Beginner’s Guide to The Ants: Underground Kingdom

The Queen’s Call

Deep beneath the surface, a civilization thrives. Tunnels stretch for miles, armies march in disciplined columns, and one queen rules over all. Welcome to The Ants: Underground Kingdom, the mobile real-time strategy game where you take on the role of a queen ant, building a subterranean empire, raising millions of soldier ants, and fighting for control of the territory against rival colonies.

If you have just started and feel overwhelmed by the sheer number of menus, pheromones, and evolutionary paths, don’t worry. Every queen once started with nothing but a single chamber and a handful of workers. This guide will walk you through the fundamentals—from your first tunnel to your first colony war.

There is no complex story to spoil here. The narrative of The Ants is the one you write: the tale of a colony that rose from the soil to dominate the underground.

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Part I: The Queen’s Chamber – Your Throne Room

In most strategy games, the “Town Hall” is the heart of the base. In The Ants, that role belongs to the Queen’s Chamber.

The Queen’s Chamber determines:

• The maximum level of every other building in your colony
• The maximum level of your ants
• Access to new evolutionary paths and ant species
• Your overall power ranking

The Golden Rule: Always check the requirements for the next Queen’s Chamber level. It will demand specific building levels (e.g., level 10 Nursery, level 10 Foraging Area). Focus 100% of your resources and speed-ups on those required buildings. Ignore everything else until the Queen’s Chamber upgrade is started.

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Part II: Your First Hour – From Soil to Settlement

When you first enter your colony, you will see a small chamber with a few basic buildings. The game will guide you through tutorials, but here’s what you need to focus on:

Follow the Evolution Missions

The game’s quest system (Evolution Missions) is your best friend. For the first few days, simply do what the missions tell you. This is the fastest way to get resources, understand the basics, and unlock new ant species and features.

Build Resource Generators First

Your Foraging Areas (Leaf, Twig, and later Mushroom and Sand) produce the resources that fuel your colony. Prioritize upgrading these buildings evenly to ensure a steady flow of resources. Without resources, you can’t train ants, upgrade buildings, or conduct research.

Resource	Primary Use	Building
Leaf	Basic construction, early ant training	Leaf Foraging Area
Twig	Advanced construction, mid-tier ant training	Twig Foraging Area
Mushroom	High-level upgrades, top-tier ant training	Mushroom Foraging Area
Sand	Special buildings, late-game upgrades	Sand Foraging Area
Water	Healing wounded ants, certain upgrades	Water Tank
Honeydew	Premium resource; used for special upgrades	Honeydew Dewlap (rare)

The Hatchery is Your Army

The Hatchery is where you train your soldier ants. Keep it running at all times. A colony without an army is a colony that gets raided. Even if you are not planning to attack, you need ants to defend your tunnels.

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Part III: Ant Species – Your Soldiers and Workers

The Ants features multiple ant species, each with a specific role in your colony.

Species	Role	Best Used For
Worker Ants	Resource gathering, construction	Farming, upgrading buildings
Soldier Ants	Combat, defense	PvP attacks, defending your colony
Guardian Ants	Tank; high health, absorbs damage	Front line in battles
Shooter Ants	Ranged damage; attacks from back line	Supporting guardians in combat
Carrier Ants	Transport; carries more resources	Efficient farming

Evolving Your Ants

As you upgrade your Queen’s Chamber, you unlock new ant species and higher tiers of existing species (e.g., Tier 1 Soldier Ant → Tier 2 → Tier 3). Higher tier ants are significantly stronger but more expensive to train.

The Rule: Do not train massive armies of low-tier ants. Rush to the highest tier you can unlock. A few high-tier ants will defeat hundreds of low-tier ants.

The Hatchery Queue

You can queue multiple batches of ants to train in the Hatchery. Always keep the queue full, especially before logging off for the night. Waking up to thousands of new soldiers is a massive advantage.

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Part IV: The Underground Kingdom – Building Your Colony

Your colony is built in chambers connected by tunnels. Each chamber serves a specific purpose.

Essential Buildings for Beginners

Building	Purpose	Priority
Queen’s Chamber	Progression gate; unlocks everything	Highest
Hatchery	Trains soldier ants	High
Foraging Areas	Produces resources	High
Water Tank	Stores water; heals ants	Medium
Evolution Tree	Research upgrades	Medium
Nursery	Increases population cap	Medium
Storage Chamber	Increases resource storage	Medium
Marching Camps	Allows multiple simultaneous attacks	Low (early)

The Tunnel Network

Your chambers are connected by tunnels. Tunnels can be upgraded to allow faster movement between chambers, but this is a lower priority than upgrading the chambers themselves.

The Storage Trap

If your Storage Chamber is too low, your resource production will stop when you hit the cap. Always keep your storage capacity ahead of your production. Nothing is worse than leaving resources on the table because you had nowhere to put them.

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Part V: The Evolution Tree – Your Research Lab

The Evolution Tree is where you research upgrades that improve every aspect of your colony. It is a massive web of technologies, and knowing where to start is critical.

The Beginner’s Research Path

1. Resource Production: Prioritize upgrades that increase Leaf, Twig, and Mushroom production. A stronger economy fuels everything else.
2. Hatchery Speed: Faster training means a larger army. Never neglect this branch.
3. Combat: Attack, defense, and health upgrades for your ant species.
4. March Speed: Faster movement on the world map allows you to raid and gather more efficiently.
5. Load Capacity: Increases how many resources your ants can carry when gathering from the world map.

The Golden Rule: Research never stops. Always have something researching in the Evolution Tree. Even a short upgrade is better than an idle lab.

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Part VI: The World Map – Surface Territory

Above ground, the world map is where your colony expands beyond the tunnels. Here, you will find resource nodes, rival colonies, and wild creatures.

Resource Nodes

The world map is dotted with resource nodes (Leaf piles, Twig piles, Mushroom patches, Sand pits, Water sources). You can send your worker ants to gather from these nodes, supplementing your underground production.

Prioritization:

1. Honeydew (rarest, most valuable)
2. Mushroom (needed for high-tier upgrades)
3. Sand (needed for late-game)
4. Twig (always needed)
5. Leaf (always needed)
6. Water (needed for healing)

Wild Creatures

The surface is populated by wild creatures (beetles, spiders, centipedes, etc.). Defeating them rewards resources, experience, and sometimes rare items.

• Start small. Defeat low-level creatures first. Higher-level creatures require stronger ants.
• Use the right formation. Some creatures are weak to specific ant types (Guardians vs. Shooters, etc.).
• Check creature level. A level 10 creature is much harder than a level 5 creature.

PvP – Raiding Rival Colonies

Other players’ colonies are visible on the world map. You can scout and attack them to steal resources.

Before Attacking:

1. Scout first. Send a scout ant to gather intelligence on their defenses, ant count, and resource stockpiles.
2. Check their alliance. A solo colony is a target. A colony with 50 active allies is a risk.
3. Check their online status. If they are online, they can hide their resources or counterattack.
4. Use the right ant types. Guardians in front, Shooters in back. This is the standard formation for a reason.

The Shield is Your Best Friend
When you are not actively attacking, use a Shield. This prevents other players from scouting or attacking you. Shields come in 8-hour, 24-hour, and 3-day varieties. You can earn them from events, alliance gifts, or purchase them with premium currency.

Critical Tip: Always shield before logging off for the night. The surface never sleeps.

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Part VII: The Alliance – Strength in Numbers

Join an Alliance immediately.

This is the single most important advice in this guide. Playing solo in The Ants is a recipe for extinction.

Why Alliances Are Essential

• Help Function: Every time an ally clicks “Help” on your construction or research, it reduces the remaining time. With an active alliance, you can shave hours off your upgrades.
• Alliance Events: Alliance events offer massive rewards that are impossible to get alone.
• Protection: A strong alliance deters attackers. Players think twice before attacking someone with 40 active allies who can reinforce them.
• Alliance Territory: Alliances can claim territory on the world map, providing resource bonuses and safe zones for gathering.

How to Find a Good Alliance

• Look for alliances with at least 30-40 active members
• Check if the chat is active (English or your preferred language)
• Avoid “dead” alliances where no one has logged in for days
• It is okay to leave an alliance and join a better one later

Don’t wait. Join an alliance on your first day. It is the single biggest accelerator for new players.

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Part VIII: Events – The Rhythm of the Game

The Ants operates on a strict event calendar. Participating in events is the best way to earn rare resources, ant skins, and speed-ups without spending money.

Event Type	Frequency	Rewards	Strategy
Daily Quests	Daily	Resources, experience, minor items	Complete all of them every day
Alliance Events	Weekly	Alliance points, rare resources, speed-ups	Coordinate with alliance members
Creature Hunt	Weekly	Evolution materials, ant experience	Kill world map creatures
Territory Wars	Monthly	Exclusive skins, legendary items	Fight with your alliance for territory
Special Events	Variable	Rare items, limited-time ants	Save resources for these events

The “Don’t Waste” Rule

Do not use your resources and speed-ups randomly. Save them for events that reward you for spending them. For example, during a “Training Event,” use your speed-ups to train ants and earn bonus rewards.

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Part IX: The Long Game – Patience and Consistency

The Ants is not a game you “beat.” It is a game you grow with over months. Upgrades that take minutes in the beginning will eventually take days or weeks. This is by design.

The F2P Reality

Can you play The Ants without spending money? Yes. Many players enjoy the game as free-to-play.

What you can achieve as free-to-play:

• Build a strong colony
• Join a top alliance
• Participate in all events
• Reach mid-to-high Queen’s Chamber levels

What you cannot do as free-to-play:

• Compete for “#1 Colony” rankings
• Unlock every premium ant skin
• Keep up with “whales” (high spenders) in raw power

The Whale Warning

“Whales” are players who spend significant amounts of money. They will have top-tier ants, maxed evolution trees, and immense power scores. You cannot beat them in a fair fight.

The Strategy: Don’t fight them. Avoid their territory. Hide your resources. Join an alliance that has its own whales to protect you. Diplomacy is more important than brute strength.

The Habits of Success

• Log in daily to collect resources and start upgrades
• Keep your Queen’s Chamber upgrading constantly
• Complete daily quests for free rewards
• Participate in events (even minimally)
• Communicate with your alliance

Consistency matters more than intensity. A player who logs in for 30 minutes every day will outpace someone who plays for 6 hours once a week.

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Part X: Common Beginner Mistakes (And How to Avoid Them)

Mistake #1: Upgrading everything evenly
Focus on the Queen’s Chamber and its requirements. Ignore unnecessary buildings.

Mistake #2: Training low-tier ants in mass
Low-tier ants are weak. Rush to higher tiers as quickly as possible.

Mistake #3: Ignoring your Hatchery
An idle Hatchery is lost potential. Keep it training constantly.

Mistake #4: Attacking without scouting
A colony that looks weak might be a trap. Always scout first.

Mistake #5: Hoarding resources without a shield
Resources sitting in your colony can be stolen. Spend them or shield them.

Mistake #6: Playing alone
Join an alliance on your first day. This is not optional.

Mistake #7: Spreading evolution points too thin
Focus on one branch of the Evolution Tree at a time. Resource production first, then combat.

Mistake #8: Ignoring events
Events offer the best rewards. Even if you can’t compete for top ranks, participate for the participation rewards.

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Ready, Queen!

The tunnels are dug. The ants are trained. The colony is growing. You have the tools to begin your journey. Focus on the Queen’s Chamber, keep your Hatchery running, join an alliance, and never stop evolving.

The underground is vast, and countless colonies are waiting to be conquered. Your reign has just begun.

For the colony!

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