

These marks can move, which indicates that the corresponding creatures are moving underground.

The stronger the creatures are, the bigger the marks get. Red exclamation marks represent aggressive enemies. Green question marks represent harmless enemies or allies. Up to 7 workers can excavate it at the same time.Ĭreatures which are hidden in underground caverns show up as marks on top of the black soil. The nest entrance also acts similar to diggable area. There can only be maximum 2 workers digging out each tile. You can only dig in your nest.ĭigging is the most prioritized job in the nest. As long as the yellow tiles is reachable, nest workers or any nearby workers will do it. Because the game uses hexagon grid, you can see hexagon tiles light up when you hover your cursor over the diggable area.Ĭlicking on a tile in the diggable area turns it yellow, indicating 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 will be spawned for free to help revive the colony.

The 7 queen workers can do anything that normal workers can do. Workers ignore gathering and attacking when they are assigned with nest jobs. Nest jobs include digging, building and spawning, an they will be done in this paticular order. They only do the nearest jobs if they are put in other pheromone groups. They work automatically when they are put in nest group. Workers can do nest jobs but soldiers can't. It is also immune to all disrupting effects and all repositioning effects. Your queen can do absolutely nothing but laying eggs. You can't build, delete or upgrade queen tiles. The queen tiles act as both brood tiles and food storage tiles, which can hold 10 food each. You usually start a freeplay game or mission with a queen and 3 workers.
