Teleport Feeding Ants

[Kito Ballard]

Can the ants like, stop eating things that are FAR outside their range? It's extremely annoying to hear them snacking from far away and see the food I'm cooking vanish.

[Padgey]

That’s not happened to me yet must be a bug?? I have my roasting spits using dead centre on the second floor of my base and so far luckily for me nothing gets stolen, if your roasting spit is close to a wall I would say move it closer to the middle or build a second floor

[Kito Ballard]

For me, I moved my base, cause they was eating things through my walls. Moved to on top of the baseball and there was an ant chilling at the bottom of the baseball (sort of inside it, mind you) and just ate my food. Like, wtf

edit: Through as in being stuck on the other side and just "teleport eating" my stuff from a short distance

[Padgey]

If you have bugs stuck inside objects you can pause the game and there is an option I think under debug? That resets all bugs and creatures, im finding a lot of bugs glitched stuck inside of things since the new update so I have to “reset” then quite a lot at the moment, I usually try and build an outer perimeter wall then my base within that to keep bugs as far away as possible as there is to many glitches at present just a simple grass outer wall works fine

[Kito Ballard]

It walked out after eating (how I found it), but I went ahead and did the reset anyways... Brand new save too so I dono what's going on.

[Padgey]

Originally posted by Kito Ballard:

It walked out after eating (how I found it), but I went ahead and did the reset anyways... Brand new save too so I dono what's going on.

I think it’s just since the recent update of 0.12 I’m sure once they drop a few updates and fixes over the next few weeks a lot of these issues will get fixed, don’t let the “bugs” annoy you to much the game is so much fun to play even with its issues but we have to remember it’s early access still!! Just wait till you encounter some of the tougher bugs in the game they absolutely destroyed me haha

[Kito Ballard]

I just find it odd they do it now, as a long time ago they didn't.

[♉ Ðevyn 🐉]

It's happened to me when I've had an over abundance of meat I put into storage. The ants converge and poof, it was gone.

Now that I've set my food higher up, sometimes too high in my opinion, the food remains but ant's still swarm.

I wish there was some sort of happy medium with this. I like that insects react to things like this, but it is a little buggy

[Azel]

The issue with Ants eating your food from miles aways was already in the game since Day 1

and it seems Devs still didnt changed anything to stop that...

best way to prevent them from stealing your food was a to store your food in Chest not Basket far above the Surface.

[Noxsa]

Originally posted by Chromyx:

The issue with Ants eating your food from miles aways was already in the game since Day 1

and it seems Devs still didnt changed anything to stop that...

best way to prevent them from stealing your food was a to store your food in Chest not Basket far above the Surface.

i call BS on this one, yes that was a problem in the past, i have not seen one ant eating my food, sure they pack under my base on mass, and sure they make the "snack" sound yet no feed or food items get stolen.

i bet he has a path problem, i mean there is a clear path to his chest or cooking fire BUT the ant bugs out from afar but in fact he path to your stuff.

i see them use stairs when i leave the door open, and sure if one bugger sneaks inside the base then sh!t gets eaten/stolen, BUT that said when i kill him and close the door nothing gets eaten and or stolen.

[Kito Ballard]

1: She. 2: They was eating from literally the other side of my walls, not even being in my base. Why I moved it to a higher location. They don't do it as often anymore, but still annoying. And these ones ignore my stairs.

[Noxsa]

Originally posted by Kito Ballard:

1: She. 2: They was eating from literally the other side of my walls, not even being in my base. Why I moved it to a higher location. They don't do it as often anymore, but still annoying. And these ones ignore my stairs.

1) my bad, sorry 2) never have that issue anymore. (i had that issue ways back)

[Kito Ballard]

Yeah it's weird.. I didn't have it back then but now I do =\ It's som'in they really need to look into. Like, I'd understand if there was an open path to it but the AI can't officially reach it (much like how bugs avoid you if they can't reach you when using ranged) but the items are in an enclosed environment (inside a house) with no openings. Shouldn't have them doing "I can't see it. Welp, time to eat it still".

[DeadSilent]

I've had this happen as well. i'll build my base atop rocks where the ants can't reach and they will walk up to the base of the rock and start eating the food and aphid dew I have stored in the containers, inside my base, at least 2 stories above them. It's super annoying.

[pcdeltalink]

Originally posted by Chromyx:

The issue with Ants eating your food from miles aways was already in the game since Day 1.

I’ve never had this happen to me (not that I’ve seen at least) but yeah, just to back this up I do recall seeing threads about this issue pretty much since day 1.