Ant Colony

Size	3x5
Where	Compound

Overview

An ant colony is used to raise ants. After seeding the colony with a Queen Ant, the colony will grow and produce Mandibular Glue and eventually another Queen Ant.

Source

This building becomes available after the Myrmecology technology is learned at a University of Worship.

Cost

• 4 Sheet Glass
• 4 Iron Bars
• 1 Thermometer
• 75 Nontoxic, Termite Resistant Boards
• 100 Red Sand
• 100 White Sand
• 100 Sand
• 100 Dirt
• 100 Clay

Built in a Compound. Uses 5x3 cells.

Use

Queen Ants

After being built, the colony must first be seeded with a Queen Ant. If the colony currently has a live queen, you will be able to see the ants moving.

Queen ants can be obtained either by examining plants or as a byproduct of another ant colony. The option to examine a plant will not appear on wood bearing trees, cacti, or thorn-giving plants. Using the hotkey 'E' will also work. However, be warned - queen ants will die in approximately 5 minutes if you do not have any fresh leaves (current week) in your inventory.

Care and Feeding

Ants eat Leaves. Only 21 leaves can be added at any given time, and only the current week's leaves can be added to the tank in any given week. Older leaves, even the previous week, are not suitable. As the week changes, if there are sufficient leaves provided, the colony's health will increase and the leaves will vanish.

There is a Leaf History available that shows the types of plants needed for fresh leaves each week.

Production

With placing 21 leaves in the colony weekly, and removing any glue accumulated:

Week	Health of colony (out of 21)	Glue produced (that week only)	Notes
1	0	0	Newly seeded colony
2	3	0
3	6	0
4	9	2
5	12	4
6	15	7
7	18	14
8	1	0	Second queen produced