Red exclamation marks represent aggressive enemies. Green question marks represent harmless enemies or allies. Hidden creatures in underground caverns show up as marks in the black soil. Up to 7 workers can excavate it at the same time. The nest entrance acts similar to diggable soil. Up to 2 workers can excavate a tile at the same time. You can only dig in your nest.ĭigging is the most prioritized job in the nest.

As long as the yellow tiles are reachable, nest workers or nearby workers will do it. You can see hexagon tiles light up when you hover your cursor over the diggable area.Ĭlicking on a tile in the black area turns it yellow, which indicates that this tile needs to be dug out. Soldiers can be divided into 3 types: melee unit, range unit and tank unit.

If you have no ant and no food, a queen worker is spawned for free to help revive the colony. The 7 nanitic workers can do anything that normal workers can do. Workers will ignore gathering and attacking when they are assigned with nest jobs. Nest jobs include digging, building and spawning, and they will be done in this paticular order. They only do nearby jobs if they are put in pheromone groups. Workers do nest jobs across the nest automatically when they are put in nest group. It is also immune to disrupting effects and repositioning effects. Your queen can do absolutely nothing but laying eggs. You can't build, delete or upgrade queen chamber. It has 7 tiles and each tile can hold 10 food. Queen chamber acts as both nursery and food storage. You usually start a freeplay game or mission with a queen and 3 workers.

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