How to defeat formicarium challenge 3 and the other foot

Here you will learn how to defeat formicarium challenge 3 in story mode and an extra level called "the other foot"

How to beat challenge 3

Formicarium challenge 3 is very hard, you'll need strong forces, stocked food and skill. Of course, you need to work to get those things.

Farming up

to get a strong army, you will need food. After moving to the new formicarium from the old one, defeat the levels 3.1, 3.2 and challenge mode of one of the levels (i chose challenge mode 3.2 because i can defeat 3.2 faster than 3.1 and could win without phorid flies in the way). After you have defeated those levels go to the surface and gather all the food and build food stores of 1000 or more (i recommend food stores of 2000 or 3000) after you have gathered a decent amount of food, its time we spend them!

Building forces

after you have gathered all that food, spend it on some 24 level 3 black ants, 24 level 3 wood ants (both variants are good) and 19 level 3 leafcutter majors (both variants are okay). run out of food in your food storage? Gather more food from outside, run out of food completely? Play 2nd or 3rd tier levels in challenge mode. You want to get both abilitys of each ant species in the tech tree to improve them in battle.You do also want atleast 1000 (or more) food stored during challenge 3. And with that being said you are prepared for challenge 3! (i do recommend building a few workers though as you can replace more eggs at a time during challenge 3 and could act as food gatherers/harvesters).

Fighting the counterpart colony!

you have started challenge 3, with strong forces, decently stocked food and skill. put your black ants and leafcutters in the same group while the wood ants in another separate group, put the ants either in your area or around the center of the tube, and put your wood ants slightly more behind your melee ants. when your ants die, it cost food to rehatch them and when food runs out you can't spawn any soldiers back until you get more food back right? This is the same with the enemy colony in challenge 3, kill a bunch of their ants until their food has been diminished to the point where they can't hatch more, then enter their nest and kill their queen. however in medium or harder difficulty's the queen has an ability, she can summon royal guards or make royal decree, royal guard and royal decree both hatch ants back even if no food is stored but if you kill them then they can't be restored back, cool down of queens ability is 5 minutes so kill her before 5 minutes pass. and then your done with formicarium challenge 3. You can now spawn whatever creature you want and make your own challenge!

How to beat the other foot

(WARNING! This level is recommended to players who have defeated formicarium challenge 3 as it contains spoilers).The other foot is an extra level, it is also hard requiring strong forces, decently stocked food and skill. Now lets get right into it!

Starting the level

Ok, you have now started the other foot. now build up the chambers of each type of ant your going to place(army ant media chamber should be able to fit 24 while the rest should fit 20) and a food storage chambers, then fill up the food storage chamber and make them be able to store atleast 1910-2060 food as you are going to do alot of spending! Then gather the food and build 3 chambers behind the queen that can fit 7 tiles (it isn't necessary to put them behind your queen i just prefer them like that) and build as many workers in each of those chambers. Once you run out of food, open the entrance go up with all your workers, build more (if you haven't filled up the worker chambers). Now that you have the worker chambers filled up, put them in what ever marker group you want (just not the marker group your going to put soldiers in, also you must have at least 7 workers in nest group). An objective will come up to put 40 workers in tube, he will place 2 devils coach horse larva, don't worry, you can kill them with your workers easily in this level and when you finished the objective, you unlock army ant media which now you should build (isn't necessary to upgrade them). A short while after you will need to put 20 workers in tube, placing down 2 whip spiderlings, you can kill them with your army ant media and after completing the objective you will need to complete another objective. You will need to keep the tube supplied with workers, basically, if the bar goes down then you lose, so keep the bar up by filling the tube with workers until the timer is out, the scientist will then put down a bunch of woodlice and although they're harmless, they can distract your workers on your way which in this case turn off attack for workers group. After that he will place around 6 devils coach horse larva (but there may be more in higher difficulty's) kill them with your army ant media, then there will be a devils coach horse adult dropped in by the scientist (again, there may be more in higher difficulty's) again, kill them with your army ant media. After that the timer will be to 0 and you will have completed that objective, unlocking slavemakers! Build all 20 in their chamber.

Surviving 1st patch of waves!

After you have unlocked the slavemakers, put all your soldiers underground right infront of the entrance/exit and have your workers hide in a chamber, if you can't then put them near the queen. Soon the scientist will first place black ants, these will be very easy to fight. Then the scientist will place down wood ants, level 1 melee and level 3 ranged, this is really bad because level 3 ranged wood ants deal splash damage and can destroy an army of ants if enough of them is there and if they have melee protectors, the melee wood ants act as the protectors but its not too bad because there's only a few of them. Then the scientist will place a dozen devils coach horse, they will be killed very easily though, after that though he will place a few devils coach horse adult (number depends on difficulty) kill them fast before they kill too much of your forces. The scientist will soon place down some tiger beetles (number depends on difficulty maybe?) and after you kill the tiger beetles the scientist will place a pack of wolf spiders, the biggest one can eat and heal immediately, so you have to kill them fast! (they can be so strong that you might need to summon royal guards to kill them). Now you have completed the first pack of waves and have now unlocked trap jaw ants!

Midway through the level

You are now midway through the level. Now you will need to send 30 workers through the tube, however the scientist has placed 2 juvenile whip spiders, with your strong and upgraded army ant media, slavemakers and trap jaw ants, this will be no problem! After you defeat them gather their food and send the workers through the tube. Now you have to supply the tube with workers again, and this time with more seconds in the time. The scientist will place 2 spiny devil bush cricket/katydid adults, they are very dangerous because when they spin around they cause poison damage and can sometimes kill half or more of your army, kill them fast enough and you could be fine, but then the scientist will place an adult tiger beetle but you can kill them very easy aslong as you have a big army. Then he will place a few juvenile tiger beetles and 2 or more adult tiger beetles. Then the scientist will place a dozen wolf spiders (you don't have to kill all of them for now) soon the timer will end and then soon you are going to begin the second pack of waves!

Surviving the 2nd patch of waves!

Now you are beginning the 2nd patch of waves, i hope you have stored a lot of food because this is going to be one of the hard parts! The first thing that will be sent to you are a couple dozen (level 3) gene thief workers, they will be easy to kill however, then you will be given some time to gather food if you haven't filled up your food storage. Then the scientist will place a lot and i mean A lot of rove beetle larva, they will be easy to kill however and will give you so much food because there is so many (im starting to become more lazy here so i won't say every single creature that will be sent to you here but i will say some specific parts of the waves). So after a while you will be sent jumping spiders, bring your soldiers near your queen as they run around a lot! Then soon you will be sent army ants, after killing them you will unlock army ant majors! build a few of them as you don't want to lose too much food as the waves are not over. Then you will be overrun by mantises, you will kill them very fast though especially with your army ant majors, then you will be sent many whip spiders, both spiderlings and juvenile (but not adult form) to survive this bring your soldiers a little more back to fight them as they might be too many. Then the scientist will place a bunch of spiny devil katydids of all sizes (small, medium and large), remember when i said they do poison damage when they spin? You are going to have to kill them really really fast or else your army is POOF. So the last creature that will be sent to you is the huge adult whip spider, they are suprisingly weak compared to your army so finish that beast off! (and if you haven't kill the wolf spiders from previously when you were supplying the tube do kill them.)

Final battle with the primary colony!

So now you are going to fight the primary colony (the colony you were in the story) Now when the tube is connected, go in their formicarium, kill off their army, go inside and kill their queen. You have successfully defeated the other foot! I hope this guide was helpful and you enjoyed it! It took a lot of time to make this guide!!!

[Beanie Man]

I beat it second try lol randomly

[eradicatetoast]

my death in formicarium 3 is the tiny whipys

[Sonicspeed9]

For Counterpart Colony I suggest when it doesn't show that you have to keep it supplied but just get workers in, to take your time building up food to get enough workers/soldiers and keep some extra for when they enter the tube.

[Sunny]

I mean foot-

[noahsaurus24]

before i read this i just bought 62 warriors 13 wood ants and 6 leaf cutters-

[Sunny]

I beated the other food 80 times ...

[eLiaS]

900

[eLiaS]

ih

[matrixsrfr]

Bruh I beat Challenge 3 by accident when I was testing how hard it was ;-;
not complaining tho

[Muliselk]

I reccomend doing 1 or 2 wood and ant black ant chambers,19 size each, basically double size hexagon, then 1 leaf cutter major. I was pushing enemy colony and i fully destroyed it. I had to redo levels on hard with challenge to get the food though.