Carry and cut dead prey as job for ants

[Diavid]

After seeing this Video:
https://youtu.be/s39bODfBLTE?t=22s

i had the idea that instead of all dead bodies sink in the ground, they could lay there and need to be transportet to the food storage.

Small prey could be carried by a single ant but big prey need the help of more ants.
The bigger the prey and the less ants are there, the slower is the transport.

Then the prey has to be cutted in little pieces to make the flesh storable.

If it's not possible to transport big prey because there are not enough ants or it doesn't fit through the tunnels, the prey has to be cutted at the location where they died. If this is on the surface the ants live dangerous because it takes a lot of time and dead bodies attract enemies.

 

[MikeSlugDisco]

The issue with cutting corpses into pieces is mainly a technical one - it significantly complicates the modelling and rigging processes. It's something we might come back to in the future but it's very low priority with early access so close.

 

[Serafine]

Ants don't cut food into pieces for storage, they only cut it into pieces when it's too large for transport.

Once a food piece has been dragged into the nest it is either sucked/carved out by workers or the larvae crawl into the dead corpse and eat it up from the inside out. The remaining shell (harder exoskeleton parts usually aren't eaten) are then disposed at the colonies garbage depot (usually that's somewhere on the surface, a bit away from the nest - sometimes ants also use this garbage to plug the nest entrances of rivaling colonies).