Harvester ants for Grounded 2

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Clover Armor

While wearing the full clover set, harvester ants will be passive until provoked, but you also need incense, which is a trinket that calms down nearby ants, and makes you deal double damage to ants, while using any weapon with ant parts if you’re hydrated. Though it also makes you slower when you’re not hungry to the point of reduced stamina. There’s a 2% chance to get it from a red ant(that’s not the soldier version). Also you can freely go through the queen’s room without starting the fight, though you have to be quiet to not arouse suspicion, and you can only go through during night while they sleep.

Golden Harvester Ant

A very fast ant that’s the size of a red soldier ant, and goes in groups of 7-8 that are escorted by a couple Red Harvester Ants so they can climb grass flowers for grass seeds(their favorite food irl too), and not get hurt. When killed they release a pheromone cloud that makes all other harvester ants go berserk, though agitated golden ants don’t release pheromones.

Red Harvester Ant

They protect the colony, going on escorts, and staying inside the colony deep within. Dealing the damage of a northern scorpion, though they’re a little faster, and just like in irl they can inflict venom with their stings. They’ll bite, and sting while at low health.

Black Harvester Ant

Mostly found at the entrance of the nest, they are defense heavy, and you can’t deal stun to them normally. To stun them you have to break their armor with a bratburst or the other throwables in it’s category(this means you can only stun them once). Also, while at lower than 20% health they’ll try exploding next to you, if you kill them while they’re trying to explode, you’ll get black powder (~10-12).

Striped Harvester Ant

They have a crimson colored body with fading black stripes/patterns, and deal the most damage of all the previous ants. They’re unable to be stunned normally like the Black Harvester Ant, and are slightly slower than the fast Golden Harvester Ant. They also sting you while lower than 25% health just like the red harvester ant, and are the largest too, found super deep within the nest. They can also have wings.

Harvester Ant Queen(Boss)

To get to the room all you have to do is win a game of Nine Men’s Morris, using ant based pieces. This Boss would throw lobs of venom, order ants to attack different players or allies, and attack viciously. They can leap onto the player to bite then dash backwards, swing their head, rally the ants to defend or attack, lob balls of "ant bread", that has a burning venom in order to splash it everywhere, and they can order more ants to come out of tunnels in the arena. And to prevent cheesing, the player would have building locked, with zones across the arena they have to go to in order to flick levers for disabling some tunnels for a short time, and making the queen take damage.

Resources

• Golden Mandibles

• Razor Mandibles

• Striped Mandibles

• Golden Abdomen

• Plated Abdomen

• Striped Abdomen

• Red Harvester Stinger

• Striped Harvester Stinger

• Striped Wings

• Striped Head

• Golden Chunk

• Black Powder

Items/Equipment

• Razor Arrow, attacks inflict sizzle, and venom, deals high stun, and is stab/smash. Costs 1 red harvester stinger, 3 crow feathers, and 2 sap for 20.

• Red Razor Recurve, enemies inflicted with sizzle and/or venom take double damage for 20 seconds after getting hit with this bow. Costs 1 Razor Mandibles, 8 sap, 3 and 4 bug rubber for 1.

• Crescent Arrows, these arrows shoot very straight/far, and will make enemies aggressive to everything around them. They cost 5 Golden Chunks, 2 Striped Wings, 1 Golden Mandibles, and 2 weevil meat for 5. The reason for the name is the tip is a pair of mandibles.

• Plated Maul, this is in the Club category, and deals 8 stun, but it attacks fast, and charging it will make you spin. It’s dual wield, does 26 damage, and on a 3 hit combo, critical hits are increased to a 50% chance for the next 3 seconds, with an explosion on the final hit as well. Costs 4 Plated Abdomens, 6 Sap, 4 Bombardier Parts, and 20 Black Powder.

• Plated Round Helmet, this helmet gives the most toughness out of all other helmets, and when attacked you reflect 25% of all damage. Made with 1 Plated Abdomen, 3 sap, 2 bug rubber, and 10 red harvester ant stingers.

• Plated Paldrons, this arm/chest piece gives the most toughness out of all other arm/chest pieces, when attacked you reflect 25% of all damage, and while using your shield, you regenerate health. The set bonus makes you only take 3/4 damage for 10 seconds after getting hit. Made with 8 Plated Abdomens, 5 sap, 8 bug rubber, and 18 red harvester ant stingers.

• Plated Greaves, this leg piece gives the most toughness out of all other leg pieces, when attacked you reflect 25% of all damage, and while using your shield you don’t use as much stamina taking hits. Made with 4 Plated Abdomens, 4 sap, 4 bug rubber, and 8 red harvester ant stingers.

• Flechette Round, for the auto stinger 2.0, these are made with 10 black powder, 10 striped harvester ant stingers, 4 bug rubber, and 1 crow feather to make 20. Crafted in the Gun Station.

• Chemical round, slug for the auto stinger 2.0, these are made big 15 black powder, 4 sap, 10 striped harvester ant stingers, 4 stinkbug parts, and 10 bombardier parts for 20. These rounds inflict sizzle/venom over time, and deal double damage to stunned enemies. Crafted in the Gun Station.

• Striped Sickles, these sickles increase nearby ally damage every time you land a crit, by 25% stacking up to 4 times resetting a 20 second timer; though they only have a 10% critical hit chance. They cost 1 Striped Mandibles, 2 striped harvester stingers, 4 sap, and 2 lingonberry leather.

• Striped Maul, this fits in the club category, and deals 12 stun, it deals double damage to stunned targets, and this weapon also does sizzle damage. It costs 3 striped mandibles, 1 Striped Head, 4 Striped Abdomens, 8 sap, and 3 Lingonberry leather.

• Striped Emblem(Trinket), summons a slightly stronger Striped Harvester Ant to fight for you, but it can also hold things like weed stems; or instead of relocating something normally, you can just put something like a chest on the ant, and you can still use it while on the move. 0.2% chance to get from a Striped Harvester Ant.

Food

• Roasted Grass Seeds, they fill some hunger, and make you take less damage from ants. Requires 1 grass seed and a spit.

• Golden Buffet, this fills all hunger, makes you move faster, and fully heals, but it also makes you take more damage. It Costs 8 Golden Chunks and 2 Roasted Grass Seeds. Requires a Cookery.

• Golden Deluxe, this meal fully fills hunger, and prevents all incoming damage for 3 seconds. It costs 5 Golden Chunks, 2 BillyHog bites, and 3 Plated Abdomens. Requires a Cookery.

Unique weapon, and unique shield

• Auto Stinger 2.0, this is a quad barrel shotgun that deals 128 damage per shot, but takes a long time to reload(6 seconds, with an inspection too), and it causes stab/smash damage. It has a 5% critical hit chance, and the critical hit multiplier is 210%. If you have any bad status effect, you deal 50% more damage(stacks). There are no charged attacks, but shots will always go straight and far. Uses a recipe said below.

• Plated Heather Shield, it returns 25% of all damage even while you aren’t blocking, it’s a heavy shield, and it lets you regain all stamina you lost while blocking; though it also makes all damage to nearby allies get transferred to you (reduced by 50%).

How to get the unique gear

The unique shield and gun recipe are found in the queen’s room, you have to burn down a pile of ant bread to go through a trapdoor. After going through it you’ll find the exit in a maze, and grab the unique shield from skeletons, with the recipe and an optical disk as well(not mission related). The optical disk gives many things like proximity mines, and a Gun Station to build. The Gun Station is used to build the auto stinger 2.0 using 10 striped harvester stingers, 12 crude rope, 2 razor mandibles, 1 striped head, 20 sap, 5 Harvester Queen eggs, 5 silk rope, and 4 plated abdomens. To build the Gun Station you need 5 black powder, 10 sap, 5 silk rope, 2 bombardier parts, 2 stinkbug parts, 8 grass planks, and 10 web fiber. To get the Harvester  Queen eggs, you need to get them around the queen’s arena after attacking them with a smash attack to shatter their shells, and they stack to conserve space.

Sorry for any improper grammar, and/or confusions! Also, Please tell me anything that feels unbalanced, Thank You!