Watch pheromone highways form from colony to food. Workers build efficient routes over time: chaotic at first, ordered by minute 2.

Both colonies race toward the central food. When trails cross, soldiers clash and alarm pheromone triggers mass recruitment. Watch for territorial border wars.

Three colonies compete for a single rich food pile. Whichever colony builds trails first has the advantage. Watch for ambushes and looting of defeated nests.

Workers must explore blind until they stumble on food. Once a path is found, pheromone locks it in. Dead-end trails fade while the winning route intensifies.

With food on all sides the colony expands fast toward max size. Observe how 6 independent pheromone networks form and stabilize without central coordination.

Narrow cave passages force single-file traffic and create pheromone bottlenecks. Colonies meet in the caves: small skirmishes with no quick retreat.

Colonies grow to 700 ants each and march toward the central food. The middle becomes a battleground: the weakest colony gets looted once its ants are wiped out.

4 threat zones ring the colony: ants die near them and emit alarm. Ants must navigate gaps to reach food at the map edges or the colony starves. High-drama scenarios.

Rooms act as staging areas. Ants fill a room before pushing into corridors, creating pulse-like foraging waves. Three colonies fight for corridor control.

All food is on the far right. Slow pheromone decay means trails persist from edge to edge. Watch a 3800px highway self-assemble across the entire map.

Six colonies in a hexagon with barely enough food to survive. Starvation pressure forces expansion: early wars determine which tribes dominate the centre or go extinct.