Build an Ant Empire Ants

At A Glance

Build an Ant Empire ants are the workers of Place 78490532994307 (Build An Ant Empire by Insect Kingdom studio). You buy one from the Ant Queen’s egg podium, you place it in a colony slot, and it produces food boxes at the collection station. You sell those boxes for Cash. Rarity is the public shortcut for how strong that production is: a Common is the documented starter, and higher rarities are described as more valuable. The catalog of species names, base rates, and every rarity label above Common is not published. This page will not fill the gap with names from another game.

You begin with one slot. Further slots cost Cash, and the cost rises. A mutation potion can multiply one ant from 1.35x (Leaf) up to 5x (Starlight), and those potions belong on a high-rarity ant you will keep. Handing any ant to the Mount NPC takes it out of production whether training works or not. Verified September 30, 2026. Play on Roblox.

What does a placed ant actually produce?

A placed ant produces food. The food arrives as boxes at the collection station. You carry the boxes to the Sell station, and that sell is Cash. The ant is both the production unit and the thing you are collecting: rarer ants are the long-term prize, and the Common in slot one is how the prize gets funded. An ant that is not in a slot is not on this production line. Buying it at the Queen is step one. Placing it is step two. Skipping step two is an empty colony with an unplaced ant.

Public notes tie production value to rarity. They do not publish a per-ant number, a food-per-minute table, or a guarantee that move speed raises box rate. Ant speed exists as its own upgrade. Speed jellies exist as timed move-speed items (1.3x for 5 minutes at the cheap end, up to 2.5x for 15 minutes at Prismatic). Use those as movement tools. Use Food Value when you want the sell itself to pay more. Do not multiply three unpublished formulas together and call it a build.

Which ant names are published, and which stay TBA?

Almost none of the species names are published in a source this wiki will repeat. The field we can fill is the role, plus the one rarity word that shows up in starter descriptions: Common. Proper names, icons, base efficiency, and “best in slot” wait on a verified HUD capture. Until that capture exists, the name column says TBA.

Species names from other Roblox pet games do not belong in this table. If a list cannot cite Place 78490532994307 or the in-game HUD, it is a different roster. A tier list that ranks invented species is the same gap with letters painted on it. If your HUD shows a name, that name is real for your session. It enters this table only after it is verified, which has not happened for a full roster as of September 30, 2026.

How do slots and rarity change the colony?

Slots are how many ants can work at once. You start with one. Each extra slot is a Cash purchase, and the price goes up as the colony expands. The count of slots at the cap, and the price of slot two, are both unpublished. What is published is the shape: more slots, more simultaneous producers, rising cost. A slot with no ant in it is a hole you already paid for, or the free hole you have not used. Fill it.

Rarity and slots multiply as ideas, not as a formula we can print. One high-rarity ant in the free slot beats a row of empty pads. Two decent ants beat one Common once the second slot’s price is something a few sell trips cover. A mutation multiplier sits on top of a single ant, so it cares which body you picked, not how many pads you own. Buy the pad when you have an ant waiting. Buy the ant when you have a pad waiting. Buying Starlight because the shop is pretty does neither.

Which mutation belongs on a keeper ant?

Mutations are multipliers you paint onto an ant with a one-time potion from the Items Shop, the shop public notes place near the middle of the map. The multiplier is the reason to care. The price is the reason to wait. A high potion on a low-rarity ant you are about to replace is the expensive way to learn Removal.

Apply potions only to a high-rarity ant you have decided to keep in a slot. “High rarity” here means the best label your HUD currently offers and that you are not willing to mount-train or toss. Common is the starter label. It is a weak potion target. The six multipliers below are the full published set. Whether they stack, whether a stronger potion overwrites a weaker one, and whether a potion can fail are all unpublished. Mutation Removal at $100K is the documented eraser.

When does an ant stop being a worker?

An ant stops producing when it is not in a slot. The dramatic version is the Mount NPC. You submit an ant for mount training. The training can succeed or fail. Either result takes that ant off the production line. The mount, if you get one, moves only slightly faster than walking. A teleport-home control already covers “I need to be back at the colony.” Mounts are a collection flavor you buy with a worker’s career.

So the worker stays a worker while it is the best ant you own, while it is your only ant, and while it is wearing a mutation you paid for. A spare you have already replaced is the first honest mount candidate, and even then the success rate is TBA. There is no published way to turn the mount back into the old worker.

What next

Run the first placement on the beginner guide if the free slot is still empty.

Spend the next Cash on Egg Luck and Egg Rolls via eggs and upgrades before you open Leaf.

Match a potion to a keeper on mutations, using prices from items.

A Cash Boost is optional and disputed. Check codes once at session start, then go back to selling boxes.

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