Second Formicarium Glitch

[Urubaen2002]

I recently unlocked the second formicarium but as I was ecstatic I didn't notice that I had 0 food stored up. I can no longer construct even worker ants to actually be able to progress in the formicarium. Please help, or if I need to restart I guess I will, would just appreciate not losing 8 hours of progress.

[Raptorr575]

You just have to do missions to unlock food

[Fleringe]

yeah you always will geth 1 worker for free and missions indeed unlock more food.

or if you want to speed up more workers sell 1 warrior tile then you have fast workers to collect faster food but feel free and if you really cant do something like this then it is an glitch.

[Buffy]

You need to gather food from the surface of the formicarium too.

[Spyder]

As others have said, not a glitch. I do believe it tells you that before you switch to the second formicarium.

[Mike]

We thought long and hard about this, and the solution we came up with was to convert all the player's resourced into royal jelly so you'll have a glut of that. This means most players will be able to unlock the leafcutters right away and upgrade a bunch of stuff they haven't yet.

Our reasoning was this feels like a decent reward for your resources, and players would presumably want to play the new levels anyway which would naturally rebuild territory and food.

[Buffy]

definetly think food becomes a bit scarce, adding challenge modes will probably fix that.

[Urubaen2002]

My problem is the fact that i cannot place down my first worker for 0 food. I can't produce ants or collect food from the surface. I have 3/7 ants in the queen's bodyguard group but cannot produce my first worker for collecting food until i have 20 food. Although it's frustrating, i will just start over. This is in the second formicarium itself, not in a mission. Love the game as I am an ant keeper in real life. :)

[Raptorr575]

Originally posted by Liontamer2002:

My problem is the fact that i cannot place down my first worker for 0 food. I can't produce ants or collect food from the surface. I have 3/7 ants in the queen's bodyguard group but cannot produce my first worker for collecting food until i have 20 food. Although it's frustrating, i will just start over. This is in the second formicarium itself, not in a mission. Love the game as I am an ant keeper in real life. :)

Well, it's normal, there's nothing unusual about it.

[Buffy]

So I don't understand your problem. Can you not dig to the surface and have your three workers collect food? Why can't you collect from the surface?

[Tenebrais]

You can move your home workers into the regular control groups and send them to the surface.

[LittleGroot1]

Originally posted by Liontamer2002:

My problem is the fact that i cannot place down my first worker for 0 food. I can't produce ants or collect food from the surface. I have 3/7 ants in the queen's bodyguard group but cannot produce my first worker for collecting food until i have 20 food. Although it's frustrating, i will just start over. This is in the second formicarium itself, not in a mission. Love the game as I am an ant keeper in real life. :)

You need to click and drag your 3/7 ants to the 1st ant group AFTER YOU DIG THE EXIT then after doing one of the missions and food is dropped, send the ants to gather.

Originally posted by Fleringe:

yeah you always will get 1 worker for free and missions indeed unlock more food.

or if you want to speed up more workers sell 1 warrior tile then you have fast workers to collect faster food but feel free and if you really cant do something like this then it is an glitch.

It is stated here too

[Urubaen2002]

Ohh my goodness.... I can't believe i have been this dumb this whole time... Thanks everyone for taking the time out of your days to fix this lol I solved it thanks to you all.

[Raptorr575]

Originally posted by Liontamer2002:

Ohh my goodness.... I can't believe i have been this dumb this whole time... Thanks everyone for taking the time out of your days to fix this lol I solved it thanks to you all.

These things happen x)

[Spyder]

That's why we are here!

[Marie]

Originally posted by Tenebrais:

You can move your home workers into the regular control groups and send them to the surface.

I just had the same issue... imagine I've gone through all the missions so far not realizing this. Thank you!