Anthill Builder: Bug War

About Anthill Builder: Bug War

Your colony starts small: a queen in her chamber, one food store, a handful of scouts, carriers and diggers. Up on the forest floor, berry bushes, fallen fruit and golden seeds wait to be found — and so do the nests of ladybugs, bees, crabs, termites and much worse.

Switch between the surface and the nest at any time. Underground you mark soil to dig and place chambers: queen rooms for more eggs and more ants, food and chitin stores, barracks for soldiers, blades, archers and giants, and a workshop that upgrades a whole ant type with the chitin of fallen bugs.

On the surface the swarm works on its own: carriers walk in trails between the hill and the food, scouts push back the fog, guards defend the entrance when raids arrive. Pick an enemy nest, press ATTACK and watch dozens of warriors surround the defenders and tear the nest down.

Features

• 18 forest areas in 8 regions: meadow, oak forest, warm shore, dry steppe, highlands, stone quarry, swamp and frost tundra
• 9 ant types and 3 queens: scouts, carriers, haulers, diggers, soldiers, guards, blades, archers and giants
• Over 40 kinds of bugs and bosses with their own nests, raids, thieves and patrols
• Dig your own nest: tunnels, queen chambers, stores, barracks and the workshop, hidden food pockets in the soil
• Hundreds of animated ants on screen at once, fog of war, raids on a timetable
• Card grades from Common to Legendary, three stars per area with extra challenges
• Aphid farm makes honeydew while you are away; plays offline, English and Vietnamese

How to play

1. Tap an ant card at the bottom to buy an egg with food; it hatches in a queen chamber.
2. Tap NEST to go underground: tap soil next to a tunnel to dig, pick a chamber card and tap a dug cell to build.
3. Carriers and diggers gather food by themselves — build food stores so it has somewhere to go.
4. Warriors need beds: build barracks, hatch soldiers, then tap an enemy nest and press ATTACK.
5. Destroy every enemy nest to win; keep the queen alive when raids hit the anthill.

Tips & tricks

• Carriers are cheap — a big carrier team pays for everything else.
• Attack with the whole army at once; a few ants at a time get picked off.
• Build a workshop early: upgraded soldiers survive bites that kill fresh ones in two hits.
• Giants are best against bosses, archers shoot flyers from behind the front line.
• Stuck on an area? Replay earlier ones for honeydew and upgrade your cards in the Colony screen.

Frequently asked questions