The Crucible

Information
Name	The Crucible
Categories	Demo
Player species	Leafcutter ant
Player units	Leafcutter ant minor Leafcutter ant media
Surface	Yes
Features	Timed attacks
Music	The Harvest Theme

Take control of the new leafcutter ants, gather leaves to raise your brood whilst defending against troublesome spiny devil bush crickets and ferocious rove beetles.

Objectives

• Build 3 leaf storage tiles.

• Build 3 waste storage tiles.

• Process a piece of leaf into fungus.

• Spawn 7 leafcutter ant minors.

• Spawn 7 leafcutter ant mediae.

• Gather 2000 leaves.

• Eliminate all rove beetles.

Settings

Your leafcutter ant colony must establish itself while being surrounded by predators. Your nest is located on top of a hill.

The mission starts during the day.

There are some harvestable plants on the surface. They don't regenerate.

You don't have access to leafcutter ant majors.

Notable enemies

Enemies are on the same side.

Green rove beetles and blue rove beetles live in your nest.

The tutorial ends after you have gathered 1000 leaves or eliminated any underground enemies. Spiny devil bush crickets appear on the surface every 25 seconds and circle around the hill. They invade your nest when there are 16 of them on the surface.

Trivia

• There is a huge whip spider in the bottom right corner of the map. You can't interact with it.

Minimaps

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  Surface

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  Underground