New Challenge Level!


First Big Update Since Release

The game has been getting a lot of first-time and repeat players! Please let me know what you think of Antocracy or if you have any feature suggestions. I'd love to add stuff people want!

Features:

  • New Challenge level. I added a level meant for players who already have experience in the other, easier levels. This level has less free food and more enemies to fight. The level also embeds the player inside of the enemy ant colony where you'll have to fight your way out. 

Balance Changes:

  • Made the Domesticate upgrade only give you 1 seed instead of 2 since they hatch relatively quickly making it hard to position both of them where you want. Plus the token it gives you makes vines grow so fast you only need 1. It's still difficult to see your queen when it becomes 1x1 after you get this upgrade, but I'm working on more distinctive art for it.
  • After you get the Mega Colony upgrade your now-faster ants seem to actually perform worse around each other, particularly when trying to get them to follow a trail of Follow or Rally pheromone left by the queen. So I made Mega Colony ants no longer blocked by each other -- an additional buff to this upgrade.
  • I've added a formula to increase the rate at which you can lay eggs the more food you have collected around your Colony token. I noticed that often players will collect far more food than they have larva to feed and to get through the bottleneck to increasing your colony size you'd just have stand around laying eggs for a while which is boring. Now you can lay each egg 1 second faster every 20 food  you've collected (50ms faster per food).

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed an issue where ant Alert pheromone wasn't decaying correctly and so could disrupt your other ant workers forever.
  • Fixed an issue where many ants trying to put down food or dirt in one position could get trapped in a cycle where they each block the other ants from putting down there and never succeed. Now ants can put down food or dirt on top of other ants, pushing them out of the way in the process
  • Fixed centipedes and worms coiling up and getting stuck on themselves.
  • Rally pheromone no longer causes ants to put down items they are holding (as per the actual description of the upgrade)

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