Nine kinds. Each with its own behaviour, ecological role and stat profile. Learn the bestiary, plan your slurps, and find out which ants are worth chasing — and which are best left alone.
The everyday worker
Marches in lanes, occasionally wandering. Mildly skittish — pauses often, easy to grab in clusters.
Backbone of the colony. Forages, hauls crumbs, builds tunnels. Without these, nothing else exists.
Mound swarmer — easy 5pts
Erupts from termite-mound holes in pulses of 4–6. Tiny, pale, fragile — any tongue tip grabs them. Rake 3+ in one slurp for a Termite Swarm bonus.
Soft-bodied workers from inside the mound. Each one is barely a snack, but a single eruption is a feast — if you read the rumble in time.
Marches a leaf home
Slow, focused, near-straight line. Barely reacts to the tongue — committed to the trail.
Carries leaf fragments to underground fungus gardens. The leaf is fertiliser, not food. Massive stamina payload.
Fastest in the colony
Top speed, huge awareness radius, panics on sight. Spots crosshair stares earlier than anyone else.
Scouts trail-blaze new food routes and chatter alarm pheromones that swing the whole colony into flee mode.
Heavy. Stubborn. Worth it
Slow and barely flinches. High resistance — demands a near-perfect contact quality to capture.
Major workers carry oversized loads. In the wild, their bulk lets the colony move outsized prey.
Rare, fast, lucrative
Sprints across the arena, juke-prone and crosshair-aware. Bolts the second your aim lingers — strike fast.
A flash of opportunity. In nature, gilded foragers move quickly between rich patches before rivals notice.
Rare. Shouts a word.
Wanders calmly with a teal aura. Catch one and it shouts a vocabulary word — from easy nature terms to deep myrmecology. Worth 35 points.
The colony's accidental librarian. Carries syllables the way leafcutters carry leaves, and unloads them the moment you slurp it up.
Spicy. Do not slurp
Aggressive — actively STEERS toward your tongue. Catching one burns your tongue and slows the next strike.
Real fire ants defend with venom. In the game, they punish greedy slurps and force you to aim around them.
Raider — ignores the tongue
Marches straight at the aardvark. Bites on contact. Slurp before it lands or eat a stamina hit.
Army-ant style raiders. In nature, columns of red raiders sweep terrain and overwhelm prey.
Mandibles. Charge on sight
Patrols then locks on. Once charging, commits to a line toward the mouth. Very hard to grab clean.
Caste-specialised defenders. Oversized heads and jaws built for one job: protect the nest.
Boss. The crowned threat
Sees far, juke-master, summons reinforcements on a telegraph. 3 HP — survives multiple slurps until weakened.
The colony's reproductive engine. Every worker, soldier and scout descends from her.