Resin

Resin is a resource that is used for upgrading colony chambers and other items in the Resin Shop.

## General Information

Resin is an important resource in the game. It is used to upgrade the Queen's Chamber and to purchase upgrades in the Resin Shop.

Resin can be earned by completing all 4 daily quest items. Completing a Termite Nest co-op awards 2000 resin and 30 minutes of no termites in the tree. Resin can also be farmed from the tree by protecting workers as they collect resin from the resin source. Completing the Beehive maze allows players to choose 2000 resin as a reward. The maze can be completed up to 5 times each day.

Resin is one of the main reasons for joining a clan. Clans offer the chance of a second co-op opportunity each day which can result in up to 4000 additional resin.

## Resin source

When first starting the game, the resin source will have 500 resin. Once that resin has been collected, the resin source will update to an amount relative to the current level of the Resin Chamber. The source will continue to change as the level of the Resin Chamber is increased.

## Farming resin

Farming resin is one of the main ways to get resin in the game. It can be very time consuming and cost a lot of fungus depending on which upgrades the player has acquired.

Upon entering the tree, there will be a resin source about 2-20 seconds away. It will be guarded by numerous soldier termites, as well as worker termites and soldier termites that travel with the workers. Remember that the termites are infinite, but they do not actually deplete the resin source. It may be necessary to bring soldiers with you when marking the source; you can disband the soldiers, quickly mark the resin source, then recruit the soldiers again to protect you as you leave.

Worker and soldier termites will spawn from a crack in the bottom part of the tree. If the termites are near max limit, only 6 worker termites will come out (same with the top). Soldier termites will stay on the tree until they are defeated.

The garrison will need to be set in front of the crack, otherwise while farming resin, the termites will attack and kill the workers as they move up and down the tree.

When this type of attack happens, 1-5 soldier termites will be running down the tree, also indicating that termites will soon be coming out of the crack.

### Strategy #1 - One Round at a time / Hit and Run

Recommended upgrades:
Army size: 12
Garrison size: 10
Soldier level: 4
Soldier resilience: +10%

This strategy is useful for beginners, as it is quick and doesn't require a strong army.

It involves setting a garrison down in front of the crack (as always), and summoning your workers to obtain resin (obviously). For best results, cancel all other jobs first and wait for the workers to become idle, so that they will all travel together.

When your workers arrive at the tree, travel with them to fight the termites guarding the resin and stay on the resin source. Once each worker has collected a resin piece, you may leave the resin source with your soldiers, and remove the garrison when all the workers have left the tree.

Note: It doesn't matter where exactly you put your garrison in this strategy, as the garrison doesn't need to stay for long.

### Strategy #2 - Semi-AFK / Constant Fighting

#### Version 1

Recommended upgrades:
Army size: Doable with 15, but 20 makes it much easier
Garrison size: 15 (but again, size 20 makes you much more efficient)
Soldier level: 5+
Soldier resilience: +20%
Soldier speed: +5%
Worker speed (optional, but higher efficiency): +5%

This strategy is used by experienced players, as it requires lots of food, a rather strong garrison and army. It also is the "AFK farming" strategy.

If this is done with a big garrison and recruit, you could possibly go idle for a very long time, and food drains very slowly.

It involves setting your garrison in front of the crack, ordering your workers to collect resin and then taking off to fight off every termite up the tree, until you reach the termite nest.

You can then settle in front of the nest and your soldiers will fight off any termites that spawn there.

You don't need to move, all you have to do is click the 'recruit' button whenever you lose soldiers (which you have to do more frequently if you have an army with fewer soldiers or low level soldiers), while your workers continuously farm resin.

These operations can end in 3 ways:

1) The player ant dies, which is very rare as your soldiers offer a very protective shield. The only time a player ant is vulnerable is when the player doesn't recruit soldiers to replenish the army, or when all soldiers go off fighting other termites, therefore allowing extra termites to target the player ant.
2) You run out of food, which is easily avoidable.
3) Your garrison gets defeated, which is the usual way of how the operation ends.

If your garrison loses a lot of soldiers, the termites that come out of the crack will start targeting your workers. (This is why it's better to have a garrison with more soldiers, or higher level soldiers, the stronger the garrison, the more the operation can last).

Another very important factor, is where exactly you place your garrison.

You need to find a place where your soldiers will all target your termites shortly after they spawn, to minimize casualties on your side.

This is also affected by the fact that when termites spawn, they spend about 2 seconds 'unaware of their surroundings'.

This means that they won't immediately target your soldiers, instead they will just travel upwards for a short duration.

When these factors are taken into account: here are the 2 best spots where you can place your garrison:

Don't place your garrison below or on the crack since termites may get through the fighting range of your soldiers and attack your workers.

It's recommended to end the operation when the garrison goes down to around 5 soldiers to minimize worker loss.

#### Version 2

Recommended upgrades:
Army size: Doable with 15, but 20 makes it much easier
Garrison size: 15
Soldier level: 5
Soldier resilience: +10%
Soldier speed: +5%
Worker speed (optional, but higher efficiency): +5%

Same strategy as version one, but instead of resting at the termite nest, you settle at the resin source itself and fight off the termites that come to harvest resin.

In this strategy, you can settle faster at the tree and escape faster, due to the resin source being closer to the bottom of the tree than the termite nest.

You also don't have to fight every termite in the tree to arrive at the nest.

However, you will still lose lots of soldiers with this strategy. You can't AFK for long, or you will die and so will your workers.

Pocket Ants- Low level colony Resin farming (EASY TUTORIAL)You can also fight the termite king and queen for 2000 resin and a 30m timer for no termites on the tree.

## Upgrades

Main article: Resin Shop
Apart from being needed to upgrade the Queen's chamber (and thus soldier ants' level), the resin can also grant permanent boosts. These are bought in the resin shop. Resin can also be used to unlock and upgrade the Venus Fly Trap.

## Trivia

1. ↑ It's assumed to be 16 times the health of a level 1 Venus Flytrap.
2. ↑ Exact values for the rest of Venus Fly Trap upgrades are unknown.