5 Tricks You Don't Know in Empires of the Undergrowth

[@Voidmercenary]

Fun Fact: The "attack off" button doesn't entirely keep my ants from attacking. If a mantis in 3.1 attacks my minors, the minors will still attack it back.

[@SlugDisco]

It will stop the units from attacking, but if succesfully attacked they will enter combat and fight back.

[@gamincaimin9954]

Workers of all species if they are carrying food will not fight back, except for Matabeles, whose soldiers and medics will not fight back if carrying food.

[@DericHastings]

@@SlugDisco yes

[@Voidmercenary]

@@gamincaimin9954 Then why are *my* workers dropping their leaves so they can die to the whip spiders :(

[@CommanderNissan]

@@Voidmercenaryturning off attack only means the ants don’t attack enemies. They still defend themselves if hit. I believe there’s an evasion chance which reduces the likelihood they get hit, but it’s not reliable. But when they take damage, they still fight back is likely what’s happening.

[@heolx]

Disabling attack to run around creatures and surround them is a common tactic used called “Attack switching” It is by far one of the most useful tactics for maximizing DPS

[@GXT_ROGUE]

I do that cos of your vids 😂

[@anthonypowell4240]

It's a pretty decent tactic unless you don't have that many ants bc they will die while trying to get around the enemy

[@XshuShali]

Not only that, in most RTS it's called A-move, or Move (attack move, or just move)

[@barb56]

Very nice and different video to usual. I always forget the last tip, especially in the Matabele levels where the soldiers are so expensive, to the point where I don't have any food, and I don't have a strong enough army to traverse the savah to raid the termites without getting eaten by the many enemies!

[@adiamondtrash9344]

You can anticipate with food coming in and obstacles that might slow down food gathering then you can plan accordingly like for the Matabele level I don’t spend food on anything unless I have an active supply in the works on the way.

[@AntKeeperJasper]

Fun fact: Many EotU youtubers forget to turn on attack or food gathering after turning it off

[@neoselket562]

I do this ALL THE TIME

[@victory8928]

Tip for 1.1: Try to lead the enemies especially adult beetles out of their lairs to better surround them, trying to swarm them in their spots will be harder compared to just expanding out your nest to swarm them

[@danielb2135]

800 hours here. Nice tips, can add more. Like with leafcutters, keep the leaf storage close to egg tiles for mini workers to get to them faster back and forward... And build more workers tiles to spawn more mini workers for food processing

[@danielb2135]

Here is another tip with highway, it helps to upgrade your ants faster and cheaper

[@Evan-mt7bc]

1 thing I notice a lot of people struggle with is Leafcutter food production. Bringing leaves into the nest on food store tiles does not give you food, instead the food is made when leaves are moved from the stores to an unoccupied brood tile. It's recommended to have your stores near brood tiles to manufacture food really quickly. This will allow you to not build so many food store tiles and focus more on units. For example before I found out how this food system worked I would need 1000 leaf stores to sustain food production when I was positioning my brood tiles near the queen and not near the nest entrance but after I found this out I can get away with 200-300 leaf store, for Leafcutters I would specifically recommend building about 20 ADDITIONAL worker tiles right next to your Leaf stores. This will generate a ton of mini ants for cheap and give your mini ants ample brood tiles to convert leaves into food, put your waste stores nearby and you can generate a ton of food really easily and allow yourself to skimp on spending a bunch of real estate on leaf stores and having to needlessly excavate your nest.

[@gamincaimin9954]

Upgrading ants is usually a bad idea since it is much more stat efficient to build an entire new ant than increase their stats a little. There are some exceptions: Fire ants are good to upgrade due to their duplicate ability, If you can’t fit any more ants into a space, like attacking another nest, upgrading is more efficient, and if you hit 100% upkeep in freeplay.

[@adiamondtrash9344]

It’s very much depends for termites upgrading workers and the harvesters can prove much more beneficial especially since they grow more food at tier 3 which is lowkey broken 50% more

[@MartinZhang-fg7gc]

Luckily, they changed this for termites. Upgraded major workers can harvest 30 food in a single go, so its very good to upgrade them

[@adiamondtrash9344]

@@MartinZhang-fg7gc meh I don’t think that’s a good change I think that should only apply to the harvesters

[@blackhole4846]

@@adiamondtrash9344 they are the harvesters??? What I mean is there is 4 types of termites (excluding the king and queen) Minor Worker, Major Worker, minor Soldier (or something along that) and lastly is Major Soldier

[@adiamondtrash9344]

@@blackhole4846 wait what why call them major workers??? Just call them harvesters

[@adamtruong1759]

Wow, I actually learned/relearned from this video. Those were some helpful tips.

[@maxbennett5412]

Whenever I build a brood chamber I always put speed tiles at the entrance since they make it easier to upgrade everything to T3 and mark out a clean border.

[@BloodlossDrawing]

About to say that

[@3abood016]

I am a vetran now and i still did not know some of these

[@dawnbreaker2912]

Same, I had no idea about the first one (the marker thing). I was always under the impression that workers assigned to a pheromone group wouldn't perform nest tasks like digging.

[@CodyiSpear]

Another thing for logistics planning is speed tiles, whether it be speeding up the leafcutter minors or what you can do is upgrade smaller amounts of ants faster since speed tiles around a brood tile give it levels and are super cheap.

[@guacamole9603]

Over 700 hours and didn't know the first one, I guess I've been a faker this whole time.

[@Iceclipsrlul]

Oh my god same

[@adiamondtrash9344]

I guess I learned when I reached over 1000 hours

[@Weirdos-everywhere]

I knew the disable combat, but i thought it wasn’t for getting behind enemies

[@adiamondtrash9344]

@@Weirdos-everywhere it’s very effective so your workers don’t engage when there’s a threat in the nest

[@blackhole4846]

@@Weirdos-everywhere same I just used it to get my workers to stop attacking or to get to a poi faster

[@godzillaking7820]

This would help those people who are new with the game

[@kraken0513_krakensito]

I used the first trick in the Formicarium challenges a long time ago

[@charlietaylor6625]

I have a thing to help new players for the queen of the hill only use workers and have 2 it worked for me i never neaded soldiers until i did hard mode and second thing with queen of the hill behind the entrence of the nest (inside nest) is 2 tiger bettle bodys (allot of food). For the first chalenge sub level only use soldiers that is what helped me to beat it but not on hard or higher. (Ps i am refuring to now not in the past what was harder)

[@Misto_deVito6009]

Best part is I know about most of these but im too pazy to do them. Also the matabele medics already prioritize picking bodies up whether fighting is on or not

[@victory8928]

Yeah turning their attack off is also only better for FR since Anas wants to be in combat to debuff the enemy

[@thequackyest3604]

in freeplay if you have a high dps ant species you can disable attack and rush their queen to minimize food loss

[@sanjudevi-e6q]

At 4:05 it’s says trick 4 but at 4:58, it also says that so I think there’s a error there 😊

[@victory8928]

Tip for relocatable aphids: use a ratio of 2 aphids: 1 ant for collecting for effiency, and best to have workers do it since most things wouldn’t threaten the aphids except other ants which will steal them. Tip for 4.1: Try to get the closest and easiest aphid group at the start of the day to jumpstart your eco. It helps immensely on harder difficulties since 54 food is a lot for fire ant respawns and placing

[@JTJSSG]

I was beaten by exactly 20 leaves during harvest on extreme difficulty and challenge mode on, the salt was immense Also only got 30 seeds and 2 royal jelly

[@zam122102]

Finished the campaign a couple of days ago. Ill try these on arcade and see what fun ill have

[@barb56]

I highly recommend hibernation and adventure if you're looking for arcade levels, of course they're all good but they're my personal favourites

[@blackhole4846]

@@barb56 I do like hibernation I thought of an Idea like that then I saw it was in the game

[@MatthewAdanSantos]

An another trick, put your foodstores at the entrance this can speed up the harvest speed to put your goods in the food storage this can save time or in campaign mode will save dig points,

[@AndzreinZin]

Hey Slug Disco! I want to ask you and your creators, when you are going to make bees, wasps game

[@Tyrellcute]

Hello Slug-disco when is the new story of Empires of the undergrowth and do you guys have a new plan of Empires of the undergrowth-2... ❤🎉

[@ThePooPoo-xb2yv]

i fell SO cool knowing 4/5 nof these

[@EvilNecroid]

ive been playing since the beginning and i dont use any of these tips except the turn off attack to grab food and run part

[@DarkyChoco9401]

i been playing this game for 4 years now i just learned this tip

[@DarknessDr]

Yes

[@kraken0513_krakensito]

When do you release the rest of the musical themes?

[@DanPos]

My ferrets sister works for Slug disco and she said the next will be uploaded on Wednesday

[@kraken0513_krakensito]

@@DanPos The company grew enormously, thanks for the information

[@BigTortoiseHead]

These are some great tips, but after tip 2, it said tip 4, which is a teeny little error. Anyways, useful video!

[@Shadows-d1p]

Is this weird where i did opposite way like 4 tier formicarium where first defeat scorpion with shell i didn't turn of the mounting so break earlier next twin get them both hurt together but i try fail i have defeat both my own lastly dragantula it have powers charge well i defeat every fast didn't kill any ant i got the achievement clever ant 😉 ❤❤ love your tip

[@sensaishinobi9958]

Hey Slug Disco I had a question so will the game stop updating or will we so more levels outside and not in the formicarium?

[@daluven]

bro watch the video

[@VioletMilks]

I was always so pissed at how slow the nest ants takes to excavate large amounts of land… but I guess I was the bad player for not realizing the pheromone trick 😅

[@victory8928]

It also pays to priotize what to dig out first then increase digging over time. You can’t just spam tons of digging or building unless you have the workers or time for it

[@wowsersbowsers-zc1kr]

yay

[@robertobaldessarini6681]

Food management? Pffffff whats that?

[@Redlike.official]

wait 5.2 action ost, day 1.

[@paulbanks1956]

I played this game before full release and I still dont know everything lol.

[@JoseNicolasStaMaria-xv9lt]

Maybe all the one that just joined is one of me😂

[@edwardthethird5674]

Driver ants added to Freeplay when

[@ritter3723]

Driver ants aren’t gonna be added as a playable species due to their unique behavior compared to other ants. Same reason army ants and stink ants won’t be playable

[@blackhole4846]

Their just like army ants so wouldn't be added into freeplay bc they would have to introduce a new mechanic

[@edwardthethird5674]

​@@blackhole4846 Why can't they just add a tile for the egg and have it the same way the counterparts do. The driver ants are similar to the army ants and the game said so. I just want those ants man that's all I want. 😥🥺😭

[@neoselket562]

I mean Freeplay isn't supposed to be realistic. You can have ants and creatures outside their native habitats, as well as multiple ant species in one colony with the ereptors, so there's no reason not to add them.

[@paulbanks1956]

Bro you tips are numbered wrong XD theirs 2 number 4s

[@therealtreehugger]

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[@GXT_ROGUE]

Interesting reply

[@therealtreehugger]

​@@GXT_ROGUE thanks! it took a lot of effort to think of it

[@alexletiny5155]

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[@yaldamasevpro4862]

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[@GXT_ROGUE]

​@@alexletiny5155Thanks, that made my day 😂😊 Generic Ramble in Nerd emoji about leafcutters

[@ILikeRockets]

Second! Love ya guys!

[@Water_Dragon_the_3rd]

bruh you are not first

[@3abood016]

I think you mean 'second'