light throw to drop loot into a collection container. Save fully charged throws for creatures and for moving cheap items through hazard rooms.

Fighting With the Gauntlet

Early Access launched as a gunless horror game, and the developers promised to put more power into the players' hands, "or rather your gravity gauntlet." The revolver and the AKM are now on the bus. Before 1.0, the gauntlet also got a string of updates aimed at making "throw anything and everything at the creatures" a real tactic.

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How to use it in combat:

• Throw props at enemies when your ammo runs out. The revolver holds 12 rounds and has to be repurchased once they're gone, and the AKM starts with 60. The gauntlet never runs out.
• Pick up explosive barrels. They hurt whatever they land on. Keep your team out of the blast.
• Use the room against enemies. Lure creatures into crusher rooms and fire traps, and throw small enemies like spider ticks into hot rooms to clear them.
• Throw your friends. If a teammate drinks a Teenie Weenie cocktail, you can pick them up and throw them as far as you can. That's handy for getting someone past a hazard quickly.

Upgrading the Gravity Gauntlet

The Upgrade Bench in The Fox Hole Arms was added in v0.1.2. It upgrades both the Gravity Gauntlet and the scanner, with five upgrade levels each. Upgrading makes your Crawls faster and more efficient, so put early earnings into the bench once you've covered the basics like Health Elixirs and a spare stabilizer.

Other items that work well with the gauntlet:

Item	Type	Effect
Magnetonic	Perk cocktail	Pulls items to you from up to 5m away for 20 seconds, with no limit on how many
Hoarder's Pickled Rings	Bar snack	Extra inventory slot (five upgradeable levels; lost if you die on a Crawl)
Teenie Weenie	Perk cocktail	Shrinks the drinker, so teammates can pick them up and throw them

Drink a Magnetonic when you walk into a room full of loot to pull everything toward you, then haul it out two items at a time. In 1.0, every perk cocktail can also be thrown at teammates to give them its effect.

Gauntlet Changes Over Time

Update	What changed for the gauntlet
Patch v0.1.2	Charged throws, new crosshair, default pickup limit lowered to 2, Upgrade Bench with five levels
Summer Update	Aim/zoom at any time; throw outline changes color while charging
Pre-1.0 updates	Many tweaks to make throwing objects at creatures a real combat option
1.0 launch (Nov 12, 2026)	Rift Surges (ice floors, upside-down worlds) added; all cocktails become throwable

Rift Surges in 1.0 are the newest twist. They can hit at any time inside any rift, swelling heads to triple size, turning floors to ice or flipping a whole dimension upside down.

FAQ

How many items can the Gravity Gauntlet carry?

The default is two items at once, set in Patch v0.1.2. The Magnetonic cocktail pulls in an unlimited number of nearby items for 20 seconds.

Does throwing ingredients reduce their value?

Yes. Ingredients take damage when they hit walls, doors or other surfaces, and that damage lowers their sell price. Carry valuable items carefully and save hard throws for cheap ones.

Where do I upgrade the Gravity Gauntlet?

Use the Upgrade Bench in The Fox Hole Arms. It has five levels for the gauntlet and five for the scanner.

Where can I play Hazard Levels?

Version 1.0 launched on November 12, 2026, on Steam, Epic, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S with crossplay. The base game is $12.99 on the Hazard Levels Epic Games Store page, and you can also pick it up on the official Hazard Levels Steam page.