Features

What's in the game now and what I'm working toward. I'm keeping this short, I think it's more fun to find out how things work by playing.

In the game now

A simulated yard: Sand slides, water runs downhill, gas rises, and a roof that's too wide comes down.
Start as the queen: You dig the first tunnel yourself and raise the first workers on your own.
A colony that does the work: You mark what you want, the ants dig it, carry it and store it.
Take over one ant: For when you want to go and do something yourself.
Four seasons: Autumn is for stocking up and winter is what you were stocking up for.
Weather: Rain will flood a nest that isn't built for it.
Things that eat ants: Birds, spiders, antlions and every so often a mole.
A rival colony: Fire ants that want the same food, and yours too.
Fire: Seed burns and gas burns faster.
Compost: A way to make your own heat.
A notebook: The colony writes down what it finds, and some finds open up new tools.
Saves: Quick save, autosave and a few colonies ready to start from.

Clay and kilns: Walls that hold, and things you can only make with heat.
Copper: There's ore in the ground already, the ants just don't know what to do with it yet.
Electricity: A long way off, and still carried by ants.
More kinds of ant: Right now there are workers and soldiers.
More to find deep down: Some of it was buried by people.
The house: There's a house at the edge of the yard and people live in it.