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Empires Of The Undergrowth - Formicarium Challenge 3 (No Commentary)

Pirahna01

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Empires Of the Undergrowth : Species Guide (Updated v3)

The Empire of the Undergrowth Species Guide talks about 'all' of the species of Ants, both Playable and Non currently available in the game, to help you learn about what each one does and strategize with and against them.

109 ratings

Imperatordavius

Guide

100% Achievements Guide

Welcome to the 100% Achievements Guide, which provides video walkthroughs and tips for the hungry spider level achievements, story mode achievements, and seasonal level achievements. Whether you're a new player diving into the achievement hunt or an old pl...

72 ratings

Buffy

VLOG 11 - What's next for Empires of the Undergrowth

Jul 8

Empires of the Undergrowth has been out for a month, so what comes next? In this vlog, community manager Mike goes through the roadmap for the immediate future of EotU.

Since this is a Slug Disco vlog it also has some news about another game published by us - if you'd like to skip that and get to just the EotU bits, the timecode is 1.26.

Empires of the Undergrowth

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Guide

Your Guide To Surviving in the Undergrowth

Intro Here is my guide to winning the game. This is a work in progress.

66 ratings

Flameal15k

38 people found this review helpful
4 people found this review funny

Not Recommended

17.0 hrs on record

Posted: July 22

This is completely unbearable...
I've been gaming since the late '80s, one of my wishes was for someone to revive the great SimAnt from 1991, and when it happens and it's well done, they don't include a save game feature... at the end of 1980s there were already games with save game features... including SimAnt!!!

I have 2 kids, I have to get up at 6:00, and this game sometimes requires me to spend an hour on missions that I can't even save... what a huge flaw...

I'm writing this after having to pick up the kids from school, leaving the game at the main menu, and when I come back, the game is frozen.

I understand that are people that dont care about this, but, It is impossible to give a good review on a game that lacks a functionality that is A MUST for me... ill change my review if it happens...

OdinPT

Video

DGA Live-streams: Empires of the Undergrowth - The Purple Ants Return! (Ep. 59)

Dad's Gaming Addiction

12 people found this review helpful

Recommended

108.5 hrs on record

Posted: July 19

If you fell in love with Sim Ant (SNES or PC), then you've made it. Welcome home.

Quandumb

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EMPIRES OF THE UNDERGROWTH - ANT SIM - Nooblets Lets Play

Nooblets

10 people found this review helpful

Not Recommended

17.7 hrs on record

Posted: July 21

Starts as a fun game, but then it gets obnoxious. You can't save mid-level, and it has secret timers... Essentially hiding your actual mission constraints from you. Also, you can't save mid-mission, so if you fail because you hit a hidden constraint? Start that hour of your life from scratch.

That is to say: Does not respect players' time.

I made it about 2/3rds of the way through the game, based on the mission GUI. I got an achievement with a gold border, meaning less than 10% of players made it that far... on medium difficulty.

dracolytch

731 products in account

Fixes & Changes - First post-release patch for Empires of the Undergrowth

Jul 4

We've released the first patch of fixes and changes for Empires of the Undergrowth, following its release into 1.0 last month. This deals with most of the more common issues that have been reported - more patches of this scale and type are likely to come in the near future.

Thanks to everyone who's been helping to test this patch in the optional beta over the past several days!

Changes

5.1's titans can now spawn in huge creature landmarks in freeplay
Added a system to restore saves from backup in-game rather than manually (not yet localised)
Added some extra protection when reloading or quitting the game when defeat rewards are being saved
Increased save backup number to 5 (up from 3)
Bullet ant tech tree video added
Scroll added to behaviour toggles box (will only appear when needed)
Added more recent localisation for Polish and Czech
Updated lighting for custom game levels and extra levels, and changed some underground tile grids to the new ones
Whip spider main menu icon is replaced if arachnophobia mode is active
Added arachnophobia hats to hybrids
Creature stat list can now show percentages to a single decimal point

Fixes

Reduced chance of all backups corrupting
Fixed some small reverb problems in Tier 5 lab music
Food taken from dead critters should now look closer to what it comes from
Wood ants now turn to their targets before each shot
AoE resistance now displays as a percentage in the Inspect tool
Creatures mounted on another are now killed when shaken off and landing off the tile grid
Fixed low resolution shadows in Tug of War 3
Large underground creatures in 5.1 and 5.3 can now only demolish a tile if at least one of its neighbours is demolished
Quadrupled VRAM allocated to overground tile grid textures - should improve issues when rapidly moving camera around the map
Inspect tool health-per-second now includes buffs (such as the Matabele medic aura)
Fix for whip spiders rapidly pinging from their creature encounter narration in 3.2
Bullet ant species hex now used in the improvements menu
Allowed marker placement through some plants that were blocking it in 3.2
Matabele colonies should now always drop termites when they sell a tile
Creatures that reach zero health while mounted will always drop to the floor to actually die
Water on the minimap removed on 5.3
Termites will no longer take sun damage in the ending cinematic of 5.3
End game messages now say the NG+ level that has been unlocked if this is not the first NG+ completion
Corrected some issues in the credits
Fixed a ping issue in Occupation 2
Texture size optimisations (should help with some blurry issues)
Skimmer in Battle Arena will now fly and land when there are enemies at the midpoint
Fixed some overhanging moss in the final formicarium / terrarium
Fixed an issue where loading a damaged creature with a star level would restore its health
Prevented ants walking into a rock in 5.1
Fixed an issue where several ants hatch costs were being affected by upkeep in custom games
Fixed an issue where bullet ant lean pupation was not applying in custom games
Fixed an issue where UI scaling 150% would cause formicarium rewards to be off the bottom of the screen and hence unselectable
Fixed an issue where Matabele colonies would drop seeds instead of termites when an upgrade was cancelled
Speed chambers now drop lignocellulose for termites and termites for Matabele when sold
Fixed an issue where food refunded into storage chambers owned by Matabele ants was seeds (and hence was worth a lot less)
Great blue skimmer displays health in battle arena again
Fixed an issue where ants would leave via the top of a tunnel exit on Strawclutch
Fixed an issue where poppy plants would appear on some custom game levels when loaded that were not meant to be there
Earwig nymph can no longer spawn as part of a wave in freeplay
Fixed an issue where huge creature landmarks if they could not find a slot could cause all other landmarks in the current queue to not spawn
Fixed an issue where under some circumstances less lignocellulose would spawn than was supposed to in custom games
Fixed some issues preventing AI controlled Matabele ant colonies from hunting termites
Lignocellulose landmarks now can only spawn weaker termites early game, ramping up to larger ones later game

Empires of the Undergrowth

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A King and a Queen

Mike

Worker ants gathering

Are worker ants any have any advantage in gathering (speed) over soldiers and etc? Or are they only good for nest work/cheap labor force? Second question, does upgrading their tiles makes them faster or just stronger and with more health?

The Ben-Shaloms

Jul 22 @ 6:49pm

General Discussions

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I love to make memes

goatsnlammas

Guide

EotU Mission Walkthroughs

Hey Everyone this is my first attempt at a guide and in it I'll go over the methods I used to solve all the challenges on normal (and later once I complete Hard (Possibly Insane) those as well). Also if anyone has their own ideas or methods feel free to le...

MerecatIsFancy

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Pogonomyrmex aka Seed Harvester Queen - Ramona, CA. 6/17/2021

Zane

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Best of friends!

Medic

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Empires of the Undergrowth - Post-1.0 Roadmap

Mike

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Empires of the Undergrowth 3.1 The Harvest Insane Challenge Mode Speedrun (28:44)

Buffy

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okay yup it's the scientist guy

Druze12

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'impossible' difficulty is just a quite easy total humiliation for the level 2.2 (only worker & rapid fire ant without upgrading anything)

Master_Origin

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The driver ants are savages!

FrostKnight

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"Fire ants breathing fire on their enemies" AI generated pic

Mayor_McCheese

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victory

the cheese

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Potential spoilers. Hover to reveal image.

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mean sun spider

pls102