Black Ant

Information
Common name	Black silky ant
Scientific name	Formica fusca
Environment	Woodland
Castes	Queen Worker Soldier
Traits	None
Playable colony	Yes

Black ants (Formica fusca) are playable as complete colonies in story missions, extra missions and freeplay.

Abilities

Black ants use basic attack by biting.

You can unlock adaptations for black ant soldiers using Royal Jelly in the main story.

Appearances

You can play as a black ant colony in:

• Tutorial
• New Home
• Subjugation
• The Culling

You can play with black ant soldiers in:

• The First Experiment
• The Second Experiment
• Possibly the Final Experiment
• The Final Experiment
• Aggrandise
• Extremis
• Excavators
• Tug of War
• Critters
• The Nest
• Hold Out
• Surrounded

You can also encounter non-player black ants in:

• Rising Tide
• Queen of the Hill
• Occupation
• Enemy of My Enemy
• Beetles Rise Up!
• Hungry Spider
• Festive Spider

Notable stats

Black ant queen
Common stats	Health: 600 Score: 700 Healing speed: 1
Damage modifications	Physical resistance: 50% Venom resistance: 50% Maximum taken damage: 25
Immunities	Immune to stun/ confusion/ fleeing Immune to pickup/ execution/ knockback

Black ant worker
Common stats	Cost: 20/ 2 Health: 25/ 35/ 45 Movement speed: 300/ 340/ 380 Score: 5/ 8/ 12 Harvest amount: 15/ 15/ 15 Healing speed: 0.1/ 0.1/ 0.1 Vision radius: 400/ 400/ 400
Damage modifications	None
Immunities	None
Basic attack	Damage (physical): 0.6/ 0.8/ 1 Attack speed: 1/ 1/ 1

Black ant soldier
Common stats	Cost: 50/ 5 Health: 50/ 60/ 70 Movement speed: 300/ 300/ 300 Score: 10/ 14/ 18 Harvest amount: 15/ 15/ 15 Healing speed: 0.1/ 0.2/ 0.3 Vision radius: 400/ 400/ 400
Damage modifications	AOE resistance: 20%/ 20%/ 20%
Immunities	None
Basic attack	Damage (physical): 3.6/ 4.4/ 4.4 Attack speed: 1/ 1/ 1.6

Trivia

• Black ants can shoot formic acid in real life. The developers don't implement this in the game because black ants are meant to get you used to basic game mechanics.

• Black garden ants (Lasius niger) were replaced with black silky ants because the later are hosts of the chosen slave-maker ants. They were removed from the game completely from version 0.05 onward.