Co-op Mode

**Co-operative mode** (or **Co-op mode**) is a multiplayer game mode on Pocket Ants. It allows players to play together against bosses to earn rewards.

## General information

   In co-op mode, players can make teams to clear special dungeons in real-time, with different maps and modes. They will fight against unique bosses with deadly attacks. All the players will get rewards if the dungeon is cleared before the time runs out.

In Termite Nest and Crab Beach, players join with the player ant, their aphid pet and 10% (truncated) of the maximum soldier army. If a player loses all their soldiers, they will acquire the ability to attack by drinking and spitting a yellow substance present in the center of the map. The player can also revive all their soldier ants using 75 Gems, but by doing this the player will lose the spit skill until all their soldiers are killed again.

In Frog Pond, players join with only the player ant and their aphid pet. Players get limited lives but can use 75 gems  to purchase an extra life.

## Access and requirements

Co-op mode can be accessed by the "Co-op" tab, which is located inside the "Social" menu.

* To join any lobby of Termite Nest and Crab Beach co-op modes, the players must have **3 Battle Tokens** **, 500 Leaves**  **and 500 Seeds** .
* To join a Frog Pong co-op mode, players must have **3 Battle Tokens** , **250** Body Parts , and **2500** Resin .

These resources will only be deducted when the match actually starts. If the player leaves the co-op before the match starts, the player will keep the resources, battle tokens and gems.

## Boosters

Players can enter the dungeons with additional **one-time-use** boosters that can be purchased with gems . These can only be purchased before joining a lobby, and can't be activated/deactivated inside. To remove a booster without being charged for the gems, the player needs to exit the lobby **before** it begins.

The Termite Nest and Crab Beach boosters are:

Frog Pond boosters are:

## Soldiers in co-op

The number of soldier ants a player has in a Termite Nest or Crab Beach co-op depends on their max army size. Players bring 10% of the max army size rounded down to the nearest 10 (truncated). The number of ants taken to co-op is the same even if some soldiers have been killed, however, players can't join any lobby if they currently have less than 10% of the max army size plus one more ant. (Example: Max army is 65 ants, 10% of max army is 6 ants, player must have 7 soldiers ants to join a co-op.)

Players can upgrade max army size with resin in the Resin Shop to bring more soldiers into co-op:

 60 to 65
 70 to 79
 80

## Maps

### Termite Nest

Main article: Termite Nest.

For detailed attack and strategy see Main Article: Termite King and Termite Queen.

Players enter the Termite Nest which is made of three chambers: the first chamber is the lobby where players meet each other, the second chamber is Termite King's and the third chamber is Termite Queen's. Termite King and Queen are two bosses that players must defeat. Each one of them have three different attacks. Termite Nest is completed when the Termite Queen is defeated. Rewards are 2k resin , no termites in the tree for 30 minutes, and possibly a termite skin.

### Crab Beach

Main article: Crab Beach.

For detailed attack and strategy information see Main Article: Crab (boss)

Players fight against a Crab boss in a sand island. The crab has the most health out of all the bosses and is also had the most difficult attacks. The beach map has only 2 areas, one is where players meet each other, while the second is where the players fight the crab. The crab has 2 phases with 3 attacks each one. The rewards are 100 body parts , 1 crab point, and possibly a crab skin.

### Frog Pond

Main article: Frog Pond

For detailed attack and strategy information see Main Article: Frog (boss)

Player must coordinate and work together in a small valley to defeat the Frog boss. Frog Pond has three chambers: the player lobby for players to coordinate their attack, the pond room where players attack the frog while it's underwater, and the final room where players attack the full frog. There are three main attack mechanics at 75%, 50% and 25% boss health. These mechanics scale in difficulty and players must work together to pass them or the co-op will automatically fail. Rewards are 250 honeydew , 1 red sage seed , 1 frog point, no frog timer (unknown what this does), and possibly a frog skin.

## Modes and lobbies

* Termite Nest and Crab Beach maps have 2 modes: **Public co-op** and **Clan co-op**.
* Frog Pond only has 1 mode: **Public co-op**.

### Public co-op

Public co-operatives can be created by anyone, and anyone can join by using the "Search" button, which makes the player join a random lobby. All of these lobbies also have a 6-digit code that can be entered in the "Join" menu to join a specific lobby. Public termite and crab lobbies are limited to 10 players.

When creating these lobbies, the option "Private" can be selected. This will block players to join the lobby by using the "Search" option, leaving the code as the only way to join. This code can be shared with other players through the clan chat or by a social media like Discord. Codes are entered on each map's menu separately, thus players must also tell what map is their code for when sharing it with other players.

The player who created the lobby will be the dungeon leader, and will have a flag next to their username in the players list. If the leader leaves the dungeon or goes AFK for a long period (going AFK meaning minimizing/switching the game screen or losing connection), the dungeon will be closed and everyone will be kicked out. This is important to take into consideration when joining public lobbies.

#### Public co-op difficulty

Termite Nest and Crab Beach public co-ops increase in difficulty after 5 players have joined. Starting at the 6th player, the difficulty increases with **each** person up to the max of 10. This means that a public co-op with 10 people is about 30% more difficult than a co-op with 5 people. *An example with made up numbers: For 1-5 players the Boss health might be 1000, for 6 players it might be 1100, for 7 players it might be 1200, for 8 players 1300, for 9 players 1400 and 10 players 1500.*

Public Crab Beach co-ops are more difficult than public Termite Nest co-ops because the Crab has more health than the two termite bosses combined. The amount of damage done by players in Crab Beach is about 23% less than in Termite Nest which means that it takes a lot longer to kill the Crab boss.

Frog Pond difficulty is not based on the number of participants since this map must always have 8 players.

### Clan co-op

Clan co-ops can only be created by the clan's Queen and can only be completed once per day. Once the queen opens it, there will be a message appearing on players' screens and the clan lobby button will be active for all clan members. Clan lobbies don't have a player limit since the clan has already a members capacity. All the members of a clan can join clan coop. The clan Queen will be the leader of the lobby and the previous notes apply here too.

#### Clan co-op difficulty

In clan co-ops, crab has the same health as both termite bosses combined. Boss health is determined by the amount of players who join and scales up for every 5 players that join. This means that a clan co-op with fewer players is easier than a lobby with many players. However, while the health increases for every 5th player, the amount that health increases gets smaller for each level. *An example with made up numbers: For 12 players the Boss health might be 1000, for 17 players it might be 1250, for 22 players it might be 1450, and for 27 players it might be 1600.*

## Daily limits

Both public and clan modes can be attempted unlimited times for the three maps, but players can only clear them and get the rewards once per day in each mode for each map. This daily limit resets at 00:00 UTC (daily reset time). Players can reset the daily limit of public co-ops using 350 or 450 gems . It only will reset the limit in one map. Clan co-op daily limit can't be reset.

The daily limit for both modes on the maps are independent. This means that players can complete co-op **five** times a day: 3 public co-ops (one at Termite Nest, one at Frog Pond and one at Crab Beach), and 2 clan co-ops (one at Termite Nest and one at Crab Beach).

## Start

When joining a lobby, there is a green "Ready" green button at the top left area of the screen. **Every** player must have clicked the ready button for the boss chamber's door to open.

If a public lobby is full (10/10) and 8 out of 10 members (not counting the leader) are Ready, a 10 seconds timer will start for the 9th player to click "Ready". If this player doesn't click Ready during the 10 seconds, they will be kicked from the lobby.

After the door to the next chamber is opened, the co-op will only count as "started" when the **leader** walks in and the boss is spawned. It's recommended for the rest of players to enter **before** the leader, so they can go to the boss's spawn point and attack as soon as it appears. It's also advisable that the leader makes a countdown before entering the boss's chamber so players can be ready to attack.

Players will not be penalized if they leave the lobby before the co-op started, this is, before the leader enters the boss's chamber and the boss spawns. Players will keep their resources if they are kicked or disconnected before that moment. Additionally, players can still join the lobby if the leader has pressed ready to open the entrance but hasn't entered the boss's chamber.

## Rewards

**Notes:**

* The reward of 30 minutes without termites is not stack-able. The timer will reset if a Termite Nest co-op is completed while the timer from a previous co-op is still active.
* The Co-op bar is filled with 15 points earned in the Crab Beach map. When full, players can claim a Crab creature, which is added to the player's army.

### Clan resource reward

Level 12 is the max level that a clan can achieve. Clans at level 12 no longer receive clan points as a reward for completing and clan co-op. Instead clans receive resources to go toward the clan bonuses. This reward is 15000 seeds , 15000 leaves  and 15000 fungus  for each co-op, each day. If a clan completes both Termite Nest and Crab Beach co-ops, they receive a total of 90000 resources.

This reward is only given once per co-op, is added directly to the clan resources and does not count toward any individual player's resource totals.

## Notes

* The higher Queen Chamber level, the more damage per second soldiers do. Speed upgrades are also important, specially for Crab Beach.
* Players will not receive any reward if they only kill the Termite King in Termite Nest.
* Termite skin and Crab skin are very rare. However, Crab skin seems to have a little higher chance than Termite skin.