New Ant Types

[enderstar108]

I'd love to see honeypot, carpenter, and/or bullet ants added.

Honeypot ants could serve as a way to get honey, which in turn could be used for sweet elemental weapons. Sweet weapons would be the opposite to salty in the same way fresh and spicy are opposites. The honeypot ants could also have a way to get a Bee Buggy. The bee buggy would be a slow, tanky, flying base builder. Useful for stunning flying enemies and as a pseudo-handy gnat, but not useful for prolonged combat or exploration.

Carpenter ants would be an opposing force to termites. It could be a faction sort of deal where the player has to choose one side to help weaken or exterminate the other. This could turn into either the faction the player chose being friendly to the player, or their gear being made significantly stronger. (Yes I know carpenter ants and termites wouldn't normally enter this situation, but also this presumably American settings has bombardier beetles and tiger mosquitos so I don't want to hear none).

Bullet ants would simply be super beefy and dangerous late or end game enemies. It could theoretically be any hardy ant species but bullet ants are infamous for their bite and they came to mind first.

The biggest problem I see with this idea would be misidentification between these ants and black ants, but if ladybirds can be made black with red spots then creative solutions can be made for these as well.