 Hello everyone and welcome back to Empires of Beyond Growth where today we're playing a new level it is a winter theme level where we must survive um hibernation Alpine mountain ranges seem an unlikely place for ants to survive and yet many wood ant colonies live here so what we're doing look we have a little santa hat done right okay so what we're doing I don't know if this was a good idea I'm really not so sure but I'm going for it I should have went for that actually I don't know why I've done this I'm gonna restart so basically the wind is coming and we need to now make heat inside our ant colony in order to survive said winter so we're not gonna do that we're gonna collect all that and then we're gonna expand up this way Alpine mountain ranges seem an unlikely place for ants to survive this is gonna be so good I can't wait so we're gonna go inside this other ant colonies as well oh this is gonna be amazing look we've got heat tiles so we need to place down heat tiles which cost 10 food oh you got temperature and you got food so you can switch from either with aphids dying off as conditions worsen this colony needs to gather food whilst it's still able right so 60 food for that tile uh okay okay that's fine that's fine um we probably need some extra just general food tile so I'll dig out round here right as you can see we've got plenty of it so we'll be able to store all of that there we go wasted all of our resources on that uh so I'm gonna place that in there so hopefully when that hatches although yeah there we go okay okay we're good we're good we're good now I'm gonna dig out here I don't know if this is the best way so when we switch to heating we can see there's no heat outside but there's lots of food in here however there is also a lot of a lot of other things as well so here we go now we're out oh my god what so these are the pine nails that we need to get so we switch from warmth there's no warmth there's a lot of food as you can see there was crazy battles everywhere um so we're gonna go over here and just try and collect all of this we're not gonna send those out we'll send those out there are nearby rival wood ant colonies that are all members of the same super colony the super colony is made up of many separate wood ant colonies that miraculously are working together in contrast this queen has no backup and her soldiers will need to contest resources alone oh I did not know that okay so what you're telling me all these other guys are working together look at the shadows the sun setting yeah this cannot be right we need more workers we need lots more workers in order to get all of this so as they come in they can drop that there we go right because we're gonna need to grab all of this look at that it's basically a worker each that's crazy good okay so this is all food and warmth at the moment when we switch to it there is like a little bit of warmth from the pine needles yeah there's some vegetation there a little bit more there but at the moment nest temperatures low and surface temperature okay so we have nothing in our um in our nest at the moment so yeah they're all getting the stuff in fact i've made too many nest tiles so i haven't got enough um what jimma calls it i'm got enough food in order to hatch anything so i need these guys to come back and once they do then we're gonna get the pops here yeah there you go okay so we're quickly getting that so we also need um a temperature chamber so we'll probably keep here so as the food decays or the vegetation decays we uh get uh temperature so here we go here we go lovely lovely jubbly keep on getting it come on guys come on we got this here here is oh there's so much of it right nest temperature right so we got the tiles right but we don't have any temperature um and i'm kind of okay for the time being i do want more attacking ants because there's some things that you know we're going to need to come across and maybe take down so i'm also going to send these guys out over here now they may come in contact with this uh in fact tell everyone no not just yet we'll do this so as time goes by we're okay uh so there's a lot of vegetation over here and we need that in order to keep our uh temperature warm and i think this is death that seems to be your queen will die if the nest reaches this temperature and i don't know about the top one what's probably going to happen is we need to spend as much time as we can getting out to the middle and gaining as much food as possible this colony must remain small for now food is too scarce to support greater numbers oh god uh no no food switch to food oh my god they weren't getting anything they realized that that's what that meant oh okay interesting okay so there then colon is going over here um i think we can now go over there to grab that as much food as possible here um so we have no vegetation i don't need to worry about that so far um i don't know where the vegetation is to be fair um so yeah there are a ton of woodlice now i don't know if they're enemies i think by the sounds of it they probably are enemies which is just brilliant for me so there we go we'll get some more shooty bomb bombs which are also coming out to help um are we being attacked here is that mine oh right okay okay right don't attack the food sorry don't attack just get this but it's no longer this colony's main concern as the temperature drops outside and the harsh winter sets in the ants must gather and fill their nest with vegetation which radiates heat as it decays yeah no but i want the food yeah shoot it yes brilliant okay we're not doing too bad i think we'll get some workers to dig around we've also got food in here to last us as well this is so cool i freaking love this game it is so interesting the amount of different scenarios that they uh they keep coming up with uh i will go over here now because uh i don't want to expand myself too much no stop killing my ants you bugger you there we go more of that and i tell you what what i'll do is i'll upgrade the towel the workers have done all they can to include these food stores brilliant numb numbs right i don't know what's going on over here oh we're being attacked by the ones that happen that there's their mortar shots so they barely do anything to us brilliant no no no we're good we're good we're good keep going the middle there's a lot in the middle there's a lot in the middle oh so it's daylight now daylight now is good that's good that's good that's good um so i still want more shooty shoots so we'll keep getting the shooty shoots i love the music as well music's amazing ah that's fine hey you can't do anything right go over there now get that get that food then we got all of this so we could do is also dig that out because well maybe not maybe not just yet we're close to it if if it if the temperature becomes too cold on the surface um maybe we can do that then um right so we're really starting to find it a bit difficult uh to grab food um now good thing for is for us the mortar shots are really terrible um yeah well we're actually getting a lot of food because the mortars aren't doing anything a lot of food by them i probably go to the middle and get these aphids actually don't don't i love an apatrydian apatryd i love it it's so granderous it's a man i don't even know that's a word but i want to use it because it evokes the emotion this level's going for right so we're doing good temperature in the nest is fine uh food is really oh hello oh the rapid fires however are not so good here um yeah yeah i'm trying to think of anything else is there more food oh there's some more there's the aphids no the nests okay that's that's fine that's fine we got this to go for actually we'll go for those before we hit our own nest storage and stuff that around there so now let's just chuck a bunch of food onto more shooty shoots because we're gonna need it uh to fight over the aphids and stuff that's over here uh we could actually just go over here too uh once we got all of that stuff just neck this food right up from under his nose i'm kind of time to go that way i don't know uh it's tricky it's tricky it's tricky to rock around is tricky so further oh god no temperatures are now extremely inhospitable to the ants seizing up their limbs and making foraging difficult if the nights get much colder and please no from the nest are likely to freeze all right now come on we need it we need to kill them now take them on take them on come on killer we got lots of shooty shoots oh god maybe not maybe not just go and get the food go get the food i don't know if that's going to be good though yeah i don't don't don't go that way go this way go this way uh so temperatures dropping crazy uh we do however now need oh jesus oh oh jesus right this is going to be my last grab for food and oh no they're getting stuff too no they're coming that way all right fine sod it we have no heat tiles but that is fine he's definitely dead yeah they're melee based okay okay okay we'll grab we'll just grab these little little blocks of food there you go there you go um now we can probably start digging inside but i do want to now look into getting the vegetation stuff can we go over there i don't know actually there's a lot of no they're going over there they're going over there don't don't don't they're all going for the aphids over there that's fine but we now we just need to quickly kill all the no fight it jesus there you go tank them and get all the little blobs of food in here all the num nums yes right okay now we got a lot of food i now need to get my nest heat up so i'm going to switch to this and let's see leaflet it yes look at all this stuff now all the twigs this is brilliant right yeah there's a lot a lot of twigs and the outside temperature is getting a bit dangerous so we just need to really go and get well look at all the sticks yes grab it all yeah look at the sticks this is brilliant oh i love this man yes my little hands collect the sticks yes yes yes good and now get more for papa get more right so they're gonna put them into this bit here we go oh look now there's a difference there's a difference between the nest temperature now and themselves yes yes the warmth in the nest whoo-hoo i don't know are these guys are talking to each other and i just kind of outside so hopefully they all just die that would be brilliant uh so i will upgrade this these tiles as well uh we'll put a couple that ten each for these uh upgrading is how much ten as well go on then go on then go get your stuffs all right get that and that one and that one and that one and that one and that one there we go look at our nest temperature is brilliant okay okay all right so we need to gather oh god there's a lot coming there's a lot of naughty naughty's coming so we're just gonna not fight we're gonna grab as much as we can here and just make a break for it make a break make a break because they're coming in now the snows are falling i don't know the snow coming doom no vegetation is becoming even more scarce the answer running out of time god look at them all Jesus Maria so many of them look at nest temperature is warm now yes look at all our food i mean leave yes i don't really i don't really care about that's a level two yeah let that let that millipede yes we got back up whatever that thing is yes i just grab we don't worry about food it's all about the temperature all right now is it just gonna continuously go down it's possible so we need to grab as much as we can while we can because then the food stores we can get from inside the nest i don't really need to attack the other ones we're doing this on medium as well guys it's a it's a little bit tough quickly grab those sticks yes all these sticks um and once we've got this because now daylight's coming oh the temperature's going up now we need to look for food good lord there is no food um i mean a little bit here food stores are full uh no no lia maybe the um the the nest is full but it's not with the temperature so i don't know what you're banging on about so there's still all that food there however um i'll try and quickly grab that if i can i don't know these guys are just trying to own these aphids and they're really working together here but i got lots of food in here so that's good and because we're not going to be invaded i don't think unless do you think the other ant colonies will come in here to invade our warmth and steal our stuff oh but then if the outside temperature gets too much they won't because they'll be dead go on grab stuff go on yeah 14 sweet there's more food in the middle more aphids pooping out stuff but uh uh but i don't know why they're not going for that it's a little bounty right okay now everybody indoors we've got a lot of sticks a lot of stuff yeah don't worry about them the dance to the death no they won't there shouldn't be no don't you dare come to me don't you dare come and fight me i'm weak don't attack me yes go right workers only should you bum bum should really be up here i should get a mixture shouldn't i really well we'll see all right where's the shoots there's a lot of workers here i don't know where the shooties are they're still coming in i don't even know oh there should be attacking there we go that's why they're not attacking ah a bit of a problem there yes all right so let's dig out this a little bit more i'll add some more food towels just in case just in case and then go yep yes all right go grab the foods yes our temperatures doing good temperatures doing amazing we just need to keep on top of it the temperature outside is dropping the ants must make haste and fill their nests with fresh vegetation before they are overcome by the harsh winter you think so okay well if you say so i'll send the workers out to get stuff oh god there's a frickin big beetle uh right don't just you get you get word and stuff yes uh get that stuff that's actually probably safer maybe it's not maybe maybe you won't have to deal with that guy uh or maybe you will if you wait a little bit longer battle has begun oh god oh god you might have to okay that's brilliant that's brilliant yes okay now we can go now we can go go go go go go right now the the normal ants these ones can dig in towards here or maybe not i don't know because i don't know if we can collect both at the same time yes collect all of the foods i mean words i mean no no no you stay here i got it wrong i got you're right you're right don't worry i look look at that plethora good lord okay then grab that that seems to be safer grab that one i mean the big beetle over here we could probably you know get some extra food from but oh god no don't go that way uh just get this stuff now just get that stuff right and now how's food food is really food's doing really well so we'll do that um and then with all those nuance oh god the things there why do you do this lots of sticks in the middle workers are going out to collect them though that's good yeah school collect the sticks we need as much wood as possible uh we need oh right we need food now we need food uh where's the big bugs big bugs big bugs big bugs does it switch depending on who i am on no it doesn't okay right off we go we've got the shooty bum bums in now i want them oh the temperature oh god surface temperature so we stay out at that temperature are we gonna die ooh i don't know i don't know right okay shoot him yep there you go there's some food um is there anything else we could possibly get yeah get this guy too get this guy too quickly we need the food yes yes yes yes and one more there and then maybe we need to go inside because it's getting pretty cold you go in the inside and then there we go you also go in the inside run in run in quickly i don't see much much other food except for just this stuff that's a mystery god knows what that is um this one doesn't look too bad so maybe we can dig to this uh yes you go that way i kind of want to put some workers uh i'll get them i just want some workers out front as well all right oh god if they're all out when it hits will they die oh oh oh it's bitterly cold out there now bitterly cold wow okay uh if we survive the night here i hope we do hope we do we'll find out oh it's a big one there's a big shoot shoot the ants must fight go workers sacrifice yourselves yes it was worth it all right so we got all that food now right so outside temperature now is everything gonna die i don't know 100 food do we got 100 food from him yes we did brilliant okay go get that go get that stuff because now it's it's yeah look at it degrading we really really need to uh we upgraded some yeah look at that a second one sweet level three yes that's brilliant that's that's good that's really good okay okay now i'm kind of tempted there might be two big beetles here oh outside temperature it's warming up it's warming up this could be really good let's switch to uh temperature stuff right we're just gonna need to get as much temperature stuff as possible here um i don't care if we attack things now i really don't we got a lot of food now i don't know how it can make that work for me maybe we should just upgrade some of the shoots yeah we'll upgrade some of the shoots right there we go we're bringing in sticks now bringing in the sticks yes because next time next winter survive the winter keep nest temperature above the skull and have 600 vegetarian storages when weather the coldest 600 um okay well we got 810 i think right unless it literally does mean we need that many uh okay so we're going over there uh i mean you can you can kind of pick up that i mean why not yeah pick up that that's cool yeah off you go now collect all look how slow they are oh no they're tired y'all there you go get all that we need all the sticks so we're gonna need a huge plethora of all of the stuff thank god we got loads of workers to collect all of this we need as many hands on deck as we can get so maybe we don't need oh we still kind of need food to replenish all of this uh right yeah look i don't know what's happening with the other guys yeah they're still desperate for food maybe oh maybe they're just killing things in their own nest that might be what's happening here um i'm just trying to think what's the what's the quickest thing for them to get there's a lot of sticks here but i can't pick up those apparently then get these yes oh that was a 15er noice they're still after the aphids i'm sure the aphids are gonna die soon right yeah we got all looking at all yes i mean that's pretty close but we don't need that um i'm not gonna worry about food just yet until i fill up these storages this is so fun i love it i have 600 vegetarian storage does that mean out like out of because i got 800 or whether it's individual tiles because if it's individual tiles i'm screwed i should have got a lot more food by now if that was the case but this is the first time me seeing this like playing this game mode and i think i'm having i think i'm doing all right i took my own horn a bit too much all right i don't know what where these guys are going they're going surface temperatures have dropped so low that the ants must remain underground if they prepare well enough they may yet survive the harshest winter days i bloody hope so or else i'm screwed yeah temperature is dropping now temperature is dropping whoever's not over there just get these ones now so apparently it's 600 so maybe that's not too bad yeah quickly collect all these yes yes yes yes yes get the biggest get the biggest come on guys come on come on we don't need food we just need storage so are they dead are they dead did they die because they didn't collect anything oh maybe okay everyone back in back in here we go here we go collect all you've got all the sticks we maxed up on sticks yes that's perfect but please get more food storages yes yes yes yes we need more look at all my twigs yes okay so now if any answer outside they died oh there was loads of sticks out there oh they must have dropped them before they came back in so i got i've just got to stay in now oh god um yeah hopefully that doesn't reach zero by the time it's bad the bleak midwinter is upon the colony the ants wait barely clinging to life as their only source of warmth slowly degrades it's not fair right sort it we're gonna go out with a bang we're gonna go kill some things yes come on everybody let's make sure there's no intruders get to us maybe this was a tactic maybe everything outside should have been collecting leaves and in here would have been you know doing the dingy yep i thought it'd be big ones i thought it'd be big ones the battle has begun oh god there's three of them crackle workers there's not enough food no it's not the new brood yes yes there's enough to feed the new brood now oh no are we gonna survive we got a lot of food but i can't go outside or else i'll die yeah okay there we go there we go put it all down put it all down it's getting quite cold in here get quite cold bit chilly we're being a bit slow i don't know if this helps just make some more food storage damn it quickly i think i need more food but i don't know oh it's gonna be really close oh god oh god oh god i don't think this helps oh it is oh yes temperature going up temperature going up brilliant i don't know if that's because i'm spending more tiles on that no it's all going up it's going up slowly going up please tell me oh have 600 vegetarian stored okay well that that's that's good yes i did i think yes we just survived has risen over the colony and the workers finally emerge from their nest even the queen can be seen warming herself in the sun oh look at it go harshest days of winter behind them these wood ants now have a chance to stake out their territorial claim in this contested woodland yes the only others died oh this was so cool oh that was that was a fun level i love the developers of this game i love this game it has so much potential can we just have like a billionaire just invest a million into or something and just make it this amazing game with multiplayer and oh it's got so much potential i'll have a baby guys enjoy this video leave a like and until next time i'll see you in the underground oh bye