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Complete objectives to level up your leafcutter ant colony. Explore the jungle to open up new areas of the map, revealing more leaves to plunder and dangerous tasks to face!


Objectives[]

  • Reveal the full map.
  • Increase total population up to 30. (115 EXP)
  • Eliminate all enemies near the nest entrance. (140 EXP)
  • Gather 300 leaves. (215 EXP)
  • Gather 1500 leaves. (400 EXP)
  • Eliminate the enemy leafcutter ant queen. (600 EXP)
  • Gather all leaves on the floodplain. (600 EXP)
  • Increase total population up to 100. (1000 EXP)
  • Dig out all enemies in the nest. (1300 EXP)
  • Eliminate 70/ 138/ 216/ 300/ 360 army ants. (1700 EXP)
  • Eliminate all enemies on the southern hill. (3000 EXP)
  • Eliminate the Uber creatures in the infested nest.


Rewards[]


Settings[]

In this mission, a leafcutter ant colony must grow and defeat the local predators.

You can expand the map and unlock relevant objectives by sending your ants to the desired areas. You can only expand to the east after killing an enemy leafcutter ant.

The mission starts at night.

The forest floor is covered with harvestable saplings.

There is a floodplain to the northeast of your nest. Water only starts receding when the corresponding objective is unlocked. Every 90 seconds, water floods the area for 5 seconds and recedes quickly afterwards, washing away both dead or alive creatures.

Your colony is at level 0 and you only have access to minors at the start of the mission. Your colony gains experience points equal to the score of killed enemies. Every time it gains a level, up until level 30, you can unlock new units and adaptations. You are also rewarded with experience points for completing the objectives.

You have access to super leafcutter ant major only in this mission, when your colony reaches level 28.

Unlockables
Level Required experience Affected unit Adaptations
1 30 Minor
  • Movement speed: + 50
2 76 Minor
  • Harvest amount: + 5
3 118 Minor
  • Health: + 20
4 161 Minor
  • Attack damage: +1
5 204 Media
  • You unlock mediae.
6 251 Media
  • Health: + 20
7 301 Media
  • Piercing: + 50%
8 355 Media
  • Armor: + 2
9 412 Media
  • Attack speed: + 20%
10 475 Major
  • You unlock majors.
11 542 Major
  • Health: + 100
12 616 Major
  • Attack damage (basic attack): + 5
13 696 Major
  • Venom resistance: + 20%
14 782 Major
  • Movement speed: + 60
15 876 Major
  • You unlock Durable/ Shockproof.
16 979 Minim
  • Movement speed: + 50
17 1090 Media
  • Movement speed: + 50
18 1210 Minor
  • You unlock Nimble.
19 1342 Major
  • Physical resistance: + 20%
20 1484 Major
  • You unlock Resilient/ Sharp.
21 1639 Queen
  • You unlock Second wind.
22 1807 Minor
  • You unlock Efficient brood.
23 1989 Minor
  • AOE resistance: + 60%
24 2187 Media
  • You unlock Flashheal.
25 2402 Queen
  • You unlock Royal guard/ Royal decree.
26 2634 Minor
  • Minors can move normally while carrying leaves.
27 2887 Major
  • Attack speed (basic attack): + 50%
28 3160 Super major
  • You unlock super major.
29 3456 Super major
  • You unlock Stun.
30 3777 Super major
  • You unlock Weaken.
31 4124
32 4501
33 4907
34 5348
35 5824


Enemy colonies[]

The enemy leafcutter ant colony and trap-jaw ant colony are hostile to each other.

The leafcutter ant colony only has access to taunt majors. It can spawn ants for free only when it has no food left and all of your ants are outside. Taunt majors are kept around the queen and are only deployed to invade your nest.

The leafcutter ant colony chooses specific locations on the surface randomly to gather leaves. The trap-jaw ant colony hunts enemies which come from the northern spawner.

The enemy colonies will invade your nest after they have amassed enough number.


Notable enemies[]

Other enemies are on the same side and are hostile to the ants. Enemies are powerscaled.

Green rove beetles, blue rove beetles, small whip spiders and velvet worms inhabit in your nest.

Most surface enemies gather in groups of the same kind. They don't invade your nest.

Woodworms, larval rove beetles and small whip spiders stop coming from the northern spawner after the trap-jaw ant colony is dead.

The huge whip spider to the east of the enemy leafcutter ant nest is at level 1.

The Uber jumping spider is located in the southwestern area. It is protected by a myriad of its kind.

Some army ants gather in the northwestern area. After you have encountered them for the 1st time, army ants appear intermittently as attacking waves and immediately invade your nest.

Enemies on the southern hill will invade your nest when they are attacked. They include rove beetles, harvestmen, spiny devil bush crickets and leaf-mimic praying mantises.

The final objective only appears after you have unlocked at least 12 objectives and completed all available ones. By carefully exploring, you can skip either killing the Uber jumping spider or gathering from the floodplain entirely.[1]

The infested nest is opened right next to your nest. The Uber spiny devil bush cricket, the Uber leaf-mimic praying mantis, the Uber whip spider, the Uber velvet worm and various powerscaled enemies make their home here. They will invade your nest when they are attacked. You only need to kill the final 4 Uber creatures to complete the final objective.[2]


Trivia[]

  • Trap-jaw ant queen and workers are available only in this mission and only as enemies.
  • Because the player species is leafcutter ant, the royal guards take appearance of leafcutter ant minors.


Minimaps[]


Community screenshots[]


References[]


  1. Tested by Derpy The Turtle#9150 on Discord (28/11/2022).
  2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yAuoRnsKsc
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