AntWar.io

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4/11/2024

+ Allow players to create private games

+ Allow gamemode selection for private games

+ Enable Co-Op gamemode for private games


3/19/2023

+ Added Endless gamemode

* Updated Google Sign In to new version

- Removed main chat from menu


11/8/2022

+ Added page navigation confirmation

* Acid ants now have less health and do less damage

* Fixed sandbox camera moving when changing depth level

* Wet/dry tiles now degrade slower

* Decreased food spawns a bit

* Fixed death ad not showing

* Fixed server crash


11/6/2022

+ Added Acid Ants (They can only attack above ground)

+ Added Queen brood

+ Added attack command

+ Added plant food sources

* Centipedes now drop red food


1/21/2022

* Improved UI scaling on small screens


11/7/2021

+ Teams can now respawn before the first season is over

* Fixed mobile tap issue

* Improved game loading


10/28/2021

* Queens can now enter enemy nests if the team is dead

* Fixed hibernation issue causing game end


10/26/2021

* New nests no longer get free ants

* Queens can now leave the nest(But cannot enter enemy nests)

* Queens are now slow on the surface and cannot attack

* Increased space needed to create a new nest

* Players can now eat as the queen to create eggs

* Centipede blue food drops are no longer random

* Fixed player sometimes moving to top left of screen

* Fixed sandbox mobile menu issue

* Improved game performance for lower end devices


8/31/2021

+ Added XP feed to top left

* Changed how XP is awarded

* Increased brood maturing rate 100%

* Fixed players sometimes being born into dead ants

* New queens are now slightly faster

* Round countdown will now not start until there are enough players

* Anthills now remove hiding objects when they become max size

* Improved attacking centipedes

* Increased centipede health

* Decreased centipede drops

* Improved queen collisions with plants

* Fixed plant shadows on screen edge


8/27/2021

* Teams now lock after the first season

* Fixed queen menu not always showing up

* Fixed issue with singleplayer sometimes stopping

* Improved mouse movement with high latency

* Improved keyboard controls


8/14/2021

+ Added queen menu for selecting eggs

* Eggs now cost food to be laid

* Queens no longer automatically lay eggs

* Increased brood maturing rate 50%

* Camera is now zoomed in underground

* Fixed queen is hungry message sometimes not appearing

* Fixed anthill arrow sometimes pointing to wrong nest

* Fixed players sometimes being AFK kicked while chatting

* Fixed ants sometimes returning to the nest without picking up food

* Ants are now slightly faster when following a player

* Hunger icons no longer appear for enemies

* Improved tutorial


8/9/2021

+ Added grubs underground

* Starting workers are now nanitic (Smaller and less health)

* Days now last 2 minutes

* Nights now last 1 minute

* Increased all insect speeds by 30%

* Increased brood maturing rate 100%

* Decreased underground vision by 40%

* Only team leaders can now switch to the queen

* Fixed hyperdigging

* Fixed chat sometimes deselecting

- Disabled endless mode


8/6/2021

+ Experimenting with endless mode

* Increased max players on a team to 10

* Increased max players in a game to 64

* Improved server performance

* Seasons now last 3 days


7/31/2021

+ Added seasons

+ Added team chat

+ Added chat color based on team

+ Added setting to disable in-game chat

* Improved vegetation graphics

* Birthrate now decreases the more ants you have

* Food sources take less hits to harvest

* Nests can now be created closer to food sources

* Increased food spawning

* Fixed chat spam issue

* Local chat now supports different alphabets

* Max ants is now limited to 100 (Brood will still grow but will not become ants)


7/23/2021

* Increased map size by 30%

* Improved singleplayer performance

* Fixed issue with game end showing loss if your first queen had died

* Fixed issue where sometimes there were clones of your player

* Made ants more aggressive after being dismissed

* Ants no longer return to pick up food/brood if the location is underground

- Disabled pheromones for now


7/22/2021

+ New sprites for food

+ Added twigs, can be placed underground to create dry tiles

+ Added water droplets, can be placed underground to create moist tiles

* Teams no longer lock after first night

* Fixed food/brood stacking issue

* Fixed issue with objects appearing in the wrong place


7/21/2021

+ Added settings page

* Improved and optimized networking

* New queens can no longer see each other while flying

* Fixed players not being able to pick up food at food sources

* Disabled queen trying to feed herself


7/16/2021

+ New vegetation

+ New static food sources (Max 3 workers can harvest at a time)

+ New background

* Dry/moist tiles will no longer show on the surface if covered by rocks

* Modified underground generation


7/14/2021 - AntWar.io Rerelease

+ New standalone registration/login

+ New sprites for insects

+ New map objects

+ New commands menu

+ Added weather

* Night and rain will decrease vision

* Centipede now drops more food

* Queens now start off flying

* Queens no longer collide with workers

* All ants now get hungry

* Soldiers consume more energy

* Ants consume more energy when moving and performing actions

* Ants can now store food in their social stomach

* Ants will now feed other hungry ants(If they have food in their social stomach)

* Ants will now forage on their own

* Ants will now panic and run when there is too much danger

* Increased amount of aphids

* Cosmetics are disabled for now

* Earning coins is disabled for now

- Facebook login has been removed


10/30/2020

+ New UI for every screen

+ Added global chat in game

+ Added in game team locking/unlocking

+ Added team leader kick option

* Changed max players per game from 16 to 32

* Fixed some cases where players that left were getting stuck in games

* Team leader now starts as new queen on game start

* Players with the same IP can no longer join the same game unless registered


8/6/2020

* Decreased time it takes to dig

* Fixed more pathfinding issues

* Fixed ants running to enemy nest when seeing an enemy underground

* Fixed ants sometimes not feeding queen and larvae


7/27/2020

+ Added max visibility of 1500 pixels above ground

+ Added max visibility of 750 pixels below ground

+ Added ability to report players

* Attacking will auto lock on when clicking on an enemy

* Accounts can no longer join the same game more than once

* Fixed ants dropping ghost items

* Fixed ants sometimes attacking friendlies

* Fixed lock on attack still attacking when target is underground

* Fixed main chat scrolling issues

- Removed underground vignette


5/29/2020

* Fixed ants flying through walls underground

* Fixed nests being able to be placed too close together

* Fixed queens going outside with dirt

* Improved main screen chat


5/26/2020

+ Added in game scoreboard (Can be opened with Tab button)

+ Added chat to main screen

* Fixed ants being able to attack through walls

* Fixed queens not being able to return inside the nest

* Fixed ants trying to go to another nest before returning home


5/26/2020

+ Added sandbox mode

* Improved AI pathfinding

* Improved singleplayer AI colony foraging

* Improved phone and tablet support


12/18/2019

* Made AI a bit more aggressive when close to an enemy

* Updated Discord link


10/23/2019

* Hostile insects are now less aggressive

* Fixed tutorial tap issues on some devices

* Improved performance


6/23/2019

+ Added singleplayer

+ Added new interactive tutorial

+ Added AI for singleplayer games

+ Added rocks that can't be dug out underground

* Brood will no longer spoil without wet dirt (They are now slow to grow without it)

* Fixed AI getting stuck on objects

* Decreased how long it takes to dig (30 ticks to 25 ticks)

* Limited queens to 3 per team

* Fixed create game not working

- Removed in game tips


6/18/2019

* Digging is no longer instant

* Improved how AI follow players

* On every 25th egg, a new queen egg will be laid

* Added wings to new queens

* Various bug fixes and improvements


11/17/2018

+ Added surveys to earn free coins

* Coin and XP earnings now factor in time played in round(up to 20 minutes)

* Increased coin amounts for coin purchases

- Removed MRE and dog tags from Veteran's day update


11/11/2018

+ Replaced blue food with MRE and added dog tags for Veteran's day

+ Added head, thorax, and abdomen shop categories

+ Added 3 new head items

+ Added 1 new thorax item

+ Added 8 new abdomen items

+ Added glow to players

+ Added walk sound effects

+ Added glow to selectable objects and ants

* Improved switching and select follow clicking

* Updated name field to allow [ and ] for clans


11/2/2018

+ Added cosmetic shop

+ Added coin shop

+ Added 8 new hats


10/28/2018

+ Added plants

+ Added aphids (3 per team spawn around the map near plants, aphids near plants produce food)

+ Added super majors (Spawns per 4 majors are born)

+ Added Defend/Stop Defend command (It will lock AI in place, until told to stop)

+ Added Select Follow command (Select individual ants to follow you)

+ Added ally spectating after death

+ Added player auto attack after hitting an enemy

+ Added game list to menu

* Food now slowly spoils outside

* Improved radial menu

* Allowed switching to queen

* Changed bug, spider, and centipede spawning to be relative to team count

* Made food piles spawn relative to team count

* Made centipedes slightly less dangerous

* Ants and bugs now slow down by 25% for 3 seconds when damaged

* Fixed AI not feeding or picking up food sometimes

* Fixed issue where a colony could sometimes have 2 queens

* Fixed names not displaying for some players

- Removed Move Queen command (Use Switch to become queen and move her)


10/24/2018

+ Added small/large centipedes

* Improved AI thinking for nearby entities and improved prioritization

* Improved lobby matchmaking to favor new games

* Fixed lobby lock issue with no players

* Fixed tiles on map edge

* Made birthrate decrease slightly as more ants are born


9/30/2018

* Fixed AI trying to go through walls when returning with brood

* Fixed AI not always grabbing food/brood

* Fixed server crash


9/29/2018

+ Added better damage feedback

+ Added server-side AFK kick

+ Added in game menu

+ Added shadow to rocks and sticks

* Increased super food effect time from 60 seconds to 90

* Improved dirt placement

* Improved AI job selection

* Added lock to empty teams after first night starts

* Give XP after team dies but round isn't over

* Kill all ants on team after queen dies to prevent trolling

* Server performance improvements (Decreased lag and support for more players)


9/27/2018

+ Added rocks and sticks to the map

+ Added global message when queen is hungry

* Anthills now get bigger as colony grows

* Fixed food being eaten when dropping while hungry

* Decreased ant collision size

* Improved AI pathfinding

* Fixed server crash


9/25/2018

* AI ants now try to place food/brood on proper tiles

* AI ants try to feed queen over larvae

* Fixed team joining issues

* Fixed double queen spawns

* Increased chat amount

* Updated all teams to auto create


9/21/2018

+ Added simple tutorial image when first joining

+ Added underground caverns

* Tiles now dissipate after a lot of use

* Improved AI going between two anthills

* Improved tile spawning

* Made queen hunger increase slightly slower

* Improved WASD controls

* Added ants to menu


9/20/2018

+ Added WASD controls (Space to perform an action)

* Updated radial menu to be opened with left click

* Numbers 1-5 perform radial commands

* Ctrl can be used to open radial menu

* Increased map size by 20%

* Fixed players joining dead colonies

* Made AI workers pick closest food

* Improved main menu styling (Thank you Gust!)


9/17/2018

+ Added different server regions

* Updated main menu


9/16/2018

+ Added private games

+ New promo image

* Updated lobby to show when joining

* Updated soldier sprite

* Improved ant collisions

* Fixed ants trying to go into walls

* Fixed players getting stuck in walls

- Fixed ants leaving after leader death


9/7/2018

* Fixed server crash


9/4/2018

+ Added team lock

* Improved matchmaking

* Fixed players being stuck as queen


9/3/2018

+ Added day/night cycle

+ Added pheromone trails

+ Added edit profile button

* Improved underground background

* Optimized rendering

* Decreased lobby time


9/2/2018

+ Added pink team

+ Added cyan team

+ Added ability to switch ants

+ Added super food

* Increased player limit to 16

* Improved dirt collision and digging

* Fixed sign in issue

- Removed AI worker follow limit


9/1/2018

+ Added greifer auto ban

* Made queen move around less

* Decreased AI follow distance

* Increased spider start time

* Fixed team joining issues

* Balanced starting workers

* Divided AI workers per player

* Made food/brood render below ants

* Made idle workers return to the nest

* Fixed websocket connection issues


8/31/2018

* Fixed bad name filter issues

* Fixed redirection issues


8/30/2018

+ Added game lobbies

+ Added invite link

+ Added lobby chat

+ Added how to play button

+ Added bad name filter

* Queen is now player with highest rank

* Right click also performs action

* Fixed window resize glitch

* Fixed double lobby chat issue

* Fixed lobby spawn queue issue

* Fixed lobby balance issue

* Fixed server crashes


8/29/2018

+ Added game count

+ Added in game tips

* Disabled AFK kick when spawning

* Fixed idle queens on game start

* Performance improvements


8/28/2018

+ Added ambient sound effects

+ Added new spider type

+ Added ads (Sorry!)

* Spiders now have 2 min spawn delay

* Fixed stuck food and objects

* Made queen less eager to attack

* Fixed underground view on 4k screens

* Small performance improvements

* Fixed server crashes


8/27/2018

+ Added ability to drop dirt in the nest

* Improved AI pathfinding

* Updated Goliath Beetle and spider


8/26/2018

+ Added yellow and orange teams

* Made instructions more apparent


8/25/2018

+ Added Goliath Beetle

* Changed max player count to 12

* Limited visibility underground

* Performance improvements

* Made queens able to chat


8/24/2018

+ Hints on surface for moisture in tiles

+ Arrow pointing towards home

* All Follow is now +5 Follow

* Can only command nearby ants

* Larvae now need to be fed to grow

* AI now feed larvae and queen

- Removed starter nest


8/23/2018

+ Accounts

+ Currency and XP


8/22/2018

+ Initial alpha release