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------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Introduncing... THE HELL ANT! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CUSTOM DOSSIER! 3D MODEL CONCEPT! DOSSIER ART AND 3D HELL ANT MODEL BY ME ( SURVIVOR MODEL BY WildCard ) LISTED CONTENT : 1 - Custom Dossier 2 - Dossier Text 3 - Nature 4 - Taming & Tamed 5 - Breeding & Mutations 6 - Special Abilities 7 - Stats & Spawn Suggestions 8 - Feeding 9 - Appearence of the Colony 10 - Note 11 - Summary ----------------------------------------------------------------- -DOSSIER : WILD : If you ever bump into a Haidomyrmecinae, also known as Hell Ants, don't freak out, they're likely to be doing what they always do, collecting resources and food for their colony and Queen. But don't ever try to mess with them, because when these big Ants notice that something is threatening their Queen, all of them, i mean ALL OF THEM will hunt that threat down quickly and give them a very slow and painful death, since they can impale their prey and eat them alive, and somehow this can heal them, like if they were sucking the blood out of their prey. Even with all of that, they still don't seem to be the strongest or toughest giant insect around these lands, but they're extremely useful in other situations, for example: With their ability to carry things that are 5.000 times it's own weight, combined with their extremely strong mandibles, these Ants can rotate said mandibles up to pick up and carry raw resources, heavy boxes, dinos and even eggs with ease! It's even better combined with their other ability to climb walls, something they are really fast at, faster than any other living creature I've seen around here. So a survivor could mount into one of the Ants, quickly grab wild eggs and run, or even redecorate their surroundings by picking up trees, rocks, or crystals and moving them to other places without destroying them! DOMESTICATED : Taming these Ants is not easy, even more when considering that you won't tame the worker Ants, but their Queen! To do that, the survivor will need to get rid of the workers Ants and then "blend in" as a worker with Chitin Gear, then feed the Queen with her needs to gain her thrust! After that, you will be able to use the Queen to give life to workers Hell Ants that will follow your orders as long as the Queen is alive. So keep her safe! Still, on that topic, did you ever see a bunch of Ants carrying Cockroaches or Lizards around? Well, now, since they're giants, they seem to do the same, but with enormous creatures! I've seen them carrying corpses of a Rex, Spino, and even Giganotosaurus! One survivor also reported to me that his tribe managed to teach these Ants to carry giant dinos that were being domesticated! I imagine this skill would be very useful for moving creatures that are being tamed around in a danger zone to safer places! ----------------------------------------------------------------- -NATURE : Haidomyrmecinae or Hell Ants are neutral creatures, they won't attack you unless you attack them... Or get too close to their colony, so watch your surroundings, if you see a Hell Ant there's probably a colony around, and if they get angry at you... Everyone will attack you to protect their queen and colony. While collecting resources for the colony and Queen, the Ant's will destroy the nature and a few dinos around you, so it's NOT the best decision to build close to the colony or you'll be running out of resources or even your life very soon. ----------------------------------------------------------------- -TAMING : To tame the Hell Ants you can't tame the Hell Ants themselves (workers), but rather the Queen. You'll need to kill all of the Ants around the colony but leave one alive, then equip the Chitin armor and go to the colony entrance to "apply for work". After that, you'll need to mount on the last Ant and use it's ability to pick up corpes and carry RAW resources with its strong mandibles to bring what the Queen is asking for, then drop it on the colony's entrance. After the bar is filled up, you'll tame the queen and she'll get out the colony to follow you, plus a guaranteed male for breeding! -TAMED : Once the Queen is tamed, you'll have the Queen following you to a safer place, once you're there, you'll need to make her stop following, then press the option for her to dig underground and start building the colony. ( There are theories that say the Queen of the Hell Ants actually participated in their actions, such as killing things and perhaps in building the colony, so I'm applying it here. Why, you ask? Well, making the player go through another minigame of collecting resources sounds painful, but it could be nice since she'll basically turn into a machine of endless Ants, so it's a long process for big reward. ) But be sure to protect the Queen, because if she's gone, your Hell Ants will go against you. ----------------------------------------------------------------- -BREEDING AND STATS ( GETTING MORE ANTS ) : When you tame the Queen, not only the Queen will get out of the colony, but you'll also be quaranteed a male Ant too so the breeding can be done. To do the breeding, you'll need to make the Queen build the "colony" and hide inside, then make the male hide inside it too, after that you'll simply need to do a small minigame to bring raw resources or corpses for the Queen while mounted on an Ant and when the bar is full, the breeding will keep happening and new Ants will keep being born until the bar is empty, with the need to be filled again with resources and food. The offspring will always come in multiple amounts at a time and each one will carry differents stats and different mutations from each other ( Perhaps between 3-5 or more ). The offspring will always carry mutations from the Male. To replace the male, the player will need to take the one that is inside the colony, then put the new one in. -HOW MUTATIONS WORK : When the Queen gives life to the Hell Ants, each one will have a high chance to come with mutations and each one will have different mutations. When a female comes out, there's not much to do with them when it comes to breeding, but when a male comes out, you can replace the other male with this one and be almost quaranteed to get these mutations into the offspring. ----------------------------------------------------------------- -SPECIAL ABILITIES : •CLIMB WALLS• Hell Ants are really good to climb walls, maintaining it's high speed and are able to carry and steal eggs, carry dinos, boxes, object and structures while doing it too! •PICK UP STORAGES• With it's ability to pick up things 5.000 times it's own weight, these Giant Ants are able to lift smithys, furnaces, boxes, storages vaults and many other objects with stuff inside them, with a guarenteed weight reduction! •PICK UP CREATURES AND CORPSES• Once again, these Ants use that big strength to lift and carry around way bigger wild and tamed creatures around, even while climbing walls! Something never seen before in Ark! •PICK UP CREATURES IN THE TAMING PROCESS• By using multiple Hell Ants, the player can make each one attach themselves to a creature being tamed, then use the follow command while mounted on another Ant, this will make the Ants follow you while they carry the creature being tamed. This would be extremely useful to help players move taming dinos to a safer place easily and not get them killed. The size of creatures could go up to a Rex, since they can carry close to 5.000x they weight, bigger than that would be a bit too much ( At least it's what I think ). •PICK UP EGGS• With the click of the right mouse button or C, the player can do the "grabbing" animation and pick up eggs! This is a very useful way to do this since the Ants are REALLY fast on ground, when climbing walls and take little to no fall damage! ( But as a nerf, the Eggs could receive damage WITH the Ant when it's attacked ) •TRAP MANDIBLES AND STEAL HEALTH• Hell Ants evolved in a different way than your average Ants, these big insects evolved with mandibles that points upward instead to sideways, not only that but it can be rotated quickly up and down to impale their prey. So with these mandibles, they can swing them up and trap creatures, and when you got them impaled, you can do damage and steal health, healing your Ant. ( I'm not sure how this skill would apply when it comes to sizes of creatures it's able to pick up, 'cause being able to repeatedly trap bigger dinos would feel broken, so maybe it can only trap small-medium size dinos? But then how does it makes sense if it can pick up things 5.000 it's weight? Maybe a cooldown between these could help. ) •STICK TO BIGGER CREATURES• Tamed Ants have the ability to "stick" to BIGGER creatures for a ride, even the flying ones, just like the Deino, but without the insane damage. ( As a nerf, this could only be allowed on tamed creatures, but i'll say that it could be intersting to glue into enemy dinos and start shooting from it while the enemy can't do much. ) •CARRY RAW RESOURCES• Did you ever feel like redecorating your surroundings with natural objects such as Trees, Rocks, Crystals, Mushrooms, etc..? Now you can! With the Hell Ant's ability to pick up raw resources, you can pick Trees and line them up around your house, or you can pick up colored Cyrstals and put them inside your house, or even hide your home with Mushrooms! The possibilities are endless! ( There could be a way to block these resources from getting destroyed, maybe only the Ants could pick them up and destroy after being moved. ) The Ant also can destroy these raw resources they're carrying, but can't collect all of them. •WEIGHT REDUCTION• Hell Ants have incredible weight reduction on basic materials such as Rock, Wood, Stone and Fiber. •GROUP BUFF• When you have at least 3 Ants with you, your Ants will get a buff that increases weight reduction, speed and damage. ----------------------------------------------------------------- STATS AND SPAWN SUGGESTION : -Not much Health; -Almost endless Stamina; -Very fast ( Even when climbing walls ); -Little to no fall damage; -Really big weight amount; -Weight reduction with basic resources; -Damage isn't very good; -Very slow on water. SPAWN : The Hell Ants and the colony would always spawn on "easier" areas of the map with less carnivores and more Trees or Mushrooms around. ----------------------------------------------------------------- -FEEDING : Berries and Meat ( Mainly Herbivore ). ----------------------------------------------------------------- -APPEARENCE OF THE COLONY: The colony won't be this giant thing, 'cause i'm sure it would result in many colonies flying around the map 'cause they spawned above rocks, so it coul rather be just a big entrance to it, like when the Roll Rat digs underground. Something that would 'cause the least bugs possible but still noticeable so the player won't miss it. ----------------------------------------------------------------- -NOTE : Some of you could be asking about the other "jobs" of ants, like the soldier and the drone, well... I simply think that this creature has enough as it's, adding another "type" of Hell Ant could be too much, and I don't think there are "Soldier Hell Ants", simply... Hell Ants. About the drone, well, we already have the Rhyniognatha and this is Aberration, so... no flyers. ----------------------------------------------------------------- -SUMMARY : The Hell Ants may not be the strongest, but they are extremely versitile creatures! They can pick up dinos of many sizes from wild, domesticated AND being domesticated and move them around, they are perfect for stealing eggs and are extremely useful to movee bases with the ability to pick up storages, and decorate your bases with the ability to move raw resources without destroying them! ... And they can climb walls while doing all of that!