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🐜 Underground Ant Colony: 2D Pheromone Foraging and Tunnelling

2D ant-farm section with pheromone trail foraging, excavating diggers, tunnel growth and a colony energy budget that drives population.

Animals & Their World2DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted⇄ 3D version

Details

CategoryAnimals & Their World

RenderingCanvas 2D

DifficultyModerate

Target FPS60

ControlsClick the surface to drop food and click the soil to excavate a shaft; sliders for colony size, trail evaporation, deposit, sensitivity, digger fraction, soil hardness, food patch size and speed; Add food patch, Pause and Reset.

ant colonypheromone trailsforagingtunnel excavationswarm intelligence

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⚙ Under the hood

2D ant-farm section with pheromone trail foraging, excavating diggers, tunnel growth and a colony energy budget that drives population.

ant colonypheromone trailsforagingtunnel excavationswarm intelligence

2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install