I became a HIVE MIND to control a colony of ants! 

larva: singular larvae: plural

ignoring the fact that baby ants has energy limit and matt think they die of old age is such an architect moment

"I refuse to call the queen's part by it's real name," Ovopositor?

The most frustrating part of these videos is the fact that they look so fun, but I can never play them because they aren’t released :D

I'd suggest making a stockpile for the food so your ants don't always die of hunger lol I don't know think it's old age. You're only feeding the queen.

Time flies by. I could have sworn the queen died a few months ago.

4:17 Because it’s a Latin word and English speakers don’t know how to deal with it. “Larva” is singular, and “larvae” is plural. Since few English speakers know this, we wind up using them basically interchangeably. (“Datum” and “data,” “antenna” and “antennae,” and “alumnus” and “alumni” are some other common Latin words that retained their original plural forms. We misuse most of those, too.)

First time in a long time that Matt learned things in a timely manner and put that knowledge to use to play incrementally better and better through out the episode, proud of you Matt, lol

Add a trail from the small ant spawner to the food route so that your colony grows itself. Use the bigger ants that don't have timed life to transport scrap, refined metal and larvae.

I would love to see Matt play this when the full game comes out!!

This was really cool. I can see a lot of potential. You gotta cover this when it fully launches again.

Merging is useful for population control. They do not live twice longer, but they can be as numerous. So, in the end, you are still having an advantage to merge!

I want a series of this

Beavers and ants. Make a city builder from either one and you have my undivided attention. When this has more than the demo we need a mega edit on this too!

Did you know? Did you know ant eat too? Yeah that's crary! 😮😊

Would love to see more on this game!! Edit: NOOO ITS A DEMOOO

Coming across this video on one of my favorite channels was such a mind fuck. I went on a date with the guy that made this game and I just had the deja vu of a lifetime. Took me a while to remember everything he told me LOL

Ok you need to do a full game series on this one please

Sentry ants are just the starting four ants. They have an infinite amount of energy and can only haul and forage to make sure that you never get softlocked, but you don’t have incredibly overpowered ants at the very start.

I want to see more of this game! I hope the demo gets more content or the full game releases soon!

This is so efficient he boasts, while his ants pickup stuff from the first leg of a journey and then wander around in a large circle before dropping it off.

14 minutes for him to figure out why they die.

Even if merging results in mere 1.5 ants worth of energy it's still better than 2 smaller ants since it consumes twice as less energy per interval.

looks awesome. hope to see more of this

I was on the fence about this game, right up to where you opened up a tech tree. Buying for sure now.

Can't wait until someone with a understanding of logistics and, you know, _math_ get into this. Kibs would utterly crack it open.

Another potential soap for RCE? Could be interesting.

I think larva is singular and larvae is plural.

This is cool! It is like Timberborn but the beavers are not multipurpose workers.

Can you play more of this, please

This game looks very addicting. And the sfx is so powerful, it feels like working in some sort of manufacturing plants.

Watching an rce video for 11:56 seconds before he finally decides to automate the most time sensitive part of the resource loop by doing what I was thinking could work sinse around 5 minutes in. I will say though that I am a bit impressed that you didn't decide the devider would be good for the nursing area, as you could aeasily devide them however you want from one devider and if you don't want the ants to be split evenly you could always just add another devider or make certain routes loop back to the first one depending on your reasuorce needs, I thought you would use these as you mentioned them shortly before as you discovered them in the game and you started using them right away but failed to see that the devider would be quite good a dispecing the ants to their jobs. ps he did the devider thing like 2 minutes later, very good Matt, do it first next time. Also MATT don't add 3 deviders and 2 cmbiners to make ''lv2'' workers for each side, make all the incubators go in to a or a line of combiners then use deviders to get them where you need them. it's essentially don't build a small farm in every state, build one really big one where you want it and spread your product from there

4:15 Larva (LAR-vuh) is the singular form, Larvae (LAR-vee) is the plural form. So it's larva since they're referring to a single larva, and not a group of larvae. Hope that helps 🙂

It is Factoria but with ants, rather than conveyor belts. Seeing some of the demo images this game gets nuts. Also playing the game, it really wants you to use the logic gates to make any real progress. It is a fun game but it makes my brain hurt to do the logic and make it all work.

I’ve had half an idea of a making a game that is reverse factorio where the bugs are the ones doing the mining and resource extraction. Looks like this game had a similar idea. Instant wishlist!

Tagged you in this game on Twitter about 2 weeks ago. So glad you decided to give it a try. I knew it would be something you'd like

Timberborn but ants?

I would enjoy seeing more of this! 😃

I noticed that you spoke just a little bit slower than usual. Afterwards, I realized I had watched the entire episode at 0.75 speed. It still sounded relaxing. Good job! 🙂

A hive mind? With computer parts? Getting real borg vibes now

This looks like a game matt will be addicted to if he plays it more and gets to know more about the mechanics

I was not expecting an ant anatomy lesson today

When the tech tree is revealed, haha. Great moment

Hope to see more of this game from you once it's out

The Un-nameable Rear End of the Queen (UREQ) is called...? -Manufactorial Dispensory? -Birthing canal? -?

The average lifespan of an ant depends on the species and caste. Generally, the larger the ant, the longer its lifespan. Queens and larger workers(present in some species) usually have longer lifespans than smaller workers. Larger species of ants also have longer lifespans than smaller ones.

super interesting game! hope you play more when it releases!

I loved when we said "It's Ant Time" and then we ant-ed all over the place.

You should get the full game and make more videos on it. It’s very interesting and i think you could make interesting videos with it and there seems like there is a lot of content.

Just RCE casually learning how to build electronic circuits.

I wasnt expecting body horror out of an ant game

Is there a full version of this game? this was a really funny lets play!

OMG RCE... I have an obsession with hive minds, maybe sprouting from Stellaris. Watch ur vids all the time... Saw this, forgot what I was doing. Now this... This takes priority.

That spaghetti pathing was giving me anxiety

Play more of this i like it

I have a pretty bad phobia of ants, but when RCE plays games about ants? 100% worth it

We need more of this game 😁

RCE you should play Empires of the Undergrowth, it has hexagons

Ngl, this game looks proper amazing. Love the hauling system, it seems more versartile than the treadmills sytem we see everywhere.

Really interesting game. Love to see it after the release.

4:17 sometimes there's an E and not an A because when it was written/typed, the writer used an E instead of an A. It can't be spelt with a A if the E was selected instead.

I actually have an ant farm, sadly not going to well as I expected. Great video

Oh good... yet another colony builder game for me to get addicted to. Beavers, then penguins, and now ants.

I've been wondering if you need to combine ants of same size or if you could combine the worker with small worker for example.

How many different ways can you remake Factorio? Let's find out together.

reminds me of that weird game on n64 I played as a kid with its totaly weird name where you are an animal controlling thing. scared me hellla

So the inventor ants are like architects? In that they can't do anything (useful)?

Queen Ant Nado? Whats this dude on?!? 😂

RCE videos back at noon in the states 😍

Well that got interesting at the end.

Ive had my eye on this one. Looks really fun. Day 1 of asking Matt to play Balatro.

this looks like a cool game

Okay, that looks cool..... Oh, hmm, cool pathing idea, yeah, this isn't bad.... Hot damn, look at that tech tree, okay this is real now, let's go!

Matt, (besides Timberborn of course) which of these types of games do you think is the most finished and most longevity for content?

If he's having this much trouble with "larva," then it's a good thing this game doesn't have pupae.

Wow, really enjoyed this. When does a full game release?

I want to see more

The architects don't make the safety features but the engineers have to do all the work for some reason. 🤓

So inefficient. True Architect

It's an engineering pain to see the routes non-minimised!

More hive mind pls!

First he unalives all the beavers, then he unalives all the penguins, and now he's unaliving all the ants. He's a one man E.L.E.

I am dying for Matt to start a series other than Timberborners and cities skylines. Don’t get me wrong, I love them, but when Matt plays an amazing game with great series potential and then abandons it, it hurts my soul

i think the 20mm is a 20mm socket so it more like a 30mm diameter

Larva is singular and larvae is plural I think.

Hey Matt (and everyone else as well), I don't know what type of music you're into, but there is a Progressive Metal band named "Organized Choas". Though they spelt it wrongly, maybe give it a try?^^ This "hey, what you just said is also a metal band/song/album" is one of my ever running gags. I may or may not be broken :D

The real history of the borg

built a ant house before with a queen ant

hey try looking up empires of the undergrowth sometimes if you want to try an ant rts, it's a cool game

Ants only live for a few months and the queen for around 15 years depending on the species

Try 2 inventor ants

Matt likes “-topia” things

Sometimes it's written 'larva' without the 'e,' and sometimes it's written 'larvae' with the 'e.'

Can this be a series

what a cracking little game 😊

I can believe he is actually posting everyday that is impressive 😮

You should play empires of the undergrowth

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Well, guess I found my next obsession

Make pt 2