More Ants

[Gambo]

Hi,

is there away to produce Ants faster? im know on a Pop Cap from 75 but the max i can produce is around 50ish even if my Queen get continously food and i have 4 incubators there are just not enough larves spawning to get the incubators running around the clock

[Alleas]

you can combine or assemble them into other antsto increase the lifespan. but the more you feed your queen the more larva she can pop out / minute, later you will get bigger energy pods so you could feed her even more. it goes to over 1000 ants populated and about 1 larve/sec later on.

[Foxtopus]

For pushing population count, you usually want to send your small workers out to gather stuff until they get old, then combine them into workers to reset their lifespan.

You can probably rank up the queen a few times just by gathering more of the energy on the island, but once it feels hard to shovel them into her face as fast as you harvest them, consider making two loops right next to each other, so the next ant doesn't have to walk the whole length of an ant to get to her.

And obviously focus on setting up stuff with pod workers, when they become available.

[dougtle]

I have about 8 ants on two loops feeding the Queen T1 Energy pod. This is enough to get to max 300 pop. When I need more, I start with 1 loop with T2 Energy, then another, then go to T3. I was able to get to max 500 with this.

After every time I hit a milestone (100, 150, 200, etc), I go back to T1 Energy.

[Gambo]

okay i figured that now out thanks alot
now my next question is there a filter to filter Worker Ants from small Ants so i can send the old Worker Ants to the Science Production and the Old small Ants to worker Ant Production?

[dougtle]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Gambo:

okay i figured that now out thanks alot
now my next question is there a filter to filter Worker Ants from small Ants so i can send the old Worker Ants to the Science Production and the Old small Ants to worker Ant Production?

Caste gate does the filtering for one type of ants.

[Foxy]

Ok several tips
1.- Use the old gate to combine expiring small workers into a brand new Big worker
(same with small diggers that can be combined into a digger)
2.- Use pod workers.... this guys never die! just use an old gate and send them to an assembler to get a brand new pod installed (i use this guys in the factory section and plant cutting / harvesting)
3.- get the energy pod combiner, by combining a pod I you get two pod II that have 3 energy (thats a 50% increase for the same ammount of pods) benefits are twofold... 1 you feed more energy per pod, and since theres a limit of how many pods per minute you can feed, you feed more energy in total
this stacks as you get higher tier pods of course