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Tlaltecuhtli
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space ants idea sheet

Post by Tlaltecuhtli » #501406

space ants: they are nomad ants that use trash and food items to increase they number, every time they find one of these objects they add a datum/component/anthill on it which will spawn more ants until its depleted of nutriments with a +1 growth stage
when they reach growth 5 (5th generation of ant) they will look for simple mobs as food, break windows/tables and putting anthills on dead mobs
when they reach growth 8 they look for humanoids and do the same as above
growth stage makes their sprite bigger, do more dmg and have more hp and change their target for food


what they do:

- roam: move around ignoring food trying to spread out
- look for food: find an item that they can eat and try to reach it, delete self and add the anthill on it

anthills:
- trash objects gets deleted after spawning 5 ants
- food objects remove nutriment/sugar from it and spawn an ant, delete when it has nothing worth eating
- simple mobs spawn 5 ants and then gib
- humanoids drain blood and spawn ants, gib when they run out

if an ant finds an item with already an anthill on it, it ll just add a +1 to the max ants spawned (if the ant had an higher growth level then the anthill will be that level), spawned ants will ignore their own anthill

eating food with anthills makes you vomit ants with +1 stage

spraying mutagen will make them randomly increase/decrease growth stage

trash objs on initialize will have prob(1) to get anthills

setting the anthill item on fire will delete the anthill

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idk how mob ai works so it may take time to make em
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Re: space ants idea sheet

Post by ATHATH » #501796

Will ants bring items back to their anthills?

Would it be possible to have some ants be player-controlled, or will that result in just another spidertide?

Maybe instead of randomly spawning on 1% of roundstart trash, ant infestations could be a round-ending lategame events like how xenos currently are? In that case, making the ants player-controlled and adding spidertide-like features to ant infestations might be a good/positive thing.
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Re: space ants idea sheet

Post by bobbahbrown » #501800

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Re: space ants idea sheet

Post by ThanatosRa » #501848

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Re: space ants idea sheet

Post by Dr_bee » #501850

Just having Goon's system of having space ants appear on food left on the ground would be wonderful.
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Re: space ants idea sheet

Post by Akrilla » #501916

based tlal with the good feature idea
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