Little Ant Colony - Idle Game

No food is left behind. Not when The Little Ant Colony is around.

In this enjoyable, straightforward idle game, it's time to lead the ant colony. Gather food, expand your ant tribe, and emerge victorious.

You begin with only a solitary ant, but as you progress through this idle game by consuming, you recruit more ants to your colony. And more ants equate to greater income and rewards.

It's incredibly entertaining!

Little Ant Colony Beginner’s Guide: Tips, Tricks & Strategies for Managing Your Ant Colony

1. Focus On Strengthening Your Ants

Because we mentioned that tapping the Grow Ant button only adds to a percentage, this percentage gets steeper and steeper as you increase in level and colony size. Not only does the DNA percentage shrink, but the cost of actually growing an ant with DNA will increase after every push of the button. To alleviate this, it’s always a wise idea to keep your ants strong and on top of things.

Generating food is a lot easier than generating DNA and because of that, you should be strengthening your ants. Having them pick food apart more quickly and with more nutrients in them is more efficient than having plenty of ants but they take a while to build food up in your colony. Stronger ants will always mean a quicker food yield especially if you’ve chosen to increase their speed.

ANT TRIVIA: Ants can carry up to 50 times their body weight. This means, if you had the strength of an ant, you should be able to carry your car by yourself! Now, imagine what they can carry together as a group…

2. Tap The Food Button Like Crazy

If you’ve nothing better to do outside of playing this game, the least you can do for your little colony is to make it rain food. Place your thumb on the right side of the screen and tap that bad boy like crazy. It might be tiring, sure, but the ants will thank you later once you’ve realized that they’ve grown in strength and in number. If the tapping’s too much for you, you can always choose to watch an ad that rewards you the Food Auto Clicker which, for one minute, can yield even more food for your colony.

On top of that, if you choose to tap the Food button while this clicker is active, the yield of food will stack. The reason why we encourage you to actually watch the ads for this feature is so that you can consider these ads as a break for your finger. After all, we don’t want it getting sore, do we?

For the Gem option of this reward, we do not recommend you use it as there are other, cheaper ways to spend your gems.

ANT TRIVIA: A colony, which can also be called a formicary, is made up of singular or multiple queens that provide eggs accompanied by armies of female workers who tend to them. In addition, the workers build the nest and keep it tidy, tend to ant larvae, and even scout for food outside of the colony. Male ants, on the other hand, are winged and have the sole purpose of reproducing with any of the colony’s ant queens. The next time you see an ant, you’ll be able to tell which ones are male and which ones are female!

3. Upgrade Your Food Bonus

It’d be quite useless if you’ve been tapping the Food button this whole time and your ants aren’t getting enough. Aside from prioritizing the strength of your ants, we recommend that you also prioritize upgrading your Food Bonus. Ironically, you need Food to increase this, but the return will be much greater in the long run. If you increase your Food Bonus high enough, you’ll be able to generate your own food reserves with fewer taps.

Again, like the previous tip, if you happen to have the Food Auto Clicker on while you upgrade this, you’ll be able to increase your Food generation by a lot in such a short span of time. Just remember that making your ants stronger still makes for an easier and quicker way to earn Food fast.

ANT TRIVIA: Ants have been doing agriculture longer than humans have! They began their agricultural activities by farming fungus almost 50 million years before we even thought of growing our own produce. It’s suggested that ants began to farm around 70 million years ago, early into the Earth’s Tertiary period. What is even more fascinating here is that these ants used rather complex horticultural methods to increase their harvest by secreting antibiotic chemicals to stimulate fungus growth and even performed fertilization using their own dung! Wow!

4. Watch Ads For Bonuses

We know, we know. Everyone hates ads. They’re annoying, they’re long, they interrupt the flow of the game, and sometimes you might even find them a load of cringe. But hey, it should help the developers, right?

Despite having lots of ads, Little Ant Colony not only gives Gismart some ad revenue, these also reward you for watching them. Just like we said in Tip #2, consider watching ads as a break, especially when it comes to the Food Auto Clicker. Now, for which boosts are worth it, we can tell you because not all the ad-watching should consume your playtime with this game:

Food Auto Clicker – Again, it’s a break for your thumb and an easy way to gain Food overtime. If you’re working your thumb out, then this doubles your food production.

Ant Speed Increase – Faster ants means faster returns. Watch them dart to the food and back to the anthill in a matter of moments. Don’t blink, that cookie might already be cut in half if you do!

Free Ant Growth – Admittedly, the Grow button is really, REALLY expensive. To skirt this, we highly recommend that you just watch an ad to gain easy access to a new ant. Do note that the Gem option of this boost is better, but we will talk more about that later.

Free Gems – Why would you say no to free premium currency?

Clearing an Element – After consuming the food before the anthill, watch that ad. Instead of getting a measly 10 Gems, you’ll get 40.

As you can see, we left out the Free DNA Refill and the Instant Food because they just seem counter-intuitive right now. If they ever pop up, don’t bother. Focus on making better ants and better food. Keep in mind that as you upgrade any of your colony’s buttons, you might accidentally click an ad. To avoid this, tap these buttons carefully.

ANT TRIVIA: Ants have an efficient way of finding food. After leaving the nest in search of food, the scout ant meanders anywhere until it finds something that can be eaten. It eats some of the food and goes straight back to the nest in a direct line. Scout ants can observe and remember visual cues that allow them to instantly find their way back home.

As they march back to the colony, the scout leaves a pheromone trail that guides the members of their colony to the food source. When the foraging ants pick up this scent, they follow it, secreting their own pheromones on the path so it will encourage more members of their colony to take the food home. The worker ants will march back and forth along the pheromone trail until there is no food left to retrieve. Now THAT is efficiency!