Wood Ant

Wood ants (*Formica rufa*) are playable as complete colonies in story missions, extra missions and freeplay.

## **Abilities**

Wood ant workers, soldiers and shooters use basic attack by biting enemies. Shooters can only do this while mounting enemies.

Shooters can shoot formic acid from their gasters. You must choose either mortar or rapid-fire shooters before playing a mission.

* Mortar shooters can shoot slower and further. They deal splash damage on nearby enemies at level 3.

* Rapid-fire shooters can shoot faster and more accurately. They slow enemies down at level 3.

In the main story, you can unlock wood ant shooters for your gene-thief ant colony using Royal Jelly.

## **Appearances**

Wood ants are playable as complete colonies in:

* **Rising Tide** *(either)*

* **Queen of the Hill** *(either)*

* **Babysitting** *(rapid-fire)*

* **Occupation** *(mortar)*

* **Hibernation** *(rapid-fire)*

Wood ant soldiers are playable units in:

* **Extremis**

* **Tug of War**

Wood ant shooters are playable units in:

* **The Second Experiment** *(either)*

* **Possibly the Final Experiment** *(either)*

* **The Final Experiment** *(either)*

* **Aggrandise** *(mortar)*

* **Extremis** *(either)*

* **Excavators** *(mortar)*

* **Tug of War** *(rapid-fire)*

* **Tug of War 2** *(mortar)*

* **New Year's Feast** *(mortar)*

Wood ants are enemies in:

* **Rising Tide**

* **Queen of the Hill**

* **The Second Experiment**

* **Aggrandise**

* **Extremis**

* **The Other Foot**

* **Tug of War 2**

* **Enemy of My Enemy**

* **Beetles Rise Up!**

* **Hibernation**

* **Tug of War 2**

* **Hungry Spider**

* **Festive Spider**

## **Notable stats**

**Wood ant queen**
* *Score*: 700
 **Damage modifications** | * *Physical resistance*: 50%
* *Venom resistance*: 50%
 **Immunities** | * Immune to stun/ confusion/ fleeing
* Immune to pickup/ execution/ knockback

 **Wood ant worker**
* *Health*: 25/ 35/ 45
* *Movement speed*: 300/ 340/ 380
* *Score*: 5/ 8/ 12
* *Harvest amount*: 15/ 15/ 15
* *Regeneration speed*: 0.1/ 0.1/ 0.1
 **Basic attack** | * *Attack damage (physical)*: 0.6/ 0.8/ 1
* *Attack speed*: 1/ 1/ 1

 **Wood ant soldier**
* *Health*: 85/ 100/ 120
* *Movement speed*: 320/ 320/ 320
* *Score*: 8/ 12/ 18
* *Harvest amount*: 15/ 15/ 15
* *Regeneration speed*: 0.1/ 0.2/ 0.3
 **Damage modifications** | * *AOE resistance*: 30%/ 30%/ 30%
* *Armor*: 0.2/ 0.4/ 0.6
 **Basic attack** | * *Attack damage (physical)*: 0.6/ 1.2/ 1.8
* *Attack speed*: 1/ 1/ 1

 **Wood ant shooter**
* *Health*: 20/ 25/ 30
* *Movement speed*: 280/ 280/ 280
* *Score*: 10/ 14/ 18
* *Harvest amount*: 15/ 15/ 15
* *Regeneration speed*: 0.1/ 0.1/ 0.1
 **Basic attack** | * *Attack damage (physical)*: 2/ 2/ 2
 **Acid spray**
**(mortar)**
* *Attack speed*: 0.5/ 0.5/ 0.5
* *Effect radius (splash)*: 0/ 0/ 70
 **Acid spray**
**(rapid-fire)**
* *Attack speed*: 2.2/ 2.6/ 3.1
* *Movement speed debuff*: 0/ 0/ - 50%
* *Attack speed debuff*: 0/ 0/ - 28%
* *Debuff duration*: 0/ 0/ 0.3
* Projectile

## **Trivia**

* In real life, a young wood ant queen may choose to assassinate a black ant queen and take over its colony using black ant pheromones. Black ant workers are under its control until its own brood is ready to venture outside. In **Rising Tide**, you start with 4 black ant workers and a dead black ant queen nearby. This was requested to be in the game by Serafine, a kickstarter backer.

## **Community screenshots**

Wood ant queen and wood ant workers (by Antbzk64)Wood ant soldiers and wood ant shooters (by Antbzk64)

## **References**

1. ↑ forum.slugdisco.com/index.php?threads/faq-frequently-asked-questions-read-before-posting.3021/
2. ↑ In comparison to basic attack speed. Tested by BovineTerror#2990 on ICS Discord (14/9/2023).
3. ↑ In comparison to basic attack speed. Tested by BovineTerror#2990 on ICS Discord (14/9/2023).
4. ↑ Confirmed by Mike on Discord (15/7/2022).