Released
A new hand-drawn look, Nest Siege, castes, outposts, the Supercolony, and a long list of new things to do.
New
- A field-journal look: the colony is drawn on a journal page on a desk, with inked terrain tiles and repainted backdrops.
- Nest Siege, a tower-defence activity.
- Ant evolution: six castes, each with its own ants on the map.
- Outposts: expeditions to three new biomes.
- The Supercolony, a second layer of prestige.
- Queen breeding: pick a daughter with traits at each Nuptial Flight.
- A weekly boss raid in Wave Defence, with battle playback.
- Relics, card synergies, challenge runs, and overseer rarity and training.
- An event trail, featured cosmetics and a weekly spotlight.
- Day and night, outdoor weather, and seasonal decorations with fairy lights and bunting.
- A login calendar, an offline breakdown, quiz streaks and a share card.
- Story events that each do something, procedural story events, and 21 more daily and weekly quests.
- Five new enemy families and a regolith ground.
- Cosmetics: building skins, ant colours, card frames, room decorations and map themes.
- The beetle trader and colony photos.
- Codex sets and hunger records, the last achievements that were waiting.
- A music player with 20 tracks, and a warm, cosy sound set.
- Online features: optional leaderboards and cloud saves (Google sign-in, 13 and over).
- Accessibility settings, a wide layout, battery saver and vibration settings.
Changes
- New art throughout: card portraits, buildings for every age that grow as they level, queens, critters, enemies and walk cycles.
- Buildings change their look as they level, with level plaques.
- Flying rewards, milestone fanfares and rolling numbers.
- A smoother first session: skip the intro, a founding rush, and hints on what's coming next.
- Minigame energy top-ups and the Tireless Lineage node.
- Leftover live-event currency becomes Royal Jelly.
- Updates install by themselves, and Settings has a Check for updates button.
- The cloud save card sits at the top of Settings.
- A performance pass.
Fixes
- Trader deal names start with a capital letter.
- Buildings no longer sit on stray ground slabs.
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