Having your food far away from the entrance to the surface will mean a lot of extra walking time, and that is time wasted that they could have gone and gotten more food. The layout of your colony will affect how efficiently your ants get their jobs done. Extra workers in the Queen’s group will make respawning go faster. Have a surplus of food to cover respawns.Have a second group of fighters on your Queen for when he releases the wolf spiders, as they will run past your fighting army at the front of the nest and go straight to her.Again, it is easiest to bottle-neck the enemy underground at the nest entrance.He will also drop Tiger Beetles and Wolf Spiders.The Scientist will send increasing numbers of Black, Gene-thief, and Wood-ants at you.If you run out, set workers into their own group with battle turned off and use them to collect Devil’s Coach-Horse larvae from the battle location.

It is easiest to bottle-neck the enemy at the cave entrance underground.

You will also face Devil’s Coach-Horse beetles and larvae.

The Scientist will send increasing numbers of Black ants and Gene-thief ants at you, eventually simultaneously.

There are other guides out there for the challenges, but i can give some general tips for them too: You get limited Territory to build with, as well as being able to create other species of ants and upgrade them with Royal Jelly (See Units section) This is where you begin missions, and do the Campaign story mode of the game. Having NONE here means those jobs do not get done.

Having more workers in the Queen’s group (first column in the Pheromone group), will let nest jobs get done faster like replacing eggs as they hatch.

C activates unit information until pressed again.Left Alt displays unit information while held.I activates food values until pressed again.Left CTRL displays food values while held.A bit of this is covered by tool-tips in game, but it never hurts to repeat it here as well. Starting GuideĪ beginners Guide to Empire’s of the Undergrowth. On the surface, the ants claim territory, gather resources, overwhelm fearsome arachnids and clash with other colonies. The player excavates their nest underground, constructing tunnels and chambers to store food and raise brood. Ant colony management game, in a fast-paced real-time strategy style.

Ant empire of the undergrowth