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