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.