Bullet Ant

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Information
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Common name Bullet ant
Scientific name Paraponera clavata
Environment Formicarium
Castes Soldier
Traits Execution
Damage-over-time
Paralysis
Playable colony No


Bullet ants (Paraponera clavata) will be playable in story levels and freeplay.


Abilities

Bullet ants don't use basic attack or mount enemies. They can constantly execute small enemies one at a time.

They can sting to paralyze and damage enemies over time.

Only level 3 brood tiles can spawn ants. You can gain access to level 1 and level 2 bullet ants by downgrading active ants.


Appearances

You can play with bullet ant soldiers in:

  • Main story


Notable stats

Bullet.png Bullet ant soldier
Common stats
  • Cost: 150/ 150
  • Health: 450/ 600/ 750
  • Movement speed: 300/ 300/ 300
  • Score: 30/ 42/ 54
  • Harvest amount: 16/ 16/ 16
  • Healing speed: 0.1/ 0.15/ 0.2
  • Threat: 0.3/ 0.3/ 0.3
  • Vision radius: 450/ 460/ 470
Damage modifications
  • Maximum taken damage: 300
Immunities
  • Immune to pickup/ knockback
  • Immune to execution
Execute
  • Damage (physical): 20/ 30/ 40
  • Attack speed: 1/ 1/ 1
Execution
Sting
  • Chance: 40%/ 40%/ 40%
  • Damage (venom): 20/ 30/ 40
  • Cooldown: 6/ 6/ 6
Paralysis
  • Duration: 3
Damage-over-time
  • Tick damage (venom): 8/ 8/ 8
  • Interval: 1/ 1/ 1
  • Duration: 20/ 30/ 40


Trivia

  • Bullet ants won over Dracula ants (Adetomyrma venatrix) to be the rewards for reaching the first kickstarter stretch goal (£12000).
  • Bullet ant soldiers are the largest creatures that can be executed in the game.