INCREDIBLE Underground Colony Sim!! - Empires of the Undergrowth 1.0 - Management Base Builder

Empires of the Undergrowth gameplay with Orbital Potato! Command swarms of warriors at an unprecedented scale of warfare in this blend of RTS and base-building. Lead ant colonies against the many fearsome threats of the insect world, while building intricate nests, developing pheromone-based tactics, and evolving to meet growing dangers.
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[@LordSaric]

For clarity on building the nest: 1. *All* ants move *slower* on brood tiles, so putting them to the side of your main routes is better, but the nursery ants (in that first group without a number) have to carry an egg from the queen to the brood tile before the egg can even start to grow, much less hatch. So keep the brood chambers near the queen. 2. Workers harvest and carry food faster then soldiers, and they cost less then half as much to place tiles, spawn ants, or replace losses. So building a patch of 7 as your food recovery group is almost always worth it. 3. When upgrading each level needs a certain number of 'points' to upgrade. Second level needs 6 points and third level, the max, needs 12. Each adjacent *wall* provides 1 point while each adjacent tile of the same type (or speed tiles) provide one point *per level* This means that a hexagon of 7 tiles will always let you upgrade the center one and that once you upgrade it the extra point it provides should let you upgrade any of the surrounding tiles adjacent to walls or speed tiles, which in turn should let you upgrade the center again. This means that if you avoid digging out walls until ready to expand and fill the entry tunnels with cheap speed tiles (I think they cost like 5 food to build and upgrade and you get 100% of the food back when you recycle them) you should be able to fully upgrade a brood chamber if the walls are intact and the shape is hexagonal. Since the *cost* to replace dead ants stays the same, but the health, attack, and speed all increase with each level it's best to have high level soldiers to get the most out of each replacement... but *only* if you can maintain the numbers as some enemies can instantly kill an ant every so often so you *have* to overwhelm their special attack to kill them. 4. Make multiple smaller broods. You can always drag three or four broods into a single marker group if you need numbers for something, but if all your ants are in one mega brood group you can't split them to gather food from multiple sources or defend the nest from multiple directions. 5. Food counts no matter where it's stored. When on maps with an overworld place storage near the entrance to get it counted as soon as possible, and in underground maps placing a single tile next to any large sources can dramatically speed harvesting... and you can recycle the tile after it's been gathered to get the full cost back so it's a minimal investment. 6. Only the ants in the first, unnumbered, control group will replace eggs, build tiles, or dig marked tiles. If you move them out at the beginning to help gather your starting food you need to put them back or nothing will get does. This also means that larger nests might need extra broods of ants left in that grouping to keep replacement ants and new production moving. Hopefully this is informative and helpful for any new players!

[@ShadeScarecrow]

Already had a lot of fun with this game during early access. Happy to see it successfully got to 1.0 :D Also, tip for anyone that cares: Excavate your brood chambers (and maybe storage) in a hexagonal shape. That will make upgrading them later easier.

[@Stitchez_YT]

you should turn on captions for the narrator

[@Akheloios]

Fornicarium is a very different thing than a formicarium.

[@kristianpettersen3962]

Oh. I was wondering where the hell that word came from. Thank you.

[@SingularAtom]

Ive had this game for years and it still entertains me. Just going in and doing differant difficulties

[@Kasperbjerby]

"No more, for real this time" ... "Just one more"

[@rich7879]

You realize the story is actually really important. If you miss it, you couldn't miss something that would change the game

[@skyesfury8511]

Had this game for a few years now and it's only gotten better with each patch. Glad to see you covering this, Orbital! \o/

[@Time2gojoe]

I gotta jump into this again.. i really loved it 2 years ago

[@BasementBerean]

This game is in my Steam wish list, so thanks for doing this.

[@PauperJ]

Ants are known for doing their job for the good of their republic. The citizens of Potatograd are known for working 22 hours per day for the good of Comrade Dictator Potato's republic. Thank Comrade Potato for giving us jobs. We'll get back to work now.

[@malsumis928]

finally someone remade SimAnt ❤

[@Amonimus]

As was described by the devs a few years back, think Dungeon Keeper but hexagonal.

[@Sebastian-hg3xc]

Quite ridiculous that you're getting exclusive early access to an early access title while regularly customers who also purchased early access do not.

[@pete104242]

need to play this again, been a few years since my last playthrough but I loved this game, not the spiders so much :) got me thinking about making a multiplayer PvP type game like it

[@Misto_deVito6009]

When you get to the later stages, you might wanna know what they say. At around Formicarium challenge 3 and above

[@MaddMann08]

one of my most favorate games to play especially on the steam deck

[@gwaptiva]

Oh my giddy ants!

[@joeyak10]

at first look i thought of The Ants: Underground kingdom

[@vaporwavertv6444]

Did mauler do the voice acting?

[@Max-vu2uo]

Please finnish the game! :)

[@ZexMaxwell]

Sim ant but 2.5 d. Cool!

[@schattenschuetze2867]

The Voices are super quiet.

[@Galapagon191]

Can't hear most of the in-game dialogue =(

[@aoihitori]

Probably it is just me but I don't think it needs human voices to tell a story and it breaks immersion to a game about insects.

[@skyesfury8511]

Once you hear the story it actually pulls you into the game more.

[@aoihitori]

@@skyesfury8511 After watching this playthrough, I will play this game and turn down the voice audio.

[@skyesfury8511]

@@aoihitori To each their own. You're robbing yourself of a fun and humorous story. Not everyone knows how to have fun.

[@aoihitori]

@@skyesfury8511 why do you care that much of how people play their game? Are you the dev? Or you just had issues.

[@skyesfury8511]

@@aoihitori LOL Sure, I'm whatever you need so you can feel like you're not pathetic. Run along, child, you're not ready for this game.