I Made an ANT Colony in Rimworld

[@HazzorPlaysGames]

Mod collection in the description (Hive.)

[@Martyrsdead]

I was literally just looking for it, thanks for the update.

[@Just_Nice07]

Thanks for another mod collection daddy. (Serious question when are you gonna oil up ?)

[@Gillian-kw5gx]

hi

[@charlottebarham7722]

@@Gillian-kw5gx ve

[@rykerbutler2626]

Hive

[@jonasrott3989]

My disappointment at this not being a 3 hour long video like what i had requested to you telepathically is very disappointing to me

[@HazzorPlaysGames]

Hive.

[@ivegotavandetta]

TRUEEE

[@redmegarex]

agreed

[@beatricesomeone3300]

🤣🤣

[@colinmcnall-fb8ts]

Indeed

[@Vesdus]

Ant queens are actually fertilized during their nuptual flight. They mate and then make a nest. All of the ants in their colony are a combination of the DNA they collect and their own.

[@semodemo0159]

To be more clear this means the ant queens mate the first time they leave their nest and never ever again (fully ignoring the species that have male ants and that specific one without a queen that im too lazy to search up)

[@ROMAGNUM45]

Naked mole-rats are also eusocial and do have multiple breeding males. They're also resistant to cancer. So you can also be lore-accurate by changing the species to a featherless quadruped.

[@HazzorPlaysGames]

You know that bit of the video where I put an ant-head on someone angrily tapping away at their phone and said "before you ant-ologists start yelling"... I mean "Hive."

[@Vesdus]

@@HazzorPlaysGames Notice me senpai **Reels in fishing line**

[@MaxGoodwin-wz2rd]

​@@VesdusLol

[@LostSkyrimNoob]

I‘ve been using your videos to procrastinate writing my essay about Formica Rufa (the red wood ant) and now you do this. Hive nothing to say other that that seems to be a sign I should get to work.

[@HazzorPlaysGames]

Hive.

[@LostSkyrimNoob]

@@HazzorPlaysGames Hive, brother

[@LostSkyrimNoob]

For anyone interested btw: I am halfway done, and hopefully finish the essay tomorrow.

[@flamingcube]

@@LostSkyrimNoob good luck

[@Wormopera]

Damn you studying ants at college?

[@Knervik]

@2:33 Ants do have very good immune systems: It's their little anty-bodies.

[@l0rf]

Boooooo! That was good.

[@gec101]

Take my non-existent upvote and leave

[@declankanes443]

The irony of calling a worker ant Boris Johnson got a good chuckle out of me... He has never worked a day in his life.

[@cryhavocandletslipthedogso1873]

I'll have you know that he taught English and Latin in an Australian boarding school in his gap year! So he knows the ins and outs of the common man's daily labor!

[@quotenpunk279]

Good thing Hazzor sent him to the mines for new experiences.

[@timothymclean]

He seems good at droning, though.

[@Red-Tower]

Imagine defending Boris Johnson, wild.

[@vavra222]

The only thing worse than politics is British politics.

[@robertmcpherson138]

31:00 thaaat's probably the Storyteller kicking in. The game does actually tend to trigger rain if there are enough tiles on fire... a safeguard against a random fire just burning down the entire map. (it's not always 100% guaranteed... but it is part of how the storytellers are coded.)

[@Wafflehouse71]

Randy isn't even that random. If he sees you don't have many colonists he'll send people, if he sees fire he pours a bucket on it. Not very random, really.

[@artemefimov8215]

​@@Wafflehouse71 Randy "just a phase" random

[@5RndsFFE]

@@Wafflehouse71All the base story tellers have minimum populations they want before they’ll progress their events.

[@obtuse186]

There's a setting that disables rain after a fire but that might be a mod Either way it's definitely coded in to rain after a big fire.

[@HazzorPlaysGames]

Hey folks. Hive.

[@steve43ful]

Honestly how dare you.

[@ДенисРубан-г5д]

Hive five. Hehe

[@EmberTree25]

Hive!

[@primm_slimm]

hive

[@dibosaurus]

Live for the hive die for the hive!

[@AceyFemboy]

Alternative title: Asmongold room simulator

[@NoWayjose-e9k]

Oof, shots fired.

[@megacat1384]

alternative title: Cyraxx's anatomy survival

[@EisenklauenWerwolf]

Lmao

[@arrcaptain6672]

You are late to the party, he has cleaned his house.

[@DrParabola]

Congrats he finally did something people do at least once a week 🎉👏

[@TetanusSnowfall]

Building colonies, loving the queen, -dying to giant insects-. The English way, through and through. Also, I like the more granular videos. Your editing and storytelling are tight so it didn't feel like anything was dragging, and I was surprised how much you got done in 30 days.

[@scout9593]

I have to say, HIVE been waiting for this video for a while. This must be your most ANTicipated video yet. I hope the challenge wasn’t BUGGING you too much.

[@Iamaperson-f3r]

Stop it.

[@NoWayjose-e9k]

Is that a HILL you're willing to die on?

[@scout9593]

@@Iamaperson-f3rYou can’t stop me, I’m too persistANT.

[@Iamaperson-f3r]

@@scout9593 *grabs a can of raid.* Are you sure?

[@Jari470]

A Collective sigh.

[@tybonesteak7754]

0:45 Hazzor, I'm not even a minute into the video and you've already given me psychic damage. I hope you're proud of yourself.

[@harrogeorge7878]

And then 15 seconds later he uses a slap sound combined with a terraria female oof sound for maximum psychic damage

[@sythrus]

An actual mod centred on how ants function, with a queen that is able to lay various types of specialist eggs depending on what the colony needs (like shield ants that can act as living walls, soldiers, specialized workers and so on) would be super cool. You could have it so that the queen has her own skill tree that she needs to go down in order to access more and more specialized ants, with the eventual ability to create another queen that you can send off and start an additional colony. You could even potentially have a research tree dedicated to buffing your ants, leaving lasting infrantstructure for the eventual point when the queen dies, allowing the new queen to not have to start from scratch with their skill tree. It could also let you unlock some ant themed stuff, like the ability to harvest leaves from trees to feed a special, more efficiant mushroom type to better sustain a large colony. You could unlock special furnishings that do things like give eggs hatched near them skill buffs, or act as more efficiant workstations when manned by their respective specialist ant. If something like this already exists, please let me know, and if it doesn't and you know how to mod, it would be bloody awesome if you did make it.

[@DonBatonCorleone]

Anty the War Ant race is pretty cool in that regards.

[@jinnsaint1358]

There’s 2 of those, surprising he didn’t use neither. Insector from VRE and Big&Small Insectoid

[@devilkitten1927]

Mantodeans! Take a gander, their mod is pretty in-depth! Doesn't have all these features, but is definitely new and different.

[@rorrim0]

The closest mod I can think of would be Big and Small Xeno insectoid hive

[@StalkerQtya]

In Rimworld, outdoors fire will always makes the storyteller to send rain. Otherwise the whole map could burn out and causes massive lagg.

[@molybdaen11]

Well, you can disable this if you want. It only triggers every few days anyway.

[@StalkerQtya]

@@molybdaen11 I would not recommend it. Fire can mess up the map really badly and ash-dirt covering the ground would cause massive performance issues.

[@molybdaen11]

@StalkerQtya Veterans like us know how to stop a fire. A cheap roof 3 tiles across can protect even the most pathetic wooden wall. And performance is not as bad anymore since dirt vanishes over time and in rain.

[@tristan1504]

I'm a bug! Oh I'm so very small! Little bug! Taking so long to crawl to where I'm going!

[@HazzorPlaysGames]

Money for the Hive! Thanks

[@tristan1504]

For the hive! For the queen!

[@deathgun3110]

Oh, cute little Bug, **pets it**

[@souleymanemiousse7841]

Bugs are but insignificant lifeforms to be crushed under the heel of the mighty Hazzor, Storyteller Extraordinaire.

[@HerAffectations]

14:50 i think the more detailed coverage of your colonies is neat ! When i play rimworld i like to get immersed in the story the game creates and taking it slow means we get to see more of boris

[@blunderingfool]

Pro tip for pawn sleep, make them sleep in two half blocks instead of one full block.

[@HazzorPlaysGames]

I don't subscribe to the bi-phasic sleep stuff, how will my colonists have good sleep stages and avoid alzheimers in later life if they never enter REM sleep? I mean... Hive.

[@blunderingfool]

@HazzorPlaysGames I'll just cry here in the corner with my inexplicable caveman sleeping. ಥ_ʖಥᵇᵒᵒʰᵒᵒ But, yea, your colonists will spend less time in the later stages of sleep deprivation so it can be a handy trick.

[@molybdaen11]

I usually give them 8 hours and 4 hours of anything 12h later. This way they are always at least halfway awake when another raid comes in.

[@vonraesyr7349]

Just a heads up from a pyromaniac: Fire in Rimworld actually triggers rain to help with performance, and to prevent entire maps burning down. This can be mitigated by some things, such as the death pall.

[@OblivionOtaku]

If you want things to burn proper in Rimworld, it's better when it's inside rock walls, with Chemfuel and wood furniture. Or in arid climate. We recognize each other us pyrobros.

[@MrEternusVox]

For whatever its worth, I like the longer form more detailed descriptions of the colony and it's story.

[@The-Dino-DM]

Ant being named Antony is so close to Anthony from Chrysalis if you know you know, god i love the series

[@Napogaming-gt8nk]

Black holes are cool in general :3

[@toejam329]

Dang didn't think anyone would've referenced that before me lol

[@The-Dino-DM]

@@toejam329 I've read that entire series and am a patron of his it'd a bit of an obsession. All Hail The Great One! May His Carapace Be Forever Shiny!

[@The-Dino-DM]

@Napogaming-gt8nk gwehehehe

[@ahappytoe6260]

Fucking love his stupid monkey

[@levigoodrich5276]

The cool thing is though, that ants do actually have very good defense against disease as far as insects go. They have to to survive living with hundreds together in a cramped, damp, and surprisingly warm nest.

[@unknwner]

Its a good day when Hazzor makes a new video

[@ant_on-off]

As a king of all the ants in the world, I can confirm this is literally how we do everything. Thank you for this video, Hazzor, we will spare you when we decide to take over the world.

[@l0rf]

Your grace, King Antonoff, an honour and privilege to encounter one such as you in this comment section! May your reign be without end and your pheromones musky and pungent.

[@genericytprofile852]

The funny thing about trying to burn down that hive, is that the game is actually programmed to put fires out if they get to a certain size. If too much of the map is on fire, the game literally calls in a rain storm to put it out. So no, it wasn't bad luck. Btw next time for insects, hold your colonists behind a door with your mele pawn infront. This way you colonists can all shoot at the enemy while the mele tanks and holds them back. Don't know if that would of been enough but certainly better than fighting in the open.

[@alflik8579]

Love u hazzor, you make great content, always happy when I see ur vids pop up

[@HazzorPlaysGames]

Love Hive.

[@WorldGoods]

Boris Johnson

[@bastard2319]

Boris Johnson

[@KlickPy]

Johnson Boris

[@teaser6089]

Boris Antson

[@Enislayer]

Mr samuel Streamer reference?

[@jirokoshibailey2052]

Joris Bohnson

[@listerofsmeg9908]

Badgerville with ants

[@RealCryptoTest]

Rimworld was my number one viewed game this year. Here’s to starting on keeping that spot next year too!

[@otomotopia1]

4:25 we love a Bottas reference 🤣

[@excavatorx9662]

I had to look twice to make sure it was him😂

[@generally_empathetic]

Hazzor, detailed or long form, your sense of humor and storytelling (not to mention incredibly sexy voice) makes your rimworld content the best there is. ❤

[@thecreator3752]

Great Video! I like to think Rimworld was trying to save you from burning the Hive to make sure you don't get killed so it's pretty funny! Keep up the good work Sir Hazzor!

[@ieatsand6378]

I love the extended video coverage of colonies, the journey is so much more entertaining than the endpoint of the colony

[@questionmarks4431]

I like the detailed narration, I'm here for the story

[@amypost3107]

I enjoyed this level of detail 👍🏻

[@HazzorPlaysGames]

Wow thanks so much, the Hive loves you.

[@AGrumpyPanda]

"I only had him dig into this wall so I could get this image" Aight, you're winning.

[@gallagher2259]

at 10:00 you spoke to my heart. I hate how competitive the idea of keeping colony wealth down is. I get why you keep it low but I have played blood and dust and just mined/bought whatever I wanted and never had the struggle other people walk about. Loved that you do the same as me.

[@_TheMushroomMan]

We had Ant Hive, now we need the Bee Colony.

[@HazzorPlaysGames]

That was actually what I originally wrote down for this concept but ended up going with ant instead, is there much functional difference from a Rimworld point of view? Er, I mean... Hive.

[@skimaskalx]

@@HazzorPlaysGamesusing vanilla expanded insectors you could have a caste of insectors that produce insect jelly (honey) and that could be interesting

[@_TheMushroomMan]

@@HazzorPlaysGames I see. I'm pretty sure Hive seen a mod for a bee race though im pretty sure its outdated, if you ever decide to do a bee colony it could be paired with alpha bees so you could get a majority of resources from beehives.

[@falloutzone-qh6qs]

i personally love the longer and more detailed commentary in your videos, I often like to leave your videos playing on my second monitor because your commentary and stories you design are perfect to listen to while i play my own game of Rimworld or Kenshi

[@cabbage2241]

Boris related trauma aside, ants do have a very strong immunity due to producing their own anti-biotics - its actually an avenue of medicine research. The strong stomach can easily represent their fastidiously clean nature. Food that has gone off is a great danger to the colony, so it is rapidly disposed of. (also I love making libraries now, they're even useful compared to DF)

[@Lex4122]

Yes, more detailed is great! You are such an amazing storyteller, so even detailed earlygame does not get boring with you at all :)

[@rupturedpheonix3750]

Tell that to the dead panther had me rolling

[@314TK]

I love when your videos go in depth on the colony as it grows

[@mokhtarbouchaib3569]

Plis what is the music in 0:10 seconds :b

[@jmainb0y192]

The Fact that almost every Ant is Namend like a former British Politician is super funny and also very creative. I always dont know how to Name my Colonists, maybe i should try this too.

[@davidc8903]

Man, the bugs really get peeved whenever you do anything insect related. Three videos now! They must be jealous.

[@Frontier_Rifleman]

22:12 this is where the colony was doomed to fail

[@Birb_nerd]

1:20 your what!?

[@Goldusfellow343]

Miner, not to be confused with minor, not to mention minor can mean more than referring to a child, it can used like "a minor amount of [insert item here]" or "minor inconvenience" A miner is a word that refers to people who work in mining operations It is easy to mistake the 2 as they sound identical to one another. This however can be avoided by pronouncing the words in a different way from one another, example: pronouncing minor like "mine-ore" and pronouncing miner as you would expect, "mine-er"

[@framexero]

One built in mechanic for RimWorld is that when fire starts spreading on the map it will usually call in the rains shortly after. Great if you didn't start the fire, horrible if you are the one setting it. Fun idea for a colony!

[@BertramMoranda]

04:25 A Wild Valtteri Bottas Appears!

[@Ultrue87]

19:56 lol the description of art work is always remarkable

[@Johntheviking1]

15:26 am I the only one who saw the book?

[@WierdBoyzInc]

Haha I didn't even notice the first time and so when I looked at the book in the trade it caught me off guard

[@GarySmith-dh5cs]

Doing the comment to raise engagement: Just found your channel and the in depth look into the colonies is AMAZING. You're the exact kind of channel I've been looking for. GREAT work.

[@feuerling]

6:49 the immortal snail

[@alexhurding8931]

LOVE the editing on this man, and shotfun hit just as hard each time

[@ocarina0001]

WOO GOOD VIDEO I REALLY ENJOYED 32:00

[@turnip1272]

😶

[@probably3dprintingsomething]

9:50 nice try, puff daddy.

[@ApolloVector]

ngl, the way you speak in these videos I find really nice for some reason. I can never tell if something is gonna go right or wrong through just your tone of voice (which i usually can with other youtubers)

[@turnip1272]

shine bright like a diamond

[@Elaver]

Turnip

[@turnip1272]

@@Elaver yes

[@xpoohx105]

I'm sure Boris will do fine as long as he rides his cute little bicycle to work every day.

[@Hunt98cz]

More details more gooder

[@-ceterra-]

Thank you Hazzor for restarting my Rimworld faze for the 13th time this year.

[@mabolob7966]

This will ease the pain

[@OffYourTopic]

I think you did a great job keeping that "anthill" aesthetic for the base on this run, asymmetric rooms and following the curves of the mountain makes for a really cool looking colony !

[@1234567884550]

so early for a video

[@HazzorPlaysGames]

So early for Hive.

[@deathgun3110]

Sooo early to sleep with the queen...

[@austinclements8010]

"Hive to meet you" -The Ants, probably

[@amoyen_worior]

BUG

[@HazzorPlaysGames]

Hive.

[@b4tman_and_Rob1n]

BUG

[@dibosaurus]

BUGSSSS

[@deathgun3110]

Frog.

[@jakeking974]

Honestly, props to you for even bothering with real names. When I did android overlord run, I just named the first guy The Progenitor and all the other androids he built were T1-4 - (the number in that series of production), so all my colonists were like "T1-001", "T4-002", and the like. Very basic, but effective.

[@barabg]

I love the more detailed description, my main gripe with your vids was I always wanted more :)

[@hithere-n8u]

i love how little you post because ill forget you exist then have the joy of rewatching everything again anew

[@TheCronq]

I like the in depth look at the colony

[@ophilipp7292]

3:46 the fact you didnt send him out to 'bug' the local pop is a missed opportunity xD

[@jordancrawford2859]

I appreciate the more detailed description for setting up the colony

[@Swbbboy]

14:24 would be such a cool crazy lore way to seed planets with colonists! Send some hardy ants to set up civilization and within a few generations theyll essentially be normal humans to be governed

[@sadstarfish7]

The effort you've been putting into your editing quality lately hasn't gone unnoticed. Thank you.

[@zirk22]

i like the closer look at what is happening this is a neatly watchable way to videoize rimworld :)

[@Laydralae_Joy]

if you keep your book shelves in your lab, the books on the shelves will give a slight increase to research speed per book.

[@tylerdavis4822]

Using Valtteri Bottas as the mullet example scratches every itch I have 😂

[@marcusmcclain3251]

"Everyone will get to pump eventually" made me audibly gag, excellent work

[@sunshine5429]

I enjoyed this pace of storytelling! Makes it feel lilt a story rather than a series of plot points

[@gravelydesu1114]

It's always amazing to see how a colony can just spiral down thanks to a single event. Wonderful story you made with those ants.

[@OlafurArons]

I love when one of my favorite creators knows and/or watches another one of my favorite creators. I don't recall how early on I started watching AA but I'm pretty sure it was quite early.

[@LucyKaida]

Honestly I just enjoy listening to your voice. Whether you go into detail over every day or speedrun 1000 days. Make the content you enjoy making

[@hozic9929]

I remember really being into ant colony thingaling for a long time, thanks for making this

[@stone_low]

the inscription and art on “Black Tarpit” has to be the funniest thing i’ve read in rimworld

[@tota2490]

I am personally a fan of this more detailed approach and would love to see more videos in this style!

[@joshbruess8849]

I would love to see another attempt. Great video and idea

[@wolf2403]

I would love to see the most OP run you can manage. One where losing would require everything to go so insanely wrong it's statistically impossible.

[@M.Murphy89]

Honestly I like the longer videos so do more plz. Also those names are gold bro. Liz "Enjoying herself at a horseshoe pin" must have and Only Ants or something.

[@retrogenix7769]

I absolutely love your content, and your RimWorld stories are amazing i hope to see more

[@distorted6534]

This guy was my introduction to rim world, I don't exactly remember the first video I saw of his, but I believe it was the greg video. I love this guy, always funny and even the games I hate watching he manages to make me laugh. Normaly, kenshi is a chore to watch, but his beep video is one on my favorite videos on the internet, even opened my eyes to ambiguousamphibian and his torsolo series.

[@PleaseHoldy]

You talked about Hivetech in this video by the end of it, and I do have to say that maybe a continuation or new playthrough of this same idea using Hivetech would be super cool, I'd love to see that.

[@ditacy9080]

I enjoy the more detailed type of video. Thank you

[@bytetheproto]

Me and my mom enjoy watching you Hazzor but the issue is your voice is so relaxing my mom keeps falling asleep which is also a great thing

[@random_lilguy]

Rimworld vid idea: make a 5 man squad to take down every empire and settlement so that the only thing on the map is you.

[@proteinman7800]

Gordon’s death taught me that hair is a bad omen

[@SamuelRodriguesfromBrazil]

I wasn't playing Rimworld for a few months and i just watched this video for fun. But. When i saw HELIXIEN gas i said "Damn, I really liked that mod" You made my day and i will play Rimworld soon, Thanks. I love this mod because you get "infinite" energy (if you have expanded power sourcers by Oskar Potocki you can also research giant gas generator which generates more power compared to normal ones). Also the fact that fridge can work without power (eclipse if colony is solar based or solar flare event) is one of the best ideas

[@FandangoJon]

Really enjoyed this one. Liked the more detailed report. Would love to see you revisit this one and have another go at it!

[@velarswood]

Turtles tsking out the panther had me rolling.

[@-ElysianEcho-]

Yeeees! I was literally searching for a rimworld video to watch when i saw this in my feed

[@Unknown-rs6wd]

This is atcually a cool idea,though I would like to see some sort of acid spitting and maybe see some sort of events related to ants (fungal infection, invasion from another ant colony and much more simuler ideas)