Once a sector has a black ant hill on it, the player can move over to the newly populated sector and work from there to continue furthering the black ants. When there are populations of breeders, they can be dispersed to other sectors of the yard and house within three sectors of the current sector you’re operating from. While out on the surface it is important to be careful not to drown in the rain or get killed by the lawn mower. They can go out on the surface and collect green food dots, call in the troops and take down spiders and caterpillars or invade the red ants’ hill and kill them off. The player can switch from controlling one ant to another as necessary to do different tasks in the game directly. Soldiers fight the enemy red ants and protect the ant hill, workers maintain the food supply and build out the ant hill, while breeders are used to start more ant colonies in the effort to take over the human’s property.

They control the output of types of ants between soldiers, workers, and breeders.

In the full game the player starts out as the black queen ant who must start an ant hill and produce offspring to start the first colony. Biological detail of real ants is provided, to help make the package more educational.

A Quick Game option focuses on battles with other groups of ants, and a full Tutorial mode is provided. Foes include spiders and humans – make their lives a misery by invading their homes. Build up your colony to conquer the other colonies in the yard. SimAnt explores the detail of the lives of ants, as you take full control of an ant colony.

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