Patch notes

Everything that changed in each version. The wiki keeps update pages too.

Coming in the next update

Not released yet

The Android and iPhone apps, eight more languages, friends and alliances, field guides for every real ant, and ways to tell us what you think.

Android and iPhone apps, with Google sign-in for cloud saves and optional push reminders.
The game in eight more languages: German, Spanish, French, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese and Simplified Chinese, with a language picker. Numbers in text use each language's own separators.
Friends and alliances.
A main menu that lists everything in the game, where it lives and what opens it.
A building sheet: tap any building to see and upgrade it.
Quick side quests in every age.
Optional push reminders, off unless you turn them on.
Help and support in Settings: write to us without an email address, and our reply shows in the game.
Send feedback from the main menu or Settings, and feature polls in the menu.
A full game wiki at wiki.fractalax.games, built from the game's own data, in every game language.
Codex field guides for all 69 real ants: size, colony, queens, nest, diet, defence, activity, lifespan and range, with sources.

Ages are paced so the Great Leap arrives at about day 14.
The Nuptial Flight opens at the Atomic Age gate.
More research, and research points arrive earlier. The worker split has steppers.
Nest Siege explains itself, and its late-game wall is gentler.
Tabs use the whole screen on phones.
Resource bubbles over buildings, and the queen's jelly shows on the nest.
Natural terrain with rounded patches and curved, inked edges.
Picking a music track switches to it at once.
The Twig Yard is called by one name everywhere.
A new walk cycle for scouts.

Released 2 November 2026

A new hand-drawn look, Nest Siege, castes, outposts, the Supercolony, and a long list of new things to do.

A field-journal look: the colony is drawn on a journal page on a desk, with inked terrain tiles and repainted backdrops.
Nest Siege, a tower-defence activity.
Ant evolution: six castes, each with its own ants on the map.
Outposts: expeditions to three new biomes.
The Supercolony, a second layer of prestige.
Queen breeding: pick a daughter with traits at each Nuptial Flight.
A weekly boss raid in Wave Defence, with battle playback.
Relics, card synergies, challenge runs, and overseer rarity and training.
An event trail, featured cosmetics and a weekly spotlight.
Day and night, outdoor weather, and seasonal decorations with fairy lights and bunting.
A login calendar, an offline breakdown, quiz streaks and a share card.
Story events that each do something, procedural story events, and 21 more daily and weekly quests.
Five new enemy families and a regolith ground.
Cosmetics: building skins, ant colours, card frames, room decorations and map themes.
The beetle trader and colony photos.
Codex sets and hunger records, the last achievements that were waiting.
A music player with 20 tracks, and a warm, cosy sound set.
Online features: optional leaderboards and cloud saves (Google sign-in, 13 and over).
Accessibility settings, a wide layout, battery saver and vibration settings.

New art throughout: card portraits, buildings for every age that grow as they level, queens, critters, enemies and walk cycles.
Buildings change their look as they level, with level plaques.
Flying rewards, milestone fanfares and rolling numbers.
A smoother first session: skip the intro, a founding rush, and hints on what's coming next.
Minigame energy top-ups and the Tireless Lineage node.
Leftover live-event currency becomes Royal Jelly.
Updates install by themselves, and Settings has a Check for updates button.
The cloud save card sits at the top of Settings.
A performance pass.