A new species: No.010 Sunrunner, the fastest ant yet. Redhelm colonies can now grow into an expansion nest, and every nest has its own iPhone Duo layout. • No.010 Sunrunner: lives in a pyramid ruin in the sand. Offer honey at the altar and the whole colony pours out of the stone doors, races up the stairs to drink, then runs straight home. Swipe down to see inside the pyramid, where the queen sleeps in the King's Chamber. • No.002 Redhelm: once the colony reaches 100 workers, an expansion nest arrives — connect the tubing and the workers spread into eight new chambers, carved from the same wet-and-dry plaster. • No.009 Shepherd on iPhone Duo: the biotope stays on top and the nest below, spread across the wide screen. Folded, the cover screen is the whole biotope, aphid pen and all.

Made for iPhone Duo: fold it to tend the feeding tray, open it to see the whole nest. • Folded, the whole cover screen becomes the feeding tray — feed them right from there. Open the phone to see the nest. • Open and upright, the nest sits on top and the feeding tray below. Turn it sideways and the nest moves to the left, with the buttons in a column on the right. • Seven nests are laid out anew for the wide screen. The sand nest's cover screen shows its back, with light glowing through the tunnels, and Nightglow's nest stays a glowing cave whenever the phone is open. • The Ant Room and the Shelf keep a comfortable width on the big screen.

Moving day is clearer — you’ll be reminded to darken the new nest first. Expansion nests: connect the tube yourself and watch the workers spread over; swipe between your nests. Miller (No.008): feeding is now Scatter grain, with a clear tube joining the nest and meadow. Tap the brood icons in the tube to see what they are. Plus fixes and polish.

Two new species! No.008 Miller hauls seeds home and mills them into bread in a 3D-printed maze nest. No.009 Shepherd tends a little pasture of aphids and brings the honeydew home to the larvae. Big colonies now get an expansion nest. Plus fixes and polish.

Two new queens, and an easier way back to each colony. • No.006 Nightglow: plain by day. Turn on Focus and the nest goes dark — it becomes a glowing cave, and its gaster lights up segment by segment. • No.007 Waterbearer moves into its own acrylic nest. Fill the water tower and watch the workers soak up water from the sponge, then feed it to the larvae drop by drop. • The "While you were away" card now shows which colony it's about, and "Go see them" takes you straight there. • Small fixes: the Shelf's All page fits on smaller screens, and the mealworm button has its own icon.

Meet No.005 Heartback, and a calmer, simpler ant room. • No.005 Heartback arrives with wings, sheds them in the tube, then digs its own rainbow-sand nest. Move the food dish and they dig toward it. Startle them and they lift their heart-shaped gasters. • Fewer words, fewer buttons: the screen is just your ants. A small dot appears only when something needs you. • New Focus mode: one tap hides everything so you can simply watch. No disturbance, and the screen stays on. • Look closer: zoom in on the queen or any chamber. • Tap a card on the Shelf to see each species alive on a little stage. • Long-press a colony in the Ant Room to start it over.

Two new species! • No.003 Amberdrop moves into a black lava cave and shares honey mouth to mouth. • No.004 Goldvein moves into a pitch-black sugar-crystal cave and hauls sugar home into a golden gem. • Nest thumbnails on the Ant Room shelf now share one tidy style.

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.