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 story missions, extra missions and custom games.

Abilities

Black ants attack by biting.

Appearances

You can play as a black ant colony in:

• Tutorial

• New Home

• Subjugation

• The Culling

You can play with black ant soldiers in:

• Main story

• Aggrandise

• Extremis

• Excavators

• Tug of War

• Critters

• The Nest

• Hold Out

• Surrounded

You can also encounter 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 (colony)
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 (strong)/ knockback (strong) Immune to execution

Black ant queen (swarm)
Common stats	Health: 600 Movement speed: 200 Score: 700 Food amount: 100 Healing speed: 1 Vision radius: 150
Damage modifications	None
Immunities	Immune to pickup (strong)/ knockback (strong) Immune to execution
Stun	Trigger: User takes damage. Cooldown: 0.8	Stun (self) Duration: 0.9

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
Attack	Damage (physical): 0.6/ 0.8/ 1 Attack speed: 1.5/ 1.5/ 1.5

Black ant soldier
Stats are different between story mode and custom game mode.
Common stats	Cost: 50 [5] Cost: 50 [3] 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	Armor: 0/ 1/ 2 Maximum taken damage: 40/ 40/ 40 AOE resistance: 20%/ 20%/ 20%
Immunities	None
Attack	Damage (physical): 3.6/ 4.4/ 4.4 Attack speed: 1.5/ 1.5/ 2.5

Trivia

• In real life, black ants can shoot formic acid. 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 latter are hosts of the chosen slave-maker ants. They were removed from the game completely from version 0.05 onward.