Redhelm (No.002) is back on the shelf, and she has a nest of her own now: a wet & dry plaster nest with a storeroom and a soldiers' chamber. Raise any colony to 15 workers to unlock her. • Division of labor: drop a mealworm into the feeding tray. Workers find it, soldiers come out to cut it up, and the pieces are carried home and shared. Feed enough protein and the next egg becomes a soldier. • Already keeping a Redhelm colony? A new nest is waiting for her. You'll be asked when you open the app — and nothing changes unless you say yes. • Ant Room Pro: a longer shelf, from two colonies to eight. It's under Shelf ▸ Nests. • Eggs, larvae and pupae have been redrawn so you can tell them apart at a glance.

• Redhelm is being reworked and will return in a future update, together with the second shelf slot. If you've already unlocked her, nothing changes. • Start over works one colony at a time — a mistap can't clear the whole shelf any more. • The move-in ceremony draws your ants in their own species colours. • The keepsake card from the move-in ceremony can be saved to Photos. • Now available in Simplified Chinese.

• New species: Redhelm (No.002). Any colony that reaches 15 workers unlocks her. Once the family has moved into the nest, helmet-headed soldiers begin to eclose — they stand guard at the door and patrol the tube. • Foragers now share food mouth-to-mouth with nestmates back inside the nest. • Goldvein steps out of the catalog while we finish her mechanics. Colonies you already keep are unaffected.

Goldvein is here — a new species, free once your colony reaches 30 workers. Gold fleece across her gaster, and one demand: keep the plaster damp, or everything slows down. • New species No.002 Goldvein — free, unlocked by colony size • The plaster nest now has a water channel. Add water and watch it drink. • Feeding rebuilt: the honeydew gets eaten down, and the ants around it take turns • Care finally counts — a colony you feed and water grows far faster than one left alone • The shop is open again

The nest is now a real plaster nest. Chambers and tunnels are cast, not dug — the way a real plaster setup arrives. Wider rooms, so a cluster of workers can actually settle in together instead of piling up. New: the outworld. A foraging tray connects to the nest by silicone tubing. Put food out, watch them carry it home, and find the refuse pile they build in the corner — ants really do keep their rubbish in one place. The queen never stops laying. She lays for life, the way she does in the wild. Your colony keeps growing as long as she does. Also redrawn: the ants themselves, the founding chapters, the close-up portrait, and the app icon.

Now fully in English — every line rewritten, not machine-translated, using the terms ant keepers actually use. New: the nest stays covered. Ants live in the dark, so yours does too. Lift the cloth to look in — but she'll notice. Watch her under red light and she won't. New: the colony log. Come back and read what you missed. The egg that hatched at 2am, the worker who lingered at the tube mouth. It keeps every day since day one.