User Interface

This page explains the basic user interface of the game.

## **Objective list**

The objective list is in the top left corner of the screen. Complete the objectives to beat a mission or win a freeplay game. In certain missions, some objectives only appear after you have completed the previous ones in a specific order.

## **Resource bar**

The resource bar is in the top middle part of the screen.

* *Soldier (non-worker) unit population*: It means the number of active soldier units/ total soldier unit population.

* *Worker unit population*: It means the number of active worker units/ total worker unit population.

* *Food*: It means the amount of stored food/ food store capacity.

* *Royal Jelly*: It means the amount of Royal Jelly you have. This is only available in the formicarium.

* *Territory*: It means the number of tiles you can dig out. This is only available in the formicarium.

* *Population cap*: It means the number of brood tiles you can build. This is only available in the formicarium.

* *Difficulty by population*: It means the difficulty of the environment, which depends on the number of ants you own. This is only available in freeplay.

If you play as leafcutter ants, food is replaced by waste and leaves. An extra bar, which represents the capacity of your brood chambers, also makes its appearance here. Green section indicates the amount of food and red section indicates the amount of waste in your brood chambers.

Menu is in the top right corner of the screen. Hover your cursor over it to see the frame rates and the current difficulty of a freeplay game.

## **Minimaps**

The minimaps are in the bottom left corner of the screen. You can move your camera to the desired area by clicking on the respective minimap.

* *Underground minimaps*: Each nest is assigned to a number. Your nest is 1 by default. Click the number to see inside the respective nest. Ally nests can be observed whenever you want. Enemy nests can only be observed when allies or your units are inside.

* *Surface minimap*: You need to dig out the entrance, if they are blocked at the beginning of a game, to gain access to this minimap. It blinks when you have just dug to the surface. There can only be 1 surface minimap.

On the minimaps, your units are green dots, allies are yellow dots and enemies are red dots. The size of the dots indicates the strength of the respective creatures.

Food and other harvestable resources are brown dots. If resources are worth 400 or above, they become brown X symbols.

White arrows represent underground nest entrances. Colored ant queens represent surface nest entrances. Yellow circles may appear on the minimaps to alert you about important or scripted events.

Pheromone markers can be set by right-clicking on the minimaps.

## **Control panel**

The control panel is in the bottom middle part of the screen.

Ants that are spawned from newly built chambers will be automatically put in nest group.

You have 5 pheromone groups, which are represented by roman numbers from I to V. The chosen pheromone group will have its numbers enlarged. You can choose to place or remove markers by clicking on the respective icons.

You can allow or prevent your ants from gathering, attacking, gathering aphids or mounting enemies by clicking the respective icons on the right of the control panel.

Each ant icon represents a group of ants which are spawned from the same brood chamber. The nanitic workers have a flag on their icon. The numbers beneath each icon means the number of active ants/ total ant population in the respective control groups.

## **Information display**

There are 3 icons to the right of the control tabs.

* *Resource information*: Enabling it lets you see food amount and harvest capacity.

* *Tile information*: Enabling it lets you see level and upgrade points of tiles.

* *Unit information*: Enabling it lets you see health bars and level/ rank of all creatures. Level of ants is represented by yellow diamonds. Rank of powerscaled creatures is represented by a yellow star with a corresponding number right next to it. Rank 14 or above becomes a plus symbol.

## **Building menu**

The building menu are in the bottom right corner of the screen.

* *Brood*: This tab contains options for brood. Each icon has a smaller icon in the bottom right corner to show the role of the respective ant unit: worker unit (green hammer), melee unit (red sword), ranged unit (yellow target) and tank unit (blue shield).

* *Construction*: This tab contains options for food storage, highway, upgrading tool and deleting tool. Leaf storage and refuse storage is available only when you play as leafcutter ants. Heating is only available in **Hibernation**.

## **Timers**

The timers are in the top right corner of the screen, below the resource bar. They either show the current number of attacking waves or countdown to the upcoming event like rising water.

## **Tips**

The tips and notifications are shown as yellow icons that pop up on the right side of the screen. This is where the developers put the tutorials and important informations.

## **Trivia**

* Surface minimap darkens when night falls.