Editing Guideline

Hello, I'm Antbzk64, admin of this Fandom Wiki. This is a guideline for future editors to follow so that all pages are coherent. This also prevents too many minor editing that I cannot control when new update drops. I will review all your edits every Sunday, so please refrain from doing so on that day.

This page is updated on 16/7/2023.

**RULE NUMBER 1:** REGARDING THE SPOILER/ FUTURE CONTENT PAGE, DO NOT POST DATAMINED FUTURE CONTENTS. If you want to post in-game un-released stats, please ask the developers first.

## **General**

Use **Title case** for page titles (Ex: "**Queen Of The Hill**"). Use **Sentence case** for the rest (Ex: "**Notable stats**"). Species name in title must be in **Sentence case**.

All number should not be spelled out (Ex: "1" instead of "one"). Mathemathical symbol must be separated from the number. (Ex: "+ 3"). Keep the format of the number in "Quotes" pages the same as in the game.

Timestamps for events in a mission should be written like this: "at 18:50", but it's generally not needed. Time between waves or events should be written like this: "18 minutes 50 seconds" if it is 2 minutes or more.

Ability name should be bold. Use italic for stats or other choices. (Ex: "**Basic attack**" or "*Attacking damage*")

Titles of segments and names of missions must be bold. Scientific names must be italic.

There must be a space between paragraphs. End a segment with break after a space line.

If something first appears in a page that can be linked, link it.

Information must be verifiable in game or must be explained publicly by a developer. It must be linked to the source videos or forum discussions. If the information is from discord, provide the name of the informant so people can search for the source. (Ex: "By Solstitium on Discord")

## **Creature pages**

### **Preface**

Start the page with:

* Species name

* Small description if they are enemies or not

* When they should be first encountered in the game if they are not ants and playability if they are ants.

(Ex: "Black ants (*Formica fusca*) are playable as complete species in story mode and freeplay." and "Mole crickets (*Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa*) are challenge mode enemies in black ant missions.")

### **Abilities**

* Mention what kind of attack the units can do, which effects they can cause.

* Mention unit choice if they are playable ants.

* Explain mechanics of some abilities if needed. Do not go details into too many number here.

### **Appearances**

* Mention which missions can you encounter the species in. Everything will be eventually ported to freeplay.

### **Notable stats**

* I will be the one to do this segment when the stat sheets are updated, contact me if you find any wrong number.

### **Trivia**

* Only mention real life facts that are related to the implementation of the creatures.

* Do not mention buffs/nerfs, unless it's mission specific one.

* You can mention other major changes to the creatures' models, effects, related pages. (Ex: You can mention the visual effect change of army ant majors or late addition of mole crickets in **Battle Arena**).

* PLEASE HAVE A SOURCE FOR DEVELOPMENT TRIVIA. The format is written above in **General**.

### **Community screenshots**

* I will also be the one to do this segment. I generally save a bunch of clear and high quality images of related topics and mass upload them. If you know where the images are from, put credit in. (Ex: "(by SyrianDugong)")

* The image should be 1920 x 1080, lower is also acceptable but I'll try to enhance it. Don't use images that are just a blob of creatures. Don't use image with UI unless there are guide/ tutorial segments above.

* Images are taken from Steam Screenshots and Discord. Contact me if you don't want your arts posted here.

## **Mission pages**

### **Preface**

Start with:

* The in-game description of the mission. I'll come up with something if the game doesn't have description.

For stats related to difficulty setting, use "a/ b/ c/ d" with each is respective stats of easy/ medium/ hard/ insane.

### **Settings**

* Mention which species you use and the general objective of the mission.

* Describe unique characteristic of the maps that affects your gameplay: how many layers of the beach, what kind of food is available, major landmarks, whether there is surface.

* Mention if you start during the day or night. Because day/ night cycles are different between missions and there is no way to check precisely, the length is currently left out. I have the numbers if you need.

* Mentions the length, timestamps or triggers of certain non-creature-related events like rising tides, entrance auto-excavation, snow, phases of **Formicarium Challenges**, ect.

* Mention the unit choice/ availability. (Ex: "You only have access to mortar shooters.")

### **Minimaps**

* Minimaps all go here. Use gallery format, and images are 161x161px. If there are location specific mechanics like in Babysitting, I'll replace the usual image with another that has appearing order/ attacking order.

### **Objectives and achievements**

* Simply add the objectives.

* Explain how to complete an achievement if needed.

### **Rewards**

* Mention what you unlock after beating a mission.

* If it is story mission, mention the number/ amount of Territory Points/ Food/ Royal Jelly.

### **Enemy/ ally colony**

* If there are AI colonies in the missions, mention it here. If the enemy or ally ants have unique mechanics (Ex: army ants in **Frontline**), also mention it here.

* Explain what the enemy/ ally AI colonies does during the mission and how their unique mechanics work. Do not retell unit abilities, those should be linked to the species pages.

* Mention enemy's unit choice. (Ex: "The enemy colony only have access to mortar shooters.")

### **Notable enemies**

* Mention which species appear in this mission, whether they are underground or in a general location if it is important to gameplay, the time of day they appear. Roaming enemy ants (without AI or unique mechanics) are mentioned here.

* Do not retell unit abilities, those should be linked to the species pages.

* Mention which enemies are in an attacking wave, the time between each wave if it is constant.

* Challenge mode will have its own section beneath all the above.

### **Trivia and Community screenshots**

* These are similar to **Creature pages**.

### **Final words**

If you have any other construction, please message me on my wall or discord. I will update what I plan to do to the wiki on my wall/ wiki blog when the next newsletter is released. Thank you for reading.