Fire Ant Chestplate recipe

[Piwoailles]

Hello,

I'm looking for help :) I have the recipe for 2 out of 3 fire ant armor set, but I'm missing the chestplate recipe. How can I unlock it?

Thanks.

[Serpiko82]

That sounds odd. Have you analyzed all kind of fire ant parts yet? Parts, head, and soldier jaws?

[Padgey]

You probably need to kill the fire soldier ant not just the normal worker ant

[Piwoailles]

Thanks a lot, I'll have a look and keep you posted.

[Serpiko82]

By the way, since you appear to be in the upper yard already, you'd probably better go for Roly Poly armour.

[Piwoailles]

Originally posted by Serpiko82:

By the way, since you appear to be in the upper yard already, you'd probably better go for Roly Poly armour.

Thanks. I'm not sure I'm strong enough to kill one of those. I'll give it a try. Thanks!

I kinda early accessed the upper yard by building stairs. I got there before the black ant lab, so I grabbed a lot of stuff a bit early.

(what a fantastic game!)

[Serpiko82]

I see. Then, if you got there early but you're undergeared to take on the tougher bugs, I still recommend you to try and get a tier III termite axe 🪓.

You are going to need termite soldiers parts. The easiest way to get them is by approaching their nest, the wood pile in the northwest corner of the map, without entering it.

That zone is relatively safe for being upper yard. As long as you stay on the surface and DON'T walk down or fall into the canyons, you can walk all the way there from the stone wall without encountering major bugs, with the main threat being occasional ladybird larvae burrowing out of the ground (if you haven't met them yet, they're basically normal larvae but on steroids).

Once you are in the area between the bicycle and the wood pile, you will meet wandering termites, mostly workers but iirc there should be occasional soldiers once in a while. That's the best zone to get termite parts early, because you can usually take on them 1v1 without aggroing multiple at once.

The termite axe will both allow you to break through a few locked passages, and work effectively in battle until you unlock better unique weapons.

[Wommy]

im pretty sure chestplate needs mandibles to craft. but you will need lint ropes to craft them anyways. but then you got the best armor in game (my opinion)

[Piwoailles]

Originally posted by Wommy:

im pretty sure chestplate needs mandibles to craft. but you will need lint ropes to craft them anyways. but then you got the best armor in game (my opinion)

Thanks! I have tons of lint ropes, I'm just missing mandibles. Thanks everyone, I'll just kill some ant soldiers now.