ALRIGHTY IM THINKING ABOUT ANTS AND SO I THOUGHT “hehehe hive…” so thats what we’re going with!!
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What in the frick would be a hive strain be
- A thing that the queen can pick shortly after existing that may give buffs to specific playstyles, castes, abilities, or whatever else I can think of
- I am going to name them after ants.
CARPENTER HIVE
- we making furniture or something? unfortunately no.
- boosted walls, doors, and [insert resin construction here]
- perhaps more plasma or movespeed to the construction-y castes, hivelord, drone, burrower
- easier to destroy other walls maybe? faster tunnel travel time?
HONEYPOT HIVE
- honeypot ants are cool. what if we xeno’d that.
- based around the idea of resource storage/gain, perhaps buffs to queen’s observation abilities
- stronger pheromones? maybe only for some castes
- more plasma storage?
- support caste: the hive
LEAFCUTTER HIVE
- we are not cutting leaves. so what if corpses had even More use?
- chopped limbs, flesh bits, whole corpses, and other organic (maybe inorganic?) items can be used to boost wall integrity
- and/or going more like Actual leafcutter ants, flesh can be used to grow even cooler resin fruit (or speed up resin fruit production)
- something something leafcutter ants have very distinct castes on their own. maybe exclusive carrier strain?
TRAPJAW HIVE
- man i just like trapjaw ants a lot. the idea of hive strain exclusive castes comes in play here a bit.
- the entire deal with trapjaw ants is that their bites are very very fast. perhaps attack speed up for some castes?
- hive strain exclusive ravager strain? something something snapper?
- i just like these ants a lot
but yeah thats all for now
