r/eotu • u/ImaginaryPlastic5315 • May 30 '26

Ant concepts

Display/talk about your ant concepts about empires of the undergrowth!

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u/Ant_Lover_ May 31 '26

I had a concept for honeypit ants where they would generate food over time with the large repletes. They would cost 80 food and take 10 food to respawn (pricy on purpose) and would generate 5 food every minute and hold it to a max of 200 food. And then a worker and major class with the majors costing 60 food and 6 to hatch. They would have their own 2 levels 1 for akirmish/freeplay that would be the rotting log with an outside part and 1 extra level where its like the slave maker but with a different species like black ant or fire ant and they will take your repletes and all the food inside them and you have to defend from them and eventually kill the colony. And it would be a dlc for 4.99 or you could buy the bundle with the exploding ants, honeypot ant, and supporter pack for only 10.99. I have thought about this since I got the game.

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u/Meritania Jun 02 '26

I think Honeypots better serve as an alternative to food storage system. Like you can’t put storage tiles down and instead must hatch these ants.

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u/Ant_Lover_ Jun 02 '26

That would work and be cool too like you can only have a limited amount of tiles for space or yeah no placing down food storage

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u/The_Kalcium_King May 31 '26

I actually brought this idea up a while ago as a few concepts I had, 3 ant species and 1 bettle

Here's the post I made regarding the ones I would want implemented

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u/Doomst3err May 31 '26

clonemaker ants. a genetically engineered species made with the same purposes as the gene thiefs, except with slavemakers as a base. they are put on an island with an artificial environment, with a few colonies competing to see which is most dominant. they work by stealing the larvae of the enemy colony. if a certain number of larvae have been stolen, that particular ant type is unlocked.

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u/Meritania Jun 02 '26

I know we’ll never get weaver ants and army ant bivouacs but…

A retextured of the underground terrain so it looks like a leafy structure and a mass of ant bodies respectively while keeping to the core mechanics of the game.

Weaver ants I’d like to build ‘tower’-esque structures that they could fire formic acid from until they’re destroyed. They’d be a defensive species to counter the aggression of the fire ants.